/vr/ - Retro Games

Are powerups progression elements? Were shmups actually RPGs this whole time?

Is there a more pseud genre than roguelikes?
The developers of Rogue never finished it.
Rogueomatic, a 1980s AI program that plays faster and better than most humans, wins the game only once every 10,000 times.
Video games improved gameplay and graphics wise literally as soon as hardware limitations allowed.
But rogueliketards think staring for years at ASCII "art" on a terminal waiting to not be killed by RNG (the technical term is YASD - Yet Another Stupid Death) makes them hardcore gamers because that's how games used to be back then, zoomer (even though they avoid actual hardcore genres like FPS or RTS)

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How though? Citation needed over HERE!

I can't decide if roguelikes are casual or hardcore games
On one hand you have permadeath which is pretty punishing
On the other the original Rogue had a bot written for it one year later that played the game better than human players (Rog-O-Matic) which is pretty telling, also they are turd based and require grinding
Is adaptation to randomness a skill?

What exactly are the "abysmal flaws" of the Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle series?

>using infinite (fake) coins in MAME is cheating
>using infinite (real) coins in a cabinet is not

why is SW seen as one of the "big three" when the gameplay is RR tier and the visuals suck?

not to mention that they wasted a cool cyberpunk setting on a game where half of the levels are generic temples

>beltvanias
>scotscrollers
>willyformers

what are some other genre names only this board uses?

what are some good scotscrollers? preferably with jarpigformer elements?