/vr/ - Retro Games

Terranigma

Illusion of Time (Gaia in NA). Some of my most vivid gaming memories from the 16-bit days are of that game. It was the first game I can remember playing where I really felt like I was on an adventure. Then there was the slavery and the death and the being lost at sea. Lot of emotional highs and lows in that game.

That said, LA is a very close second. Like you OP I was very affected by the ending and I still think it's the best Zelda.

>>1344386
the first thing that gripped me really bad was the solo lucca scene in chrono trigger. i failed it the first time and i was physically panicking during it. the scream made me shut off my SNES. I was pretty young at the time though. maybe eight years old? also, redeads. I didnt finish the shadow temple until I was fourteen

Fear, dread, suspense, a desire to persevere and overcome the final obstacle.

I knew shit was getting real. I knew the time was now.

Not the oldest but i remember it the most.

>>1344539
That was one of the most cringeworthy romances I've seen. And I love RE2.

Maybe it's just because I'm a cynical adult now.

Same as you OP. Link Awakening was my first game ever.

Spacewar made me marvel at how complex it was. It has inertia, gravity and limited weapons and fuel.

Wizardry 1 went through various emotions like the shock of seeing my party wiped out, the joy of making it out alive after getting lost in the dungeon or the bewilderment after I managed to beat the final boss.

The epic duel with the skeleton in the first Prince of Persia. I used to play this game with my dad, when I was around 4-5 years old. I remember being actually terrorized by the atmosphere of this game.

Link's Awakening for me too. I had to immediately replay to get the secret ending (even starting over when I was near the end when somebody stole my Gameboy from my bad, killed Link once, saved, and put it back.)

Link's Awakening for me too. I had to immediately replay to get the secret ending (even starting over when I was near the end when somebody stole my Gameboy from my bag, killed Link once, saved, and put it back.)

>>1344386
I cried when Pikachu left/died/whatever at the end of Hey You! Pikachu. Yeah, spoilers, whatever. It's not like you're going to play that shit in 2014 when the mics probably don't exist anymore.

Lunar 2 overall also got me, but not any one point. I just really enjoyed it and it's the first game I cared about as more than just a game. I actually bothered to learn about the devs and stuff.

>>1344462
Ma mufuckin nigga
exactly this
I had crazy dreams about gods and the nazca lines for years after playing that game too

>>1344462
Ma mufuckin nigga
exactly this
I had crazy dreams about gods and the nazca lines for years after playing that game too.

>>1344556
Yeah it's a little corny but that music during the scene man, gives me crocodile tears every time.

Solstice on the nes haunted my early childhood... the sense of dread and creepiness used tofucking terrify me... and that god damn deathscream oh god

>>1344669

Oh man, great game. The sequel Equinox is pretty great too.

The feel of hopelessness, longevity, astounding atmosphere and the eventual sinking into an abyss. I truly felt fear when I learned it's only the beginning to impossible quest.

I still never found a game as moving as chakan.

I don't know about anyone else but blasting Mother Brain with the Hyper Beam over and over again is the most satisfying feeling I've ever felt in a video game.

>>1344676
I still can't really play it now I just really dont like the weird atmosphere and sound at all

Dat Lost in Service screen.

>dread

>Be me, 9 years old
>Be at Fuddruckers for dinner
>Go to the arcade while I wait
>Play "Emergency Call Ambulance"
>First mission is to transport a kid after a car accident
>Lose horribly
>Game Over screen
>Kid whimpers something like "I don't want to die!"
>mfw

Dragon Warrior/Quest IV. Even with the limited dialogue between the characters in the NES verison, you could still feel the comradery between the party members. They even made the villian sympathetic, which is something even SNES and PSX RPG's usually fail at attempting most of the time. And you're left with a bittersweet ending if you're not playing the PSX or DS remakes

>>1344745
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMqOMFW3Gt8

>>1344846
Jesus Christ, who thought that'd be a good game for a family restaurant?

FFT was pretty rough.

Everyone Ramza cares about dies. No one knows he saved the world. Delita turns into an amoral monster obsessed with his dead sister.

>>1344745
Playing Cannon Fodder when I was older was quite an experience. Everything about it was well done for impact. Things like how your fresh recruits line up in front of a graveyard of fallen veterans, the scoreboard with the home and away team, how the Lost in Service screen flew by like credits on a movie no one cared to read... it was a great experience.

>>1344386
I got into vidya late, so probably OoT. The ending with kid Link/Zelda gave me feels.

I might have played FF6 before that on a borrowed system, I definitely did get feels from that.

Partially related, /b/ talking about their favorite games (and it's mostly aging games from 10+ years ago)

>>>/b/527572754

Good taste.

>>1344980

>decent video games
>barely any shitposting or shitflinging
>literally one fucking porn picture in the entire thread

/b/ confirmed for better place to discuss video games than /v/

>>1344993
Well, shit.

>>1344993
Yeah, /b/ lacks the high-tech trollposting that plagues the blue boards, that's one positive thing that I tend to forget.

Every time I beat Metriod I feel a sort of catharsis.

>>1344386

For those of you that have played this, you probably know what I'm thinking of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acDgcJv7b4Q

>>1345416
I played it just a few years back, that game was full of feels, especially the end.

>>1344598
>somebody stole my Gameboy from my bag, killed Link once, saved, and put it back

What a malicious little shit he must have been.

>>1345496
It sounds like an evil genius in the making, someone who knows how to enact exactly the right amount of torment on someone.

>>1344683

My jaw literally dropped when the cutscene for the true final boss showed up. Went back, read the text back in the beginning, and was like, "...You sunovaBEETCH!". And yet, I could admire the honest literalness of it.

>>1345496
>>1345563
I don't hold any grudge for it. He gave me a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics later (before the Best Hits rerelease).

>>1344386
this is all i have to say

>>1345621
>Crystal
The third releases were always irrelevant to me. It's like, who the hell wants to wait extra time to play a game and as soon as you have that game, why would you want to pay again just to get a little more content?

I bought yellow. Kind of a disappointment. The whole Pikachu thing didn't mesh well with Brock and other than that, it felt like a gimmick.

I think that it would be Mother (or Earthbound Zero), its like you get in the game and feel what the characters feel in different moments of the adventure.

>>1345661
I feel the same way. I have a friend who only waits for the third release and it kind of pisses me off.

When Nei died.

Game came out 1989.

>>1345661
The third versions are the GOTY/Player's Choice version of the game.

Pokemon Crystal was good because it actually did have some additions, and it actually came out less than a year after Gold/Silver. The other ones come out 2+ years after the original. Fuck waiting, but at least it allows you to transfer your Pokemon over if you want to replay the game.

>>1346303
What game?

>>1346410

Phantasy Star 2 on Sega Genesis.

Thinking about it the game conveyed quite a lot of plot and character with minimal dialogue and exposition. You had that little purple sprite following your main character round all the time, was a weird feeling when it wasn't there any more.

>>1344386
I guess mine would be FF6's ending. Shadow telling Interceptor to go away. It still makes me a little sad to think of it for some reason, and I'm not even a dog person.

>>1344386
This is going to sound really cliche, but Chrono Trigger

I dunno why, but the menu music in StarFox 64 gives me the feels.

>>1344386

>>1347580
I dunno why, but the menu music in StarFox 64 gives me the feels. I picture Fox as an old man at the desk in his study, sipping on brandy and looking at framed, black & white pictures of the team.

I dunno why, but the menu music in StarFox 64 gives me the feels. I picture Fox as an old man at the desk in his study, sipping on brandy and looking at framed, black & white pictures of the team.

Hmm... I guess I was "moved" by Earthbound, maybe Earthbound Zero. Definitely Mother 3, but that was in 2006

>>1345661

>>1344462
Me too. There was just something sombering about the long quest. You started out with all of your friends and slowly they all start to leave, vanish, or fade out of the story until its just you and karen. It just fucking hurt feeling like you were losing friends and allies, people who cared for you.

I didn't want those feelings as a child. I couldn't handle the losses.

>>1344846
Whoa, I forgot Fuddruckers was a thing.

I wanna go back.

Well, the first game I really played was Yoshi's Island, and I was so young that I was deathly afraid of both the Lunge Fish and Big Bad Baby Bowser, to the point where I had my dad play those levels for me. So I guess there's that as far as dread goes.

As for tugging at my heartstrings, there's Earthbound, which was much later in my life (must have been around 14~15, when I finally really figured emulation and the internet out - and actually got a connection with decent speed), but probably still the first example of that. In particular, the point when the name you entered back in Summers gets used again in the final battle. First they just show a few letters, and I had no idea what was going on, and then when it clicked, my heart definitely skipped a beat. That was one of the most touching things I've seen in a game, and yet it was so simple.

Haven't felt that much "emotion" from a game until I played 999 this summer, but that doesn't belong here.

>>1344386
Same, OP.

I felt sad when LA ended and it was the first game that ever gave me that emotion. I'm talking about the original as well on Gameboy OG. I was amazed that a Gameboy game had that effect on me. I was about 8 years old. It wasn't just the ending that made me feel sad, it was also the fact that the game was over because I loved playing it so much. It really felt like a huge chapter of my life had ended or something.

The second game that made me feel like happened to be Ocarina of Time many years later. I guess I was 12 then. No other games have ever given me that feel upon completion. I never got emotionally attached to any other vidya in my life.

>That feel when no gf

>>1347775
Fuddruckers is only good for bouncing its employees' paychecks and closing without warning, leaving dozens of people unemployed. Fuck them.

I really only felt fear in most retro games. I was scared shitless of games like Quake and Doom, but the most tramatizing experience was with the Stained Glass Demon from Medievil.

Other than that, the oldest game that I felt any emotion for was the end of Okami, until my mom came down, farted, and cracked up about it. But that isn't retro so who gives a shit.

>>1345736
>>1344386

I second this, op if you want to see what limited hardware can do to express emotion play this game.

To me the simple graphics and text left a lot to the imagination which caused me to be genuinely moved at parts although theres a fuckton grinding to get there its worth it.

I always thought Maniac Mansion was scary. Getting caught and thrown in the dungeon. Having to drain the pool and if you're not fast enough the house blows up. I had to have my dad do the pool part for me because it was just too much pressure.

Maybe not the oldest, but it's the first one that comes to mind since it's the strongest emotion a game has gotten out of me.

I attacked the guy, then I felt so sorry for them, almost, ALMOST to the point of crying. I was 12 at the time.

>>1348121
Oh, also this.

>>1347905
Go to bed, former Fuddruckers employee.

FF2 got me pretty hard when I was a kid
>Guys we have a 5 character limit on the party, but we want to include like a dozen different party members.
>What do we do?
>Let's tragically and dramatically kill them off every time we need to make space!

>>1344898
I don't know. The one in Saskatoon is still thriving, my brother has a part time job there.
Every time Is ee the sign I think Ruddfuckers.

>>1347905
We had a Fuddruckers here a few years back, and it closed just as you said, but it probably had more to do with a stabbing death in the kitchen area. Fuddruckers are finicky, they don't seem to stay in business long even when they're doing good business.

>>1350569
Okay, correction, the guy survived, but the restaurant did not. It never re-opened.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=20000319&id=dAciAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GaYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3116,4047068

>>1344386

LA was the first game I personally owned, and it was the first to succeed at this, but not until years later. As a small child I was stuck in the 2nd dungeon forever, but I didn't have other games for my gameboy so I wandered around the world constantly visiting Marin and shit and just hanging out with the islanders.

When I got to the face shrine I was pretty fucking distraught.

>>1350580
Still, fuck them for distributing bad checks, then locking the doors and running away before anyone finds out that they're overdrawn by hundred because their paycheck bounced.

http://www.wkbn.com/news/local/fuddruckers-employees-seeking-pay

http://www.wvec.com/my-city/vabeach/Employees-show-up-to-find-Fuddruckers-in-Va-Beach-is-closed-131065168.html

http://www.biospace.com/news_story.aspx?NewsEntityId=139999

Pic related. Or any other game with a similiar ending.

>tfw finishing an awesome game
>you'll never play it for the first time again

The domes in chrono trigger.

I felt despair and true sorrow for those people trapped in that shithole of a time period.

And fuck did it feel good when I heard the fanfare theme again in chrono chross.

I don't care for chross as much as I do for trigger, but the fanfare sounds fucking GREAT in it.

The first game that spooked me out that I played was Abe's Odyssey. The "oldest" game that made me feel emotional was probably Chrono Trigger. This is, unless you count the fact that Balloon Fight made me cry because of how bad the music was.

I literally could not handle the ending to Link's Awakening; I genuinely assumed that I was misunderstanding the ending and that Koholint island must have been fixed instead of erased after I beat the final boss, and happily left the game without trying to figure out what I didn't understand about it.

I don't think I'd encountered a sad or bitersweet video game ending before and was pretty young, but it's still pretty abnormal behavior looking back on it.

>>1345661

Crystal actually had a lot of cool additions and is the best version of the game. Yellow only came out because Gold and Silver were delayed and Nintendo wanted to release something to hold the fans over.

After that, the third releases are all irrelevant.

>>1345661
Emerald was the one that got to fix a bad, bland region. Ruby/Sapphire had too little going on, like it was a basic framework of a game where something should be put in place to USE it. Emerald did that.