/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7324435
>Why do people say that Super Mario Bros. hasnt aged well?

Because they're retards with no skill

>>6871160
fpbp

>>6644753
>nobody ever seems to comment on how ridiculous the change from Famicom
But the original famicom is ugly as fuck. It only makes sense in a japanese context

I was born in '94 and didn't even play video games as a kid so I have no nostalgic connection to 99% of the games discussed here. I just like good games, whether they be old or new. I don't really draw distinctions. Though I normally only play indie/doujin games or retro ones because I don't like putting a lot of money into games and gaming systems so that brings a sort of bias of its own.

>>5307524

>Systems in stores and warehouses were pulled off the shelves, returned to the plant in Uji, and retooled (the bad chips replaced). In the end, Nintendo lost millions of dollars by missing the prime sales season, but Yamauchi's gamble paid off. After the first million Famicom systems had been sold, there was still no sign of a slowdown. Once several million families had a Famicom and desperately wanted games, Nintendo could sell all it could produce. Yamauchi saw how Nintendo's emphasis would conceivably switch from hardware, with its limited market, to software, whose market was without limits.

>Desperate retailers called Nintendo, frantically demanding product. New games were anticipated with a fervor that shocked store owners, distributors, and parents. Kids camped out in front of department stores and toy shops to snap up copies before the games sold out. Nintendomania was beginning, and Yamauchi, raking in more money than he had ever seen before, couldn't feed the frenzy quickly enough.

>The success of the Famicom was unprecedented. Eventually, the fourteen competing home video-game machine companies withdrew from the market. The MSX was put in its place as a personal computer, not a game machine. Sega, a small arcade-game company, released a competitor called the SG-1000 the same year Nintendo released the Famicom, but it fizzled. And in spite of updated systems released by Atari, Nintendo had no competition to speak of. What had begun as the Yamauchi family business was inconspicuously on its way to becoming one of the most successful enterprises in the history of Japan — or, indeed, the world.

END

>>5207383
more like these pls

Can we get one of those threads where we post old pictures of people playing vidya? I know it's hard to drum up new content for these, but it's always fun to see. Bonus points for pics of yourself, obviously.

kids playing super mario on famicom

>>4091465
I think this is also the feel I want to emulate.

Don't sit so close to the screen though, it's bad for your eyes.

So I was thinking about importing an original Japanese Famicom. I planned on not modding it for AV and embracing the system's shortcomings, for the authentic sitting-in-front-of-your-TV-till-your-legs-fall-asleep-experience. I don't mind the RF-hookup, I don't care about razor-sharp pixels.

I thought I could just hook the system up to my PAL TV, seeing as it supports NTSC signals - or so I thought. I just now realized that it only supports NTSC over AV, while the RF demodulator will only support PAL. PALcucked yet again. Yikes.

So, what are my options here if I don't want to modify the console and keep the shitty quality of the RF signal? I know there's exotic hardware variants like the Hong Kong version, which can output PAL 60hz, but those are hard to come by. Is there a way to convert RF to Composite Video + Audio without introducing lag? Are there cheap and reliable options, like using a Set-Top-Box of sorts, that will accept a NTSC RF signal and relay composite or SCART?

Halp.