/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8530236
>The last itemm on the Top 5 list
Only now do I realize that they were making a tits joke.

>>8530247
Huh? I know that Judge Dredd article goes on longer.

>>8530258
And the next article is halfway through. Definitely some pages missing.

>>8530419
>>8530425
I maintain that this game was supposed to have Lord Zedd as the final boss, but he got switched for Ivan Ooze to better coincide with the movie.

Issue #75

>>8530236
>>8530243
That entire list feels out of character for Nintendo Power

>>8530180

We are explicitly preparing for the death of the Super Nintendo! And yet... Game Boy lives on.

>>8530193

That pig model has always made me uncomfortable.

>>8530196

Does Super Game Boy automatically give the stages different color schemes like this within a single run, or is that just Nintendo Power trying to jazz things up by manually changing palettes between screenshot sessions?

>>8530225

This is the first time the Saturn has been mentioned I think?

>>8530687
I tried standing outside for minutes on end and nobody ever lost HP. I think NP might have embellished that part.

>>8530229
>The glut of B titles that scared many publishers out of the 16-bit business last year has dwindled,

Funny that we hear about this important-sounding phenomenon suddenly, but only in passing and only now that it's allegedly ending! "We are very much not a reliable source of news about events that make Nintendo's business prospects look bad," said Nintendo Power, cheerfully, between the lines.

>>8530575
It smacks of desperation.
>s-see we make fun of our competition too, we're cool right?

More later.

>>8530236

Is he really saying The Flyin' King has better 3D effects than a PlayStation game? Does it even have any 3D effects?

>>8530537
>Magazine says Jack Skelton even though the screenshot says Ripper right there.
Who did they think they were fooling?

>>8530601
>1995
>devoting 6 pages to the Game Boy version of SF2 of all things
>in 1995
Who fucking cares. It must've been a slow month.

>>8530659
It's been a long ass time since I played but iirc yes it auto picks new colors for each stage. Could be wrong but I think that's how it was anyway.

Had this issue when I was younger. Advanced Computer Modeling on the GB? Oh my!

>>8530225
Something tells me people weren't going that crazy over the SNES version of KI, and the sequel to DKC.
Also interesting that they are technically speaking bad of their own products, by saying the SNES is stronger than the N64 and VB.

Shouldn't you be writing something like "While the SNES had numerous hits, the Virtual Boy stole the show with it's revolutionary 3D experience, and the Ultra 64 showed us the real future of video game graphics". or something equally hyperbolic. By saying "yea the Virtual Boy was there with some shit, but check out these SNES games!" you're kinda dooming your own product.

>>8530241
random Ferengi at top right

>>8531567
It's funny how KI gets the same push as DKC and the like due to its graphics, but it just falls by the wayside over the years.

>>8531567
>and the sequel to DKC
I was going ape™ shit for DKC2 honestly. It's still a favorite even now.

>>8530305
>If you love FF3, Mana or Zelda, Chrono Trigger is guaranteed to become your new passion.
Mm. I wonder why they'd include Zelda on a list of RPG games, unless...

>>8530710
>Secret of the Stars had to follow immediately in CT's footsteps
It never stood a chance

>>8530838
>Graphics don't live up to current Super NES standards
As they post a picture showing a visually glitched stage 1 boss fight lol

>>8531864
I mean, they're not wrong though...

>>8530276
DIDDY LOOK OUT

>>8530468
>long awaited
Nosferatu was supposed to be released back in 1991

>>8530276
>Diddy, Dixie and Spinal all began as 3-D wireframe images.
>Spinal's animation frames are based on real human motion while the others just
>ape
>reality

>>8531715
I think part of Chrono Trigger's staying power as a classic of the jrpg genre is its ability to convey sidequest logic. It's zelda like in the way it communicates to the player how problems must be solved, and traversing time periods to obtain the solution feels proto ocarina.While the moment to moment gameplay of CT and LTTP are very different, they follow a similar philosophy on how they lead the player to an answer.

>>8530184
those 20 game line up. when is the last time we had 20 current games that fun. take me back

>>8531645
>but it just falls by the wayside over the years.

that's because of what happened to Rare and fighting games in general

>>8530276
>ACM is the backbone of Nintendo Ultra 64 development, as well,

It's strange to see it vaguely suggested here that Tim Stamper was really excited about the N64, not so much because it could live-render 3D scenes as because it could display pre-rendered 3D models better than the SNES could, thanks to the higher potential data capacity of its cartridges and its higher data decompression speed. I guess it does make sense for them to have put some focus on that though, since... it works, after all. I mean, Killer Instinct Gold looks pretty nice.

I wonder whether they were ever planning to make a 2D Donkey Kong Country for the N64.

>>8530286

Nosferatu is good... even though it makes you rescue your girlfriend AGAIN! They just can't stop picking at that.

>>8530298
>the biggest, best and only Dragon Quest game for the Super NES

I thought Dragon Quest V was that, at this point? Or maybe they're specifically talking about the SNES as opposed to the SFC, and they're assuming that DQVI will indeed actually be released in the US?

They sure are promoting a lot of games on this page that will never actually be released in North America... not that that's their fault.

>>8530305
>As for the music, it challenges Donkey Kong Country and Killer Instinct as the best for any video game.

Nintendo Power really wants us to think that pre-rendered 3D imagery is somehow the thing that makes music good. This is an especially awkward claim for them to make in the middle of Epic Center, whose readers will be familiar with Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy, and ActRaiser.

>>8533291
I can understand where they're coming from in a sense-- DKC and Killer Instinct were rare at the time for actually putting their music on a separate CD ("DK Jamz" and "Killer Cuts"). A common enough practice in Japan, but virtually unheard of in the west. Of course, we all know Chrono Trigger wouldn't get that luxury but still... "this game's music is so good you'd want to listen to it in a CD player!"

>>8530321

When I first read this, RPG Tsukuru: Super Dante seemed like the most magical thing that could possibly ever exist. Today, I have actually played some RPG Maker games, and I can no longer remember (except very faintly) how I could ever have believed they would automatically be interesting or fun.

>>8530325
>Only two games from the series, Dragon Warrior and Dragon Warrior II, have been released here. And only three of the four Final Fantasy games have been adapted for our market.

Whaaaaat? Isn't, like, all of this wrong? Or at least most of it.

>>8530328

Derby Simulation sounds... kinda fun?

>>8533323
NP isn't known for their accuracy, as these threads have shown. Pointing out weird errors like these are half the fun.

>>8530298
So does Epic Center actually survive into the N64 era? Nintendo really won't be the home for JRPGs for much longer.
Also depressing seeing them casually talking about (the yet unnamed) Terranigma, knowing it'll never come out in the States.

>>8533323
>>8534089
I can understand a magazine like EGM or GamePro making such a mistake, but isn't Nintendo Power published and edited by Nintendo of America. Someone at the editorial staff must have a list of every game ever released by Nintendo in North America. Especially considering Dragon Warrior II and III came out months apart.

>>8534579
They had about three weeks to put together roughly 120 pages worth of material, send it off to the printer, and have the printer have enough time to print. then get it to the stores and subscribers. That's about 40 pages a week, or 8 pages a day. With five writers, and one editor checking on them. I'll lump the editor in with the writers for the sake of argument.
Around this same time period, EGM had about 21 writer/editors(they did double duty), and put out 300 page magazines, and GamePro had about 12 writer/editors(again, double duty), and did about 175 page magazines. With the same monthly schedule, than meant EGM was putting out 100 pages a week, or 20 a day, and GamePro was putting out about 58 pages a week or 11-12 a day. EGM's 21 writer/editor staff put out 20 pages of material a day, GamePro's 12 writer/editor staff put out 11-12 a day, and NP's 6 writer/editor staff put out 8 a day. (I don't count the editor in chief at any magazine, and the "Editorial Consultants" like Howard Lincoln were not writing or doing any serious editing work)
Nintendo Power was a skeleton crew compared to other videogame magazines of the era, and their writers had to output more than writers in the other mags. I'm surprised there wasn't more errors. Still no excuse for the BS that made it into the FF3 strategy guide.

>>8534562
If I remember right, it stayed for a little while until the SNES was fully retired and was then removed, then it came back sometime into the Gamecube's era once RPGs started getting a pulse in Nintendo again before being retired for good in the Wii era.

>>8530464
> + A good mood setter.

>>8530468

The first time (I think) they've ever recommended playing a Game Boy game NOT on Super Game Boy - in this case, because the frame rate is so bad. This game actually looks somewhat like a Tiger handheld game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMgAdBZBOdk

>>8530502

Did they really use the same screenshot twice to depict the two Virtual Boy screens? I think they did. How lame is that? You really should be able to do a Magic Eye thing with this cover and get a 3D effect.

>>8530380
>>8530382
>>8530468
The SWAT Kats game looks pretty fun. I wish the authentic cart wasn't so expensive.
Also, lol at the SCAT KATS typo in the following issue.>>8530873

>>8530745
Pretty sure Ninja Gaiden I & II had unlimited continues on the NES, while III had limited continues.

>>8535419
>Pretty sure Ninja Gaiden I & II had unlimited continues on the NES, while III had limited continues.
This is true. Just another example of NP not doing their homework. They probably had people write these articles who never even played the actual games, which even so, taking two minutes to walk to the next cubicle and ask a game counselor could've fixed it.

>>8530513
>So are DKC's graphics what we should be expecting from the NU64, or is it only a taste and will it just get better?

Well, Stewart, as it turns out you should be expecting many very large polygons with murky blobs of color smeared over them, as well as coconut guns that fire in spurts.

We really haven't seen a single clear image of what N64 games will actually look like yet, have we? I suppose they've said several times that Killer Instinct and Cruis'n USA will be ported to the NU 64; that's probably the best information readers have at this point. No reader could really know yet that the normal appearance of an N64 game will be primarily characterized by low polygon counts and heavy, heavy use of bilinear texture filtering.

>>8530520

Ogre Battle is the sixth best game! I imagine that won't last long.

>>8530525

Super Mario World 3 is on everyone's wish list! Understandable.

>>8530528
>PLAY ANYWHERE

But it can't fit in your pocket, it blocks your vision, and it needs to sit on a table during use... I mean you could take it along when your family goes to Grandma's house I guess... but good luck playing it in the car on the way there!

>>8530525
Maybe it's just nostalgia speaking, but there's something about the original Nintendo Ultra 64 name and logo that fits the console's design better. I understand they couldn't use the name in Japan and they wanted to unify the name and design of the console for the global market, but part of me wishes they had kept the Ultra 64 nomenclature for the west at least.

>>8530567

It appears that some or all of these POW/ARM/AGI charts are completely wrong. They don't match what I'm seeing in the game on YouTube, and they also make no sense; the last two opponents supposedly have far worse stats than the first opponent!

>>8530582

This game looks fun!

>>8531567
>By saying "yea the Virtual Boy was there with some shit, but check out these SNES games!" you're kinda dooming your own product
Not really. The Virtual Boy did an excellent job of dooming itself, no help from Nintendo Power needed.
Of course, it could be that they realized it was going to be shit and were trying to divert attention from it.

>>8536853
>they couldn't use the name in Japan
Always wondered why the name changed. Why couldn't they use it?

>>8537941
I read online theories suggesting that Konami's Ultra Games subsidiary might had caused some issues with the trademark, but I clearly remember reading a magazine article stating that the name change to the Nintendo 64 was only planned for the Japanese market at first before they made it global. I always assumed it was because of Ultraman.

>>8530848

In Virtual Boy's debut on the ratings page, not one game for it reaches 4.0 in any category. Great start!

>>8530865
>The latest move from Acclaim was to acquire Spawn, a game that was originally slated to come from Sony Imagesoft. (Sony has stepped out of the picture for 16-bit development.)

Pak Watch casually flicking a tiny, final nail into the coffin of the SNES CD-ROM add-on

>>8530867
>Flights Of Fantasy
>George Wood

I had no idea Nintendo Power ever made reference to this guy during the actual Clinton years!

>>8530454

Genuinely feel bad for the person who took a photo of the Battle for Olympus and it's piss quality lol.

>>8530873

Have we finally stopped advertising pog slammers, I wonder? I guess they're probably still listed in the actual catalog though.