/vr/ - Retro Games

Pretty much anything that Capcom made.

Really the whole "licensed games are always bad." thing didn't become solidified until 5th gen.

>>5150725
>Really the whole "licensed games are always bad." thing didn't become solidified until 5th gen.
Play some licensed games that weren't from Konami, Capcom, Data East, and a few other companies. There was a LOT of shit churned out.

Fester's Quest

>>5150726
I didn't say the bad ones didn't exist, but there were definitely lots of good ones to be found, especially for the NES. It's just it wasn't until the late 90s when you could safely count on a licensed game being a turd.

>>5150727
Only if you're using a turbo controller. It's bloody necessary for that game.

>>5150725
ET on Atari

>>5150740
That's a good one, but OP was asking about NES games.

>>5150741
Festers Quest for 2600

Batman on the NES has an amazing ending.

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

Batman literally throws the Joker off the bell tower and straight up murders his ass. That's just hardcore as fuck.

>>5150720
>>5150812
my very first vidya.
good times.

>>5150812
Spoilers, it's the ending of the film too, did you know?

Surprised that no modern reviewer has gone back and asked why everyone was cool with Batman committing murder.

Licensed games could still be good even into the non-retro era, it was just extremely rare. Pic related is one of the only examples I know of.

>>5150720
>Batman Returns

I think Returns on NES is underrated.Everyone talks about the SNES one but the NES one is great. It does have difficulty spikes though, and the dash attack hurts on the finger after a while.

Anyway - Astérix and The Smurfs, PAL exclusive, are good games.

Mission Impossible. Hard but great.

Tiny Toons Adventure, great platformer. Learn the slide-jump speed boost of Buster and go wild.

Monsters In My Pocket, fun in co-op

Bucky O' Hare

Duck Tales 1 and 2, especially 2

Chip'n'Dales, obviously, CnD2 is decent

Darkwing Duck

G.I Joe and G.I Joe The Atlantis Factor are oaky

On Famicom:

Choujin Sentai Jetman. easy, short, but fun

Solbrain, which became Shatterhand in the west, nuff said

Kyattou Ninden Teyandē, or Samuraï Pizza Cats, fun platformer where you get to switch between a fun ton of characters with different abilities

Sweet Home

>>5150812
way better than today's "Batman doesn't kill" pussy bullshit

>>5151208
The most modern film incarnation of Batman kills people left and right, fuck off with the whole wrong generation horseshit.

>>5151207
>and the dash attack hurts on the finger after a while
It's not ideal, but I am impressed by how many moves they crammed into a game on a console with so few buttons. Does the block function ever become useful, or should I stick to just dodging attacks?

>>5150732
The PAL rom makes enemies take less hits and the shots can go through walls.

>>5151207
>G.I Joe
one of my first vidya
I can still remember this catchy tune off my head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWBX-BZ_p0

>>5151207
The fan translation for Pizza Cats comes in two flavors. One sticks with the Japanese original and the other is done like the dub and is just as nuts.

>>5150720
>Rubbish

pip pip, what! fish & chips.

>>5151275
What is the license?

>>5151334
Apparently, this, a Belgian comic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Tuniques_Bleues

I didn't know that at all. That's interesting. The things you learn sometimes.

>>5151336
Thank you.

>>5150725
Hate to go for the AVGN route here, but LJN put out quite a lot of worthless license games.

>>5151208
That goes back to when your grandpa was a kid, you dumb fuck.

>>5151206
Not quite, Batman ties Joker's foot to a statue and he falls to death, might as well pushed him.
>>5151240
Batman vs Superman he kills people and the movie took ALOT of heat from pussy fanboys for it. The Dark Knight trilogy he didn't explicitly kill (although that "I don't have to save you shit is a copout). What the fanboys don't like to mention is the ORIGINAL incarnation of Batman created by Bob Kane not only killed but carried a gun. Blame roastie Whitney Ellsworth for codifying this new rule.

>>5151627
>but LJN put out quite a lot of worthless license games.

LJN released a mixed bag of bad and good titles. They deservedly did get a lot of shit for some of the games they released, but they did work with developers like Atlus and Rare, who could deliver a few good games every once in a while.

Ocean Software was even worse than LJN when it came to releasing licensed garbage. Ocean only ever released a few decent licensed titles with the vast majority of their library being absolute trash.

Willow is still one of the most under rated capcom licensed games. Probably the best swordplay for any 8-bit zelda clone (swing in arc or stab forward) plus the nice weather effects. Both music and weather changed when enemies were around.

>>5151689
One of my favorite SNES games is an LJN game, so yeah, there's variety, but they put out a lot of garbage.

>>5151313
berk

Basically if a game was released by a Western publisher (LJN, Ocean), it was guaranteed to be dogshit. Japanese developers sometimes made licensed games that barely had anything to do with the license, but they at least remembered to make a good game.

>>5151793
>Basically if a game was released by a Western publisher (LJN, Ocean), it was guaranteed to be dogshit. Japanese developers sometimes made licensed games that barely had anything to do with the license, but they at least remembered to make a good game.

Virgin is a western developer that had a pretty good track record with licensed games.

Dune II, developed by Westwood Studios, published by Virgin. The game was basically Command and Conquer on the Genesis/ Mega Drive with the Dune license.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifXe-Kpq84

>>5151334

X-Men 2 on the Genesis is great.

>>5150720
StarWars is good too.

>>5151808
IMO best SEGA CD game, no fucking joke. The number 1 reason why I'll always defend the CD.

>>5151689
Hmmm no. Most of the Ocean licensed games were in the mediocre to decent category while LJN continuously released pure crud. Although I concede that Ocean NES efforts never looked as good as they did on the Game Boy.

>>5151685
wow really? I thought the whole point of Batman was he wants to kill the Joker because he killed his parents? nu-males are retarded

>>5151723
It gets bonus points for being directed by Akira Kitamura too.
>>5151873
>best SEGA CD game, no fucking joke
Not even close, cowboy.

maximum carnage

>>5152019
snatcher is the best sega cd game

>>5152019
>IMO

>>5152001
That was only in the movie, iirc it was just some random thing who killed his parents.

>>5152026
based

>>5152026
>snatcher is the best sega cd game

I like Snatcher and all, but it is in a totally different genre from Terminator. One is a run and gun platformer, the other is a digital novel. The Terminator on the Sega CD falls under that 'multi-platform gun, run and jump' template that Virgin was well known for. Earthworm Jim falls into the same sub genre. And it is really good for what it is. Plus it has a great soundtrack. Snatcher is also a great Digital Comic, with a good english localization that was done by some of the same people who did the localization for Metal Gear Solid 1.

Die Hard for the NES. A great survival aspect here, you must steal equipment from the enemies to survive, and you only have limited healing items available, + John McClane's barefoot like in the movie, so you must be careful with your feet as well, or they'll be injured and you can't move anymore and will get killed easily.

Also, limited stealth mechanics, you can use walls and ventilation ducts as cover to avoid being seen, and the enemies actually won't attack until they see you. Also also, multiple endings depending on how well you perform, and a time limit to keep things tight. This game was fucking brilliant for its time, and a great movie license game to boot.

>>5152408
Joe Chill

Gremlins 2

>>5152935
Gremlins 2 was my shit as a kid, I was like, fucking 5 or something, and I loved the cute gizmo, the creepy monsters, the crazy gadgets, and the silly violence.
The meta scene with Hulk Hogan was the funniest thing in the world to me.

So then I got to play the NES game, and it's hard, real hard, but it's SO cool and fun! The levels were neat, and it had great graphics, with cutscenes that actually did a good job mirroring scenes and shots from the movie.
Also, being a Sunsoft game, the music is absolutely kickass, take a gander at this OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmOu_pMQW3A

>>5151336
A Belgian did a comic strip about the American Civil War? That's so weird.

>>5152026
Islam CD is best

>>5153267
The Franco-Belgian comic industry dominated continental Europe for decades, and Western-themed comics were among the most popular. For europeans the American Civil War was just another backdrop, vaguely familiar from movies and novels.

wacky races

>>5153267
>>5153427
Euros were quite into westerns, just like everybody else.
The American Civil War falls readily under the umbrella of the wild west, so you'll definitely see it in European fiction about this era in America.
Hell, Italians are REALLY into westerns and cowboys, hence why Spaghetti Western is a recognized term, some of the best wild west films ever made falling into this category.

You even have a strong presence of Cowboy Action Shooting in countries like Italy, with multiple Italian companies making faithful (and some quite high quality) replicas of classic wild west firearms, such as Cimarron, Uberti and Pietta.
Not just typical replicas of the classic Colt Peacemaker revolver either, but also stuff which just isn't easily found these days, like Schofield revolvers, or Colt Lightning rifles.

>>5153747
>>5153427
This reminds me, here is one really good licenced game I forgot to mention.

The Lone Ranger by Konami.

Action-adventure game with in a western universe with plenty of different gameplay types. You have top down perspective shooting, you have sidescrolling action-platformer parts, you have light-gun parts in faux-3D maze, and even sidescrolling parts on a horse.

I had never heard of this game until recently and I was more than pleasantly surprised.

If you're familiar with Getsu Fuma Den, it looks like this game reuses part of its "engine", just like the first TMNT game did; but this time it's a very solid game and the action-platfomer parts play more like Castlevania.

The last dungeon of the game with the traps reminded me of Mission Impossible, another NES Konami game, but in a good and more fair way.

>>5154396
Forgot to mention, the game was only released in the US. It looks like to me this was their response to making "a Getsu Fuma Den for the US market"