/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5207212

>>5207212
Croc

>>5207278
Here we go again!

>>5207212
James pond had a ps1 sequel?

>>5207212
Wtf i thought james pond was a frog

>>5207284
I loved Croc. Controls could've used polishing, but I still love it to this day.

>>5207285
Nope, just A TON of ports no one wanted.

>>5207318
A fuckton.

>>5207319

You guys know what every kid in Europe begs for when they get a new console? A fucking James Pond 2 port. They NEED it, and the developers will surely deliver.

>>5207325
Perhaps Pond is a cult classic in Japan too.

James Pond confirmed for Smash DLC.

>>5207212
zelda, all

This could be one of those threads where y'all are trolling and these games are completely made up.

>>5207575
In the hellscape that is Euroland, James Pond not only is real, but is mandated by law.

>>5207575
Can you not tell which is real and which is fake?

>>5207278
Mama Mia! The first reply is flamebart!

>>5207575
You sure about that?

>>5207212
Yo, holy shit. I played James Pond I for Genesis. Weird ass game. I never even understood what the fuck he was. A Mudskipping secret agent??

>>5207626
What the fuck is a Sonic for that matter?

https://youtu.be/UyNnSbmn8OI

>>5207626
He's the best platformer on the Amiga and for some reason that made him into a brit bong cultural icon that is mandated to be on a console as a port before it can be sold ins tores

>>5207284
>>5207313
Croc wasn't an A list platformer, but it was charming and is far from being James Pond tier shovelware.

>>5207326
>Featuring Sonic from the Devil May Cry series

>>5207212
James Pond 3 was good, though

>>5207285
It got ported to almost every system, its prequel sequel and spin off didnt get the same attention

>>5207754
I don't like it. The levels are too large and disorienting, the scenery all look the same, the music and enemies aren't as silly and fun.

>>5207212
This is on my twelve games of Christmas list. Is it really that bad, I just want to play a few comfy retro Christmas games... There's not very many!

>>5207779
Amiga, SNES and Megadrive versions are not bad, the other ones suck because they remade the levels to be twice as frustrating.

>>5207806
the 32-bit ports of this thing have the peak 90's aesthetic

Another Amiga spawn

>>5208164

>>5207779

The graphics and level design are shit, but they nailed the physics so it's surprisingly playable.

>>5208168
Fuck, it's on Playsation too!

>>5208172
The game that saved Jaguar.

>>5208176
And it got a cute japanese cover too! Actually, all the cutscenes were redrawn in anime style for the japanese release (yeah the japs DEMANDED this game), but the ingame graphics still show the original highly punchable Soccer Kid design.

>>5208180

Look at what we got here... ANOTHER AMIGA GAME!

>>5208189

>>5208191
This one is actually a remake, and it sports some nice music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkasMnNCY2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q--hnG-xGG4

>>5207318
jfc, the playstation 2? wow, the ps1 was pushing it - you do not need a 32-bit machine for simple James Pond graphics. But the PS2, not even as a nice compilation of the three games with better graphics and director's commentary or some shit... but as a stand-alone game, that's a crime.

What I want to know is what sort of hardcore weed the developers were smoking when they came up with the idea of "James Pond"?

It's playable, not the worst, I doubt many people completed more than a few levels though.

what the fuck is wrong with britain

>it's another we bash Britain thread even though they were on the frontier of game development while USA relied on Japan for video games

>>5208348
it's just that when brits made shit, it was way funnier i think.

>>5208345
Chuck Rock is great go fuck yourself

>>5208348
>Britain
>on the frontier of game development

Who doesnt want to play this game?

Jesus christ

>>5208348
Just because Rare was good at making video games doesn't mean the rest of the country was.

>>5207212

>>5208182

>>5208409
new homebrew version coming out for the Amstrad CPC 464+

graphically really nice, but will probably play like poo like the other versions

>>5208497
What? But why? Why are they doing this?What's the point?

>>5208498
British computer games must be ported to ALL THE COMPUTERS

>>5208348
It's embarassing when a pig headed nationalist takes these threads so personally and tries to derail with shitflinging.

Post more bongistani shovelware.

>>5208463
HOLY FUCK

why is he so ugly

>>5207212
I hate Robocod. Had it on Mega Drive and someone put it on all the computers at school.

Now Jazz Jackrabbit was a good game *sip*

>>5208358
they were though. Britains gaming hobby was pretty much just one big indie scene in the early days of home computers.

>>5207839
Snes it is.

>>5208170
Good to know. I expect most of the games on my Christmas list to be mediocre, I'm just doing it for comfiness while listen to old-school Christmas jams.

>>5208358
>Britain
>Game development
>Frontier

Who is David braben.

>>5207212
I want to get raped and mentally conquered by james pond

>>5210129
/thread

>>5209913
yes, literally who

>>5208529
To be more relatable with snotty kids, perhaps?
Brits are not into cuteness like the japanese or the french, at least in those days.

>>5207212
Captain Skyhawk. No matter where I go on my hunts, there games is inevitably there waiting for me, usually for just a dollar too.

>>5208189
It cant be bad, it has the nintendo seal of quality :^)

Eh I loved this game as a kid, so for me it's a straight up classic. Great graphics, music and fun gameplay at the time. Actually finished it too.

>>5208307
James Pond is the only Amiga game I remember ever actually finishing.
>>5207326
That's Korean.

>>5207321
I had this. Fuck europe

>>5210132
people with less than 20 years old should be banned from /vr/

Why is every euroshit britbong platformer called Plinky or Tizzly or some shit

>>5211096
You should be banned for being a faggot

>>5208345
I played chuck rock on a ps2 emulator and it was great

>>5208348
>Inbred imperialists
>Making decent games

>>5212170
Americans calling Britain "imperialists" after Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Yemen is SO fucking funny.

Moraffware games. Used to sell these CDs at my Walmart for like 5 bucks in the late 90s. Ripped an ISO for you guys. (Run installer in compatibility mode or use a VM)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zWgseR2VLjmO_ui3BeNDaOdBhaIV4HVX/view?usp=sharing

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gameware/james-pond-pond-is-back/description
Why do they keep porting James Pond 2? Why not 1 or 3 or even Aquatic Games? Why not a James Pond Collection? WHERE'S JAMES POND IV? Why the Kikestarter campaign to bring Pond back failed if Pond is so popular that to this day people keep porting it to everything? Why do Amiga games sprites have this weird shading that makes everything looks metallic?

I guess porting James Pond 2 to another platform may be some kind of rite of passage for British developers.

>>5211005
Yeah, but the art comes from the Japanese cover.

>>5207589
the thread started as flamebait

>>5207212
Think Sonic 3D Blast, except in actual 3D and you're a chicken.

>>5212238
Just in case there were any confusion from this post, that kickstarter was NOT about porting James Pond 2 again lol. It was about an entirely new James Pond game and they weren't sure whether it would be 2D or 3D. Kickstarter looks fairly sane, at least it's a brand new game and better than another port or compilation, but it failed in the end.

>>5212262
Now THIS is an anti-classic
although I laughed at the cut-scenes as a kid

I want to know, did they have to pay royalties to the owners of RoboCop? The name. The suit.

>>5212849
And the music
https://youtu.be/dOFvxcfDEJo

>>5212849
They had that big penguin money.

>>5210134
This game was good. It was more of a sequel to Landstalker than Alundra. The plot is similar to Landstalker (greedy guy wants treasure for himself, with a twist that there is no treasure, he just wants to make himself really powerful or something).

It's not as good as Alundra (which is not as good as Landstalker) but it is still a good action RPG.

>>5208348
How embarrassing for you.

Why watching this makes me feel so bad?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4oRV-xe8ms

>>5208189
>upgrade
>>5208191
>fuck go back

>>5214048
Notice that the playstation versions has brand new ( poorly made and confusing) level design.

>>5207806
>Zoop
This game is a-ok in my opinion.

>>5210132
One of the best codders ever to make games you fucking nothing person. You could have googled his name, but you chose to be the dippest of shits.

>>5211536
Go back to /v/ you gimp brained mouth breather.

>>5208191
I always got this confused with Mort the Chicken on PS1 which is actually a good game

James Pond II: Robocod is really enjoyable on the Genesis.

>>5208359
I remember sotb having a cool art style and soundtrack but was kind of shit.

>>5214048

Screen transitions. I remember my friends used to call me a faggot for getting motion sick in games. Snes doom was another one.

>>5209913
Morpheus, the god of dreams.

>>5208164
lol this was not only the first video game I ever played, but also the DOS port too

>>5208345
Sneed Rock