/vr/ - Retro Games

Let's get a Speccy thread goin innit.

Not only does it have a superior library to the NES, it also has the first exploratory platformer in Jet Set Willy. This means the Metroidvania genre should more accurately be called Willyvania.

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That's the thing about Nintendo's NES music. For the most part it really isn't "cute". The only people who would describe it that way are dullards like OP who equate happy sounding music with kids' music because they themselves have they have the musical IQ of a child.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBISfv-6hfo
The SMB2 overworld theme is undeniably a rag (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1sUyuBS7xE
The SMB theme has been described as a Latin Jazz style piece (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_music, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamenco_jazz))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFUGG6SFiQQ
Metroid's credits theme seems inspired by action and sci-fi themes by John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith. It's got an undeniable classical bent to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpzQmF_2qwo
The Tetris "Type B" theme is quite obviously inspired by Russian folk/classical music, to the point that most people who play the game just assume it's a cover like Type A and C when it's really an original piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxbs3nVDik
The SML2 credit theme has the feel of old showtune-style ballads of the 30s and 40s like Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsM_VmN6ytk).).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxbs3nVD
And then you've got just atmospheric film-style music that doesn't fit any genre, like Maridia from Super Metroid. Eurofag here will undoubtedly say this sounds like doorbells.

But none of it sounds like doorbells. None of it is particularly childish. Every argument that it's inferior demoscene style music stems from it being simple. No rapidly shifting time signatures. No wild pitch bends happening every other phrase. It only aims to be memorable and to evoke emotions. To brand it "childish" and "dull" for those reasons is to invalidate almost the entire history of western popular music because that's basically what everyone from Buddy Holly to Ed Sheeran has done.

>>7774107
kek
>>7774108
O I M E S P E C CY

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I weally like Kim Justice's content

>>7020225
LUV ME SPECCY INNIT

Why is it so reviled outside the US?

>>6968980
Nah hes ugly even for a tranny. You should see his pal that is on streams with him, a giant 50 year old boomer tranny who doesn't even try to talk like a woman and sounds like a construction worker in a dress

The ZX Spectrum has 48k of memory while the NES only has 40k. The Spectrum has a Z80 CPU (3.5 MHz) while the SNES has a Ricoh 5A22 (2.68 MHz for most games). This makes it more powerful than both the NES and SNES.

The irony is that Spectrum games often had better framerates and smoother animation than PC games pre-VESA and contemporary console games of its time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eva0b6F4s1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaiaL7zXZGE

Really? Three times the CPU and memory and you couldn't outperform a 3Mhz computer with 48k?

What are some of the best top down/isometric retro action RPGs?

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Why wasn't the ZX Spectrum exported to the rest of the world? It would've trounced Japanese microcomputers in Asia and in the US it very well may have knocked the NES off its pedestal

https://vocaroo.com/ficl4O040If

My favorite is definitely Kim Justice

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HERE, HERE

>>6908225
Aye

REMEBER THIS DAY FOREVER LADS! WE ARE VICTORIOUS OVER AMERISHART NONCERY!

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>t.

What are considered the killer apps for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum?

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