/vr/ - Retro Games

>GBA removed edition
But why?

>>1785515
Not retro, dumb dumb

sorry, made the thread yesterday and had to leave

So far I've given up on 2 games on NES, Cosmo Police Galivan and Dragon Spirit - The New Legend, mostly because I'm impatient for the first and no good at shmups for the second. I'm now on level 7-1 of Batman Return of the Joker, it has some very precise platforming on this level which is why I've been stuck on it for half an hour and I love it.

also, why no Master System in the list? It's on the gauntlet and has some great games of its own

Just for a taste, here's the first room of spikes on 7-1, all of which are instakill...

... and this jump to the right has claimed at least 30 Batmans so far, since you have to jump just before the platform falls off the screen

Batman wins!

>>1785801

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpWVV8wuM1A

Nice going.

>>1785801
Moved onto Jelly Boy 2. Feels like Super Mario World almost but floatier physics, I've done two worlds so far. Time for Ninja Western!

>>1785845
definitely a Mario vibe, with added GOTTA GO FAST ability

I got a Madara, a JP only RPG. Fuck. Two months of language practice isn't gonna be enough for this. Let's see how it goes.

>>1785861
Well, I got the JP rom, but it seems like it's been patched with a translation, or perhaps it has a translation all along? I'm not sure. In any case, already getting bad vibes. I may re-roll and shame my family just because I don't like RPGs too much.

>>1785868
Looks like I'll be shaming my family. Combat is automatic and I'm not enjoying this at all. It's pretty hard, too, with no way to revive your characters after death. Sorry to let you all down.

>>1785861
You can always re-roll if you can't figure out anything, I gave up on 2 games already

Just unlocked glasses dude whose ability is to leave timed bombs, and this level is called Wonder Space. Onwards!

SEND HELP

>>1785931
No way, I love Jelly Boy 2!

A shmup, fuck me.

First stage done...

Oh good, dying takes you back to the very beginning of the stage. What fun.

Aaand 27 minutes later... stage 2 done. As you can tell I'm very good at shmups.

What the fuck.

>>1786040
>>1785983
This looks awful.

>>1785845
>>1785849
Played Jelly Boy 1 awhile back, remember it being really fun but slightly unforgiving.

Rolled Freedom Force for NES and man, am I gonna enjoy this game. It had a cool ass intro, it CAN'T suck, right?

This is basically an on-rails shooter, and a dumb one at that.
god damn it.

So I noticed, after refreshing multiple times, that the random game selection gives out really crappy games.
I know it's supposed to be from the entire catalog, but that's not very fun.
There are plenty of good NES games that are also very difficult.

>>1786175
The secondary purpose of the gauntlet is to expose you to games that you otherwise wouldn't play. Give them a try, you might find something new you'd like.

>>1786175
I remember there being discussion about that a while back, although i don't think anything came of it.

I guess that few people are actually willing to sit down and sift through all the games for each system to make a new list, not to mention getting community acceptance for the games that made the pick.

Personally i think that while there might be a fair amount of shovelware it's also easy to just reroll until you get something that isn't outright obviously awful, and even terrible games might be fun to play with community feedback.

>>1786175
>>1786208
Pretty much what they said, I just rerolled my NES game until I got something that didn't crash and wasn't too boring. They're still games that I'd otherwise never have played, so I'm enjoying it so far.

>>1786132
Just got to Dark Palace stage 5, and it seems the "slightly unforgiving" part is in full force. This damn jumping platforming keeps switching direction at the worst time

And the final boss... Fancy Earthworm Jim?

There is absolutely zero chance of me playing "Wally Bear & the No Gang". I've lost this gauntlet before it began.

>>1785468
Playing this right now. Name ideas?

What's your favourite game that you encountered doing a gauntlet?

>>1786714
That ain't the final boss.

You see the final boss, you will be wondering how the fuck Ken Sugimori designed that.

May I do a variation on this but with games from my backlog?

I'll go through the order of consoles and stick to the deadline, but instead of random I'll pick a game that I own or have on Flashcart/burnt.

This'll be a good way to get through ones I've had waiting to be played for ages.

>>1790532
That's not really the point of the Gauntlet but as long as you have fun, go ahead.

>>1788591
DUMBASS

No new pic thread yet?

I will totally make a new one if I had talent in something except for playing videogames.

>>1790727
What do you mean, pic thread?

Well I was on the GBA when I last did this. So do I start over? Also what happened to the if you lost on a certain tier you went back down one system or chose the other system when it was a double.

>>1791023
Just go to the next one after GBA of ot still existed.

>>1791032
*if it

>>1791035
Ya I actually found the wiki http://vgauntlet.wikia.com/wiki//v/_Gauntlet_Wiki with the rules when this was done a year or two ago. I can understand removing GBA from the list but taking the double choices is plain retarded. A better system would be removing GBA and making gb/gbc a choice and then putting master system with the game gear.

>>1785468
>no N64

But N64 is rather important. I understand emulation is an issue for some games, but that's why it was an alt to PS1. Why was it removed entirely?

>>1791153
it was removed because of the dipshit op. I'm all for letting this die after this post so we can get a proper gauntlet.

>>1791475
Sounds good.

Honestly I'm not against removing GBA, as long as something is added or shifted to keep a reasonable ten-stage gauntlet. We'd need some type of agreement on it, first, so we don't get something like, well, this thread.

>>1791475
can't we just make a new one ourselves? it doesn't really matter who makes it.

>>1786040
Haha, your ship looks like a dick

I don't want to do this gauntlet thing here, but it would be cool if there was something like this, just with good, recommended games that everyone should play once.

NES
SNES
GB/GBC OR Sega Game Gear
Megadrive/Genesis
Turbografx16
DOS
NeoGeo
This is what needs to be decided here do we go with dreamcast? or another system? or split the gameboy and gameboycolor as separate choices and move game gear here? OR Sega Master System
Commodore 64 OR Commodore Amiga
Playstation 1 OR Nintendo 64

>>1793705
What about the Sega Saturn?

>>1793368
there is already a source for that http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki/NES
while you may not agree that all should be played a good % are. Also ya i know its not a gauntlet but what i think you are suggesting is an approved ten tier guantlet with awesome games and not half shit half okay games. It really fathoms me why no one has come up with different themed gauntlets that can be played over a course of a month or two.

>>1793729
I mean randomizing it. I guess it would just take a random number generator.

>>1793729
The problem with that is that stuff like >>1785931 and most JP-only games aren't included. Basically, legitimately hidden gems that people play here are absent.

>>1793728
thats a good suggestion. haven't played many saturn games.

>>1793751
Thats why I think there should be a separate gauntlet thread where people have their own list for a guantlet. I'm sure you know of some hidden gems that are JP-only that could make up a tiered gauntlet that people would want to go through.