/vr/ - Retro Games

In FFIX I tried the challenge to reach the last dungeon in under 12hours.

I did it in around 13hours thanks to multiple saves then I realized that I was dumb because I was using the PAL version

me neither

I never beat sonic 1... furthest I got was either spring yard or one after and I was playing it regularly too

I never finished Cannon Fodder.

I've never played through the whole of mario 1 without warp zones.

>>714512
What? Are you serious? What part would usually kill you? Was it the robo-Sanics?

I own tons of games but the only ones I can finish are ones that I played when I was younger

>>714524
I'd have to start playing it again to see where I die please dont make me..

I'm just awful at sonic (It's probably because I didn't get a games console until I was 17 or something)

The furthest I've ever got in Rayman was band land.

I love RTS, yet I can't stand AoE 2. I've tried multiple times, but there is something about it just bores me to death. I like AoE 1 though.

I can't play Sim City 2000 (DOS Version) without cheating. I just can't make my cities profitable, so I use the FUND cheat and make stylish and efficient cities that are tax havens for everyone.

I never beat Warcraft 2 without Make It So and Glittering Prizes

I don't have the attention span for most games anymore...

>>714531
>I didn't get a games console until I was 17 or something

:c

Time to make up for that, mangf

>>714482
Please, don't use that frog on /vr/...

Also, that dark secret is actually nothing terrible.

Mine is that I've never finished any of the 3 Mario for the NES

>>714524
There were no robo Sonics in Sonic 1..what are you talking about?

>>714564
>Please, don't use that frog on /vr/...

You /vr/ police are annoying as fuck. There is nothing special about this board. Its still 4chan

>>714570
>He never got to the secret final level with the robots

>>714574
This board IS special. It's almost troll free, and people actually really discuss of things they love.

Bringing stupid stuff from that shit hole that is /v/ isn't a good thing.

>>714570
Yes there was? They'd come from the back of the screen (I think) rolled up in a ball and they'd attack you.

>>714580
The frog isn't from /v/, get over it. Using it =/= being a troll

>>714570
there were things that mimic'd rolling Sonic on one of the zones

>>714580
It really isn't, actually. This is 4chan. If you want super srs discussion go to reddit, you'll love it.

>>714586
It's not from /v/, but it's massively used over there. And I never said it was for trolling, but still, every thread beginning with that frog is always fucking useless.

>>714590
>>714584
They were called Rollers and they didn't even look like Sonic

>>714601
Oh shut the fuck up you fucking child

>>714606
>Calling someone a child
>With such a post

>>714602
>semantics guy reporting

Step it up.

My confession
>I've never been able to get more than an hour into Neverwinter Nights

>>714601
Jesus christ don't derail a thread that's perfectly valid because of some stupid shit like that, you fucking autist.

>>714610
What's childish about my post? Do you find swearing childish? Are you that much of a "super high iq" teenager that you associate language with maturity? Go fuck yourself faggot

>>714612
Very well. I shall delete all my posts to avoid that then.

>>714617
Wow, you sure showed him!!

Never played a Final Fantasy and I don't intend to.

Also OP, please, don't bring this hilarious /v/ meme stuff in here.

>>714482
im still stuck at the haunted house in tomba!!

>>714580

I goddamn guaran-fucking-tee that pissing and moaning about what reaction images are and are not appropriate on /vr/ is going to do infinitely more damage than the images themselves ever could.

>>714625
Damn right I did

>>714613
NWN is not even retro. And it's kinda shitty so I'm not surprised.

>>714602
Actually, they are supposed to be imitations of Sonic. It's in the manual, I believe.

>>714626
Again? In the same thread?

>>714646
If you want to post that shit go to /v/, simple. Dont like it? Tough shit.

>>714924
>one picture ruining entire board

puhlease

>>714924
You are what's wrong with /vr/.

>>715180
I disagree, I'd say the people posting offtopic and intentionally shitposting are ruining the board, but that's neither here or there.
Just go to /v/ if you want to "have fun" and let us be rulefags in here.

>>715190
>picture of sadfrog, a well known image
>Retro video game confessions
>Retro video game
>offtopic and intention shitposting

come on bruv

anyway, my confession would be that i had to go to the options and use additional lives to beat Super Ghouls n Ghosts

>>715190
How is this thread of topic? Are you retarded?

Also,
>taking 4chan this seriously

I used the high jump trick in Mega Man 3 to beat some of the final bosses

>>714482
>Not consistently beating GHZ 1 in at least 29 seconds
>I shiggy diggy figgidy foo

A friend of mine growing up swore up and down that he saw his cousin get Ryu's hadoken in Megaman X. I called him a lying sack of shit, and refused to be his friend.

> tfw years later, you get the hadoken

>>714626
I'm with you broski. No FF fo' lyfe.

I used glitches to beat some of the challenges on the companion cube/turret maps in Portal.

>quit playing the first metroid game because it's too hard and incredibly frustrating
>have to look up a walkthrough in order to discover where to get the reactor numbers in system shock 1 and other parts
>play through megaman X5 with that megaman "blade" cheat or something with an unlimited overpowered giga attack

I still call Megaman X "Megaman Ten" out of habit.
I had played 1-7, and assumed that 8 and 9 were Japan-exclusive or something.
I learned the truth a long time ago, but reading the name still registers as "Megaman Ten" in my mind.

I have never finished a Donkey Kong game because I don't like them. I think they're pretty mediocre.

Never beat the first Zelda and I probably never will. In my opinion, its full of too much cryptic bullshit and is easily the worst Zelda.

>>715514
I'll take cryptic bullshit any day over "Master! I have detected a 98.8156816% possibility that this exact lit-up path will lead you to the boss, and that there is also a key under that rock over there, a hidden chest in that tree to the left, and a boss key behind that miniboss 2 rooms east. The secrets to defeating that boss are long-lost, but I'll still tell you step-by-step without your consent how to do everything."

>>715538

Both are equally bad

I grew up hating Nintendo.

I've never been able to beat this guy.

>>715615
It's kinda tough if you don't know what you're doing. Even I forget until I start playing.

>>715615
Eh, he's not that hard. Let me guess, you give up on a game easily due to frustration?
If I could figure it out when I was 12, you can too. Just keep at it.

>>715542
I'd agree with you there, but I didn't find the first Zelda all too cryptic.
The only part of the game that was actually unfair (by that, I mean there were no hints leading to finding it, no old man told you clues about it, and nothing stuck out about it) was this fucking part.
Everything else either stuck out (a lone bush somewhere, isolated rocks, rows of enemies in a small group) or was told to you (albeit with poor translation) by one of the old men or women.

I once died against the first Goomba in Super Mario Bros. It was a mis-jump.

I died once playing mighty morphin power rangers [/spoilers] for the snes. I've never been so embarrassed in my life

>>715716
Everybody has, at least once.
It's probably the single enemy that you deal with the most times; you're bound to slip up once.

I have no shame for what I will say:

I have no interest in Zelda games, never beaten one.
Never beat original mario.
I think all Original Megaman games are not fun. Of the Megaman X series I only enjoyed X5. I like all of the Megaman Legends games and the spinoff.

I never beat Secret of Mana, but I did get close.
I like Final Fantasy 7 more than any other FF, FF6 is a close second.

I do not like sonic 3 or S&K more than Sonic 2. I believe Sonic Adventure was one of the best Sonic games to come out.

I never beat Shadow of the Colossus, but it was a good game.
I don't like ICO.

I don't like Super Smash Bros, or Melee, but I loved Brawl.

I never liked Fzero.

I never beat Deus Ex

>>715773
Are you on the right board?

>>715709
While you can deduce (almost) everything on your own in Zelda without a guide, I still think that the hints are sometimes very vague even by video game standards. In the end you are forced to explore every single nook and cranny for secrets, which obviously has its own appeal and it's a great game for its time (I personally hadn't played the first Zelda until 20 years after its release and I enjoyed it) you can't deny that getting to the next dungeon at times took taking shots in the dark.

A deep secret I used to have was even though I consider myself a big Sega fan I've never played any of the Phantasy Star games. But over the past week I played through Phantasy Star which I loved and now I'm early into Phantasy Star II (so far I'm missing the first person view dungeons and am amazed to see they figured out how to make the menus even less intuitive, but otherwise it's great).

I never played Zelda Ocarina of Time

>>714482
Me neither - it's far too much fun

I've never beaten Zelda 1, 2 or any 3D Zelda.

i couldn't beat Sigma on Mega man X

Couldn't beat Dracula's curse

>>715379
You need to call and apologize.

I've never beaten any Megaman game, or played Doom.

>>714574
With the fear of being like /v/ we are acting as retarded as them "making" these implicit rules.

Ironic,isn't it?

I don't like Doom and Quake

I love FPS (yes even BOII) but I just can't play those ones without being bored.

But I like DN3D and wolfenstein.

>>715942

It is, in going to such lengths to attack anyone who threatens the quality of the board, they act shit in the same way people from /v/ act shit. Its not just content, its mannerisms and behavior too. So everyone who got mad should just relax and keep posting retro.

When I'm tired of random encounters in a retro JRPG, I usually use savestates so that escape always works.

I have played and finished some great Metroid-style games but I have never finished Super Metroid. Is it so hard to lose your way on Super Metroid or I suck so much? Note that I have finished Metroid Zero Mission and Metroid Fusion.

I have played and finished some great Metroid-style games but I have never finished Super Metroid. Is it so hard to find your way on this game or I suck so much? Note that I have finished Metroid Zero Mission and Metroid Fusion.

>>716315
I would also play Metroid II but I'm waiting for the awesome fan-made remake.

>>715773
What DO you like?

>>716315
>Is it so hard to find your way on this game or I suck so much?

I had bought it last Saturday and finished in on Monday morning. You just have to make mental notes of doors or passages that are blocked, and if you forget, you just have to go exploring a bit every time you get a new ability.

I've never beaten a 2D Sonic game
The only Sonic game I enjoy is Adventure 2.
I've never beaten any of the 2D Mario games
I've never beaten a 2D Zelda

>>716358
I always felt like the Genesis Sonic games were false advertising. In the ads and the show Sonic was always about speed, but the games forced you to slow down most of the time.

>>716352
That's what I'm doing. Heck, I even have opened maps from Gamefaqs while playing it on an emulator. And the problem is that you can only check the map of the area you currenly are instead of also checking the maps of other areas you have visited just like in Metroid games for GBA.

Seriously, I don't understand what am I doing wrong. Sometimes I'm playing like a noob. But I have to resume playing it soon, I haven't touched it for months.

Doom sucks.
Quake sucks.
Contra sucks.

I can't find out where to go in the first level of Duke Nukem.

It's a gamble when I'm playing Street Fighter 2 as to which special moves I will do, as I will sometimes do a Shoryuken while trying to Hadouken, or visa versa (yes I know how to do both).

I really want to get in to retro vidya collecting, but marijuana and cigarettes affect my dosh levels severely. I have no intention of quitting either.

Never beat Cutman's stage in MM1
Never beat SMB without warps
Never beat most games I claim to enjoy.

>>716420
Forgot one thing:

I've never beaten a retro vidya without using at least 1 continue.

nailinthecoffin.png

If I die once in a game I reset no matter how far I've gone in it.

>>716436
That's fine. Personally, I don't ever like a game for long enough to try and beat it without continues.

>Sometimes I lie about beating games
>I've never beaten an older Sonic game
>I've never beaten Mario 1-3
>I don't like Mario 3 that much, but I don't dislike it
>I think Sega pretty much sucked in general, the only games their consoles had were Sonic and Ristar

>>716420

Sounds like you don't have patience for video games in general.

>>716315

it's common, I think I walked around the entire world three times before I realized you had to powerbomb a specific area my first time through.

It's just so insignificant that you think nothing of it.

>>716560
The pipe, right? That fucked me over, too.

>>716443
In games with quicksave, I constantly quicksave and quickload any time I take damage or use more resources than necessary on an enemy

35+ hours in Deus Ex and I never finished it.

As much as I love every other main FF I've never played more than an hour or two of FF6 or any other SNES FF. I just can't get into them. Loved Chrono Trigger though.

>>715773
>Likes Sonic Adventure
>SA2 not best Sonic

>>715773
>likes Brawl more than Melee
You some kinda queer boy?

I've never beat the first Super Mario Brothers game. But I've beaten number 3 multiple times.

I've never beat any of the Original 3 Super Mario Bros. games, despite owning a physical copy of each

My favorite Sonic game is Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine

I don't really care for sonic. He's incredibly too hard to control for precision platforming.

And that water. Jesus Christ the water. Hey sonic 2 developers, could you have waited till later in the game to put a trick floor above watery death. Really, you had to do it in the second act?

>>716595
theres only one FF for the snes

After finding myself getting stuck at least once in each dungeon and having to consult a walkthrough, I played through a solid chunk of Ocarina of Time using the walkthrough without trying to figure things out on my own.
Once I reached the Spirit Temple, I realized I wasn't getting the full experience so I dropped the walkthrough and attempted the temple on my own. I got stuck on the single easiest puzzle in the entire temple, gave up and checked the walkthrough for it, and I still feel intense shame over being unable to figure it out.

I've also never finished Majora's Mask. After getting killed by Gyorg at least a dozen times, I ragequit, and now in order to face him again I'd have to start the whole dungeon over, which I can't muster the willpower to do.

>>715615
Shoot it until it dies. It really is that simple. What's probably got you stumped is that it gets all it's health back if it touches you or if you whip it. I think that's how it works, anyway.

>>716560
>>716569
the pipe gets a lot of people. The game reinforces the expectation that environmental objects you can interact with will have a distinct appearance (bomb a block and you'll see it's a power bomb block or a screw attack block, etc), and the pipe doesn't have that.

>>716881
i like how the first level is easy as fuck and then the difficulty just smacks you in the face right away.

I think the 3D Gauntlet games are best.

>>716380
I see where you're going. I think that Adventure 1 and 2 were my favorites (had them both on GC) and they were excellent. I remember you pretty much ran everywhere and did not have to slow down and do stupid jumps a lot like in Sonic 3.

>>717059
is that a bad thing to think?

I never pooped shit asshole

>>717059
I think that gauntlet is fucking cancer and anyone who enjoys it is a jew. Gautlet caused arcades to close down because of how unfair and jew hog it was

I hex edited my Ultima IV save.

>>715773
I guess you just have shit taste.

Sucks, but it happens.

>I bought a sealed copy of minish cap on eBay with VGA 95 rating for $700

never felt so much buyers remorse after I opened that plastic wrapper

>>717919
I'd say he must have seen you coming from a mile away, but I guess that doesn't really work on the internet.

I spent about $2000 on King of Fighters posters and PVC figures.

>>716420
>marijuana

Stopped caring about your opinion there.

In KoF95, I'd play Kyo, Iori, and Heidern; and I'd still get my ass kicked.

I bought a 1000$ Neo Geo game last month, altough starting June I am unemployed.

I also rush to the bank and print out the account info sheets and destroy them so my wife does not find out.

I've never beaten a Mario game before 64, and I don't care to.
I've never beaten a Zelda game, and I'm only interested in Majora's Mask and the "cartoony" games (Wind Waker, Spirit Tracks, etc.)
I like the idea of Pokemon, but the implementation is pretty bad
Despite being a huge adventure game mark, and a huge fan of every other bit of the franchise, I find the first Sam and Max game to be borderline unplayable even with a walkthrough.

>>717923
Shut up and post pics

>>717947
Hahaha oh fucking wow.

I want to divorce you now, you lying some of a bitch

>>717959
I basically bought every Neo Geo Freak poster ($15 each); you can see them here:
http://castleofcollectibles.com/press/press2.html

Pic included doesn't even show half my posters. I took them down because I find them distracting.

The only 2D Sonic game I've beaten is Sonic Spinball.

>>717994
Here's a few more.

>>718030
This is like half of my PVC figures. I don't feel like pulling the rest out of their boxes.

>>718036
>Honey garlic chicken wings

HNNNG

>>715615
I could barely beat it on hard WITH savestates

>>714482
It would be alot easier if sonic 1 had a fucking spindash feature instead of a crouching and licking your shithole one.

>>715267
whats the high jump trick?

>>718061
There's a spindash hack for Sonic 1, by the way. Shit is cash.

>>715773
you do know that /vr/ is the board for retro videogames right?

>>715878
Dracula I can understand but Sigma was pretty easy considering I beat him when I was 8.

just memorize his pattern of lighting bolt, flame hands and walljump dont jump on the hands.

>>714482

I always had a problem with this, though I'm wondering if it's because I played the PAL version. I could reliably do it in well under 36 seconds, but I could never see anywhere I could possibly be losing enough time to bring it under 30.

>>717027
if you are having a hard time with Gyorg do the Romani sisters quest first to unlock Romani Chateu and then just cheese his ass.

>>716349
Was thinking the same thing yeah. Guy sounded like we had grumpycat on board...

I started playing pokemon when I was 16 years old...

>>715514
This. Legend Of Zelda is "Cryptic Stuff: The Game".

>>715709
I'd agree with you there, but I didn't find the first Zelda all too cryptic.
What about the flute opening the access to dungeon 8?

I played it one month ago "because" and the game felt EMPTY. I loved ALttP and OoT to the death for their environments, secondary characters,... here I just have empty plains full of enemies.

Granted, the game evolved from LoZ to the ALttP/OoT/whatever we have now, but I just didn't felt faced with an "epic adventure", the game just felt empty when other games far older were able to give a bette story.

>>718113
>This. Legend Of Zelda is "Cryptic Stuff: The Game".

Fun fact: the cartridge release in japan (which is the 2nd release of the game, first one being on FDS) came with a map telling among other things were every dungeon is located to help players

>>718117
I wish my copy of Phantasy Star II came with a map...

>>717994
>I took them down because I find them distracting.

You motherfucker. I hate you so much.

I've never finished X-Com, I always get distracted at some point and when I come back to it I start a new save.

Mario games have never been that interesting to me. They just feel like platformers that don't do anything wrong, ever, but there's no spark of genius there for me. Maybe it's because I had a Mega Drive and grew up with Sonic, so I'm only seeing them now that every game in the world has cribbed everything good about them and I've seen it all before, even though they're the originators.

I've never played Super Metroid or the pre-DS Castlevanias.

>>717995

The rest are pussy shit, you can probably storm them with your eyes closed.

I never beat Super Mario Bros. 2 (US). Not for a lack of trying either.

I just beat Phantasy Star last year, and I'm already nostalgic for it.

>>718117
And that, kids, is why you shan't emulate.

More seriously, it's a debate that comes back a lot on /vr/, old games having infos in booklets and stuff...but it just feels wrong: I've played a lot of great games and never felt lost. Even Super Metroid (or maybe I did Zero Mission first) the first time without any exterior help just felt "natural", I was exploring, getting a bit lost and inadvertly sequence-breaking (I did the poisoned underground of Castlevania Circle Of The Moon without getting the item to purtify the water) sure, but I just could go on. There, on LoZ, I was lost. And drawing a map of the overworld didn't help much.

>>718143
>and that, kids, is why you shan't emulate.

afaik no other release in the entire world has a map so that's a moot point

My sister got up to ganon's castle in ocarina of time

Before she finished the game, I traded the game somewhere for banjo kazooie

Good times

>>718143
>And that, kids, is why you shan't emulate.
Emulation doesn't really deprive you of any vital information. Most games have either scanned or transcribed versions of their manuals floating around on the internet. You just have to look them up.

>>718143
>And that, kids, is why you shan't emulate.
Good luck finding a copies with all the manuals and maps included.

>Have never played any of the gameboy Zelda games
>I have never finished a FF game (I always ignore the levitate spell or whatever it is called, then there's a boss that spams earthquake and obliterates me. I then give up)
>I have never finished a contra game
>I haven't played most of the "great" Rare games. The only ones I played are KI (both of them) and DKC

I plan on playing them and finishing them all...p-please forgive me.

I've never actually beaten a retro game because they are always too hard. I've always loved playing them though... That's how I knew when video games started being sellouts and cash grabbers. When even I could finish them.

>>718184
There are extremely easy retro games as well, like the Kirby series, or the 2D Sonic games. The original Super Mario Bros. is quite beatable too.

I've never saved Rebecca.

>>714482
I suck at older vidya but I buy it anyway. Sometimes I play through it without cheating but sometimes im not. I often cheat because I think it's fun as fuck.

I tried really hard on Albion but I failed without cheating a little. Can't play that game for shit. Fucking Maini.

The only older game I am kinda good on is SMB1 and Serf City/The Settlers 1 and Magic Carpet.

>>718135
I suck at Enemy Unknown, but I finished it on the easiest setting, you should adhere to one save only.

>>718146
>>718161
>>718163
Come on, I was kidding.

What I meant was "this is not the same context, a first time player when the game came out mostly had informations about the dungeons on hand when opening his box and could skim it, now we're used to not looking at manuals any more so looking for LoZ manuals online didn't even crossed my mind".

>>718220

I do when I'm playing(technically I make new saves because of old paranoia about file corruption but I don't reload), the thing is I'll get about halfway, get distracted for a week or two and when I come back I start over because I don't feel like working out where I'd gotten to and where I need to go from here. Then I get distracted again.

>>718202
It took me a walkthrough to find out how to save Barry

didn't feel too bad though, cause his death scene is the best scene in the game

I never finished System Shock 2 because I was always waiting for a "good time" to play it (I wanted to have the atmosphere just right). Thing is, I apparently never feel like playing horror games.

I really don't like games that have limited lives PLUS limited/no continues PLUS no password/save system. Consequently, there are many classic games I dislike.

I think Zelda 2 is the best game in the series. I probably think this mostly because of nostalgia but still.

>>718442
Obviously, it's a shitty game.

>>714519
War's never been so much fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYuq6Ac3a0

I tried to play Phantasy Star II, but the battle system felt unplayable to me.

I just can't fucking beat Ninja Gaiden on the NES. I can get to the second part of the final boss and I always give up and I feel really bad about it. But I fucking hate dying to the boss and starting back from 6-1. WHY THE HELL IS THAT EVEN A THING.

>>718774
I was just playing this game. The difficulty spikes like a motherfucker once you get to 6-1.

>>718774

It was originally a bug; the developers liked it and kept it in because they were sadistic fucks.

>>718774
why don't you master the last boss with save states then play through on the NES?

>>718774
The trick is to use an emulator.

>>717027
>>718081

Turn into Zora Link, and keep Gyorg Z-Targeted with your fins ready to throw, close to the edge of the platform. When he comes at the platform to ram it, do a backflip and you'll avoid getting knocked over. Immediately throw your fins then jump into the water and zap him with your electrical shield.
Just keep repeat that the standard three times and he goes down.
I was having trouble with him until I figured out you can backflip over the platform ram, it helps a lot.

>>718854
Thanks, LordKat.

>>718849
>>718854
I'm against savestates.

>>719117
Then pay with your life!

Literally. You're going to waste a shit ton of time for no good reason.

>First game console was a gamecube
>just turned 18, but I've been browsing /v/ for 5 years
>only retro gaming i've ever had was gameboy advance remakes
>only just getting into retro vidya

>>719117
This nigga knows whats up. Don't break your integrity, those other guys didn't actually beat ninja gaiden.

>>719160
Yeah that's how I feel. You either beat it the intended way or you didn't beat it.

>>719156
Hey, at least your not a Cawaduty, EA sports fanboy. It's always nice to hear about people getting into retro games that is not a nostalgic reason.

>>719183
Their intentions aren't necessarily to make an optimal gaming experience. Lots of games have stupid hard endgames, simply to extend gametime; purely economical motivation.

At the very least, be more considerate when waving around assumptions of intent. There's a myriad of factors that decide the end product.

>>719204
"Play trough the game three times with three lives and no continues."

It's like, I've got a job, dude. Save-stating every second in Dick Tales though is dumb.

>>719223
*Duck

LOL

>>719223
Man, you should go into pornographic nomenclature.

I have never beat Mike Tyson.

>>719230

>>719183

Old games had ridiculous difficulty just because they needed to justify the price tag and the usual way to make a lengthy game was to make it stupid hard. It's not good game design, using save states to save progress is not evil.

>>718143
If you emulate, chances are you have the internet.

So why is it so impossible to google "zelda map"? or some shit?

Honestly, I swear some people think the box itself is essential to the gameplay so you can sniff the nostalgia while you play.

>>719243
I never beat fucking Great Tiger, that cheating MOTHERFUCKER

>>719117
Then use rewind.

>>719262
>they needed to justify the price tag

No, it was because of the age of rentals. You don't sell any copies if every kid plays through it on one weekend while trying to distract themselves from their drunk dad sobbing on the photo of his ex wife.

>>719273
I'm able to get through the first two "sets" of fighters, up until the second Piston Honda fight, without going into the second round.

But once I get to Iron Mike, it's all over.

>>719274
People have preconceived notions of an optimal gaming experience. If they can't satisfy their expectations, then it is to the detriment of their enjoyment, regardless of whether it "actually" adds to the experience.

>>719160
>those other guys didn't actually beat ninja gaiden
I was actually about to beat Ninja Gaiden, but the cartridge decided to stop working just when I had become good enough to reliably make it to the final level. I never had the money to buy a second copy as a kid and to this day I haven't touched another Ninja Gaiden game.

>>719243
>>719273
>>719292
The trick is to play Super Punchout instead.

>>719274
Nah. The box came with a slip of paper telling you what to so if you got stuck.

He must not have had it.

I am developing a sequel to a game that I couldn't beat without an emulator, even after 15 years.

>>714482
Matter of memorization and timing. No reason to cry about it. That's what autists like me are for.

>>714531
>you will never enjoy starlight zone

Here anon, at least bask in the music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVAzxhh_cB8

>>714640
Not the guy you all are shit piling on but it doesn't say anything about them being mecha Sonics. I never even drew the comparison. I always imagined these guys were like pill bugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYeLLSHzWHg

ninja gaiden and castlevania are too hard for me...

>>719347
>I never even drew the comparison
Dude, wat?
>those spikes on the head
>rolls in the form of a ball
>limbs look very similar

>>719367
Sorry, but I always saw him as more of a pill bug.
Or A rolly-polly or potato bug they're sometimes called. Pic related.

I used Save Slates in all Sonic games for the Mega Drive

I used a walkthrough for the original Zelda, but only because I didn't know where to go

I used Save Slates, and a Walk through for Zelda 2

>>719367
It's a rolly polly or at the very least an armadillo, not a Sonic bot. The limbs look similar?!? how? the RED V for a head reminds you of Sonic?
No

>>714482
What happens if you beat that level in less than 30 seconds?

>>718849
This is what I did. Fuck ninja gaiden.

>>719458
Point bonus like all sonic games and levels.

i liked joe and mac & bubsy I & II more than sonic or dkc

I shat my pants while playing contra at a friends house, then top shelfed the undies because I paniced. He knew it was me because my initals were on the tag.

Sorry bro ;_;

I never completed Goldeneye 64 legit. Only with cheats.

Damn you all weapons and DK Head Mode ;_;

>>715773
>I never liked Fzero.

which one? I don't fucking believe you

I don't like any of the classic SNES RPG's, e.g. Earthbound, FFVI, Chrono Trigger.

Most of them tend to devolve into annoying grindfests, and turn-based combat in most of these older RPG's just isn't very fun.

Super mario 3 was the first game I've played and I still haven't finished it.

>>721098
Dammit, sorry. "i.e." would be more appropriate.

>>721051

I also don't like the SNES F-Zero. F-Zero X and GX would great though

I never beat DKC2 cause of Screech's Sprint. it's been a while though, so I'm going back and finally gonna beat it.

also I never beat DK64. fucking DK arcade machine.

I've only ever beaten SMB2 with peach. I've never even tried to beat it with any other character.

>>721098
>>721103
Actually, e.g. exempli gratia - "for the sake of an example," is correct. It means "for example"
To use i.e. id est - it/that is you'd mean a specific list in this case. It means "in other words".

So you were right in the first place.

>I could never beat Sonic 1 legit.
Fucking Labyrinth Zone Boss
>Mega Man 2 and Megaman X are the only MM games I beat
>The only RPGs I liked were the Nintendo ones
Even then only ones I ever beaten were Fire Emblem and Pokemon.
>I could never get into Zelda. Ever
Although I can say I really liked A Link to the Past
>I liked SMW over SMB 3
>I never liked the Banjo & Kazooie games
What is the appeal to this series

And the first retro game I ever beat was Streets of Rage 2 on Easy difficulty with Skate

I've actually never finished a Megadrive Sonic game, even though that shit was my childhood.

I could never beat Mega Man 1 legit.
Save/load shit from emulators save my ass.

Fuck, i never told this to anyone.

>>721174
LOL, same here.

>>721813
That's me with the first Rayman

I don't like retro games but I still play them anyways

I only play them because I thrive on nostalgia and I desperately wish I was a carefree kid again

I've never beaten a Megaman game, the first one a nd the two Legends games being exceptions.
Not out of frustration from the difficulty or anything, I don't have a problem reaching the final boss. But I just find the fortresses so fucking boring and a chore to play through, and eventually just turn the game off.

>>714482
I liked this game a lot.

I liked Blood 2

>>718774

Get to him with either Fire Wheel or Spinning Slash and enough NinPo that you can spaz them. You'll smash the Jaquio hardy. The third and final form, however...put your tryhard pants on. The far left of the screen is safe until you destroy the head and it gaurentees a hit on you, then it starts shooting sickles EVERYWHERE while you try to hit the heart.

>>719132
>no good reason
>wanting to beat a game the way it was intended back then

>>715379
Everyone did that.

I dont like Megaman Legends. Its poorly made and not very interesting

>>723457
You're dead to me, anon.

But I don't like most of the main original series. I firmly believe every single Megaman spin-off was better than the original series

>>714623
Good luck anon. You're at about half of the game.

sage for /v/ shit

>>723457
The first sucked, yes; but what of the second?

>>714482
After seeing this thread a few days ago, I finally beat it in 29 seconds today, after some practice. All you get is a big point bonus, though.

I prefer the GBA ports of Super Mario World and Link to the Past over the SNES originals.

I have never beat SMB1 or 2.

In SMB1 I do use the warp pipes and I have gotten close, but never to the castle.

I never really attempted to beat SMB2 though

>>718063
>http://tcrf.net/Mega_Man_3

While well-known, the commands for controller 2 are very likely not built-in cheat codes, but rather debugging features that the developers forgot to remove:

Hold Right + A to give Mega Man a super jump. Note that jumping into pits with this will mean you won't die.

Hold Up + A to freeze the logic timer. Enemy AI will stop progressing, meaning enemies will continue to do whatever they were doing; big eyes on pogo sticks will either stay glued to the ground or bounce around madly, etc.

>>721246
You only have to chase him, in sonic 1

Metroid is too hard and boring for me.

As much as I talk down to a Link to the Past and Super Mario World, I've never finished both of those games. They both got really stale and unfun at a certain point. I only got about halfway through Link to the Past and up to Bowser Valley in SMW.

>>719398
its based off an armadillo

a robotic sonic didn't become a thing till Sonic 2

>>725291
>talk down to a Link to the Past