/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1662132
>tfw you realize that only 2 of the 8 Mario Kart games are /vr/
>tfw you realize that they are following a weird order by releasing Mario Kart 64 before Mario Kart 7 and 8.

64 was the shit when I was younger. I'd always do co-op with my Dad, and while it was tough as nails we'd generally try and get through it together, with me doing the racing part and him trying to keep everyone else away. We finally completed the Special Cup on 150cc on Christmas Eve of 2003, the night before I got Double Dash. So fucking worth it in the end.

>>1662179

That's beautiful. My dad never took to video games but I had hours upon hours of fun playing this game with my older brother and cousins.

>>1662132
Mario Kart 8 is the shhhhiiiit! So much fun.

Good, got that out of my system.

As far as /vr/ related Mario Karts are concerned, I find the SNES original almost unplayable; I get sick while the playing it. Grew up on and loved the crap out of 64. MK64 held up reasonably well, and still has the best battle mode.

>>1662213
The original SNES version is a classic but I understand what you mean, whenever I play Mario Cart with friends Its only the ones who use to play it get high places. Also the Vanilla Lake maps with those stupid little ice blocks piss me off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJn8WvUOblE

i always kind of wanted there to be a mario game in the main series that utilized the go-karts somehow. perhaps it would be a nice change a pace for a series that seems to have ran out of ideas

>>1662397
Didn't one of the jak and daxter games do that?
I think the third one.

Also that banjo kazooie game nobody liked.

>>1662408
maybe they could do like a mgs style chase scene at the end of a mario game.

In my eyes 64 is the best and will continue to be the best, even after playing the others I can't help but think that 64 had a perfect balance that the others have yet to replicate.
Though honestly I wish we could get SMK on WiiU with some online, I mean shit if we could do in on the original hardware 2 decades ago we should have it on the newer hardware as a standard

SNES: Cheated by giving CPU infinite feathers.
64: Cheated by giving CPU instant recovery.

Still loved them both anyhow. I wish I could get back home for a while to play them with my family. Maybe later this year.

>>1662550
Going back to it to AI rubber bands like mad, you can be using a Golden Mushroom and they'll still keep up with you. Not /vr/ but the DS version was perfect for me.

Speaking of I never did work out how mushrooms work in 64, as a kid or now. When they fire you back slightly can you spam it to go quick as or should you let it complete one boost then the next? Never worked out which was the best way

>>1662671
The rubberbanding never seemed that strong in 64
I mean I used to lap 7th/8th places by the end of a race
though I'm not sure if they were any revisions that made any changes to the AI

>>1662682
The A.I. keeps up with you if you do the Rainbow Road jump. If one of your friends does that jump and you drive the normal way, then you would never catch him unless he hits most chomps and you abuse items.

>>1662408
I quit drugs after buying that banjo kazooie game in a haze. Its just so bad that I have it as a reminder

>>1662179
first playing-vidya-with-dad story I've read that doesn't end with:

"Then he died, I miss you dad"

My favourites are Super Mario Kart and Double Dash.
Sometimes there are retro gaming nights in a local bar. I scored the second place in a Super Mario Kart tourney but I don't feel bad about it. The winner was amazing, he just rushed through Rainbow Road and being the second best Super Mario Kart player in my city isn't too bad, I guess.

>used to play Mario Kart 64 with friends
>one fucking guy refused to pick anyone but Yoshi or Toad because "They're the fastest!"

I remember I tried to play Super Mario Kart for the first time in about 10 or so years a little while ago, and I couldn't handle it. It was kicking my ass.

mario kart 8 looks so awesome....

wish i could afford it just yet... need a wii u though...and a 1080p TV

meanwhile i play the version for Gamecube, which is fun too.

>>1662397
No actual karts, but 3DWorld has a MK inspired-stage.

>>1664209
Same thing here. I was pretty damn good at it as a kid, the game's hard as balls though. I could never finish the Special Cup at 150cc. So last month I thought to myself I should do it.

I started playing and 50cc was fairly easy, 100cc was okay until the Star Cup, then shit got real. The Special Cup has a huge difficulty spike. I kept practicing, I learned everything again, I literally sank in hours of training. Eventually I opened 150cc, beat Mushroom, Flower and Star, I'm now really good at it again. But I still can't beat Special Cup at 150cc. It's fucking insane.

>>1664205
You know what they saw about the people who pick Yoshi, anon.

Super Mario Kart is the only Mario Kart I've played that I like and I fukkin love it. One of my favorite games.

MK64 is p boring, the only things it has over the original is 4 player multiplayer and less shitty graphics. Most of my friends all grew up with the 64(I had a PS1) and so we'll play it occasionally when we're hanging out and I don't find it enjoyable or interesting unless we're racing in Moo Moo Farm with 3 players.

Me and another friend both agree that the battle mode in Super is by far the choicest Mario Kart multiplayer experience.

>>1662604
>SNES: Cheated by giving CPU infinite items. Also rubberbanding.

FTFY

>>1662132
Maybe it's because I started with Mario Kart 64, but Super Mario Kart remains the only Mario Kart that I cannot beat on the highest speeds. Even MKWii eventually gave way to my persistence. I just continuously fuck up in SMK and get terrible positions, starting with even the flower cup.

>>1664318
Same, though I couldn't dream of having the patience to get good at it. SMK drains my tolerance like few games I've played. It's probably the only time that a Mario Kart game was more difficult than an F-Zero game on the same system.

What bothers me about SMK is that depending on who you choose, the CPUs always race in the exact same order. So you know if you pick Bowser, Mario will be on your ass 24/7, followed by Luigi, then Peach, and the rest.

>>1664786
>Moo Moo Farm with 3 players

You mean on the Wii VC version with the speedup bug? It doesn't normally do that from my recollection.

>>1664786
>Me and another friend both agree
>friend
pls anon

>>1664939
Quite a few tracks did that in the original, not just the VC. No idea why. It was quite fun though

>>1664939
nah son, we were playing it on the N64. We found it by chance and it was noticeably faster.
>>1665272
What other tracks? I kind of want to know why that happens.

Mario Kart 64 is the Bane of my existence. My friends from high school and I would play each other everyday when we'd hang out, and it's a ritual that lasted through college. We still play each other once in a while in Mario Kart 64, and it is rage inducing and usually results in shouting and arguing. I wouldn't have it any other way.

step aside wussies, best MK64 racer coming through

>>1664892
IIRC, you could break that order by royally fucking one of the ai over in the first event of each cup. IE if mario is one of the racers who's on your character's ass all the time, make him finish badly in the first event and the order will change, putting him towards the rear from then on.

>me cruising along in first place
>hear strange sound
>look in rear view mirror
>Mario is using a star
>race like mad
>Mario's star ends and he is still in second
>hear sound again
>OH MY GOD HE HAS INFINITE STARS AND LUIGI IS HERE TOO I AM DOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!1

>>1665671
>step aside wussies, best mario character coming through
FTFY

>>1666310

You. I like you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuEkI2A9jX8

>>1664209
I've recently done the same with Super Circuit on the GBA (not retro yadda yadda...) and I could barely keep the kart on the track. You don't realise how much they've changed the handling and control of the game over the years.

Is it possible to play MK64 online? I'd like to play a round with you niggers.

Tried my housemates with Super and MK64. Both find the SNES one horrible to look at and difficult to handle, and one said it was "not at all fun". 64 they found a bit more tolerable up until the Special Cup tracks, which, to be fair, I feel are flawed.

>Yoshi Valley, while an interesting idea, is far too easy to get lost in, as well as spend a lap or two not knowing what you're doing
>Hands down, the most boring and flawed Rainbow Road

Why did they bring those back for 8? Are they fixed?

Also, that ONE FUCKING TURN in Royal Raceway, where you have to brake and adjust or decelerate carefully or you will veer a mile into the grass on your right or definitely end up in the river.

Anyway, I just want someone to play those two with who won't moan. ;_;

I've never beaten Mario Kart (snes). How easy is it to finish all the races or whatever you have to do to beat it? I'm not very good at racing games usually.

>>1666569
Everyboy who didn't play SUPERMK or even MK64 when they were kids, either had a shitty childhood or are unfortunate to be born after 95, which is the same.

:3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-pHobYVXWc

>>1666569
>Also, that ONE FUCKING TURN in Royal Raceway, where you have to brake and adjust or decelerate carefully or you will veer a mile into the grass on your right or definitely end up in the river.

Ha! Yes. Always good hitting someone with green shells as they bombard and tumble their way into icy water death.

>>1666585
Weird thing is they're both total bros, love pretty much anything else we play together and are usually fairly retro minded. Hell, one has spent the last three days doing nothing but playing around with Driver 2's Film Director. Just good luck getting them to play a MK earlier than DD.

>>1666591
It's crossed my mind that this and the train in MK7's Kalimari Desert are possibly the only parts of any post-Super Mario Kart that demand you actually ever take your thumb off the accelerator.

Super Mario Kart is one of my favorite games of all time. I even got my name in Nintendo Power for getting one of the fastest times on Mario Circuit 1.

Never was a fan of MK64, but then again I never really got into that into the console to begin with.

>>1666625
Also, a fun challenge to do once you beat SMK is to make yourself small in the screen select by pushing Y and A together and beating it again.

>>1665272
Really? Huh. I guess I didn't play much 3-player Mario Kart 64. Can't say I ever noticed it on the old cartridge. Maybe I'll go try it out.

>>1666569
64 Rainbow Road has much more going on, both in terms of track edits and in scenery. It takes the original and amps it up quite a bit. It also makes it a one-lap race, which some like and some dislike. Personally, I'd like it to be longer, I know it used to be really long but now it's too short for my tastes.

As for Yoshi Valley, it makes MUCH more sense now, despite being mostly the same layout. They made it larger, gave it greater spacing, and added signage as well as changing some sections to be more streamlined. It's pretty good, though I never disliked the first one.

>>1666569
I can't blame them. Mario Kart was still trying to find its sweet spot with the first four games. I agree that the mode 7 games are tough to deal with, but as one who grew up with MK64, I have no trouble playing that game.

>>1666606
Mario Kart Wii demands you stop on some tracks, unless you pick the right carts and practice a lot. It's probably the 2nd hardest Mario Kart, right behind Super. The shit that game pulls is unreal.

donkey kong the best

>>1666757
>The shit that [MKWii] pulls is unreal.

Oh my God, thank you. I just unlocked Dry Bowser today. It's ridiculous getting star rankings on that game.

>>1666606
I sometimes forget that the brake button even exists too, but it's sometimes handy when the decision between falling off or losing speed affects time.

>>1666526
Yes it is.
I've played it with a few people here and it's great.

It might have a slight lag but it is still a ton of fun. I'd love to play tonight if anyone else is down.

Join the irc at #/vr/_Netplay on rizon.net
Everyone is super helpful there and here is what you need to get started playing online (besides the rom)
http://pastebin.com/eNV1VcgQ

>>1663970
>That's beautiful. My dad never took to video games but I had hours upon hours of fun playing this game with my older brother and cousins.
> oh god never read that gladfully :/

how does super mario kart hold up today?

I'm looking for some down and dirty go-kart action

>>1666569
>Also, that ONE FUCKING TURN in Royal Raceway, where you have to brake and adjust or decelerate carefully or you will veer a mile into the grass on your right or definitely end up in the river.

Not if you power slide.