/vr/ - Retro Games

GOAT

And there you have it: beautiful graphics, great tunes, solid gameplay, unique style, a little puzzle solving, and surprisingly deep, thoughtful gameplay add up to an experience that no action/platform gamer should miss.

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>>6577978
Woah that brought me back

>>6577363
Why is that Gibdo's lower body missing?

>>6578812
Prob chopped off or intended to be ground shifter.

>>6577363
peak mario art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAPaGu0fWDE

Wont lie love this thread faggots

>>6577363
>red cross on shields
unbelievable the shit they could get away with back in the day

>>6577363
i wonder if the head on the wall is the wall masters head. like wall masters are actually the entire room but they only attack with their hands. also is that black abomination supposed to be gohma? reminds me more of dethl but i know thats not right

>>6583283
>also is that black abomination supposed to be gohma?
No, I think it's the orange centipede thing, or possibly a blue one.

the game is illusion city just in case anyone is curious

>>6583290
lanmolas? ah that makes sense

>>6577939
Oowah!

>>6585108
Yes. The orange one is Moldorm and is a worm.
The manual even says Lanmola is a gigantic centipede.

i've noticed something lately... idk when it began, but in the early early EARLY days of vidya, print ads were really simple and full of creative freedom. different artists would make wildly different imaginings of IPs in tie-in material. even official guide art could be pretty odd. and delightful.

generally, probably most were very very simple. that really simple, small, flat-colored 60s-70s anime style.

today there is some really simplistic art, but generally what i notice is there's a pissing contest to have all the art for an IP be as super polished and elaborately detailed as possible. there's a pissing contest for super hyperrealism, to the point where the art is 10x more detailed than real things.

like people, armor, cars, guns, etc. would be crazy overdesigned and the real life things looked like little doodles compared to the art.

and even cartoony art would be a million years in photoshop. so.

i'm just noticing a design trend here. i miss that zelda 2 guidebook aesthetic.

>>6581004
Card #1488 was called "Invoke Prejudice" and had a KKK guy on it
https://web.archive.org/web/20190428001838/https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1488

>>6580129
I miss Mario's soulful art

>>6588484
that's horrifically based

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>>6583321
Did Terada also worked on ALttP?

>>6583321
Always loved the thunderbird enemy design

>>6577939
The art that Nintendo made for SMW-era Mario was beautiful. Peak Mario, combining fun, soul and cool to a perfect balance.

>>6589919
He did art the first four Zelda games for Nintendo Power's US guides before they started phasing his stuff out in favor of official art.

I think he did some Dragon Quest stuff for US guides too. Or the manuals, I can't remember. I just know Toriyama's art wasn't used internationally until the gameboy versions.

>>6590593
I miss when Yoshi looked like a dino.

>>6591427
Same man. He was my favorite Nintendo character until Yoshi story happened. Now he's probably not even in my top 20. What kills me is when they draw him in 2D for promotional art, he almost looks like the original version ( albeit with giant hands and a shorter neck and tail. ) but a lot of good that does anyone.

>>6588464
it probably has to do with the market since today is so easy to get access to this great technology that lets you pull off crazy effects so artists have to try harder to basically get the job