/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3056742
It takes skill and experience to get the most out of old systems. That's a big reason why I love retro hardware so much.

For instance, the NES could only display in an 8x8 pixel block 4 colors, and the first one was always transparent. If you look at Mega Man's face in that picture, you'll see it has white, black, blue, and light blue; 4 colors, but really 5 colors because the transparent color must be present. To achieve this, the devs simply layered a few sprites on top of each other. This seems obvious now, but when you sit down and try to come up with trickery to get the most out of your system, these kinds of things are innovations.

>>2788589
There's something about the first appearance of Rush, the first game with a slide maneuver, Shadow and Needl Man being some of the best Mega Man bosses ever, the snazzy music, all robot masters from 2 (sorta), and Proto Man's ending that made it a great fucking game IMHO. Yeah, the final boss stinks, and some of the Doc levels can leave you in an unwinnable situation, but over all I love this game.

Over all though, NES Mega Man is my love nest.

>>2467218
I fucking adore 3. It brings me great sadness that Inafune practically disowned it because he thought it sucked.

>>2434450
It's like they got done with sparkman and then just said fuck it. I love old badly drawn megaman art.

>>2435893
Blue is cyborgist, you fucking meat sack