/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1699162
Probably because Iron Sword was a terrible game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmQvr-XsCI4
I still want my alternate end where Sue wins. When am I going to get it?
Don't answer, plz. ;_;

The Immortal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3o6kr0e5LQ

Snow Bros.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf0wuv1n-oA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCWQgkVCwb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-c7ZPnHSdY

I rented this game randomly and got addicted to this song. I had to spend a decade and a half remembering where it came from. (Discovering it via YouTube is sort of anti-climactic though.)

That's amazing piece OP. I love it. Tim Folin is one of my all time favorite composers.

Street Gang on C64 is shitty, short game, but music is really good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1g-GaX59zg

How are people so gay for tim folin I can't stand his music. It's just technical wankery that is a pain to listen to.

For me it's this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6yjO1bjFY

And baby's first Ableton composition.
https://soundcloud.com/louis-starsky/bof-shop-arrangement

>>1699252

You are gay and have shit-tier music taste.
Proof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXFd6M_6Nto

Jet Set Willy for Atari XL/XE

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

>>1699382
no I like catchy VGM if you try and whistle a piece by tim you just sound like an idiot. It's like that death metal band necrophagist, sure they can play their instruments and do a lot of technical things a lot of guitar players couldn't but it doesn't mean it is any good.

>>1699473

I think he is OK and I do like some of his tracks, but I personally that Rob Hubbard and David Whittaker are better composers

>>1699473
I like the catchy stuff as much as the next Mega Man fanatic, but Follin has a few catchy ones too. It depends on tastes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNPxwnppU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jbJSftFr20

In the end, 'to each their own,' but the answer to >>1699252
is a combination of catchiness and complexity.

>>1699473
>it's only good if I can whistle to it

>>1699162
I love the tunes in the W&W series. The opener for 2 was awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbIJM1xAjNY

>>1699162
I was under the impression the W&W II soundtrack has always been widely appreciated in spite of the game, especially since David Wise composed it. Am I wrong? I know it was always one of my favorites.

>>1699606
>mega man
Those games had a ton of ripped off music..executed well, but holy shit. 8/16bit era was like the wild west.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y0RwyI8j8k

>Microsoft
>Buy out Rareware
>Shit all over Banjo & Conker
>Ignore a franchise that would have appealed to their shitty market.

>>1701434
As if we'd want Microsoft to ruin that too.

>>1701459
At the bare minimum, there's no way they can fuck up the art style like they did with Banjo (since it's already shit.)

>>1701434
I think you're in the wrong thread here. I think there's enough appreciate for JFG to rank it above a 'cult-hit/obscure title'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVMfOVsxMgk

This game had the best music in the whole series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q6ceQ8DG3U

>>1701471
Again, BOF3 is virtually the only BOF that people actually acknowledge. It effectively put the first two to shame, and its sequels were mediocre at best.

I hated BOF-2 and their bullshit like where to find every other elemental wisp other than Fire/Dark, but that's another story altogether.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FG2A_H6p8
I swear, the theme to Brannoch Town was the sole reason I didn't regret finishing Quest 64.

I like older NFS music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9lFDSX5gBY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XofC4U9xZTQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZaVB1pJXCI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kEby-G2Z_8

>>1701512
I agree with you on Dragon Quarter, because that one is pretty fucking bad, but 4 was pretty good.

>>1699162
cant pay attention to the question because of dat Fabio.

>>1699162
Probably, but Iron Sword was a fucking nightmare to play. The hit detection was wonky as hell.

That said, everyone spends all of their money playing that cups mini-game until they get thrown out by the shopkeep.

>>1702876
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I7ltt-TRNw
OP here. Was the game really that bad? As a kid, I sucked at a lot of NES games. For example, I didn't have enough patience to beat the first Zelda on my own until age 18. I 'still' don't have the patience to power through stuff like Metroid and Kid Icarus. Compared to those two games, I always though WnW 2 was a more beatable game (Even though I never defeated the 2nd major boss.) I found out why by watching a longplay just now. I never had that mentality to look for walls to walk through. Fuck that logic.

>>1703319
Yeah, it was pretty bad. You pretty much had to run into enemies with the sword until you got any sort of projectile. The other problem was that all of the platforms in the game were at weird angles and it was sometimes very difficult to determine what was or wasn't a platform. Plus everything in the game had very bouncy properties to them so it was all in all very weird.

I never beat the game without passwords. I used to be able to get to the forest level but I never got past there. I should give the game another spin sometime.

>>1703319
I loved it as a kid. But I never got past the first elemental boss. It didn't occur to me back then that the game was just poorly made.

Anyone here play Lagoon? Maybe you know it better as "Toothpick Sword: the Game".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmMgQm-tBa0

>>1703765
That one's been sitting on my SNES shelf for a couple of years now but I haven't touched it. Sounds like I should give it a shot based on the music alone.

>>1701520
man I loved Quest 64's soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POrJCUiumEE

>>1703770
you'll either love it or you'll hate it and despise everything about it.

>>1703775
sounds like a good time to me!

on topic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeRx124RfHY

I liked this game, though I never beat it... and I think it was because of the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz8UBhofNOU

This soundtrack is one of the most underrated in my opinion, no other game sounded like this back when this was first released.

>>1703770
I'll tell you right now. Combat will initially be a frustrating experience but it's not impossible to learn. Even if you miss, a lot of times your shield will block whatever runs into you. Bosses tend to revolve around finding the right place to stand and slamming the Y button as quickly as possible. Also magic is virtually useless outside of a few basic enemies so don't think the game is going to get easier once you get fireball or air cutter.

The mazes in the game are a little obnoxious but it's not like you'll be lost for days.

>>1703791
I had this and Shadowgate as a kid. I think my dad showed me how to beat Shadowgate and I ended up figuring out Deja Vu through a lot of trial and error. Now I just need to play and beat Uninvited someday.

Speaking of Shadowgate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXUoB6aBAhU

>>1703804
that's actually pretty useful advice for me... I tend to try to find a spot to stand and hammer the attack button really fast in boss fights, until i get magic that lets me be cheap. now I'll know that it's a valid strategy and I should keep doing it through the whole game. lol

>>1703801
I never played that, but it sounds like they used straight up MIDI files for the music. That makes how nice it sounds even more impressive IMO.

>>1703817
I haven't beaten ANY of them, haha... only had Deja Vu as a kid, now I own them all and still can't do it. I suppose I could use a walkthrough, but that'd feel like cheating.

Uninvited has gotten crazy pricy nowadays. :(

>>1703835
The games are just trial and error. Just do everything. Hell, half the entertainment from those kinds of games are seeing all the strange and stupid ways to die. Actually, that's one of the big problems Shadowgate has is the torch system. There shouldn't be time limits in games where you're supposed to get lost and not know what to do.

>>1703847
Yeah, I think the real problem was lack of patience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm-bU9x_l8g
Wizards and warriors 3 is best wizards and warriors

>>1703919
Without a doubt. It's the only one I bothered to track down CIB. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNALFsDR9Jw

The music is pretty much the only reason I even care about this game.

>>1699278
Mah nigga. I don't think I ever heard another cover for this tune. It's a great one like the Password theme in Mega Man X.

WarCraft: Orcs & Humans-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJEEzj-UT5Q

Clash at Demonhead-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy7LGGogmeE&list=PLE77B71D75BB19EF9&index=18

The Legendary Axe-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvxAHb_gbPg

Mickey's Safari in Letterland-- despite being a boring kiddie game, had some catchy melodies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvsS241Q3eQ

Bomberman 64-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw5tHvnUu7k

Aero the Acro-Bat 2-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtFbwCKVprk&list=PLFBDB97FB894AEFD9&index=15

Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvkCswlj65c

>>1699252
I generally agree, but he wrote some stuff that was actually pretty great here and there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-D24A_N4d4

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

Geoff Follin's Wolverine music is great, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fndIZaZ4bMI

I think what turns me off to a lot of his stuff is the '70s rock influence that's all over a lot of his work.
>>1699473
Necrophagist's first album actually had some memorable material on it from what I recall. It's certainly

>>1706340
*It's certainly not the worst example of bland, overly technical music