/vr/ - Retro Games

Nightmare in the Dark 4sure

Snow Bros and Joe & mac returns are my fave single screen snowformers

>>6964579
Favorite Cheap Ass Gamer?

CAGs appeal to speedrunners and that's gay

>>6965443
Timmy, do you think you can show us where the speedrunners touched you?

Chip Chan Kick. Because I'm a fuckin' weeb.

For me, it's bubble bobble

>>6965438
Comical Action Game. It's what Japs call fixed-screen kill-all-the-enemies-to-advance platformers, for some reason.

>>6966504
around here we usually call them hop 'n' pops, not-scrollers, or bubble bobblelikes

>>6964587
Good art, but its basically a zero innovation Snow Bros clone

>>6966741
I'm comfortable with that

>>6966782
That's some gorgeous sprite art on the big dino.

Well i really like "Cook out!!" its probably not the best but i really liked the gameplay overall.

>>6966537
>hop n pops
H.....hello? Based department?

>>6964579

I hate floors 30 to 40 of this game because most of the time you have to choice between jumping in a pit you cant get off, or wait for the monster to come out that takes too long and you end losing to the pumpkin. Truly designed to eat quarters.
I think Snow bros 2 is just better

>>6966504
>he isn't memeing
Nice work

>>6964579
Tumblepop

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>>6968283

>>6967521

>>6967484
>pit you cant get off,
Snow Bros clearly has design flaws. Its stlll fun to play though.

>>6965443
>CAGs appeal to speedrunners and that's gay
what's CAG stand for? sounds like cock

>>6968514
computer assisted gayness

>>6964579
>>6966504
I always wondered if these games had a collective name. Taito seemed to make a lot of them but my favourite is Zupapa on the Neo Geo.

Bump

>>6969175
I just call them snow bros clones. Since snow bros was unique and different enough from bubble bobble to be its own genre.

>>6966504
But not at all? People here are posting old arcade panflets like if they can serve as a source for this (which could never be the case; think about it), when they're just parroting the Wikipedia.

>>6972592
Have another. Christ.

>>6964579
Super Methane Brothers for Amiga, of course.
G A S ' E M

>>6966504
>for some reason
it's because they're not really platformers (there is "platforming", but that's not really the focus, it's moreso just a place to fight enemies in), and usually have a very cartoony art direction with tons of wacky or comedic/comical character designs.

>>6972592
>>6972594
well then what do you want to call them smart guy

>>6972594
But Spin Master doesn't fit OP's description at all? it is a sidescroller game

>>6968283
>>6968287
Isn't this the game with the weird character selection screen? Like, the characters have weird realistic portraits?

>>6972776
If "platforming" is not "the focus" of the Bubble Bobble series in your eyes then what is. You even create "platforms" with your own projectiles, for fuck's fuck. Read: there's no reason because "comical action" never ever was used to name any "genre". "Platformer" is never used in Japan either, by the way, so your answer fails again. If anything, they use "jump action [games]" for both, the Mario-likes and the Super Mario-likes, though it's usual to find "athletic action" for the latter. They're not so obsessed with making artificial categories for everything, anyway.


>>6972781
I've learnt to force my eyes not to bleed when I read once and again utter crap such as "character action", "shmup" or "metroidvania" so I don't really care how you or the illiterate who posted it on the Wikipedia call these games, I'm just illustrating that the Japanese never use "comical action" as stated and that the poster is full of shit.


>>6972783
Right. That's the point; read the quoted post.

>>6973239
Oh you were replying to yourself, my bad.

>>6973239
>I don't really care how you or the illiterate who posted it on the Wikipedia call these games
"Comical action game" it is, then. Huzzah!