/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10877467
You could play an actual new game

Either that or be like me and just consider suicide

Either find some way to erase your brain's memory, or play rom hacks that have secret exits.

you can try stabbing the area of your brain associated with long term memory

>>10877487
Why stab when you can shoot/jump in front of a train

>>10877467
Its lost some of the magic since now I know how a cpu works but now I appreciate things I would have glossed over when I was a kid like subtle parallax in 8 bit games.

Other games exist

>>10877716
none where you have to figure out cool shit. I've played all the retro ones that have this and new games don't do this at all.

>>10877761
>I've played all the retro ones that have this
I read this and mentally added "Mario, Zelda the list goes on..." to it.

Play more games.

>>10877761
Play Infra. It's not retro, but do it.

>>10877467
Suicide.

>>10877467
You could play any of the thousands of SMW hacks.

>>10877764
>just play bad games that have cool puzzles

>>10877790
>games that aren’t Mario are bad

>>10877467
Get married and have kids.

If you want the "magic" back then try playing something new without expectations and then make up your own mind on what you enjoy. When you first played a game you inherited an experience as you described, it was the act of playing that made it fun rather than some intangible quality. You played a fun game. Play another one.

>>10877803
>games not made by nintendo are bad
yeah, pretty much. They had the best devs and knew how to make good games. Other stuff is ok but its mostly just action based fun.

>>10877787
That's an awful suggestion since you don't recommend any in particular.

>>10877903
Zelda, Mario, the list goes on…

>>10877764
Forced meme.

Just appreciate that you got to experience it at all. Finding Soda Lake was the most exciting secret in the game for me, even more than the Star Road levels. The level itself isn’t that great but finding it for the first time was amazing. RIP Yoshi, couldn’t have done it without him.

You need to decalcify your Pineal Gland.

>>10877467
you can discover irl city secrets irl in the irl city :3

>>10877835
No. They should just invent a magical rewind time to when I was a kid and make it stay that way forever machine.

Play them again on LSD.

>>10877467
dude just smoke weed

>>10877825
This is the only real anwer.
The other one is to just quit playing video games or thinking about your childhood in any way

>acquire brain damage
>return to an infantile state
>...
>be happy

People will mock the "drugs lmao" approach, but playing old games on acid really is like playing them for the first time. Don't go chasing the dragon though. Acid gets weaker and weaker the more you do it, so it should be spread months apart with long periods of sobriety in between. Also, you will be extremely annoying to everybody around you if you start to "get into" psychedelics. So, yeah, I recommend trying it once, but also recommend not doing it ever again.

>>10877825
With myself? Great idea anon

>>10877467
Why don't you play a modern game like The Last of Us Part II Remastered instead?

It's even worse when you figure out it's the same with real life. The sense of fresh new thing becomes rare as you age.

>>10877825
that's gay though

>>10877467
just wait until you have dementia and you'll be able to play it every day just like you've never seen it before. Although people with dementia tend to remember things from their youth and forgot everything else, but you might get lucky and get a severe case or something

>>10877467
Give yourself brain damage and make yourself like those retarded kids in school nobody liked.
People should already be treating you like them, so it won't make much of a difference in that regard.

>>10877903
>he never played PC RPGs
>he never play adventure games
>he never played ANY Sega games
>never touch a PCE game
God you're such a miserable faggot.

>>10878139
Sounds like a waste of drugs

>>10877467
>>10877761
>>10877790
>>10877903
Holy reddit

>>10877761
>>10877903
You're right and you should be proud of how badly you made those responding seethe. Nintendo are just the best, and I can say that confidently and not out of ignorance. Peak Nintendo outshines the rest of the industry, there is nothing with the same level of carefully polished mechanics, let alone with that combined with deeply atmospheric presentation in the that they do it. Other games may be excellent and greatly enjoyable, but Nintendo just go even further beyond that and give you the distinct sense of being something 'more'.

Zelda genuinely has the best puzzles and is the best overall experience in all gaming. The way the games let high IQ players "pick the brains" of the developers, picking up all kinds of subtle yet meaningful details to sniff out secrets, is something I've not seen any other game do as well, since very few games allow the kind of extensive environmental interaction that Zelda makes possible.

>>10877470
>just consider suicide
Unironically this. I'm occasionally able to recapture the feeling of genuine, child-like exhuberance for my favorite video games through heavy application and combination of controlled substances and meditation, but sadly through all of the self-reflection, I've become too aware of the death of my youthful innocence. Not just the fact that it's happened, but the individual circumstances, both sudden and cumulative. Sure, losing your innocence is just a part of growing up to the point that most people are aware of it, but let me tell you, "being aware of it" and "purposefully backtracking your psychological development to the point that you can see when and where you diverged from blissful ignorance--by choice or by necessity--as clearly as looking at a map from a botched roadtrip" is a level of clarity I don't wish to curse anyone with.

Sure, it helped me play FF9 about a year ago with such unbridled enthusiasm that I literally felt like a kid again for the first time in decades, but the trade-off is that I've felt like killing myself pretty much every day since.

I'm glad I was able to experience SMW back when it was new and discovered most of the secrets all by myself, getting to the first Star Road from the donut secret ghost house was mind-blowing. Some of the other secrets I got from magazines (like Top Secret Area)
One of the things i love about SMW is how customizable playthrougs are.
Every time I replay it feels like a new way to go through it.
The optional switch palaces, all the different paths in pretty much all the worlds, it's a really well thought out map and no other platformer/action game with a map I've played has the same level of depth as SMW does.
Also another way to play the game that I find fun is playing 2 playe mode (preferably the All Stars version so it has the unique Luigi sprite) and take different routes with each brother, so for example Mario can do the regular no-secret path while Luigi goes to star world and special world. I played like this using a wireless SNES controller that let you switch between 1P and 2P with a switch on the same controller. Hate the lag of the wireless but the convenience makes it worth it.

>>10877467
>>10877787
>>10877909
play return to dinosaur land Fuck that ice mountain level tho

>>10877835
>it was the act of playing that made it fun rather than some intangible quality
Factually incorrect. Games were better in our youth based on a number of different factors, including social, cultural, and psychological.

>>10877991
Based.

>>10877467
there's romhacks that has that fun.
sure you're not a kid anymore, but you can still have fun finding secrets

>>10878405
we need a tendie confinement board

>>10877991
This.

>>10878461
>>10878516
I make deliberately impossible demands so I can complain when people inevitably fail to do the impossible.

>>10877467
>>10878419
do you guys really not have anything else going on in your life?
was
> the magic of being a kid looking for secret exits and keys
really the high point of your existence?
yeah super Mario world kicks ass and having to work a job and pay taxes sucks but there's plenty of joy and satisfaction to be found in life as an adult
I've been doing judo for about two years now and being able to throw someone who used to be able to obliterate me is truly exhilarating
I guess my point is there are other hobbies you should look into

>>10878572
We're talking about video games, sir. This is /vr/. You sound like you want /fit/ or something.

>>10878106
I would like to purchase some of this "brain damage" you speak of

>>10878572
Being tired from doing martial arts makes me enjoy games more. Nolife fags seeking enjoyment solely from games then being depressed and whining about how they don't enjoy games are retarded. Being inside staring at screens all day is bad for you. I should know, I did it for years.

>>10878581
All you need is a drill, a hose, a funnel, a bottle of bleach and a high tolerance for pain.

>>10878585
>Being tired from doing martial arts makes me enjoy games more
I went to the gym for years to get in better shape before my wedding, and when I moved and had to cancel my membership, I kept up doing cardio and weights at home. It got pretty boring honestly; I eventually hit a wall where I didn't notice any increased health benefits or strength, and I was just wearing myself out to the point of wanting to go to bed instead of playing video games, especially after a long day of work. It was ultimately just some chore I was doing to make myself miserable for longer so that video games and other hobbies might supposedly seem better by comparison. Pretty broken logic and it never really worked for me. I look pretty good in my wedding photos, so there's that I guess.

>>10878612
Ah yes, the traditional marial art of lifting heavy objects and putting them back down. Do something you find fun dumbass.

>>10878609
I have none of those things

>>10878612
yeah weightlifting alone can be pretty boring, I only do it so I can be better at judo
I wasn't specifically shilling martial arts or exercise as the solution here though, that was just an example
a well rounded human being should be able to find happiness and fulfillment in a variety of activities, not just trying to recapture childhood nostalgia
I do realize this is a retro video game board but I promise you if you spend more time doing something other than /vr/ gaymin the /vr/ gayms will be more enjoyable when you come back to them

>>10877761
>>10877467
Super Mario Wonder has some cool and obscure secret exits and the star worlds are challenging and fun.

>B-b-b-but it's not the same!
Yeah because you're a jaded old fuck.

>>10877991
where can I get one

asking for a friend

>>10878679
wonder is gay as hell and kinda boring

odyssey was a true masterpiece, the greatest mario game ever made, and I feel like people sleep on it just because of cappy

ahem also not retro

>>10878702
>people sleep on it just because of cappy
name 1 person in the entire world

>>10877990
Urbex is pretty kino just don't get arrested

>>10878679
I have been playing wonder and while it has had like 2 neat secret exits half the time I find myself trying to walljump to every area and place above the screen and there being nothing there, MAYBE a coin box. The secret exits are usually really obvious or have some retarded requirement like the elephant smack to break bricks, but once again in an obvious place

That and the bosses are flat out terrible. There’s no excitement in doing a castle because the boss fights always suck and the levels are baby tier

>>10878617
>Do something you find fun dumbass.
I don't find most exercise "fun". I used to like bike riding a lot, actually. I bought and fixed up a few old Schwinns and put untold miles on them going around town. I got tired of it. I started driving to other places to bike so I could have new scenery, but then I got tired of having to drive out after commuting, just to go somewhere and get sweaty, then drive back home. The times when I was regularly busy and active outside of work with other obligations and hobbies were actually the times in my life when I played/enjoyed video games the least.

>>10878634
>I promise you if you spend more time doing something other than /vr/ gaymin the /vr/ gayms will be more enjoyable when you come back to them
I'm happy for you and anyone else who finds this is a good formula for staying engaged with your hobbies, but it just doesn't work for me. The more I do, the less I seem to enjoy any of it.

>>10878702
Agree with this, although I never heard anyone who skipped the game because of Cappy. I thought transforming into enemies was one of the better 3D Mario gimmicks, and I loved how you could time your tosses so you could extend your jumps off them. Just an amazingly fluid three-dimensional control experience. It's crazy how sloppy even Mario Galaxy feels by comparison.

>>10877467
easy just dont use guides

>>10878619
Well, most of them aren't very expensive.

>>10877761
rondo of blood did it

>>10878760
>using a guide in a mario game

>>10878785
trust me there are retards that use guides on mario games

>>10877467
Even if you managed to completely forget about it, you'll be missing the most important factor: You still won't be a kid again and you won't be able to experience that kid magic again. And let's just say you somehow is able to do that, being a real kid again, the kid experience nowadays is significantly different. Would you care about a game this old? There's 3 quadrillion other games you could play instead
The reality is that our 80s/90s experience, and the pre-Internet era, where you had this new-ish gaming console and experienced the game as is, with no Internet and no complete abundance of media and you had to do with what was on TV at the time, whether you had cable or not... all of this is a unique experience of the time that's never ever coming back
The best you can do is discover a superb wonderful game that hits just right for you

>>10878785
>>10878760
lets be fair, opening soda lake and figuring out how to unlock special world is kind of obtuse

>>10878825
not really

>>10878834
>yah I knew you could jump under the tape, despite it being the only level that lets you

>>10878839
obviously i didnt know at first but after searching throughout the entire level it was the only logical solution. thats the fun, exploring the level to find the secret exit

>>10878839
chocolate island 3 has you fly under a goal tape to reach the real exit, and it's even marked with a bunch of arrows pointing for you to do so.

>>10877467
maybe you should try getting a job

>>10878878
theres a big difference between Soda lake's being hidden near the bottom of the screen and walking up to the goal tape below it already

>>10878894
I have a job. Do you think being employed generates long term memory loss?

>>10878908
just admit you have skill issues and move on

>>10877991
>>10878524
>frogposter
Played out
>>10878461
You've tacitly agreed as those factors are all affected by the expectations you currently have as an adult, those same expectations caused other adults back then to not like video games. They would tell you how playing outside like they did in their youth is far better than playing video games, and to them it really was better because their expectations for fun were different then. Same idea, you are sabotaging your own fun by informing your expectations from past experiences rather than enjoying things on their own merit as a kid would.

>>10878913
Have you tried a self-inflicted head injury?
You could wait around for age-related memory loss to set in, but that mostly affects short-term memory. Maybe just play the game every 10 years at most.

>stop replaying it for a few years (3-5 depending on your memory fidelity)
>do shrooms a handful of times during the break (2.5-4 grams per session
>come back to game after break
>it's novel again
Just avoid the temptation to use walkthroughs/guides, it'll be hard as fuck & time consuming but it's the closest you'll get to reliving those moments. Do high dose edibles (THC edibles) while playing for heightened nostalgia.

New games won't give you this feeling again because new games hold your hand everywhere or just torture the shit out of you. Virtually no nuance anymore.

>>10878980
I'm fairly certain when people wrote "play new games" here they mean "play old games that are new to you" and not "play modern games"

>>10878804
>Would you care about a game this old? There's 3 quadrillion other games you could play instead
Maybe I was different as a kid, but this was never my mindset. I was never obsessed with doing the "newest" or "latest" things only. If it was in front of me and looked interesting, I didn't care how old it was, and I can't see why any kid would, but everyone is different.

In my opinion, the real secret to nostalgia and that childish enthusiast for everything simply came from appreciating EVERYTHING. The older you get, the more you take for granted; the more you're FORCED to take for granted. My joy in playing games as a kid honestly rarely stemmed from how good the game itself was, because I'm sure we all obsessively played our fair share of crap. My joy came from the fact that I was controlling a little man in a magic box with just some buttons in my hand. My TV was suddenly turned into a window to another world. And I could control it. Fucking mind-blowing. Instead of taking anything for granted, my mind latched onto EVERYTHING and obsessed over it. The shape of things, the colors, the sounds. My mind extrapolated what things would feel like, what they would smell like, what they would taste like, or whatever. The picture on the tube was obviously trying to create an atmosphere and I got endless joy from using my imagination to enrich the experience.

I could start up a game like Mario World and play for hours without even accomplishing anything. Sure, finding keys and exits is great, but my brain was just as happy to see the map layouts, see new enemies, hear new music, or even just something as simple as watching the Pokeys spawn a second face if Yoshi ate their first one. Everything was magical, but as an adult I find I'm often too stressed or pre-occupied to let my mind embrace everything like that. But that's where drugs come in, lol.

>>10878965
>You've tacitly agreed as those factors are all affected by the expectations you currently have as an adult
Not expectations at all. Simply the wear and tear that is inflicted upon a human psyche after too many decades on this earth. Honestly, my expectations are lower than ever. Having low expectations is not the same thing as being able to find joy in something.

>>10878980
Do high dose edibles (THC edibles) while playing for heightened nostalgia.
I do this a lot. It's super fun and I notice I play a lot closer to how I did as a child. That need for progress and accomplishment is almost completely gone, and I feel content simply pressing buttons and watching things happen. The best part is that it fucks up my short term memory, so after like 2 or 3 years of finishing a game, I can go back to it and it's almost like brand new.

Really fun with JRPGs. I played Grandia for the first time about 5 years ago and loved it, and then I went back and replayed it last year, and there was so much cool shit and little details that I had completely forgotten.

>>10878913
>memory loss
sometimes I think the reason I loved everything so much when I was a kid was because I had such a good memory, and could absorb so much of any given experience and obsess about it for days later. Conversely, having a good memory made me miserable once I became an adult. I got tired of remembering things. I got tired of being that guy who always knew shit. I felt like I was curating a bunch of pointless information for the sake of others and it translated directly to stress. Then I started huffing spraypaint and things got better.

>>10879027
>THC edibles
google "zeolite THC conversion", you can make your own edible THC using cheap CBD isolate and a very cheap mineral called zeolite (its safe to eat and is actually sold as a dietary supplement). you just mix them 1:1 and bake it for like 10 minutes

>>10879039
Cool, sounds neat. My dad's big into weed, so he makes brownies every now and again and always brings me some.

Personally, I'm more interested in trying shrooms. No idea where to start on that, though. Should have kept in better touch with all the druggies I knew in high school, lol.

>>10878965
>They would tell you how playing outside like they did in their youth is far better than playing video games, and to them it really was better because their expectations for fun were different then
I hate to tell you this, but kids still love playing outside, and I'm tired of people trying to assert that they don't.

>>10879003
>If it was in front of me and looked interesting, I didn't care how old it was, and I can't see why any kid would, but everyone is different.
It absolutely is on a kid-to-kid basis, and always has been. I take care of my niece and nephew a lot, and they're just entirely unimpressed by everything. I definitely think it's their dad's fault a bit, because my brother is 100% the kind of guy to be dismissive of things unless they're useful or profitable to him. Kids look up to their parents and follow their behavior patterns, intentionally or otherwise. Much like you describe how you loved video games because they sparked your imagination and made you wonder about things, there were kids even in the 80s and 90s who didn't care about video games because they weren't real life, so what was the point?

>>10877467
I still get a small feeling of awe at how huge SMW feels. I mean, look at mario's size and how tall the hills he's on. The levels are so huge... The movement is so fast... Look at all those colors...

I try to get in the mindset of the time in which this game came out. This was once a cutting edge platformer, right?

>>10877909
SMB Vanilla Islands is a nice and easy one, if you've never played any. But Return to Dinosaur Land gave me more nostalgia.

>>10879070
>I try to get in the mindset of the time in which this game came out.
Seriously, people need to do this. Get into meditating. Put your smartphone in another room. Forget the internet even exists. During gaming hours, all that exists is you, your battlestation, and the sweet, sweet electrons flowing from the magical holes in your wall.

>>10877467
just play one of the 9000 rom hacks made from smw
easy

>>10879045
shrooms are prolly easier to attain than weed depending on certain factors. Spores are perfectly legal, the FDA has even confirmed as such this year, which is a big deal because before they were in a legal grey zone. And growing tanks/tubs are abundant, cheap, and even more legal. You can even buy "easy grow" bags where you just inject your shrooms into a bag and it grows 2-3 flushes over the course of a month.
I will tell you this tho:
Shrooms and video games don't really mesh. Technology and shrooms in general don't mesh, I'd reccomend nature over playing a video game on shrooms. Not only is staring a screen going to keep you "grounded," but more than likely you're prolly gonna be too stoned to play.
Acid and video games would go much better together. I remember reading about an anon on here that would take acid every time they played /vr/ and once they got off acid, gaming ended up sucking and he gave up on retro games. So I mean that just tells you how fun games are on acid, just don't be like that guy and do it every time. I've never played games on acid but man that would be super fun. Unlike shrooms, acid is much less contemplative, introspective, and generally you don't have any or as much body load.
I tend to just hit the bong at every cutscene.

>>10877467
I can help you go back but as payment you will return as a girl.

>>10879125
>shrooms are prolly easier to attain than weed depending on certain factors
Weed's legal in my state, so probably not.
>an anon on here that would take acid every time they played /vr/ and once they got off acid, gaming ended up sucking and he gave up on retro games.
lmao, that's hilarious. I find weed definitely makes me better at some games. I easily maxed out my superjumps in Paper Mario while I was high, and Turtles in Time is ALWAYS easier when I'm high; I find it easier to keep my head and just get into the flow of jump-kicking around the screen to fuck everyone up.

>>10879132
you drive a hard bargain, satan, but I accept your proposal

>>10879152
I tend to get pretty good at fighting games stoned off my ass, it allows me to slow down and read my opponents better. But if it's a shooter...yeah no, it's just too twitchy, I'm dogshit at counter-strike while high.

>>10879027
Wear and tear inflicted on a psyche is what informs your expectations of the world, you are allowing yourself to disengage with the things you enjoy because of a preoccupation with widely varying factors and how they affect you rather than acknowledging what you do have and engaging with it.
>>10879067
I wasn't referring to myself asserting that. I assert you make your own fun regardless of activity by engaging with what you have, some mistakenly believe you need to recreate the conditions you were in before to do it again which is really missing the entire point of leisure. I trust you knew that already though.

>>10877909
Play Brutal Mario World.
>>10878453
Return to Dinosaur Land is very bland.

Violafratelli é finito

>thinly veiled DUDE WEED thread

>>10877467
>have kids and watch them play it
>play 2P with a close friend
>play A Plumber For All Seasons

>>10879448
>whole board is centered around playing retro video games (a cope)
>is surprised when people participate in more than 1 cope at once

>>10879489
>you can't just escape our long march through the institutions! you just can't!

>>10879489
multi-coping is where it's at. Sometimes I'll have a friend over and we'll get drunk AND smoke weed, and just play whatever all night. One time we did Secret of Mana and I couldn't stop laughing at literal Santa Claus

>>10879573
>and I couldn't stop laughing at literal Santa Claus
Sounds extremely dumb. I wouldn't want to hang out with you and your friend because you're just dumb giggly stoners.

>>10877467
Just wait until you're old and get Alzheimers. Then every time you play it will be like the first time.

>>10879590
>doesn't like to hang out with people who have social lives or actually play video games
sasuga

>>10879608
Oh, by all means, I hung out with people and smoked weed. We just weren't giggly retards who laughed at Santa Claus.

>>10879590
bro you just sound dumb and lame. You wish you had friends to laugh with and play vidya with.

>>10879615
I've had friends, and I've smoked weed with them. There's a difference between a weed smoker and a stoner, and the difference is the retard giggling at Santa.

>>10879614
>smoked weed
>somehow doesn't understand how being stoned and drunk can make you want to laugh more
You must be smoking ditch weed, either that or you're a liar whos larping to look superior on a literal video game board.

>>10879625
It's just stupid. When you're sufficiently high IQ, you don't laugh at stupid shit. You also don't go out of your way to talk about weed, because your IQ gives you dignity.

>>10879620
>I've had friends
sad thats past tense.
>There's a difference between a weed smoker and a stoner
arbirtary difference that retards like you use to cope and act like they are "one of the good ones."
bro you aren't above laughing on weed, you just sound pathetic.

>>10879627
You sound pathetic, man. You're a grown man laughing at Santa Claus in a video game. It's just sad.

>>10879628
Not even the same anon, retard. I'm just calling out you acting holier than thou over some weed.

Santa Claus gave me my SNES. He's based and I bake him cookies every Christmas Eve.

>>10879629
Just stop talking about it. For example, if you want to jack off all day, no one is stopping you, but no one needs to hear about it. I say this as a stoner, it's a fucking boring topic. I don't know how you retards can actually make it part of your personality. Same with gooning. Get a fucking personality.