/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8501243
no

Issue #71

>>8501664
>SHOCKERRRRRR!

More later.

>>8501256

Star Fox II: GONE from the charts after only a month. Maybe people got tired of not playing it and decided that a game they could play might actually be better?

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>>8501489
>GPC tournaments
Given some of the scores posted back when the magazine posted pictures and bios of the GPC's, those must have been some hardcore fucking competitions. Hopefully one day the ELMO system gets leaked. Would be neat to see the searchable database of game info the GPC's used.

>>8501260

Hey cool, Dragon Warrior is getting a Super NES sequel.

>>8501319
Metal Warriors looks fucking dope

>>8501367
It must have been difficult figuring out how to market this game. I think they did a great job. I picked it up ASAP, although that was more on the premise that it was an RPG developed by Nintendo directly.

>>8502029
>using the low-cost slower Pentium just introduced that has a slower FSB than the very first Pentium released
>14.4 no-name brand modem around the time everyone was switching to 28.8 v.34 modems
Outside of the 1GB HDD, that's one budget PC for the time period. Only way they could have gone cheaper would be to dig up a 486 machine.

>>8501384
Epic Center was the best section NP ever had. I used to love looking through it and imagining how huge these games were that I only maybe got rent once.

>>8501653
>Computer graphics on almost every page. Anybody who can't appreciate your new look should be shot.

Phillip is heavily embracing the 90s x-treme movement.

>>8501586
>Hagane
>Graphics look like a good NES game
Man... what? I know DKC clouded everyone's judgement, but come on.

>>8501367
I was the only kid I knew hyped for Earthbound and it was all because of this article. I loved the newspaper style of it and re-read it about a hundred times in the bathroom. Once I got the game, I read the strategy guide cover to cover way too many times.

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>>8502038
Huh.. they reviewed Bust-A-Move twice.

>>8501653
Man... they couldn't make it any more obvious that these letters are fake

>man your new magazine layout is totally awesome bro, just like my brand new copy of uniracers for my super nintendo entertainment system. keep playing it loud™!

>>8501303
>The versatility of the Super NES [...] and Star Fox 2.

Yes I agree Nintendo Power Star Fox 2 is going to be great on the Super NES

>>8501304
>unveiling Star Fox 2 (Power's top pick of the show)

Wow Star Fox 2 sounds like a great game it is going to be great to play it on the Super NES

>Star Fox 2 is bigger and better than the original hit in every category

It sounds really great and I will have so much fun with it soon

>Weapon Lord
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>>8501312

The rumor list isn't very good but I enjoyed their 3DO crack.

>>8501312

OH WAIT I missed their first mention of the PlayStation I think? Of course it will not inspire awe like the NU 64! The NU 64 is, in fact, awesome beyond the belief of mortal game players.

It's funny watching Nintendo Power take pot-shots at Sony knowing now how they got BTFO by the PS1 and PS2.

>>8503041
That, and the fact they are the entire catalyst for the Playstation existing in the first place

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>>8501885
I'm surprised at how the NU64 Dream Team consists almost entirely of western developers with not a single Japanese developer aside from Nintendo themselves. It's almost as if they were already expecting the N64 to do better in the west than in Japan.

>>8503041
That's why you wait for an actual success before talking shit about your rivals.

>>8501356

They sure do make Ogre Battle sound promising.

>>8501367

The Geek? ...Oh okay Wikipedia says that was something the localizers were going to call Giygas at some point.

>>8502857

That reminds me of the fake bulletin board poster thingy that came with NES Maniac Mansion. This kind of presentation does carry an odd intrigue.

>>8501379
>and dozens of other cheap ploys and weird innovations.

That's a fun line.

>>8501407
>But Speedy's too busy to be frightened--amongst the wails and shrieks of the old castle, he can hear his poor friends' quiet cries for help.

This is oddly poignant.

>>8501415
>and you'll take your electric car (hey, they've got BIG batteries in the future)

Well yes

>>8504648
Razor's a hottie. Also kinda funny that they were shilling The Family Channel on the NES version. I'm guessing it was because of that sitcom that barely had anything to do with the game.

>>8501489

The counselors get a PlayStation sometimes! Nintendo Power was actually able to briefly mention a competing console in a non-pejorative way!

I wonder whether the Game Check-Out Room has any weird Japanese-only crap. Is there a Devil World in there? A full or even partial library of horse racing games??

>>8501238

I had that issue. recognise the cover.

>>8502472
When JRPGs were actually huge. 6th gen and beyond became about walking down a hallway from the intro to the ending or filling out a quest journal.

>>8504617
It's why people are nostalgic for N64 concept art. This material got them so fucking hyped for so little delivery.

>>8504617
The flat-shaded Castlevania 64 characters were ugly, even back then.

>>8506538
>bunch of pre-rendered images on SGI hardware that took hours to render
>showing an amazingly smooth metallic Mario with full reflections in a large 3D world that stretched out into the distance
>final product is a decent and highly configurable graphics pipeline but with nowhere near the capabilities to make those graphics in real-time
>game has simple reflections on metal Mario that only seem to reflect light and the camera
>each world is a small central area with a background texture in the distance to create the illusion of depth
I don't blame them.

>>8501376
>Pu
Genuinely would've been a better localization than Poo

>>8507104
>Localization erases the ties to the NES game and sticks fart jokes in everywhere to justify its "This Game Stinks" marketing
Yeah, that wasn't happening.

>>8501574
>Imp party
What a great meme setup, but arguably one of the easier late game loadouts to obtain

>>8507143
That was the stupidest marketing campaign they could've done. Basically telling the world the game sucks, but at least it had that typical 90's edge to it so I guess that's all they were going after.

>>8501439
How many times has Shien's Revenge been in this section now? Feels like 6 issues so far.

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>>8501572

These new categories suck. Zone Eater isn't even a villain, and who cares about Tin Star's horse? They should have trimmed this feature by a page. Or just say "Donkey Kong Country wins everything" and skip the whole thing. (I have not read the next issue yet but I assume Donkey Kong Country wins... well most things. Probably not quite everything.)

>>8501915
Funny how Mario all but disappears as the face of the magazine now that DKC came out and Nintendo Power is having Kongamania. Mario World isn't even in the SNES list anymore. Will we see Mario return as the rightful poster boy of the magazine before Super Mario 64 gets covered, or will we need to wait for the NU64's release to have the plumber again?

>>8508363
It'll fade real quick in a few more months. By '96, NP will be like "Donkey Ass What?" as Yoshi's Island and Super Mario RPG debut.

>>8508363
>>8508409
Gotta keep in mind that Mario has regulated to side games and spinoffs since 1991. So while Sega had already moved away from from the "Genesis Does What Nintendon't" and "blast processing" ads of the early 90s, the damage was dealt and Nintendo was looking for anything to fill the gap to boast about. It just helped that DKC's pre-rendered look on top of being a great game was the push they needed to go "look, you don't need a dumb add-on like SOME OTHER consoles to play this!".

I imagine the blunder that the Super Mario Bros movie wound up being only just a year prior certainly helped with NoA wanting to keep the portly plumber away from being the star attraction for a little bit.

>>8508556
Even in '95, Chrono Trigger quickly overtook DKC as the hot new thing.

>>8501624
>Rare Ltd. is already hard at work creating the second in the series of

>the
>most
>phenomenal
>game
>in
>history.

>>8501658

F-Zero suddenly sold a lot of new copies out of nohwere??

>>8501624
Forget Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong is old news, what we should be talking about is Big Sky Trooper
Because seriously, Big Sky Trooper is awesome

>>8507984
Shien's revenge never ends. He's very pissed still.

>>8501781
Civilization sure is taking forever to come out

>>8501784

This effort to preemptively spin Ogre Battle is interesting. They tried so hard to make it sound awesome! And also to prepare people to actually be capable of playing it somewhat successfully. The first part certainly worked on me as a kid. I came away from these articles about it with the vague idea that this was somehow the "best" RPG, in the view of learned and sophisticated players. Then one day I actually tried renting it and although I more or less liked it, it didn't really grab me and I certainly didn't understand it, so I never bothered getting very far in it or asking my mom to buy it for me. Nice try, Nintendo Power!

>>8501823
>Jeremy Soule, the composer [...] also has his computer plugged into a Super NES emulator

I wonder what this means exactly. This has got to be the first use of the term "[some game console] emulator" in this magazine.

>>8501849
Still, it's no Mega Man Soccer

>>8501875
>With Trilinear mip map interpolation, the close-up surface always looks realistic without any of that blocky effect.

Haaaa well the last part of the claim is correct!

>>8501957

I really think I had this issue, so why do I have no awareness whatsoever of this game's existence? It's pretty weird to see some old British home computer hit ported to the SNES. They didn't even give it music! It looks nice enough I guess, for people who like that sort of game.

>>8502061
They were going to pre-render Pierce Brosnan! Donkey Kong Country 4: James' Bond Quest, soon to come out for your Super NES!

>>8502075

What a trashing for GridIron Glory.

>>8502083

Pogs were still happening?!?

Thanks

>>8502075
>>8513632
>GridIron Glory
I can't figure out what that game is supposed to be, Hudson Soft never did a American Football game for the SNES.
So I'm guessing it was something their USA division was publishing, but Hudson USA closed their doors in late 95, and sold off everything to Acclaim.
But Acclaim doesn't have it either, or any other American Football game in 95-96 besides Quarterback Club

So what the hell is Gridiron Glory? Was it erased from history because of this scathing Nintendo Power preview?

>>8514073

Maybe the Nintendo Power writer just made it up as a joke and it slipped through.