/vr/ - Retro Games

>games $88.88
oh god what

>>408762
makes games nowadays not look so bad, huh?

The summer after the Game Boy came out my mom agreed to buy me one if I read 100 books. One book for each dollar it cost. I got that goddamn Game Boy.

the good old days

>consumers distributing

I bought 4 T2 action figures there for 20 dollars.

>>408836
That ad was in every game magazine.

>>408774
>Sega Nomad
>Plays over 500 Genesis games...anywhere!
>Assuming you own them

>>408836
>20 bucks
>those crappy dbz figures you'd find in a burger king kid's meal

>>408836
MUTHA FUCKIN RAKU RAKU DINO KUN

GOTTA FIND MINE NOW

>>408843
That and the ultimate game setup you could win.

>>408836
>RPG Controller
Ahahaha, what the fuck?

>98.88 for Strider

OH GOD.

IT WAS TRUE.

>>408750
>Radar Mission for GB
I forgot that one. It was one of my dad's favorites. Thanks for the feels, OP.

>>408994
That Ascii SNES controller was the shit, I need to get one again.

>>408836
>45 bucks for a virtual boy and 6 games

>>408821
Jesus Christ 100 books?
I'm assuming they were really thin?

>>409014
Basically a one-handed control pad. Action buttons are on the underside.

>>408994
>That and the ultimate game setup you could win.

I would sit and look at ad and just dream about wining it.

>$190 for a Game Gear
>cost more than the Genesis
>Sega

>>408750
>F1 Race

I spent a lot of time playing that. Even knew a kid with a link cable to play against. Interesting to think about it as a $39 game.

1/3

>>409182

>EarthBound
>$29.99

Ha...hahahaha...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2/3

3/3

>>409076

What the fuck?

What would you be doing with your other hand?

>>409121

You'd probably spend twice that in a year on AA batteries.

Fucking game gears.

>>409218
>>409182
>With the guide book

If only I had the clarity....

golden age of....vidya....

>>409182
THE AD IS MAKING FUN OF ME MAKE IT STOP
only now do we realize the folly of our ways.

>>409286
Or super comfy mode: hyper cozy' edition. You can lie prone and not have to raise your arms up together to use a control pad.

>>409218
I'm laughing too because I bought my copy for $6 at a flea market 10 years ago

>>409182
>>409246
>>409256
I'm actually having more nostalgia for the films in these ads than the games.

>>409256

Ah the 90's, when filmmakers still thought it was a good idea to but chimpanzees in movies.

>>409256
Does Sean Connery seriously make that face in every movie he's in

goddamn

>>409318

Honest question how the fuck did anybody afford a genesis collection back then

>>409398

Pawn shops mostly.

>>409398
Be the son of rich, white, divorced (or nearly divorced) parents. That explains the massive game collections of some of the people I knew in the eighties and nineties,

Now I have EVERY VIDYA because I don't care about people, so I have nothing else to burn money on.

>>409121
It's the screen, bro. Colour, AND backlit? That shit was the FUTURE

>>409398
Used games. I would pick up games for $20 bucks.

>>409290
I was pretty sure that was the only retail configuration for EarthBound, so every copy bought came with a guide.

>>409286
What do you think?

>>409286
I felt stuff like that was a minor nod towards accessibility; life is hard enough with one functioning hand, so if a game is simple enough to be controlled with only one why not help to enable that?

>>408994
>>409036

Is the Ascii pad considered good? I found one when cleaning the storage last spring and thought it was just some shitty 3rd party controller, haven't even bothered to try it out.

Are they rare or something?

Does anyone have the NES 2/Mini ad I remember it was being advertised for 50-100 dollars

>people complaining about game prices

welcome to australia in the 90s

>>410006

>Sega Ozi Soft

Haha, oh wow. Is that really what Sega was called in Australia? They should've used that sort of naming in every territory

>Sega Yank Soft
>Sega Ruski Soft
>Sega Chink Soft

>>408762
You have to factor in inflation as well

>>410047
Yes, and they were totally horrible. They fucked up the Dreamcast launch beyond belief

ENJOY SEGA?

FIFTY YEARS IN THE CUBE, CREEP

>>410089
Can you imagine the feminist butthurt if a company advertised like this today

>>410103

This is so fucking cool. I love Judge Dredd.

>>410089
Wait, Europe liked professional wrestling?

>>408774
>Play it Loud
>gamers

>>409398
You build it up over time of course. You get something for your birthday and Christmas in addition to whatever you manage to save up yourself. Even better if you had siblings and they got their own stuff too.

>>410140
Better still if those siblings then decide they don't care for Mega Drive anymore and just give you all of their old games, every last one.

That's how my collection nearly doubled overnight.

>>408847
>implying you could play them for more than a hour
Worst portable ever.

>>408836
damn virtual boy console and practically the whole library of games for $45, wish I'd had gotten it back then

>>408853
this was on the back of Robocop comics

>>408850
Super Battle Collection figures were fucking popular back in the day.

>>410006
>Sega Cd games $100
Wasn't the major point behind CD games initially to make the prices lower, or did that not come along until the PSX?

>>410089
Don't you just need to pull the little tabs out to play Famicom games on American SNES systems?

>>410112
They still do. Look at the Godaddy commercials

>>408750
I always find it funny that sega stuff was cheaper than those of nintendo on other countries, in argentina a SNES was over the equivalent of 200 bucks while the genesis was something around 80.

>>410695
Simple marketing. You want your wares to be more expensive than the competition's in high income markets to give an illusion of it being a more premium item and thus more desirable to the consumer. In lower income markets you naturally go cheaper than your competition in order to make it more viable to a larger number of consumers, since there's not as much money going around.

>>410629
That was probably suggested by someone somewhere. But I figure in the end they probably pushed "latest technology!" "full motion video!"

>>410640
Yes, but Europe had the same form factor as Japan which has a smaller cartridge slot.

>>410695 >>410736
The MD/Genesis was also on the out for two years by the time the SFC/SNES arrived in its respective markets. Remember the "Genesis does what Nintendon't" campaign pitted the it against the NES. So the system price probably came down due to age, and to make it more appealing against the SNES; by that time they could afford to make less on each sale.

>>408774

Holy shit, that Virtual Boy looks rad as tits.

>>408801
>>410062
I don't recall $80+ games, except maybe SFII
probably Candadianan

>>409182

TWEESTIEDUH METAR ATOOOO!

sweet jesus shit, I want to play that game again.

>>408774
>dat virtual boy
it looks retarded as fuck

>>409318

"32 bits"

"OF POWER"

>>408774
donkey kong land cartridge came all in yellow like a banana

i was amazed by this as a kid

>>409570

NIGGA YOU HEARD US, YOU AIN'T TRIPPIN'

9.1 WHOLE FUKKEN GIGS OF HD BITCH

>>413915
olawdy dat haircut

Anyone got the scanned pics of the early 90s Nintendo Club ads that some anon posted in /v/ weeks ago? The ads had some sweet swag like a black Punch Out! Varsity jacket.

>>413915
someone translate this please
not familiar with swedish

>>413942

>not familiar with german

ftfy

>>413962
are you familiar with germanic languages

Looking at these ads, it makes sense why the first Game Gear I saw belonged to my rich cousins.

>>414023

It's nothing interesting really, basically this:

Something about an exhibit
Programming-tips (write a good program)
Software reviews (names of games)
Software (new interesting programs, program-ideas for computer-freaks)
News (some 3D-hype)

>>414108

And the name seems to be Computer, Programming and Entertainment

>>413942
Computers Programmed for Entertainment

Radio fair in Berlin – Big report in this issue
Series: Programming advice – Write your own top program
Software Reviews: Panic Jumping Jack, Astroblast and more
Software – Once again, nine interesting programs – Programming ideas for computer enthusiasts

>>414108
ohh tanks. damn i thought it was something funny. can't actually believe that this photo has been a cover for a magazine

>>414108
I want it now. I'm interested in the new interesting programs

>>413915
>this is 8 before i've been born

>>409246
Aw shit, I still have that VHS set of the original Star Wars trilogy.

(and posters of the cover artwork)

>>413907
First PC I ever built with my dad had a 2.5gb hard drive (though Windows would only recognize 2gb) and I thought it was the fucking SHIT.

>>413835

Probably but I can remember SNES games being up to $75 in the US. I love these threads because it blows the minds of the 15-18 year old crowd.

>>409398
Well, now that that shit's dirt cheap thanks to Nintendo collectors, I can play all of Sega's greatest hits... 20 fucking years later.

Do you even "Opossum"?

>>409570
>That Lara Croft rip off with the words "I Heart 4Play" on her ass

ooh la la

>>409570
i like how they used to make computers more appealing by adding women.
my mom said that everyone in her social circle was jelly because my dad had an own pc. he was the man for years because of this.

imagine that scene in our time

>>414491
"Oral Croft"

>>414504
Oh god damnit Jerry.

>>410006
>Master System
>lower graphics and sound scores than NES

Were you guys taking stupid pills too?

>90's in shitty third world shithole
>snes games costed $100 sometimes $120
>The N64 costed $300
>ps1 almost $400

>mfw

>>410062

Which means that with early 90' dollars those 80 $ games would be 100+$ games right now.

>>409182
Blankman was an awesome movie

>>408853

I know it sounds cancerous, but someone really should add a "ur a faget" caption to that.

I don't remember Mega Drive games being overly expensive in the UK. New releases were about £30-40, which they still are now on modern systems.

>>409318
>Shaq Fu - 64.99
>Got my copy for free from a local used game store
>Because "no one is ever going to buy that pile of shit anyway."

Fuck yeah.

>>410089
>that woman on the right

When you look closely, she looks like she's about 45. From the neck up, at least.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

>>409398

Be son of rich people.
Be lucky on used games.
Be lucky on pawn shops.

That's it.

>>414661
Look at this guy pretending to like old hags so 4chan doesn't think he is some sort of pedo creep.

>>408750

>sega ad
>PORTABLE TV AND RADIO AND BOOMBOX AND MUSIC PLAYER AND IT PLAYS VIDEO GAMES AS A SECONDARY FEATURE
>nintendo ad
>VIDEO GAMES

No wonder Sega lost.

>>414661
Pictures of teenagers in the 80's are fucking disturbing, they all look 30+.

>>414676

It's the hair style.

>>414695
It's not just the hair. Their posture, skin and clothing are also pretty "mature" looking compared to modern teens.

>>414714
What you mean is, the people at 16 then continued wearing the clothes they liked at 16 when they were old enough to have you, so that people who were teens in the 80s look like they wear the same clothes old people wear now.

>>414751
No, I lived through the 80s. Shit was just different then, it was very weird.

>>414751
I have absolutely no idea what you just said, but ok

>>414323
>first PC had 9GB storage and 128MB of RAM
>thought I would never run out

>>414714
It was probably the hairstyles. If you compare some other eras like the 60s, girls looked very childlike.

>>414816
But seriously if you look at the woman on the left, there's no way she's a teenager or even in her 20s anymore.

Just wouldn't have been my first choice for "game babe," you know? Maybe a Frenchman designed it. They have a thing for middle-aged women.

>>414840
>left

I mean on the right. Sorry; kind of distracted.

>>414675
When you think about it that's also kinda the way things are going today

>>414902
That game wasn't very good, but the fact that player 2 could/had to play as Cutrus, the falcon, made it kind of amazing. Different tactics and controls for each player in a cooperative adventure. I liked that about it.

>>415104
man-datory

>>415117
>>415129
>PS1 games cheaper than SNES games

>>414902
Played that for hours on end with my friends in elementary school. Don't remember how long it was before we beat it and learned that there are hidden hints in each level as to the jewel placement puzzle at the game's end.

>>415104
>SMB
>2 people playing simultaneously?
>Cartridge on the table
>Everyone is happy with how the game is going
>Mario is going to land in a hole

>>415139
CDs are cheap as fuck to produce.

>>415139
CDs were cheaper to manufacture than carts.

>>414323
My first hard drive was 40MB and it fit in a full-height 5" drive bay.

>>415210
My first fuck was your mom and I fit right in her drive bay

>>414661
it's weird because their lower bodies look like 18

>>409286
I would love one, because then I could just kinda play an RPG absentmindedly, or comfortably. I was thinking about building one out of a spare Genesis controller for easy play, since I'm working through a bunch of Genesis/Sega-CD RPGs now.

>>410103
Kid has great taste in games. GG Shinobi owns.

>>410089
you can see that hairstyles were still essentially 80s until Clinton was president

>>410089
Cripes, they had a lot of smutty game ads in the 80s-90s. kind of funny when you consider the main target audience were 10 yos.

>>415139
Also it looks like they were on sale, all of them say "After Coupon"

>>415286
You don't see that today. I guess things weren't as PC back then.

>>410103
Too bad if they were to do something like this today, it would just be cringe-worthy.

But that's this entire board in a nutshell, ain't it?

Silly, silly children.

>>415227

>>415378
For 4chan, that gif is pretty retro. Props.

>>413915
>Ron Jeremy can teach you how to overclock your Commodore 64 in just 8 Days!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhYheUhdMJ8

Did Nintendo have any sizzling CD games?

Didn't think so

Hmm. Never did beat this one.

>>420025
>Still need a reason to buy the Sega Mega drive?
>>420043
>Its 16 bits DKC only for your Super nintendo
>>420047
>Next month, it will happen again

>>408836
>$29 for Twin Stick controller for Saturn

Fuck modern prices.

>>409246
>dat star trek box

Wouldn't mind owning one those, even if it's VHS.

>>420148
I miss those old edgy ads. now they're too self serious.

>>414798
Greatest ad ever.

>>415146
I remember GB Star Wars, it was pretty decent.

>>420168

>the aliens show that they are capable of destroying Nintendium to prove they aren't fucking around

>>415153

And the console's not even turned on.

>>420257
>Earthbound for $29.99

>>414798
man, a lot of these sega cd games were pretty risque.

>>415183

>entire tamagotchi screen filled with piles of virtual shit

>>409318
>Sega CD 2 System
>With Sonic 2 CD

wat

>>409318
that's some odd pricing. you'd think super metroid would be more expensive than some "obscure" title like legend of gaia.

>>420348

Which game was bigger in terms of data?

Prices weren't determined by popularity or obscurity, they were determined by the rom chips that went into manufacturing the cart.

Favourite one

>>420151
>Centro Mail

The memories

>>420463

>dat suggestive picture

top lel

>>420463

Looks like Christian Bale as he was in American Psycho.

>>414675
>implying that's not how things are today

SEGA ahead of the times.

I loved playing Sonic on the GameGear.

>>415183
Meanwhile, the paint rubs off over time and you will be disappointed.

>>420517

I preferred those on the SMS. More viewing area on screen.

>>409246
>Star Wars Trilogy

I would have bought that back in the day if i knew that in the future the unaltered original trilogy will dissapear.

>>409318
>Sonic 2 CD
wut

>>415146
I still have my original silver gameboy pocket. It has a noticeable curve in the casing from child me carrying it in my back pocket all the time and sitting on it. Still works fine though.

>>408994
The only thing I think about when I see these is how awkward it must've been trying to do this photoshoot

>>410089
What did the spellbound adapter do? NTSC -> PAL conversions?

>>420517

Consoles are shit today m8.

>>420819

But that's wrong.

>>420829

Get out of /vr/, casual ad-drm-lockdown-loving scum.

>>420846

>all those buzzwords

okay

>>414386
Mask ROMs are expensive. Optical disc games have no excuse to be as expensive as they have become.

>>409318
>mfw I had a Playstation for 2 years but couldn't afford games or memory crads.

Nothing but Demo disk 7 - 9 for me.

>>415174
>That Super Mario 64 box art
Fuck I wish, that actually looks pretty cool

Not really ads but they probably fit in here nonetheless.

based 1998

>>408836


N64 was 200 on realease date? tfw grew up poor so missed out on entire N64 library and I would go to my cousins and play mario 64 and donkey kong 64. & now that im emulating I can not really get into it em, should i buy a console?

>>408774
>Dem Tiger electronics games

Sooooooooooooooo much of my childhood .

>>408847
The nomad was awesome. But boy was the battery life terrible.

>>409416
I second this. My cousin was from a divorced family. Her Dad bought her anything and everything vidya. Which me and my brother got to use and play with because she never liked video games.

Best Ever

>>426415
Took me a minute to notice.

>>408853
It always bothered me that Firebrand is green on the cover of that game. And there they go making him green in the ad too.

Though I guess Capcom's done worse if we're talking boxart...

>>426430
This ones clearer

>>426452
megaman1.jpg

>>426415
I don't get it?

>>426405
Many faps were had. For that, I thank them.

>>416031

HOLY FUCK I JUST NOSTALJIZZED IN MY PANTS

>>426415
PS3 has no lingerie

>>426479
LIVE IN Y●UR WxRLD PL▲Y IN ■URS

>>415129
Jesus christ that analog stick. What games did that thing work for?

>>409071
Yeah, I was only 9 years old. My mom was a librarian. I was used to powering through books to get my personal pan pizzas from "Book It."

>>420096
>fuck modern prices
>these games/controllers are literally more expensive than games/controllers that come out in the present

my god.

>>420804
It's work.

>>420303
the balls
oh god hahaha

>>427164
That girl, she reminds me of those Kingdom Hearts pictures. You know, the ones with the random people holding a keyblade.

>>420463
I miss my Phallic Shump bosses

>>427164
She's mimicking Sora?

A paradox!

>>427164
Thanks for posting this, I'm a huge fan of Valis. Yuko, Cham, and Valna were such great heroines, And I really wish there would be a new Valis sequel.

The promo girl looks tacky, gold spray painted cardboard armor. But I like how she's wearing the red scarf, which is actaully a very important part of the Valis story.

>>409071
Heh, good days huh? I remember having challenges set for me when I wanted something too.

Felt so great achieving it, and getting a reward too.

>>410006
I love how the genesis and the snes have the same score on the sound. What a thrustworthy source of information.

>>410006
>SNES same playability as Gensis

maybe if you like sports games

>>421354
>Now let's hope we see a Panzer game on Dreamcast.
Dammit.

>>425838
I would have to go with no, the number of games worth playing in the system is not big and if you couldn't get into some of the games already then chances are that you will feel like it was a waste of money

>>420102

>>428730
Would you suck George Takai's dick if he asked you to?

>>420102
Amazon just had the Blu-Ray set of the original movies on sale for like $35.

>>408774
>play it loud

also:
Is that kid in a wheel chair?
and trying to knock himself out?

>>429807
Well shit I played video games all the time on the train in Japan. I got a shitton of streetpasses on the train

>>408836
I had every single DBZ toy on that list.

>>428632

>telling him not to buy an N64 when the emulation is abysmal

Huehue.

My advice is to look at games you want. If enough of them are badly emulated, buy a system and some games, providing you can get it all for a good price.

>>408774
He looks so entertained on his Virtual Boy

>>408774
>Power Rangers The Movie, the game

>>415129
>Madden more expensive than Crash Bandicoot

>>415183
Why in the world does Nintendo gold, look like silver? I had a "gold" gba SP and it just looked silver.

>>409570
>CASTLE VANIA
>RAMNA
>ZELDA 3
>AS REVIEWED IN THE SUN NEWSPAPER

A good chortle.

>>410006
>$599 AUS DOLLARS

Gotta love when video game ads were basically comic shorts

>>431939
That had to have been confusing for some people, as there was already a castlevania 2.

SO FUCKING RAD

>>431958
What the fuck? The game names are out of order.

>>431958
Good work, Sears. I remember that ad in comic books.

Can't go wrong with NINJA ACTION

>>432006

Oh boy

Fuck yeah Cybernator

More Sears

>>409014
Probably for leaving a hand free for mapping or guidebooking.

>>426710
I think he means the current aftermarket prices on the Twin Stick.

>>415174
Man, no fucking wonder my parents were like 'Uh... maybe for Christmas' the year I got it.

>>426696
FUCK YES, I thought I was the only kid who did this stuff.

My parents would always have a list of stuff for me to do in order to 'earn' a new game. Do a certain amount on the chore board, earn a game.

>>431925
I had that piece of shit.

>>420318
Can't stop laughing, didn't notice till I read your comments.

>>431958
Why would they put the weight of the game in ounces? Why would they put that information in the first place?

>>408750

...I confess, I had a hip pouch for my Gameboy.

Back when Nintendo was just another 3rd party company.

Oh how times have changed...

>>432890
>win a trip to Atari headquarters and see how games are made

Fucking lol. My uncle was a programmer for Atari in his younger days and said you could get high from the second hand weed smoke in the programmer offices and get hyper as fuck from the coke residue on the desks

>>432913

Truly a great time for programmers. Now it's no fun allowed unless you're an indie dev.

They weren't fucking kidding.

>LJN

Not even once.

If only it were that easy...

>>432913
That sounds like fun. But I guess the weed and coke was needed, sine Atari machines, even after the 2600, had to rely on using timed interrupts to render anything onscreen. Compared to what the NES was capable of doing, this was archaic and very tedious.

Still, they also had to deal with assembly language moreso than modern programmers could ever care for.

>>432913
>My uncle was a programmer for Atari in his younger days

I see. What games did he program?

>>409318
I paid $70 for Maximum Carnage? How the fuck did I save up that much?

>>420463
>women with big hair

I wish they still did that, because that's fucking hot. Muh dick etc.

>>432969
Seriously, how did LJN got so many licenses back in the day...

>>432991
I rather dislike 80s-early 90s hairstyles

>>432968

Well my uncle said a lot of it was based on unreasonable deadlines handed down by Ray Kassar.

A game is only half done and you're expected to have it ready to be burned into rom chips in 3 days? Time for a few programmers to have a bag of coke and sit at their computers for a 72hr coding session.

>>431925
I had that. It sucked ass.

>>433000
There weren't a lot of American devs in the NES era because they were still recovering from the crash

>>432982
Oh it's on now!
I love trash talk ads. That is why Genesis was good. One of few reasons.

>>421347

>Square EA

That shit never happened...did it?

>>432968
Tech info time!

The 2600 has no VRAM at all and your code loop has to redraw the background graphics every frame on top of performing all game logic. This takes place during the vertical retrace and you have about 70 clock cycles to do it. Thus 2600 coding is extremely timing-sensitive.

NES is a little bit similar in that you cannot modify the VRAM or PPU registers except during the retrace

>>432981

I've never actually asked him for a complete list. He wasn't there for a long time, it was basically a stepping-stone job. He and my father worked for a company that fabricated boards for Atari and other companies at the time, and that's how he ended up working for Atari for a bit. It was also through working together at that fabrication company that my father met my uncles little sister, my mother.

>>433000
>>433013
Simple. LJN was a toy company at first. And then Universal decided to buy LJN and they sorta merged. It was around this time when LJN started to produce games. Gotcha was actually based on the movie "Gotcha", which was turned into the toy gun line. Additionally. LJN never developed games in-house, they outsourced their early stuff to the Japanese and later to random American and British teams.

Rare and Atlus made games for LJN.

>>433006
The guy who programmed the Atari computer Donkey Kong wrote a nice essay about his tenure there and he said it was a fun place to work at until shit started going down during mid-1983.

Of course, one can assume the 2600 guys had more pressure and shittier working conditions

>>433013
Also most of the active devs at that time only did computer games. In essence, the US game industry had to be rebuilt from the ground up.

>>433006
I think ET was banged out in three weeks (?)

>>432968
>Still, they also had to deal with assembly language moreso than modern programmers could ever care for

On 6502 machines, you essentially always program in straight assembly since that CPU doesn't lend itself well to HLLs

>>433056
Yeah I hear a lot of the downfall blamed on Ray Kassar because he was just an out of touch business guy that didn't actually give a shit about games or keeping his programmers happy.

The stories I've heard include the guy having a hired limo take him to/from work every day, and using a lot of company money to have 5-star chefs deliver his lunch.

In fact, Atari employees that ended up staying there through the decline apparently referred to employees who were smart enough to sell their stock and leave earlier on as the "millionaires club"

>>421347
>>421354
>>421360
>>421361
>>421367
>>421371
>>421373

Dear 1998,

We miss you.

Love, /vr/

>>433103
What happened was that Nolan Bushnell sold Atari to Warner Communications in 1978 and they attempted to market video games like movies and TV. While this is fine today, Warner was too ahead of their time and it couldn't work at that early phase.

Even worse, after NB left, all engineering innovation ceased. First they had the 2600, then the computers, and then...nothing.

Am I the only one who thinks some of the ESRB ratings for these just look... off?

>>433141
For what ones?

>>415104
>playing SMB
>game cart is on the table

>>433148
Mainly the RP ratings. They look blocky and weird. Hell, even the retro ESRB ratings look weird, especially for the fact that it's so basic.

>>433103
Of course he didn't know anything about games. He spent most of his career working for Burlington (the coat dudes).

>>410089
God they're ugly.

>>433162
If they are on the Genesis games, they may be the VRC ratings, which Sega used separate of the ESRB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videogame_Rating_Council

>>421260

>>431958
>Zelda II
>shows Simon's Quest
>Simons Quest
>shows Zelda 2
>Super Mario Brothers II
>SMB1

>>433198
Nah. I mean the actual ESRB ratings. Look at some on the N64 and Saturn ratings

>>432845
>Why would they put the weight of the game in ounces?
Because the US still uses pleb-tier imperial measurements.

>Why would they put that information in the first place?
So you could get a rough estimate of the postage/shipping cost I assume.

>>408853
I called the number on the ad and some Mexican answered in Spanish. Wat.

>>421347
>Sony almost ripped off the VMU

Can they do anything original?

>>433346
Capcom USA got overrun with Mexicans. It makes so much sense!

>>433437
>almost

>>408836
>the Sega Saturn had the best deals with games
>it was also really cheap
>it failed

>>408853
Capcom always managed to make pixel graphics look quite impressive. Late NES games are especially obvious.

>>426452
It's because the Game Boy could only display green.

>>409570
Holy shit, this ad is basically /v/ in a single page
>Console kiddies a shit, PC master race
and that shit

nintendo power gear

>>408853
>Highly detailed artwork sets new standards for the Game Boy!
well alright then

>>437526
>denim shirts and hats

Oh god, don't remind me.

>>415104
Is the kid in the blue shirt even looking at the tv? lol

>>409416
>>414665
Shit, FUCK.

My parents were divorced and my dad got me a sega, then a sega cd, then nearly a saturn but I asked up and down for playstation.

FUCK ITS ALL TRUE

HE IS A SNOBBY RICH WHITE GUY WHO GOES NUTS IF HE CANT PLAY A GAME OF GOLF AT THE PRIVATE COURSE EVERY SINGLE SUNDAY

HE OWNED 2 GOD DAMN CARS

>>437669

who's this douchebag

>>437526
Oh hey, I had that game rack. Shame I never used it because the N64 games don't have endlabels so having them in there is stupid.

>>437669
>9,800 Yen

Isn't that like, $100 in modern money? And that's not even factoring in crazy two types of currency inflation.

>>437689
SNES games were expensive sometimes, also things just cost more in Japan.

>>409398
Thanks to the lack of a second hand game market back then, it was ridiculously easy to get used games for cheap or free.
Ex-rentals at the video shop, charity shops, markets. I have a dozen Game and Watch games my gran got for me from one of the places she volunteered at and a few of them still have the boxes and manuals.

>>437689
You're thinking of conversion in the present day.

Japan had just had a bubble economy collapse a few years before that earthbound ad.

>>437689
On quick inspection, an Earthbound ROM file is around 3MB - that's 24mbit. Even at today's prices you're looking at around $30 in ROM chips alone.

>>437716
Not true at all. SFC games were expensive as fuck towards the end. CD based games sold for about half of what some larger SFC carts retailed for.

>>410089
my first ever fap on /vr/

>>414646

I bought the Genesis version for 99 cents last year.
I regret nothing.

>>409286
Jerking off or reading the manual

>>426696
>I was used to powering through books to get my personal pan pizzas from "Book It."

I remember those pizzas. Though I read so much as a kid, I didn't really need them. I had read virtually all the original 58 Hardy Boys books by 2nd grade.

>>410103
Dredd was right
The funny games are banned in this generation

>>421360
>Panzer Dragoon Saga RPG of the Year

YES,FINALLY A MAGAZINE WITH GOOD TASTE

>>431931
>I'm as good as dead.
...yeah...you are :,c