/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6226220
i highly doubt there is a single person on this board that played on a X68000 as a kid in the 90s. larpers incoming

>>6226220
I'm a boomer and I never knew anybody with: Jaguar, 3DO, or a NeoGeo let alone that thing. I did get to play a TG16 at a Circuit City once.

>>6226227
>this sacred piece of japanese only equipment, that i only heard about recently because i'm still a kid, was never sold outside of japan and had special circuitry that would literally kill anyone who touched it that wasn't of the purest nipangoo blood
But everyone is the larper, right?

>>6226220
I bet you also have an uncle that works at Nintendo.
The nearest thing to that that children played to that would be playing arcade games that use a Capcom CPS1 board.

I have good memories of reading about it online and emulating it because there was nothing else left to emulate

>>6226220
None because non-japs had this.

>>6226683
Based and DOSpilled.

>>6226220
Sorry I don't have any. My grandma got me a PC 98 for my birthday because she thought it might be good for school. I tried to tell my parents I wanted an X68k for Christmas but "you already got a computer, anon. what do you need another one for?"

boomers what can I say

>>6226683
too bad they couldn't figure out how fm synth worked

>>6226234
i was born in 88 and the rarest thing i ever saw was sega saturn at my friends house.
i did own a sega pico.
my cousin had dreamcast.

>>6226605
>was never sold outside of japan
Not from any ad in any magazine I read. PC Engine? Absolutely. FM Towns? You betcha. PC-98 or X68000? I think they were covered in one or two articles.
>But everyone is the larper, right?
You definitely are. Welcome to /vr/, faggot zoomer.

Played Castlevania in an emulator in 1999 or so
Does that count?

>>6226683
Japs had that as well.

My favorite memory? Probably the one where my grandpa let me snort coke off our hooker's ass while we were driving through the pacific ocean in his Land/Air/Sea Lamborghini.

>>6226234
I was born in 84. I had a Jaguar ordered through a Tiger Direct Catalog with three of it's best games in a bundle for a good price. And I somehow got a 3DO. Honeslty I don't remember where it came from, but it was my purchase. Anyway it had the best ports of Road Rash and Need For Speed. I wanted to like Killing Time, but that stupid fucking maze was too much for me.

>>6226882
Legitimate discussion gets removed but this stays up.

>>6226970
I hear ya. Still though. You got to admit at least this is funny.

I cant say I had an x68000 as a kid

I did have an MSX though and played the fuck out of Dragon Slayer IV. Never did manage to beat it

>>6226227
>>6226220
>implying I was a kid than.

>>6226220
I want to build some of these old PCs/MSX in the future. The problem is space.

>>6226227
I did. Right next to my Neo-Geo and PC-FX.

>>6226220
I wanted one for Christmas in 91. But my stupid Mom bought me an FM-Towns instead.

>>6226220
My favorite memory was with my grandpa, a decorated sniper in WWII, who had a harem of Japanese school girls and a house full of Sharp X68000 and MSX computers, took me on a trip blasting across the alkali flats in a jet-powered, monkey-navigated hovercraft.

>>6226220
My dad was best friends with Howard Lincoln in the 90s and had a vacation home in Okinawa full of X68000's.

>>6227871
>I want to build some of these old PCs/MSX
... What?

>>6227873
Me too. I used to also fly around in my uncle's lambo wearing STAX ear-speakers when he wasn't working at Nintendo.

>>6226870
>None because non-japs had this.
Please notice the lack of the word 'instead'

>>6227982
I always thought it was ironic how a system called 'FM Towns' had such an ear-rape FM synth.

>he didn't build his own supergun in elementary school
zoom

>>6226885
no alone in the dark?

>>6229156
What. Its the same one as the Mega Drive. Theres nothing wrong with it

>>6226220
Probably connecting it to the NEC XM29 I bought with money I saved up mowing lawns. I always felt like a poorfag with the standard monitor. They used to make fun of me at school for it.

>Aquales supposed to be one of the best titles for the system
>it's a generic soulless side-scroller that wouldn't have gotten a second glance on the Megadrive

>>6230202
Agreed, Night Slave on PC-98 rapes it on every single aspect.
As far as X68k goes, unless you're addicted to doujin shmups, they are few exclusives worth bothering with. Die Bahnwelt, Étoile Princesse, Geograph Seal are nice, but not groundbreaking. Undeadline and Thunder Force 2 are better than on Genesis, but not by a very big scale.
I found the MSX and NEC PC libraries much more appealing, even if you filter all the porn vn crap.

>>6226220
If only I was a rich teen who’s dad was a Tokyo stock broker in 90’s Japan.

But because I’m American my only 90’s PC memories were playing civ 2 and kids pix on my dads dos pc.

>>6230668
The PC Engine is a tier 1 gaming system imo.

Did people actually use the X68000 as a personal computer?

>>6226220
>looking in reflection of screen
>”premium” audiophile equipment
>CDs (a digital format)
>falling for that meme
how embarrassing

>>6230712
no, wealthy Japanese shut-ins would use them to play fapping games

Was any console or computer more powerful in gaming capabilities than the X68k in 1987?

>>6230725
Which they downloaded from Japanese BBS with their X68000. They also used them for shitposting.

>>6230809
Amiga maybe

>>6231580
Nope. That could barely handle Turrican 3. The X68000 was basically arcade tech at home. There's a reason why it hosted almost perfect arcade ports. The Amiga cannot make the same claim. There was always some sacrifice.

>>6230809
Sun came out with the Sun-4 workstation in 1987, which would have had computational ability far beyond the X68k, but would lack the graphics manipulation hardware. However, 3d add-in cards came along a couple of years later that would have theoretically eclipsed anything the X68k could do, if someone took the trouble to program a game for them.

From a technical standpoint the top of the line 3d workstations of around 1989-90 could have supported Star Fox-esque games.

>>6233194
True dat. An expanded, accelerated A500 or A2000 might have given the X68K a run for it's money, or been able to, but they were rare, and no one made games optimised for them.