/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2744870
"This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games. Retro gaming means consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games on platforms launched in 1999 and earlier."

From the sticky.
Please read it next time before posting

>>2744884
>released literally two months into 2000
Thanks for the advice genius

>>2744892
Read the sticky.

Post 1999 games only count if they're a late entry on a 5th gen console like Dreamcast, N64, or PS1. Sims 1 is not such a case, so not retro. Sorry champ.

>>2744896
I did and I figured that such a small time difference would be fine, now just delete this and go lecture someone else

>>2744884
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>>2744898
It would be easier if you reported the threads you consider not retro instead of being vigilantes, it's pretty petty.

>>2744905
How is it petty to explain to OP that he's incorrect about the forum rules?

>>2744892
>literally two months
As opposed to a figurative two months?

>>2744884

Tell that to the fags in the Saga thread who are discussing browser games and PS2 titles.

>>2744917
THere's gonna be bleedover on a franchise that spans between retro and modern. It happens all the time here. However for a purely modern series like Sims, there's no excuse.

>>2744925

>majority of that current SaGa thread is discussing a browser game made not that long ago and the actual breakdown it's mechanics, or discussing a PS2 game

That is no bleedover. They're discussing things that are breaking the rules. If I am talking about C&C, Pokemon, Final Fantasy, or any other franchise, it is always the older titles with very rare spotlight on newer stuff. Why are they allowed to get away with it? SMT threads don't talk about newer titles or Persona 4.

>>2744870
Please follow board rules.
Not /vr/

>>2744929
What can I say, bro? You're absolutely right, and yet, you should consider pulling that stick out of your butt.

>>2744898
>people on this board still don't understand how DOS works

The first Sims game was made for PCs running on Windows 95 and Windows 98. Why do you think we have frequent Diablo II threads?

DOS was not gotten rid of entirely from Windows as an OS-Shell until Windows XP in 2001

>complains a game isn't retro
>bumps it to the top of the board

>>2744925
>However for a purely modern series like Sims, there's no excuse.
What does this mean? Why does The Sims '00 get clumped with The Sims 4? Does this mean Diablo 1 discussion should be gone because Diablo 3 is an active game elsewhere?

jesus christ.. can all the ass burger nazis just give the "not retro enough" argument a fucking rest already!!??? this all every single fucking thread turns into now. seriously anyone that isn't a mod and doesn't have any power to exercise just SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY!!!

ok. now let's talk SIMS...

>>2744983
Wow, you're not very bright.

>>2744884
wasnt it temporarily changed to 2001 for short time at one point?

>>2744991
>ok. now let's talk SIMS...
We can't since it's not retro. Maybe you should try out eightchan's /vr/.

>>2744997
Even if it did, what of it?

>>2745001
it should of stayed that way

>>2745004
but it didn't

>>2744870

I haven't played it in over 10 years but just seeing screenshots of it brings back great memories. That game looked so great. It had the best furniture of any of the Sims games, too.

>>2744901
Read the sticky

This board would be so much fucking better if people just let PS2 and GBA go, if only for the reason, that autistics shit up everything

We are in fucking 2015 already people.

>>2744884
>attempting to shut down discussion of an ancient game older than most of the faggots on here because of a two month technicality

Your a fucking faggot. The thread lives on. Go report one of the 15 different blatant shitposting threads right now.

>>2744870
>b-but it released 2 months after 2000!
a line must be drawn faggot

>>2744884
>"This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games. Retro gaming means consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games on platforms launched in 1999 and earlier."
>From the sticky.
>Please read it next time before posting
Fuck you.

>>2744870
The Sims 1 is one of my favorite games. I still play it to this day. The build mode music is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs5QGN-zhwM&list=PL22DFF37B18C4F943

Not OP but I don't see the big deal. Sims was developed in 1998/9 so it is retro at heart. Just because it got pushed back for a post-holiday release doesn't change the fact it IS a game from the 90s. Whatever, have your silly rules, sage and I'm out.

>implying 2000 isn't just a continuation of 1999

>>2744884
>platforms launched in 1999 and earlier

usually in PC the OS is considered the platform for a release

windows 98 came out in 1998

the sims 1 was released for windows 9x

carry on lads

>>2744898
Wasn't there a WIP dreamcast port? Or did I make that up?

Any way to play it in 1920x1080 without using a Hex editor?

>>2745142
Talk about grasping at straws...

>>2745004
Hell no, We wouldn't even get the good 6th gen consoles, like Xbox and Gamecube, we'd just get the Piece-of-Shit 2.

>>2745298
>console wars tier insults

good timesink but not retro

>>2744870
Not retro, bitch!

>>2744991
>now
It's always been like this.

Yet this is retro?

>>2745337
Exactly

>>2745337
yup, deal with it fgt.

>>2745337
>yfw if the ps2 was released just one year earlier, there would be games released in 2012 that are considered retro

>>2745337
It probably shouldn't be, but that's the rules, and unless the majority of the board desires a change or if someone can otherwise persuade our Japanese overlord to adjust the rules, the rules are the rules and should be followed for the sake of keeping the board as it is. Too much leeway and before you know it half the board will be Halo nostalgia or "you didn't have a proper childhood unless your XBOX360 RROD'd" threads.

>>2745337

The market for those games were for older people since it was on an older console.

The idea is to keep this board more mature. Eventually the ps2 and xbox community will be allowed in, but only once they have matured enough to not make the board shittier. So, maybe 5 more years and then their age will be 30?

>>2745371
>the market for those games was Brazil

FTFY.

>>2745371
The problem with this theory is that age doesn't always correlate with maturity. The worst shitposters on this board all claim to be 30-35, most often 31.

Even within the confines of /vr/, there are a lot of really shit threads that don't break any rules. Plenty of low effort threads that use a stock picture and less than five words that will end up getting hundreds of go-nowhere responses and baseless arguments. Console war threads are just one example. That Nintendo PlayStation thing keeps getting reposted with no noteworthy developments and every thread is packed with the worst kinds of people.

It doesn't matter how you limit the content with restrictive rules, there will always be those who want to ruin it for everyone. Letting in newer consoles will probably attract more people, but amongst them will be even more shitposters. If you give in and allow 6th gen, these people will be complaining about no 7th gen instead.

The /vr/ line has been drawn at the millennium and you can't move it, change it or get rid of it.

>>2745337
This is exactly why it's idiotic to define the board by a date. There is no black and white cut-off for what is old vs new.

>>2745434
>The worst shitposters on this board all claim to be 30-35, most often 31

I'm of the impression that the "I'm 30" post is meant as a shutdown response/argument and has little to do with the person's actual age (as in, they are probably much younger). Like, if you see some argument where someone is accused of being underage, be it due to preferences, posting style, whether or not they grew up with something, etc, I get the feeling that the stock response is the person claiming to be 30.

bunch of taddle tales that have never bent any rules in their lives in here.

but the SIMS chat goes on...

>>2745353
if the PS2 was released one year earlier, then /vr/'s cutoff date would be 1998 and the Dreamcast would be booted out of our good graces.

>>2745461
Some people never grow up, anon.
They love their arbitrary rules more than comfy discussion, because it's a discussion they can't have.

>>2745573
Not really, considering the DC was released in 1998 in Japan.

>>2745434
What might help curb the shitposting is to disallow discussion of eBay/resellers. I notice when those topics appear, a lot of rage flares up from people who think the dirty reseller scum are keeping them from enjoying the games THEY deserve.

Maybe YouTubers, too. I'm fine with them personally but some people just start shitting it up when a name gets mentioned.

>>2745620
>arbitrary
Try buying alcohol one year before your area's legal age and try telling them it's an "arbitrary rule."

Fucking children. Your childhood is not retro. You have v AND vg to post in. DO NOT POLLUTE vr.

For fuck's sake, they should have made this pre-1995 to keep out the goddamn children.

>>2745932
you really can't handle growing old can you?

>>2744898
uh oh he called you "champ" he means business

>>2745476
>taddle tales

>>2745443
They cut off is for the hardware aspect of console games and the software part of pc games holy shit you fucking faggot are stupid.

>game released for pre-2000 platform
>"READ THE STICKY!" -Stupid Faggots

This thread.

Was anyone else here haunted by their repairman?

63 posts in this thread and there are only 4 that actually talk about the game without arguing about what is and isn't allowed on the board. If it weren't for all that this thread would hopefully have 404ed by now.

DO NOT FORGET TO SAGE

>>2747634
But sims 1 wasn't released on a 5th gen platform.

>>2745069
Not retro please read the sticky
>>2745040
Read the sticky
>>2745142
Not retro as pertaining to pc games, please read the sticky

>>2745069
Thank you for this, the music is just too comfy.

>>2744929
>SMT threads don't talk about newer titles or Persona 4.

Because the newer titles are shit.

Rip Bob Newbie

OP here
>mfw this thread

And here I just wanted to see a thread about the sims.

It's pretty retarded to desperately cling to the pre-2000 date when the game actively lists windows 95 and 98 as system requirements. OS is quite obviously the platform, running on a newer one does not change that.

Is there a beta or demo that was released in 1999?

in future, you could make a thread that's totally 100% for the discussion of that demo/beta and nothing else and in which anyone who posts the actual game will become the victim of a pot-and-pan re-arranging avian.

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>>2748047
>Read the sticky!

Sticky:
>This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games. Retro gaming means consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games on platforms launched in 1999 and earlier.

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>platforms launched in 1999 and earlier.
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The rules only mention the release date of the platform. Also, the fact that this thread hasn't been deleted is another point against you. Sorry guys, but you're the wrong ones.

>1999
Last year of the XX century is 2000. There's no point to cap board with 1999.
Though it doesn't mean 6th gen should be allowed besides Dreamcast because PS2 and so on were designed for the XXI century.

>this thread
>like 5 more like this currently

please stop ruining my favorite board you fucking niggers

>>2748505
PC as a platform does not have a launch date

>>2748625
>>2748625
No, but Windows 95 and 98 which is the operating system Sims was made for do.

Really if we can talk about a Dreamcast title released in 2001, there's no reason we shouldn't be able to talk about a Windows 98 game released at the same time.

>>2748686
Agreed, I have no idea why this is so difficult for people on this board to wrap their heads around

>>2748710
The rules are retarded. Going by console instead of year just muddles everything. So technically, stuff like Pier Solar is an acceptable topic, but the Sims isn't...

>>2748686
>Windows 98
equivalent to setting the date to 2004 and allowing PS2 games

The Sims 2 runs on Windows 98
FarCry 1 runs on Windows 98
NFS:Underground and U2 run on Windows 98
Unreal Tournament 2004 runs on Windows 98

probably a lot more 2004 games run on Win98 but can't be assed to look up more system requirements

>reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee not retro!

remember guys, saw-gay goes in all fields!

>>2748716
That's not the issue. The issue is people not being to understand how the lifecycle of a Computer's OS works. DOS was used in Windows in some form from 1981-2000

NOT RETRO VIDEO

>>>/v/


SAGED
REPORTED
HIDDEN

Oh look, another thread full of kids that feel the need to protect retro games because everything from 6th gen remembers them of their cringe worthy adolescence.

>>2748726
How is that really any different than Dreamcast games?

But anyways that's my point. Basing what counts according to the system it released on and not the date is pretty retarded.

>>2748726
We're already in a position where a thread about Chaos Field released in 2004 for the Dreamcast would be an acceptable retro thread. But one about the same exact game released for PS2 and Gamecube would not.

>>2748505

>He thinks /vr/ has janitors or even mods

You are cute

>>2748743
>How is that really any different than Dreamcast games?
a Dreamcast is a single hardware configuration, even if games are released n years later after the platform launch, it is still limited to the same hardware and API

PCs are constantly evolving, there is no 'generation' or a single date that you can define it with. you can upgrade the hardware or software, both or either, fully or partially.

the point: a game released in 2004 for the Dreamcast will be limited to what technology a Dreamcast had on launch; a game released in 2004 for the PC will have 2004 technology support, with future technology available to technologically enhance the game even more

Vacation > Unleashed > Hot Date > Superstar > House Party > Livin' Large >>>> Makin' Magic

>>2749057
Makin Magic>Vacation>>Unleashed>House Party>Livin Large>Hot Date>>>>Superstar

>BAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWTISM

God damnit, why does 2000 have to be the cutoff? Can't we just make it 2006 and give things a rest? For fuck sakes.

>>2749131

I would be good with 2004-5.

I was wondering why a Sims 1 thread was so active.

>>2749141
That could work too. Really, it should be anything released for consoles made before the DS, or PC games made before 2005.

>>2749157
DS is basically a handheld PS1 and is much more retro than PS2, GCN and XBox