/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2666965
You never beat the first level?

>>2666965
My score record as a kid was something like 90,000,000. Yeah, 90 million, not 9 million. Never saw anyone get anywhere near that irl... but of course the internet has probably raped that score somewhere.

Honestly I could have even done better than that in the same game but I was getting bored and just wanted it to be over already. Can't believe I still remember details of that one game where I made that score, kek.

>>2666965
>that display nostalgia
Well OP has clearly found a way to time travel via Win XP and is communicating with modern day /vr/ from the past. Impressive.

>>2666965
>Someone has to have gone full autism and completed it by now.
>Everyone who bothers to accomplish anything must be autistic

Fuck off back to your adhd degenerate culture kid.

>>2667458
>sperging over 3D pinball
really dude? not even OP

>>2667494
true though.

hard stuff from 20yrs ago are outside the boundaries of anyone today. Anyone, like myself, who can actually do it -whatever "it" is- is autist to the 10th degree by default.... why?

however, millennials are fucking retarded and I love watching the struggles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njzAyjAFCMI

>>2668729
sad

>>2668729
As if nostalgiafags are any better when it comes to this sort of thing. Even self-proclaimed "hardcore" gamers like Mike Matei are so fucking dumb that they can't beat simple bosses like Dr. Wily or the Yellow Devil without having to abuse a gamebreaking glitch. And don't you dare fucking tell me that the pause trick is "justified" for that fight because you'd basically be admitting that you're too stupid to memorize a pattern that only requires six jumps to avoid.

>>2668729
its just a figure of speech man. Sorry if i hurt your feelings.

>>2668729
that thing is fucking scary and clearly evil. someone should just kill it already if it's not yet dead

>>2666965
Pinball's not that hard, dumbass.

Aw shit niggas. First try in well over a decade. Such a good game.

>Download the game from here
http://microsoft-3d-pinball-space-cadet.soft32.com/
>post high score itt

Let's see who wins. Protip: be sure to turn the music on in options because it's dank as fuck.

>>2668861
Haha I remember that music being pretty sweet.

My big brother did.

>>2668861
>dank as fuck

Phrases cringey redditards say for $400, Alex

>>2668889
u mad bro?

>>2666965
I've got the same background on my computer.

>>2667445
>My score record as a kid was something like 90,000,000. Yeah, 90 million, not 9 million. Never saw anyone get anywhere near that irl... but of course the internet has probably raped that score somewhere.

I myself got a bit over 215 million only with the first ball in a 2-3 hours session, pic related is when i lost my first ball.

>>2669330
then a bit later the game went crazy(pic related), and crashed, so I couldn't save the score.

>>2669330
Holy fuck. You win m8. So what happens when you get all the yellows?

>>2669330
>>2669332
Well well looks like you got owned mr 90,000,000.

>>2669410
yeah, fuck. hue, at least I acknowledged that in all probability the internet had demolished that score. I was under no delusions m8.

>>2669410
>>2669435
I'm pretty sure even my score is nothing compared to what others can achieve.

>>2669349
I have no idea, you can clearly see i was still using XP when i took those, so it's many years ago, and i haven't played SPace Cadet since i switched to 7

>>2667458
>3D pinball
>accomplishing anything
eh

>>2668729
So you post a video where half the kids are generation z and call millenials (born from 1980 to 2000) retarded? You probably are one.

>>2669497
>millenials
why do so few people spell this word right? jesus

>>2669330
Very nice sir.

>>2668729
damn, that azn cutie could get it tho

How did you all get 3D Pinball on Win XP? I still have a computer with it but there's no pinball. It only was on my Win 95 machine.

>>2669501
>why
>jesus

How come people can't press the fucking shift key to start a sentence? Jesus.

>>2669893
maybe bcuz not all of us r on a computer but using a cellphone instead cuntflake, it's 4chan not grammar school

>>2669442
>and i haven't played SPace Cadet since i switched to 7

there are online version compatible whit 7

I've came this close but soon the lights started to flicker all over the place

>>2667450
>Time Travel
>XP
I'm using it right now, here, in the year 2005

>>2672336
>>2667450
jokes aside, whats wrong with never upgrading computers if mine still runs any game i wanna play?

I've got a 2.4 ghz processor and 2 gigs of ram isnt that still pretty good?

>>2672542
on a side note, i just upgraded my mouse. I got one that has the wheel in between the clickers it's pretty nice i must say.

>>2672542
No joke, I had like 250 MB of RAM up until a year and a half ago. I never played games on it, but it got to the point Youtube wouldn't even run anymore so it forced me to upgrade.

3d pinball is all well and good, but solitaire is where it was at for me.

I'm going to stop when I get to 10000.

I figured out how to get 3d pinball in windows 10!

My pinball got stuck in the bumpers and I let it sit for 4 hours racking up points.

>>2672971
My dad played the shit out of freecell, he almost lost it when he encountered the unsolvable one.

>>2669867
Just download it. It's a normal game like everything else.

>>2672932
>No joke, I had like 250 MB of RAM up until a year and a half ago.
How? The last time I had that little ram it was 1998.
I have a bag of about ~60 sticks of 512/1GB/2GB sticks of DDR memory that I just picked up for free.
Just raid people tossing out old machines or something. 128/256 sticks were common and if you just ganked them from shit people were tossing or getting rid of you'd have 4 sticks for a gig. I still haven't seen less than a gig of memory since 1999 for my main machines.

>>2669898
Cell phones automatically make the first letter uppercase, dumb fuck.

>>2673619
>256 mb of ram in 1998

Bullshit. Not saying it would be absolutely impossible, I'm just saying you're full of shit.

>>2673657
No they dont. I'm on my phone now and it's not doing it.

>>2673619
I bought an off the shelf PC at Staples around 2003. I was on dial-up until 2006 so having a slow computer wasn't even noticeable really. All the programs I needed to use worked on it, so there was no need to upgrade. The only real reason I did was because I wanted to use a drawing tablet that only worked on Win7 or higher. I've only drawn two pictures with it.

>>2673748
What kind of phone is it.

>>2673661
my packard bell with windows 95 i eventually upgraded to the max of 32, so 256 might have been possible by 1998.

>>2674115
A cell phone duh.

>>2674145
I know it was because a computer I have was capable, but to do so would have cost over $1,300 on top of the fact the computer itself cost nearly $4,000

>>2674213
yeah, computers were fucking expensive back then, the future has changed for the better in that respect.

>>2674219
Indeed they were. I can remember paying over $20 for 10 packs of floppy disks. I also remember how stoked I was to get a 25 pack of CD-Rs for under $60.

>>2674235
It was cheaper to buy bargain games on floppy discs and using them than buying new ones for a time, that was always my trick.

I think i still have the anarchist cookbook on one on a crappy 2d shooter floppy.

>>2674243
>on one on a

turns out lsd for over a year is a poor choice

>>2668729
That middle eastern kid was doing alright.

I'm not very good at pinball, can anyone give me some advice? I mostly try to not drop the ball, and focus on how the ball will bounce off of different objects (in attempts to avoid dangerous angles) but I guess I'm not good at this or something.

>>2672542
The two big ones are system security, and software compatibility. For example, I remember reading that Chrome will have limited support for XP, while Firefox will continue to support it for as long as it remains a relevant OS. Windows XP has more holes than Swiss cheese, but most of them have been plugged up with updates and anti-viruses. Since it's such an old operating system, it has some flaws as well, namely it doesn't really support SSDs, and the search function is kinda wonky. Neither is a real significant issue, at least to someone who knows their way around computers. But one real issue is that older operating systems were typically 32-bit, and 32-bit systems could only access so much RAM, I think 3GB total for both system and video. And I'm assuming that 32-bit applications will be discontinued eventually, since 64-bit is the new standard.

There was this guy who bought a laptop with Vista on it, but it was password protected. I offered to wipe it and put XP on it for a price, but he said that he needed to make his money with it (I guess he's a DJ or something?), then he'd pay me. So I gave to him in good faith. Bastard didn't pay me, conveniently a bunch of reasons kept coming up, so much for trying to help. That said, it had a dual core AMD CPU, and I believe 512MB of RAM. It fucking flew with Windows XP.

>>2673910
>spoilered text
I know that feel, bruh. Pencil and paper just feels so much better tbh.

>>2674314
1. You need to do the "missions." You'll see that the board points arrows of where you should hit the ball, and there will be text on the right telling you what you have to do. E.g. 'upgrade flaps'. If you successfully do a whole mission before losing a life you'll get a huge score bonus.

2. There are ways you can get extra balls/replays. If you hit the ball four times up that "hyperdrive" thing on the right, giving you four lines, you'll get a message saying "Extra ball available." However that doesn't mean you have the extra ball yet. To actually get the extra ball you have to get the ball to fall down one of those shoots on the right or left that then blast the ball upwards. If the ball goes down one of the chutes while the extra ball is available you'll get it, and a message will say "Extra ball" on the right. Extra ball is basically an extra life.

I don't know how exactly you get replay ball but if you get it in the wormhole sometimes one of the two red lights will light up at the bottom, meaning that if you die you'll get a free replay.

3. There are other little tips and tricks for more score. When you start for instance, don't blast the ball all the way up. Try to get three lines and you'll get a 75,000 score bonus. Then there's things like upgrading the bumpers. You'll see a yellow light when your ball rolls segments. When you get three lights the bumpers upgrade and are more powerful/give more score. You can control the lights a bit by hitting the left or right bumper. Prob don't make sense, my bad.

4. Other ways to help is to get shit like the centre blockage thing after getting three of the hyperdrive things. You can also get gravity well by doing the hyperdrive thing five times in a row but I don't like gravity well tbh.

5. The rest is all reflexes and being in control, having good aim at where you want the ball to go. Hope this helps! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

>>2674425
gravity well does more harm then good imo

>>2673619
Man that's impressive. I had an old Dell with 64 mb (later upgraded to 192) that I used for ten years, but I replaced that in 2009 with my current computer.

>>2673661
Computers didn't cost 4000 unless you were retarded. Even buying no name brands still only cost like 1500, but you could together one with parts online for 1K or under.

In 1999 I had 768MB ram and that did actually cost ~900 bucks. Bringing the total of that machine up to about near 2K. About on par for cost of the 'high' end shit dell etc would rip you off for but with basically everything top tier except the 30 dollar a piece dual CPU.

As far as saying I'm full of sit, well congratulations then. I don't give a honestly don't give a fuck it doesn't change reality and the fact that I had boatloads of rams. Though I could have gotten away with significantly less, it was still nice to have for some things.
You can go count the max memory for the Abit BH6 and the Abit BP6 as maxing out with 384 / 768 MB of RAM with 3 slots. They could, so I did.

>>2674865
I bought a few other machines over time. Like six or eight or something. I'd buy moderate hardware and upgrade some things and slap the old hardware the shittier cheap cases I bought for like 25 bucks along with any worse odds and ends like a crappier soundcard or using onboard and put up relatively minimal but passable hardware in it and I had my own LAN up and friends could stop by and play games. Those cases were fucking miserable to work with though, my main case was glorious 120 dollar full tower beast though. But those chinsy cheap cases sliced up my knuckles and hands a bit. It was kind of nice. I still have the hardware floating around, but I'm basically down to one machine these days and no one plays multiplayer anymore. People keep saying they want too, we all have internet and low ping broadband, never happens. Life catches up with them and we haven't really found any decent replacement games as well.

>>2666965
>Someone has to have gone full autism and completed it by now.

Or they had literally nothing to do at work for several hours, no Internet access, no games to install on their workstation, and nobody caring enough to keep an eye on them.

>>2677039
Not everyone has the perfect job anon

>>2676776
>1998
>Parts online
Yeah, because that was so expansive and easy. Plus, if you didn't already have a computer, then what?

>>2673593
>My dad played the shit out of freecell, he almost lost it when he encountered the unsolvable one.

My mom once decided to go and solve every combination sequentially, but I don't she went through more than a few hundred games.

Also, Freecell up until Vista was brutal because you could only undo 1 movement, and if you selected or deselected any stack, it counted as a new "move", so you couldn't undo anything anymore. In Vista they reprogrammed it from scratch, and you could now undo the entire game.

IF WHEN I SAY I MIGHT FADE LIKE A SIGH IF I STAY
YOU MINIMIZE MY MOVEMENT ANYWAY
I MUST PERSUADE YOU ANOTHER WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Bitches don't know 'bout the Future Pinball recreation.

>tfw the only anon who actually played Full Tilt Pinball and its sequel

>>2669330
Best way to rack up score is to shoot it passed the white flipper, then the pinball will shoot right to your left flipper - if you time it correctly you'll shoot it back into the hyper drive or whatever it's called.

>>2666965
>Has anyone ever beaten 3d pinball, im talking about getting all ten yellow lights on.
I did once with a little help from hidden test.

It just continues like normal.

>>2672542
None really, you just have to know how to keep the trash out. A desktop pager, a wallpaper shuffler, foobar2k, and a few programs you use specifically should be the only thing running most of the time.
Hell, I am running Firefox with 60 addons and it still works well on 1 GB of ram. XP stronk.

aww yea

>>2679663
>Hell, I'm running Firefox with 60 addons it it still works well on 1GB of ram
When will people stop trying to shill Firefox with these lies? You can't even run Firefox bone stock with less than 1 gig of ram.

>>2679723
I think you gotta learn a thing or two about optimization :)

>>2679728
Nice shoop.

>>2679732
Yup. Within four minutes. I am a photoshop expert amirite?
Why is it so hard to accept that you know shit about shit? You one of those guys who run 7 with full transparency on laptops?
And I don't know what happened to the FPS of the video, didn't have screenrecording software and I am too lazy to search something good.

>>2679775
>Why is it so hard to accept that you know shit about this?
Idk, why is it so hard to accept that I know shit about this?

>Idk what happened to the FPS
It's because you have Firefox open and it's raping your system resources.

>>2679786
Er, no, I am pretty sure that it was the recorder or ffmpeg that fucked up.

>>2679803
I like how your video stutters at spots. I had to play it like 15 times to make sure that it was the video and not my internet connection.

>>2679809
Shitty android cammera. You can see the artifacts when it happens. If the problem was the computer itself the video would go just fine.
Look, if we were talking about WIndows 7 alright, but this is XP we are talking about, I've used this in machines with 128 MB of ram, 16 of vram, and no soundcard.
It doesn't run at 9999999 FPS, I can't play vidya with it running, but it runs as long as you don't have anything especially heavy like FFMpeg going on.

>>2679813
I know it wasn't the computer, I'm just observing that it's a little humorous.

>128mb of ram
You mean the recommended amount?

Look, dude, Firefox is a resource hogging pile of shit. It was cool back when it was that, Netscape, or IE, but those days have passed.

>>2679829
>Firefox is a resource hogging pile of shit
Yeah, five years ago. Now it works pretty well.
>but those days have passed.
Do you exist in another timestream? Because the alternatives are chrome, opera (AKA chrome) and Internet Explorer, and none of them is as good as firefox.

>>2679838
>Chrome
>Opera (nothing like Chrome. Closer to Firefox, actually)
>Safari
>IE
>Microsoft Edge
>Torch
>IceWeasle

>>2679861
>>Chrome
Botnet, shit addons sdk, shit addons library.
>Opera
Is literally chrome now.
>Safari
Ew
>IE
I've heard that the newer versions are good-ish, but I am not updating to W10 and it still lacks the ammount and quality of addons that Firefox has.
>Edge
So IE?
Also it's integrated with Cortana, so it's a botnet.
Normally I don't give a fuck about botnets (I used to use chrome) but search for an article on just how much it spies into you. It literally records with your mic and uploads it to weird urls.
>Torch
Chrome with a music player. Or was it a torrent client?
>Iceweasel
That's a firefox fork, which makes your argument null.

>>2679356
>It just continues like normal.
lol
I bet some autist did that shit and when he finally did he probably felt like total shit
what a cop out though, seriously
they could have at least thrown in some crazy sound effect and maybe make lightning hit the board or something and change all the lights or make the whole board flash, ffs anything

>>2668729
>subtle_finebros_shilling.root

TAKE WHAT IS MINE
HOLD WHAT IS MINE
SUFFOCATE WHAT IS MINE
BURY WHAT'S MINE
SOON THE WATER WILL COME
AND CLAIM WHAT IS MINE
I MUST LEAVE IT BEHIND
AND CLIMB TO A NEW PLACE -
WATER'S RISIN UP ON ME
SAID THE WATER'S RISIN UP ON ME
THOUGHT THE SUN WOULD COME DELIVER ME
BUT THE TRUTH HAS COME TO PUNISH ME INSTEAD

GROUND BREAKS DOWN RIGHT UNDER ME
CLEANSE AND PURGE ME IN THE WAAAAATTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR