/vr/ - Retro Games

When I was a boy, we had to download them all and play them one by one to find the good games.

>>1005802
>download
>Not blindly buying games that sound cool or the box art looks cool

In retrospect I had pretty good luck overall buying random games.

>>1005806
>blindly buying games that sound cool or the box art looks coo

Not the guy, but i totally do this as well, the only time i actually get them on an emulator before hand is if the game is above $40.

>>1005802
>>1005806
This. I kinda hate the idea that only certain games are going to be perpetuated because of "Essential" lists. But then I guess the same sort of thing happens to film, music and novels.

>>1005802
>when I was a boy
>downloading games

Fucking youngfags I swear...
When I was a boy we didn't even have the internet to ask if a game was good. We had to buy it with money and find out the hard way.

>>1005851
I guess you could always buy magazines and read some "reviews"

>>1005867
Remember cheat code books?

LIST OF CURRENT MARKET VALUES FOR RETRO GAMES. CONSULT FOR PRICING WHEN RESELLING YOUR GAMES.

USE FOR DESIGNING CUSTON FLESHLIGHTS

TLDR I THINK IT'S ABOUT GAMES OR SOMETHING

BUY THIS GAME THE RETRO BUBBLE WILL NEVER BURST

>>1006367
>Hagane 1.99

>>1006367
Funny how the Final Fantasys for SNES are the only ones that cost LESS nowadays.

>>1005867
Nah. We went to the local video shop and rented them out for $2-3 for the weekend. If they sucked we never looked back, if they were good we bought them.

Or "lost" them, got banned from a few video rental places for that

>>1006386
There's nothing labelled on the x or y axis. X is definitely years, but what the fuck is y? Popularity? Sales? Number of games?

WHAT IS IT

>>1005795
>DKC1
>essential
>not DKC2

>>1006641
Aside from your blatant overuse of meme arrows, I agree.

>>1006654
>Aside from your blatant overuse of meme arrows
>overuse of meme arrows
>on 4chan

You're new here, aren't you?

>>1006595
WELCOME TO THE GAME

>>1005795

I would take Yoshi's Island, Aladdin, Super Punch-Out, and Killer Instinct off that chart. Sorry.

Yoshi's Island is fun, but it's easy to get nauseated (a la Sonic the Hedgehog 3 later levels).

Genesis/MD version of Aladdin is (objectively) superior.

Super Punch-Out just... Eck. I like Punch-Out, but not that one.

KI64 was fantastic, but on the SNES it was just a little pale.

Just me.

I'd add Evermore, Tetris 2, Illusions of Gaia, and Harvest Moon.

Just me though.

>>1006367
>Earthbound 29.99

waaay too overpriced. That list is bullshit.

>>1007653
What annoys me about this list is that they list SaGa Frontier 2 over the first.

>>1007653
this might not be the correct thread, but here's the question:

I've downloaded some psx games, and they are .mdf files,
sadly my android emulator does not seem to like those, as he likes only .img files.

how do i covert said .mdf file to .img? any ideas?

>>1007678
It's the better game.

>>1006693
Super Punch Out is best punch out

Is there a lot of important to read text in a Link To The Past? Was thinking of grabbing the Jap cart.

>>1007812
Yes, but its possible to figure out what to do without reading anything. If you get stuck, just download a PDF of the strategy guide (or google for a walkthrough).

>>1007892

>>1006367
>high prices on sports titles
what the fuck?

why is kirby superstar recommended? is it just full of a bunch of mini-games?

>>1006654
>meme arrows

>>1005820
I've always seen essential as more of a "Prior knowledge on these will be expected of you if this is your hobby" than a "These are the ONLY ones you need to play" or something like that, one should not limit himself to only the essentials however.

>>1006693
> would take Yoshi's Island, Aladdin, Super Punch-Out, and Killer Instinct off that chart. Sorry.

Wow Yoshi Island, really? That has to be one of my all time favorite games ever.

>"Essentials"
>Not "recommanded"

>>1006693
>Genesis/MD version of Aladdin is (objectively) superior.

That doesnt stop the snes version from being good.

Thats like saying he needed to take castlevania 4 out of the list because Sotn was better.

Neither where on the Snes for the argument is void.

>>1006654
>>1006658
>meme arrows
Please leave.

>>1007653
Which game for PSX would you recommend that is similar to Castlevania SotN? I have Tomba's and I loved Cave Story (although not retro nor for PS).

>>1009149

it's a solid game but some people don't like it because it's a collectathon

you're going along trying to have fun and then whoops some flying shyguy is dangling a red coin up in the corner of the screen, well better go for it, oh he flew away ok so now you're barred from properly completing that stage because you didn't look into the future and predict that shyguy

then you meet a boss and it's cool and dramatic, you're having a fun fight trying to figure out what to do, and then whoops you got hit and lost some stars or whatever, and you it seems like you can't get them back during the fight so now you have to either kill yourself and give up the unique and irreplaceable drama of your first encounter with that boss, or go on fighting knowing you'll just have to do it again later to REALLY complete the stage

basically the game doesn't want you to play, it wants you to work--that's one reason why some people dislike it anyway

>>1006693
>Genesis/MD version of Aladdin is (objectively) superior.
No, it wasn't. They were very different games that each had different strengths.

I'm wondering if there is any sort of comprehensive history list displaying all games that have been ever released on most consoles.

I've seen Wikipaedia has an adequate listing, but it definitely seems very incomplete, as some titles I've seen have hardly anything or no note at all.

>>1006386
>2005
>that spike in DOS games
the fuck

>>1006595
Release percentage per year by genre and platform. I can tell by the Famicom and PSX time frames.

>>1006693
I'd also add ActRaiser while at it.

>>1007653
>SOTN
>Tomba
>platformers

>>1007901
That genre classification gave me cancer.

>>1007653
Shouldn't Threads of Fate be closer to being a Platformer? It really didn't have any RPG features.