/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8443671
So, Rocky showing his junk went completely over NP's heads?

>>8443761
>>8443765
>>8443770
Or you can just focus on getting 747's flying from the US to Tokyo to the UK and reap larger profits than all three AI's combined before the first year is out.

Issue #65

>>8444008
EXPAND DONG

Awesome.

>>8444106
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XJG8ywk7eQ

More later.

>>8443686
Man, that is one sad-looking Impy compared to the game. I'll give NP some credit for actually knowing what some of the Yokai are this time.

>>8444265
1994's approaching its end, and with '95 comes the first dip into the darkness.

>>8443572
>>8443575
This is the gayest Nintendo ad I have ever seen in my 41 years on earth. I must have placed a psychological block in my mind to shield myself from this faggotry because I have zero recollection of this ad existing

>>8444527
Play It Loud era, man.

>>8444240
Not much love for FFIII / VI

>>8444243
>Not as much challenge
>Wild Guns
What?

>>8444250
Pretty sure MK2 on GB supported multiplayer with the link cable....

>>8443587
Scorpion's about to make you his bitch.

Get Over Here.

>>8443943
>Dream Rod
Isn't that the plot of Adventure for the NES, not the original Land where Dedede just stole all the food?

>>8444072
With how confusing the Blitz commands can be to input for those unfamiliar with fighting games, you'd expect a window where NP shows the command for each, it would be fun to have a little spoof of fighting game coverage.

Man this magazine just kinda feels depressing once they hit the mid-late 90s era.

>>8444175
>>8444176
>Brainlord
what a terrible name for a game

>>8445692
Oh, it'll get downright miserable once SNES coverage slows to a literal drip-feed.

Time for announced but unreleased games.

Bass Master - THQ (SNES)
Malibu games made and published Bass Masters Classic, and Black Pearl Software made and published Bass Masters Classic Pro Edition. THQ never developed or published any fishing game for the SNES.

FX Fighter - GTE Entertainment (SNES)
Was to be an overly ambitious fighting game for the SNES using the Super FX chip for 3D effects. Got cancelled and they decided to just do it on PC instead. Was released on CD-ROM for DOS machines, and upgraded to FX Fighter Turbo with a Win95 release. Would have probably ran like shit on the SNES, so just play the DOS version if you want it that badly.

Pigskin Footbrawl 621 AKA Pigskin 621 A.D. - RazerSoft (SNES)
1990 arcade game that got ported to the Genesis back in 1992, so it's kinda confusing they would have bothered trying to port it this late in the game. Just play the arcade original.

And that's all for this one. Next thread is the last thread I'll be doing this.

>>8445741
>SNES CD: the console of the future!
*two months pass*
>here's why loading times ruin video games and cartridges are way better

>>8443931
Honestly surprised they're acknowledging Sony at all.

>>8443968
>Kera
First time I've heard that name. Was that really an early translation prototype name or did NP just typo this?

>>8446613

I don't know the backstory, but it seems not to have been a typo: >>8422090

>>8444016
Easy on the fucking spoilers there, Steven. Why is Nintendo Power even printing this letter? I bet that pissed off thousands of people.

>>8444016
Isn't this the second time the editor has included the note "guys please we can't cover the NES as much because uuuhhhh so many good other games". Man, the writing is on the wall and the readers are still acting like they can stop it.

>>8444240
>FF3
>not written for an American audience

What did they mean by this?

>>8446741
I was wondering that too, then you look at that Maximum Carnage review on the same page and see
>Excellent story
so there's no accounting for taste.

>>8446669
I knew the NES was dying or dead, I just wanted them to cover older NES games they never covered. Their coverage of Mega Man and Metroid back in the 30's is what I liked. I wanted more. Cover SMB, cover the first Castlevania, cover Goonies 2, cover The Guardian Legend, cover Blaster Master, cover Bionic Commando, cover Battle of Olympus for fucks sake, they would have been better than the fucking sports section.

>>8443650

Is that her nipple poking upward? Why is it like that? I can't understand the human bodies in this game. Jago's neck has always made me uncomfortable. I guess Combo looks okay though.

>>8443654
>Werewolf
>Meltdown
Can't wait to see these awesome characters on the Ultra 64

>>8447129
These are the same people who dock points for games that use the "Save the princess" plot.

>>8443758
At top: a sedate, professional-quality piece of official art
At bottom: a Nintendo Power-commissioned nightmare beast

>>8443770
Oh wait I trotted out the word "nightmare" too soon. Here is the character designed to give many difficult nights to innocent young Koei fans.

>>8443772

Eight pages they spent on this game. Was it any good? I played it once on rental and didn't really understand it or like it. Maybe I didn't spend enough time with it though?

Scorpions mask being a spine is fucking awesome idea

>>8449156
You want nightmare? Look at NP's Pocky & Rocky 2 art.

>>8449281
And what's ironic was in the early 90s like this so many companies were fearful an anime style would scare off customers for being too weird, but then NP puts out these horror abominations of "art" thinking it'll make people want to play it.

>>8449331
The fact that NP is giving higher marks to Maximum Carnage over FFIII shows just how little they think of Japan right now (barring the first-party Nintendo stuff they're obligated to exalt). However, this will start turning around soon.

>>8444240
>animated sequences take too long
Ah yes, the beginning of the end. Imagine what these reviewers would be saying today.

>>8449683
I was thinking the same thing. They must've had a panic attack seeing FF7 and 8's summons.

>>8446119
>Bass Master - THQ (SNES)

There were several of these even if that one specific version never got released.

>>8443821

Donkey Kong Country was inspired by somebody's interest in doing Mortal Kombat's graphics the right way? How odd. It's much easier to assume DKC was inspired by Mario or something. Like, maybe somebody at Rare thought "We want to do sprite graphics better in some way than the experts of pixel art could do, but since we aren't Asian we cannot draw, so we'll try using our computer powers instead."

>>8443831

Wow, personal developer credits in Nintendo Power. They are really proud of this game!

>>8443841

Tiger cap is synthetic fur! I wonder whether that's the writer noticing that the artist made that tiger head a little too realistic-looking and playfully compensating so that no children may be distressed.

>>8443849

No word on the fact that the tiger bikini does not have a top section.

>>8443861

Our second Secret of Mana musclegirl is Hexas. But, she is not as appealing as the last one.

>>8452756
Shows what you know. Sexy four-armed muscle naga is tops in my book.

>>8443884

It's really weird that they give what sounds like a pretty huge cheat code for The Peace Keepers, one that actually unlocks new characters (I guess?), but don't even say who the characters are or what their deal is. Maybe the writer here didn't actually know or care about this game.

>>8443884

Oh my and then in the World Heroes section they accidentally pasted in some text from the Peace Keepers section. Yeah somebody had other things on the mind when composing this month's Classified Information.

>>8443931
>>8443937

Somebody was having a little fun scattering around these neatly labeled Chris Berman heads.

>>8443943

Monopoly is still one of the very finest and bestest NES games, objectively.

>>8443991

The red box is back! And it's Wario's Woods! FINALLY, THE GAME THAT WILL REVITALIZE THE NES

>>8444032
>I guess if you're as old as Hoy Quarlow is,

A rare first-person statement from some anonymous Nintendo Power writer.

>>8455878
That box has been dangling there for the past few months now. It's just waiting for the last straggler to get out.

>>8444034
>The ultimate video game of all time will probably sell-out fast.

Pre-rendered graphics => ultimate of all time, noted

>>8443729
>Blizzard Entertainment

>>8443698
>>8443706
>>8443708
I just want to see the fucking game already, god stop teasing me so much Nintendo Power

>>8445731

I thought maybe it was a weird and stupid choice made during localization? But according to my crappy Google image search just now, the (arguably) stupid choice was to NOT change the name during localization.

>>8444195

It's a shame that SimCity is so easy to break (apparently). Although I guess those people were probably all cheating?

>>8444215

Wow, Lui Lang's got new moves? Wow!

>>8444227
>5. Internet

???

>>8444234

NES charts are really shaking up! For some reason. Suddenly Zelda is way better than SMB 3? Even Metroid is better than Mario 3! Except when Mario is a doctor!! Tetris 2 is both better and worse than Baseball Stars!

Meanwhile, Monopoly still matters to someone somehow. Old people I guess?

>>8452102
The Mortal Kombat inspiration makes a lot more sense when you remember which other game Rare released around the same time as Donkey Kong Country.

>>8459382
pretty sure the only way you could possibly get megalopolis in 1900 is either using a game genie or the debug code that was unknown until 10 years ago, the $999999 cheat requires you to wait at least a year

>>8459648
That's really dumb Nintendo Power of all places didn't call them out on that and dismiss it. Anyone with eyes could see it's cheated. Instead they published it as the best score. Hack frauds.

>>8459648
Unfortunately, Dale Small of Alba Missouri was a 50 year old dude when he sent that score in and died this year, so he took the secret to his grave.

Hell, the majority of random names on these lists I've looked up were over 30 when they sent in their scores.

>>8459740
Actually, there are 3 people named Dale Small in their 60s who live in Missouri. I strongly suspect the guy who sent in the score was David Keith Small II, since there's an 80 year old banjo maker David Small in Alba Missouri that's possibly his father (although the score very well could have been sent in by him). David Keith Small II did die earlier this year, but it may not have been him.

>>8459740
>>8459774
How do you even know this?

>>8460016
>do google search for "Dale Small Alba MO"
>the only match is a banjo-maker's website run by an 80 year old
>do google search for "Dale Small Missouri"
>find three matches
>one of the results is an obituary for Dale Small Jr
>Dale Small Jr is the right age to be interested in video games in 1993
I've been Googling random people who submitted high scores, just to get an idea of what the average age of people who sent shit to Nintendo Power in the 90s was. (almost all of them are in their late 20s to early 40s)

>>8459774
I don't think you're aware of just how many people have the exact same name in even medium-sized towns in the US.

>>8459712

They specifically tell you to include your game system in your score photo, presumably so that Game Genies will be visible. Maybe he set up a second SNES for the photo, so the real one (with cheating device) could be hidden under the table? Or maybe you people are wrong and he didn't use a cheating tool, I have no idea. Somebody will really just have to go and interview his surviving friends and descendants, and possibly (if it comes to it) exhume his corpse.

>>8461015
You could also just start a new city with the game genie on to give yourself $999999, save the game and reload it without the game genie

>>8461047

Ahhhh that's a good one.

>>8459648
>>8461047
But are you factoring in THE HUMAN ELEMENT?

>>8444246

These "kids' games" are surprisingly great-looking. Emphasis on "looking" since I haven't actually played them but only skimmed on YouTube. Yogi's world just looks like an endlessly pleasant place that is warm and nice even in winter. And Kid Klown is full of genuinely funny animation sequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laf5sjIbqUo

I don't care to actually play either of them though.

Meanwhile Bubsy 2 looks rough and garish and seems not to have gained as many extra colors over the Genesis version as it ought to have.

I like how Nintendo Power craps on Brain Lord slightly for looking a little like Ultima (but they don't use those words), and then on Ultima for looking a lot like Ultima.

>>8444253

If you want an audiovisually pleasing game experience, you can try Punch-Out, Yogi Bear, or Final Fantasy. You will have exactly the same results in all cases and likely will not notice any difference in quality at all.

>>8461015
>They specifically tell you to include your game system in your score photo, presumably so that Game Genies will be visible.
He probably just Photoshopped it out

>>8461389
Kid Klown in Crazy Chase is just loaded with tons of comical animations but the whole game is designed around that and as such it's meant to make the player suffer as much as possible. Heck, even if you earn the requirements for the best ending, you still have a 50/50 chance of actually obtaining it.

Fookin creepy

>>8443586
>Gregg Coomer