/vr/ - Retro Games

Issue #13 the Super Mario Bros. 3 guide.

>>8026721
>asks for cute actress's address
>they actually give it out
lmao, but telling that dude how to beat Zelda's final dungeon is still classified, even for Nintendo Power

>>8027053
I'm still mad my fucking mother ripped this page out of my guide to use as wrapping paper for some gift for someone.

More later.

>>8026728

What the hell kind of bridge is that?? This Howard & Nester artist was trying a little too hard to put a personal spin on the Final Fantasy setting.

>>8027038
Not only that, but they straight up tell you how to find Nester:
>>8026739

I bet his house got egged so many times.

>>8027664
All the art there is weird. I mean Matoya ingame is clearly wearing a standard witch hat, so why is she drawn with a hood here? It's like the artist was just told "draw a bridge", "draw a witch", "draw a pirate" with absolutely no reference material at all.

>>8026781
shoutout to Tony

>>8026803

Haha players are still picking TMNT over Mario 3.

>>8027675

Yeah, it's all way off. But the bridge is a step beyond. Matoya and the Light Warriors and the twelve sages COULD look like that, I guess. But there's no way Coneria would set out to construct a new bridge over a river and somehow produce an ancient magical ruin that floats in the air. It's just silly!

So yeah somebody probably just said "draw the heroes preparing to cross a bridge" and left Howard & Nester guy to go wild.

>>8026764
>>8026767
>>8026771
>>8026774
These are actually very similar to the Norwegian equivalent posted last thread: >>8017875
Guess tastes are pretty similar on both sides of the pond

>>8027038
They didn't give out her address, they gave out the address to her publicity department.

>>8026824

Haha and here we've got yet another take on the Light Warriors, with an inappropriately unarmored Fighter/Knight and a monk who looks like he just stepped off the set of Mortal Kombat.

>>8027674
I never knew his last name was Nintendo

>>8026929
You will never own a tie as sovlfvl as Willie Aames', so why even try?

>>8026894

Dusty Diamond getting the lowest scores yet from Nintendo Power staff, possibly?

My family rented that once when I was a kid. I was not impressed with it either.

>>8026989

Wow, I actually didn't know all of these. I have learned something.

>>8026764
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>>8026774
This really says something about how HUGE of a phenomenon TMNT was. That game fucking SUCKED.

Thanks for this.

>>8027171
Now I'm mad also

>>8026964
Thanks so much for posting this. Great nostalgia trip.

>>8028580

Yeah it's impressive. Every other TMNT game I know of is much more polished and does a better job of giving kids something like an interactive piece of the cartoon show, which is presumably more or less what they wanted. But that was the first one (I assume? or at least the first NES one) and it was at least playable so people loved it despite its weirdness... apparently.

I imagine that many kids were dazzled by the freedom the game provided. You can switch turtles whenever you want, you can walk around on a complicated-looking map and choose what sideview area to visit, you can hunt for your lost guys when they're defeated and rescue them, you can drive the Turtle Van... it's not very deep, but compared to the Castlevania, Contra, or Mario games that had come out already it felt like something special. Of course the mechanics, the visual designs for the enemies, and some of the level design were inferior to what you'd get in those other famous series, but I guess there was enough goodness (and enough recognizable stuff from the show) to hold the package together. I know I liked the game a lot as a kid. It wasn't ever my favorite but I always felt positively toward it.

I actually still think it's the most interesting TMNT game I've played. I don't think it's bad, and its weirdness is intriguing. But yeah it's pretty funny to think of all those kids getting tricked by a cartoon into calling this weirdo game the best of 1989.

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>>8030181
Yeah, it's not actually terrible, just a mess lol.

Amazing trip. Thanks for posting this OP. You are not a fag.

>>8030181
Konami probably were unsure to what direction they should take first game. Should it be based on a comic or tv show? In the end, they took a bit from both.

In Japan, the game didn't even come out under Ninja Turtles brand as nobody there knew about the franchise yet. Then tv series finally kicked off and they knew second game should be based on it.

As a kid, i liked first game for overworld feature and for being a Turtles game. Turtle Van, of course, was also a cool feature.

>>8031848
The TMNT franchise was very obcure in Japan back when Konami was making games about it >>8019293

Most kids probably just knew it as a video game franchise. Konami kept calling the games "TMNT" in japan despite the fact that the TV show never had that name there.