/vr/ - Retro Games

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Best thread. webm was the nail in /v/s coffin and the corpse has been rotting away ever since

So why is it when Mario stands right next to a pipe the piranha plant refuses to come out? Same with the bullet bill canons not firing. Is it a programming limitation or what?

I owned this, Super Mario Bros 2, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, and Millipede for the NES when I was about 5 years old.

I skipped the SNES entirely, and went straight to the N64.

Going straight from Super Mario Bros to Super Mario 64 blew my fucking mind in a way that no other game has. I can't even really describe that feeling of playing it for the first time.

Do you feel obligated to play "the classics"?

It seems weird to me when some says they enjoy games but has never played something like SMB. There are just some games out there that any fan of the medium should play at least once.

Post "classic" series you never played any games from.

I've never played any Tomb Raider, Quake, Crash, Spyro, or Fire Emblem. I only got around to playing Doom a year ago.

What's the perfect length for platformers?

20-30 minutes, 6 stages is my preference. I take em short and fast so I can go through them over and over quickly and get in a lot of practice. Anything over 45 minutes starts to drag, and if it's a game with limited continues it gets boring taking that long to get back to the later levels where you really need to practice the most. If there's a password system then it's different though.

Over the past few years, as I've been both extremely lucky and spent a good amount of time looking, I've come across and expanded my collections of /vr/ approved retro-games, as well as a few other systems. At the same time, as I've replaced some copies with far better quality ones, grabbed up games I never had the pleasure of owning, and getting the chance to play so much I never got to, I've run into an interesting problem I'm wondering if anyone else shares:

I'm getting to the point that I hunt more so because I enjoy looking for retro-stuff now/picking it up to fix it/get something for one of my friends, not so much actually acquiring it. I also find my increasing concern, and wish that companies would push further to have their catalogs of games readily available in other forms so the hunt won't be so necessary anymore for anything I have left to find for myself. I find more enjoyment now in the past few years, with all of my recent retro/non-but-almost-kinda-retro gaming, since I keep getting a weird feeling that the current generation is missing something, you find it rarely but not often in whats being produced, but I digress.

How does /vr/ feel about looking for retro?
Is the hunt more important than what you may find?

Maybe share even some stores if ya got'em.

I think I'll be fine. He's handy when I need to fix fix the plumbing or get a princess rescued; but he better stop bringing in those 'shrooms to the apartmet, or we might end up both in jail.

So the EU version of Super Mario Bros is twice as fast as the NTSC version?