/vr/ - Retro Games

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>Series that mattered or seemed to matter but are now completly forgotten and dead.

I could say this about a ridiculous amount of games. As a kid there was so much new unique games/series that I always figured a ton would still be around or that they actually sold well. I used to have a ridiculous amount of games in the 90's. Especially PS1 games. I think I had over 50 different games at one point for PS1 and this is taking into account I also had the Saturn and N64 as well as buddies who had different games that we would trade/borrow all the time. So I did a whole lot of playing different games but not necessarily beating most of them. It wasn't until Pokemon really where I truly got hooked on one game like I never got hooked before.

I guess one game I thought was and should have gotten a sequel (that was actually good) was Guardian Heroes. Easily my favorite Saturn game and I played a ton of it as a kid. Holy crap did the sequel suck major balls. It is the perfect game to say that how did you go from this to this meme.

We also need to remember that back then if a game sold under 1 million copies it still could have been seen as a great success. These days due to inflated budgets, costs, hype culture and marketing a game selling under 1 million will likely be a massive failure unless it is an indie game. A lot of these smaller game companies weren't ever going to be able to compete with the insane rise in costs to develop their games.

Obviously.

Guardian Heroes also wins an award for most unrelated and misleading box art ever. Still one of my all-time favorite games, however.

Sengoku on Neo Geo was really good too.