/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9259780
They're light gun shooters, not rail shooters. Rail shooters are games like Space Harrier, Star Fox, and Panzer Dragoon. The main difference is that you control a character in a rail shooter (but the character is on a plain scrolling on a rail, as it were, hence the name), while light gun games are shooting galleries where you take damage based on a timer.
Rail shooters can be 2d-in-2d (Gradius), 2d-in-3d (Star Fox), or 3d-in-3d (Omega Boost). In Star Fox you are on a scrolling 2d plane, while in Omega Boost you are inside a scrolling sphere.
Some light gun games pretend to have dodging (Time Crisis), but there is no character movement - just an invincibility pedal. Other light gun games put an avatar on the screen and visually resemble rail shooters without actually being one because you can not control the avatar and no collision detection happens - you still get hit based on a timer, i.e. if you don't shoot the targets in time (Rez).
Specific semantics are unimportant, but games like Star Fox and games like House of the Dead clearly do not belong in the same genre.

>>8457739
>Tell me about you wins / losses as a retro gamer or collector.
You lose by being a collector. You win, comparatively, by not being a collector.

>>6347232
I am a teacher, talk to kids a lot, hear their opinions and what's behind them, so I actually know all of this for a fact. Here's the process (which, mind you, is a natural way of leaning about the world, disseminating information, opinion-forming etc--nothing to get mad about):
1. A youtber born in early 2000s makes a video, say, about the Contra series. They really struggle with Super C and vent their frustration in the video. This is understandable.
2. Kids much younger than that watch the video and learn from it.
3. Kids repeat this opinion to each other without having ever played the games at all.
As simple as that. We know what Einstein said or did without having read his memoirs. We trust the sources. Similarly, kids trust their sources too. Those who will grow to care about games will learn and change their opinions. Those who don't, will be wrong about things throughout their entire lives, which is of no importance.

>>5647413
That's kinda sad, man.