/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7425801]

Is this the worst retro game company of all time?

[Anonymous No.7425805]

Close

[Anonymous No.7425807]

>>7425801
Learn to think for yourself dipshit.

[Anonymous No.7425817]

[Anonymous No.7425826]

>>7425801
I think virdis (developer of all the cdi zelda games) should also be up for consideration.

[Anonymous No.7425827]

>>7425826
>Virdis and animation magic*

[Anonymous No.7425835]

>>7425801
Middleware that had no talented designers. I wonder where the programmers are

[Anonymous No.7425868]

>>7425835
Didn't they outsource that? I seem to remember that Beetlejuice was made by Rare even though it was an Ljn game.

[Anonymous No.7426078]

>>7425801
Not even close

[Anonymous No.7426102]

>>7426078
You again, nincel nintendrone nintendildo? That'll show you.

[Anonymous No.7426118]

>>7425801
No, but this is what a certain someone would have you believe.

[Anonymous No.7426131]

>>7425801
They didn’t develop the shitty games.
Lemme think of some worse companies:
early TOSE
early Sunsoft
Beam Software
Radical Entertainment
Imagineering Inc.
Acclaim

[Anonymous No.7426142]

>>7426118
>what a certain someone
who?

[Flen No.7426154]

>>7425801
no just for licensed property games

[Anonymous No.7426158]

>>7426142
AVGN, dumbass

[Anonymous No.7426237]

what were they thinking

[Anonymous No.7426248]

>>7426237
omg you watch this dude too? this forum is the best, i swear

[Anonymous No.7426254]

>>7425801
no

[Anonymous No.7426259]

ASS

[Anonymous No.7426261]

>>7426078
BASED

[Anonymous No.7426324]

>>7425801
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING????

[Anonymous No.7426368]

>>7425801
lol no thats nintendo

[Anonymous No.7426746]

>>7425801
Beam Software
Bits Studios
Color Dreams
Gray Matter
Imagineering
Manley & Associates
Micronics
Radiance Software
Radical Entertainment
Realtime Associates

[Anonymous No.7426762]

Hell no. The actual answer is Micronics. LJN isn't even a developer, so claiming it's them doesn't make a lot of sense. Micronics practically had a PhD in shitty game development. I am hesitant to believe any of them were paid and instead have to conclude every release was literally a shitpost for the (you)s

[Anonymous No.7426765]

>>7425801
Several Atari era companies were probably the worst ever.
You could also argue certain bootleg companies are among the worst, and the early Japanese glut of shitty companies that had never made games before all trying their hand at success on the Famicom was a really bad time as well.

[Anonymous No.7426767]

>>7426746
Don't pick on beam and real-time, they were just doing what they had to

[Anonymous No.7426805]

>>7426746
>Micronics
this is the first company that comes to mind. Super Pitfall? Ikari Warriors? FUCKING ATHENA? The ultimate kusoge developer.

[Anonymous No.7426807]

>>7425801
Not even close. You clearly haven't played many 80s computer games.

[Anonymous No.7426815]

>>7426807
Nobody fucking cares about garbage bing bong speccy games that you had to program yourselves from magazine text. British computer games fucking suck balls. Most computer games until like 1993 suck balls.

[Anonymous No.7426819]

>>7426767
They're gonna get picked on and you're gonna like it.

[Anonymous No.7426827]

that's not analogue

[Anonymous No.7426835]

Its still EA

[Anonymous No.7426842]

Us gold, Ocean and titus take the cake.

[Anonymous No.7426868]

Basically 70% of euro developers that were active from the 80s through the early 2000s

[Anonymous No.7426928]

>>7426158
I'm not the guy you are arguing with, but AVGN was like 6 years old when the NES launched in the west. He played few if any of these games when they were new or relevant as he was simply too young. We are not parroting AVGNs opinions, he was copying ours (oldfags).

The LJN hate is far, far older than YouTube for anyone who was an actual gamer in the 80s. Their disastrous uncanny X-men game is by far the single lowest point for me as a gamer, not because it was uniquely shit, but becaus I also read X-men off the newsstand since around 1981. LJN took what you loved and destroyed it. I was there for Atari ET and to me X-men for NES surpassed it as I had higher expectations for games by 1989. It is different when you are seeing ads for a game months in advance to build that anticipation. It is a whole other experience playing a famous lemon 10 years later with nothing but a bad reputation as your lone reason to try it.

Now to be fair, LJN didnt actually make these games, they had them made. They deserve all the hate they got as we were leery of them even as just an overnight rental.

[Anonymous No.7426932]

>>7426078
Harsh, but fair.

[Anonymous No.7426936]

>>7426928
This is the only uncredited LJN game, too. It was that bad.

[Anonymous No.7427369]

What about this game?

[Anonymous No.7427381]

>>7426936
>This is the only uncredited LJN game
Wrong
Friday the 13th was uncredited, but was later found out to be Atlus that made it

[Anonymous No.7427405]

>>7425801
THQ in the early 90s was fuckin shit

[Anonymous No.7427835]

>>7425801
We get it, you watch AVGN

[Anonymous No.7428527]

>>7426254
/thread

[Anonymous No.7428537]

>>7425805
>>7425817
>>7426078
unfunny tryhards

the real answer is Pheonix, Midas and US Gold

[Anonymous No.7428981]

>>7428537
There were myriads of terrible game companies, but none with the reach and impact US Gold had on the lives of thousands. I'm still salty.

[Anonymous No.7429247]

>>7426237
what a shitload of fuck

[Anonymous No.7429386]

>>7426131
>Sunsoft
How can a company rise so high and fall so far?

[Anonymous No.7429443]

laughing joking numbnuts

[Anonymous No.7430357]

>>7425801
LJN are a publisher, they didn't make the games. Blame Sculptured Software or Probe or whoever it was who made the most of that shite.

[Anonymous No.7430447]

>>7430357
No.