/vr/ - 151 threads

This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games, including consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games. Retro gaming means pla...

Does it deserves the hate and scrutiny?

This guy was a pixel artist at SNK making Neo Geo games and he says you should use a CRT filter for retro games.

DOOM THREAD / RETRO FPS THREAD - Last thread: >>12514992Doom/Quake/Duke/Heretic/Hexen/Unreal/Sam/Half-Life/etcGameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source PortsAll other 90s FPS welcome~ Let's post lik...

No one likes it. Not back then, not now. You dont really like it.

Putting these two artists together was a brvtal mogging

Which is the Saturn's killer app? A weird 1 hour long arcade game without much content or goals besides high scores?A 3d fighting game with no unlockables, lore which requires another player to f...

what do

Post consoles without a single exclusive killer app

What are your favorite games from 1991?

Honest thoughts on Miyamoto and his contributions to gaming?>Shigeru Miyamoto’s background in industrial design>He also was thinking of become a manga artist before joining Nintendo so that help...

This game is awesome, I wish every fighting game had this much content.

Why did Capcom choose to make REmake, RE0 and RE4 exclusive to the GameCube?REmake and RE0 were exclusive for 13 years (2002 to 2015).

Why is Zelda 2 so fun to replay? I love games with happy endings.

GameCube was Nintendo's real stumble in the market. What went wrong here?The GameCube was the fastest to cut its price and it did nothing.

Long EditionScreen Utility - https://shauninman.com/utils/screens/Handheld Comparison - https://retrocatalog.com/Google chart - https://tinyurl com (slash) AllHandheldshas anyone asked my question bef...

what DOS games did you play on your pentium pc back in the day? starting with a favorite, Jetpack from 1993

Rondo's level design is abhorrent, its artstyle garish, its alternative routes feel borderline unfinished and are a huge step down in quality compared to the already mediocre level design, the br...

Hey guys, a rare Mega Man X3 book has just been archived online containing some neat cel artwork. Enjoy.https://archive.org/details/mega-man-x-3-make-your-own-pop-up-book-page-03

Was Doom considered a scary game when it was new?

Which games are y'all preordering?

This game is the tits.

This game gets a nice fat KO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irYDUHDI3cSuper Mario Bros Special Edition #1 & Super Mario Bros #1-6>>12513365

Why did we stop using CRT monitors and TVs?

Why are the Americans Team Italy?

What was owning an OG Xbox during it's prime like? Is it worth (re)visiting if I have no ties to it?

Was Gen 2 the peak of Pokémon?

You didn't already forget about Sakura Mitsukoshi, or better known as her magical alter ego "Money Idol Exchanger", right /vr/?

I named my party after my friends, do you do this

Was he aurafarming?

I constantly have to mute this game like a pussy because of how terrifying it is. Never had to do that with any other horror game.

Did limeys in the early 80s really go bananas over this silly shit?

What's the best way to play both ps1 and ps2 games on a crt, hombrew and all?

>Pausing an arcade game

Were the older kids at the arcade mean to you?

Was Kenji Eno AN unrecognized auteur?

>WE'VE GOT JACKALS IN THE COURTYARD!

How was one man able to create such a deep and immersive gameplay loop out of such a simple concept and write the entire thing himself in low level x86 assembly in 1994? Chris Sawyer legitimately has ...

What's your favorite Macromedia Flash game?

>Thief 1>Bonehoard>Thieves Guild>Haunted Cathedral>Lost City>Undercover>Return to the Cathedral>Strange BedfellowsAlso>Thief 2>reusing the Ambush map for Courier>reusi...

"That part" thread

For me, it's Richard Scarry's Bussytown.

What the fucking shit, the game released more than a year after the PS2 launch and still sold 8 millions...Has there ever been a similar case where a game released that late into the console lifetime ...

Thread to talk about all the retro Resident Evil/Biohazard games. >thread question Have you ever played the Survivor spin-off games? If so, what did you think of them?

This one song killed Sega and it's popularity in the US and UK, that's fucking crazy when you think about ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5rAjOjTGtc

What was the game.com's killer app?

>Game's recommended way to play is the most boring one

I can't find any reliable method to beat Nemesis without taking too much damage (using two herb mixes), his attack patterns are too unpredictable, I even had to first evade his rockets then save ...

What goes on here?

Why did they get rid of all the accents in the remake, even though it was the same cast?

You picking up the collection later this year? includes every version of all the games, and a brand new game. Also you can play the Sega Genesis version for free right now on https://www.eccothedolphi...

Post them

Low-key better than the PS1 version

The definitive version with more content and a soulful dub

I think the succubus from Symphony of the Night was based on Sharon Tate in Fearless Vampire killers.

I made a post a while back about how I wasn't exactly having a blast with the Sega Saturn. I had picked up Panzer Dragoon Zwei and Nights Into Dreams, but neither game gave me that "wow"...

What are your favorite licensed games, anons?

>an entire series of Mega Man ROM hacks that make Roll playable>they're all merely sprite hacks>Roll uses an arm cannon in all of them instead of a broom in melee range like in Powered U...

Okay but actually IS Kingdom Hearts? Is it like summoning the Holy Grail in Fate? Just a very powerful reality bending artifact?

If you are not gaming on the original hardware, you are not having the retro experience.

Warrior and Berserker should have been switched.

>the protagonist was sent to an alien planet populated by demons who want to eat him and has to navigate claustrophobic caves, swamps, lava caves, tunnels etc.Uncomfy games aren't necessarily ...

What is the best version of Ecco the Dolphin to play?

I didnt know the point of the Pokemon Stadium games was that you had to use your team from Pokemon Red and Blue and transfer them to play in these Stadium games no wonder beating the castles was extre...

The first friendslop game ladies and gentlemen

>we're here to preserve video game consoles>actually creates new scarcity through limited release windows of their products like a bossoh yeah, it's retro time.

This game changed society.

nights is just superman 64 so why do satrannies pretend its some unique masterpiece?

Did it really exist? And if so, which one had the most meaningful impact on you or at least consumed plenty of your hours as a kid.

Latest sub:>Game Center CX #361 - Whirlo [LocationScouts]https://nyaa.si/view/2090036>Season 30: Episode 1 (#417) Crash Bandicoot {PlayStation} premieres on Thursday, April 23rd. This episode in...

Why is it so hard to translate Final Fantasy IV even after 30 years?

I know this might be a pretty unpopular take on a Sega Saturn board, but I was hoping to get some guidance from the biggest fans of the console. I don't want to seem like I'm bashing the sys...

I would like to replay the first generation of Pokemon after several years do you think the original versions of Pokemon Blue and Red have aged well? or should i go with Fire Red and Leaf Green? hones...

Tomb Raider/Witchblade #1, Witchblade/Tomb Raider #1 & Tomb Raider #1-4>>12520061

Do you miss Start & Select buttons?

FIGARO

If Europe had gone with the American design instead of the colourful original, would the SNES have won the console war there? I think NoA correctly predicted that the autism colouring would be seen as...

Gameplay and development discussion:What homebrew / hacks are you playing /vr/? Are you working on anything? Would you like to learn? Projects and questions welcome.Active Communities:romhackplaza.org...

When did this game undergo its critical renaissance? When it came out I remember it carried a lot of ire for a good while and the games on either side of it were hailed as "real" Final Fanta...

the only way to heal in this game is with a shitty ass spell that takes all your mana. then, you afk to get mana, rinse, repeat. really, i don't see armor doing much of anything. i might try play...

besides sonic obviously

Did you ever catch him?

I beat the main quest of Lunar 2 again after many years and it still held up every step of the way as one of the best balanced Jrpgs of the era. Dungeons are usually pretty big and have nasty enemies ...

My favorite Genesis game is Flicky.

this never happened and never will. you lost, satty.

Why are 80s PC stuff so underrated when it comes to the history of gaming? Almost everything that is credited to consoles happened first in PCs.

ITT: Cursed licenses

You now remember Street Fighter 2.>Hadukin!>Yoga flame>Ken and Ry>Chun Lee>M. Bison

Some people consider the saturn to be THE console for fighting games during the 5th gen but I would rather have proper console fighting games with unlockables and 4 players multiplayer than 20 old and...

I've been curious about AI in this game. Some of the basic strategies like Suketoudara's are well known, but is there any material out there on the larger picture? What drives score players ...

>zoomers will never know or experience this peak kino

What went wrong?

>3DS game made a decade before the 3DS launchedand before anyone gives me lip about "not retro", the original launch was for Windows XP and therefore qualifies for the 'pre-2002 plat...

35 yeaes ago, the original Super Robot Taisen for Game Boy was released.Share your thoughts on the series, which one did you play first? What's your favorite OG unit?

>still mogged by Kevin all those years later

Where do I start with CK?

The idea of the thread is simple.Make a list of 10 retro game franchise, not based on a single game but the whole framework of games within the franchise.This should be easy for most if you're an...

Parakarry used to be my favorite Paper Mario partner because he felt like a killer jack-of-all-trades with a really strong single target aerial attack unimpaired by enemy order or the ceiling and shie...

Daily reminder that if this did see the light of day back in the day this would've been just as loved as Castlevania and Contra, but because of Nintendo's 5 games per year cap at the time it...

How do you think kids felt looking up and seeing this? Do you think Nintendo took it a bit to far for what was meant to be an E-rated title?

I've been on a martial arts mood recently, played some Karate Kid on NES and had some fun, also some Jackie Chan on PS1 and the arcade tournament fighter, all fun titles to me. It seems that in t...

Let's celebrate this bad boy's bday.What was your first Game Boy game or games? What's your favorite one? What's the last time you actually used your DMG?

What I find absolutely hilarious about the new NeoGeo is the seething poorfags who are pretending that everything is overpriced. $80 for a real copy of Metal Slug is literally nothing when the alterna...

I liked it.

I clock in at around 10 clicks per second.https://cpstest.org/

What actually is the full potential of the 32x? It wasn’t reached during the system’s life right? Do you think it could maybe reach 3do or some early ps1 or saturn stuff

Now look here, the difference between those two games is like comparing a bottle of vintage Cristal to a lukewarm light ale. In the original, that Neptune shark was a pathetic, blocky thing, about as ...

Is it really as difficult as people say?

If you strip out all the bundled games from the best sellers list it paints an interesting picture. These are the games people truly wanted, they didn't come with the system and they sold excepti...

Nina Williams

...AND DON'T FORGET THE JOKER!

Retro EA was run by a guy with a genuine passion for selling licensed sport games.

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Rescue shot is pacman 2 is pacman wasnt a complete retard.

Why is this the only retro game ever to have a commercial airport level? Do Japanese just use them so rarely that they forget to make levels of them? Instead we get endless sewer levels

The Goron Dungeon when you want to get the fierce deity mask at the end of Majora's Mask is so fucking bad, maybe I just suck at this game but it's the hardest part of the game for me despit...

Is FEAR "retro" now? Certainly, Underhell (2011) is not, but... it is almost 20 years old.Underhell's first chapter reminds me a lot of FEAR. Atmospheric, explosive action, but a calm p...

Was the HL2 interloper thing real?

What causes this double standard?

Every choice in REmake was to drain the color out of the original game. Even when it didn't make sense. A police uniform can't be blue, it has to be greyish green because that's scarier...

can you?

A few years ago I went to a big stadium and watched this old Japanese guy play retro video games. It was awesome, especially cheering him on while he played Punch Out. How come stuff like this isn...

Sure it's more fantastical than the steampunk/dieselpunk/whateverthefuck the previous 3 FF games were...but it's not exactly reminiscent of old FF either. Was it marketed as a return to &quo...

Glad to see all of the fellow Sonic R soundtrack enjoyers. Too bad it has one of the largest disparities between soundtrack and gameplay of any game I know of.

Just finished Onimusha 2 on Hard. First tried Nobunaga both phases but only because I had been saving all my consumables. That was such a wild spongey difficulty spike. I imagine many got soft locked ...

I want to deep dive more into gaming, in particular retro gaming, but do not really know where to start due to the scale being so hugeRelatively speaking, what are some games that are so good (not you...

I just got done having a quick play around on a 1P vs CPU tag match with Van Hammer and had him & Kimberly fight Savage and Elizabeth on the nWo Souled Out ring.

Post flawed games that you like regardless.

N64 Great Fairy my beloved

Anyone else still play this?

This game changed society.

I don't know why Planescape's is considered that bad. It's just BG1 but instead of hobgoblins it's bandits. It's the same shit. You stack thac0, get a good weapon, wrangle you...

>you will never have a videogame collection like this.The pain is immense.

It's kind of incredible that it's been 2 fucking decades

what's the best retro mech game?

Post retro vidya drawings.Any skill level is welcomed (yes, even you).This is not meant to be seen as a general. No greentext rules, no extra links to anywhere, no anchors for anything.

>playing Metroid again, haven't beaten it since I was a kid>wandering around without a guide, eventually stumble upon the second ice beam upgrade before wave beam>brain is on autopilot, ...

ITT: Melancholy games or ones that evoke a melancholy feel in you.

What even is this shape?Like seriously try to draw it.The other faction (LC and UCS) have normal-ish logos.PS: I suppose that the same question is for Earth 2140 and Earth 2160

>appears once>doesn't do anythingAny other weird one off enemies like this? Only other one I could think of was last arm in FF4.

Was it a gay trans game?

The modding community continues to impress me, these are games I never would have thought a 5th gen console could run.

GameCube = DolphinEcco = DolphinWhy didn’t SEGA go through with it and port it to the PS2 instead?It makes no sense.

Why is Code Veronica considered bad again?>clear sequel to RE2 from the same writer >higher-polygon character models, impressive for 1999/2000>rockfort island is top tier kino >giant spide...

Forgotten…

The American release of Lufia II is a good reminder that you don't hate localizers enough.

8-bit and 16-bit games>Every sprite, background and font is tailormade for the game>Every instrument and sound effect is bespoke for each video game3d games>Copy paste "wood" image ...

This whole myrient situation made me realize how futile of an effort preservation projects really are. Entire sets are only archived by a dozen of people on the entire planet because the rest only car...