/vr/ - Retro Games

Did you?

>>10007746
Yes (albeit the censored PS1 version)

No, I will play the new uncensored PSP translation this year.

>>10007743
No- I don't play cringey weebshit.

Yes- I only play based nipponkino.

be honest with me
is this a non-gameplay "game"?

>>10007743
I played it on Youtube back in 2019 or so :^)

>>10007743
I don't remember that character from the show. Is that Shinji's mom or something?

>>10007847
The common joke among Eva fans is that this is Shinji after transitioning to female.

>>10007743
Japanese plastering random English words around to sound deep has so much soul

>>10007847
she's a spinoff game oc

Show the ending where Shinji and Mana have sex.

No, but I did play that simple board game called ANGELS.EXE that was officially made.

>>10007743
Sure did. Got it bootlegged in Chinatown, but was only partially able to read some of it, but mostly relied on the Japanese voiceovers. It was marketed all over Gainax's website in the mid-90s while it was still on-air, and I wanted it but I couldn't afford it so in the same place where I got my HK silvers for Playstation and eventually Dreamcast games, the shoppe had it for $1USD in the corner. The game is one of my most favorite visual novel games, with one of the best characters of the series.

>>10007743
I don't even think half of Japan played this in the 90's OP

Everyone in this thread is full of shit, the game wasn't oficially translated and it only got a fan translation recently

>>10009398
Yeah otaku shit was niche as hell in the west when this came out. This was only like a year after Dragon Ball first aired in the US, no one outside Japan was playing Evangelion VNs. Add that to the fact that 90% of 4chan users are too young to have gotten this on release, I'd say everyone in this thread is just larping

>>10007847
She's the best Eva Character by far

>>10009398
I learned Japanese in the first half of the 90s, just in time for Saturn. I didn't like Eva all that much though. Played Nadesico games instead.

>>10009398
>>10009415
I did play this back then, sadly not the PC version with the nipples, but the safe PSX version.
Having a modded psx and a shitton of japanese games was very common back then, I had a cilynder full of CDs specifically dedicated to anime games.
Evangelion games were specially attractive because the hype was crazy back then, everyone I knew wished they could play the N64 game that came out too, but pirating the N64 was just a pipedream.

It didn't matter much if you didn't know japanese, you could just try stuff until it worked. In Visual Novels you could even write down the choices (1-1-2-3-2-2) and see if the scenes/ending changed and replay accordingly, the voice acting helped a lot to know what was happening too, like if the voices were sad or happy, scared, etc.
Really japanese games were really fine to play even if you knew nearly zero japanese, unless it was an extremely complex strategy game (like those nobunag warring state games) with screens full of kanji or something like that.

>>10007743
Oh yeah I love Iron Maiden.

>>10010042
>Having a modded psx and a shitton of japanese games was very common back then
thirdie country or just part of some heavily-online nerd subculture?

>>10010053
getting a modchip was really easy in most large cities then you learned of warez sites some vidya rental places would also let you rent games for 1 hour/day and have an "internet cafe" in the place too and sold blank cd's some even already had "import" already burned another cool thing some rental places did is you can rent the game by the hour and play it in store like a custom arcade. They'd run lan parties and tournaments on the weekend too. It was cheap as fuck and fun legit 1-2$ an hour in like 98. And yes these places no shit were owned by organized crime one place got there hands on like 500 PSX's(truck went missing) modded them and sold them with 5-10 burned games for a tad more then a new PSX

90's hacker culture was cool as fuck man. Buying stolen shit off a truck was great. Poor zoomers got to miss out on the last great generation. 9/11 ruined everything.

>>10008297
If you don't mind me asking, and since you're around here all the time: What do you do for a living, anon? Honest question. You have tons of shit, so that implies a reasonable amount of disposable income. It piques my curiosity.

>>10007743
No.

>>10009398
I watched Evangelion in 1998, bought the VHSs.
A comics store carried (copied/pirate) PS1 games of anime, I bought Macross VF-X and the Ranma 1/2 fighting game there, and a friend of mine bought NGE Iron Maiden, and then he lent it to me, played it in one night since it's a short game. I couldn't understand japanese at all, but I knew a bit of the gist of the plot because of an Eva magazine I had that talked about it.

>>10007743
I played it back in like 2003-2004

>>10010053
Now that you mention it, maybe those two other anons are not so far in that not that many people were in that situation to play this stuff.
My experience was warped because I was lucky to be a part of a big ultra extreme weeb circle, everyone I knew did have tons of psx jp games on burned CDs, a lot of imported SNES and Saturn stuff too. We had a friend that had an older brother that traveled to japan often and another guy who's father was one of those merchant marines that brought us back goods and taped anime from tv in VHS.
I was even lucky to actually watch Eva in '96 (Along with the last season of Sailor Moon and anime like that)

>play
>VN

>>10012732
It still has some ludo moments. I got lost many wandering around Tokyo III or Nerv HQ

>>10007743
no, I played it in 2021 aged 29

>>10007743
never been captivated by this anime. i don't understand why it is considered mecha when it is the total opposite of what super robot and real robot anons enjoy. id rather take pilot candidate. at least it fucking ended instead of milking an unfinished story for 20+ years.

>>10007870
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesu,_Joy_of_Man%27s_Desiring

>>10013164
Being a contrarian anti-eva gundamfags reeks of "do I fit yet guys?"
But anyway it's fine if you don't like it, You don't have to like everything.
Eva is definitely mecha, like it or not.

>>10013237
>anyone who doesn't share my tastes must just be a contrarian

>>10013241
I don't like a lot of popular things. But I don't declare it every time as if my taste was the be-all end-all. Maybe individual taste is not all that important.

>>10013248
>you're only allowed to share your opinion if it aligns with popular sentiment

>>10013237
god forbid i say that i'm not captivated by the anime and share my opinion then crack a joke. then you make assumption about me and then give me some ultimatum. this is the first time we ever spoken and you are a jerk.

>>10007743
no but i like evangelion so i'll have to check this out for the plot at least

>>10010050
that's so cool anon i'm listening to that album right now

No but I would have liked to

>>10008297
That's the Second Impact Box version, right?

Be sincere, you guys didn't.

>>10009745
>Anon, you really mean it?

>>10011501
There's just a lot of misconceptions here, so I do kind of mind. Most of what I have cater to my tastes which is not what the majority like. Most here don't enjoy visual novels nor Saturn games, which made them the only games I could afford at the time that I grew to enjoy, so they are not shit to me unlike what you may think. Having a few games physically does not imply disposable income, as mentioned it was all I could afford was the bootleg of the game. My official position is associate where I work and my employer is very anti-union so my wage is barely above the national minimum.

>>10014129
It is on a single DVD-ROM, opposed to the original 4 CD-ROMs I played it on.

What even is it? An official NGE dating sim?

>>10016176
It's official yes. It has a dating scene but it's not a sim, it's a Visual Novel

Wait so what's the difference between the versions?

>>10016165
Thanks for the thorough answer. I'd like to clarify:

I used "a ton of shit" in the general, "stuff" sense of the word. I didn't mean any disrespect. Saturn games are actually among my favorites as well. Visual novels aren't my cup of tea, but I understand the appeal. As far as the rest of my post goes, it is true that having "a few" games does not imply disposable income, but having "a ton" like you do probably does. You post frequently and consistently, with original pictures of many different games and hardware related to the threads here, so I'm confident you understand where my misconceptions come from.

What I'm saying is, I can easily appreciate someone with the dedication you display, and that's what led me to write my previous post. Considering the overall quality of the board as of late, I hope you'll stick around. Thanks for sharing.

>>10016913
Ah, don't mind my words since I do not proofread before hitting post. My last post seemed way more aggressive than the jovial/facetious intention. Anyway, I am definitely not in a stable financial situation, but I am so blessed to have played some games I truly enjoyed and finding so many great bargains which I have kept from back then. It does seem like a lot, but just showing one thing here and there does make it seem like a ton; I get it.

>>10008297
>>10016165
>pic with handwritten note
>no timestamp
Embarrassing d-e-s-u

>>10009398
I believe the Italian translation is from 2006. At least the patch, I don't know if there were scripts floating around.
I did watch End of Evangelion in the 90s on a VCD with a printed translation.
>>10009415
The West was not the US. France and Italy were the two largest manga and anime markets outside Japan until the 2000s.

>>10018419
France is still a big market. Italy more or less, italians are poor and manga got expensive in the recent years.

I’m not interested in Evangelion, I’d rather play something Tenchi related.

>>10008297
Shut the fuck up faggot

>>10007743
I've never played it but I'll check it out if you guys think it's any good. Should I play it on PS or Saturn? I'll skip PC despite it having better cover art - I'm fighting a porn addiction.

>>10018998
I think only the PC version has a translation. Also the nude scene is hidden, you may not come across it on your first playthrough.

>>10019297
I'm bilingual

>>10018998
Get the Enhanced Edition for PC, PS2 or PSP.

>>10020381
What's different?

>>10013237
It is the most basic bitch entry level giant robot show made on any continent.

>>10020406
Additional videos, a whole new ending, some new scenes, etc.
I don't know if the PC version is also higher resolution.
They didn't cut anything, so no need to play the old one.

>>10020481
Thank you for the info :)

>>10020447
Just because you came to know about Evangelion after the 90s, when it was already super popular everywhere, doesn't mean you understand Super Robots, or mecha in general. You are the basic bitch, anon.
Stop trying to fit in.

>>10020481
Doesn't the new ending make the game more fanfiction-y? One of the pros of GoS is that it never contradicted the canon.

>>10007743
You weren't even aware in the 90s, and no. We didn't. This isn't a Japanese board.

>>10020721
NTA popularity doesn't mean it isn't basic bitch entry. it has so little to do with the genre and if you know what you're talking about you know it's true. fans are not engrossed because of the mecha, it's just a gateway and a set piece, otherwise everyone is invested in seeing the characters rope around again and again and again.

>>10020835
zoom zoom!

>>10020880
Weaboo faggot

>>10020878
>Eva ripped off Gundam and Ideon!!
>Eva has little to do with the genre!!
So which is it? Gundam and Ideon aren't mecha?
Stop trying to fit in, you know jack shit about the genre. Hating on Eva is "do I fi tin yet guys?" 101. It's cool that you got into mecha recently, but stop embarrassing fans of the genre.

>>10020835
>This isn't a Japanese board.
You just wake up from a coma? 4chan belongs to a japanese person.
By solving the captchas to post, you're basically doing monkey work so that a japanese guy's pockets get full. Think about it.

>>10020995
you have conjured your own boogieman out of this and are putting words into others mouths. no one even said ripping off or brought up ideon. it's possible there are people who simply did not like eva. you keep saying this crap about "fitting in" or disliking it out to look edgy. i don't know what happened in your past. heres a pic from 2012 from /m/. sucks sharing this hobby with you.

>>10021013
>Judau is Shinji
lol.
>sucks sharing this hobby with you
Don't be a melodramatic faggy tard, we'll likely never meet irl. You likely never leave your mom's basement.
Keep hating on a popular work and having it rent free. It'll take you places.

>>10021023
>don't be this
>you are this
>keep doing this

>>10021013
nta but it's very common for people new to mecha to parrot stuff like "Eva ripped off gundam and ideon!" or devilman or ultraman (despite them never watching those shows).
Newfags have a hard time differentiating between homages/inspiration and ripping off.

>>10021013
>it's possible there are people who simply did not like eva
That's perfectly acceptable, and I can even agree that it is now a normie anime, but you keep saying that Eva has "little to do with the genre" which is not true, and shows you don't know the genre outside of what some youtuber from the US who only knows Gundam Wing told you, or you didn't watch, or both.
>inb4 Eva is not mecha it's toku

>>10021029
>Newfags have a hard time differentiating between homages/inspiration and ripping off.
no disagreements there. nothing more exciting than being told by people i don't know when they don't about me either.
>>10021038
if i post my dvds and blurays you wont change your fucking mind who cares man

>>10021029
Homage
noun
something that only japan does. Not to be confused with ripoff
"they paid homage to the great anime by copying its famous attributes"

>>10021038
I have no problem with people not liking something, but when someone goes out of their way to post on a thread about something they don't like to signal how they are "true fans" and how fans of thing they don't like are normies or whatever... Yeah it just reeks of you got into mecha 2 weeks ago.
You could have bought the BDs 2 weeks ago too. Post your 90s fansub VHS collection instead.

>>10021063
>goes out of their way
This isn't Reddit fucker. The threads bump up and you see it. You guys sound like women.

>>10021063

Have there been attempts to properly translate Shinji Ikari Raising Project? The art style is amateurish, but reading about the game makes me feel that it is much more ambitious than Rei and Asuka Raising games.

>>10013103
Planning on playing it next week, should I? (aged 23y)

>>10021046
>if i post my dvds and blurays you wont change your fucking mind who cares man
I didn't doubt for a second you were a coomlector. Franxx funko pops don't count either.
>>10021257
Eva is a bit like JRPGs, they're never the same when you are past 20. But if you like Eva it's still cool.

>>10021109
>>10021141
So anyway, how is Evangelion not mecha?
>the robots aren't actually robots!
They're kind of cyborgs with a fuck ton of mechanic parts. Also, mixing biological materials with mechs didn't impede many, many mecha shows from being catalogued mecha, this isn't a proper argument.
>it has too much focus on the human characters!
So like virtually every other mecha show, especially ones like Gundam, that try to show pilots are real humans (Newtype magic aside)
>it has too much focus on psychology!
This doesn't exclude it from being mecha
>It doesn't have enough mecha tropes!
But it "rips off" mecha shows, right?
I know I sound cynic and pedantic, but that's only because I have no sympathy for people who pretend to like mecha, you guys just want to be part of a special club, and since Evangelion is too normie, you hate it because it disrupts your sense of pertencence. You wouldn't like Gundam if you lived in Asia, since it's normie as fuck.

>>10020880
>>10020997
>a board full of westerners totes played this untranslated and unmarketed Japanese PC game in its day, dewd
I don't even believe half this board is my age (nearly 40) at this point, let alone was weeb enough in the 90s to procure and understand this game. So like the dozen of that demographic are here now? Fuck off.

>it's normie as fuck
>the failed normalfaggot is saying this
NGE is FFVII to Gundam's DQ Erdrick trilogy. Guess which series houses and attracts more normal shitters?

>>10022509
What are the pokemon and mother 1 of mecha?

>>10022453
I already told my story ITT, but I played it on PS1, not PC.
And yeah I'm near 40, still a few years more to go, though.

>>10021231
Just learn Japanese, then you can play any untranslated game that you want.

>>10022453
>I don't even believe half this board is my age (nearly 40)
I'm 26. The first obscure Japanese PC game I played was a doujin Haruhi Suzumiya game that plays like Power Stone, that must have been around 2007 or 2008.

Japanese media always has this penchant of taking an established harem situation between one boy and two or more "eligible" ladies and making it even crazier by adding another girl into the mix. Sometimes in spinoffs, sometimes in movies... and sometimes in vidya.

And ALMOST always... the new girl turns out to be the superior choice. Go figure.

>just be enough of a big city sodomite to have a china town/weeb import shop nearby
>be enough of a mega weeb to buy something like this in said shop in the 90s when no one but the greasiest weirdos were into it, which says a lot of the sharpie/granite counter guy
Yeah sure we all did dude, didn't everyone?

>>10022686
I'm sure you're a very smart boy, not at all autistic and unbalanced and living in filth, and this came easily to you. This is not a sane investment or within most people's capability or discipline level, though.

>>10022767
This is usually the case in real life too.

>>10022686
Working on it, アノン さん.

So this game is basically just an AU version of NGE's story where a new girl is added that specifically falls in love with Shinji?

>>10023227
sounds like Rebuilds to me

>>10023227
Nothing in the game really makes it an AU, it could very well fit in the action arc of the series (after Asuka arrives, but before Touji becomes a pilot).
As for Mana, she is a spy that gets the mission to get close to Shinji in order to infiltrate Nerv HQ and acquire intel, but she ends up actually liking Shinji for real (she is also forced to be a spy, along with other 2 kids that the military is using)

>>10009993
I watched the movie not knowing you had to play this first
Was surprised to say the least.

>>10022767
>"eligible"
>14yo
You're disgusting

friendly reminder that anno and sadamoto had nothing to do with this game's production

>>10024291
Thats a good thing, Anno lost his touch and I dont even remember Sadamoto's manga ending

>>10024291
Any source on who designed Mana?
The new mech (Land Cruiser t.riden.t) was designed by Yamashita, who designed all the units and mecha stuff in the TV series.

>>10016913
>what we REALLY need is pseudo-avatarfags not only spamming their shitty collections but also blogposting
nah

>>10024291
>sadamoto had nothing to do with this game's production
Pretty sure on the upper text here it says Mana was designed by Sadamoto.

I played the superior version

>>10026067
qrd?

>>10026073
True Love 95 for PC
The superior love sim

>>10026221
QRD?

>>10007748
>>10007776
What was censored?

not a chance i was too young and on the other side of the world

>>10026297

>>10014129
>>10016165
hello? based department?

bros, I fucking miss card collecting. It was a staple of being into anime back then.
An art lost to modern times.

>>10026348
Kino
>>10026354
Kino
>>10026781
Kino

>>10027119
If any of you guys are sentimental about the past, whether you experienced it or not (or heck makes you long for it even more, like a mystery), try to take heart that time is kinda big. Like 1700s ancestors, even tho they're 300 years from us, them messing with Greek archaeology etc are still like us in that it's a few thousand years apart from those Greeks. So 300 years, let alone almost 30 years since og Eva broadcast, suddenly doesn't feel like so long ago when a guy 300 years ago would feel like us in regards to how long ago an even older thing was. I think that's comforting -- look past human lifespan and soak up the years, lads

>>10026781
Card collecting is still alive if you're into Japanese idols. I've got some myself.

>>10027572
Post pics anon.

>>10020995
People hate Eva cause it's the Naruto of seinen. An entry level anime of the worst kind with the most insufferable fan base this side of... you guessed it... Naruto. A pretentious slop with the most overused thinly veiled themes in seinen (anti-westernism, anti-judeochristianity) and the most basic waifu-bait no-personality template characters. None of the characters are original, theyve all been done before.

>>10027736
>Naruto
I dunno, never watched or got into it, too zoomer for mez but I think I would have liked it if I was as young as you.
I like DBZ though, I bet you also think it's bad because it's popular and your trash taste that nobody cares for is superior.
tl;dr your taste is irrelevant and you're a zoomer for bringing up naruto

>>10027795
>I like DBZ though
Your opinions are invalid because you are a wetback. Never speak to me again

>>10027831
lol have sex

10027839
Your mom is busy

she's not, you just can't get sex from anyone, not even old ladies.

>>10027736
Yeah, it's when they say that Mazinger Z was the first piloted mecha. Dude, it's obvious that Nagai was just plagiarizing Talos!
And all this story of the hero's journey? Bruh, Jesus anyone?
It's like sophisticated, innovative artworks such as Gen:Lock.

>>10028129
This. Fuck these Eva fans! They make me hate the series! Too popular!

>>10007743
>You DID play this back in the 90s, right?

No. You got a problem with that, bitch?

>>10023867
blank of 3 years is a great game but it doesn't actually explain anything that lead to the events of the movie, despite purporting to with that subtitle.
It went on sale two months after the movie started in theaters so don't worry about thinking of it as a prerequisite.

>>10026297
>>10026348
Wasn't the ultra famous pic of Mana with her towel falling off, showing her frontal nudity with visible nipples, from the uncensored version too?
I would post the picture so you could confirm, but this is a blue board.

>>10029647
How about the Dreamcast game?

>>10028129
>>10028453
Literally frothing at the mouth because people dislike your favorite cartoon

>>10024291
Fuck Anno and his "if you are depressed, just stop being depressed" bullshit.

>>10030829
I forget when that one was set but it's its own separate sidestory
I remember being disappointed with the lack of battle voices, felt a bit lifeless

>>10021029
In fact >>>/a/254355772
Like fucking pottery

>>10009398
I remember disctinctly this shit(original version) was fan translated on PC with dubious quality decades ago, thats the reason why this thing is kind of popular with fans in the first place, for the longest time it was literally the only eva game most people would acknowledge aside from the 64 one, even when evangelion 2 would be mentioned on this same board not that long ago, people kept believing its "that VN game with the important lore", somehow confusing both games altogether.

Evangelion is garbage that never got any good games because it's a shitty psychological SoL disguised as a mecha show.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to play some actually good giant robot retro vidya.

>>10009398
>recently
lol, this is the third time
>>10031612
og pc translation was 20 years ago, the pc remaster was in 2015

>>10031234
Man its so lame we never got a proper conclusion to the story just cliffhanger after cliffhanger, its like Shenmue but anime

>>10031698
Bangai-O is better than any licensed mecha game anyway

How familiar do I need to be with the show in order to play this game?

>>10033627
it's not worth it if you didnt watch\like the show.

>>10007743
yes
Chingchong out

>>10033627
>didn't watch eva
based, boring shit

>>10033672
>cares about what anonymous people from the internet watch or don't watch
uh.... based? but bluepilled.

>>10024291
Came to get you told but I see >>10026027 already did.

>>10034287
just an excuse to state i'm right

>>10034446
I think you're bold (a form of based, in a sense) to think your opinion matters, but also bluepilled for thinking your opinion actually matters.

>>10010610
cool

>>10027573
Don't know if you're still around, but here you go. I've got a dedicated album for the set, too.

>>10036008
SOVL

People who played Neon Genesis Evangelion: IRON MAIDEN back in the 90s: certified Chads who get women lined up waiting for their turno with them
People who played it after the 90s: irreparable forever alons

Should I just go and play the original PC release from 1997?

>>10037136
Honestly yes.

>>10035103
good thing no one asked for your opinion

>>10007743
nobody knew what evangelion was until canalsur in 2001 started to broadcast or maybe those vhs manga films from late 90s.

did iron maiden 2 ever get a good eng translation? thats the alt universe one right?

>>10037694
The same person who translated IM1 on PSP previously did IM2 for PSP.
IM2, if I am not mistaken, is an adaptation of the Angelic Days manga which is an AU. For some reason (MONEY) they slapped on the GoS branding despite having nothing to do with it.

>>10037136
The Special Edition is harder to run on PC, but if you can live with the lower resolution, the translated PSP version is the same.
>>10037683
In 1996-98 the manga and anime were already all over Europe. It was no Dragon Ball, but it was already very popular.

>>10037683
>maybe those vhs manga films from late 90s.
Exactly, then people knew what Evangelion was by the late 90s. Granted, it was a different time: no massive internet, the word "fandom" was unknown (I honestly started reading it in the late 2000s, I think), and in order to watch series like Evangelion you had to invest on buying the expensive VHSs (or be lucky enough to have IRL friends who had them and would lent you their copies so you could copy them on your VCR)

How hard was to emulate this in 1999?

>>10039659
I don't remember if it was 1999 or 2000, but not hard at all. It run quite fine without much tinkering. Was it the UltraHLE emulator in 1999?

>>10039659
I remember trying, not much luck.
I think I couldn't emulate Eva 64 until the late 2000s, maybe mid 2000s.

>>10038425
>invest on buying the expensive VHSs
I rented anime in 1999 it was $10can for 3 vhs

Was Sonic on the PlayStation version too?

>>10042236
Based Gainax dabbing on Sony

>>10007743
I wasnt even alive in the 90s, sorry

>>10027475
>30 years
Agree. 30 years is absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things.

The other day I was talking with my grandma when I realized it's not that much of a stretch that she might've interacted with people that were alive at the same time as fucking Napoleon Bonaparte.
It's mind boggling.

>>10020730
>>10022767
>>10026027
>>10026781
>>10007743
>>10007874
That character gives me such a hard on.

>>10007743
>>10007874
Why can't I find her on Gelbooru or Danbooru?

>>10045620
Kirishima_Mana ?

>>10045638
What the heck. Maybe I've mistyped her name. Thanks.

>>10030676
What platforms was the uncensored version released to?

>>10045640
PC and Mac for sure. It seems that the Saturn version is uncensored as well, but I am not 100% sure.

>>10045658
thanks bro

>>10007743
Is this the chick that NTRed Shinji with Jamal Ginsberg?

>>10046236
At one point in the game, it seems like that. But turns out he's not her bf.
And if it was her bf, she would be cucking him with Shinjus.

>>10008273
Was this an official licensed game? How was it released, CD-ROM?

>>10042236
Penpen is based

While Kirishima Mana does not have the rocking bodies of Ayanami nor Asuka, she has personality. Goodbye Mana thread.