/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1875619
I have a video I made with my top 5 underrated N64 games If you want to see it?

Dynamite Heady is a game I love and is pretty underrated but its appeared on a lot of Genesis compilations in recent years so its sort of gotten the attention it deserves.

>>1875624
yeah sure, go ahead no one else is going to post in this thread anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N-t7tPEhP8

Socket for the genesis. Its a sonic clone thus overlooked. But its well made and I like it.

>>1875725
thanks anon this game looks awesome I gotta check it out some time.

A lot of genesis games. Pretty much everything for SNES was already part of or spawned its own franchise that continues to this day, whereas many great genesis games either didn't get sequels at all or just stayed within the 16-bit era.

>>1875743
/thread

seriously though you're right but most N64 games are pretty unknown due to there only being like 4 that people actually played.

Conquest of the Crystal Palace for the NES is by far my favorite thing on the System.

>>1875619

This game made some big part of my childhood.

It was freaking difficult but I had fun with it. Also the soundtrack was just beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-L4nLZcbnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq_vXYx9Vg0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT03sHCSOio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svvsjyoo3hM

GALE

>>1875619
This game is better known in it's sound chip than the game itself it seems.

>>1875927
Nah, High Seas Havoc is still more popular than the pirate games that stole it's soundchip.

>>1875927
That's exactly why its underrated.

Tons of arcade games by Sega, Capcom, Namco, etc. are underrated. A couple of them were ported to the Genesis like Forgotten Worlds, Marvel Land and Bonanza Bros etc. but they are still underrated.

>>1876047
Marvel Land maybe but Bonanza Bros. and Forgotten world aren't really unpopular any more.

Bucky O'hare (NES) I'd say was an underrated game a few years back, but it's held in pretty high regard now.

Cobra Triangle on the other hand, hardly mentioned anywhere and a really solid boat racing game with tons of different kinds of levels. Maybe it's the "unfair" difficulty (the Reach The Finish stages can do some really punishing stunlocks on you, and the waterfall stages can easily eat up an entire continue in a few seconds if you get a bad flow going), but practice really does make perfect in it. Also the score meter loops at 999,999 so you'll have to plan ahead to max out the score without finishing with 000,010 points after beating the final boss and missing the top10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N-t7tPEhP8

TWINE on the N64 doesn't get talked about very much, mostly because Rare's Goldeneye and Perfect Dark overshadow it. It's honestly a really good followup to Goldeneye. Good first player campaign, good multiplayer levels and gameplay, better controls, better graphics, voice acting from the film.

The game's also on the PSX, but I've never played that version and I've heard it's inferior to the N64 version.

>>1876159
I'm going to definitely agree with you there.

Also Everything or Nothing was god tier but not retro

I feel like this game gets overlooked a lot. It had pretty big areas to explore and some minor puzzles to solve in addition to combat.

>>1876159
>TWINE
>better graphics
It always felt a lot more pixellated to me, whereas Goldeneye might have been blockier it didn't have the "pixel staircase slopes" on everything that wasn't a straight 90 degree angle. Was a while since I played it, so might remember this part wrong.

It did have really nice multiplayer modes though, and had it been a mod for Half-Life I think it could have made a good replacement for CS.

>>1875635
I love this game, but it gets ridiculously hard later on.

I used to really love this game as a kid. Played it to death and it's a pretty solid platformer.

Snake's Revenge doesn't deserve the bad reputation it has gotten. In a just world, it would've be considered legit spinoff to the series, instead of being dismissed by ignorant fanboys who never played beyond the starting jungle.

>>1876218
Mission Impossible is pretty boss. It's basically a better Metal Gear game than either of the ones on the NES.

>>1875619
Played this recently on emulator, pretty awesome platformer, would have loved it if I played it back in the day.

>>1875725
My fucking nigga, I came here to post that.
People often say it's a sonic clone but I think it's a pretty good Sonic clone in any case, and people love the old 2D Sonic games, so I don't know why Socket is always shitted on.
Loved it when I was a kid.

Also pic related

>>1876292

All Konami-developed warner bros-licensed games are pretty awesome.
I loved Animaniacs too.

>>1876315
I thought the one with bad reputation nowdays is the port of Metal Gear 1 (which by the way was made with a time limit schedule of 3 months).
Snake's Revenge was never considered bad, and even Hideo Kojima liked it. What's more, Snake's Revenge is the reason why kojima decided to continue MG1 and made Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake on the MSX, so maybe without Snake's Revenge, we wouldn't have had any other Metal Gear game.
Also it was made by the Castlevania III team.

>>1876315

I like it. In a lot of ways it's better than Metal Gear on the MSX. I also like Ghost Babel a lot. I just think of them both as non-canon spin offs. The best of the 2D MG games is MG2 though imo. None of them come close except for maybe GB.

>>1875804
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP4R1QJby_w

best boss theme

Azalea Town in Pokemon Gold

there's a game called gladiator for dos/pc

it is an eagle's eye perspective gauntlet squad-based (though the squad part isn't necessary--it's perfectly playable with just one character) rpg. it comes with a pretty substantial campaign that doesn't really make a lot of sense but it's... pleasing, in that retro-ey kind of way. basically the way it works is that you progress through levels earning various amount of gold from either killing dudes, picking up gold, or just from finishing the map in a reasonable amount of time. you then use that gold to either improve your character(s) (using standard RPG attributes) or hire more characters and/or improve them.

multiplayer is fun but it's one of those awkward share-a-keyboard kind of affairs.

a couple of dudes got one of the devs to donate the source and they made an SDL port, which runs fine: http://snowstorm.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/site.cgi?page=openglad

it's very fun. dunno how people felt about it at the time but it definitely deserves more attention

>>1876068

Bonanza Bros I can understand because their appearences on Sonic All Star Racing, but how about Forgotten Worlds?

HEH HEH HEH

>>1877670

Gonna check this out because it sounds rad.

>>1877683
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aAS4RYTMKA

skip to 7:30 for gameplay

this guy has gone through the trouble of creating an entire squad, which can be fun (i always liked to make one character and blow all my cash on his stats). part of the deal is that the game has kinda wonky AI because it is shareware from the early 90s, so if you make a team everybody who isn't controlled by you will be controlled by AI, which can be a good thing or a bad thing. you can switch between characters by pressing a key, but at any given point you can only control one.

>>1877705
er i meant 2:30 but 7:30 is also gameplay so yeah

>>1877705

Looks cool. Will definitely give it a go.

>>1877705
>>1877670
Oh boy, glad I'm not the only one who remembers this game. Definitely a great AOL Games pick.

Robotron 64

Phantasmagoria 2
>dat atmosphere
>dat music
>dat batshit crazy story
>dat sudden and unexpected confession of gay interest
Why did FMVs have to die, /vr/? WHY?!

>>1876191
>People liked EoN
Thanks for validating me today, anon.