/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2645963
There's almost nothing on earth, games or otherwise that's more 90's than Comix Zone.

>>2645963

>early 90s feel to it
>posts game that clearly has an 80s theme

Streets of Rage

>>2645974
Are you high? The Simpsons' show started in '89 but is strongly rooted in the 90's. Also there wasn't a single 80's Simpson's video game of any fashion

>>2645986
The game he linked (Kid Chameleon), you autistic autist.

>>2645991
Well bad on me for not clicking the link. Just assumed it was Simpsons something or other. But Kid Chameleon was also a 90's game so....

>>2645980
Seconding this.

Although SoR 2 was 90's as fuck, especially in the music.
And SoR3 was very 90's in the sense that most enemies in the game are latino and no one bat an eye because of it.

Day of the Tentacle

Turtles in Time

Toejam & Earl

Boogerman

Cool Spot

>>2645974

To be fair the early 90s were just an extension of the late 80s.

space harrier

>>2646298
That's kinda how every decade is, the first two years are mostly the previous decade's death throes. The 90s didn't really truly begin until 1992.

>>2646924
This current decade is just now starting to become its own thing. Halfway into it.

Quake

Earthworm Jim

>>2645970
Toejam and earl?

>>2645970
>>2645980


These would have been my picks. Something about the Genesis just feels so nostalgic. Maybe because it was more popular in the US so they geared more of the games to our culture? Even Sonic feels very rooted in the 90's to me.

>>2646927

Is it bad that I can't really notice any crucial difference between the 00s and the 10s?
The only thing that comes to mind is that the 00s had the pseudo-beatles haircut with the fangs to the side thing and the 10s has the "cupcake" haircut with short hair below and big puff of hair above.

>>2647045
>fangs to the side
bangs*

>>2647045
You're forgetting that godawful thing where girls shave half their head and comb the rest over.

>>2645963
boy those level designers were some masochistic fuckers

>>2647045
Everything post 9/11 is a blur to me

I always think of this game when I hear "90s vidya". Especially the soundtrack.

>>2645963

Damn, I had a Genesis as a kid but somehow I never played Kid Chameleon, looks fun as fuck.

>>2647093

Soul Hackers is more mid to late 90s, but yes, absolutely 90s. Although the game itself is not set in the 90s, it's a very 90s vision of the future.

Amiga 500 days, yay!

>>2645963
Anything on the Megadrive

>>2647062
I love that wall of death level where if you took the wrong path, you'll reach a dead-end with a big giant sign that says "Too Bad".

It was the 90's and there was time for Klax

>>2648145
AshKetchumplayingPopNMusic.jpg

>>2647045
No, it's not bad, because it's true. There are no real differences any more, because our cultures have stagnated.

Chalk it up to the internet, to globalization, to whatever, but we have become homogenized to utter mediocrity.

Though it is interesting to me to think about the differences from say, the 1890's to 1915, the way technology advanced then being similar to now and how maybe another Great War is what we need, perhaps, to find ourselves again.

Aladdin

>>2645986
>GAME

>>2646917
No

Jet Grind Radio always feels like 90's game to me but at the same time also feels timeless

>>2648182
Dude, no. It's just that change is gradual and it takes a good 15 years before you notice how much shit really has changed. That sort of epiphany came to me with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. That was just a normal show like any other when I was a kid. It wasn't until I caught a rerun of it 5 years ago that I went "Holy shit, this is 90s as fuck!" Give it another 10 years and you'll be able to distinguish the 00s from the 10s quite easily.

>>2645963
Billy la Banlieue.

>>2645963
Why does Bart Simpson look like Fry from Futurama?

>>2650031
Please tell me you're joking

>>2650043
It's a common /tv/ troll from before they turned into That Baneposting Board.

>>2648431
It's more 80's with all the punk stuff.
Plus game is from 1986.

>>2648378
>>2648378
This. Also, you usually can't see the important changes while they're happening. It's when you look back that you see how huge they were. Sincerely, oldfag.

>>2648378
Go watch the episode where Will and Carlton go to jail. Carlton says something that would probably break tumblr in half if he had said it today.

>>2645996
Poor reading comprehension again. 90s feel. He said it felt nothing like the 90s.

>>2650157

Too lazy to track it down - tell me.

>>2650525
Not him, but i'm guessing its Will trying to get Carlton to sing and Carlton saying, "this is retarded"

>>2650178
Not him, but Kid Chameleon is totally 90's

>>2647045
The big difference in the '10s is the meteoric rise of social media and a sudden jump to Left-leaning beliefs in the American public.

>>2647045
The Internet totally went to shit in the past 10 years. It used to be you could browse most sites without javascript, which gave a lot of freedom in selecting the web browser you wanted to use (I alternated between text mode Lynx and Links-2 in graphical mode, and occasionally Opera). Now you're basically stuck using one of the big name browsers, or you can't even view most sites correctly. On top of that, they get more bloated every year, so you need a fast machine with lots of memory even to do really basic stuff (which is just plain retarded, and not at all any kind of "progress"). Also, complicated and lots of code = more security holes and botnet. Everything about the Internet is a fucking joke now.

>HAIL TO THE KING, BABY
>IT'S TIME TO KICK ASS AND CHEW BUBBLEGUM, AND I'M ALL OUTTA GUM
>BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS
>YOUR FACE, YOUR ASS... WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
>EAT SHIT AND DIE
>GONNA RIP EM A NEW ONE
>GROOVY!

I'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL

>HAIL TO THE KING, BABY
>IT'S TIME TO KICK ASS AND CHEW BUBBLEGUM, AND I'M ALL OUTTA GUM
>BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS
>YOUR FACE, YOUR ASS... WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
>EAT SHIT AND DIE
>GONNA RIP EM A NEW ONE
>GROOVY!

I'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL
You're reading this in my voice

Is it fair to say that the '90s was easily the greatest decade fucking ever?

>>2652128
Yes, but watch out for the edgy kids who will try to deny it using some lame US ads and feature films.

>>2652128
>Native american protag that can carry an arsenal as heavy as doomguy's or duke nukem's. Or heavier maybe
>You fight dinosaurs [take in mind, the 90's was all about the dinosaurs because of Jurassic park] Hell, the second final boss is a Cyber T-rex.
>implying this isn't 90's as fuck

>>2652128
I prefer 1985-1995. Best days. My Amiga days.

>>2652180
and i didn't meant to quote, whoops.

>>2652128
I'm sorry, but that would be the roaring 20s.

Primal Rage

Fatman!
nunununununununun
Fatman!

>>2653210
And Boy Blubber!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoAZsXOTJy4

Streets of Rage is early 90s as fuck.

Comix Zone is 90s as fuck, but in a mid-90s style where grudge has taken over but a little bit of early 90s / 80s flair is still visible. Comix Zone is more 90s than the actual 90s.

>>2652128
80s was a pretty solid decade too

>>2653542
>>2652128
Yea those decades just seemed to take themselves less seriously
It was nice and kind of a campy silly time where everything seemed like it could be fun or funny
Now it just seems so serious

>>2652016
>literally the best ventrilo harassment video

"oh my god, someone ban him please"

Any of the early Microprose games:
Master of Orion
Covert Action
Civilizations
Railroad Tycoon

It's like you assholes forgot about Sid Meier games dominating the PC in the early 90's.

>>2653216
Wow, fat shaming much? WTF dude....smh.

>>2653676

>>2653682
Right, because making in fun of people with medical issues is fun.

Wow this board is fucked up.

P.S. Fuck you bro.

>>2653689
I guess you're either trolling or here for your first time if you think /vr/ is "fucked up". We're probably one of the most sane boards on 4chan.

>>2653717
Well I guess I'm insane for being offended over the sexist shit in the Cloud x Tifa thread and the fat shaming in this thread.

Really fucking uncool.

>>2653726
I know I'm being trolled now, but still I reply...

A retro video games image sharing board is a strange place to make an SJW-styled complaint. Do you think complaining about the early 90's game Fatman's lack of political correctness is going to found a grass-roots movement?

Do you realize the level of depravity, hate, and pretty much pure bigotry that are found on the other boards on this site? Go there, harass them.

>>2653741
I think I should take this up with the mods. I'm not going to argue with some apeish shithead on a board exalting hatred.

>>2653741
This. Go bitch at /fit/ who have actual and regular fat-shaming threads. They'll tell you the same thing I will which is to go back to tumblr

>>2653750
Nah, I'm gonna make sure the mod takes care of this thread.

>>2653746
>>2653751

kek, OK, I wasted my time replying. I caught you, you dastardly troll!

Time to go play some /vr/ (master of orion for me) then off to the gym, catch you later Fatman!

M.C. Kids, but I'm posting the PAL version cover because it's pure 90s lulz.

>>2653756
Enjoy your three day vacation, shitheel.

>>2650140
As a general rule, I'd say you can only really comment on and make comparisons between era's at least a decade ago. For instance, you could meaningfully compare the early-mid 2000's to the 90's, but comparing the former to today is shaky ground.

On a side note, the present will always appear to be a period of cultural mediocrity because it takes time for classics to be noticed as such. When it comes to culture, your immediate surroundings are the hardest thing to see.

>>2651974
>Left-leaning beliefs

Eh, American politics has cyclical tendencies, so much of the general trend can be attributed to everybody hating Bush.

The particular manifestations, especially on the internet, are a much more interesting matter. Group polarization is a well-documented phenomenon, and the internet accelerates it as everyone goes off into echo chambers, causing more Tumblr and /pol/ types. The former is more powerful because the far-right was viewed with greater disgust than the far-left well before the current situation, whatever the reasons for that may be.

>>2652000
I miss the days of stumbling on relatively simple HTML pages about Japan-only Famicom games or the development of Sonic games.

>>2653585
Pic related is why we're so much more serious now (the early 2000's greater seriousness can be explained by 9/11, but even then there was more levity to be had).

1989, but whatever, close enough

The fighting game craze of early 90's...

All those mascot games...

Desert Storm related stuff...

Those unforgettable iconic games.
This is Shadow of the Beast level.

Finally some good pinball games!

>>2655034
JESUS FUCK I remember this game. I only had the demo on my fuckin DOS computer. Goddamn. Just seeing that elbowing siholette brings me back. Thank you anon

>>2648182
>>2648378
>>2650140

I guess it's true that you can't notice differences while you're living through the changes.

Anyway, what's the trademark of the 00s? what will be the stereotypes of the 00s? Right now, we're going through a 90s nostalgia rushdown because 90s kids are now in their 20s, so in about 5 or 10 years we should be having 00s nostalgia... I wonder how it will be... sorry if this is off topic but I think /vr/ is one of the best boards to discuss this sort of stuff.

I guess Jumping Flash is pretty 90s

>>2652128
I was born in '93 so yeah, best year ever.

>>2647045
Netscape
runescape
Britney Spears christina Aguilera
Nickelodeon
Camp Lazlo
Cartoon network's painful experimentation phases
velcro
a droughtless california
Hipster used to be lumberjacks, now they're septums

>>2655172
those movie-esque glossy music videos

>ctrl+f
>no Mortal Kombat

C'mon /vr/ this is has to be the most 90s video game of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_65PioV_Ow