/vr/ - Retro Games

how to stop the boulder from crushing your gf while fighting the last boss of revenge of shinobi

dunno how the fuck I never figured that out while playing that game for ~20 years

I never really knew the plot of certain games until years later thanks to shoddy translations.

>>1606860
I know that feel. My brother would get there and die when we were little. I beat it on an emulator and took a picture he didn't care :(

That instant death spells in Phantasy Star 4 are both effective and reliable.

I didn't know about the treasury in Damcyan Castle until a few years ago.

>>1607240
This shit always gets me. Poison, stun and insta death were so useless in most games that I often stopped trying them.

i never figured out how to get the secret minigun in level 2 in turok 1 until like last year

In Final Fight, I didn't know you could chain a punch combo into a throw by holding up or down. Found out by accident a few years ago.

>>1606854
Fuck I love Shining Force 2

>>1607829
This happened to me the other day when I was playing the SNES Dragon Quest III. I cast Defeat on a bunch of 450 HP squids for shits and giggles, and it killed every fucking one.

I figured I got lucky but no, it just tears through nonresistant enemies. It'll even work in the endgame against dragons and the like.

>>1607240

That's a nice party you have there, it'd be a shame if something bad happened to them.

>>1607829
The Vacuum and Vacuum 2 spells in 7th Saga work, too.

>>1607829

In Thracia 776 Status effects are permanent unless you heal them. You'll never know true fear until you find out that Bishop behind a wave of tough enemies has a sleep staff.

There's a guy in Lorien who asks you a riddle about the "greatest enemy of them all". It took me close to a decade of replays and guessing before I got it.


And the answer's really obvious too. And you don't get anything for answering it either.

There was a secret passage in Maccarech, they told you you needed a secret pass to enter.
Years later I found out you actually could enter it, you had to find a Faberge egg in the mortar field (which was in an area you could only get to if you walked through a wall) and trade it with someone in Maccarech. Too bad the secret passage was only a shortcut, I was hoping for a secret level...
Also that you didn't have to go into the catacombs in Maccarech, you could just win 17,000 at the casino and bribe the hotel staff to get odd job's key.

>>1607946
Was it "yourself?"

>>1607958

No. It's despair

Never knew about the clubhouse through the forest in Onett in Earthbound.

In Ultima Underworld, there's a plaque near the bottom of the dungeon that says "Thou canst not defeat the Drakhai".

When I read it, I thought "Drakhai" was some kind of obscure monster, maybe the invisible beast mentioned in the manual. Nothing seemed particularly unbeatable, so I remembered it as a weird little quirk.


Much later, I played Wing Commander 2, and had to endure endless taunting from the Drakhai, especially their annoying claims of invincibility.

Then, years after that, I replayed Ultima Underworld and I literally fell to the floor laughing.

>>1607959
Was there a list of choices? I'm asking because that doesn't seem the least bit obvious to me - or maybe I'm taking it out of context.

Mario makes a cameo in tetris found out yesterday

>>1608004
A lot of Nintendo mascots made appearances in the official Tetris cart on the NES as well.

in deus ex, you can easily defeat gunther hermann wielding flamethrower ( on cathedral level ) by using fire extinguisher, then crowbar that bastard.

It wasn't until highschool that a friend told me thatthe upper right rock in Desert land in Mario 3 can be broken with a hammer.

Now there is nothing i don't know about that game.

>>1607996

No, it's got that old conversational system where you type in one word at a time, and it scans your responses for the first four letters that a lot of early 90s RPGs had.


It's obvious because once you eliminate the LOTR baddies, like Sauron and Morgoth, it has to be something philisophical and couched in platitudes.

And the entire elven history in LOTR is symbolic of a struggle against ennui and despair, so it really should have occurred to me, maybe not as the first guess, but by the fifth or sixth.

I played Doom since the 90s but learned only a few years ago how the different colored armors worked, and that the game actually keeps track of which color you last picked up.

>>1606854
I didn't know you could increase your life bar in Fester's Quest until I read about it on a FAQ

>>1610486
On a similar note, I didn't know that pressing Start+A in Kid Chameleon performed a special ability of the mask you were wearing, one of which increases your lifebar.

>>1608051
WAIT WAIT WAIT WHAT!?

>>1610508

Blue armor mitigates more damage than green. Remember that next time you consider picking up green armor to top off to 100% durability.

>>1610508
Green and Blue armor absorb different amounts and the game retains your more recent "color". It's not shown on your hud or anywhere really though. Megasphere counts as Blue armor in the games that have it.

I didn't realize there were more than 3 battle formations in breath of fire 3 until last week. Chain form rocks my world.

The shitty music in Back to the Future on NES is a sped up version of Power of Love


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