/vr/ - Retro Games

All action all the time.

>>8529163
>What does it tell us about Sega Genesis fans?
They sound pretty Chad to me

>>8529163
They are based.

>>8529163
Genny's Maddens were outselling PSX's well into 1997. Pretty Chad user base if you ask me.

>>8529163
turbo-based

>>8529163
That RPGs are for lonely people who have no friends?

>implying NBA Jam is a sports game
OP confirmed retard

>>8529196
Yeah my bad forgot it's a shmup.

>>8529163
They're all niggers?

>>8529163
I always wondered why that list is so small. It can't be that difficult to add more games to it with sources.

>>8529218
THEY don't want you to know about the rest of the best-sellers.

>>8529163
SNES wouldn't be that different without Japan

>>8529353
Pretty sure Final Fantasy 3, Chrono Trigger and SMRPG were popular outside Japan.

>>8529893
all of them sold far less than a million and wouldn't appear on that list

>>8529183
the chaddest

Madden? Omg Chad!!!

>>8529163
There were not many RPGs for Genesis because of the low system sales in Japan. And there were good Sega-published RPGs that Sega never brought over, probably because they thought they wouldn’t sell. Genesis is an early example of Japan not understanding the western market but still somehow muddling along.

>>8529163
That they were chads

>>8529163
>Sonic
>(bundled with Genesis/Mega Drive hardware)
>Altered Beast
>(bundled with hardware)
>Aladdin
>no mention of it being bundled
Apply some consistency to your pages please, wikifags.

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>>8531441
GENESIS DOES
WHAT NINTENDON'T

W E L C O
M E T O T
H E N E X
T L E V E L

>>8529163
The RPG's were not promoted much in stores. Gamegear had a heap of rpg's. And on snes most of non final fantasy or dragon quest rpg's are not that good.

That Genesis users were popular with other people and not shut in their basements playing menu games. WELCOME TO THE NEXT LEVEL, BITCHES

i don't even know what RPG games the Genesis had, and i owned that thing

>>8530117
>There were not many RPGs for Genesis because of the low system sales in Japan
Or did it not sell well because it didn't have RPGs. Chicken or egg?

As someone else said, Square and Enix didn't give a fuck about Sega, so they didn't develop for their systems and thus didn't sell.

>Streets of Rage outsold 2

why is 2 so much more beloved online and the only one I hear people talk about?

>>8531579
Sonic Spinball was also a pack in game for a minute.

>>8533945
Because it’s more fleshed-out as what it’s trying to do

>>8533941
Enix published a few games on the saturn, sega's only (relatively) successful console in japan.

>>8533954
The first game was only a 4 megabit ROM, the second was 16 megabits.

>>8529208
It is. That's the full extent of the JAM.

>>8529169
>>8529183
>be sports game chad
>your girlfriend buys you a new Sega Genesis in 1992
>play it occasionally with all your friends when new hockey games come out
>console stays clean, unlike gamer consoles that get used heavily and covered in grease and shame
>trade it in for a PS1 in 1996 and never play it again
>double the amount of pristine used consoles in supply for cooooolectors and retro nerds who hate sports games
Thank you, sports chads.

>>8533960
These are the guys who did Wonder Project J. They were a very talented studio, it's a true shame EGG can't put all their stuff together for us.

>>8533960
This game is really cool

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>>8529184
These. I didn't ask for a Genesis to play menu games. Action Sega is best Sega!

>>8534696
even despite that, Genesis got the best menu games of its generation (Phantasy Star 4, Shining games, Lunar if we count CD).

Sega just can't stop WINNING lads

>>8534768
I could never get into even the most acclaimed jarpigs (Phantasy Star, FF, Chrono Trigger). But man that is some beautiful art work.

>>8529163
it was the playstation of its day, which is what made it so easy for sony to steal their fanbase.

>>8529163
>NFL '98
what the fuck

>>8529163
GOOD. jrpgs are trash and NBA Jam is based

>>8534790
Despite what Saturn weebs will try desperately to tell you, the Genesis was still popular all the way up to the DCs release.

>>8529183
wow, N64 really had zero presence in PAL territories didn't it

>>8529353
yeah it would, it had mario AND dkc. that's twice as many scotformers.

>>8534798
Nah twas the saturn where even the gaems musta been ordered and shipped to my door cause nothing in store.

>>8533934
it never stood a chance when PC Engine had the CD addon the same year the mega drive came out and SFC was hotly anticipated, it just didn't really offer much that was unique. I think if PCE hadn't existed though MD would've been unstoppable in japan.

>>8534802
the anon who says “menu game” all the time has to be the same one who says “scotformer” all the time

>>8534796
I was still playing it, but I sure as fuck wasn't buying new games at full price.

>>8529183
People actually bought that Monty Python game? I thought it was obscure

wasn't Gunstar Heroes its biggest-selling game in japan? that's way more chad than any of this stuff.

>>8534839
Genesis games were like $30 max. Plus they launched that Genesis 3 rerelease around the same time.

>>8534796
Sega of Japan:
>WE HAVE TO KILL THE GENESIS IN 1995 TO FOCUS ON THE SHITURN ONLY

I'm glad Sega is dead, fuck those retards.

>>8534839
>I was still playing it
Same. Skipped 5th gen entirely because cheap parents. Last new genesis game we bought was Vectorman 2. If they would have supported it longer I would of absolutely bought more.

>>8534893
I was just a kid and missed out on its heyday so I was just playing hand-me-downs, which were fucking great. whatever cheap new games there were couldn't compete with its huge backlog and secondary market or clearance stuff.

>>8534821
Nah I say menu game. Scotformer is a different anon, unrelated to me. He was first to be fair.

>>8534920
Don't get me wrong there were barely any new games, they were all just cheap. The real draw was that every Genesis game was $10-20 and you could bargin bin dive for even cheaper, though it was mostly licensed crap.

>>8531579
My first Mega Drive was bundled with Aladdin too.

1) Sega had a smaller Japanese audience.
2) JRPGs were niche in the West up until Final Fantasy VII.

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>>8535897
>never released outside Japan
>not selling well here
well no shit sherlock.
also sales don't take into account all the people who may have rented the game, played it at their friend's, etc. not a very reliable way to determine a game's popularity.

>>8534796
You're only telling half the story. It was popular because it was selling for $39 retail for a brand new console, so every amerinigger and spic family that couldn't afford a Gen V console were buying the genesis. And what better game for darkies than NFL shite

>No weeb autism spreadsheet menu navigator fetch quests
Based

>>8536551
https://segaretro.org/Category:Mega_Drive_RPGs
I guess anti-intellectualism has caught on in /vr/ too

>>8536569
he's talking about in the list OP posted, retard

>>8536569
Phantasy Star 1-3 were Master System games on a Megadrive cart that took advantage of backwards compatibility, Pier Solar came out like 15 years after the console died and Rent-a-hero was japan only. I stopped reading the list there because sega retro is the shittiest company wiki ever made, it's basically a bunch of crap taped together.

>>8536624
>Phantasy Star 1-3 were Master System games on a Megadrive cart that took advantage of backwards compatibility
no they weren't dumbass, only the first one was.

>>8534798
The N64 wasn't released in Europe yet

>>8536624
fucking idiot children here. go do your homework

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