/vr/ - Retro Games

A lot of old western Amiga-esqe arcade/action games of the 80s' & 90's are mediocre at best, godawful at worst. Those bland-looking platformers with boring level design, slippery controls, and shitty boss fights. They often spend more time on the overly-detailed graphics and music than polishing up the gameplay and design. There are a few decent ones like the DKC games & Soccer Kid but the bad far outweighs the good imo.

Outside of Hydroah, westerners can't make Shmups to save their lives. Euroshmups just fucking suck.

Amiga & C64 games on average are shit and inferior to their Japanese contemporaries on platforms like the MSX & Sharp X68000 machines. The latter two system's library put the top-rated Amiga & C64 games to shame. I never found SID all that great outside of demoscene stuff. AY-3-8910 alone sounds better.

I fucking hate Working Designs' localizations and any others who attempt to ape that style. I personally wish the games in their catalog were retranslated from the ground up and given new localizations.

Super Turrican 1 & Mega Turrican are the only good games in the entire series. The first two have aged like milk.

Virgin's Aladdin is a highly overrated and mediocre platformer. The only thing it has going for it are the graphics and presentation. Snes version plays better.

Game Sack > your favorite retro reviewer

Even with it's flaws, RetroArch/Libretro is the best thing to happen to emulation and it mops the floor with the original standalones in terms of functionality.