/vr/ - Retro Games

I have been here since the beginning and yeah a lot of shit does get repeated but its a slow enough board you dont have to really be here every hour to keep up with it. Just make good original threads, I have made a few that turned out well. I do wish there was more people here though, this placed used to be way more active and we had challenge threads and the like was there a ban wave or something like a year ago.

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Okay.

It's the sanest board on the QuadChannel.

1 hipster retro fad is dying down
2 you fags are elitist assholes and i hope you're board burns :^)

>tfw /vr/ has no dubs

No wonder it's crap

bye

>>2166965
dubs get

>>2166754
> It's the same thing over and over again
Is this the first board of 4chan?
That describes pretty much all this place,
from the beginning.
4chan is a meme

>>2166938

I hope this is the case. I really do. Some 20 year old hipster has lost interest in a hobby he had only a half-assed amount of interest in, and is now finally fucking off back to /v/.

DON'T COME BACK NOW, Y'HERE?

>>2166978
>the first
your first*

About a month or two ago, a bunch of totally on-topic threads started getting deleted left and right. You'd make a thread that was fresh and engaging then after it took off, janitors would come along and delete it. I think that a lot of the core posters got pissed off about that. I know I did.

Just check out the archive and you can see it. Basically, it seemed like there was some attempt to make this board look good to a cursory glance but to stifle meaningful content. It happened at the same time that other major boards were suffering worse fates.

The word is that 4chan is being polished up to be sold off. Moot has some girlfriend with the classic gold digging agenda and she's a feminist to boot. Don't be surprised when this thread gets deleted too.

>>2166997
I was wondering what the fuck happened to this place.

>>2166997
the gakwer whore? heard they broke up

Don't cl/ebay/reseller general threads get deleted?

I really think stuff like that should stay. The collecting part of retrogaming, with its ups and downs, is really the most evolving part of the hobby. To be honest, laughing at specific instances of dumb resellers or people recounting tales of the time they met some weird meth-head/hillbilly/murderer/whatever when buying an arcade cab or whatever the hell else happens is probably more fun and relevant to modern day retrogaming than endless threads arguing over the quality of Yoshi's Island, explaining RGB, bitching about filters, singing the praise of filters, or arguing over when GBA will be retro.

I can see why reseller type threads get deleted, but there is really only so much to say about most retrogames and I wouldn't be surprised if we get a lot of people who are just passing through to sell something, ask about an emulator issue, or see if there newest Goodwill buy is "worth something" instead of regularly contributing.

Maybe we should aim for more community projects, competitions, and stuff like that. A /vr/ community-made Super Mario World level pack would be nice. Maybe we've tried something like this and I just never paid attention or forgot or missed it altogether or it was before my start at this board.

>>2167019
It was slowing down for the reasons OP brought up, but it was still healthy. However, when over-aggressive moderation hits a slow board with a small core of quality content it can be extremely devastating.

Maybe it'll recover, I haven't completely given up on it but I haven't bothered to start a new thread in quite a while. I have been coming back around to giving full answers to people who have legitimate questions though.

>>2166997

best chan is back online!

nice talking to you guys

>>2167031
That would be great.

> It's the same thing over and over again.
No shit retard, this is a board devoted to retro games i.e. games that have already been out for a long time. Occasionally something foreign or forgotten is discovered, but if you've been hanging around expecting new releases and second by second shitposting, you should fuck off back to /v/. This is a chill little place devoted to gaming history, nostalgia, collecting friendly game related chatter and recommendations and most of us like it fine that way.
Now mods, kindly delete this thread.

>>2167078
wow, false flagging

>>2167070

Yeah, but the Janitor/Mod is still going apeshit on battlestation and collection threads for some fucking reason.

But the thing is, we've got a bunch of new mods. New mods are always the worst because they fuck everything up.

>>2167057

>Maybe we should aim for more community projects, competitions, and stuff like that.

The mod would just delete the threads for some reason. /vr/ would have to start emailing moot about whomever is fucking up this board, and appeal to him to get it stopped before /vr/ could recover. Battlestation threads were becoming something kinda nice. It was new content, at least.

>>2166997
>About a month or two ago, a bunch of totally on-topic threads started getting deleted left and right. You'd make a thread that was fresh and engaging then after it took off, janitors would come along and delete it. I think that a lot of the core posters got pissed off about that. I know I did.
Been here since the first day. And yeah, I actually started coming to 4chan as a whole less frequently after that, given that /vr/ was probably 75% of my traffic here. Still love all you guys though.

>>2166997
>The word is that 4chan is being polished up to be sold off.
Yet somehow the Nick Arcade thread is still up despite devolving into a discussion of which underage contestant is more attractive.

The main problem with /vr/ is, at its inception, everyone wanted it to be the anti-/v/: no more hating video games, no more rabid fanboyism, just bros who enjoy vidya.

The problem is it worked TOO well. If you're too kind to everyone and spoonfeed, your board ends up filling up with plebs that regurgitate the same thoughts, stories, and opinions endlessly and nothing new or meaningful is created. Plebs also cannot voice or take any meaningful criticism and stay in the safezone of Mario, Zelda, Megaman, etc, like a teenager who thinks classic rock & metal are the pinnacle of music, but more pathetic.


That, and of course, Moot being a cunt.

>>2167125
Those bitches are like forty.

>>2166997
>>>/v/
>>>/pol/
>>>/out/

Seriously keep the irrelevant GG shit in /v/

So why don't you just try out some retro games you've never played before and make a thread about whichever one you liked?

>>2167195
They'd ultimately get buried by the Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, Zelda, Le funny Chinese AVGN and Megaman cirlcejerks

>>2166997
Can confirm. Some of my threads were deleted too, and they were within the rules.

>>2166754
An hero you /vr/trooper.

I see that the-other-shit-imageboard-with-people-preferring-to-talk-about-sjw-shit is down. No wonder /v/ and /vr/ goes to shit whenever that happens.

>>2167207

And that GBA thread was left until bump limit and posts pointing out that it ain't /vr/ deleted.

>>2167225
That's bullshit.

>>2167114
Wait, battlestation threads aren't allowed now? The fuck? I can think of no justification for them not being allowed. Guess the emulator-fags have more sway.

>>2167235
This infuriates me. The emulation and doom general board are clogging up everything. If you even comment on the doom boards with a slightly negative tone you will be banned.

>>2167240
I got two ban requests in a row that got rejected for mentioning Brutal Doom there.

>>2167130

I think /vr/ was the best board at some point, before the reckoning, I think us bros better evacuate before moot sells 4chan

>>2167130
nah internet elitism is dumb
if anything /vr/ was always a lot less nice than /v/ since it's a smaller community

>>2167206
How? The board is slow as fuck. Threads can be up for fucking days.

>>2167240
>>2167235
it's not that I looked into what people have been saying it's true 4chan is kill. They fucked up a lot of boards, deleted posts left right and centre. The problem is it leaked into our precious board too, I really have been here since the beginning I remember the guy who sold his first model PS1 with the good DAC 10K, or how he soldered his genesis games to play on SNES or getting his N64 to play SNES games at 60fps. https://archive.moe/vr/thread/831170/#831170 That was a /vr/ classic and something like that would never happen anymore because mods a shit. It really does sadden me to see this place go to shit, the past years have been awesome. I was into retro gaming before /vr/ but stopped with it for a while once this board was created it got me back into retro gaming hardcore and I would not have a sega saturn or pc engine for sure I knew lots about them before but /vr/ inspired me to actually hunt them down and they weren't too elusive. /vr/ reminded me why I loved retro gaming why I loved playing retro with my friends or brother or even alone. I actually just come to realize what people have been saying about this site is true. I just wish they could have left our board alone cause all we wanted to do was talk about old games. :(

>>2167257
>complaining about slow boards
Threads that are up for days end up being quality threads that people keep posting in. Besides, /vr/ is still faster than a lot of other boards like /toy/.

You fuckers need to quit your bitching and play some goddamn games.

Are you saying you don't like seeing half a dozen
>Hurrr what emulator do i use?
>Durrr what was this game called?
>Murrr What's a good game for X
threads every hour?

A Sperglord has left /vr/. Diablo's faggotry weakens.

>>2167268
Who said I was complaining? I love the fact that threads can stay up for days. It's not a rush like the more popular boards.

>>2167269
>Using quality thread topics as examples of bad posting

>>2167271
Apologies for the misunderstanding then! You're a true /vr/trooper.

Hey guys, I'm unable to use the archive, any good games for the SNES? :)

>>2167285
I hear Ultraman is pretty great.

>>2167285
Battle Cars.
Nobody ever talks about it for some reason, but it's fucking fun.

>>2167251
Is there a better site than this?

>>2167254
Yet every board that isn't is a total shit hole.

>>2167351
thats ur opinion tho
i refuse to fit in with a clique, hope u understand

>>2166754
Good riddance then, but that's unfortunate because once you enter 4chan, you're here forever.

>>2167345
it's down right now, cause it has shoot up in popularity recently. They even partnered with 2chan so they are legit. Can't say what it is though don't want to get banned. it's filtered

>>2167423
I'll google it then.

I don't know what OP is smoking. This is one of the most on-topic, content-filled, shitpost-free boards on 4chan. I fucking LOVE /vr/.

I mean, for fucks sake, there's been 1000 posts or so of DAGGERFALL generals! That's AWESOME!

Create the content you want to see, be the change you want to see in the board.

>>2167432
>generals!
We are lucky the janitor doesn't delete it.

>>2167423
>decided to look them up
>they have /vr/-tan on their Twitter banner

How long have you schmucks been over there?

>>2167447

judging by all the nostalgia threads on that places /v/

a long time

That's the case for every board on here. How about not being a pathetic neckbeard and stop wasting several hours on here everyday? Visit once or twice everyday instead and quit your whining. That's what happens when people get too invested and start drama.

>>2167491
Judging from your whining it sounds like you're the one who is too invested.

>>2166754
>I'm starting to feel like NESfag almost, that dude is always on repeat
NESfag is more than one person. A bunch of us decided to just start randomly posting with that name anytime a survival horror thread appears.

In short, don't leave. We'll miss you.