/vr/ - Retro Games

Ports were trash and the cabinets were difficult to maintain.

Underrated?

Dragon's Lair is a classic and ported to pretty much all the older consoles and computers, even the NES has a port.
It was an arcade hit for the reasons you said. Nowdays, doing QTEs isn't really that much fun because it's not a novelty.

If I was to play a QTE interactive movie, I'd choose to play Time Gal though.

>>2550250
Sums up my feelings pretty much exactly. Down to Time Gal even.

>>2550240
>gameplay
you literally press a button when the light flashes nigger
I love me some mad avenger though

>>2550267
>ROAD avenger
fixed. what the hell, where did that come from

>>2550240
But those aren't even the best laserdisc game.

back in the day the marketing made it seem like you really were INSIDE these laserdisc game
what a ripoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lyTasMAYic

>>2550240
>Innovative gameplay
Innovative yes, gameplay no.

expensive eye candy that was more of a curiosity than a legitimate arcade game. At its core it's just memorization and trial and error

>>2550250
People on /vr/ call everything that isn't Mario underrated, no matter how popular or critically acclaimed it is. Pretending that they're the only one that likes something makes them feel special.

Prepare your anuses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l1BK53mFvw

Pic also related

The original arcade versions were great and innovative. The console ports, which aren't ports at all but full on remakes, are utter crap.

the XBOX 360 version may actually be a true port since a console that can handle Skyrim can surely handle an arcade game from the 80s.

>>2550313
The "classic" animated quicktime laserdisc games can be recreated quite accurately in DVD format playable on PS2/Xbox etc and most commercial DVD players. There are official versions of Dragon's Lair 1 & 2 and Space Ace.

>>2550250
>I'd choose to play Time Gal
Who wouldn't. There's a guy on Pixiv posting Famicom style Time Gal art; I'm assuming it's just for kicks, but it still looks neat.

>>2550458
We /Time Gal/ now.

>>2550360
I played the DVD port of DL. It was solid, through I was too young to appreciate it at the time. Hell, I still don't like it that much.

>>2550547
Dragons Lair 1 is simple enough to memorize completely in a day and get into a very pleasant zone where you can sit down and guide Dirk through a slightly different adventure of saving Daphne anyone you get the itch, literally like playing an interactive animated film. Time Warps levels are much much longer and more grueling, for when you're ready for a challenge.

>>2550458
I always liked the music in TIme Gal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVFLz0FXTnc

Some other underrated laserdisc games are
Road Avenger/Blaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qK6vrvmR5A
and Ninja Hayate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFH2oUgtRBo

>>2550609
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciMTAcqdh4o

There's a Spanish laserdisc game with an unwieldy title, looks similar to Dragon's Lair. Anybody know what I'm thinking of?

I remember playing Dragon's Lair on laserdisc and hating it.

They made a Laserdisc game involving a bunch of Lupin the Third movies called 'Cliff Hanger'. It was pretty cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc5MKWJ7j6Y

I remember seeing DL at a Showbiz Pizza, it was the first time I'd ever seen an arcade game that cost 50 cents, which was way too many quarters in my little world.

>>2550638
Esh's Aurunmilla

>>2550686
Thank you, I don't know why I thought it was Spanish, the name is retarded though.

I was just gonna make a thread about laserdisc arcade games. I was reading a good magazine article circa 2000 about them. Badlands and Cliffhanger have some nice 80s Japanese animation. I am pretty sure the latter is literally Lupin

The Time Gal arcade machine is extraordinarily rare: just the laserdisc alone from this machine sold for $3000 the last time one showed up on Yahoo Japan.

A laser game collector in America, determined to have an arcade Time Gal, took matters into his own hands and built a replica from scratch! He found the original control panel and coin door in Japan and recreated the cab and artwork. A Laseractive was put in the cab to provide the game, and the results were fucking amazing.

>>2551028

>>2550664
This is such a sloppily made game it's almost comical. Just license the first two Lupin movies and slap button prompts in random scenes from Castle of Cagliostro while using Mystery of Mamo footage for Game Overs and hope for the best. They couldn't even get a dialogue-less audio track so whenever they're dubbing vocals they're literally just dubbing over the still-very-audible Japanese voices unless there's no music in the scene in which case they'd just mute the whole track. I can't imagine besides getting the license and manufacturing the cabinet this game cost anything to make.

Badlands is pretty funny for being a Western themed game that is still incredibly Japanese. Lots of goofy scenes in that one.

>>2551028
Thats awesome. Now they just need this Reika standee.

>>2550287
More like Nintendo in general. Which is fair considering the first party games usuallY overshine everything else.

>>2550360
Good to know. Thanks anon.

>>2551175
One thing I liked was that they put in a few bits of cut content for Dragon's Lair, like the spear-chucking pigs.

Also I have to bring this up every time there's an LD game discussion - the Space Battleship Yamato arcade game by Taito:

http://ourstarblazers.com/vault/363/

Someone did a "reconstruction" of it from the disc footage using a DAPHNE-like program, but besides this article there's pretty much no record of it being seen in the wild - based on what Eldred was saying, it was actually released.

>>2550308
>RDI was putting so much into this, they even tried to make a home-console version by making a home-console out of the arcade hw

>To this day the Official DVD release has "Arcade" and "Home" versions.

Fucking Dragon's Lair: Time Warp
>hottie princess is one of my first boners ever
>and then the wizard puts the ring on her...
Just fuck my whole childhood up fam

gotta admit these ''games´´ had awesome art direction