/vr/ - Retro Games

now this looks like a thread for me
gonna dump some stuff

>>10808575

>>10808569
who minds this shit

>>10808579

>>10808596

>>10808598
this is Rasetsu 2001, very obscure game

>>10808603

>>10808607

>>10808603
sonic got DROIDED

>>10808575
Those weebshits look more soulless than the rest. The japanese can't into gritty graphics and UI design. Witcher is soulless too.

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>>10808598
>>10808607
Love these, please post more if you have some.

>>10808607
>>10808603
What is it, a cyberpunk dungeon crawler?

https://youtu.be/UAk0mwjZ_Rc

>>10808575
arcanum was kinda shit looking

>>10810265
What game is this?

>>10810458
dreamweb, it's a cool game
make sure you read the diary in the manual before playing it

>>10808798
>The japanese can't into gritty graphics and UI design.
Japanese shit has always been plain and soulless. Remove the color dithering and the inherent 'fuzzing' effect of scanning a hand-drawn picture and it's all just DeviantArt OCdonutsteel-tier shit.
Even when they try to knockoff a specific western style like in >>10808603 and >>10808607 it comes across as cheap.

>>10808798
>>10812196
when did "weeb" start to mean "japanese"?

>>10810792
>>10808613
>>10808607
>>10808603
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>>10808570
best so far
also Chaos Engine he'll yeah

>>10812204
When autistic losers without personalities needed to codify more impotent rage into their meaningless posts.

>>10809126
Always loved these obtuse games you could find once in a blue moon on the Amiga
Just don't get as much experimentation like this these days

>>10812196
You are actually retarded.

>>10808613
>>10810792
Some PC-98 UIs look neat.

>>10813467

>>10813467
It's really impressive that they only had 15 colors to work with for each of those games. Goes to show what dithering and careful palette selection can do.

>>10813620
>Goes to show what dithering and careful palette selection can do.
Yeah, some studios really mastered the color limitation with later games: UI, background, monsters and even full characters attacks, all with a single palette.

this sh#t is an excuse to not need to render as much g*me

>>10808569
Azrael's tear

>>10812562
what game is this ?

>>10814663
Kinda looks like one of those dos Elvira games, but idk.

>>10814728
>>10814663
Waxworks

>>10808569
most eroge TBQH.
the Fallout series.
Arcanum.

>>10810318
your mom's pussy was boring.

>>10808596
This isn't a UI element or menu screen from Snatcher, I'm pretty sure it's just some random scene from the intro.

>>10808569
I like games that have animations for on screen "buttons" when you click them, especially when there's a sound effect and it changes things on the side bar. Bonus points when the things that change have their own sound effects. All of that's meaningless though if clicking the buttons doesn't result in massive lag, freezes and even hard locks or straight up crash to desktop.

>>10809126
Based and Captain Blood pilled.

>>10808596
Really like this one and now that I think about it, Mass Effect 2 GUI elements seem to have been "inspired" by Snatcher a lot. Just replaying it at the moment and between the loading screens and the human Reaper shit, it's a very similar vibe.

>>10812563
What game

>>10815848
Perihelion from Psygnosis, Amiga 500 game. Really striking UI and visuals

>>10816118

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>>10816119
This makes me think of Dune with bits of Pre-Disney Star Wars lore sprinkled in.

>>10815232
i rike PCGamer, mexican white 4chan.

>>10810461
>dreamweb, it's a cool game

it's pixel hunting shit. and the UI makes everything look even more tiny.

I always liked the Sierra comedy western adventure game Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist. The sliders in the setting menu are hanged people you can move up and down.

>>10808607
>>10808603
This looks pretty interesting, like Japan/pre-webtoon manwha Korean/golden age Hong Kong comics meets Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant.

character designs are unusual as well, though a bit clashing when looking at more screenshots, they clearly have a different character artist for most of the grittier looking men

>>10816947
a little bit of Gerald Brom in there too (though maybe a bit too clothed), really cool stuff

>>10808569
By the Hairy Balls of Aman'thul what the FUCK is that OP?

>>10817419

>>10815232
Fuck, I completely forgot about this.

The dude at the bottom middle is what you look like at the moment using your chameleon suit. You travel through time and have to take the guise locals so people don't freak out. You use this to your advantage to get information and stuff from people.

>>10808569
>>10817153
YOU-KNOW

>>10817419
read the title of the OP pic.
and go play Triglav by SmokyMonkeys... a game originally made for IE 4.0.

>>10819521
I just thought it was an usual descriptor. My God what is this game.

>>10820464
A good one.

>>10808613
>>10810792
>>10813467
>>10813470
>>10813620
>>10813701
I LOVE PC98 UIs
I LOVE PC98 UIs
I LOVE PC98 UIs
I LOVE PC98 UIs

>>10817171
Ballad of Buster Scruggs vibes

I always loved the Syndicate UI, both in-game and inbetween missions.

It really makes you feel like Samus Aran

>>10821294
PC98 art is still vastly superior to most pixel art made today using modern tools.

>>10821336
Love those old school green UIs

>>10808603
Absolute kino packaging too

>>10824985
Back

Nice thread. Time to post some stuff from my collection. Some of it was saved from the previous UI threads and some I've found by autistically checking out every PC-98 game in existence.

>>10824993
Chrono Cross

>>10824994
Tōdō Ryūnosuke Tantei Nikki: Ōgon no Rashinban

>>10824995
Zeus: Master of Olympus

>>10824997
Kyuukyoku Hengen Battle Gal Saori [究極変幻バトルギャルさおり]

>>10825001
Birthdays

>>10825006
Chitty Chitty Train

>>10825007
Don't know the name of this one...

>>10825009
Cybernetic Hi-School

>>10825012
Lakers 3

>>10825015
Metal Eye
... And that's it for now. I have a lot more images, might post them later, but those are some of my favourites.

suikoden pc version

>>10812204
around 2012-2014 or so

>>10814660
That looks very much like MDK hud.

>>10825017
These are great, thank you for sharing.

One of the first examples of a diagetic interface. At least partially.

>>10824985
How does the disk work with that huge chunk missing?

>>10826360
You gotta by the other chunk separate and piece the two together

>>10825020
Bring back Visual Basic styled windowed UIs.

>>10813470 has them on the PC version.

Pic related. It's one of Kairosoft's first games, Book Store Simulator

>>10821336
>Syndicate UI
Console versions were awful.
>>10821294
yes groom your loli.

>>10824994
shit sequel ruined TRIGGER's plot and timeline.

>>10825006
kawaii
>>10825001
not kawaii.

>>10825020
lol wtf. looks like a lazy Win 3.1 UI.

god man, what happened to all these developers after the PC-98? where are those skills today? Wish I knew nip to revisit those games, but the Japanese don't seem to make anything like this today.

>>10827103
This looks like the game I coded back in high school using Visual Basic...

>>10827132
>god man, what happened to all these developers after the PC-98? where are those skills today?

Nipponers with good 2D skills still exist but they moved on from limiting themselves due to old-tech. they all use digital tools now and export/save to large ass high-res 4K or 8K . they don't care about tiny sprite art or dithered backgrounds now.

in terms of games, VNs can still sell in nippons, but there's not where the big money is. 2D artists would rather do private commissions, sell their thinbooks at comikeks cons, or do art for Gacha shit. but that's not /vr/.

>>10826360
I actually have two copies of this game, lmao. Unfortunately, they don't have that disc. My guess is that "missing chunk" is actually a piece of red paper overlapping it to hold it in place.

Some racing games also had neat UI

>>10826360
It's a slipsleeve.

>>10816118
>Perihelion from Psygnosis, Amiga 500 game.
Unlike Hired Guns, it doesn't have a DOS release, so it's yet another Ambermoon situation.

>>10827326

Ridge Racer V had really incredible menu design with smooth animations

https://youtu.be/pEmTtuqgya4?t=248

>>10808569

>>10808603
Can you download this anywhere?

>>10827324
>>10827326
I miss y2k electronica

>>10828692
For me it's

>>10828626
It's on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/Rasetsu_Rakshasa_Japan

>>10814735
More like filename

>>10828734
Based thank you anon

>>10812207
Thanks for contributing nothing.

Killer 7 while in-game and selecting doors/passages, not the actual menus.

Kirby Air Ride menus.

Selecting upgrades in Super Metroid.

And my last one, so as not to post a billion of these. Ardy Lightfoot password menu. You have to pick up the various fruits and place them around the environment.

Azreal's Tear 1996 for DOS
I strugged to understand how to fuck around with the demo when I was like 7. Very unique looking game.

>>10829118
already mentioned,>>10814660
its actually one of my favorite games.

>>10808579
thanks broski

Behold

Behold[2].

>>10830801
SnM Maid sim?

>>10830848
Yeah. You can find the description and more screenshots here: https://www.mobygames.com/game/47895/hinadori-no-saezuri/

>>10828909
let people show appreciation you little lemon

The UI for the simulator 688 Attack Sub is the inside of the sub with clickable personnel that correspond to different functions/roles

>>10832104

I won't say it's particularly good, but I always get a kick out of how "fake game" Journey Man's UI always looked

>>10830887
>Studio B-Room
I thought they started their career on Windows with softcore ero games like Gunner's Broom or Onsen de Takkyu.

Pretty cool game where you build a skyscraper by programming robots in a BASIC-like programming language (!)

Those PC-98 UIs were pretty damn cool.

Last one for now, might post more later, found quite a lot of nice stuff after recent browsing refuge.tokyo.

>>10833173
>>10833190
These are so pleasing to look at, I love the clarity of the pixel art

There was some clear love put into menus as well. This thread made me think.

I do kinda miss stuff like mechwarrior 2, and others were the menus felt like an adventure game, where you went inside rooms, even for shit like graphics options.


Even that they wanted to feel like inside the game.

>>10808569
>Game's UI changes based on certain things.
Love when that happens. HAL did it a bunch with Kirby (Super Star's UI changing depending on the subgame, DL3 and 64 giving the player other UIs) but Hyperzone on the SNES did it with the different ships you get. Smackdown vs Raw is another game that kinda did it.

>>10833273
I also like KOF '97, which leaned into the 'televised fighting tournament' angle with stuff like the between stage bits, the girls holding the round signs, the names that appear at the start of each round, etc.

>>10833239
Man, Peter Molyneux can be a bit of a big-mouth, but there really is something genius and groundbreaking in most of his games.

>>10813470
Love seeing townspeople walk around in the background.

>>10825060
Try 2005, mate.

>>10833183
ROT3K IV? that was on DOS too.

i never figured out the game 'cause i never read the manual. after getting beaten i like the PC AIs continue playing the game and eventually Sun Quan's faction took over china, and i got the endgame dragon FMV even though it was the AI who beat the game.

>>10825012
This one is Hyper Securities. Cybernetic Hi-School is Gainax's series of strip quiz games.

PC-98 UIs are filled with so much SOVL

>>10830893
no

>>10827103
>Bring back Visual Basic styled windowed UIs
Metal Marines for Windows did this wonderfully! It seems really stupid, but having each side have it's map in a separate window with missiles and giant robots flying between them was great

>>10838829
This game rocks

MUUMUU

>>10808569

Legit sad how modern games don't have UIs with real design anymore, just overly minimalist and extremely generic designs.

Back when static border arts were made to increase frame rate by reducing playable screen space/resolution.

Speed Power Gunbike