/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5494467
>I'm from yurop

Stopped reading right there

>>5494481
Nice.
don't get shot Timmy

it's basically satire dude, they just pick whatever hasn't had screen time yet

>>5494497
it's a thin ice. You can be "ebin satirical troll dude" but its easty to start acting like a complete retard.

>>5494503
His whole shlick is kind of slinging profanity at the smallest things, which isn't really an excuse but it's kind of an excuse rofl

I think its safe to say that 90% of the people that watched that video wouldn't have played those games either way. Only maybe a handful of hardcore NES enthusiasts would go out of their way to emulate an unlicensed game whether its good or not... most unlicensed games are pretty low quality so no one is going to take the chance.

>>5494467
AVGN started the "e-celeb cancer" meme. He's an unfunny, talentless faggot that shills his merchandise by screaming "humorously" and calls that "content".

>>5494467
>Every kid from my circle back then would agree that at least DIZZY 2 is great
You play what you have, you learn to love what you play. That's why so many anons feel so uncommitted to /vr/ games these days, they have too many choices.

>>5494495
Guns stop exponentially more crime than they cause, brainless.

>>5494518
>Only maybe a handful of hardcore NES enthusiasts would go out of their way to emulate an unlicensed game whether its good or not
this is 2019
any person interested in retro gaming already emulated the shit out of everything many times.
And probably has an entire NES library on PSP or something like that.

you just told that being an AVGN follower = being a pleb
>>5494527
he was funny back then when he was a total dork and overanalyzed everything - ghostbusters series, random consoles series.
This video was just a quick meme similar to those "Hidden Block" autists like Caddicarus/SpaceHamster and etc.

>>5494531
you still a fat frogposter tho
>>5494529
>You play what you have, you learn to love what you play
im pretty sure we had shit ton of games and shitty games never had any popularity in any circle of kids
Dizzy 1 was simple but not shitty
Dizzy 2 was like one of those Adventure games from PC where you collect items and write down parts where they can be used
it also long as fuck and simply an OPEN WORLD with some additional gameplay like mine cartriding that leads to different places.
You can later go under sea and explore sunken FUCKING PIRATE SHIP when you find diver gear.

>>5494551
c o p e. Talk more about retro games and less about adult things.

>>5494551
>im pretty sure we had shit ton of games
Okay mister moneybags, some kids learned to find value in the few they had but you do you anon. I'm sorry the nerd hurt you.

Without even watching it, I'll bet he tried to play it like a traditional platformer only to keep jumping of ledges and dying from falling damage

>>5494554
>Talk more about retro games
im pretty sure thats what i did
>>5494565
>moneybags
Back in the 90s kids were swimming in cartriges dumb zoomer
>>5494567
lol that's exactly what he did
he kept rolling into enemies and dying instantly

>>5494467
so gaming historian did a vid on this months ago, but this sperg needed views so he just shat on the thing?

>>5494671
the episode in fact shows segments of the gaming historian video

>>5494531
Some of you guys are alright, don't go to school tomorrow if you're in North America.

>>5494467
AVGN used to be about the annoyances that kids would have experienced playing games from the 80s and 90s. When I started watching him I got the vibe that he was emulating what Seanbaby was already doing for years.

>>5494531
I'm a gun owner and no, you're absolutely wrong.

>>5494467
Eat shit asshole

>>5494706
Bin that strawman, gov!

>>5494716
t. GayVGN

>>5494718
Enjoy your hospital bill.

>>5494726
Are you planning on shooting/killing me? If so, a gun will save my life and others' from your illegal violence. The statistics don't lie: guns save exponententially more lives than they take. Movies and your government are lying to you, as usual, retard.

>>5494678
lol what a fucking jew

>>5494750
*exponentially. Time for bed

>>5494752
Actually the ron Jeremy looking dude in rental reviews that edited this episode of AVGN is a Jew.

Just watched the new AVGN episode it was awesome had the Jew playing Aladdin doing a upper decker.
Plus it had tons of cameos at the end.

>>5494467
Euro here, Dizzy was always bland and shitty.

>>5494708
Looking at the statistics maintained by the FBI, Defensive Gun Use in the US far outstrips any criminal use of firearms, even by the lowest estimates.

>>5494467
I had quadro adventure and 3/4 games on it sucks. You are also blatantly lying, super robin hood and treasure island dizzy were only released on quadro adventure, which was one cart, they never got separate release.

linus shithead is terrible platformer, its even worse than AVGN made it look like. Boomerang kid is kinda OK but repetitive and unforgiving/hard. Dizzy is pure trial&error, you die easily and you only get one life, so if you die you go all the way to the beginning, its just not fun at all. Super robin hood is the only decent one.

>>5494708
You are factually incorrect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlFSHTvBiko
Go Dizzy Go was better anyway.

>>5494515
So AVGN can just shit on every game and we're not allowed to criticize because "it's all jokes bruh"? AVGN's reviews are supposed to be based on reality, just exaggerated.

>>5495839
Literally the first AVGN video was him shitting on a game he's said multiple times later he actually likes.

>>5495839
The reality is it all started with him reviewing the games he grew up with and shitting on them (sometimes literally). Don't expect the spark when he reviews games he barely knows anything about, and sometimes reviews it only because it's a widely known "bad game"

>>5495839
autism

>>5495839
Imagine getting offended at someone disagreeing with you.

>>5494467
The games fucking sucked, get over it.

>>5494467
>PALfags
>Mattering

don't those carts also work on genesis?

>>5494467
Ah yes, another stupid fucking aladdin thread caused by the new avgn episode. How original.

>>5496109

>>5496251
Is that supposed to prove him wrong?

>>5494503
It really isn't. If you don't assume AVGN is satire at this point, you're literally an invalid.

>>5494750
Shut the living fuck up, you make all of us gun owners look stupid when you spout this kind of kneejerk retardation.

>>5495839
It's comedy you shit autistic troll

>>5495629
The FBI reports are tantamount to cherry picking, unfortunately. Not all states are reporting.They're not required to. Some can even report the figures they deem worth and bin what they don't.

>>5496325
>Im not retarded, that's just "my character"

>>5495839
Yes.

I like some games and really don't care if others don't like them.

someone post that stereotypical british retro gamer pic

>>5494551
>fat

Not at all. Fat people are revolting.

Nice projection though, the autism drips from your rambling.

>>5494584
>Back in the 90s kids were swimming in cartriges dumb zoomer
Naturally everybody had the exact same experience as yourself, how could anybody not?
I'm glad your mommy bought you every game you wanted but some kids just had to make do and learned to love their limited libraries because what else would you play?

>>5494584
> Swimming in carts.
You either rented a cart for pennies or got like two carts a year. What the fuck is this swimming in carts nonsense?

Adjusting to inflation you basically have to spent 150 dollars in today's money to buy a new cart back then.

Moron

Yeah, Dizzy is not to be played like Mario, it's about doing things in order. Check out the Oliver Twins playing their own game over again 30 years later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXJaTlX-wsw

>>5494467
>both Dizzy games
lel

>>5494750
Nah, I'm implying you'll get a heart attack from all those chicken nuggers, McFatass.

>>5496532
The funny thing is that back when the game was new, it was criticized for being too easy even for a childrens' game.

>>5494467
i'm not euro but its obvious dizzy was huge there.
seeing avgn shit on the dizzy series without any sort of knowledge on it was strange.

>getting THIS mad over some youtuber that you had to make another thread about it
Autism

>>5496741
Maybe Dizzy was huge in the UK, but I never heard of it until recent years.

>>5496830
I bet you also think Oregon Trail is something absolutely everyone have heard of.

Burgers tend to think the world ends at their border.

>>5496837
I'm not an American you snooty dipshit. This is why I hate other Europeans.

>>5496849
I'm not European you snooty dipshit.

>>5496837
It goes both ways.
>just use the scart port on your tv

>>5494467
Great another one of these threads, fucking
e-celeb groupies.
Fuck off eurotrash.
>>5494518
I rented a Dizzy game from a local video store, wasn't impressed with it, seemed to be the equivilent of PC shareware.
>>5494527
Based.
>>5494531
I call bullshit on the libtard.
>>5494750
Only in the hands of minorties, >>>/pol/ with this bullshit.
>>5494846
So is the fat guy with glasses in the Friday movie reviews, but he doesn't have the hooknose so he must be half jew.
>>5495176
Another fanboy idiot.

>>5496830
yeah most of europe is a mystery to usa when it comes to retro gaming history

>>5496837
>if I call him a "burger" maybe I'll look tough on an anon, no-flag, no-id board

>>5496837
HOLY FUCKING SHIT

SEETHING AND OBSESSED

>no one liked my dog shit third rate game so popular American game bad :(

>>5496903
The UK isn't really Europe.

>>5496716
I'll take this deflection as bait, faggot.

>>5494708
Fuck I miss Seanbaby

>>5494467
You're just gonna have to accept the fact that European games kinda sucked and nobody gave a shit about your market

>>5497168
Euro games got better in the 90's.

>>5497491
Surprisingly accurate.

>>5497491
Not a Britbong nor did I own one of these, but man, the butthurt from Amerifags around here is always over-proportional when it comes to home computers.

It's like you were cultureless apes nonstop deepthroating the big N during the 80s.

>>5497547
The NES and Gameboy had good games, is why.

>>5497558
Opinions Schmopinions

My initial observation is still correct. Why do Amerilards do get so upset over home computers?

>>5497491
WHY
Why are ZX Spectrum threads and to a similar extent, Amiga threads, such a hot target for flames and trolling on here? Its almost like the /v/ and /vg/ console wars!

>>5497568
>>5497547
I'm not an American, I just never understood why the British were so fond of those computers or their games.

>>5497596
I guess you just have to read up on the history of these machines and their cultural impact. I also assume a lot of todays developers in the UK took their first steps on these machines.
Just what the C64 was for big parts of Europe or the MSX for Japan.

>>5496830
I only know about it because of Yahtzee

>>5497547
>butt hurt amerifags
>thread LITERALLY starts with "im a Yurocuck and im offended ;_;"

Every time. Why are yurotards so pathetic?

>>5497596
I've literally never seen people talk about them outside of Elite threads and shitty Nintentoddler cope memes.

>>5497689
>Nintentoddler
If you're gonna be a consolewar babby at least do it right. It's "Nintoddler"

>>5494467
Well yes, it's because Europeans have the shittiest tastes in videogames of all the world.

>decide to give AVGN another try
>video starts out good with the Nerd talking about games with a charming cadence
>cut to an Aladdin cosplayer crapping into the top of a toilet tank

Well, it was good while it lasted

>>5496830
>Maybe Dizzy was huge in the UK, but I never heard of it until recent years.
Live here and I never heard of it until the internet

>>5494467
You were poor. You bought the games you could afford.
Doesn't make them good games, objectively or comparatively speaking.

Early nerd seemed like a kid who got pissed at the natural frustrations of shit licensed games and logical inconsistencies in the games he played.

Nunerd comes off like a fucking casual who didn't rtfm.

Dizzy The Asshole!

>>5497806
I like 4 out of 6 of those things

>>5497676
Don't be rude.

>>5497568
But Euro-kun, we had plenty of them. We had Apple IIs and TRS-80s and VIC-20s and C64s and Atari 800s and PC clones. Entire companies and game genres were born on them.

>>5498113
You didn't have any demoscene, your games were mostly interactive storybooks or spreadsheets disguised as a game, and the other thing that strikes me when I read a US computer magazine from the 80s is the dry presentation and discussion of how your C64 can be used for business and education, whereas the British mags were very colourful, cartoony, and completely focused on games.

I mean what the hell? Creatures and Jack The Nipper versus those astoundingly boring war sims and dungeon crawlers.

>>5497606
Not really. Very few of those 80s computer game programmers remained relevant after the era of bedroom coders ended in the 90s. Most moved on to careers outside of gaming or else got swallowed up and became anonymous code monkeys at one of the big studios.

>>5498129
>all of this butthurt cope

What's to be mad about? You bought game cassettes for £3-£14 and traded them at school with your friends. Who was going to pay upwards of £40 for a Nintendo game?

AVGN has always been about the performance rather than actual game reviews or critique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EymHaWhCY14

>>5497785
The last game in the series came out in 1994 or something, no surprise you didn't.

>>5497491
>Zniggy 2

lol you faggots need to learn to take a joke

AVGN has ALWAYS been this way. You just aren't a teenager who thinks "pee pee poo poo fucky shit ass" is the height of comedy anymore.

Because this is /vr/ and /vr/ is ignorant of the existence of anything except select Japanese console games.

>>5498393
Also he's like 35 now or something. He should honestly stop too.

>>5498406
What are Mattel, Coleco, Bally Midway and Atari

>>5498425
He's 38. This stuff pays his bills.

The Dizzy games were massive in the UK, if you had a home computer you almost certainly owned at least one due to a) them being cheap budget games b) being on the insanely popular Dizzy Collection compilation releases (yes games used to come in compilation albums). Unfortunately they were never really very good even then, but were massively popular with the kidz. This was probably because they were also made by literal children, complete with idiot children's mangled grammar in the in-game dialogues. They made the Darling brothers insanely rich but they're not interesting to play other than they're pretty much the epitome of the "arcade adventure" where you navigate simplistic platform challenges on split screens solving obtuse puzzles, and the game design decisions that informed Treasure Island Dizzy (you have one life because they realised their central gameplay mechanic was a dumb idea). The best of the early series is probably Magicland Dizzy if you must indulge.
The console versions are essentially odd "greatest hits" compilations of bits of the original 8-bit games glued together with better graphics.

American gaming back then.

>>5498593
Why is the price of everything so high compared to British games? Also...

>American magazine
>Amiga
>Atari ST
What is this nonsense?

>>5498536
>The console versions are essentially odd "greatest hits" compilations of bits of the original 8-bit games glued together with better graphics.
And better sound and more polished programming.

>>5494467
His newer stuff is a bit mediocre but his old stuff is comedy gold.

>>5498607
Because those games were made by professionals instead of teenagers as a summer job.

The American PC gaming scene was largely born out of games that students played on university mainframes like Star Trek and Colossal Cave Adventure. These games were usually pretty dry and nerdy.

When the early microcomputers appeared in the 70s, the first thing people did was adapt those mainframe/mini games for them. From there, the PC gaming industry was born. Thus that's why American PC games have historically had lots of dungeon crawlers and war sims. It came out of that 70s mainframe culture.

The Euro gaming scene was completely different and more like a bunch of bedroom coders trying to adapt popular arcade games. As compared to the dry American aesthetic, the Euro stuff was really bright, loud, spastic, and inspired by punk rock aesthetics. Game publishers weren't really developers the way Sierra or Origin were with in-house facilities where a group of regular paid programmers and artists designed games, it was more like "We'll take whatever some kid wrote in his bedroom and publish it." They wanted games released at a high rate and there was no way anyone spent up to a year working on something.

>>5496530
>>5496485
Arent USA supposed to be a rich country and Europe is not?
and yet we see amerifat retards whining about being poor

>>5498782
>Europe
>a country
Dude...

>>5498536
For some reason the Dizzy series never translated very well onto the 16-bit computers.

>>5498354
You get what you pay for, top hat boy.

The amount of meaningful contributions Europe has made to electronic gaming is small. Most of the actual technology needed to make it happen was of American origin. Japan perfected arcade and console gaming. Nearly every major genre of PC game started in the US.

>>5497124
Deflection to what? You rambling on about your precious shotgun? Holy fuck you're a brainlet.

>>5498393
I never liked the scat humor much, I always thought his other jokes were better.
Episodes these days can be hit or miss, but when they hit, I think they're actually really good, better than a lot of his older stuff.

>>5498607
Doesn't look that expensive to me, but probably because they aren't British shovelware.

>>5499107
Borodino: 1812 was listed at $60, probably more like $100 today with inflation. And it's not as if people didn't pirate like crazy.

The UK mags of the period don't look that different from the US ones to me.

(also Captain America in the Doom Tube of Dr. Megaloman sucks--please don't play this game)

People are so jealous of Americans, they even have to try and express these feelings on a retro gaming board. Which is ironic itself as the USA literally invented the internet.

>>5494467
>our 8bit gaming history consists of famiclones and unlicensed garbage
the sad state of yurofag retro gaming

Most of what passed for commercial games in Europe would be shareware or freeware here. The bar for a commercial release was lower.

I get the impression that the audience for PC gaming in the US was older than the audience for PC gaming in Europe, thus all the dry RPGs and sims as opposed to the spastic drug trip European games.

Wasn't it said that the NES caused a lot of kids to drop home computers?

>>5499358
fuck off gatekeeper

>>5499441
Nah that's bull. Computers aren't consoles and they don't lend themselves to the same kinds of games.

*looks up gameplay of Dizzy*
C’mon, you Europeans can’t actually enjoy playing that shit. I’m disappointed in you guys.

>>5499452
I don't see how it was worse than the usual American computer game stuff of that time.

>look up obtuse keyboard commands in a manual to play a submarine sim
>spend hours wandering around primitive wire frame dungeons in Wizardry
>Sierra adventures where you die every three or so minutes

>>5499452
>*actions*
I'm disappointed in you as a human being

>"Super Robin Hood? More like POOPER robin hood"

I think James needs to call it quits

>>5499459
>>5499463
Face it, game development and personal hygiene are not strong points for your culture. It’s best to accept reality and work toward improvement.

I never liked him because I don't get why you'd listen to a loud manchild swearing at a video game and not telling you anything useful about it. It's just like "FUCKING SHIT LJN GAMES REALLY SUCK".

Like happens to a lot of people, his schtick got old a while ago but he doesn't know how to stop.

>>5499493
>loud manchild swearing at a video game and not telling you anything useful about it.
Sounds like most discussions i see on /vr/.

>>5499493
Right place, right time. One of the first people to talk about retro games on Youtube. Also one of the only people on that site at the time with any vague semblance of production quality. That's also why the Irate Gamer did well despite being a garbage AVGN clone. In a sea of garbage AVGN clones he was the only one who knew how to use lighting,scripts and microphones.

Fucking Game Life used to be top tier entertainment if that's any indication of how low the bar was set.

>>5494584
>swimming in carts
Well it was young me with famiclone games, had like over 20 of them. That was like.. Late 90's? 2000?

>>5496134
Nah, they just look like Mega Drive Codemasters cartridges. Same shape. There would have to be far more going on inside the deck enhancer to make it play games that also run on the Mega Drive.

The deck enhancer seems like an interesting concept. Why not have the seemingly interchangeable bits of a game cartridge already in the console itself?

Why was home computer culture in the US so pants?

>no demo scene
>charging $1200 for an Apple II which had ZX Spectrum graphics and sound
>charging $4000 for a PC with pink and teal colours
>snubbing Amiga
>gave up on the C64 at least 3-4 years before it died in Europe

>>5501263
I’m not going to excuse Apple’s pricing. But the Apple II (and later the PCs that steamrolled it) had tons of high quality home and office software available for it. Amiga, and especially the ZX, didn’t.

Keyword: Quality.

>>5498449
I will say that AVGN wears that brand of juvenile humour way better than Nostalgia Critic

>>5501263
the IBM was never meant to be used by consumers. it was business hardware.

even then, genre defining games came out of these machines. can't say the same for most euroshit computers. ultima and wizardry were built on the Apple II.

>>5501285
There was plenty of Amiga software in the UK if you needed to accomplish work tasks.

>>5501305
>even then, genre defining games came out of these machines. can't say the same for most euroshit computers

Turrican? Dizzy? Giana Sisters? Jack The Nipper? Sensible Soccer? James Pond? Creatures?

>>5501379
>turrican
>rips off an obscure japanese arcade game and metroid at once
>genre defining
>giana sisters
>literally just SMB but worse
>the rest are zniggy grade shit

Forgot: Rockstar Ate My Hamster, Uridium, Jet Set Willy, Monty Mole, Flimbo's Quest, Wizball, Mr. Wino, and Henry's House

>>5501263
>gave up on the C64 at least 3-4 years before it died in Europe
Europeans were poorer than Americans, that's what led to weird shit like ZX Spectrum games still coming out in the early 90s when the thing was like 10 years old. By the end of the 80s American devs were starting to pack it in with 8-bit computers. Microprose and LucasArts were some of the first to quit, their last 8-bit computer games were released in 88.

With consoles it was a little different. The NES was a limited machine and also early 80s tech, but Nintendo invested tons of money into it including new advanced mapper chips to extend the system's capabilities. Without shit like MMC3 it probably would have been over by the time the Mega Drive appeared.

>>5501285
Commodore and Atari never provided the level of tech or software support that Apple did.

>>5494467
Dizzy is shit and has always been shit. Europoors have no place in a /vr/ discussion. Go back to pretending the ZXSpectrum was a viable platform.

>>5494467
>imagine your childhood is so shit you grew up with a game called after a bad yet not terrible sensation

>>5501675
I grew up in Europe and played snes you negro

Almost every euro NES game (excluding Rare) is terrible but they sometimes had killer music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31YF2DsHv10

>>5501379
>Dizzy?
Dizzy wasn't good.

>Giana Sisters?
Literally a low grade Super Mario Bros. ripoff

Turrican is pretty cool though.

>>5501675
Dizzy was just beloved by Brits. In my country I grew up playing NES games.

>itt butthurt amerifats and AVGN retards
when this board turned into shit
holy fuck

>>5499194
The World Wide Web wasn't though.

>>5496335
It literally is. I'm afraid you're the retard if you still don't understand this gimmick he's been doing since 2004.

>>5496335
Yes, that's literally a character. A lot of the games he's made episodes about and said was shit as his character, he's otherwise said aren't actually bad, or that he actually likes, like the Friday The 13th game on the NES.

>>5494467
wypierdalaj p*laczku
I hate nu-AVGN as much as the next person, but your nostalgia goggles don't make these piece of shit codemasters games free of criticism. And the fact is that Oliver twins are fucking hacks who had audacity to say that they could do better than Super Mario Bros.
Miyamoto's fart has better game design than anything those britbong shitheads ever put out.

>have that gold Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy cart in the past
>played a ton but aways stuck on 1 star left and because that never completed the game
Suffering this game haunts me until now.

>>5502449
Dizzy is pretty overrated, but Codemasters also did Micromachines, which is pretty good, and probably one of the best unlicensed NES games.

>>5502449
I like nu-AVGN

>>5501379
That is a list of terrible games. Just awful.

>>5494567

He's pretty much just making videos for zoomers in the zoomer style, it's laziness at its finest.

>hurrr durrr this old game sucks
>hurrrrrrrrr I die because game does not play exactly like other game!!! durrrrrrr!
>mike : reeeeeeee
>what were they thinking?!!!!!!!buymyshirts
>mike : reeeeeeeeeee

He's a smart guy, kids these days LOVE being told exactly what to think and do.

>>5494467
Can't comment on what jobs Codemasters did on the NES, but Fantastic Dizzy and all the Micromachine games on the Genny/MD are pretty OK.

>>5494467
>i know AVGN reviews shit for shits and giggles but him simply vomiting "durr hurr this game sucks" fucking made me upset.
Yes? He has done this for over a fucking decade. People still think the Sega CD is shit because AVGN told them so while that can't be farther from the truth.

>BiffsGamingVideos barely updates anymore

>>5502589
The Sega CD wasn't terrible, but it also wasn't amazing. Sega decided to promote it as an FMV game machine (because that was the hot new fad at the time), which I think it's actually pretty bad at, they should just have focused on marketing that discs could hold much more content and that it could play recorded audio.

There's good games on it, but there's way too many FMV games on it, and there's actually very few FMV games (on any system) which are actually at all good.
To call it complete shit I don't think is fair, but in his defense, he did show a few of the good games, amongst a lot of the crappy ones.

>>5502542
The only good James Pond game ever was the MD one and Americans got that anyway.

AVGN should review some ZX Spectrum games some time.

>>5502449
>And the fact is that Oliver twins are fucking hacks who had audacity to say that they could do better than Super Mario Bros.
>Miyamoto's fart has better game design than anything those britbong shitheads ever put out.
>comparing a couple of teenagers coding games in their living room to a major company with professional programmers and huge development budgets
Really now?

>>5497596
The same reason people are fond of shit like the 90s Midway arcade games. Cruis'n USA was not a good racing game by any stretch of the imagination, but people played it as a kid and ended up attached to it.

>>5502764
Probably because they haven't played the game in decades and don't remember how shitty it was.

>>5502764
I guess I'm attached to like, N.A.R.C, even though it's actually not that great of a game (though it's certainly entertaining for how weird and sleazy it is).

>>5502686
I don't think he'll do that because he has as official policy that he only uses real hardware, not emulators, and since he's American, where the fuck would he find a ZX Spectrum?

I don't think James really bothers much with computer shit anyway.

>>5502508
That game broke emulators for the longest time because of an undocumented PPU quirk it uses on the title screen.

>>5502865
What quirk is that?

>>5496558
sexy

>>5502871
Reads from the sprite position registers which are officially write-only. Earlier PPU revisions (up to Rev E) do not allow you to do this so Micro Machines won't work on early production Famicoms and also the first US model NESes.

>>5498354
>Jap/Burger game design philosophy
Try hard to make a fun game

>Britbongs
Oi shut up mate it only cost foive quid

>>5498354
People who wanted a fucking good game.
There were few games which went for that little when new, which were especially good.

There are few interesting Euro home computer games and about 90% of them were written by some 17 year old in three weeks.

>>5497547
>how a normal person would explain it
In the UK consoles weren't common and we played games on less expensive microcomputers. Well known British developers got started by programming for these machines.

>how a Brit explains it
Mario is wank and old pants innit? Play Manic Miner you uncultured knob. You yanks are always suckin Big N's cock, fuck off.

>>5494467
>has believed all of AVGN's nonsensical shittalk up until now

>>5497547
>big N
Big Nigger?

>>5498262
*citation needed
Some of the most influential people today in the industry in Europe started in this era

>>5503051
No guys with cuck fetishes please

>>5503089
You're the only one here who's going in that direction.

>>5502851
He has a C64, and has reviewed a couple games on it.

>>5494467
Shitty retro game YouTubers aren't retro. Take it to the YouTube comments section, kiddo.

>>5494467
I’m from Europe as well and grew up with a C64 and later an Amiga and let me tell you: All the games were dogshit compared to American or Japanese games.

>>5502103
The newer Giana Sisters games are pretty good. I especially like the DS one.

>>5503468
The top 100 games list on Lemon64 (a site with a mostly European user base) has 63 NTSC games. Let that sink in.

>>5503471
Oh no, I meant games on the platforms in general were dogshit.

>>5503480
What games did you play? It's well established that Euro C64 stuff had more impressive audiovisuals but worse design and gameplay than US C64 stuff.

>>5501383
>Obscure Japanese arcade game
Which one is that? Is it any good?

>>5503359
If mods start deleting these threads, I'll stop replying to them.

>>5501285
The high price did largely keep out shovelware.

>>5503484
Well, my first game was Batman the movie, which was an affront to the senses compared to Sunsoft’s game on the NES. We used to play Barbarian II and International Karate a lot, but they felt like they had very deliberate movement and not as snappy as anything in the arcade. Xenon 2 Megablast had cool music, but the gameplay did not hold a candle to Japanese shmups.

Like, there’s nothing on the Commodore platforms that I feel like I’m missing or wanna go back to, but I have a massive appreciation for Japanese and American consoles now and find a lot of joy in playing the games on them, completely separated from nostalgia..

The best C64 and Amiga games were the more computer-focused ones like Seven Cities of Gold and Ultima. Console games on a computer tend to not work very well.

>>5503487
Psycho-Nics Oscar. It's Gradius but it's a platformer. It's alright.

The aesthetic and even some of the music are very Turrican.

>>5494515
Either I remember wrong, but I liked the older videos where he was getting increasingly annoyed by the games, and usually one last bullshit moment blew his lid off. There were some videos where he looked like he was genuinely angry at the games and not just acting.

>>5503506
>Well, my first game was Batman the movie, which was an affront to the senses compared to Sunsoft’s game on the NES
It's not terrible for what it is, but it's also not trying to accomplish the same things as NES Batman.

Ocean Batman is a mix of different minigames. NES Batman is a straight platformer/beat-em-up.

>>5494518
People who have interest in unlicensed games usually have more focus on the monstrously bad products China was shitting out in the '90s and have no interest in mere Eurojank.

>>5501389
>Flimbo's Quest
Glorified tech demo with very little gameplay.

>criticise our games
>Americans had glorified slideslows and interactive storybooks

No one will ever care about the ZX Spectrum or James Pond.

>>5503089
Do you think a lot about things like that?

>>5503506
>Like, there’s nothing on the Commodore platforms that I feel like I’m missing or wanna go back to, but I have a massive appreciation for Japanese and American consoles now and find a lot of joy in playing the games on them, completely separated from nostalgia
I know how you feel.

>>5503667
I get the feeling that Sunsoft were very ambitious, because the graphics and sound on their NES games were some of the best of the system.
I mean, if you're willing to spend the extra money on extra chips for your cartridges, and thus raise the cost on your end and the consumer, just to have more sound channels and better presentation for your game, you're probably doing that because you have some kind of idea or vision you want to show and sell to people.

>>5494467
... You have to be joking. Those games sucked ass.

>>5503715
>the monstrously bad products China was shitting out in the '90s
>implying they ever stopped doing this

>>5502892
I can't think of a lot of low budget games which were actually really good.
I'm sure there were a bunch of ripoffs of stuff like Tetris, and popular arcade games like Pac-Man, some which must have been decent clones, but I wonder about more original approaches.

Why was 'microcomputers' a big thing in the UK anyway, I thought they were supposed to be a wealthy country?

>>5504830
>I thought they were supposed to be a wealthy country?
1980s UK? I think not.

>>5504312
>I mean, if you're willing to spend the extra money on extra chips for your cartridges, and
Not in the US anyway. The Famicom Batman used the Sunsoft 5A mapper, but this was just changed to the MMC3 for the US release. Return of the Joker did use a Sunsoft FME-7, it's the only licensed US NES game to use a third party mapper.

>>5504830
Not just the UK but all of Europe.

Europeans in general had a higher tolerance of ultra-cheap computers with rubber keys and cassette storage. The US has always been a premium computer market and it was expected to have disk storage, a real keyboard, 80 column text, that sort of thing.

>>5496716
how the fuck does that mug even breathe with that over his face, never mind aim correctly

>>5496716
An ok arcade port. The NES version, made by fellow Bongs Rare, was not especially outstanding either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71fBAyd24g

>>5502542
Fuck off, Turrican II is great

The arcade N.A.R.C. used some pretty advanced hardware so it wasn't going to translate to home systems that well.

>>5505193
It was pretty faithful to its arcade counterpart aside from obvious graphical downgrade and so on. I’ve played and beaten it, it’s fun

>>5505185
N.A.R.C is pretty much all style and schlock.

If you look at this frame here, you have two cops (Max Force, and Hit Man) decked out in armor, brandishing big guns, standing next to a sports car fitted with machineguns, and a vanity license plate reading "SAY NO OR DIE" (this is their patrol vehicle).
The game is all kinds of violent, weird, obscene, and sleazy, I don't even care that the game is just kind of middling in gameplay, it's such an insane and unapologetic cavalcade of exploitation that it's just absolutely lovely. Parent-Teacher groups hated N.A.R.C so much.
When you consider that this came is in the same setting as Mortal Kombat and Smash TV/Total Carnage, a lot of the crazy nonsense makes a lot more sense.

tl;dr, He's dressed like that because at no point did anyone think "Would this be more practical or make more sense?", it was all just "What would be the coolest thing visually?"

>>5505193
Compared to the original, it's surprisingly intact, at least in the gameplay department.
Also, in spite of censorship, a lot of the juicy sleaze is actually still there.

>>5505213
That too.

>>5505259
>Compared to the original, it's surprisingly intact, at least in the gameplay department.
>Also, in spite of censorship, a lot of the juicy sleaze is actually still there.
The graphics are ugly, that's what I don't care for and as usual, Rare were cheap SOBs and wouldn't pay for cartridge ROMs >128k while many Japanese NES arcade ports like Double Dragon and Bad Dudes used 256k ROMs.

>>5505320
I mean, yeah, it's ugly as fuck, but it still plays.

>>5505320
Rare didn't have the budget for big ROMs, that's why their NES games were always in the 64k-128k range other than Battletoads because it was intended as their magnum opus.

Double Dragon and Bad Dudes were made by Japanese arcade devs with big bucks, so they were willing to invest in larger ROMs.

>>5494708
He's Seanbaby if Seanbaby didn't constantly go out of his way to be an edgy offensive faggot.

>>5505213
It used a Texas Instruments CPU with onboard graphics hardware and a high-res monitor instead of the usual 15Khz arcade display.

>>5496532
They had no idea what the fuck to do

>>5505213
>>5505487
Wasn't the N.A.R.C cabinet also loud as fuck?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEONu4C43Ls

The Amiga port was adequate enough but suffers from the usual control and programming issues of most Amiga arcade conversions.

>>5505259
NARC is an American-developed game, this gives it a distinct atmosphere from Japanese arcade games.

>>5505259
>NO ONE HAD THE GUTS... UNTIL NOW
I can just imagine Don LaFontaine's voice reading that tagline.