/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1886198
>inb4 Metal Gear 2 celebrity lookalikes
captcha: artistic

>>1886212
This raises a question. Would characters that are obviously inspired by actual people count? What about movie tie-ins? For example, would Hook's protagonist be a depiction of Peter Pan, or Robin Williams since it is based on that movie? It doesn't look anything like him, but the characters are all there.

Nuclear War

>>1886220

...please tell me this is a beat-em up

'Nam 1965-1975

US Presidents Nixon and Johnson are (badly) digitized. You can actually make strategic decisions as them and/or play a purely tactical wargame.

>>1886198
Michael Jackson
Blues Brothers

>>1886267
Yes.

Crisis in the Kremlin has you making decisions for the USSR as Gorbechev, Yetsin, or a third guy that also exist...

>inb4 'do you even politburo bro?'

>>1886267
Yes.

I think the most obvious would be the Civilization games.

The Three Stooges (Cinemaware)

Lemmy of Motörhead

>>1886198

>>1886350

Elvira (fapfapfap...)

He's been in a lot of games. But this is the original.

>>1886359
Also, the arcade game!

>Making a celebrity gaming thread
>Not starting with Moonwalker

Total Recall
(and there's gotta be other games with Ahhnold!)

>>1886401
Sly and Arnie had their fair share of games back in the day (and no, Contra doesn't count).

Terminator II on the NES

>>1886198

Franklin D. Roosevelt in Spear of Destiny.

Charlie Sheen in Platoon for the NES. This is the ONLY instance of Charlie Sheen being in a game.

>>1886934

knowing Adrian Carmack, which was id software's graphic artist guy, this got to be a photoscan of an actual pic from Roosevelt.

not that it's bad; I would love to see the original

It's kind of redundant if you are posting a licensed game of that person

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfMutd_p7N8

>everybody dance

One of the Duke Nukem 3D expansions was called Duke It Out In DC, featuring an alien invasion of the US's Capitol city.

The last level has a badly digitized sprite of Bill Clinton tied to a chair, and I'm pretty sure the first level has a photo or two of Bill and his contemporaries. (The first level is the White House.)

Also, you could play as Bill Clinton in some versions of NBA Jam.

>>1887059
I knew SFIV was an utter failure when I beat it with Zangief and Putin didn't come out to dance with me.

>>1887615
>Could play as Clinton in some versions of nba jam

Can't you also play as him in ready 2 rumble as well?

I don't think Arnie was licensed in Capcom's AVP but this is obviously based on his character from Predator.

>>1888062
This guy from Armored Warriors.. Not even anything to do with movies but the creators obviously decided they wanted another character based on Arnie since he rules so much.

>>1887643
Well, considering Putin's stance on homosexuality (closet-case), he probably didn't want to associate with Zangief. But I agree, that was a disappointment.

>>1888150
You'd have to be a fucking retard to think that's the reason for his policies.
Are you twelve?

>>1888160
>Implying he doesn't love dick

>>1888160

Take your /pol/-goggles off and relax, the "closet case"-thing was referring to Zangief.

>>1886226
woah, didn't know gaddfi was a problem pre 1990.
also, jimmy carter or horror from beyond the stars?

>>1886359
still has nice tits at 60+
she must know dark magic to keep them like that.

>>1888050
nope, just MJ.
NBA Jam also let you play as Hillary, Will Smith, DJ Jazz Jeff, Beasty Boys (RIP adrock) and a few others.

>>1888304
Silicone magic

>>1886934
>>1886971
A much poorer version of this can be also found in the censored as fuck version of Wolfenstein 3D for SNES.

Maria's Xmas Box

As in Maria Whittaker, a popular 80's model who also appeared on a number of game ads in magazines (Palace's Barbarian series, for example).

Nekked screenshots here:
http://hol.abime.net/2413
http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=1479

The Running Man (based on the movie)

Les Aventures de Moktar
(Moktar is apparently a french comedian)

This game was later published in english as Titus the Fox.
http://hol.abime.net/3198

Also, the same company (Titus) published The Blues Brothers, another platform game that (I'm guessing) may have used the same code/engine, or at least parts of it.
http://hol.abime.net/165

Spitting Image

It's sort of a weird fighting game with political figures...
http://hol.abime.net/2069

Obvious entry

>>1886437

>>1888518
Looks like the puppets from the music video Genesis - Land of Confusion

>>1888585
They're both based on Spitting Image TV series.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC35fVsgtGVS4vvr4qII_3iA

>>1888564
>TFW Hitler and Guevara were both in Contra ReBirth
Guerrilla War and Bionic Commando confirmed to be part of the Contra canon.

>>1888518
>>1888585

Spitting image was a satirical comedy show in the UK in the 80s & 90s. it was very topical, mainly focusing on celebs and politicians of the time, used the weird puppets.

Any sega-CD game, because they went from 16-bit... to real life.

Rodney Dangerfield was the ski/skate shop clerk in Ski or Die and Skate or Die.

Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti has bosses that are parodies of Michael Jackson's Thriller video and Jeff Goldblum's character in The Fly

Bill Clinton Baseball

>>1888608
Isn't that guy Fidel Castro?

>>1886226
Who are P.M Satcher and Jimi Farmer supposed to be?

>>1886934
>>1886971
>>1888370

>>1890098
Margaret Thatcher and Jimmy Carter

>>1890113
Ooh, of course.

Also, lol I just realized P.M. Satcher's initials are PMS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoUvaqcD5Fo

>>1890084
It's Che Guevara.

>>1889270

>>1886198
NBA Jam had a ton. Anyone else remember Air Dog?

>>1891624
the other guy in guerrilla war was Fidel.

mmm

>>1886198

>>1888604

JACKIE MOTHERFUCKING CHAN'S

ACTION

FUCKIN'

KUNG-FU

though he looks more like Miyamoto honestly

>>1892084
I was actually just playing that on my PC engine

>>1888564
Here's another Hitler.

>>1892094
How does it compare? Did they improve it, or is it yet another polished NES game?

>tfw the PCE was a failure
>tfw the PCE was essentially an super powered NES
>tfw you could've easily have ported your NES games to the PCE, as their definitive editions
>tfw both Nintendo's contracts and the PCE's popularity hindered that notion

This will always be regarded as the least neccessary yet most funniest pointless "celeb" video game tie-in: Jerry Glanville's Pigskin Foot Brawl.

>>1892113
>Jerry Glanville

literally

who

>>1892112
im not sure how the NES version is because I have never played it. It's an above average pc engine game like as good as kato chan and ken chan. the system was popular enough in japan to get a ton of great games though, I have like 57 pc engine games and 33 turbo grafx games and 15 cd games on top of that. Its an awesome system to collect for because its like a new frontier away from the usual nintendo/sega 16 bit machines. I think the PC engine shares more in common with the genesis than the NES though. It may have had a souped up NES cpu but those GPUs could really makes some nice graphics.

>>1888150>>1888185

>>1892142
I think the PCE was just the bridge between the NES and Genesis. The PCE shares a 6502 CPU and similar graphics limitations (only one background layer), so techniques picked up from the NES would be used in PCE development.

I even like to think of the Genesis as the direct successor of the NES as opposed to the SNES. The Genesis was more raw and unpolished, yet it had capable hardware that held it's own for years.

>>1892117

You don't know who Jerry Glanville is? Were you born on farm or on the moon or under a rock?

>>1888257
Zangief's not gay. Fanboys read too much into trivial character bio details.
>He dislikes "young girls." That means he's a fag.
Or maybe he just prefers older women.

>>1892161
I lived in Greece. Despite being born in the USA in 1989, I was raised in Greece up until 2003 or so. I also missed out on a majority of "the 90s".

>>1892168

It's okay, i was being a jokeroon....im not sure anyone knew who Glanville was...

he coached the Houston Oilers from 1986 to 1991.

>>1886198
Stephen Hawking in SMT

>>1886397
>>1890529
Also Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2

Jungle Strike, when you rescue Bill.

He apologizes for cutting your budget, its great.

Corey Haim in Double Switch. He plays the "guy all the teenager girls love" -character, the character he plays in every movie.

>>1886962
That bums me out.

>>1892161
I was born on a rock farm on the moon.

>>1892954
What the actual fuck? We're talking SMT as in Shin Megami Tensei, right?

>>1896756
see: http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Stephen

>>1886962
>>1896724
Navy Seals technically counts

>>1886220
There's a difference between depicting a character and an actor. In the Hook example it's just the characters.

Same goes for Blues Brothers. They are just the characters as well.

Some actors object to their likeness being used without consent.

Strap one on, it's time to jam!

Rob Zombie is a playable character in Twisted Metal 4.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tracing/tracing6.htm

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