/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6756713
For me, it’s Mario Madness, the quintessential Nintendo NES scotformer

>>6756724
Mario Madness?

Please, do tell!

>>6756726
It’s the highly underrated follow-up to the retro classic Super Mario Bros. Entertainment System

>>6756713
We didn't have a lot of money growing up and our cable would get cut every once in a while. When they happened, the whole family used to watch Dad play Zelda and make a story out of it.

>>6756735
Oh shit, you're talking about SMB2! Yeah, this game was pretty rad, even if it was just a reskin of Doki Doki Panic. Favourite level/boss?

>>6756740
That's so nice, holy shit. It's the little things like that that can bring the whole family closer.

>>6756713
Skateboarding through the jungle fuckin shit up

Miyamoto stole the idea of Yoshi from this series

>>6756751
>Miyamoto stole the idea of Yoshi from this series
Not really since he wanted to make Yoshi (or Mario ride some dino) since SMB1 in 1985, but Adventure Island is a kino series. Among the best platformers of all time.

>>6756751
>>6756761
Haha, holy shit I gotta re-play this gem sometime. So simple, yet so good.

best game ever?

>>6756794
Definitely up there, easily one of the best games in the NES library.

>>6756713
My favorite non-Nintendo NES game will always be Castlevania. For me this game is perfect

>>6756761
If Miyamoto couldn't get Yoshi to work in SMB1, how did Hudson do it in that game?

Everyone shits on this as a kusoge but I adore 53 Stations for the enemy AI. Attacking is wonky until you get used to it, but Gimmick is the same wonkiness and people praise it. Enemies are fun and reactive, it's got cryptic shit like Mario, scenery is fantastic for an early low-tech title, and music is only okay. If it got the future Sunsoft treatment then I guarantee this game would have been worth as much as Gimmick nowadays.

It reminds me of a game that an old Japanese grandfather who studies ancient poetry and used to teach martial arts would own so his grandchildren had something to play when they visited.

>>6756880
what is moore's law

>>6756914
Dude, SMB3 is more technically advanced than Adventure Island II and he wasn't able to implement Yoshi there either.

>>6756913
I know some pretty obscure Japanese games but I've never heard of this. I'll have to look for it in my rom set and give it a spin.

>>6756916
Dude, SMB3 is 3 years before Adventure Island 2.

>>6756920
It's 53 Stations of the Tokaido. It has a pretty great Game center CX episode which is where I learned of it originally.

>>6756935
Adventure Island has the skateboard tho

>>6757071
Which is presented as an inanimate object, the same way the moving platforms operate in SMB, neither of which are as complex as animating an animal. It was certainly possible in 1985 and easier to do after SMB became the smash success it was, but at what cost?

Thoughts on the Kaiketsu Yanchamaru series?
I think 1 and 2 are alright comfy games, but 3 really deserves more recognition, it's an actual great action platformer game with some unique traits, good visuals and memorable soundtrack and sound effects.

>>6757196
You haven't played it in a while, it's extremely responsive and more animated than the late Dinos

I will admit one difference: you can leave Yoshi without losing him, you can remount.
The dinos and skateboards are basically just powerup sprites like the tanuki suit or kuribo shoe

>>6757254
Yes they are not complex and certainly possible, but that's hindsight. During the development of SMB, they did not have that hindsight and adding a dinosaur to a game that already worked wasn't necessary. Adventure Island is basically an iteration of SMB, so of course they were able to add to it, just like the flying carpet mechanic was added to Mario Madness.

>>6756724
>forced memes

>>6757401
>Mario Madness
You should be forced to use a trip so I can filter you outright

>>6757570
You are being forced to suck it up and stop letting the internet trigger you.

>>6757649
I realize this must be a way to troll zoomies into repeating it, because they were not there and never saw the ads, but come on, must you hurt me in this way

>>6757658
I thought it was faggotry at first, but now I don't mind. One thing it has done is killed the "Did you know?" meme, which was pure cancer.

moving from west coast to east coast in '88 with my parents, plugging in my NES into every TV of every hotel room and trying to beat Castlevania. Played it over and over and over again. In hotel swimming pools I'd leap out of the water making that "psshhh-tssht-tssht!" sound the fishmen made in the game.

I never fucking beat the Grim Reaper. Played Castlevania probably thousands of times and never got passed that smug cheating shithead.

I got my NES + turtles for xmas. It was the last present I opened and I was already happy, but the NES made it my best xmas ever. I don't care how flawed turtles was as a game, that was my first real gaming experience. Bought Metroid the next day because it looked cooler than all the other games available and spent the next 6 months playing both for hours on end.

I didn't get an NES until I was 16 years old so nearly 3 years ago. Until then my experience with the system was exclusively with the Wii Virtual Console. I had Mario 1, 2, and 3 and Kirby's Adventure on the Wii and my love of retro games stems from those 4 titles and playing them growing up as well as Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario 64 but this is an NES thread. The NES is what prompted me to get deeper into collecting games and really learn about the innards of each system and how to clean/repair it all. It's also a great way to bond with my step dad because he grew up with one. Definitely one of my favorite systems out there.

>>6757791
Zoomie go home

>>6757807
No, let the zoomie stay. If younger people are getting into retro games, I'm all for it.

>>6758075
Thank you! im a zoomer myself and i lurk on this board alot, while i can see why people dont like zoomers getting into retro gaming because they usually ruin it for them, some of us respect the effort alot of these devs put into their games and just enjoy retro gaming

>>6757791
This has to be one of the most wholesome things I’ve read all day. I’m really happy you’re able to bond with your dad over these old games, Anon.

>>6756713
Back in the early 90's one of my classmates had the raddest birthday party I've ever been to. The entire class was invited, and he had these various competitions set up with trophies being awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each. One of them was how far you could get in Super Mario Bros. without dying. Unfortunately I only made it to like the first underground level before fucking up. I did, however, come in second place in the electric slot car racing competition. I knew I still had the trophy lying around here somewhere.

>>6756916
The boot essentially functions as Yoshi

>>6758696
Good point.

>>6758692
Holy shit, that's fucking RAD!

>>6758713

>>6756735
Nice romhack

>>6756751

I never liked that game much as a kid. Maybe I need to revisit it though. Everybody here who mentions it seems to have nothing but praise for it.

>>6759316
It's a great classic, but if you don't like the original that much, give the sequels a try, they're a total improvement on all aspects. In comparison to Adventure Island II or III, the original one feels pretty basic and simple.

>>6758617
>while i can see why people dont like zoomers getting into retro gaming because they usually ruin it for them,

I don't. I'm forty and I have absolutely no interest in getting more young people into old games or in keeping young people away from old games. I liked the games as a kid and now as an adult I like the games because THAT IS THE POINT. The games are still the same, regardless of who is or isn't playing them. I also like new games, because THAT IS ALSO THE POINT. If every person to sincerely say the name of any popularly known "generation" in any Internet comment anywhere were to instantly die upon doing so then life for the rest of us would only improve. The whole concept of naming generations of people is irrelevant to all practical purposes of any actual use.

>>6756713
i fall asleep to gyre playing ff1 because the music and noises soothe me.

>>6756713

I might have masturbated while looking at the girls who hang on your character when you win in Ivan Ironman Stewart's Super Off-Road. But maybe that actually happened with the SNES version? Either way, I feel a little bit fond of this memory.

I remember rocking out to the Skate or Die song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8TmIxHSBcU

>>6756713
We were poor and had a NES into fifth gen when we finally got a PSX in 1998

Man me and my brother and my uncle would pass the controller so much on the Mario games.

I remember pretty much all we had was Mario (1,2,3), Deadly Towers, Castlevania, Kirby, and this game called Astyanax which we never fucking beat. Such good times.

>>6759361
Oh yeah, and my mom recently found it too!

>>6757767
You had good taste, lil nigga

I was playing Capcom's Trojan on the NES and at the first boss fight my big brother was spazzing out going SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT and kicked the table the NES was on (I don't remember why it was that way). The game then stopped and we thought he broke the system. We were not getting a replacement anytime soon. I was in shock and heartbroken. My brother peeked over into the console and lifted the cover and saw that the cartridge was up and that kick pushed it up. Nothing was damaged and the NES booted up like normal. We laughed and went on playing the game. I'm three years younger but I was actually pretty good at it, I could beat the pirate and was the first to beat the armadillo mutant in the game.

My brother and I was playing Capcom's Trojan on the NES, and at the first boss fight my big brother was spazzing out while playing going SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT and kicked under the table the NES was on (I don't remember why it was that way) as some knee jerk reaction. The game then stopped and we thought he broke the system. We were not getting a replacement anytime soon. I was in shock and heartbroken. My brother peeked over into the console and lifted the cover and saw that the cartridge was up and that kick pushed it up. Nothing was damaged and the NES booted up like normal. We laughed and went on playing the game. I'm three years younger but I was actually pretty good at it, I could beat the pirate and was the first to beat the armadillo mutant in the game.

>>6759386
Aaron confirmed for a piece of shit who never cleaned his Control Deck.

>>6759709
I haven’t seen it in over a decade

>>6756713
I really enjoyed the games from Konami, Capcom, Tecmo, Natsume, and Nintendo. Great memories bringing it over to cousins' homes and playing games alongside them. That TV commercial with CRTs bursting out the sides of a space station capturing people with the games got me to get the Deluxe Set. Between all the games of the NES, the NES itself, arcade games, Transformers, Robotech, Voltron, and Ghibli movies of the day convinced my younger self all the best stuff came from Japan. The system is still in my top 5 non-PC consoles because of all the fun I have with it.

>>6756794
While it is a very fun game, it is not the best to me. I remember calling all the Toys R' Us in the area to find one that had the game in stock. The previews in Nintendo Power and the fun of the first two Super Mario games convinced me to get it asap. I never understood why the game remained as Nintendo Power's #1 ranked game (with Final Fantasy at #2) for so long; I liked it a lot, maybe even more than World, but I enjoyed other games as much or more too in its day.

>>6761198
Tiny Toons is a kusoge with a nice coat of paint, the whole thing turns to shit after the first level.

Playing Zapper games with my older brother. One time we effectively had a sleepover, the two of us in the basement, playing Duck Hunt and "To the Earth" mostly. He'd pretend he was a guy in a Western using an old revolver, good times.

>>6761218
I thought it got better after the first level.
>implying TTA is kusoge
This is a new low for /v/ contrarianism

I remember finishing Mega Man 2 for the first time and being excited and amazed over the fact that Dr. Wily had been an alien all along! I was young enough and interested enough in science fiction that this seemed extremely cool and important to me.

Later I found out that the alien thing was just a hologram and you win that fight by destroying the hologram projector, or something? I don't know, I haven't played the game in thirty years or whatever it's been. It's still a good memory though.

>>6761218
I like it. It holds up to me after the first level, it has the same platforming fun of the Mario games. You might be thinking about the sequel which was tough but it was also very good too.

>>6757719
When I was young, I was always trying to compare the Ghost/Goblins series with the Castlevania ones. I always preferred the Castlevania games, but the Gn'G games always reviewed better in the magazines I read. That's when I learned the magazine reviews do not reflect my opinions and they can have differing tastes. Death was a huge barrier for me too back then, when I get past him, Dracula was way easier, subverting my expectations.

>>6761713
>>6763851
It does everything a kusoge does. It launches enemies at you that are impossible to dodge if you don't know they're there preemptively, moving platforms are practically invisible (sprite flicker) and don't sync up correctly, and it's riddled with instant death traps like pits and Elmira.

I finished it last weekend, it's a straight up kusoge, don't let the Konami logo fool you.

>>6759340
You're on a discussion board. If you're just here for the same people with the same opinions, talk into a mirror. I want to share my nice experiences with others. I'd like more people to see how good old games can be. They're not obsolete.

>>6757209
It has the usual jankiness of your usual Micronics game while being better than their older fare, and is very simple visually for a late FC game (also has their usual crappy endings). Daiku no Gensan 2 has those same issues.

>>6764298
So by your standard all NES games are Kusoge

>>6764684