After seeing this post about it, I’m hooked! I’m probably the last person to know about it but RetroAchievements is basically a service that hooks into a specific set of emulators to let you get little achivements for retro games. Achievements are kinda goofy and maybe a net negative for games, but I like doing this with old games I’ve played a bunch of times before. It’s just fun and goofy to get them for something like Super Mario Bros. My only real complaint is that it’s basically only for console games, when this would be much more exciting to me if it supported DOS and the Amiga. It apparently supports the Apple II but I haven’t been able to get it to work. Which is a shame, because the idea of earning achievements in something like Gabriel Knight 2 is very funny to me and I wish I could do that.
