/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5813045
https://www.suppermariobroth.com/
This site is dedicated to random obscure mario stuff, basically just pictures but still pretty cool.

is racketboy updating his website? I thought he closed it back in 2013

>>5813045

Well that escalated quickly.

>>5813085
He might be retro king but also a BIG girl king .

>>5813085
He is a normie

>>5813045
>best summer cringe in the summer

>>5813045
Based

There are some pretty good articles about retro-translations, but it's not retro only
https://legendsoflocalization.com/

>>5813045
There was a blog I used to love that introduced me to games like Pop'n Tanks and Tokyo Twilight Busters, I think it may have been called Shinju Forest?

I remember it stopped working for me for a while, but it had a ton of entries delving deep into more obscure games, does anyone remember it?

>>5813085
BASED

>>5813504
>female americans can be 40,000x more massive that nu-males
true

>>5813490
Is this that one blog with a post about japanese mobile-only SMT games?

>>5813210
Play more video games pleb

>>5813490
I love Pop’N games. I don’t know exactly what the Japanese mean or think Pop’N is but the results are usually cute and fun.

>>5813419
>All I want is to put in a physical copy of a game, press Power, and have that game and only that game as an option.
it's like he's reading the words written on the walls of my heart

>>5813045
Slightly OT, what was the site that had tons of funny vidya dialogue? It hasn't been updated in forever to my knowledge

>>5813057
I follow the twitter account, good stuff.

>>5813504

>>5813045
>https://obscurevideogames.com/page/1/
"God bless, and have a great day!"
Puke.

>>5814613
I take it back. Guy seems authentic and decent in this youtube video.

>>5814605
Bi-curious

>>5814334
Project less kid

>>5814743
Make me grandpa

>>5814743
>kid
And who are projecting here now

If /vr/ dropped their personal retro blogs, I'd probably read them. I've actually thought about starting my own for fun.

>>5815487
The underage ESL?

>>5814309

https://web.archive.org/web/20170321054054/http://shinjuforest.blogspot.com/2013/07/lost-megaten-games.html

It was actually, and that entry was from 2013 no less, good memory!

The blog was Shinju Forest, I remembered that it had an entry on Zwei!! and found a dead link on the HG101 article for it, then looked up the archive for it.

I'd recommend looking through it for any that are interested in somewhat more obscure games, there's a lot of good stuff there including a few things I'd never heard of.

>>5815692
Have you heard about lunatic obscurity?

http://gaminghell.co.uk updates when it feels like but has personality and some fun screenshot lp. Likes to dig deep into secrets/weirdness of some arcade games too.

http://superadventuresingaming.blogspot.com/ covers retro and modern in a psuedo lp format. It tends to like classic PC games but console stuff turns up quite a bit. Usually plays a few hours and decides if it's a game they'd play more of or not, depends.

http://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/ updates far less than it used to but it has fun with crappy/weird games - at it's best when it's perusing weird old Euro computer games/japanese weirdness. Its '(genre) covers' features are fucking hilarity.

https://superfamicomrpgs.blogspot.com/ is a guy playing/suffering through as many SNES/PCE rpgs as possible, with the intent of playing them all. He avoids US releases/games that just don't interest him, so what you're often reading about are games without translation patches, from a guy with moonskills. Have been a few games he's played I'd love patches for, and he's played a few that got one later, so it's usually fun to see if that newly translated rpg sucks or not. He also runs https://strategyrpgs.blogspot.com/ which is the same but for console SRPGs.

If there's any other interesting genre chrongaming blogs they'd be fun reads, I know there's a more general CRPG one.

>>5813045
https://fantasyanime.com/index

>>5818949
>If there's any other interesting genre chrongaming blogs they'd be fun reads, I know there's a more general CRPG one.
https://advgamer.blogspot.com for (mostly) graphic adventures
https://bluerenga.blog/ for text adventures
https://crpgadventures.blogspot.com/ for adventure games AND CRPGs

All good blogs and worth reading.

>>5818949
>https://superfamicomrpgs.blogspot.com/ is a guy playing/suffering through as many SNES/PCE rpgs as possible, with the intent of playing them all. He avoids US releases/games that just don't interest him, so what you're often reading about are games without translation patches, from a guy with moonskills. Have been a few games he's played I'd love patches for, and he's played a few that got one later, so it's usually fun to see if that newly translated rpg sucks or not. He also runs https://strategyrpgs.blogspot.com/ which is the same but for console SRPGs
Anon, this is a godsend, thank you for letting me know.

>>5817242
I had not, thank you! Not as in-depth as I usually like, but I've already seen a few games I'd never heard of before, some of them really interesting looking. It looks like a good resource for being introduced to lesser known games that fell through the cracks.

>>5818949
>VGJunk

I second this recommendation, although the authors personality/sense of humor isn't really my kind of thing. I think something that should be noted about this site is that he'll often play through a whole game in one article, essentially giving an outline of the game's stages, bosses, and ending.

>>5813428
Liking this one a lot.

>>5815620
EOP plz

>>5822283
ESL kid fails again

>>5822292
Fails on you from above

>>5822302
>>5822292
Are you faggots done sucking your dicks?

This is a good thread.
A couple months ago I was going through my bookmarks (they only go as far as 2006, unfortunatelly) and was sad to see most of those blogs and websites I loved disappeared.

FantasyAnime and RPGClassics still going strong made me happy, though. Those 2 and RPGFan were a huge influence on my love for RPGs growing up.

>>5822340
Best to archive.is and Freezepage the websites you visit otherwise once it is deleted its gone from the internet forever. People think someone will save it but sadly it can fall through the cracks to be forgotten like YTMND was.

>>5822457
Too many things have fallen through the cracks. The internet could easily disappear tomorrow with a cme.

>>5814605
most based image i've seen in a long time

Are there any websites out there that work well as a general resource for retro game reviews? I'm sick of wasting time sorting out the well informed reviews from the bad ones on gamefaqs but i've never been able to find a place with a comparable amount of wealth of information

>>5813083
He had to update the ebay prices and affiliate links, yes

>>5813057
I really like this one

>>5822302
>fails epically
FTFYK

>>5814390
This was something I hadn't realized I'd grown to miss in retro games. And physically swapping cartriges out is literally quicker than dealing with 99% of digital menus and interfaces. I enjoy feeling like I'm in control of my electronics and not the other way around.

>>5825167
I don't miss blowing in cartridges for 10 minutes and going apeshit with rubbing alcohol

>>5825361
I never had to blow a cartridge in my life but apparently that's something that was very normal back then.
I had to clean some dog poop from my Spot Goes to Hollywood cartridge when I lent it to someone once, though.

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/
The CRPG Addict is objectively the most patrician /vr/ blog

>>5815525
As would I, it would also be a good excuse to get back to writing regularly.

>>5824050
ZOG CIA IIRC

>>5813490
>>5814309
>Shinju Forest

The author (@_Kimimi on twitter) opened a new blog. It's in the bio, if anyone is interested.
I remember it was a pretty big deal when he/she gave up on Shinju Forest.

>>5825651
>when you're so BTFO you have to ZOG CIA IIRC