/vr/ - Retro Games

Based willyvania poster

>>5002202
Pardon my newfaggotry but what the fuck is a willyvania?

>>5002245
seconding this

>>5002245
>>5002264
Metroidvania, but dumbed down and rendered unplayable for Euro computers.

Exile

>>5002245
A Jet Set Willy -like. At least I think so. It makes a bit of sense to use such a term, since there were a whole lot of platformers with point and click or text adventure elements (using specific items in specific places, inventories, text commands). Think Dizzy games.

>>5002306
>It makes a bit of sense to use such a term, since there were a whole lot of platformers with point and click or text adventure elements (using specific items in specific places, inventories, text commands). Think Dizzy games.
Those are called "Arcade Adventures", and are inspired by Pyjamarama. Willy-inspired platformers are a different beast, and involve exploring a huge world and usually collecting a whole bunch of items scattered around. Completely different types of games.

>>5002317
I didn't know there was an actual name for those games. I've just been thinking of them as puzzle platformers.

>>5002369
The genre kinda disappeared after a while, but it was a common term back in the 80s, and all the magazines used it.

>>5002381
nobody uses the term. it is an invention by people butthurt about the term "Metroidvania" for whatever reason.

they have a hard time with the concept of non-linear exploration through upgrading abilities. you might as well just call everything a pongvania, really.

>>5002398
>for whatever reason.
because it's just as much as a made up term same with Roguelike

>>5002571
The nerve of people, coining useful terminology with whatever game revolutionized the genre.

>>5002571
Every term is made up.

>>5002571
What would you call games very similar to Rogue?

>>5002595
>revolutionized the genre
Inventing the genre isn't enough, it has to also Seize the Means of Repro-duction in order for anyone to care about it.

>>5002623
What is language, really?

As long as people understand what a Metroidvania is, it stays.

>>5002624
>What would you call games very similar to Rogue?

ASCII Scroller.

>>5002398
>for whatever reason

That's because Jet Set Willy came out 2 years before Metroid and people are finally starting to wake up and learn the truth.

Can Bruce Lee be considered Willyvania? That's my pick.

>>5003137
They don't necessarily scroll. Some are flip screen.

Do you remember this bad boy?

>>5002202
I love Montezuma's Revenge on the SMS. Anyone have a high quality version of this?

What in the everloving fuck happened to the board? I came here after a while and now it's all filled with in-jokes to random other threads or even OPs starting out with a """"""""joke""""""""" like this one. It's like a goddamn parody of circlejerking, only for real.
>>5002245
An inside joke from another thread where they made up game genres.

>>5003741
Are you seriously complaining that internet communities have in-jokes?

>>5003756
Injoke != Circlejerking.

>>5003123
No?

>>5002202
https://youtu.be/iGtwZnWUkVo
Very strange on topic documentary.