/vr/ - Retro Games

Issue #45

>>8283119
F for Alex Trebek

>>8283008
S for Rob and George

>>8283183
>>8283186
Here we go...

>>8283204
>Chief?
>McCloud?

>>8282634
>type in nothing to have the game use SFII automatically

Fucking brilliant cheat code there, good job Nintendo Power on this vital tip.

>Editor of the magazine begs "Give Rob and George a chance please"
>fucking finally removed from the review section the very next issue
You love to see it

>>8282505
>>8283003
>SNES finally gets the top billing, pushing NES down to third place
End of an era, RIP.

>>8283354
>Mega Man fights his enemy Rock Man

>>8283060
>it's also very apparent to us that games will improve in the future

If only they knew how wrong they were...

>>8283475
I noticed Rob (Noel)'s name isn't even in the credits at the beginning anymore. The previous issue had him as an Editor. So I guess he either got fired or quit. George is still around though.

>>8282548

Another instance of what feels like it's designed to be promotional material incorporating oddly dissonant negative criticism: This three-page feature on Shanghai II emphasizes three different times how hard some tiles are to read.

>>8283565
Editor's note says he also went to work at THQ. >>8282508

>>8282838
>"War is Hell, eh?"
>in Nintendo Power
>in a Nester comic

>>8282895
The start of the most brutal review system. Nothing ever got a perfect score in any category.

>>8282958
>>8282961
The start of the most brutal review system. Nothing ever got a perfect score in any category, even the greatest games Nintendo created for the SNES.

>>8282496
COOOOM.

>>8283616
Meanwhile Rob was quietly murdered off screen

Time for announced but unreleased games.

Eon Man AKA Time Diver: Eon Man - Taito(NES)
Originally conceived as a sequel for Wrath of the Black Manta. Completely finished, but was dropped from all markets at the last minute. Was released as Time Diver: Avenger with an altered title screen by some company called Nitra in Japan, for reasons completely unknown. Prototype was found and dumped back then.
https://edgeemu.net/down.php?id=221540

Ice Challenge AKA Crash N The Boyz Ice Challenge AKA Ike Ike! Nekketsu Hockey-bu: Subette Koronde Dairantou - American Technos(NES)
Another Kunio-kun title that was gonna be ported over, but got cancelled in the end. No sign of the translated prototype, but fan translations exist. https://www.romhacking.net/translations/224/ - The translation. https://www.romhacking.net/translations/2385/ - Bug-fix patch for translation https://www.romhacking.net/translations/5562/ - Title Screen translation.

Dream Probe AKA Psycho Dream - Renovation AKA Riot(SNES)
This was supposed to come to the SNES, then the company got bought by Sega. No fan translation exists yet, but I don't know if one is even needed since it's an action game.

The Lost Mission AKA Shinseiki Odysselya - Vic Tokai(SNES)
A time traveling RPG that was released in Japan and was supposed to be ported over here. Translation was either done or mostly done when they decided to drop it. No sign of prototype exists. No fan translation exists yet either.

Legend of Zod AKA Xerd no Densetsu 2: Xerd!! Gishin no Ryouiki - Vic Tokai(Game Boy)
Took a while to find out what this originally was. Never got beyond a screenshot or two in magazines, second in a series in Japan. No fan translation exists yet.

And that's it for these two issues. Really weird how NP talks about Kemco having to translate Deja Vu 2 into english, when the planned NES version didn't get a JP port in the first damn place and it was originally a US Macintosh game like the rest of the Macventures.

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>>8282579

These character drawings are nauseating.

>>8282716

Dial Man is my favorite.

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>>8282863

It's jarring that they only refer to a metroid as "a monster" or "the monster". Did an author of the Mario Paint guide not know what a metroid was? Could there have been some other weird reason for this?

>>8282883

I don't know where the full version of this guide falls in the Nintendo Power release sequence, or whether it does at all. But it seems to be here: https://annarchive.com/files/Mario%20Paint%20-%20SNES%20-%20Nintendo.pdf

I think I still have my old copy in my closet right now. I never made anything good using the techniques it presents. But I liked looking at it as a kid.

>>8282898

A rare explicit mention of Sonic in the #10 section here.

>>8282910

The possibilities for NES game ideas will never be exhausted! Lots of new titles are being added all the time!! The NES has a long, bright future!!! IT'S NOT OVER! IT WILL NEVER BE OVER!

>>8287714
ESPECIALLY with games featuring TV And Cartoon characters... Especially...

>>8287734
Well do I remember the NES adaptations of Pulp Fiction and Party of Five. To say nothing of Patch Adams and Hope Floats

>>8287714
Two years until Wario's Woods, and you can be sure things are going to start getting more spartan for the NES sooner than later as the gaps between game releases start to get further apart.

One bump before it falls off the page.

>>8282931
>If a video game system can display only 16 colors at a time, which is the case of some 16-bit systems, hooking up a CD-ROM will not result in superior graphics.

Spicy. But what systems are they referring to here? Wikipedia says Genesis and TurboGrafx could handle more than 16 colors at once.

>>8282935

This model looks nice. I might have actually made one as a kid, if I'd had this issue.

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>>8283172
All this just to say "Caveat Emptor".

>>8282961

I really don't understand the choice to use those curves. Why aren't they just straight diagonal lines? It makes 5's look especially good in the final result, but that could also be done via uneven spacing of the number placements along straight diagonal lines. Weird.

>>8282958
>Nester Tester

So Tester is his canon last name?

>>8283016

Mega Man V officially has no flaws! And some behind-the-scenes Indyhead is once again pointing out that the TV version of Young Indiana Jones is actually very much worth your time and should NOT be judged on the quality of the deeply disappointing NES rendition.

>>8283030

Zelda IV appears! That's not the way the map looks in the final game is it? I haven't played this one in so long... Google seems to be telling me it isn't, anyway.

>>8283034
>Rollerblade Racer

Amazing. Are NES games actually devolving now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsxrmfn5-Ag
(Apparently AVGN covered this but I guess I missed that one.)

>Zen: Intergalactic Ninja

Well I guess that answers my question: No they are not.

>>8283036
>PC game designer/genius, Syd Meir, is said to be putting the final touches on Railroad Tycoon for Microprose.

Thanks, OP.

>>8283172

All this talk of informing yourself about the quality of games, and not a word about rental. Yes Nintendo Power, let's all give the licensee a call!

I'm surprised at some of these entries... River City Ransom and Blaster Master weren't popular? StarTropics of all things wasn't popular??

>>8292487
Not one of those games sold 1 million copies, none of the games mentioned did. That shitty Top Gun game sold 2 million copies, but these games were all poor sellers. Even funnier is how few copies they sold despite most of them getting featured in NP. Blaster Master, River City Ransom, and Kickle Cubicle are the only three I don't think were featured. With as many subscribers NP had at the time, it shows how little weight NP's features had on buying choices.

>>8292559
If Nintendo Power had any weight on consumers, we'd be living in a world where the US gives half a shit about Dragon Quest.

>>8292559
It's because the consumers were dumb little kids who saw [video game based on movie] and were convinced it would be as good or better than the movie. No matter how many times they were proven wrong they kept believing it and buying these trash games.

>>8282496
that's a lot of cum

>>8292681
More often than not it was some relative who knew little Timmy liked X and Nintendo, so a Nintendo X game would be the PERFECT gift! That's how my Jurassic Park loving cousin wound up with every fucking Jurassic Park game, no matter how shitty it was, even after he no longer cared about the series.

>>8282496
This was the first issue of Nintendo Power I ever got when I had my subscription. I can't tell you how much I read through that thing and it fell apart. Still the best issue ever. For a 9 year old kid it was the tits.

>>8293023
Happened to me with the Coca Cola polar bear merchandise. I just remember the commercials came on and made some off hand comment about how the bear CGI was cool or something, idk I was like 7 probably of course it looked interesting, and after that for I swear the next 10 years my mother wouldn't stop buying me Coca Cola polar bear related stuff when I never gave two shits about it in the first place.

>>8283308

Well now I want to know WHY the programmers put a three-player mode into Bomberman 2, but not a four-player mode. Maybe there was too much sprite flickering???

>>8283345
>There's lots of advice from vets on how to waste the enemy,
>It isn't always clear if an enemy is taking damage, which means you can waste a lot of time trying to waste invincible objects.

Somebody liked the word "waste" a little too much.

>>8283348
>The mermaid theme may turn off some players

Haha this isn't really a criticism that needs to be passed on to magazine readers. If a boy is concerned about playing some faggoty girl game for girls then he already knows it, and if he isn't then he doesn't need Nintendo Power subtly pushing him to question his own manliness. (The real problem an experienced player would have with the NES game, at least, was that it was too simple and easy.)

>>8283350
>For instance, to talk to someone requires three separate operations, which is two too many.

"Change your ways, Dragon Warrior series!" suggests anonymous successor to Rob & George in an unrelated Ultima review.

>>8283353
>The unoriginal theme falls flat for having been done better by T2. Why does a time traveller have Ninja Arts?

Rob & George's successors seem to share Rob & George's excessive interest in original storylines for simple action games that don't need ANY storyline. Presumably this was encouraged among all Nintendo game evaluators, as part of their determination of the Theme & Fun rating?

>>8293264
happened to be with nutcrackers
mom i just liked the music

>>8293264
To be fair, when that commercial came out, the animation was fantastic looking. These days it's just CGI, in 1993 it was amazingly good shit for a world that hadn't seen Toy Story yet. ReBoot didn't come out until the next year, so it was pretty unique at the time.