/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3160292
Still don't get wtf this cunt is actually doing.

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>>3160292
What's up with that K? Looks like Kjonami.

I have a lot I've gathered recently. Some aren't for video games but have the same bizarre aesthetic and personality.

>>3161649

>>3161652
I miss blockbuster

>>3161656

>>3161657

>>3161662
Obligatory for these threads

>>3161663
Although not for a video game I absolutely love this ad. And it does for whatever reason have an octabrain from Duke Nuke'em

>>3161669
I got a magazine with this ad in it recently and was lucky enough to find it online.

>>3161673
a promotional image for the vectrex I've always liked. I unfortunately can't find a higher resolution image of it though.

>>3161678
Oddly enough it seems this console was trying to copy the virtual boy. Funny to see them promoting "VR Troopers" along side it.

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>>3161662
I feel like the girl 'got it.' The dude looks like he's trying to do Blue Steel with a bloody nose. Either way, the 90s were a strange time. "Here, but this game that will physically abuse you!"

>>3161687
Or give you an overdose

>>3161685


>>3161687
I feel like with older games they were marketed more for the "Challenge" than the fun factor. Older games in arcades or on older consoles never felt like they wanted you to win or you were even supposed to win. The game over screens made you feel like shit and the concepts never felt like they were supposed to be inviting. This is in contrast with newer games where it's basically wish fulfillment and they're made in a way to where anyone can beat them. The 90s were the awkward midway between the two where they wanted to seem edgy and challenging but also zany and fun. That's probably why it was my favorite decade for video games.

Also I just realized I kept my name on here from a thread over at /co. Hopefully that doesn't piss people off over here.

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>>3161698

>>3161657
i remember having NES/GB/SNES and seeing this ad in EGM and Gamepro and wanting to win so bad... PS1 and Saturn were pipe dreams back then; never mind a system like that to play them on.

>>3161704

>>3161712
Here's another one that isn't really for video games but still has the same bizzaro cyberpunk atmosphere as a lot of them.

>>3161716

>>3161719
more /v than /vr but it's clearly mimicking the old style of ads nintendo used to do.

>>3161721
well I guess that's all I have. In conclusion here is the most 90s image I've ever found. I highly recommend taking a good long look at this and taking it all in.

>>3160274
cheeky

>>3161657

That hueg TV set looks awesome. Someday when I have my shit together and my own place I will build me one hell of a set like that.

>>3161768
I love the satellite dish coming off of it like you'd have that shit indoors.

>>3161776
>he doesn't have a satellites orbiting inside of his house

Take a load of this guy.

SEAMLESS 15 FRAMES

15 FRAMES
5

F
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>>3161721
Unlike things that are allowed on /vr/, this is actually retro.

>>3161790
>rob schneider

>>3160267
Ultimate Warrior is dead
Rowdy Roddy Piper is dead
Macho Man Randy Savage is dead
Chyna just died

>>3161987
Reminds me heavily of the video power logo.

surprised this wasnt posted yet

>>3162000

>>3161982
basically most people worth a shit are dead

>>3161698
STD entertainment

>>3161649
>granny not wearing the tanktop

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>>3162007
>angst beef
Brilliant.

How about retro unreleased

>>3161662
>>3161687
Here's an alternate version of the ad where they both just look bored on a Friday night.

>>3164259
Whats with the NO Saints logo in the background?

>>3164417
Do you mean the Fluer de lis, a heraldic charge that has seen use for hundreds of years? I guess some wall paper is tacky.

>>3161776
I think it's just there to, you know, show you it's one of the prizes. It's not a usage suggestion.

>>3164417
>sports team logo
Surely this is satire

Some Sega Saturn love

>>3161649
is that mini me?

>>3164524
its called fleur de lis you uneducated faggot

>>3161698
STD hahahha

I have a whole bunch I scanned in for just such a thread a while back.

>>3167257

Thats it for what I have, enjoy.

>>3167271
As goofy as this looks, this is actually a pretty responsive controller for racing games.

>>3167273
>tfw when you did

>>3167770
>that feel when when

>>3167285
>Killer Instinct Gold
>Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire
Should have been Killer Instinct 64 and Star Wars 64, amirite?

>>3161704
EXPLODING KNEES

INB4 not retro

>>3167930
poor kid left out from the fun among his vidya gamers, coloring unenthusiastically

>>3167271
That Ridge Racer girl always gave me such a boner as a teen.

>>3167921
>Rocco Siffredi
>Trick Style
wait what WHY? WAS IT A GAY GAME ALL THIS TIME?

>>3165090

this would be a badass poster

>>3162000
I can imagine how shekel'd richfags felt when the library turned out to be mostly arcade ports you could beat in a night

>>3160274

>>3161649
they could make a modern duke game with this character roster

>duke
>fat duke
>skinny duke
>granny duke
>mini-duke

>>3161682
>Virtua Fighter

Kill me

>>3161798
he looks like the owl from the sonic OVA when he changes into Sonic's clothes

>>3168093
>>3167921
BASED ROCCO

>>3161804
That's funnyman Rob Schneider you uneducated baboon

>>3167942
Welp. There's my new nightmare fuel.

>>3160267
SKRONK

>>3161716
I would jack my patchcable into her body, iykwim

>>3167902
I'll never reach this kind of high octane excitement over computer gaming ever again, I envy the children in this ad.

>>3161798

The best thing is seeing some ads say that the graphics look super realistic.

>kek

>>3167902

lol that one guy ODing on the couch

>>3161663
still one of the coolest, edgiest ads for an FPS ever made.
much respekt

>>3170347
It's a fake.

>>3170318
That movie was great

>>3167905
damn that's hard.

>>3167917

>>3160292
I don't have the skills, but there is a gif to be made from these two.

>>3167268
Must be beta screenshots. In the actual game the bodies explode into gore mess instead of flying like doom enemies.

>>3167913
I'm going to put that over my penis

>>3161657
got everything in that pic, except for that cheap-looking entertainment center and the 3DO

>>3161704
Read Nintendaids for a sec there.

>>3167823
It got yer 64" right here.

>>3167294
>>3167303
>Son. Your mother and I, well... We've noticed that you have a problem.

>>3167902
lol the fat kid having a seizure at the keyboard

>>3167905
chicken breasts
OH SNAP

>>3168517
Terry, what are you doing? Are you OK?

the caveman with the fancy diver watch made me laugh as a kid.

>>3161768

maybe it's the nostalgia talking, but 80s tiger-patterned high-waisted bikinis were so much sexier than what we have now. It's become a fetish of mine

>>3161790
>think FMV sucks?

Even during it's heyday people had low opinions on FMV games. What was were publishers thinking back then?

>>3171908
You've got VR now, dumb and bound to fail like FMV back then. But it's here.

>>3171916

they had VR back then too and it was just flash in the pan tech that didn't last too long

>>3171919
It will happen again. Just like 3D movies went through multiple cycles and failed every time. Even though they swear it's here to stay this time.

>>3161790
>think about fast, seamless 15 frames per second video
>"Thanks to me and half a dozen other outrageous stand-up comedians, there are so many laughs in A Fork In The Tale that FMV now stands for Funny with My Voice"
>Starring funnyman Rob Schneider as the voice of the hero.

Only funny thing about this is the ad.

>>3167890
Chrischan?

>>3167905
>PC: You can also watch porn on it

>>3167917
This was my favorite one when I was a kid

>>3171908
>The game was a commercial failure and publisher Any River Entertainment closed its doors just before the game's original release, cementing its status as a major flop.

Lol..

what a slut

PLAY

>>3161682
You are now in the R-Zone! WooOOOOoooOOOooo

>>3172023
Cheri Oteri?

>>3161657
I believe that those ads were a scam that nobody ever won.

>>3172045
Man, Cheri's getting a bit amazonian.

>>3172023
The kill me now look on the thug's face completes it.

The biker just feels like a happy accident. Like the guy literally just parked not knowing what was going on.

>>3160267
HO KOGAN

>>3167924
>that fucking costume world dracula outfit

>>3167271
>Rage Racer

lmfao

>>3172098
people won, but the prize was converted to a monthly payment, and then the company would go "bankrupt" and stop payments. Most winners got a net positive amount of money out of the deal, but it was definitely not what was advertised and since it was pay-to-play, the vast majority of players lost out.

>>3172098
Yep. The subsequent rounds' puzzles were much harder, or in some cases, completely ambiguous about what the correct answer is.
Also, you aren't informed if any of your answers are wrong, so it's possible for every entrant to have a wrong answer and there to be no winner. Plus the prizes were donated/discounted so any money going into the company was easy to turn to profit in the unlikely event of a winner.
My research into it indicated that there have only been two winners, but it's all rumours and hearsay, so don't take my word for anything.

>>3161669
Oh god I remember that shit. It tasted like a scented candle.

>>3171897
Same pham

>>3172486
Both part of the 'ads I fapped to in high school' series

>>3171974
A damn fine selling point.

>>3172490
I remember jerking off to this.

>>3165089
I love that the Final Fantasy Chronicles box references this ad.

>>3165089
>It's about time.

Has there been a more straightforward plot synopsis for a game.

>>3161669
Randy better not see this or it'll be fucking lawsuit time.

>>3172931
Good thing that's not an actual ad.

>>3173053
What're you talking about?

Remember how fucking bad Color Dreams games were?

>this somehow didn't sell

>>3173183

>>3173179
I had one of these, was a solid controller just for the turbo. Just used the headphone jack a few times and it was pretty much pointless.

Time for the future of gaming.

>>3173191
Oh, and the sound shift thing was really odd. When you pressed left on the d-pad the left side of your headphones became louder and the right softer, and vice versa.

>>3173195
I guess because they figured if the character was facing left, he'd hear things coming from the left better.
Problem is the NES was almost entirely music and the sounds your character made.

>>3173196
>Look for the Power Glove in the Universal film THE WIZARD.

Huh. I never knew it was in the movie. Must've been really subtle advertising.

>>3173220

>>3173170
>Hellraiser
Talk about a Holy Grail-with everything from a Z-80 CPU in the cart as a co-processor to the unique adult horror theme, Hellraiser would make garbage like Stadium Events look like the plebian trash it is had there been a completed prototype. The ultimate NES vaporware title.

>>3167317
Dat Graphic Novel that was never actually released and sits in a vault somewhere.

>>3161790
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fra9KxmUBo That's 15 FPS?

>>3167285
twin towers in the lower left?

>>3167918
holy shit those sweaters are dope

>>3175637
I don't recall the Statue of Liberty sticking out of the top, in the middle of what appears to be a lake.

>>3171880
This artwork made me want this as a kid. The thought of an openworld of cavemen fighting spacemen was awesome. Turned out to be nothing like that, but when I picked it up in college I still had a great time. Pretty trippy game.

>>3175483
Remember this ad it came with a postcard that had 3 scratch n sniff pictures. Smelled for years.

>>3167905
absolutely fucking savage

>not hot dog ad

>no Pulstar ad

>>3175709
I hated that fucking thing so much that every time someone wanted to talk about Earthbound that was the first thing I thought about.

I didn't even play the fucking game until 2013 and I still don't get the hype.

>>3161649
Looks like a page from Gantz

>>3167902

>>3167969
I like to think the brown-haired kid got forced to go over and play with the two weird milquetoast christian kids across the street and he got bored of their shitty bible games and cucumbers and cottage cheese.

>>3160274

>>3175709
>3 scratch n sniff pictures
they were absolutely foul

>>3173035
>The gameplay is better because there are more buttons
Does that mean PC is even better?

>>3177724
Was this for MK2?

>>3177721
Sega fags on suicide watch.

>>3177721
Was this legit? What were they thinking?

>>3172486
Jesus, i remember that being so sexy. Great ad.

>>3172486
This is fucking hilarious

>>3177721

>>3178262
its funny because SFII CE and SFII Turbo are pretty much the same game

>>3161768
>Borat get his inspiration for the mankini

>>3177927
It was quite a while before Sega got SF2 so it was a valid claim at the time.

>>3172490
Has anyone ever used those controllers and if so, was it better, worse or just as good as the original controllers?

>>3177721
Never ever

>>3178369
a friend of mine had the ps2 one. it's been years, but I remember it being fine, nothing really special. my hands don't really sweat when I play, so that didn't matter much. I remember it being a bit clunky though, it's a fair amount bigger than the first party ones, especially with the rubber grips. those ridges stick out quite a bit.

>>3178262
*Turbo mode made possible only with Blast Processing

>>3173196
>grabbin balls

>>3178369
I still have a GameCube one, it's pretty cool

>>3161447
That's their old logo

>>3173231
>that shitty ass d-pad

>>3173204
Are you kidding? Theres literally a scene where the asshole villain kid pulls out the power glove to play some driving game, did you actually see the movie?

>>3182556
>Are you kidding?

As a matter of fact, he was.

>>3182556
>average /v/irgin "intelligence"

>>3161649
Ahaha, I remember seeing this in a copy of EGM. Pretty good IMO

>>3161768
Yes... very good...

>>3167848
When you know your game is so shit, you need to use sex to sell it.

>>3167905
This is bugging me because I know I've seen this image bigger... maybe I have it in a magazine... if anyone knows what issue/maganize, I can do a nice HQ scan.

>>3178341
yeah they knew it would be valid until the exclusivity deal expired.

>>3186654
The ad campaign for this was sick. I remember seeing the game trailer at the movie theater.

hey thats the ultima warrior!!!

>>3186545

>>3161657
when i see ads for old computers like these, i always wonder what the most modern game they could run would be.

>>3188257
I can only imagine the shitstorm that would occur on tumblr and twitter if this ad were to be printed today

>>3167895
>dat chart
Modern ATI/nVidia would be proud

>>3177721
Literally the retro version of NEVER EVER

>filthy nip go home

I don't know what this is, but I want one!

>>3161790
>Think about fast, seamless 15 frames per second video

> fast, seamless 15 frames per second

>15 FRAMES PER SECOND

>>3182556
You're American aren't you.

>>3161790
silky smooth

>>3173186
KAIN, THE WRECKER

>>3164417
....this has to be bait.

>>3173053
jeez I must have hallucinated seeing the ad in comics/game magazines back in the day

>>3188501
Enlighten yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojatBoMZubk

>>3187959
Pentium 133mhz with 16MB of RAM?

Almost definitely Quake 2.

>>3167285

BUT

>>3161698

>tfw your girl has stds

>>3188467
Ne touche pas mon AMSTRAD!!

>>3190194
I installed Deus Ex on my P133 once as an experiment. Took up both gigabytes of hard drive space, ran like a slideshow (new frame every twenty seconds), and the intro took a couple of hours to run.

>>3168816
The guys who own and make Borderlands own this fucking franchise. It's baffles me they haven't taken full advantage of its potential yet.

Given Gearbox and it's shady activities though I guess I see why they're being fairly dismissive.

>>3167921
Would have been a better idea to show Rocco balls-deep in some 18 year old's ass while playing the game.

>>3190049

>>3192880
>Alien can bite through a Game Boy
We're fucked

>>3193412
>totally def

>>3193418
what the hell is an "interlude"

>>3195231
This game, will never ever, get fixed.

>forgetting about Johnny Turbo

>>3195441

OH MY GOD! /vr/ ISN'T EVEN HUMAN!

>>3160274
>that look
hnnng

>>3161656
So blockbuster managed to go for so long without changing its logo? Admirable. The sign of a good logo.

>>3195441
God damn, why didn't they just use Bonk as a mascot?

>>3161768
I rue the day when the high cut bikini slipped out of fashion.

>>3195873
It's the hair for me, I find the big hair on 80s girls to be so fucking hot.

>>3167902
That kid wiped out in the background.

>>3177724
Witches of Eastwick?

>>3161704
> men's/children's sizes

>>3197136
> Accurate up to 30'

I don't know about that...

>>3161652
I remember seeing that ad. it was pretty strange but after I saw it was mk I almost shit my pants.

>>3161798
Damn nowI really want that jacket.

>>3195886
I had that feeling growing up in the 90s (born in 88) and it steadily grew into my current goth/punk girl fetish hey

>>3161728
trapper keepers in the 90s really were the greatest thing

>>3161798
wanna game with that dad

>>3167278

>Monica

>>3161657
What the fuck is all that audio shit? Do you really need an entire rack-mounted post-production facility to enjoy shitty MIDI?

>>3195231
>DOB on the license

Does it actually mean anything? Lazy glance at wikipedia says december 87.

>>3167921
What the fuck?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGJdUIvRL9g

>>3200845
God this ad tries so hard. If they felt the game was better than the license, they should've just put the McDonald's branding on a different game.

>>3203474
What a good thread was that.

>>3200845
You can almost smell the desperation from this advert.

>>3164259
HARD CORE GAMER FAN SEEMS LIKE A LEGIT SOURCE. Also what the duck does real time 3d tracks even mean?

>>3204001
Race tracks.

>>3172486
>>3172490
Holy shot anon you just made me nostalgia hard as fuck. Even got butterflies in my stomach from when I first fapped to these ads and then prayed to jeebus. I had a fucked up childhood.

Also I had a nyko gc controller. It was decent. I liked the shoulder buttons.

>>3164259
is that the puerto rican from hackers

Shit I can't remember many of these ads. I didn't get any magazines as a kid. I remember the Sonic ads in the back of the comics though.

>>3202461
It's a receiver with a tape deck & cd player

>>3193418
More like Interlewd

>>3205631
I guess that's not retro sorry

>>3201635
That's the release date of the original game in Japan

>>3201542
>giant 26-inch screen

>>3193418
Man having sex in the 80s must have been awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9PetPinkP4

>>3205637
>>3205637
>boomerang 64

pass the controller
it keeps coming back

>>3205826
All things considered, I can't say I miss hairy pussy

>>3205826
>AIDS
Nah, it wasn't all neon and cocaine-fueled fun times, man

>>3167918
Desperately need a Quake sweater now.

>>3207753

>>3208285
>Jo Guest is 44 years old and haggard as fuck

>>3208307
>joJUST.jpg

>>3161804
>dissing a pure unadulterated funnyman

>>3208285
...and here I thought that one Battlecruiser 3000AD ad was the only game ad she was on.

>>3208307
jeez

>>3212286
>it's TRASH!
That's all you need to know about this "game", really.

>>3210286
I really wish they kept the name Ultra 64. Every video game console should have Super, Ultra, Mega or Turbo in the name, honestly.

>>3212286
I'm still amazed that this is a thing that exists in this mortal plane.

This message was sent to you post-ironically

>>3167921
This makes no sense...

>>3208307
That's not fair, she's ill. But yeah she looks more like Joe Pasquale now.

>>3167823
KI Gold is a port of KI2 tho.

>>3177742
Yeah.

>>3178294
Turbo is faster, more balanced, and better in general.

>>3193389
The old crash ads were pretty good

>>3167942
Why all 80s/90s ads about anything in BR magazines looked like this?

Like one person did it all

Scanned it from Official UK Playstation Magazine, so kind of VG

Based Namco ad for PS1 game Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere

1/2

2/2

+ some variation I found on tumblr

>>3218664
the fuck even is that

>>3167303
Dude must love his link cables.

>>3210286
I remember this. Nintendo clearly couldn't the N64 released in time for the holiday season of 95. This campaign was to put people off buying a PlayStation for Christmas.

I wonder if Nintendo will attempt a similar campaign this year...

>>3207046
Is that dollars? $2500 for a 15mb harddrive?! What year was this?

>>3220152
VHS movies used to be $100.00

>>3167918
Heisenberg kek

>>3161790
Wow. This is so fucking awful I might make some prints of these and stick em around the neighbourhood for laughs

>>3223539
I can remember that. My local video rental store sometimes left the price sticker on the boxes on the shelves.

But $2500.00 for a 15mb harddrive? That's a whole new world of FUCK.

>>3165082
There were like 2 games that this controller made sense for. Ice Hockey and RC Pro-Am/ for anything else, the cycloid control thing just meant more travel time for your thumb.

>>3224762
>you will never be a video dude

>>3172181
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_Racer

It was a game. It was bretty gud

>>3167913
want!

>>3171789
You're 5' 4"?
Manlet

>>3173232
Too bad Jaguar has no gaems

>>3178262
Basically, it was just waiting on a 6 button controller. Glad we finally got one for it.

>>3168460
"Arcade ports"? It was a real arcade board in a console. We knew what we were getting into.

I've been seeing this stupid opinion more and more often around here... The idea that hard core gamers in the 90's were somehow "tricked" into buying a Neo•Geo and then buying games for it over the next 15 years. Guess I fell for it! Pic super related.

>>3160267
My older brother had this game

>>3168460
You have absolutely no idea how badly people wanted arcade games at home.

this one triggered germaniggers hard
muh cruelty to stuffed animals

>>3161685

>that beast of an analog joystick

Good lord, I completely forgot about that monstrosity.

>>3161704

>keep a backup shirt for those surprise attacks

what the literal fuck

>>3161687
Or in the case of that John Romero game (Daikatana?) - "The developer of this game wishes to imprison you into slavery and break your spirit"

Truly strange times.

From an issue of Viz. Can't find a higher res version.

I remember this one retro ad from a 90s magazine. I think it was for First Samurai and it showed a pic of a really nerdy looking boy with a glass of milk. Can't find it though. Maybe it's not First Samurai - can anyone help?

>>3196091

>>3232517
>sorry for what? our daddy's taught us not to be ashamed of our consoles

>>3167910
downs

The Earthbound scratch and sniff notorious ad

>>3165082
I had this thing but hardly ever used it. It seems like a good idea in theory, but it just doesn't work as nicely as you'd like. I figured it might be good for shooters or arcade-style beat-em-ups, but not really.

>>3235615
>2016

>>3235615

I have actually never even heard of this game. Is it any good?

>>3161704
That kid is cool as fuck.

>>3161798
That Dad is cool as fuck too.

>>3239401
Its a pretty solid title, not perfect but haslots of action and one of the more mature games on the n64. Cant be emulated yet but I hear they are working on it

>>3188257
>>3239341
>>3223050
>>3201542
>>3177724
>>3173231
>All these ads referring to the console as the "Super NES"
Why didn't they just call the console that to begin with? Everyone just called it the "Super Nintendo" 'cause assumed "Entertainment System" was just a tagline.