/vr/ - Retro Games

Ys has by far my favorite. Wizardry is also really good.

Earthworm Jim is quite good.

Sam and Max, reporting in.

DIC cartoons kind of sucked, but the live actions segments were top notch, and the cartoon wasn't that bad either.

>>4353397
Remember when Elvira was on the Super Show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLGI3bezcSg&t=124s

>>4353374
Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog gets my vote too. Preferred that over the darker tone of the Sonic Saturday Morning cartoon. But on the bright side, we had a chance to see Sonic 6 days a week.

>>4353436
>>4353374
I remember watching the SatAM intro on a Sega VHS my friend had. We watched it over, and over, and over, and over. I had wet dreams imagining how amazing that cartoon would be, but it was nowhere on TV in my country.
Then suddenly, my cable company got a new cartoon channel, and there on the grid said SONIC. I was so fucking excited.
I remember impatiently waiting until the show started, it seemed like forever, but it finally happened. Except it wasn't that awesome "fastest thing alive" intro, but some goofy looney toons-esque cartoon that seemed much worse than the other one.
I was very confused. I still watched it and still got excited to see Sonic on TV, but I was kind of disappointed.
Then I finally got to watch SatAM (they had it during weekends on that channel) and... the intro was the best part of it, the episodes themselves couldn't hold my attention, it was boring, and somehow the more comical AoStH was at least less boring, especially because of robotnik's silly robots (best part of the show).
In retrospective, neither were really good, but I'll admit Adventures was more entertaining.
The Sonic OVAs are the best sonic animation though.

It's a shame we never got a Sonic cartoon done by the studio that did Animanicas...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LecH7KTDGAo

>>4353374
Sonic 1 is the only true sonic. No animation where they added a bunch of dopey characters can be as good.

>>4353452
The animators that did Animaniacs would have been perfect making Sonic Cartoons.

>>4353467
>there will never be a Sonic cartoon that explains the lore behind Spring Yard Zone

Super Mario Bros Super Show hasn't been beat.

Good jokes, game sound effects and music, those live action segments are legitimately funny, and aside from maybe the Princess, the voice casting was well done. Plus Zelda on the weekends ( fuck you I liked it )

I feel like the musical numbers and staying rooted to one location is what made the successor Mario cartoons inferior. Plus Captain Lou and Danny Wells were great voices for the bros, second only to Martinet. Mario's voice in SMB3/W was too gruff, and Luigi sounded like he got kicked in the nuts.


I guess the Kirby anime with subs is a close second but nobody fucking bothered to finish subbing it.

>>4353452
OVA is overrated. It looks pretty, but the story is trash with a stupid ending.

>>4353479
Well, did you expect a good story? It's aimed at kids anon. It has good animation and good music, it's more enjoyable than the american cartoons.

>>4353492
Oh don't get it twisted, I don't think the american cartoons are amazing either, i'm just saying the OVA is pretty shallow and dumb, and only gets a pass from fans for looking nice and having a few shonen anime fights.

>it's aimed at kids anon

Weak shit dude, there's lots of kid's movies and shows with good story.

>>4353476
Yeah, Super Show nailed it. People shit on the whole "different theme/setting every episode" gimmick, but honestly it made sense. The writers realized that sticking to the locations and plots of the games was a really poor idea, accuracy be damned.

>Plus Zelda on the weekends ( fuck you I liked it )
It's become cool to hate Zelda, I guess, because it's not very much like the games, and Link has such a bold personality, but honestly it's a great little fantasy series, easily stands toe-to-toe with the best of the cartoons at the time. It's just become such an easy target because people who look back on it, or worse, underage who never saw it end up judging it poorly just because it's not like the games.

>>4353498
>OVA is pretty shallow and dumb
It's not that bad. I mean for an hour long mini-movie, it hits all the right notes. Only thing I can really point at being dumb, in the typical anime fashion, is how Sonic and Metal Sonic are somehow spiritually and physically linked, with no real explanation, and it becomes a major part of the plot towards the end. Other than that, it's pretty airtight.

>>4353452
>It's a shame we never got a Sonic cartoon done by the studio that did Animanicas...
That was TMS. They were a Japanese animation studio that worked closely with a lot with Disney, Warner Bros. and some other American companies during the '90s. They actually animated the 4-part Chaos Emerald arc in AoStH, so there's that, at least.

>>4353474
Spring Yard is part of the main city complex of South Island, with Star Light being the downtown. The signs in Spring Yard are likely advertisements for different services/businesses.

>>4353374
It's set as a sequel to the arcade game, but The Tower Of Druaga is fantastic. It's worth watching for the phenomenal RPG parody first episode if nothing else.

>>4353476
>Plus Zelda on the weekends ( fuck you I liked it )
I really like the Zelda cartoon, I wish there was more of it. Unfortunately it's fashionable to complain about it without having actually watched it.

>>4353536
Dunno if it's >not retro though since it aired in like 2006-2007.

The Tower of Druaga anime is set as a sequel to the arcade game and is pretty good.

The 90s were full of weird anime adaptations of stuff you wouldn't expect, like Power Stone and Arc The Lad.

I have a soft spot in my heart for the old Super Show, Zelda and AoStH cartoons, but if we're including anime, there's only one true GOAT:

Street Fighter II The Animated Movie, especially with the U.S. soundtrack. The blend of choreography and music in the Chun Li vs. Vega scene gives me goosebumps every time.

>>4353827
SF2V also deserves a mention.

>>4353827
The street fighter movie was such BS. Chun Li shouldn't have been able to throw that couch for a start. When does that ever happen in the game? That fight scene was shit.
She isn't even in her proper costume for the fight which is so incredibly stupid and a betrayal of the source material that I can barely comprehend it. I can only assume mental deficiency on your part for thinking it is good, which considering the state of US education probably explains the film's popularity. Fuck you.

>>4353452
>>It's a shame we never got a Sonic cartoon done by the studio that did Animanicas...
Actually, we did! Years later, TMS would animate Sonic X.

>>4353517

This is what I always thought.

>>4353827
>especially with the U.S. soundtrack

i did enjoy the zelda, mortal kombat & dragons lair cartoons also the netflix castlevania. and as for non-retro games i actually got into the persona games through the original P4 cartoon.

i kinda wish i could find the fire emblem cartoon

>>4353479
>>4353498
You should try not being this obvious.

>>4354359
>mortal kombat cartoon
This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjdmOeLJP1I
I remember renting this on VHS. Fucking horrible.
You probably meant the other cartoon I just saw on google though, which I never watched.
By the way, there's also the CGI Donkey Kong series, I remember that being fun, also good reaction images.

Speaking of DK, anyone remember a sort of TV spot with both Donkey and Diddy, not animated, but puppets, and they would talk about upcoming SNES games? I remember them advertising Killer Instinct and Yoshi's Island that way. I searched all over the internet but to no avail.
It was during the "play it loud" era, as both Donkey and Diddy would say "play it loud!" at the end of the segment (it was really short, like 3 or 5 minutes)

>>4354607
I don't think I ever watched that TV spot but I do remember that I used to be on a holiday in france 16 years ago and we were able to watch shows on canal +, which used to be a european equivalent of HBO, and one of them was called "Donkey Kong TV.Cool" or something? I tried googling it and finding information on wikipedia but I could never find it. It was kind of like Super Mario Super Show where they were always in a different setting but with the CGI from that TV series someone else in this thread mentioned. I didn't just imagine all of that, did I?

>>4353379
Damn I love the YS games. How would you describe this anime?

Anyone knows if this is good and where I can download it?

>>4353384
The show was based on the comics, wasn't it?

>>4355246
Not really, there were maybe a couple of comic-based episodes, but were either trimmed and toned down a bit (the moon one) or changed in plot entirely. The rest are original.

>>4354607
defenders of the realm

https://youtu.be/N3i4VKa1f8Q

it was a sorta continuation/tie in of the two movies + tie in to MK3

>>4355242
i hate how toriyama has some cool character designs but can't draw different faces to save his life

>>4353547
>game is shorter than episode of ova

He was strangely attractive (for a fishman)

>>4355503
I watched this shit on youtube, it's so fucking slow. No wonder sci-fi and mecha anime is dead.

god tier shonen anime
dragon quest dai no daibouken

>>4353402
mama mia

>>4354619
It was called something else but it was a real thing and I saw a few clips on YouTube of it.

>>4353374
Reminds me too much of that irritating feeling of having to get ready for school

>>4355309
I hate how Toriyama have some cool designs wasted on shitty generic shounenshit stories.
Just imagine ifthe guy could write like Tezuka (who could write as well as Alan Moore).

>>4355728
Tezuka is not in Moore's league.

>>4353827
>especially with the U.S. soundtrack
>Best Ken driving to Them Bones
My nigger

>>4353827
WHAT DO YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOUR FIST

>>4353836
Man that anime had so much fucking promise. Too bad you can actually pinpoint the moment where they ran out of budget and it basically became fillerfest.

>>4355297
I assume the deadspace movie is more violent than the MK kids cartoonn....

>>4355946
pretty much.

they even censor lui kang's fight with the original sub zero from the movie in a flashback

>>4355728
the dragon quest games are shonenshit?

>>4355951
yep, it even had a shonen cartoon, look up dai no bouken

>>4355580
>burgers didn't grow up with this
lmao animelets

>>4353381

Seconding this. Easily the best game to cartoon adaptation.

>>4355736
Oh yeah, he is (was). Tezuka was Moore and Kirby (and Disney) at the same time.
But Tezuka couldn't control himself (as Kirby), so he would usually start a story as Moore and end it in some batshit insane way.
Man, people who think that awful and redundant dialogue ("NANI!?") is the only way japs can write don't know Tezuka.

>>4355951
Hmm, sometimes. But I was talking about what Toriyama wrote.
OK, Dr Slump was pretty different and amazing, but I would love to see Toriyama on a really well written and serious story.

>>4355309
>toriyama only draws Goku face!
I hate this meme.
Yeah, he draws the Goku face a lot. No, it's not the only one he does.
If you want to complain about a sameface, check out Shinkiro.

>>4355736
What Tezuka stuff have you read?
Anyway even his more "kiddy" stuff like Astro Boy or Jungle Taitei has a lot of powerful, meaningful writing that goes beyond an adventure comic for kids.
I don't think I've ever read a comic (manga or otherwise) as spiritual as Hi no tori/Phoenix.

>>4357127
>OK, Dr Slump was pretty different and amazing, but I would love to see Toriyama on a really well written and serious story.
I don't think serious stories are Toriyama's forte. He's a genius at humor, he should do more humor.

>>4354607
>Fucking horrible.
Confirmed faggot. That was fun at the time.

>>4355736
True, Tezuka is better.

>>4358576
>tfw i'll never have such low standards, even as a kid

>>4353840
kek you almost got me

>>4357252
i never said he did he in >>4355242 you can see he can draw piccolo, launch & bulma (or maybe chichi?)

and in DQ8 he drew gohan, trunks & videl

>>4353827
>that couch throw
klingonwithaboner.jpg

I liked this series, it wasn't amazing, but it was decent.

Do people forgot about this? I liked it.

>>4361241
Pac-Man had some top-tier christmas special I remember watching every year in the old Cartoon Network.