/vr/ - Retro Games

I love the PSX greatest hits boxes. That green just screams 90s. I also like the "platinum hits" Xbox boxes.

repakaged rereleases are always fucking ugly
also what the fuck sega why are there so many different genesis boxart styles

I just keep them in their own section of the shelf separate from the black borders

>>6415347
You play with cases or with CD? Which of those two thing put on your PSX?

I remember buying a greatest hits game and the greatest hits part was just a paper spine in the plastic wrapper. I forgot which game it was.

>>6415357
not vr but also looks like a freaking 360 game. imo ugly

For some reason, I never liked the green colour scheme of the 'Greatest Hits' versions, nor did how the disc art would be black and white.

>>6415347
I seriously once met a girl who argued with me that those editions are better collectibles since it shows how many people have bought it.

>>6415347
In Europe we had this

>>6415842
Fwiw, some of the GH discs are original art in a new package. Can't remember if it's specific games, or just pressed discs that hadn't been packaged yet.

Budget re-releases didn't have to look garish.

>>6415846
I like the jewel cases at least. Looks more stable at least.

I don't mind greatest hits. It's a later release and some of them are patched to knock out unintended bugs.

>>6415347
I had one of these growing up, i still don't understand why this was on there.

I don't mind the green except for my favorite PS1 game, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Finally got the original release a while back.

>>6415880
>arabic aesthetics
>europe
go figure

>>6415846
You also had 50hz aids ya loimey fuck

At least with a greatest hits releases you were guaranteed a good game... right?

>>6415347
I don't mind, as long as it's a physical copy of a game I want. But if it bothers you that much, buy the original release copy.

>>6416082
In order to be labeled Greatest Hits you only had to sell like 250,000 copies.

>>6415846
I like this except the disc art. platinum makes it seem better even tho it was cheaper. bring back platinum. oh no one buys discs anymore. bring back childhood.

>>6416148
Shit post

>>6415880
these look awful I'm glad I'll forget they exist when I close this thread

>why yes, of course I prefer releases without bugfixes, as I use them to fill the void in my living-room-shelves and my soul

>>6416175
Wasn't it a million?

>>6416272
>When Sony introduced the program for PlayStation in March 1997, games could become Greatest Hits titles after selling at least 150,000 copies and being on the market for at least a year.[2][3] Minimum sales required eventually rose to 250,000.[4] When the program came to PlayStation 2 in 2002, games could become Greatest Hits titles after selling at least 400,000 copies and being on the market for at least one year.[5]

>>6416256
The only games collectorfags play are with their dicks jerking off to their collection

>>6416278
Sony giving good games away for cheaper so poorfags can play them while Nintendo games never budge in price I know who gets my vote

>>6416256
What are 3 greatest hits releases that fixes significant bugs

>>6416292
I know that FFV on the Final Fantasy Anthology black label doesn't work properly on PS2 BC, but the greatest hits version does

>>6416291
Nintendo also used to do greatest hits games for the N64 and the Gamecube, except they were called "Player's Choice". Later on it was called "Nintendo Selects" for the Wii, Wii U and 3DS. They were absent from the DS (which was nbd considering DS games were pretty cheap to begin with) and the Switch, which is kind of egregious, but I don't think the first Nintendo Selects began appearing for the Wii until almost 5 years after its release.

The Player's Choice was actually a great deal in Canada, because you used to be able to buy a Gamecube game for CAD $19.99, which was the equivalent of about $16 USD. But in the US, games were also priced at $19.99. So thanks Nintendo, for giving us cheap games despite our shitty currency.

>>6416291
>Never budge in price
I bought an N64 game brand new for $19.99, it had a "Player's Choice" label on it. They also sold used N64 games for cheap at a Funcoland.

>>6416292
Spyro 3 has a glitch with one of its speedways that will prevent 100% completion because it will never count an egg as earned if you don't get the trial and race eggs in the same visit. GH release fixed that.

Yes, I hate them. I'll try and avoid them at any costs, though if I find a great deal on a GH label game, I'll get it and live with it. Got a sealed in box GH Chrono Cross for 3 dollars recently, I can live with that.

>>6416581
it's 2020 family

>>6416292
I remember that one of the V-Rally games had extra tracks or cars on the Platinum version...

I think that The Lost World also had some improvements...

>>6416291
Nintendo did the same thing, you ding dong. Lurk moar before posting.

>>6417050
Sony still do it brother

>>6416632
I know, but I was 16-17 in 98-99 when owning & playing an N64 and shopping at a Funcoland.

>>6415347
think THATS bad?

try collecting for dreamcast asshole
that color change was MANDATORY
shit don't jive right

>>6415846
>PlayStation listed no less than four times on the case
for what purpose

>>6419445
Just in case you forget it's PlayStation.
Also, those black inserts on the thicc PAL cases are a pain in the ass to remove and replace. That black tab on the left is part of the disc tray. Had to do it recently after an unfortunate accident involving a game I wanted a better quality copy of and I severely underestimated the difficulty of swapping the back insert around between cases.

>>6419445
Honestly, knowing Sony's marketing strategies (both current and present; and not just with their games), it'd out-of-character if they didn't resort to this.

>>6415347
I like the green labels because they are so 90s, nobody today would do a totally rad end label like that, it’s very of an era, so it adds to the retro aesthetic.

i would never

>>6415347
I hate uniformity, it’s soo boring. I love the uniqueness of the Japanese MegaDrive spines. Way more interesting to look at.

>>6415371
CERO didn’t exist back then, it didn’t even become a thing until late PS2. That has to be a fake or reprint.

>>6419862
If the 30/40-year-old rule of nostalgia is to be believed, we might see a resurgent of such aesthetics either by the end of the this decade, or when the next one starts.
>possibly sooner

>>6415842
Not always black and white. Some of them were just black text over a plain disc with no other color back ground.

>>6419898
I honestly can't tell if that's a fitting stylised cover to a classic game, or just lazy design.

>>6419907
the greatest hits releases were budget releases so they just went with what was cheapest to print

>>6419879
>CERO
>Founded: June 2002

>PSone Books titles were still being released until late 2006.

>>6416278
So like every game ever then? 150k is peanuts.

>>6419898
>Reach us on the on the World Wide Web

>>6415357
That chrome color is about as 2000s as it gets.

>>6419947
i'm logging on as we speak

>>6415347
I'm glad collectors hate these, since it keeps the prices lower.

>>6415347
that's what you get for waiting until a game is popular before buying it

>>6420238
>Love retro games before they're cool
>Most games I wanted were between 0.50 and $5
>Dirt fucking poor college student at the time with no money but grabbed what I could
>As soon as I start getting money retro games started to pick up in price, upwards to $20 for rare games
>Bought as much shit as I could
>There's still games I want that are now in the fucking $60 range
I was in the right place at the wrong fucking time. I'm still fucking mad. Where the fuck were these nerd culture faggots in the 2000s?

>>6420408
>Where the fuck were these nerd culture faggots in the 2000s?
Nerd culture wasn't mainstream and picked up by people who liked it "ironically". It was either for children or manchildren.

>>6415846
Those silver spines look really good in a collection. Probably the classiest video game budget line.

>>6415347
I get it being a boon for autists and collectors, but I love that lime green label.

>>6415347
Rather have that than the bullshit 'All Star' labels on the Dreamcastic.

>>6415845
huh

>>6416161
see
>>6416082

>>6420462
That completely fits with the Dreamcast aesthetic tho. Orange is a based color. Lime green and neon red do not fit the PS1's aesthetic.

>>6419865
>two copies of FF7, MGS, RE, & RE2

save some pussy for the rest of us

>>6420490
Those aren't two copies, they are multiple disc games, zoom zoom.

>>6415347
It was ugly, but no self respecting person cares

>>6420490
he doesn't know!

>>6420408
better than me who at one time had every game i could ever want but sold them all for pennies to pay bills at the time thinking that i'd forever easily be able to buy them back for a few bucks

>>6415845
Your first mistake was believing any girl that pretends to like vidya

>>6420602
better to sell your possessions it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven it means lose the clutter in your life and your mind will be free as your soul anyway you can probably download them they never specified about cluttered hard drives and stay safe

>>6420659
This.

>>6419934
why did so many PS2 games even ones released as late as 05 have no CERO rating? Was it not mandatory yet?

Greatest Hits rereleases generally have bugfixes and sometimes have extra content that was not in the original version, making them objectively the best version to own.

But hey, if you want to get bent out of shape just because a reprint is clearly marked as such, that's your loss.

>>6419862
>they are so 90s
They're 90s but they're purposely trash 90s. When they used designs and colours like that back then it was for the purpose of conveying "this is cheap" to cater to the trailer trash psyche. And I'm not just talking about neon in general, which was used for all kinds of designs; it's something more specific

>>6419865
>devilman
Infinitely based

>>6420408
>Love retro games before they're cool
They were cool when they were released. How did you love them before they were released?

>>6417113
The Switch doesn't have any yet but Nintendo were still doing it for Wii U and 3DS. I'd imagine Switch will eventually follow.

>>6420829
You're a freaking loony and probably think the jews are out to get you.

>>6415347
The problem with PS1 green labels is that the game maybe an objectively superior version of the game, as it either patches bugs or adds new features like analog support. On PS2, although not retro, has special editions like DMC3 SE or Midnight Club 3 that adds a lot of content. So your collection will get ruined regardless.

>>6420408
Should have bought more, dummy.

>>6422347
tbf that is a thing companies do. think of something like pic related. the purpose of branding it like that isn't just to make it share the supermarket's colourscheme, etc. it's also to give the impression that it's cheap. (even if for some products there was a brand name option for the same price as the store brand).
for tesco value it worked too well and it became synonymous with cheap and not very good, so now they try to look a bit more upmarket.

>>6416292
- Final Fantasy Anthology (fixed garbled FFV save screen bug when playing on PS2)
- Gran Turismo (tweaked stats and suspension settings for some cars, menu text corrections, slightly changed names for two Honda Civic prize cars)
- Gran Turismo 2 (various bug fixes and menu text corrections, can now reach 100% completion)
- Jet Moto 2 (rebranded in-game as 'Jet Moto 2 - Championship Edition', all Jet Moto 1 levels are all unlocked straight away, higher and more consistent framerate at the cost of fewer in-game racers)
- Mortal Kombat Trilogy (most recent release with the most bug-fixes but also introduces some new bugs of its own)
- Oddworld - Abe's Oddysee (various bug fixes, some very slight graphical touch-ups, Abe's Exoddus promo, removed 'The Shrink' FMV in cutscene viewer)
- Spyro - Year of the Dragon (restored Evening Lake and Sorceress' Lair level themes, unique themes for all levels that reused music in original black label version except Harbor Speedway, restored 'Spike is Born' cutscene, fixed speedway egg glitch)
- The Lost World - Jurassic Park - Special Edition (increased health/defense for player characters, new opening T-Rex level, level select codes)

That's about it for PS1. Just grab the images online and collect/display what you want.

>>6424687
>2%
What's the point?

>>6416201
i really liked the uniform black-on-shiny look of platinum game discs

>>6419936
probably why it was changed
here's the platinum list, wikipedia doesn't mention any number below 400,000 units sold

>>6420490
t. "i only played the digital versions on pissie"

>>6415789
>>6419963
It was the perfect foreshadowing for the 360

>>6419898
Somebody in the US ring that 1900 number and see if it's still there

>>6419865
Wait, Yank PS2 games had full colour art on the spines? God damn

>>6425534
Verizon just told me the number cannot be dialed. :(

>>6419445

>>6424687
There are also entire supermarkets and stores that are built around this idea

>>6415764
neither, I don't want to kill the laser