/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7989629
remember when everyone was happy and included without it feeling forced

>>7989634
Its because the focus was on selling a product.

COOL THREAD BRO. DON'T FORGET TO FUCK YOURSELF ON THE WAY OUT <3

And issue #7.

All for now.

>>7990107
Eat shit faggot.

>>7989638
Holy shit, Dan Owsen was around even back then?

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>>7989849
This was always my favorite section. Sometimes I would even just jump right to this part without even reading anything else first. Shame that in later years, this section got condensed down to 2 pages.

>>7989758
He's flipping the bird
He's giving the finger

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>>7989760
They really did try. Maybe they should've just skipped the first one.

nice thread. wish i could've experienced this era.

>>7989645
Is that THE Matt Bozon, creator of Shantae and founder of WayForward?

>>7989882
>Among the callers is an anesthesiologist who tracked Brian down through the school district.

Uh, why is he writing to Nintendo Power instead of calling the police?

>>7991118
And I'm NOT making this up!

>>7992747
It was a different time back then. My fathers coworkers used to borrow my issues of NP through him since they needed help on certain games and there was no internet to turn to back then. If you were known to be a videogamer, it wasn't entirely unheard of to get random questions from people you barely knew about videogames they were stuck on. I had a teacher(not my teacher) in elementary school who asked for my help on Out of this World/Another World, since she couldn't figure out how to get past the first area. I had a neighbor I had never even met suddenly ask me about help for Ultima 3. People would ask around, someone would say "Anon knows videogames!", and suddenly you were getting questions from some complete stranger about videogames. That's just how the 80's and early 90's rolled.

>>7989651
>Sprinter
Kek

You would think Nintendo Power would be more popular.

>>7994158
Back in the day I wouldn't have read it due to it having obvious funding from Nintendo. Since Nintendo keeps the lights on, I'd have just assumed they were promoting what Nintendo needed to sell more of with little regard for if the game was actually good. I favored more "independent" publications like EGM or GameNow. Of course, in the end it turned out they were bought too, so the joke truly was on me for ever thinking gaming magazines were reliable in the first place.

>>7994205
You're right. Bayou Billy getting shilled for two straight issues, did anyone really like that game? I never hear anything positive about it. Looking at all the issues that have been posted so far there is a suspiciously high amount of people that supposedly loved Golgo 13, which wouldn't rank in even the top 500 classic NES games if a list was made today. Maybe that's all they had available at the time so they liked it due to lack of other options but still, I'm skeptical. The amount of times NP brings up G13 and features a letter or mention of it as being someone's "favorite" is strange.

>>7994223
Bayou Billy is unironically one of my top 10 NES games.

>>7994223
>You're right. Bayou Billy getting shilled for two straight issues, did anyone really like that game?
It's not like the US had a whole lot of games of note to talk about back then. Meanwhile at the time this was released, Japan already had Super Mario Bros. 3 for 10 months.

>>7994231
That's the first positive comment I've heard about it.

>>7994231
Can you beat it? Captain N can't.

>>7994367
Yes. Extremely rewarding.

>>7994286
Lots of people get filtered by how balls hard it is. Even beating the first level is a serious challenge.

I realized how biased Nintendo Power was when one of the reviewers said Golden Sun was a better RPG than Chrono Trigger.

Literally the pinnacle of literature.

>>7994585
I'm hard pressed to think of a worse RPG than Golden Sun.

>>7994205
I decided to not get Chibi-Robo when it came out because they gave it less than an 8.5, so there's something.

Based. Thanks OP.

>>7994223
Early in the NES years, games like Golf, Baseball, and Double Dribble were big sellers. Top Gun sold very well despite being shit. Track and Field sold well enough to warrant a sequel, being just a button-mashing collection of mini-games. Mickey Mousecapade, Ikari Warriors, R.C. Pro Am, all popular games prior to SMB2 appearing. My fat idiot cousin who still owns the NES from back then with all the same games had fucking Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode.

Fat idiot cousin had SMB 1-3, Zelda 1, Tiger Heli, Wall Street Kid, Predator, Gotcha: The Sport, Golgo 13, Ninja Gaiden 2, Friday the 13th, Captain Skyhawk, Top Gun, and Mega Man 2. I had SMB 1, Zelda 2, Pinball, Solstice, Solar Jetman, Deja Vu, The Lone Ranger, DuckTales 1, Chip N Dales 1, Dragon Warrior 2 and 3, and Kirby's Adventure.

>>7996595
Those sound like dark times. I'm glad I didn't get my NES until 1990 when there was a large selection of good games to play.

>>7994510
You're Captain N now. Congrats.

>>7996632

Hey it wasn't bad. There were still enough good games around. R.C. Pro-Am was fun. Wizards & Warriors, Life Force, Castlevania, Legendary Wings, Jackal, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, Zelda 1, Metroid, SMB 1... even Ice Climber and Excitebike could be pretty fun for a while. There was a good enough selection for a little kid.

I think Golgo 13 is okay too? I don't know. I've only played through it once. But I remember it being kinda good, maybe.

>>7997326
Excitebike is the shit.