/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2262091
I known AVJN said this but it got me too. I saw this and expected the game to be as bad ass as the box art. Sad part is I didn't learn until years later that you cant judge a game by its box art.

>>2262091

god damit, this game for the NES was my first real burn... never expected that from a Mario-Character on the box.

>Be about 8-9
>saved all my allowance for a while
>even had a garage sale, because we were about to move
>move to new place, no friends
>go shopping with mom, see this and buy it
>"At least i got something to do now"
>wtf when title-screen
>even more wtf when koopas chill by
>omg what have i done
>my money got stolen by my only friend
>still feel the burns up till this day

I still have the copy here to always remind me

>>2262112

even in a pretty good condition, as if it was hardly touched at all

My favorite franchise in state-of-the-art 3D? Surely this will be an amazing experience.

>>2262118
I liked it.

I never felt like I got burned with Mario is Missing. I actually rented it a few times. Trying to match the right things up with where they were supposed to go while exploring the cities was neat.

>>2262091
I remember hating this and the time machine one...going to go try them again.

Tunnel B1
This one really hurt, didn't have much money to spare, Playstation had some great titles out, and I bought this, don't know what I was thinking.
Speedy zipping through tunnels while zapping baddies.
Sounded fun.
You just can't get speedy with a hovercraft, because, well, hovercrafts don't steer.
Even more so in dreary, dark, narrow tunnels.
The music and SFX were terrible as well.
Actually, there wasn't a thing this game did good.

This really happened, I'm still angry

>be me, 9yo or so
>little autistic shit head
>sell some stuff on a flee market
>trynna make some money for new games
>try to sell my beloved Contra (why? -->desperate for new games)
>some older kid comes over with pic related in his hands
>tells me he is bored of this 'great game'
>wants to trade it for Contra
>try to impress him because he is older or some shit
>"yeah, let's trade...the game looks cool"
>suddenly want to go home
>pack my shit up
>finally a new game :')
>3 hours later
>AAASS

This really happened

>be me, 9yo or so
>little autistic shit head
>sell some stuff on a flee market
>trynna make some money for new games
>try to sell my beloved Contra (why? -->desperate for new games)
>some older kid comes over with pic related in his hands
>tells me he is bored of this 'great game'
>wants to trade it for Contra
>try to impress him because he is older or some shit
>"yeah, let's trade...the game looks cool"
>suddenly want to go home
>pack my shit up
>finally a new game :')
>3 hours later
>AAASS

>mom buys me a mario game from the video store that's selling off all their SNES rental games
>Mario's Time Machine

I remember turning it on expecting something like SMW but in different time periods, and I get a quiz that i'm too young to understand. Pic semi-related

>>2262401
I remember asking my parents to rent it for he weekend at the rental store when I was a kid.
And oh boy was it a shitty weekend. I had no
fucking clue what the hell was going on.

It didn't help that English wasn't even my native tongue either. I expected a 2D mario platformer, not a goddamn history quiz that I too, was too young to understand let alone be able to read the words.

I also remember my parents looking up encyclopedias and shit to help me answer the questions, and being disappointed whenever we got one right because the game kept on being shit.

This freaking piece of garbage. Never knew anyone else who had one, so maybe someone out there actually enjoyed using it. I hated it right off the bat. Kind of like trying to play games on a touch screen these days. No tactile feedback = fuck.

>>2262116
Damn man, that is good condition.

>>2262538
uncle had one for genesis and it was shit of shit

>>2262512
I saw Mario is Missing there too and I wanted to get it but my mom said I couldnt. Thanks mom for saving me from a second disappointment.

>>2262538

>>2262589
>bunch of meatheads
>one of them sucking on a hose
>and making eye contact
doesn't get more homoerotic than that

>>2262401
Not that I care too much, but why censor the phone number?

>>2262589
Hahaha oh wow. Who thought that ad looked in any way acceptable.

>>2262660
I didn't mess with the pic, i just saved it when i saw it months ago

>>2262091
Expecting to be able to fucking play it.

I didn't have the expansion pack and I had no idea I needed it.

>>2262679
Luckily I only rented it when this happened to me.
Not /vr/ but my brother got an Ouya for Christmas 2013 and it can only be connect via HDMI and we only had CRTs

>>2262679
>Expansion Pak REQUIRED

I'm guessing you weren't a very bright kid.
>yfw

>>2262401

>>2262589

>>2262118
It's really not that bad when you think of it as a stand alone video game.

Also the cover doesn't really lie either, as the stage backgrounds are a pre-rendered 3D, and the opening cut scene is full 3D.

>>2262771
it just had bad inertia and turning
walking feels less controllable than spinning

i consider it a better isometric game than marble madness, sue me

>>2262771
i liked the genesis version. the saturn version just felt like trash

the only negative i have is the searching for flickys and sometimes fucking up a jump from perspective

Spider-Man & the X-Men: Arcade's Revenge. I knew it wasn't exactly like the great Turtles games even before picking it up, but man, what a let down. Good thing I bought a used copy.

>>2262173
It's not so bad if you just rented Mario is Missing - you can get some enjoyment from the game that way. I can't imagine how I'd feel if I had bought it back then.

Asked my mom for Pokemon Red...

>>2262929
You know, that would've made me so pissed as a kid, but now it makes me smile. She tried.

And hey, you got 250 free hours of AOL!

I got Daffy Duck In Hollywood when I was 9 and didn't like it at first but then it grew on me

besides that, just Suikoden Tactics but we aren't allowed to discuss PS2

>>2262938
My first thought was "Woah, I didn't even know Pokemon existed for the PC!", so it wasn't until I installed it and started it up that I realized what had happened.

>>2262679
>Want to play Perfect Dark as a kid
>Requires expansion pack
>Get a rent one get one free coupon for Blockbuster
>Rent PD and DK 64 (so I could get the expansion pack)
>At checkout
>BB employee rings up games and coupon looks at me
>"Good idea, get the pack so you can play Perfect Dark, haven't seen anyone think of that"
>I walk away with a giant grin


8th grade me thought I'd just pulled off the ocean's eleven of video game rentals.

>>2262545
probably because it only got played once

>>2262545
>>2263037

I never play it, once in a while i get up and night with a knife in my hand and watch it sleep.

>>2262173

If you find that entertaining you might want to try the thrill of watching paint dry

>>2262697

Here the original version

>>2262929
Christ, this actually bummed me out. You were the kid trying to play with photocopied Pokemon cards too weren't you?

>>2262091
this fucking game dog! i got it from a friend and thought, wow cool. but then...

passed that shit on to my brother, lol.wasted a good hour on that.

>>2262771

Aaand... now I want remastered version of Sonic 3D Blast from Taxman in such resolution. With tap-screen controls.

My dad got himself one of these gems when they came out... boy did he have fun

>pinball was actually pretty decent
>interactive encyclopedia not so much...

>>2263812
Try laser lords. It's surprisingly fun for philips cdi.
crap gameplay though

>>2262108
That password theme though...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtFxpXApRJo

>>2262091
Ugh, thankfully I only ever rented it. My sympathies to anyone unfortunate enough to own it

>>2262118
I never got the hate for this game

It was fun. I even have the opening theme cataloged in my humming playlist

>New games were a treat and few
>Heard I was getting a new game
>That innocent hype full of trust followed by confusion and despair

I know that feeling too well. Pic related, except it was for NES

>>2262679
Harsh, I got that new on a birthday

Years after my parents learned trying to force a book on a kid doesn't work

>>2262929
That's fucking funny

I hustled my way into playing Pokemon, I convinced my parents to buy the strategy guide just to read as a magazine and brought that to school and became THE Pokemon authority allowed to play anyone's game

God it was so fun problem solving as a kid. Little pressure and all of the rewards.

>>2262112
>>2262116
This is why I rented everything before buying.

>>2267812
To be fair, there was only one game I ever wanted to really buy after I rented it so I get why all the attempts to sell rather than let second hand markets bleed them out

And that game is non /vr/

>>2262589
I never knew Chou Aniki was on the NES.

>>2267810
That's how I got my first game system

>No, mom, I just want to appreciate the cool box art
>A day later I have the system

:^)

>>2267812
I rented Mario is Missing and it ruined my weekend

I rented Mario is Missing for SNES a couple times as a kid, I dunno why but I kind of liked it. I've played it since and it's repetitive as hell, but for what it is it's not awful. Mario's Time Machine was shit though.

I wanted to rent Mario is missing, kept putting it off. Then when I finally got around to it, the game was taken off theri shelves. It would be years before I knew that I dodged a bullet that day.

I played alot of other people's burns. The Atari Jaguar was fun for me, but burn-esque. My uncles thought getting my grandma webtv would be a good idea. (It wasn't)

The only game I experienced and regretted was Blues Brothers for SNES. It was corney and I just didn't click with it like I did other games I tried.

I can include Final Fantasy 2 (or 3? The one with the moogle on the cover ) on this list but that is purely because I was so young I didn't understand the concept of it. I played Super mario RPG just fine, and was drawn to that cute little moogle, but when turning the game on I thought I was behind on the storyline because I hadn't played the first couple and promptly returned it.

In a way, I burned myself.

>>2262996

>Making up a story this bad

>Rental copy of DK 64 magically still comes with ex pak.

Yeah right dude.

>>2268315
He's not lying, I did the same thing only with Majora's Mask. The rental place by me would give you an expansion pack only with DK64, for whatever reason, so I had to rent both at the same time.

I'm not sure why you would think he made that up.

>>2268315
Not that anon, but I did the same thing with Majoras Mask.

Holywood Video used to have the expansion pack with DS 64 because iirc it was the only game that you didn't have to buy it separately with and they were required to let you rent out anything that came with the original game.

>>2268861
*DK64

>>2268257
The game you returned was Final Fantasy 6, originally released in the west as FF3.

You kind'a blew it on that one.

>bought pic related when I was a kid for the gameboy, thinking it was a platformer

oh boy did I regret this decision...

" Oh boy, this is gonna be like house of the dead meets resident evil, this is gonna be so awesome!".

Meh...feels like the resident evil play station franchise's retarded cousin.

>>2268257

webtv was my first internet access

I don't know what I expected, but not this. Not this.....

>>2271341

On the flip side, Eek does have a rockin' Dean Evans soundtrack (who did, among other things, the soundtrack for the SNES Waterworld game). Come to think of it, Evans did a lot of cool soundtracks for not-so-cool games.

>>2269609
That game is like a shittier version of Hatris.

>>2262679
well it does say you need it on the cover dumb ass

>>2267805
but those were good games if you gave then a chance...

>>2262684
well it sounds like OH YEAH, so it has to be awesome, right?

>>2269609
>>2271481
I had it for the NES as a kid, it was one of those weird games where I knew it was shitty but I was completely addicted to it anyhow

>>2262684
>and it can only be connect via HDMI and we only had CRTs
That's pretty hilarious, since it was originally marketed on kickstarter as a gaming system for people in countries that are mostly low income.

>>2271512
>That's pretty hilarious, since it was originally marketed on kickstarter as a gaming system for people in countries that are mostly low income.

You know you can get a cheap ass lcd tv for like 50 bucks now right?

>>2271545
>implying that most poor people don't just hold onto their tube tvs anyhow.

>>2262679
It's alright man, the game sucks ass anyway.

>>2262091
this was my first game rental burn.

i'm pretty sure i even rented it again, like a year later, thinking that there was NO WAY it was as shitty as i remembered

double burn.

>>2262929
yer mum was a good goy

>>2262118
I got so far when I was a kid but could never beat it. I liked it a lot sure it was way different than most sonic games but it had chill music and the gameplay was interesting.

Nintendo was into deceiving people into thinking they were buying a Mario platformer in the 90s, many people who bought Wario Land and Yoshi's Island espected a traditional Mario platformer.
Although no one got mad with those games because they were great, unlike Mario is missing.

>>2262390
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>>2262173
I remember asking for Mario Is Missing and a cool clerk at Funcoland told me it was terrible. I ended up getting Bomberman instead for my GB.

>>2262091
>Dad and I walked to the video store when they were selling their games
>Bought this, Itchy & Scratchy, Bassin's Black Bass
>Liked them all

>>2273042
That was honest of them.