/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3055062
>kids are the primary market for video games

Movie tie-ins had instant recognition and pre-established fans.
American "Action" films were huge money and foreign devs saw dollar signs even if they didn't understand the source material properly they understood the gullibility of the American consumer.

>>3055072
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

>>3055072
In 1988? Hell yes they were. Nintendo's marketing was 100% directed at 10 year olds.

>>3055078
What was the average weekly salary of a 10 year old in 1988?

Platoon is a terrible game anyway, especially surprising that it came from the usually excellent Sunsoft. It seems more likely to me that the devs just had some generic run-and-gun put together and decided to slap a movie license on it.

bayou billy

>>3055090
It wasn't originally Sunsoft's game, it was some crap made in Yurop by Ocean which was one of the shittiest devs of the 80s-early 90s, notorious for scooping up as many licenses as they could and churning out low-quality games like Tasty Kakes.

The original computer versions were made for the C64 and Spectrum, then a DOS version was made by a US dev, and Sunsoft ported it to the NES a year later, but all of them were terrible. Except the C64 version because the in-game music is fucking awesome.

>>3055083
Going by what you're trying to imply, toys aren't for kids either

>>3055090
>surprising that it came from the usually excellent Sunsoft
>usually excellent Sunsoft

>>3055124
>implying i'm implying

>>3055126
You saying Batman is a bad game?

>>3055078
>family computer

>>3055083
kill yourself, NES was the ultimate toy for kids.
even my dad got me a c64 because he thought the nes was just a toy for dumb kids.

>>3055146
I didn't know NoA was NoJ. Any US Nintendo ad from this period was very clearly targeting kids. In fact they even rejected bringing over accessories like Family BASIC that were not seen as interesting to the target audience.

>>3055151
It's true. Computer gamers were generally adult neckbeards rather than kids. Even in Europe where home computer culture was much stronger than US, this was true.

>>3055152
>Contra (JP)

I can keep going

>>3055164
What does Contra have to do with anything?

Also if you want to be taken seriously, you're gonna have to lose the tripcode.

>>3055170
Target audience. It would appear you dont know your gaming history.

So I'll play the part of the faggot with the tripcode that no one takes seriously. And you can be the guy who sleeps with a Trapper Keeper® of old Sega ads under his pillow while he dreams of how childish Nintendo is.

>>3055175
>And you can be the guy who sleeps with a Trapper Keeper® of old Sega ads under his pillow while he dreams of how childish Nintendo is

Nintendo were the guys who censored blood, nudity, profanity, religious references and anything not 100% family friendly. Do you not know the almost legendary story of how they had to censor Maniac Mansion for the NES?

>>3055183
>family
I accept your concession that the primary market for video games are families of all ages.

There we go. Nintendo were more targeted at 8 year olds while Sega's audience were edgy teens, niggers, and dudebros.

>>3055164
Why in great gods name do we have such am influx of stupid tripfags lately.
I tolerate Seven leaf and Nesfag but these new ones are the dumbest motherfuckers to ever put a hand on a nes pad. You new breeds don't add anything to conversations and are always trying to argue wrong points. Holy shit I'm mad right now. Please go die somewhere.

>kids are the primary market for video games

Kek.

On top of that, though... I think you're grossly underestimating how many kids saw the movie.

Pic related: A kid's toy based on an R-Rated movie.

Toymakers knew what kids were into. They knew the kids were seeing these movies and they knew their parents were letting them.

>>3055218
Platoon was a serious dramatic film, not a camp movie like Terminator or Robocop. It would not seem to be something that appeals to kids.

>>3055132
>one game
>usual

Almost every Hi-Tech Expressions game ever was terrible.

>>3055062
>kids are the primary market for video games and how many of them were interested in a drama about the Vietnam War anyway.

I always saw this game at the video store in the early 90s and thought it looked boring as hell.

>>3055175
>Trapper Keeper

Man those were the days. I just image searched them for old time's sake. Looking at them now what was the big deal? It's just a standard three ring binder but it has a little flap you can snap shut. Were TKs really not as revolutionary as I thought they were?

>>3055270
HTE never actually programmed games themselves, they usually outsourced development of them to the lowest-rent devs they could find.

>ctrl-F
>no "total recall" for the NES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhf_kAL14l4

Looks like some shitty Spectrum port. And just from watching that video just now I noticed that it seems to have stolen its soundtrack from Fiddler On The Roof.

>>3055075
Doin' gods work there, anon

>>3055127
He didn't imply it, he stated it.

>>3055227
When I was a kid I remember some kids had seen platoon. I hadn't. You know how kids do those role play games in the playground and proclaim themselves to be some fictional character like Skeletor or Optimus Prime - this one kid once "was" Platoon, for the purpose of one such activity.

Who knows, maybe he hadn't seen it - he just saw the video sleeve and thought it was Commando-style film about a guy called Platoon.

We all liked Robocop and The Lost Boys and stuff back then though.

>>3055062
>Exactly who thought Platoon would make a good video game?

NOA made them remove the in between rape bonus levels for the US version, literally ruining the flow of the game.

>>3056025
I thought you guys said Sunsoft was a shitty dev. :^)

>>3056024
>a guy called Platoon.
You're hanging around with a kid who uses a collective term for a single soldier!

>>3055062
Does it have the part where those brains come apart?

>>3056049
Yeah you gotta waggle on the D pad as fast as you can to penetrate the cranium.

90% of Simpsons games were complete shit.

>>3055126
>implying hebereke, blaster master, and mr.gimmick sucked

>>3058348
>Platoon just might be the most frighteningly real game ever

>>3058348
>this isn't kid stuff
>shows kid playing the game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfsY4CnJzA

C64 version. Goddamn, I love the music in this thing.

>>3055062
I watched the TAS on youtube... why is this so terrible?

There's side-scrolling jungle sequence, which includes blowing up a bridge and searching a village.
First person tunnel maze sequence
First person turret sequence
Then finally a vertical shooting sequence.

A NES game with four completely different gameplay sections. Seems good to me. Could this be the best Vietnam game ever?

>>3058410
>A NES game with four completely different gameplay sections. Seems good to me. Could this be the best Vietnam game ever?
There aren't a lot of Vietnam War games and the only other /vr/ one I can name off the top of my head is Microprose's Conflict In Vietnam.

Ah, so it was developed by Ocean and Sunsoft only did the port to the NES.

>>3058415
Yes. Ocean developed the game originally for the C64, Amiga, Atari ST, and Spectrum, then US-based Quicksilver did the ports for the Apple II and PC, and Sunsoft ported it to the NES.

>>3058410
>>3058413

>NES Vietnam game
>for once, it ain't me doesn't play

>>3058413
http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/historical-conflict-vietnam-war-/offset,25/so,1d/

There's some, but not a lot. Aside from Platoon, they're mostly pretty obscure titles as well.

>>3058460
The Vietnam War never translated well into strategy games because the mostly irregular fighting doesn't work so good in terms of "click X division, attack Y division". It's better suited for an FPS.

>>3055126
>>3056027
>>3058325

What about ALL the god awful looney Tunes games?

>>3058657
I really don't know anything about those.

>>3055218
American here. Can I use that to make a new foreskin?

>>3055062
My eyes glazed over as I thought about how this is actually a thing you want to spend your time complaining about. It's just... what a waste of a life.

>>3055090
Platoon was originally some Eurotrash Ocean game. The Japs did the best they could with the port.

>>3055126
>Batman, Joker Returns, Mr. Gimmick, Blaster Master, Batman MD
>suck
Wew lad

>>3055062
Simpsons: Bart vs Space Mutants or some gay shit.

>>3059219
BvTSM isn't actually a bad game however it was way too hard for the target audience.

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