/vr/ - Retro Games

>Spider-Man
I've been calling him Spiderman all this time

I must've looked like an idiot

>progressing smoothly through game
>suddenly musical puzzle that requires perfect pitch
>randomly generated so you can't just look up the solution on gamefaqs

>>10840774
>meanwhile cheap store brand crts that have been dug out of a landfill they've been sitting in for 20 years are selling for thousands

I've been calling him Sarge all this time

>>10807446
I threw away enough shitty CRTs back in the 00s that I could've retired now if I just stored them. It's BTC all over again.

>>10777794
>tfw fully functional + anatomically correct dmg body pillow but no AA batteries

>>10726136
>yeah man I can crack those codes for you but you'll have to borrow me the game for the weekend, you know, to experiment
God why didn't I think of that, fucking brilliant, I want to go back...

>a decade has passed
>fpgas are more expensive now than they were back when they were the new thing

>new Windows 98 build
>go to play some DOS games
>in-game videos won't play from DOS in Windows
>eventually figure out that they will play if I set Windows to 16 color mode
>changing to 16 color mode requires restarting the PC so it can't just be set as an application-specific powerstrip profile
>videos will play in real mode DOS but then I lose the Roland soundfont for my Audigy 2 ZS

>going through attic
>find dozens of boxes for awesome dos/win9x era motherboards, soundcards, and graphics cards
>no hardware

>silver surfer can travel faster than the speed of light
>in game silver surfer is slow as fuck

>>9517751
>oblivion level scaling