/vr/ - Retro Games

Didn't even see that the other thread archived.

>>8226782
>Custard's last stand
What did they mean by this?

>>8226739
All the old Nintendo Power mags should be re-released as an 'Omnibus edition' or something. Nostalgiafags would totally buy it. I know I would and I didn't even subscribe as a kid.

>>8227051
Old vidya magazines are fucking great, best toilet reads imaginable. I’d absolutely buy any organized collection of retro mags I could get my hands on.

Issue #39

>>8226739
Thanks for doing this OP.

>>8227354
You are welcome, anon.

More later.

>>8226739
Guile: Ugly Edition

>>8228398
Isn't that just regular Guile?

>>8227194
>Panic Restaurant plays like a standard side-scrolling, action game. I especially like the giant attack Ladle at the end of the first stage.

This reads exactly like that picture of the parody review of NES Punk Pat's book.

>>8228646
Yeah maybe, depending on tastes... okay the OP one is Guile: Poorly Drawn Edition, anyway.

>>8229887
How do I replace my eyebrows with pure muscles bros

>>8226763

Nintendo Power is glad to publish some vague trashtalk against the Genesis, but it will allow itself to implicitly acknowledge that Sega MIGHT have an advantage in sports games (but not for long!!!).

I remember at least one future issue with a letter in it trashing the PlayStation's graphics.

>>8226769

New CD system coming within the next year! It'll be great.

>>8226850

More free passwords to help crappy players catch up! Apparently many people have trouble with Castlevania 2, even with (presumably) the aid of Nintendo Power's previous coverage of the game?

Skipping ahead in Willow or Lolo seems weird. I could see doing it in Metal Storm though, since you can just drop into a game like that at any point without needing much context.

Time for announced but unreleased games! I'm secretly not OP this week, ask me anything.

Ace Harding: Lost in Las Vegas - Kemco
The Mac-venture sequel to Deja Vu was supposed to be ported over to the NES, and it got a Windows 3.1 remake along with the first game around this time as well. Screenshots have surfaced, and the menu is different enough from the original to not just be a mock-up, but the prototype hasn't surfaced yet. It was packaged with the first game and released on the GBC years later as Deja Vu I & II: The Casebooks of Ace Harding.

Ultimate Journey - Bandai
Side-scrolling platformer for the NES that was described as being similar to Ninja Gaiden in gameplay. It was almost complete or complete when Bandai decided to scrap it. No prototype or finished rom has surfaced yet, including in the gigaleak. It was designed by Bandai's US branch, so no JP version exists either. Probably one of the most completed unreleased games that still hasn't been found yet.

Tower of Radia AKA Radia Senki: Reimeihen - Tecmo
Announced to be ported over from the Famicom, but Tecmo abandoned the idea after getting a prototype going. You can get the prototype here: https://edgeemu.net/details-221597.htm Or you can use a fan translation. https://www.romhacking.net/translations/102/

See you folks next thread when I start covering SNES.

>>8226739
>>8226856
>>8226873
I just wanted to say thank you OP for unlocking some old nostalgia. I remember my older brother had this issue for SF2 and we were also excited for MM4. I loved those zelda and mario comics by Shotaro Ishinoman and Charlie Nozawa.

>>8227087

Hey, it's that weirdo again who invents exotic new looks for characters in fantasy worlds.

>>8227114

Official, Nintendo-endorsed canon holds that E. Honda and Zangief were only sent to the tournament because they were unusually heavy! This introductory paragraph is odd.

Also yet another ugly way for Guile's face to look.

>>8227134

More important Street Fighter canon: Chun-Li has family members cheering her on in her stage background?? Also nobody can know how much she weighs because she is a girl and she gets embarrassed? I guess?

These threads are not the same without that guy complaining about how much of a waste they are.
I could emulate him but it just would not be the same...

>>8227212

Bart vs. the World is the 19th best NES game! I have to assume the invisible dealers' list is providing most of its points.

>>8227264

I like that Gail referred to the Mario Paint "cartridge" rather than to the Mario Paint "Game Pak".

>>8227267

Wifebeater Firebrand? Man he usually is drawn without even pants but here he's got gloves and a little skirt.

>>8231637

yeah, thats the joke, especially because muscle weighs more than fat and would give misleading numbers if you didn't know how /fit/ someone was. i think it made it into the game too. I guess 3 measurements aren't as embarrassing?

>>8227310
Zangrief

>>8231637
>>8233105
The US localization of Street Fighter removes a lot of flavor from the Japanese, so yeah, Chun's weight is a secret because she's a girl. It also had character likes and dislikes. Best is Zangief's biggest dislike is projectiles

>>8227360

Kirby: now being introduced. Pokemon: still an uncoalesced cloud of future inspiration in some Japanese man's mind. Smash Bros.: nothing but a void, still waiting on Fox, Jigglypuff, Pikachu, Ness, and its entire console.

>>8227373

I've never played any Kirby game other than his Dream Course, so when I look at Kracko I just immediately think of Strife.

>>8227384

American artists continuing their tradition of redesigning Mega Man to make him look awful. I don't think the original design even has eyebrows, let alone mean-looking ones. That costume's face is excessively punchable. He is too smug.

>>8227501

George on Wordtris: It's fun, but you won't enjoy it unless you're the kind of person who will enjoy it. Thanks, George. He says lines like that too often. Or maybe Rob does? I think it's George. It doesn't matter.

>>8227502

Is Kablooey a terrible game or did these guys just fail to pay attention to whatever tutorial it has during the fifteen minutes they spent with the game? Who knows? Also George thinks TMNT III was weak because of its STORY of all things, but is impressed with time travel and so approves of TMNT IV?? I'd thought Rob was the stupid one, but yeah they're both the stupid one. However Rob does appear to be correct about the shoddy production values in Wheel of Fortune: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PxPN7TuVWs
And they both apparently were able to grasp the awesomeness of Mario Paint. That's something.

>>8235084
They truly are the most useless game reviews I've ever seen. It feels like we're witnessing the zygote of "Too much water, 7/10"

>>8227501
>(Kirby) does offer plenty of challenges for more experienced players as well.

No, it doesn't. I beat it the first time I ever played it in 20 minutes. It's a ridiculously easy game. The only challenge you're going to get is if you do self imposed no-hit runs or something, and I know Rob isn't doing that. What he is doing is making up shit out of thin air.

>>8227507

Bart vs. the World is now the 18th best NES game objectively. But who are these people voting so hard for Paperboy?!? It's old and isn't attached to any super-popular license, so I wouldn't expect it to do well with the dealers. It's not a strategy game or RPG so the pros shouldn't love it. And it isn't much fun, so the players wouldn't vote for it. Or is it fun?? I don't remember it being fun. Maybe it's fun.

>>8227514
>He needs help--I called him and he didn't hear a word I said on the phone. I could hear him in the background collecting coins or something.

I thought that was funny.

>>8227520
Early player character design in Equinox.

>>8227520
Yay let's pay $60 plus $150 more for the console to play the same game we can get for 50 cents at any yard sale. I swear why did they make so many board games into video games? What is even the point? Who honestly bought this over something like Mario 3, Contra, etc.

>>8236994

I think the "dealers' list" in a previous issue indicated that Monopoly was an extraordinarily good seller among NES games. Maybe parents bought it because they recognized the name and knew what they could expect from it?

The video game version of a board game can have AI so you can play alone, and it can have fun animations and stuff like that. But the latter is too superficial to matter much unless it's extremely well done, and I don't think anybody was writing good AI for ANY Nintendo game, with the possible exception of a classic board game like Chess or Othello I suppose. So yeah it's weird.

>>8236942
At least they actually sound like they play and enjoy videogames. Most interviews with celebs were just "Here's what I'm working on, here's my future plans, oh yeah, I played Mario."

>>8237010
I remember a post on this board saying the AI in Monopoly will 100% of the time never trade with you if it's not in their favor. I don't know if it's true but if it is that makes it pretty not fun to play.

>>8237212
Can confirm. In order to make a monopoly through trade in the NES version, you really gotta sweeten the deal. If the CPU doesn't get a monopoly out of it as well, it ain't gonna happen. On the plus side, any property the CPU lands on and can't afford immediately goes to auction. So if your opponent drains themselves dry early on the board, you can pick up the higher priced properties for less than their selling price easy. They never seem to bother mortgaging property to buy more either, so you can mortgage just enough to be able to outbid them if you are low on cash as well.

I've spent more hours playing NES Monopoly than I care to admit just because I couldn't find someone willing to play against me anymore.

>>8237212

a video just dropped on this somewhere on yt if you care enough to see how they set the AI up.

>>8234889
Hey, that costume maker was awesome, if the goal was to make the costume look like the US mm3 box art, they fucking nailed it.

>>8239031
>costume

Ah good point, it's not really an original design is it. It looks more like Mega Man 4's box in some details, but either way the face is the same.

Thought for sure this thread would reach bump limit.