/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2206434

SNES games also have soundtracks with fast, intense, noisy and grungy tracks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1QfIbLulf8

Anyway, I have no idea how I would have turned out if my vidya experience was different, but I'm really happy with my childhood vidya:

>play Colevo Vision at age 3 or 4
>get a Famiclone at age 5
>get a SNES and a Sega Genesis in the same year at age 7

4th gen idort, can't get better than that... well maybe if I got a PC Engine and a Neo Geo back then I would have been a real noble patrician, but I'm fine as a Sega/Nintendo idort (also a 486 PC).

I don't know how vidya actually affected my appreciation of art, but I guess a lot. Still it would be hard to imagine how different it'd be if I had a different childhood regarding vidya. Maybe not too different.

I had both growing up and every time these debates comes up i laugh and shake my head.

I prefer SNES for the bigger game quality ratio though.

>>2206434
That's a lot of characters from the Mario series.

I have SNES but kinda prefer the Genesis now because i'm more into arcade-style games now. Of course, i play more arcade games than a genesis though.

>>2206492
I had a SNES*

I grew up with both. Still got them to this day as a matter of fact. I adore both systems but the SNES wins by a landslide.

If only I had a 3DO maybe I could have been cool :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_NkNWM5M0

>>2206446

Not trying to debate. I prefer SNES as well, only ever owning one after it became retro.

>>2206443
>SNES games also have soundtracks with fast, intense, noisy and grungy tracks.

Absolutely, but because the Genesis only had relatively simple FM Synthesis on board, it couldn't create sounds with as rich timbres as the SNES.

>>2206502
Neither the SNES could do highly expressive vibratos/bends/sustain/decays, especially when it's a low-storage cart with compressed samples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pvW0oq4m6Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNu9FgS2-Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5oXeWglbCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot_qRtbtUyU

I grew up with an NES
Today im repeating stuff over and over to memorize its patern and blowing into stuff that doesnt work.

>>2206504
dang, that song fits the yamaha chip perfectly

check this out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJK0yUNimdk

>>2206434
I started with the NES, then grew up with the Genesis, SNES, computers starting with DOS, and countless, countless trips to the arcade, so I experienced most of what was available to an American kid except for stuff like the Amiga.

Furthermore, I'm not proud to admit, but over the past 20 or so years I've played literally every single ROM in existence of 8-bit,16-bit systems, and arcade games, starting with Gameboy ROMs downloaded from warez BBS's by a church friend, back in 1995 or 1996.

Now, as an adult, I find it impossible to play RPGs and slower-paced games, despite having really fond memories of them when I was younger. RPG stories and gameplay bores me to tears, and slower-paced games just aren't as fun as faster-paced games for me, so these days I'm finding it hard to play platformers of any kind unless they're very action-heavy and filled with enemies, like Rocket Knight Adventures or Revenge of Shinobi.

The games that I enjoy now are fast-paced, arcade-style games that are challenging and based on reflexes, skill and hand-eye coordination (SHMUPs, run'n guns, beat'em ups, action-platformers, etc). So, Genesis, PCE, and arcade games are what I find myself returning to the most. SNES games (with the sole exception of the god-like Contra 3) and NES games simply do not interest me. But I will be the first to admit that the SNES has way more quality titles than the Genesis, but they just happen to be in genres that don't interest me any more.

>>2206532
try looking into low level speedruns or solo runs for old snes rpgs
they saved the genre for me

>>2206434
Hell yeah!

I'll see your OPN2 and meet you with an OPL2.

I bet if I had a general midi card instead, games would have hit me very differently.

Imagine the difference between having an SNES, Amiga and a sample based keyboard compared to a Genesis, PC with adlib card and a synthesizer keyboard!

>>2206529
Sounds cool, but i don't like too much his remixes because they are essentially MIDIs with soundfonts of other games, meanwhile guys like these make legit covers creating their own instruments most of the time.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ChiptunedRaijin/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbQQcXMh_ELHjiXY4dbRD6A/videos

I had both SNES and Genesis as a kid, so it's probably why I am able to see the beauty in all things as an adult.