/vr/ - Retro Games

All of the Adventure Island games

>>3017135

Oh yeah and I recommend Beyond Oasis on genesis and Legend of the Oasis on Sega Saturn.

Really solid games. You will have a great adventure I promise.

i doubt this is what you were expecting OP, but here comes an almost not retro, well known and recently remastered PC game.

Homeworld (the first)

if anyone is even a little into RTS, try homeworld1 single player campaign, i consider synopsis counter productive, so just try it.

dont worry, its not an interactive movie, theres only a dozen minute short engine cutscenes between missions

you can safely play the non remaster for its superior voice acting and background music that set its immerseful atmosphere

>>3017243
i just want to chime in, you CAN get higher resolutions as high as you fuckin want. the secret is in the registry. those the only tip i will give you

Recently I tried Bonk's Adventure, I thought it was going to be a meme game but I enjoyed it a lot. Soundtrack is fantastic

Tetris is pretty DOPE.

Bio-Hazard Battle for Sega Genesis is dope

A lot of people skipped this game, but it's the best Final Fantasy.

Shivers

Myst-like adventure game based in an abandoned, haunted and unfinished museum

>>3017616
Kek makes me think of Night at the Museum

>>3017620
Sorta, except spoopier

Psychic Killer Taromaru

Badass beat 'em up for the Saturn. It takes place in feudal Japan or some shit and there's all sorts of fantastical enemies and running through different neat areas. It's a really great.

>>3017754
This game is rumored to have been developed by Treasure members.

Can we ask for recommendations as well? I'm looking for a good Zelda-like game with real time action. I'm playing Soul Blazer right now and it's good.

>>3017781
Gunpuru for SNES is like a Zelda clone

>>3017781
Golden Axe Warrior
is pretty good.

>chill thread
I like you OP.

Anyway, Vanguard Bandits I think is good. I'm shit at strategy games but it has nice graphics, super awesome music, and 3 branching story paths. And mecha, of course.

Get it on PSN for 9.99, much simpler than hunting down a physical copy.

Opening Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjDlOXc8Jn4

TITLE THEME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYtArman_0

Rad map music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuTEooc7sqc

Zillion (Sega Master System)

It was Sega's answer to Metroid but not really. You're a dude named JJ and you have to sneak into an enemy robot drone idkwtf base and find this cute girl Apple and your homie Champ. Along the way you have to find out floppy disks for a destruct sequence to blow up the base. It's fucking awesome, and when you find your homies they become playable characters you can switch between.

>>3017135
Umihara Kawase

https://youtu.be/QfRi_dXLq1M?t=1m46s
(Not the best showcase of the game, but it's got some nice commentary)

>>3017883
"Funny" opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er1vEkWx1pw

Thanks for another quality translation, WD!

>>3018072

Drew my own map in the manual it came with back in the day.

Good times.

Tomba 2
its not too often i find other people who have played this game
really is a hidden gem on the ps1

>>3017247
> those the only tip i will give you
u meant youre not gonna explain step by step regedit or do you have Other tips?


its a 3d engine, i didnt even remember any locked resolution, and even being early 3d, blocky spaceships doesnt suffer a single bit, so younger spoiled gamers also dont have an issue the main reason why the lazy new "devs" pratically just added new more colourful galactic backgrounds and called it remaster?


NORETRO, theres a h2 complex mod worth checking out.

>>3018203
I would really prefer if you would be quiet

Was picking NES/Famciom ROMs by random one night and stumbled upon this little gem. It's essentially Tetris where the pieces come from all four cardinal directions, and you control the board as opposed to the pieces. Very cool, but can be much harder to recover as opposed to normal Tetris. That just makes it all the more sweeter when you do, though.

Gameplay video I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8HpGK_vb_I

I'm surprised this game isn't more well-known, even if it Japan-only. Or maybe everyone already knows about it and I'm just late.

Glider Pro is one of the best Classic Mac games, but I never see anyone talk about it. The game's free now, too.

The older Glider 4.0 had a Windows release, but it's hard to go back to it after playing Pro.

>>3018203
I've played it!

I really loved it as a kid, but I don't remember much about it.

>>3017138
hellz yeah, this anon knows

>>3017442
I like what this guy did.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (SNES)
Donkey Kong Country 3 (SNES)
Dune 2000 (PC/PS1)
Magic Carpet (PS1)
Lode Runner (PC/PS1)

And Namco Museums volume 1-5 (PS1) although honestly i haven't played them all, i just want to own them so i can play them.

Just some random suggestions

>>3017243
>you can safely play the non remaster for its superior voice acting and background music that set its immerseful atmosphere
Dang, they changed the music? Did they change the ship's voice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqWcm6MMiHk

Looking for horror/gothic titles on any platform I might not have heard of, and recs?

>>3017442
Extreme G/EG2 were super fun games.

>>3020000
Best played when watching some TV or a movie. Play for 2-3 minutes, switch channels and watch something for 10 or 15, then switch back. The worst thing you can do in this game is do too much too fast.

>>3020020
some holywood scifi thriller -tier BGM, with added muffled indistinguishable chatter and metalic sounds both barely on the audible limit to create that chill,

dont get me wrong its a fine BGM, to played once on a film, thats made to be watched, you know, ONCE

doesnt work
and YEAH, they changed fleet command Karan Sjet's voice


but i forgot the most important reasons to NOT PLAY REMASTER

>>3017243
homeworld remastered is actually just homeworld 2 engine with slightly improved polycount, and max texture sizes, the most visible things are galactic backgrounds and some lighting effects.

THAT MEANS homeworld 1 remastered runs on homeworld 2 engine REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

- that means tactical posture is gone (evasive, neutral agrersive...)

- repair frigates and its multi selection repair beam while it follows the shipS you told it to repair and keeps repairing THEM eternally if they reach full health and get damage again.

and some other things i dont recall, and also seems ppl were finding lots of errors in hw1 campaign (including dumb enemy AI) but im sure (hope) its all patched, but those 2 design decisions (or incapabilities of hw2 engine) pretty much break hw1.

kushan bomber fighters, a couple squads in evasive tactics against a heavy weapon big&slow ship, quite the damage until the enemy can send machinegun corvettes ur way and you just run home slightly slower than them and loose minimal forces while your frigates are half way to the scene to finish those corvettes and the sitting duck heavy ships

all in all, theres really no reason not to play the retro hw1 campaign.


you can then have fun multiplaying hw2 in remaster, with h2complex mod if those guys have updated it to the remaster engine already

>>3020024

awesome action game with unique, fun mechanics. and the graphics are really impressive for a mid-era NES game. I grew up with the NES but never played this game until a couple years and was really blown away by it's greatness.

my favorite game of all times

The best puzzle game I ever played, and yet no one seems to know it. The first game is free and retro, the others are on GOG (there's also the free remake of the first game in flash, I recommend that)

>>3017135
M e t a l

F a t i g u e

I liked Guerrilla War for the NES.

It's like Ikari warriors, but much less frustrating overall.

I'm a complete scrub and it made me feel good because I got to the ending with no save-states even though I got a bunch of game overs, since you can continue from the point of death instead of immediately going back to the beginning.

Don't let my total ineptitude fool you though, it's a fun little game.

>>3017141
Oh man I loved Beyond Oasis! I completed it in a day with my old roommate.

I have two recommendations, Viewpoint and Silent Bomber, both for the PS1.
My brother and I played these games to death as children.
Viewpoint is a 2.5D scrolling shooter with some really great visuals, tight gameplay, and some of my favourite music of that generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGqrwQ2M6T0

Silent Bomber felt like a grown up Bomberman in the style of a top down shooter, I really enjoyed the futuristic aesthetic and soundtrack but the gameplay is what kept me and my brother hooked. Some of the powerups you can get are a lot of fun, especially when you upgrade how many bombs you can place at once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmijj6duhwA

This guy right here. The arcade version is incredibly fun but also incredibly rare. This is a really good port. Just make sure you play it with actual PSX controllers because a lot of the minigames rely on the button colours.

Lionheart (Amiga 500).
2d platformer / action game, imo the best that the Amiga has to offer. Kinda reminds me of Actraiser 2, but lot easier and doesn't have magic, more focused on platforming than the combat.

>>3017319
Bonk's Revenge is even better.

>>3017781
Landstalker and Soleil/Ragnacenty

>>3020395
Loved it back then, need to play it again!

I see these threads all the time.

Do you think if I made a channel dedicated almost exclusively to recommendation lists on Youtube that I could be successful?

I mean there would be the obvious click baity stuff like

>recommended SNES games
With the obvious shit like Super Mario World

but then I could make a lot more specific stuff like

>Recommended Beginner JRPG's
>Recommended Shoot em ups on the TG-16

Think it would be good? I see tons of these threads and I think it would be nice to have a lot of condensed stuff with enough information to justify why a game is worth playing.

Thoughts? What would you want to see in a channel like that?

>>3017452
Definitely a solid game

>>3020395
I've played this game so many times and still do

>>3023075
This would be pretty cool if done by a knowledgeable, non-tryhard person (by which I mean no let's player yelling/memes/failed attempts at humor). I'd like to see two things in particular:
1) Recommended beginner games. A lot of retro genres can be hard to get intounless you started playing them as a kid, because the most famous games are pretty difficult. Shmups for example.
2) Videos about specific developers.

>>3017135
Who'se this sexy?

Pocky and Rocky with a friend

>>3020395
I can never get good at this game. Or the first one. I'm just awful at anything close to strategy. Feelsbadman.

>>3026690
You can't game over in Shining Force, just walk around at the world map triggering random battles until you're overleveled enough to kill everything in one hit.

>>3026721
That sounds like fun. Usually I don't beat random encounters but it's been quite a while since I had a go at it. Thanks.

I recommend the everloving fuck of Military Madness for the TG-16/PC-E. Its a great game on the same vein as Famicom wars

If arcade games are permitted, I've seen very little talk about Prisoners of War here and it was always my favorite beat em up.

>>3030603
Oh shit i just saw they ported it to nes too
Wowe

bump

>>3030603
For future reference, arcade games are completely okay as long as they abide by the pre1999 rule