/vr/ - Retro Games

Down to the year, or what? Because there aren't any games that share my exact birth day down to the year.

>>4805589
Try and find one down to the month.

Released just two days off.

European release date.

Defender - Arcade - February 1981. Old fag here.

I recommend using Mobygames "this day" search engine: http://www.mobygames.com/stats/this-day

Wikipedia's XXXX in gaming is also useful as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_in_video_gaming

Literally on the day I was born.

Coincidentally also one of my favorite games on the system. I can't believe I'm not underage anymore either.

>It is the earliest known commercially published example of the 4X games

The wiki for "games released in 1983" is kind of murky on exact months and dates. I guess starwars arcade?

This game...I always just said megaman came out in 87

This bishes

Star Fox

>>4805761
Same
also Spy Hunter

Panzer Dragoon

Closest notable release for mine is The Legend of Zelda. Happens to be my fave NES game so that suits me fine.

Gunstar Heroes was released on my exact birth date

>>4805761
>The wiki for "games released in 1983" is kind of murky on exact months and dates. I guess starwars arcade?

Really hard to find solid release dates on games released before 1990. Nobody really knows the exact release date for the North American NES. Those kinds of records either get lost over time, or forgotten about over time. Also, many games back then didn't use to have hard release dates, retails would just drop whatever game related products they had on the shelves whenever they got them in stock. Single release-day launches across all stores were really not a thing.

>>4805576
SMB 3 came out in Japan 3 days after I was born

>>4805576
http://www.mobygames.com/stats/this-day

Closest

>>4805719
Sept '81
Galaga released

A few days off.

Seems to be a lot of old timers here.

>>4806050
>most people in 30's
>old timers
aren't we all this delusional at some point?

>>4805842
Same here

>>4805626
Same.

>>4805576
Nothing in the same month, but Space Invaders was released that year.

>>4805907
> Nobody really knows the exact release date for the North American NES
October 18, 1985. that is the exact release date.

>>4806072
Honestly, I'll feel pretty bad if I'm still browsing 4chan in my 30s. I'm in mid-20s and I'm increasingly bothered about spending my time in a better way.

>>4806072
nah, those born after 2000 are the worst. I've never seen such a bunch of delusional, compulsive lying and incompetent idiots before. never ceases to make me laugh.
>>4806181
what's wrong with 4chan? i bet you're same kind of faggot that cries about this place but quite happily spends hours on circlejerk sites like facebook, leddit, twatter.. etc. :)

>>4806184
Nah, Facebook is even worse, I avoid it as much as possible.
Reddit isn't quite the same, though it has terrible boards it also has specialised places where people with actual degrees talk about academic fields. Those subs can be pretty great, I'm not gonna browse fucking r/gaming.

>>4806072

Whats delusional about what I said?
Yes most people are in their 30's are most people in their 30's on 4chan? I doubt it.

Nothing on the same day or even same month, so have this instead.

>>4806181
you'll never leave this place...once youve been here ull realize there's no other place like this on the internuts. sure its lost a bit of its zing over the years but people keep coming back even those that have left it for years eventually come back.
>lfw 11th year oldfag
nothing is keeping you from doing other things. you can just browse whenever you go take a shit if ud like
>>4806196
There's all sorts of people, youd be surprised

>>4805752
literally me too

March 1984

Oct 84

>>4805576
>Born 1996
I was going to write "underage leave" and then I did the math...

>>4805576
Off by 2 days

>>4806435
Leave, gramps

>>4805595
Having a hard time finding an exact date, but I was born the same month that super nintendo hit the US.

Okay anyone who says video gaming wasn't dead before the NES came around is officially full of shit. I'm not finding anything released even for the month I was born, let alone the exact day.

Just 4 days before i was born

>>4805576
Some close things within a couple days of my exact date of birth were Prince of Persia for the Apple II, Sim City, and the Atari Lynx.

>>4805576
Just two days off

>>4806181
If you think us guys in our 30s are in here for hours every day like we were ten years ago, you're very sorely mistaken.
I have maybe 20 minutes blocked off for shitposting and that window shrinks based on whether /vr/ is being interesting or not (frequently not.)

>>4806191
>r/gaming
I went there this week and a post with 16000 points declared Gauntlet Dark Legacy the "original" squad game.
They're fucking idiots.

>>4805576

>Splatterhouse for the PC Engine
Nice

~2 weeks

Same month in Japan, and it's a game I actually quite like, though I like plenty of similar ones more

>>4805576

>>4806181

Haha you'll never leave, screencap your post and print it and frame it so you can enjoy it in the future.

Seems it was realeased in North America on my birthday

>>4805576
ET for Atari.

>>4809178
This.

Closest one I could find

Honestly only really liked Sonic 3

>>4809449
whoops forgot pic

>>4807292
fuck stop making me feel old. Still remember playing that at my cousins house at 13 and being simultaneously scarred for life and enthralled by the glorious gameplay and storytelling

I was born on the day the first Fire Emblem was released in Japan, apparently.

>>4805576
Nothing
>>4805595
Spin-A-Card

>>4805576
The ultimate. I didnt even know till now and i own the fucking thing, played it a bunch

>>4807321
>>4809434
Are you my twin?

The closest I can find.

Man this thread makes me feel old.

>>4809676
So you're still underage

>>4807292
Doesn't this make you underage?

>>4806210
Not him and at this point the only boards I ever bother to check are /wsg/ and /vr/. Both irregularly. Few years ago I was on full swing with half of the boards.
I predict I will get completely bored by 4chan in next year, two tops.

>>4805576
pic related came out the day I was born

1 day before

>>4805576
The exact same day that it was released

>>4811358
Whops, sorry
I thought it was the japanese version
I feel old

I'm two days older than this turd.

>>4806173
As well, SMB was released in Japan on September 13, 1985.

So many younguns.

>>4811558
Shouldn't you be spamming /mu/ now, Kanye?

>>4806461
August 23, 1991

>>4805576
Born August 14th 1997, this bizarro Tetris was released 3 days earlier.

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

>Aug 12 1981
"DONKEY.BAS", written by Bill Gates and Neil Konzen and distributed for free with the first versions of PC-DOS.

Searched MobyGames and Wikipedia for the exact date, got nothing. Shatterhand was released in Japan the day before I was born, though.

Shame nothing came out the day after my birthday, I could have played the "b-but it was still my birthday in some time zones" card.

Searched MobyGames and Wikipedia for the exact date, got nothing. Shatterhand was released in Japan the day before I was born, though, and I can now celebrate my birthday with Turkmenistan.

Shame nothing came out the day after, I could have played the "b-but it was still my birthday in some time zones" card.

>>4806181
>spending my time in a better way

Whats with these idiot millenials constantly babbling about spending my time in a better way. I'm in my 30s and so what if I still browse 4chan? 4chan is one of my favorite websites.

You have no right to tell us how we should spend our time, youngin.

>>4812001
Just ignore them pathetic youngins. When we were browsing this site back in 2008 we don't give a shit how old people were.

And yet these fucking kids these days with their
>hurrdurrr 30 year old browsing 4chan

I feel sorry for them. Its their only way of "feeling good" in their "lame-as-shit" generation. Yet they are here, on /vr/, a board with mostly 80s-90s era of awesomeness. Pathetic

Hey youngins... this is a 25+ only board! Get out!

Space Invaders. June 1978

1987

this thread is full of kids :(

>>4812083
Yeah its fucking annoying. Thats what happens when /v/ is having a spillover

retro related: see pic

Not retro related: skyrim

>>4812094

>how dare this generation have appreciation for old games! They're OUR games!

Lots of kino released this year, it was pretty hard to choose.

>>4812112
We really don't give a shit how young you are.

But when some clueless pacifier-sucking idiot like >>4806181 and its cohorts are trying to stir things up as if they're some force to be reckoned with, then its a whole different issue.

Mind your own business, and we'll mind ours.
Mess with our shit, and we'll shove you back inside your moms vagina, you stupid millenial idiot.

I was born twelve days later.

>>4805748
nothing on 1985 feb 10 :C

Pic related came out the day after I was born which is one of my best friend's birthdays and we've shared birthday parties for ~17 years now so that counts.

>>4805576
Only one notable Japanese release in my birth month. But boy was it a good one.

>>4805576
Gaplus by Namco, April of 84.

>>4812369
That games is almost 100% grinding, I guess you're a fan of that then, there are quite a few here.

oct. '76

16 days off.

>>4811558
>>4811686
>>4812037
>>4812083
>>4812405
Cool

>>4805576

I guess this is my spirit game, have to play it

>>4805576
Fuck I'm old.

Born in 86, came out in 99.

Still yet to play it...

>>4805576
Well I dont't know about a video game being released on my Birthday. Maybe Dragon Slayer on the 9801.

But it appears that The Global War on Terrorism began on my birthday. So yay....

>>4805576

Inb4 underage

May 24th, 1991

29th June '93, so this is the closest thing

>>4813236
Happy Birthday, Anon
Now watch this drive...

Just one day before I was born.

I've always been kind of jealous of people who were in their teens back when arcades were still a thing. Idk sounds like a dumb thing to say but it's how I've always felt more or less

>>4814025
It's OK, /vg/

>>4805576
I didn't even know that Jim Walls did anything other than Police Quest.

Apparently this.

Defender, March 1981

Closest I could find.
Same week.

>>4805576
no games but apparently this happened:

Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj, Sultan of Selangor becomes the eleventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

Fug

Just a few days off

>Half way between Mario 3 and the Genesis

Exact date I was born.

This comes within 2 days

>>4805576
3 days before my birthday lol

>>4812182
You are a week older than me grampa

So many classics in 1982!

>>4813267
One of the greatest childhood memories i have involves playing this

for my kid

Final Fantasy IV was released just a day after my birth, a little poetic because that's the earliest FF I have completed.