/vr/ - Retro Games

>Be me, 6 years old
>Stuck in Sonic The Hedgehog on the first boss because I don't understand the concept of a "boss".
>Not aware that I need to hit him more than once. Think I'm not doing any good because no visible damage.
>Ask kid at tae kwon do for help.
>"oh yeah, he's tricky, you have to hit him three times. Then he throws a bomb so watch out".
>First Robotnik fight doesn't have any fucking bomb and you have to hit him 8 times.
>However, flagrant lie introduced the idea of hitting the boss multiple times so I just keep hitting him and win anyway.
>MFW flagrantly incorrect information from kid who clearly has no fucking clue what he's talking about still helped me progress.

>>1456146
>mfw I liked Other M and actually got me into Metroid

>mfw I finished the original, II, Super and Fusion since.

I personally regret nothing. If anything, Prime Hunters is the turly awful Metroid game that almost drove me away from trying anything else from this neat franchise.

>>1368709
>...Actually, hold up. If that was point from the beginning: if iron is supposed to represent retro games, and feathers modern games, and the pound is some quantity of quality gameplay or the like... then never mind, the comparison is SPOT ON.
>You WOULD need to play a shitload of modern games, or at the very least need to dig through a shitload of modern games to find the stuff that's worth a shit, to get the same amount of quality gameplay you'd get out of just a few retro games.


Bingo