/vr/ - Retro Games

SEGA allowing developers to make their own carts.

It was a subtle warning that the game you were about to buy was an EA game and might in fact suck*. Pretty clever on SEGA's part.

*unless it had a "Strike" or "Rash" in the title

>>2326734
EA didn't start sucking till non retro times. They in fact, had some really good games.
Road Rash and Battle Squadron for genesis are examples of pretty solid games.

http://www.horriblenight.com/10487/reverse-engineered-how-ea-and-tengen-got-1-up-on-sega-and-nintendo

>In the early 90’s Sega charged $8 to $10 for every cartridge produced on the Sega Genesis. For example, NBA Jam sold 1.93 million copies so Midway would have had to pay at least $15.4 million in licensing fees alone. EA didn’t want to pay the fee so they had a team of mad scientists reverse engineer the console to avoid paying those fees. After they were successful, they took their results to Sega and said “How about we pay you $2 a cartridge with a cap of $2 million?”

See also: http://www.destructoid.com/a-bit-of-gaming-history-ea-reverse-engineered-its-own-genesis-devkit-99328.phtml

tl;dr the yellow tab does nothing.

>>2326741

True, but it's safe to say that Sword of Sodan wasn't one of those games. I loved it as a kid because of the blood, gore and decapitation, but I was a pretty dumb kid - the game itself is terrible.

>>2326741
Pretty sure they were

>>2326868
Talking about games here, champ. Go take your drama shit to your containment board.

>>2326741
>EA didn't start sucking till non retro times.
Ultima/Origin fans will tell you a different story.

>>2327083
Interplay fans will tell you even earlier than Origin fans. EA have always been scumbags.

>MFW every retro forum I've visited over the last decade had at least one person ranting about these yellow slabs and saying how they tried to rip them off.

>>2327589
Is there actually a way to get them off with breaking it?

EA being special flowers and bullying SEGA, a classic tactic of theirs. Killed the Dreamcast that way.

>>2327595
Why is it even an issue? The tab is partially what holds the cartridge together.

>>2327636
Cleaning and maintenance. Replacing caps etc.

>>2327630
I hate EA, they ruin everything they touch. Why doesn't EA just die?

For those interested in the EA cartridge without the tab.

>>2327716
Because Satan is the prince of this world

the first guy was right, ea games are awful outside of the strike and road rash series

srsly mutant league aint that great you just have found memories of the cartoon

>>2328317

Skitchin' was pretty Bitchin' though.

Hey Road Rash fans, which is better, RR2 or RR3?

>>2328423
64

>>2328428
lolno

>>2326868

dengjuh for posting. disregard criticising faggot.

>>2328348
I understood that obscure retro ad reference.

It was just there to make them standout from other games.

I sometimes wonder if copies of this and Zany Golf were trashed because people tried (unsuccessfully) to play it on later runs of Genesis hardware. They only work on the machines that don't display the "produced by or under license from..." message.

>>2328317
Ahem.

>>2326770
smart business move, Tecmo ( i think) tried that shit on nintendo and got buttraped for just doing it

i hated these carts because when my dad built our entertainment center he didn't account for some fuckheads changing the dimensions of cartridge size.

>>2328573
>Consists entirely of tedious, unforgiving trial-and-error gameplay
>You can fail to complete the game by missing key items and have no way to go back to get them
>Dungeon looks like it's made of shit, everything is brown
Amazing game, yep.

>>2328569
Can't you play games that don't normally run on TMSS systems if you play them with a Game Genie?

>>2328630
Yeah, I believe the Game Genie will get around the lockout. But I imagine most people kept blowing into their Populous carts to no avail then gave up, not aware of its situation.

>>2326734
And general chaos..

>>2328423

Meh they all offer something, RR1 has those fun portraits of other racers before the game (2 has them as well but they don't show them as much)
RR3 seems tighter in controls but I'm not a fan of the music or the digitized look.

So I guess I'd have to say I prefer RR2, it has the chain weapon and some improvements over RR1.

>>2328609
Hey, I don't think anyone ever played that game to actually beat it. Just to see all the ways you could die.

>>2326871
Take your waste-of-time posts and shove them into /yourass/

>>2328582
Nintendo owned the industry lock, stock, and barrel back then. Even game distributors wouldn't carry competitor's products if they wanted to get their new releases on time.

>>2327083
>>2327097
Yep. EA were even such dicks that Trip Hawkins refused to put any EA games on the NES until the board of directors forced him to.

>>2326741
I can honestly say I never enjoyed a 16 bit console EA game; and they have pretty much ruined everything they've touched ever.

>>2329836
Well if you want to go a bit later they have some really good games.
Sled Storm and Beetle Adventure Racing! are both amazing.
And there's the early 2000s PC games. Which are among the best if not the bests FPSes made. At least for multiplayer fpses.
Modern EA went to shit though.

>>2326868
Sounds to me like Richard Garriott fit right in. He was a sue-happy little shitter, too. Sued dozens of independent and small studios who produced RPGs for the PC because he claimed he owned the entire genre.

>>2330118
Oh really? What comes around goes around. Isn't he about to get Ultima back eventually?