/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10205956
It seems like in Japan the individual publishers had their own patterns and design aesthetic.
>>10205065
Like you can see that Squaresoft, Nintendo, and Capcom each had their respective stylistic elements. In the west the console manufacturers enforced those things instead for library-wide instead of just publisher-wide consistency. My guess is that what happened with the NES, with a bunch of unlicensed games with weird designs, stuck in Nintendo's craw. Even in Japan the Famicom wasn't quite as insanely strange as some of the things that were coming out on the NES like the Aladdin Deck Enhancer. Maybe it's the difference between Japanese and American cultures where they trusted Japanese companies to color within the lines more than American ones who were more inclined to push the envelope and so had to take a firmer stance?

Any Unlicensed NES game recommendations? Looking to play some obscure stuff for the console and want to know if there’s anything worth checking out despite it not having the seal of approval. I mean actual full fledged games and not stanky Taiwan multicarts or never ending disasters like Action 52.

Hard mode: No Tengen games, as I’ve already played a fair amount of them and they’re consistently of a high quality.

I will also accept any religious games