/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8758020
>The TURBO button makes your computer run slower.
In reality it was a slowdown button which usually cut your clockspeed in half, it was supposed to be for older IBM PC programs that had problems at higher clock speeds than what they were written for. Because bad practices like hard timing loops could make menus time out, or your games extra zippy.

>>4925626
5th gen was just about unplayable when it first came out.
I was so hyped for it, finally, we were going to see the true potential of 2D gaming: big beautiful sprites, sprawling detailed maps, dazzling effects, all unrestricted by limited color palette, slow clock speeds, cramped memory and other hardware limitations.
Instead we got these fugly janky 3D games with floating polygon shards, vomitrocious textures, not to mention confused control schemes and that ubiquitous spastic camera that was always trying to kill you.
So yeah, after playing SOTN, a few shmups and JRPGs and playing the dozen or so "good" 3D games, I steered over to PC gaming which was really getting better fast.