/vr/ - Retro Games

And the template.

Online corporate shills attempting to profile /vr/. Got to know your audience, right? Next month or so will come the targeted advertisements.

>>3090573
Like what?

>>3090573
Cool your autism, spaz. This isn't the board they'd look at even if your conspiracy inanity were true.

>it looks like they like games for the SNES, we should start producing those!

This has nothing to do with retro games.

>>3090665
>t. born after 1999

MODS

>>3090687
I was born in 1990.

These shitposts follow the same formula and have been on /v/ for years.

>>3090657
>This isn't the board they'd look at
Hypothetically, if they were looking at this board, they would probably be counting on people like you thinking that in order for them to avoid detection and their plan to work.

>>3090657
>conspiracy inanity
When did I ever claim conspiracy? A conspiracy is two or more people planning to commit a crime. Unfortunately, it's not yet illegal to be an undercover marketer (and probably never will). And I'm not sure if you meant insane or inane, but I would point out I've done nothing which could possibly provide any basis for you assuming that. Obviously, it's highly unlikely companies intend to begin producing SNES games as you suggest but it's not inconceivable they might devise other, less-retarded ideas for how to milk the retro games cash cow. For a cow, however old and dried up and oft-neglected it may be, is still a cow, and the farmers will never stop until she dies.

>>3090532
Please keep this shit in /v/

>>3090712
>A conspiracy is two or more people planning to commit a crime.
The full definition of "conspire" is "to work together to bring about a particular result, typically to someone's detriment"

Why don't you actually look up what words mean before you use them?

>>3090761
>I just now looked up a word on the internet. Everybody, look at me!

>>3090657
>>3090792
Thanks for contributing. For what's it worth. I should have known this thread would get shit on, seeing as it isn't about console wars, gamecenter cx, doom or lcd vs. crt

>>3091135
People are more on edge than usual with the constant brigade of unwelcome topics being spammed almost daily as of late. We've had threads similar to this one in the past that have been fairly popular, but if I were to single out anything it'd be the shit template.

>>3091157
>it'd be the shit template.
It's pretty shitty, I'll try to make my own. I suck at gimp though, so no promises but I'll see what I can do.

Here's mine

I'm lazy so no image

1984
First: either PC Shinobi or J-Bird
Childhood: Doom
Adolescence: Fallout
Current: Rise of Nations

Like this.

I used a pentium 4 right up until 2011, so during my teens I only played UT99, and some other stuff that ran on it.

>>3091307
Similar situation here, had a Nes for the first time at 8, and a Genesis at 13, at 15 discovered emulation, but got stuck with a pentium 4 until 20

Please excuse my shitty paint skills

>>3090657
>It looks like the like games for the SNES, we should start re-releasing those on Virtual Console!

Fixed it for you, dumb ass.

Contributing. First console was an Atari pre-loaded with hundreds of games and nowadays I only play on PC and GameBoy/SNES emulators.

>>3091387
that's just a rom, they didn't produce anything!

>>3090532
Sorry for the bits of non-retro.

>>3091429
I didn't say produce, did I?

>>3090532
Started gaming on my dad's NES when I was about 5. It was mostly just Mario bros 1 and 3 but also some duck hunt. I don't think I ever beat anything or got good until much later.

I started playing on my neighbor's N64 not long after that (mostly just SM64), but the first system I owned in my own right was a lime green GBC my dad got me for my 6th birthday in early 1999 along with Blue version. In Christmas of 1999 I got my own N64 at last along with Smash Bros. and OoT, which became my next obsession after Pokemon. Even so I think I beat Majora's Mask well before I ever 100 percented OoT.

I got a GCN in 2002 with Melee and a few games, but I spent by far most of my time on Melee and Animal Crossing.

In 2008 I got a PS3 with CoD4 and eventually a bunch of other titles, but nothing from the 7th generation really stands out to me as a classic except for perhaps Fallout: NV. I have played through the main game + DLC thrice I believe. I've definitely logged over 400 hours.

Currently I'm kind of burnt out with gaming. I don't really identify as a "gamer" anymore, if I ever did. I own no current gen console except an N3DS and about 10 decent games for it, and currently spend most of my time on either FE:Fates (a decent game by modern standards) or the Game of Thrones mod for CK2 (the recent update has rekindled my interest in this ancient game). If I were to get any console now it would be a WiiU, but with 8th gen being in its twilight I'm waiting for the drastic and inevitable price cuts. No way in hell am I paying the same price for what is basically a suped-up gamecube with a touchscreen than I would for a PS4 or XBone.

I think I turned out okay. I tried to limit the non-retro shit cause it's obvious that I'm a millennial.

from russia with love

>>3090532
These threads are only good for blog posting and making me feel old.

I didn't really play video games as a kid, only sports games and various Mario spinoffs. Not sure why, maybe my attention span was just too short.

I started to get in to gaming again when I was like 13 and rediscovered my Gamecube. After playing Super Mario Sunshine, I wanted to play more Mario games, so I bought an N64 with Super Mario 64 and have been hooked on retro gaming ever since. I mostly play 4th and 5th gen titles.

>>3091240

what's that favorite game called in latin alphabet?

>>3091614
Sakura no Uta. It`s an untranslated VN.

>>3091197
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>>3091307
>>3091483
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>>3091576
Nice to see people around my age.
Sorry for the non /vr/ and compressed images there are too many game i've played in the past 21 years and i still have a long way to go.

r8

>>3090536
On my phone so I can't edit images, but:
1995
Crash Bandicoot
Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga
Mother 3
Mother 3 (2nd is Majora's Mask, didn't play it until a couple years ago)

I like RPGs.

>>3091553
>morrowind defined his adolescence
I'm so sorry anonski

>>3090691
>Born in 1990
Shit, you might as well be underage.

>>3091553
great taste comrade!

>>3090792
'76er here.

I did this one last year when it showed up in /v/. My picks still stand.

Born 1991

First games:
>very first was some random PC AT era children's game
>Mixed-Up Mother Goose, KQ6
>The Incredible Machine
>Chip's Challenge, JezzBall
>Super Mario Bros.

Childhood computer games:
>Humongous Entertainment games
>Disney Activity Centers
>Oregon Trail II
>Lego Island

Childhood console games:
>Mario All-Stars+World, DKC 1&2
>Pokemon R/B/Y, Crystalis (GBC)
>SM64, Pilotwings 64, OoT, HM64
>Spyro, Tomba!, GT2, FFVII, BFM

Adolescent games:
>games popular among young males when Xbox Live was new
>some F2P Korean MMO

Current Favorite:
>HM64 is the only one I really have the urge to revisit
>enjoyed Zelda (NES) when I played it for the first time

We had a lot of NES games, but most of them were forgettable. Same with the SNES and Genesis. So I find it funny when people my age list off all of the "greats" from those systems (besides the pack-ins). You must have either had really well informed parents, or an uncle or older brother who was picking out your games for you. Also, a lot of those games are pretty difficult (well, besides the JRPGs) and I have a hard time believing people who played them as young children would look back fondly on them (simply because most children would get lost or hit a game over on the first few levels).

First game:
>Sonic 1

Childhood defining games:
>Sonic 3&K
>Clockwork Knight
>Pokemon RBY, GSC
>Mario Party 3

>Adolescence defining games:
>Melee
>Brawl
>Runescape
>Final Fantasy IX

Current favorite games:
>Persona 4
>Final Fantasy IX
>Melee
>Team Fortress 2

A bit hard to answer. I don't feel like periods as long as childhood and adolescence were defined by only a few games. I've always tended to finish a game and then move on, so I just picked the games that came to mind as ones I spent a lot of extra time with. Runescape might be the most important game I've ever played, it's what got me into computer programming. It just looked so shitty that I thought "I bet I could do better than this," so I taught myself to code and now I do it for a living.

>>3091980

You have some seriously good taste m8

>>3091980
ayy post the template for this please

I went with SNES over Gen, and PSX over N64.
ALttP was the first game I bought with my own $$$ and holds a very dear place in my large library of favorites.

>>3090532
>Year of Birth
1989
>First Games
Earliest I can remember are Super Mario Bros and Mortal Kombat.
>Childhood Defining Games
Sonic 2, Earthworm Jim 1&2, World of Illusion, Super Mario Bros, Pirates of Dark Water (Genesis), and Street Fighter 2 (the first game I beat on something that wasn't easy), OOT, Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, MYST.

>Adolescence Defining Games
Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X, Need for Speed Underground 2, Soul Calibur 3, Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Majora's Mask (got into it pretty late)

>Current Favorite Game
Earthbound. I regret not diving into it much later.

>>3091980
6 button genesisfag here.

Nice controller taste. Nothing's felt better before or since.

>>3090532
>>3090792
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>>3091434

I want to play fighters with /vr/ some day.

This was harder than I thought.

>>3090532
>YEAR OF BIRTH
1982
>FIRST GAME
TLoZ
>CHILDHOOD DEFINING GAME
Tmnt nes, f1 built to win nes
>ADOLESCENCE DEFINING GAME
Dkc series snes, earthbound
>CURRENT FAVORITE GAME
Still Dkc 2.

>>3092157
I heard some insane shit bout the PC version of Sorcerer's Stone. How different was it from the PS1 version?

Hell, I heard you start at Vernon's house in the PC version.

>>3092160
The PC version of Sorcerer's Stone is not bad but the chamber of secrets is better from my point of view. Also, HP 1,2, and 3 on PC is more like a adventure games. On console, is more like a action games.

>>3092175
>HP 1,2, and 3 on PC is more like a adventure games

That was the impression I got.
The GC versions were straight RPGs (and good ones to boot).
I haven't seen such platform genre changes since the SNES/Genesis multiplats.

It's kind of sad how this never happens anymore. I understand why, but it's still kind of sad.

>>3090532
Here's a better template so as to keep it /vr/ related.

>>3092187
I don't see how that would matter. Of course most of us are gonna end up playing nonretro games. Why leave it blank? We can't just pretend they don't exist.

>>3092190
This is the board to discuss retro video games, it makes sense to have a section in the template concerning one's currents favorite retro game as opposed to one's current favorite game overall. Games made after 1999 have no place on /vr/.

>>3092201

I was under the assumption it was for your current favorite /vr/ game.

>>3092201
I disagree. If /vr/ games dominate an anon's list, and thus far they've done so without exception, I don't see the problem. Hell, it's a good look at your average /vr/trooper's current taste.

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>>3090532

>>3092187
>leave blank

That's worse than lying.

HOW'S MINE?

>>3092060
Do you have the template for this?

>>3092027
Thanks buddy!

>>3092041
>>3092329
See attached!

>>3092094
Agreed! So good, that the layout is still copied today with "premium" fight pads!

The start of every thing is a mystery, probably PONG or something on the Atari

>>3092453
Here, I AM TIRED!!

so much, so little space

>>3091980

>>3092201
Fuck you

>>3092257
>>3092621
Just leave already mmmmkay?

>>>/v/
>>>/vg/

>year of born
1988
>first game
Dodgeball (NES)
>Childhood defining game
Sonic 3 an Knuckles
>Adolescence defining game
Metroid Prime
Elder scrolls Oblivion
Soul Calibur
>Current favorite
Ori and the blind forest, I guess?

>>3092565
Are you me?

>>3092719
>Dodgeball
I love that game

>>3092201
I put some retro but also included some non-retro when the time came. >>3091434 I really don't think there's anything wrong with that, and I like seeing some of the modern games the people here enjoy as well. Calm down, dude.

I was always late to video games, my parents were kind of strict about that, most of my modern experience came from friends willing to lend me their consoles like the ps2 and xbox. I owned a gamecube.

>>3090532
not gonna lie, this was hard as fuck to make and i'm still not sure if it's totally accurate. sorry about the non-retro titles.

>>3091563
>and making me feel old.
this

>all these '90s born faggots on /vr/
gross. well at least you got better taste than your millennial peers, but you're still faggots by definition 2bh.

>>3093538
uh, i hate to break it to you but people from the late 80s and 90s are millenials

>>3093542
Even people from the early 80's are technically millenials. It's one of the stupidest, most useless terms ever.

>>3091378
>>3091483
>>3092157
>>3092309
>>3092565
>>3093483
i got a feeling we would get along

>>3094114
>1998
>first game Duck Hunt
>LOL

>>3094136
>implying everyone was born with money to buy the newest gaming console
cmon dude

>>3094114
>AC and Infamous are adolescence defining
I feel bad for you

>>3094156
i was edgy

>>3091553
>Arcanum, Fallout, Heroes II-III, UFO, Morrowind.
Add BG1-2, Blood, Daggerfall and AoW:SM and you will become be me

Filling this one out kind of made me realize that there aren't many well written characters in retro vidya. If I went non retro, I'd probably choose Link and Tetra from Wind Waker. And if I judged simply on how cool they are, I'd pick either Ryu Hayabusa or Doomguy and either Ayla or Sheik.

>>3094114
>this triggers the /vr/

Slightly nicer template for those of us that use programs better than MS Notepad.

>>3094217
I'm 26 years old and I just realized that someone is inside the Starman.

>>3094156
Wasn't AC2 actually really good, but the rest of the series utter shit?

>>3094236
Yep, I loved AC2, but I played better games when I was a teen.

>>3094234
Assuming this isn't bait, that's Ness' reflection in the Starman's visor.

>>3094234
Holy crap I never noticed that

>>3094297
So it is, either way I never noticed it until now.