/vr/ - Retro Games

Issue #31

More later.

>>8171236
Keep it up anon. I missed some of these as a kid so this is great

>>8171214
Just looked her up, thinking she'd have fallen off the radar like most 90s celebrities and not been heard of in 30 years. It says she got a PhD and she's now hosting Jeopardy. Damn, never would've guessed.

>>8170540

Stopless? Well, it beats the boy turning into a beast.

>>8170553

I don't think I ever actually enjoyed the Flintstones as a kid. I also don't think I've ever heard an account of anyone enjoying that show.

>>8170619

History's ugliest Rydia.

>>8172078
You haven't seen those commercials she's done where she's hawking some vitamin supplement I take it?

Alright folks. as mentioned last time, there are no new NES games mentioned that didn't actually get released. As such, I'll be covering announced but unreleased Game Boy games mentioned in previous issues. I'm not doing all of them this thread, since we don't have any new NES games for the next thread either. Gotta save something for next time.

Issue #11 had mention of a T&C Surf Designs licensed game coming to the GB from LJN. Never happened, and I never saw any screenshots appear either. But there eventually was a 2nd T&C Surf Designs game for the NES.

Issue #14 mentions a G.I. Joe game from Texan(presumably going to complement the NES one like DuckTales GB release), but it never happened. No screenshots exist, and another dev ended up doing the sequel on the NES. Also mentioned, and featured, was the Game Boy Popeye game. A simple maze-like game, and got a sequel in Japan as well. For some reason, it didn't make it to the US. No fan translation exists, but none is needed since the game is very simple.

Issue #18 mentions a game called Card Games by JVC. For whatever reason, this fell apart and the GB family didn't get a general card game cartridge until the GBC got Hoyle's Card Games by Sierra.

Issue #20 talks about a "fantasy RPG" where the main character is a cat. No name was given, just the dev. The game they are talking about is actually Nekojara Monogatari by Kemco/Seika, an RPG in which the main hero is a boy who gets turned into a cat and has to fight to get the thingie he needs to turn himself back. Unfortunately, no fan translation exists, and the port was cancelled before any screenshots materialized.

Next thread will cover GB games from Issue #21 up to the current issue of that thread. See you next time folks.

>>8172332
It's the ultimate boomer show. If you weren't a kid in the 60s I doubt you'd like it. I remember in the 90s Denny's ran a big campaign themed with the show, selling "brontoburgers" and stuff. Even then I hated it.

>>8170798

These city names are very strange.

>>8170679
Remember when that kid wrote and called in asking for exactly this info and they said "Lol sorry, you need to figure that out for yourself."? I bet if that kid was still reading at this point, he was fucking pissed. They wouldn't even give him a hint when he called the 1-900 hotline, and here they are giving a full map and directions.

>>8173036
First thing I thought of too

>>8170641
this artist must hate children...

>>8171178

the origin of winged controller design?

>>8173036
Eh, it's a map and it shows you where the stairs connect, but it still doesn't show you the path to Ganon, or the much more elusive Red Ring and Silver Arrows. The Silver Arrows espeically are the tricky part, since they're hidden away for something that's a mandatory item. It's still a better guideline than nothing, but it's a far cry from something like this.

>>8170865

I don't know why they keep on pointing out how Darius Twin is nothing special. They did that in a previous issue too, I think. Why not say that about Gradius III?

I have a fond memory of trying out that Ultraman game. I guess it's a mediocre game but of course it was super impressive to me then, solely because of the audiovisual features the NES couldn't handle. I didn't actually play it all that much though. The novelty of new technological sophistication could only carry it so far.

>>8170870

I wonder how much the people at the companies behind the unfeatured games listed at the top of this page (Drakkhen and the rest) were bothered by the fact that Nintendo Power had dismissed their efforts. How many more sales would Hyperzone have gotten if the magazine had featured it like it featured F-Zero? Or maybe those people didn't even notice, since they were all Japanese people living in Japan. I don't know.

I think the 4.8 for Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts' graphics and sound might be the best rating we've yet seen for a SNES game. I wonder what they liked so much about it.

Meanwhile, Final Fantasy II is beating everybody in Challenge of all things. I assume Nintendo Power really likes how you don't have to grind in that game.

>>8170875
>>8170878

Lots of people finishing Powerblade, not so many finishing Bart vs. the Space Mutants... hardly anybody finishing Battletoads.

>>8170887

No evidence is given here that Robert Englund has ever actually played a Nintendo game.

>>8170936

I kinda want that quilt.

>>8170973

I like this Nester's Adventures better than the previous ones, because it puts him in a game setting instead of showing his dumb neighborhood or whatever. It's still not good though. Not that Howard & Nester was ever great, but it was a little better than this I think.

>>8170975

How strange now to think of "ash cans" being placed everywhere in a shopping mall. I wouldn't even think of the possibility that they were anything but trash cans, if I played the game now without having reread this page.

>>8175702
I'm surprised smoking inside malls was around until so recently. I'd think all the shopkeepers would get pissed all their clothes and other items would smell like shit and no one wanting to buy them.

Thanks, OP.

>>8171193

This preview of Home Alone seems like the first hint from Nintendo Power that the mighty SNES is just as capable of supporting ugly, mediocre licensed games as the NES was. They've had lots of new classics like Mario World and F-Zero to focus on instead, but don't worry shovelware fans, the SNES will provide plenty of low-quality experiences too!

>>8171204

At last, the promise of female names associated with completion of The Little Mermaid has been fulfilled!

>>8171210

Those licenses are so powerful. TMNT games aren't even on the pros' list anymore, but with players and dealers the turtles can only be beaten by Mario (deservedly), or by another giant license (less deservedly). Meanwhile the superior Konami game Castlevania III is not even on the dealers' list.

Also the three-year-old Blades of Steel is somehow selling well?? I guess there weren't any exciting new hockey games to replace it, unlike with the baseball and golf games Japan constantly pumps out?

Based op, is there a 7z pack of all issues?

>>8171225

Huh I don't remember this Nintendo Super System at all. I'm pretty sure I never saw one.