/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5187315
People tend to flock to the big post mapper chip titles, but from 1983 through the end of 1985 the Famicom was really only capable of single screen arcade titles. Prior to 1986 the Famicom/NES was basically just a more advanced Colecovision

>>5187315
It's assumed anyone interested in classic gaming would at least play the classics.

>>5187315
Just play Joust instead

>>5187315
most people just overlook the black box games as >>5187446 pointed out

I'm a fan of stuff like this and blooper

>>5187315
If you’re a fan of the balloon trip mode in this game, check out Balloon Kid on GB and the Famicom reskin Hello Kitty World

>>5187749
Or Joust, since Balloon Fight is a really really blatant clone of that.

>>5188040
IIRC, Iwata worked on the Famicom port of Joust, so he just decided to make a different game using the same engine he coded. To be honest, Balloon Fight is not really a total clone of Joust, but yeah you can tell it's based on it.
Here's my top score for Balloon Trip if anyone wanna try beating it. It's not that high anyway but took me many tries.

>>5188040
Do you have reading comprehension problems? I was making recommendations based specifically on balloon trip mode which is nothing like Joust.

>>5187446
That was certainly my way of growing up with it. My family didn't get an NES until '87 - '88, so our only black box title was Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, and a decade later, Clu Clu Land. I got to play Pro Wrestling, Kung Fu, Excitebike, Donkey Kong (classics), and Pinball all at friends houses, but it was hard to really want to play those when Megaman 3, Ducktales, Castlevania, and Kid Icarus all existed in their collections too.

>>5188082
I think even with 30+ years of hindsight most early NES games just aren't the best, compared to other single screen games

Great game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qdRzxmgYWo

>>5188085
I'm glad they exist, but cutting my teeth on Super Mario Bros and Zelda always made it hard to appreciate a good single screen arcade game the way others do. They were massive sprawling quests where you went through world/s. It's hard to go "here's 20 stages that loop on a progressively higher difficulty endlessly, GO FOR THE SCORE!"

>>5188092
It's easy for me to enjoy Ms Pac-man or Galaga, Pinball for NES not so much

>>5189139
I can play Pinball for hours. Such a comfy game.

>>5188092
For me, it's partially that I like fast and quick games these days. It's easier to pop something in, play for 10 minutes, and then stop and do something else, just because as an adult I already don't have much time. I'm also burnt out in general on long-winded adventure games that just feel padded out at times, I love Zelda 1 and 2 but the new ones aren't for me for example, I'd rather practice getting a good score at a favorite arcade game or on beating some small thing like Alleyway for GB.

I'm also a huge balloon fight fan though. I used to be collecting for the game, but I gave it up after Iwata died, something about the connection with him made it depressing for me to own that stuff. Still love the game though.

Balloon Fight is the best Joust clone. I love Joust so I actually like the Balloon Fight romhack called Joust More. It's one of the few bootleg/repros I own.

>>5189173
>Balloon Fight is the best Joust clone.
Is there a worse Joust clone than Joust 2?

>>5189156
Agreed. As time goes on, I find that I'm more and more into games that I can just pick up and play. That doesn't mean single-screen arcade games specifically, but I'd much rather play something like the original Castlevania over a Zelda game.

Even when I was a kid, Activision Anthology was one of my favorite Game Boy Advance games.

>>5189210

Hell yes. I love "gaming" as a way to kill time and just get some happy endorphins running, but I don't want to (need to) devote copious amounts of time to a game that requires it.

>>5187315
Joust was better.

>>5189256
But not the NES port, which was lousy.

>>5189257
I'll give you that. How did the 2600 manage to pull it off better? Then again, it did Space Invaders better too. Weird.

>>5189256
Balloon Fight is better because of Balloon Trip mode and Hip Tanaka’s musical theme

>>5189259
Balloon Kid does both those things better.

>>5189258

They (HAL? can't remember) got the physics really wrong. I could have lived with the weird graphics had the physics worked right.
The Atari 800 and the 7800 had the best ports until the Williams Arcade Collection was released.

>>5188043
here you go! desu I've been practicing to try to break a million on and off for a while

>>5189324
my phone auto corrected desu to desi uh oh

>>5189175
Dual Jousting or Flappy Bird are worse.

I have Joust 2 arcade machine. It's not horrible but it gets way less play than Joust. The whole key is to only use the transform button to fall fast. 2 is kind of neat for the level variety, but it also pulls away from the action so it's kind of a double edged sword.

There was a "Joust 3: Revenge of the Lava Troll" that was a computer game someone made. It was kind of neat, but the levels scrolled vertically and that was very strange. If you're a fan of Balloon Fight or Joust type games, it's decent fun.

I'm kind of into these type games, I mentioned the romhack Joust More, but there is also a homebrew for Atari 2600 called Joust Pong (later renamed FlapPing) that is kind of neat, it's basically Pong with Joust like flapping to move the paddles and features the pterodactyl.

>>5189258
NES Space Invaders was one of those special interest games that Taito didn't bother putting much effort in because they knew it wouldn't be a huge seller and those who were going to buy it wouldn't be too quality-conscious.

>>5189324
Cool, but >>5188043 is for Balloon Trip, not Balloon Fight mode

>>5187315
ffs I loved this game but had forgot the name of it. Thank you so much ! Will download it soon

>>5189742
that is a balloon trip score, it' just on the demo screen because I died