/vr/ - Retro Games

It still hurts

Namely the forums. It even generated DUR BUTTER, which shortly found its way over to 4chan back in the mid-2000s.

Some sites I used to visit all the time

http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/

http://gepdhq.tripod.com/

I can't be the only one. And for its time it was great, especially when you wanted to play on a computer you couldn't download stuff onto like at the library.

F

>>4167418
F

Cult of Kefka. Don't have a screenshot, but it was my favorite site for ROMs.

I remember using the old Emuparadise and EdgeEmu forums for trading ISO's, long before direct download of such large files was a thing (short lived pinkpuff aside). EmuChina threw out some hard to find shit when they weren't busy losing all of their content or randomly blocking outside countries.

There used to be a fantastic Gernam PSX ISO site that used BCUP and YahooSauger to distribute their files. I found my way there through a hole in the wall forum called PSX Tavern. I cant remember the name of it... I eventually stole their distrobution model to run my own site for a few years. Back when Geocities would only let my site get an hour of traffic before blocking it for the next 23 hours due to high page views.

The shit we had to go through to get and share games was retarded.

shoutout to Dreatica.cl

>>4167592
Holy typos... I need to sleep. Goodnight /vr/.

>>4167374

OP, I just nostalgiad hard.

Underdogs was my go to site when I was in High school. Finding a source to download classic DOS games was mind blowing to me.

Man I miss the Abandonware scene, it was so good. GOG just aint the same and I resent paying for 25 year old dos games.

Good times.

Fantasyanime was the site that introduced me to emulators and roms. Fun to see that the site is still around.

The chick who founded Home of the Underdogs was a real qt back in the day.

Now she's rich from investment banking.

At least vogoneers promised to keep file archive up.

Dosgames was my bread and butter back in 2003. I had such a shitty dial-up internet back then that I made a list to my friend for games I wanted. He would then deliver them in floppy disks.

world-of-Nintendo.com was my main hangout circa 1998, and you can still visit it in its original Internet 1.0 glory.

I remember being back in 2002, downloading those Anime (PD) SNES ROMs and saving them on floppies to distribute at school. Good times.

>>4167834
>Anime (PD) SNES ROMs
"Adult manga" and the like? I remember downloading back in the early 00s.

>>4167834
Ah, god yes Planetemu is my faouvrite thing to ever come from France.

I'm pretty sure that this was the most popular Sonic site in the Web 1.0 era, but the only part of it that's still barely active is the forum.

http://www.theghz.com/

>>4167834
>>4167892
I still can't believe Nintendo licensed something like that!

>>4168068
It's a homebrew ROM, created with a some kinda slideshow software actually.

>>4167374
shiningforcecentral

>>4167439
This still exists and is updated relatively often

Anyone remember a site called Battle Of The Video Game Heroes (BOTVGH)?

It was like a shitty fanfiction website that focused entirely on a weird storyline where Mario, Cranky Kong and other characters were stranded on a desert island

For some reason the cows from Mario Kart 64 would get dropped on people's heads (like an anvil in an old Loony Tunes cartoon) and there was a Cow King who was like, their boss

I remember lots of randumb humour and a lot of infighting and drama within the limited "community" which was mostly based on an IRC channel, one year (the series had various "seasons" of "episodes" that were all written by various "authors" who would appear within the episodes, breaking the fourth wall frequently, usually by announcing that they were the writer for this particular episode and interacting with the vg characters), one of these authors decided to outlaw the cows for the entire season without asking any of the admins or people who ran the site (and apparently they weren't allowed to change this or anything because that would be "infringing on my copyright" as if you could copyright video game character fanfiction you wrote for someone else's series) and then a year later the cows got brought back

In retrospect I can see it was completely fucking retarded but I wonder where all those people are now, this was my first "community" for the Internet (alongside a Yoshi themed fanfiction message board that actually resembled 4chan somehow and features a notable poster named Yoshi Nukem) so I have some weird fond memories

RIP in peace

>>4168762

F, there's still a scattered community of assholes but it'll never be the same.

>>4168830
Me and two douchebags founded the fucking thing, it was so sad to see it become a venue for our teenage hatred and trolling and see others feed into it instead of being a welcoming community

>>4168946
Go fuck yourself

retro games are SHIT and for LOSERS

Qualityroms dot com was my first rom site. Great site with stupid, yet entertaining game reveiws. Too bad they shut dkwn some time ago

>>4167892
Nowadays they're called "Adult manga", I just look. Back then they were just "Anime (PD)". My first language isn't English, so I wasn't aware PD meant Public Domain. I thought it was Porn something.

Step aside, fellas.

>>4169081
>T./v/retard with extra chromosome in set 21

>>4167391
just wish its successor had more seeds.

>>4167418
They were chronically overpriced compared to literally any other importer. Not sure why people bought from them.

Oldfag reporting in. Couldn't find any traces from 1996 though when I first used the site.

>>4169094
ArchNacho and Tortilla Godzilla were the shit. So many good SNES recs from them back in the day.

>>4168758
I used to read it. It's really fucking bad now though.

But when I was 10 it was the greatest thing ever.

My go to retro rom site back in the 90s and is still going strong today

>>4169385
>posting non-defunct sites on public message boards when the enemies of emulation are watching and cracking down

>>4167374
Did your mom even have AOL pre 2000?

>>4169245
Because it didn't exist then?

>>4167418
Fuck, that takes me back.

>>4168420
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>4167391
>>4169215
I can't bring myself to beg for an invite to the successor site. Both Underground Gamer and Bit-Gamer were so good, not just for the torrents, but the forum sections were great too to get console mods/fixes. I do miss it.


>>4167418
Dammit Sony, I wanted and still want a Treamcast.


>>4169081
I like them, they were funny.

>>4169374
SHUT IT DOWN

Takes me back to an earlier time every time I visit

http://www.cdaccess.com/

This is where I built up about 2/3rds of my PC library.

>>4167374

I vaguely remember the HotU forum community. It was run by a Taiwanese woman who was really intelligent.

I think there was another guy called George who was like "the funny guy" and studied law or something.

>>4169413
Not the guy you responded to, but Plasticman's did exist. That said I only used it for H games.

Tried to find it years later, no trace of it anywhere. RIP.

>>4170406
Takes me back.

>>4170454
Pretty sure there's a term for when two kids have the same delusion. Aside from millennial.

>>4169215
Maybe they shouldn't treat it like a super secret fight club or allowed GoG uploads that likely got UG shut down in the first place.

>Planet Half-Life
>CS-Nation
Come home after school and check their Picture of the Day or Skin of the Day

>>4171185
I can't believe Planet Diablo is fucking DEAD

>>4171217
Think of it this way, if Planet Diablo was alive it would be reporting nothing but Diablo 3 news and seasons. If you wanted a Diablo hub that reports on useful activity, you have http://www.tristr.am/ which has real time character and lobby monitoring.

Sonic CuLT

>>4172209
Never a more appropriate name for a fandom.

https://www.zophar.net/
21 years and still going

Snesorama was GOAT-tier during the late PSP era. People on there discovered a game demo exploit that allowed you to play any games without modding your console or installing custom firmware. The only caveat was that the game HAD to be under 1GB (so no Peace Walker), or else it wouldn't work.

>>4172940
Remember those early game rips that had to fit into 32MB?

>>4172940
Snesorama are the biggest pussies out of all the sites listed here

The master lists were good tho

>>4173304
and loaders for specific games

>>4169194
>you will never read NC Comics again for the first time

>>4169245
whois history says the domain was registered in 2001.
remember that place very well, it was the shit for h games.

As a child I loved reading this site for the glitches and spooky stories.

>>4167374
The Steam of my youth

>this site's been inactive for 7 years
>the last M.U.G.E.N. update was 6 years ago
>Ronald is an 11 year old joke character

>givemeroms.com
>it was like a budget emuparadise
>also all those links to mcleodgaming and newgrounds

>>4172257
>zophar.net
Just got in to post this one. Site even has the very same design from 20 years ago, it's a breath of fresh air over this web 2.0 faggotry

Help an anon out.

I requented a ROMs website with a nice interface, it was all black and irange with a fire-themed webpage.

I don't know why, but I think it was linked to DGEMU.

Good SNES ROMs in there

I used to frequent abandonia.com for years, but I don't bother frequenting anymore. The site is still up, but they rarely upload anything anymore. I still use it for finding requests for games I like, the algorithm for games-you-may-like is pretty nice.

>>4171185
>tfw gamespy is kill

RIP FarCry, Saints Row, Crysis, Battlefront 2, Battlefield etc.

I used to frequent Planet Half-Life and the other "Planet" sites, but then 4chan became a thing and I didn't bother visiting game specific websites anymore because I could just get all information from the 'chan. Goddamn, I just found out there was Planet Deus Ex, I'm sure that would had been my favorite hangout if I had played DX at the time.

>>4176560
Abandonia also took down links if the game sold in GOG

>be me
>love duke3D
>friends keep jumping to newer games
>I stay true to duke in autistic fashion
>check dukeworld daily
>then in 2001 they closed down

Good times.

I still miss those fags...All of them.

>>4174593
>>4172257
Is this the same design this page has always had? I seem to remember it having a black and red color scheme. Unless I'm confusing it with another rom site with a name starting with a Z. Help me out, bros.

>>4177346
I don't quite recall 2004 looking like a refined Geocities era but sure

>>4174593
Ironically zophar.net is evidently web 2.0, your hatred is is for web 3.0. Web 1.0 did not have round edges, drop shadows, early Crapple reflections, overuse of gradients, and so on.

>>4167374
i wonder if there's porn of that dog.

>>4177650
Maybe this dot o buzzword meme is fucking retarded.

>>4177659
Maybe if you knew something about anything you wouldn't think it's a "meme" because the term is said a lot

>>4177659
retard

>>4172257

I wonder if Fla_Flash is still alive.

>>4177346
Damn, I used to visit that site to find codes for GTA. I remember when back in the days I used to just google or yahoo shit like "cheat codes for (game)" and then I would end up on some random websites that may or may not have cheat codes which may or may not have worked. Then someone told me about cheatplanet and my mind was blown how dedicated and accurate that site was.

I wonder why people even bothered to make shit up like false cheat codes. Maybe they just overhead them and put them on their homepages without trying them.

>>4176892
>check out duke4.net
>mfw it's still up

Hail to the king! The best fansite still going on. They're also advertising dukemaps.net on their frontpage, which is a new fansite for douk fan maps. I think it's time for me to finally learn how to make my own maps.

>>4169194
I love how flawlessly they integrated their advertising

>>4179025
I wonder if anyone ever clicks those sort of links.

>>4179025
Didn't he add the poker shit so the site could remain online indefinitely?

The squacky.planetunreal site. That man taught me how to make unrealed my bitch. Makes me sad that I didn't save the tutorials because I forgot all that shit already

>>4167563
MY NIGGA

>>4177582
No way, I remember the old Zophars Domain, it was waaaay more purple

>>4181329
HWOOOOOOOAAAAAGH!

>>4167563
Ah yes, I too remember this site fondly. Didn't remember it had a midi playing in the background but I guess that was common in those days:

https://youtu.be/93j4LfhxFHk

>>4171185
>planet half-life
>old-school black and orange scheme turning into the new hl2 white and orange colors
>all those daily hl1 mod screenshots slowly turning into weekly gmod poses

holy fuck nostalgia.