/vr/ - Retro Games

>>768412

>>768412

>Mega Man 7 was CANCELED at one point

HOLY SHIT

i didn't know this

yes, please stop, we want more room for shit threads about how much modern games suck, you are ruining this board by providing actual content
(just kidding, your threads are my favorite, please don't ever stop)

>>768421
Protip: Rewrite things from the manual and make them out to be great tips you thought of your self.

the sad part is that I never realized that's exactly what they were doing when I was younger

>>768419
Usually there is one other person dumping a few things here and there. I don't see why we can't/don't have a magazine dump thread alive on /vr/.

>>768424
I wonder if that's really true or not... Gaming magazines used to print rumors as if they were fact before they could blame blogs too.

fanzines

>>768443
Since its gamepro its probably false.

>>768432
I wasn't really saying we can't, kind of just venting my frustration with the fact that the type of threads/posts I mentioned seem to be taking over the board.. and I seem to be the only person it pisses off... I'm not sure what is happening here.. sigh.. sorry I'll stop

>>768450

>>768454
No problem, I am pretty quick to hide threads or just stick to the usual generals of the genre I enjoy on /vg/.

>Earthbound 3

>>768510

>>768473
I like how they spent half of the response to the letter about wonder boy and Dynastic Hero being the same game pretty much just advertising a mail order service. Yes yes, the good old days when everything was genuine and from the heart.

>>768503
>this port from the SNES
jesus christ... they never knew what they were talking about, did then?

>tfw it's been years since I last time bought vidya magazine

I love the sprites in the background and the coloring of old the vidya mags.

>>768450
>Help, I've been dismembered and I can't get up

Dat edgy 90's marketing

>>768454
I'll tell you what's happening here, it's summertime.

>>768445
>10 bucks for some shitty zine

>>768540
yeah, maybe... but anyhow, I'm going to delete my post before it derails the thread

Savage Reign review

>>768553
NeoGeoblade

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>>768445
I know there were music and counter-culture zines... but I had no clue that gaming zines were a thing... interesting

>>768574
It was enough of a thing to get a monthly article in video games magazine.

But imagine paying AVGN 10$ to read him type out the word fuck and moose afterbirth.

>>768596

>>768587
or paying for the same type of nonsensical angry rants you can read here it seems as well

>>768596
hahaha, did this thing ever actually go into production?

>>768621
I don't think so... l-look at it!

>>768631

some trivia

>>768649
>Playstation 2 and xbox already out
>N64 life cycle already ended
isn't this no longer considered retro by the board's rules?

>>768670
I guess but its trivia about retro systems.

>>768737

>>768412
I wonder what Julia is up to today?

>>768649
>on which holiday was geek sex symbol Lara Croft born?
>D. Franchises that should have died long ago Day
lel

>>769051
google says she is now a doctor

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>>768412
>RIP NES
Indeed. He died a hero.

OP, whether you keep at it or not, know that i'm enjoying the shit out of these.

>>769108
>What game is he from?
>"King of the Fighters" emblazoned on his hat

>>769197

That wouldn't help it. Check out the art for the games. In the Fatal Fury series, his hat says "The King of Fighters" and in The King of Fighters, his hat says "Fatal Fury"

For reals.

>>769207
yet... if you google one of them, they all show up it the results

>>769119

I scored 251. I was doing pretty good until #21

Do you have Nintendo Power 96? I can probably find it myself from existing scans but I'm looking for the 4 page preview of Marvelous: Another Treasure Island see >>758556 for more info.

>>769180
Would anyone freak out if I post the rest of this article?

>Tecmo Bowl

>>769215

Hey, I have this issue somewhere.

>>769215
Fuck it, I'll do it anyways.

I have so many of these from old comics. Just a pain in the ass to scan all of those pages.

>>769232
There are devices that auto flip and scan pages... but I'm sure they're expensive.

>>769212
You got 70 points on me when the magazine was new.

>>769232
>>769243
Adds I ment. But yeah. I just have a scanner/printer in my home office so it takes a while to do it.

>>769214
I recently threw out most of my NP. Because they are already scanned online and easy to access.

http://www.emuparadise.me/magazine-comic-guide-scans/Nintendo_Power_096_-_1997_May/1080

>>768503
Surprising how much was already solidified about Mother 3 even back then.

>>769259
They had a few press releases. It seemed like a done deal.

>>769278

>>769259
It looks pretty interesting.

>Earthbound 64
Fucking rusemeisters.

>>769309
lel

Thanks for uploading these Scanner, I enjoy reading through them. Never seen any of the Sony Magazine stuff before.

>>769326

>>769324
Those were the best. You get memory stickers, PSX lid stickers, posters, and hear shit internally from SOA.

But the journalism is biased as hell and most of the magazine was filled with fluff.

do you have a mediafire account or something? I keep missing these threads

>>768737

$79.99? Christ, thank god I waited and got it cheaper years later at a local Funco Land (before it got turned into another branch of Gamestop). I swear, a good deal of SNES games those days were stupidly expensive.

>>769119
Got 430. Over 600 is only for the most legendary of /v/irgins.

>>769258
I've come to enjoy how that site's entire library is torrents from Underground Gamer in fast HTTP download format.

>>769119

160. Shit. Oh well, least I didn't score higher.

...At the risk of inducing rage, who's the guy I'm rated at?

>>769449
Scored roughly the same as I.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

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>>769380
You are the new high score, anon. I've posted that thing twice. No one but you has broken over 300.

>>769623

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>>769627

I also have 12 issues of this mag. Around 1997-1998ish.

>>769658
This was extremely interesting. The world needed more X-COM engine games.

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>>769119
got 153
yay, I'm phil collins

>>769658
Diablo 2 came out in 2000...

This seems like as good a place as any to ask this.

For about two and a half years or so on /v/, I've been doing dumps of the Player's Guide to Link to the Past every five or six months or so. Generally the threads go well, and there's been surprisingly little shitposting.

Recently I've had a few people suggesting I branch out into other guide dumps from the same era. While my LttP threads are kind of a fixture of /v/ now to the point of repeat attendees (the fact that I turn my tripcode off when not in those threads helps), people have suggested I take the other guide dump threads to this board. But I have no idea how well it would be received.

Would occasional dumps of old various player's guides for games be alright to post on this board? This thread looks like something in the same vein, so I'm asking here.

>>769780
It was still all over game mags 2 years prior.

>>769780
The magazine is from 1997.

>>769783
Please do. I'd suggest saving yourself the trouble of scanning anything that is already on emuparadise.

>>769783
the alttp guide books has lots of art in it mostly. Try super metroid or maybe the eartbound guide

>>769837
I wouldn't have a way to scan anyways, though the guides I do have saved are the ones I own anyways.

It's sort of potluck surprise in game guide form.

>>769849
Oh there's a bit more to it than that, not that the art is bad.

>>769849
what's wrong with art?

>>769783
what... why did you delete your other posts?

>>769849
Sometimes I wish we could get a Zelda game in the vein of the artwork.

Can't help being a bit disappointed in LttP2. The gameplay and music are solid and good, but babyface Link and the interviews saying that they're bringing back the Dark World and copying the LttP overworld are zapping the excitement a bit. It's a bit OCD, but it just doesn't make sense for the Dark World to still exist seeing as we watched it cease to exist at the end of LttP, and unless they're going to hand off the Triforce to Ganon again and shoehorn the whole thing together again with a copy-plot...

Just seems like we could have gotten the Imprisoning War instead of a copy of LttP. We wanted a LttP styled game, not a carbon copy. Fingers crossed but who knows?

>>769879
Somehow my trip changed to a different one. I must have done it accidentally (I have one for selling stuff on /toy/ ).

>>768649
>Donkey Kong County

>>769907
That Ganon would be interesting to battle again.

Does anybody know where I can find the issue of Nintendo Power from the early 2000's that had Luigi's Mansion on the cover? It was my very first issue of Nintendo Power and has a lot of nostalgia for me and I'd love to read it again.

>>770020
Yes he would, but the problem is, he's dead. And with Nintendo locked into the Historia now, he would have to be both resurrected and killed again, otherwise Oracle of Seasons/Ages is invalidated.

They've written themselves into a corner on that one. Unless they make the claim that Ganon didn't "die", and that it was a trick, except that then his wish on the Triforce wouldn't be nullified and Link to the Past's ending wouldn't have happened.

Inasmuch as we argued about getting a timeline, releasing it has rammed a wine corkscrew up Nintendo's rump in terms of where Zelda games go from now on.

>>770182

>>768412
What´s up op considering that 4chan image downloader cant download from /vr/ can you please upload this on mediafire or anonfiles?

>>770323
No plans for mediafire account.

>have every issue of Nintendo power from #1 all the way to #183 (September 2004, Pikmin 2 on cover)
>too lazy to scan them

I'm sure someone has already done it anyways

>>770409
I don't think every single NP issue is easy to access. All the old ones are on emuparadise.

I know the feeling though. I'm using a toaster with XP and a scanner from 2000( because I have free access to them). I do not have the patience to scan every single page, magazine, etc. One page takes a few minutes.

MUD

>>770159
Unless they set everything so far aside and start an entirely new completely disconnected series.

>>770686
Which would make complete sense, except that the official title in Japan is "Link to the Past 2".

Can't start a new canon with a direct sequel.

Unless the timeline is about to get a fourth branch...please no...

>>769627
>all dat hype for MK4
man

>>769051
>>769101

Shit I had this issue as a kid, and had a crush on her something fierce. I had the crazy idea to look her up and stalk her and found out the same thing, shes a pediatrician iirc. I would have done anything to game with her as a kid..

Another person Ive stalked is James Geiger, who for some reason I deemed the coolest kid in the world because he knew the cheats to "mature" games such as snatcher and night trap.. he was my hero growing up and it never dawned on me that he might just be an adult who plays games, not just a kid with the coolest parents ever

>>768559
I remember this review, thinking "for a neo geo game that moon sure looks shitty"

>>769104
8. Still no. ;_;

>>768445
I want a copy of "Cheaply Produced Crappy Video Game Newsletter About What SUCKS"

>>772173

Omg /vr/, first day here, and I am shedding manly tears. I didn't know you exist... plust these threads... pic very related.
/thread I have one or two magazines, will dump someday (they're lost in my bedroom in boxes). The good things are they talk about quake (any quakefags?) but the bad things is they're from Spain, and my only camera is from my cellphone.

>>772819
I don't think anyone will care as long as they are retro. Does your magazine have nudity in its fan art section?

>>772819
>they're from Spain

Could it be Micromania? or maybe Hobby Consolas? I loved both, so many memories.

trivia

>>769104
>promotional stand of Legend of Dragoon

>>768412
Thanks again, OP for posting this image. I recognized OP image instantly as I've seen it so many times I couldn't count. I have dozens of gamepro/egm from 93-96 and they've resided in rotation in my bathroom and Ive read every issue at least 2 dozen times back to front..

I really want to message Julia Reza and let her know that despite the fact she probably doesnt remember even sending her picture to gamepro, she has had a fan for 15+ years..

Again thanks OP you made my night so fucking surreal..

>>775337

>>775337
your welcome

>>768412
>"and some big-name games are being bumped for next year (Star Fox 2) or cancelled altogether (Mega Man 7)"

What?
Did he mix those two?
Or was Mega Man 7 considered cancelled at some point?

>>776986
iirc it wasnt going to come stateside

>>770207
I've got that.