/vr/ - Retro Games

Don't really have too many disappointments that were meaningful since some of the major ones I remember were renting Rise of the Robots for SNES and Mario is Missing for SNES.

In terms of things I was gifted, maybe Saturn The House of the Dead? I didn't get a Saturn until it was already a bit dated (I want to say 2001), but the main reason I wanted it was for lightgun games. Loved The House of the Dead arcade, but this port was just so inferior. The US version was already expensive even then, so that plus the Saturn itself were a big chunk of my birthday that year. To be fair it was enough to give a taste of the arcade experience, so it certainly wasn't awful or anything. My current negative opinion of it is probably not much like the overwhelming "holy shit The House of the Dead AT HOME!" feeling I had when I got it. Since then I've obtained a The House of the Dead arcade cab (and even a prototype disc of the Saturn port), so it all worked out in the end.

>want to get HotD so I can buy a light gun and also play Virtua Cop the way it was meant to after all these years
>look up prices
>Japanese version hits about $25
>US version is well over $100

Wasn't expecting that. Was this game rare?

sega saturn

Also want to make a copy of House of the Dead for Saturn. Would I just do the same thing or are Saturn games any different (different media format, process, etc). Again have copy folder with US .bin and .cue files.