/vr/ - Retro Games

You know what's awesome?

Cattrap/pitman.

>>1364029
I've been hearing so much about this game, it's been on my to-play for a while. getting hyped.

this game has dramatic music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv70Kkx8JBA

>>1364029

Just looked up a video, reminds me of Fire & Ice. How have I not heard of it? Seems legit.

balloon kid and yogi bear, I completed them ;-)

>>1364050
is yogi bear any good? I haven't tried it

>>1364047
The one thing I don't understand about Catrap is why they want to turn back. Being a cat demon sounds pretty bitchin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAkFq0CKVqc

>>1364051
I actually played it back in the day on the original gameboy and it was pretty good actually, espcially later in the game, you learn to appreciate it.. and its a pretty hard game to beat.

>>1364084
Awesome! Nice on balloon kid too, I love that one. let me give yogi a serious try

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W1UNXzz5oE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAkFq0CKVqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRrKsgZDzxw

Kirby's Pinball Land isn't obscure, but I'm sure it doesn't get much attention. Try it, it really grows on you.

>>1364123
A real professional game but it's unfair as hell. And the multi-phase bosses can sod off.

>>1364095
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAkFq0CKVqc

I'm diggin' these jams

I loved Donkey Kong on the old Gameboy. Lately i came across this little gem here. And i must say: It really got me. Give it a try if you haven't had yet the chance ... it only costs a couple of bugs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUYxEuPRLA0

>>1364138
I like this kind of climby side-on game, actually there's a bomberman like that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZKM94m0dI

>>1364126
Huh, I played that years ago and had no trouble with it, and I'm pretty bad at pinball.

>>1364023
If you haven't already OP, picture related is a great little game. It's an earlier 'metroidvania' made by the same people who later worked on SotN and the like.

Sadly all the turtles are extremely stiff and function essentially the same, but, it's still an extremely neat little game.

> friend comes back from holiday to canary islands with a 24 in 1 cart
> try out all sorts of amazing games you'd never seen in shops or even heard of

>>1364157
>Sadly all the turtles are extremely stiff
Tee hee.

>>1364161
> at a sleepover

>>1364161
Yay for Pitman, Tetris, Dr. Mario, Klax, Volleyfire!

And a sort of disgruntled raised eyebrow for that weird dragon fighter game where it's a top down perspective in a big open world and you bump into monsters to kill them.

>>1364161
Even though there were only ever like nine games repeated about ten times each, I would always be amazed at the fact they had nine games on a single cartridge in the first place. Blew my mind.

Heiankyo Alien
Mole Mania
Monster Max
Altered Space

>>1364209
these are all awesome suggestions, just discovered Altered Space randomly today in fact:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x8ewelaOEU

very interesting

I recently played Trip World. Has the cute style and good physics of Gimmick!, but much shorter and very little challenge. Feels like a children's game. Only the end boss rush is at all difficult.

First the two hamster kind of things. Jump to avoid getting hit at the start, then hit and run tactics.

Then the jumping creature. Seems like his movement is reactive to yours, so keep your movement controlled. I think there are three phases, jump+slide, diving+repeated slide, spear attacks. First two you want to kick him out of the air, attacking on the ground risks getting caught in the slide. Spear attack is easy, just jump on his head and bait him into attacking the wrong direction then kick him in the back.

Then if you start the end boss fight with 2 or more HP you can't lose. Tank the first hit and jump on top of him where he can't hit you. Then drop down, kick him, immediately jump back up, wait for his attack, repeat.

>>1364209
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSrGFvWa7HU
neat, similar style to altered space

>>1364249
Aw gawd... those isometric adventures from the spectrum??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W1UNXzz5oE

Like many other games, Snake Rattle n Roll got a pseudo-sequel on GB called Sneaky Snakes. It was side view though, not isometric.

It's like a 2D shooter mixed with backwards Tetris; it's addictive as hell

>>1364138
this and mole mania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlGMMBoub8Q

got any favorite let's plays or just videos of people talking/discussing while they play it if you dont like that term! here's a mole mania one i just found randomly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZqEcVg8Ei8

mario goes inside the RAM and hits a block on the address that flags the game won

>>1366064
Great video, almost makes me want to play the game now.

>>1366064
That's just retarded.

>>1366087
what do you mean? he's exploiting a glitch in the programming of the game

>>1366093
The way it is executed is brilliant and it must have taken a lot of work, but the idea of loading the RAM as level data and hitting a literal "I win" block is just silly.

>>1366097
memory overflows, son

if you think that shit's silly, they've broken Pokemon and Super Mario World open so far with memory exploits that you can literally code new shit inside them via buttonpresses

I dug out my old gameboy the other day, put batteries in and it wouldn't turn on. Anybody else get this with theirs?
Found it weird because I remember trying out Pokemon red on it about a year ago to see if it still worked and it did. For some reason I have a hard time believing that it's broken. It doesn't get much use and the batteries were new.

>>1366064
I fucking love glitch worlds in games.

>>1366145
you could try spinning the batteries? (in case it's just electrical contacts not working well)

>>1366145
also they're pretty often fixable I think, been watching repair videos on youtube

>>1366097

doesn't look fun at all

what is it supposed to prove

I remember playing this one weird japanese gameboy game on a flashcard once.

I don't remember much about it other than it was a japanese puzzle game of sort, and was really weird. I think the gameplay was of small sprites in a sort of maze.

Even with this vague description, does anyone know of weird japanese puzzle games on the gameboy?

>>1366209

That this is the fastest way possible to get the ending screen

>>1364065

Trip world easily has the best soundtrack on the gameboy.

>>1366313
I am going to guess that you were playing Puzzle Boy, which is about a little strawberry on legs in a maze of rotating/pushing blocks. It has an english version called Kwirk, but the Japanese version is found on many multicarts.

Or if it was about putting shapes into a maze, you may have been playing Puzzle Road, also known as Dadaelian Opus in English. They're often found together.

Balloon Kid!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r401AaeOv2I

>>1365523
I got this with Konami collection. It's also known as 'Block Game' haha.

Star saver is the name of one I used to have. Could never beat it as a kid.

Also micro machines and super off road for gameboy.

>>1364742
>game had a sorta sequel on the Virtual Boy that was eventually cancelled
>Yamauchi called it "the most promising title" for the Virtual Boy
>a third party game
>the most promising title for a Nintendo console

Times have changed.

I want umihara kawase on game boy?

>>1364742
my nigga

any programmers around? I specced the level format years ago but there's still no editor

>>1367796
nice work, im trying to spec the level format for a different game and make an editor. it's hard as fuck

this game is very hard, but one of the best gb games

>>1368365
I have a thing for hovering in platformers, and the levels were really cool with all these spikes and moving platforms and pits that you had to make a perfect jump to get across.

The new levels on GQ2 for the GB were pretty cool, a shame that they didn't expand on those ideas (switches and slippery ice).

>>1368509
yeah the hovering is really good, takes time to master and its quite effective

>>1368365
That and Demon's Crest on the snes are two of the only action platformers I was ever able to complete as a kid. One of my most memorable games on the GB by far.

>>1366124
Oh my god, I saw some guy do that in Pokemon Yellow. Fucking insane how they come up with this shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5T81yHkHtI

>>1368201
what game

>>1370251
super mario land...

>>1370521
the level format has been specced for years