/vr/ - Retro Games

>Sorry son, I couldn't find no Sims expansion for this here PC. Your old man looked, but he did findja one for your gameboy!

>Thanks dad. I will now grow up to be heterosexual, unlike OP.

I'd be appreciative and milk as much fun out of the thing as possible. 7800 plays a mean game of robotron.

>I never wanted a Nintendo Dad I already have a Genesis

>>7774557
Ballblazer is one of the greatest games ever created and wipes the floor with the Famicom version, I'd be stoked.

>>7774557
Almost exactly how I ended up with a 7800, which died a year later. Worthless piece of shit.

>>7774557
>Your response?
OK, time to play some games.
NES would've been better obviously, but it was the 80s, and anything's better than watching more reruns on TV.

>>7774557
[lie] Cool...thanks!

>>7774557
>Sorry son
>We have a ton of old Atari tapes
>Your response?
Beat the shit out of the doppelgaenger and find my real parent

>>7775352
ywnbaw

>>7775138
no shit it does. the game plays to the 7800's strengths. the Famicom and C64 versions suck because Ballblazer was not meant for tile-based graphics.

>>7774693
fpbp
/thread

>>7775358
>ywnbaw
ywnbah

>>7774557
"Thank you so much for buying this for me, Dad! Wanna play some games on it with me?"

Off-topic: The Atari 7800 is probably the best looking console ever made, Atari's styling with the 5200 and 7800, black with the silver bar in the middle, is phenomenal for some reason, the thin line with the color spectrum is also a nice touch, love it.

>>7774674
Lmao

>>7774557
Maybe we could flip it for $70?

>>7775496
The most aesthetically pleasing console IMO is a black Sega Saturn. Really, Sega's stuff from the mid 90s was just supreme to look at.

7800 got done dirty by Tramel. The first shipment sat in a warehouse for 2 years. GCC had to sue to get paid. I feel like the hardware has a lot of untapped potential.

>>7775561
A Saturn is always a good pick, in my eyes it's the most beautiful console of the 5th generation, much better than the N64 and PS1, although they're good in their own ways.

Sega in the 90's was pure kino, it's one of the things that makes me miss them, the Model II Sega Genesis is simply phenomenal to me in looks.

>>7775671
True, if it was released when it was supposed to, it would've performed better for sure, of course that it wasn't better than the NES hardware and software wise, but it would've had a 2 years head start, that could've helped a lot.

the 7800 was supposed to come out a year after the Famicom but it feels so backwards in many ways for example the shit sound and still no write lines on the cartridge slot

>>7774674
Fuckinh based

>>7774693
Based
>>7775363
Lurk moar, newfag

>>7774557
>>7775186
Same here, except being just a kid I was much easier to trick. Also, the 7800 had one of the most retarded, cramp-inducing controller designs of all time.

>>7775752
The worst part is knowing that while america got this abomination, the european controller looked like this:

>>7775752
>the 7800 had one of the most retarded, cramp-inducing controller designs of all time.
That a good controller. Especially for decathlon or track & field.

>>7775752
In hindsight, I absolutely loathe that controller. ...tho it may possibly be more reliable than the 2600 joysticks, which my father broke several. Which in turn, had I known then what I know now, I would have used to make arcade sticks. Watching the old fart ragequit Mountain King after that would have been priceless.

>>7774693
>I already have a Genesis
I'm sorry your mom left you.

>>7774674
spbp

>>7774557
honestly $50 is a pretty fair price

>>7774557
the 7800 version of commando is way better than the nes

>>7774557
>Sorry son, I couldn't find that "Nintendo" you wanted anywhere.

> Can't find the NES being sold anywhere
> Can only find the 7800

I think Dad is lying. You could go to any toy store, department store or electronics store and find NES consoles. Toy's R Us stocked the NES in all of their retail outlets. It made up like 40% of their annual revenue.

>>7774557
based af.

>>7776993
>I think Dad is lying. You could go to any toy store, department store or electronics store and find NES consoles. Toy's R Us stocked the NES in all of their retail outlets. It made up like 40% of their annual revenue.


And, if you live in the North American convenient, a more realisticc scenario would be:

"Son, I couldn't find that Atari 7800, so I bought a Nintendo Entertainment System instead. It's what all the children are asking their parents for"

Though, buying this for $50 dollars does still seem likely. Probably bought it on a fire sale, lied to the kid about not finding a NES just to pocket $150.00.

>sorry son I couldn't find a commodore 64, but I got this, it would help you with your homework and has games, just remember to not have any tapes on when you are powering it on

>>7777046
>convenient,

continent. My mistake for not looking at the spellcheck options.

>>7777051
>>sorry son I couldn't find a commodore 64

That literally happened to me when I was 7. I wanted a C64. My parents looked at the price and said "no way", then they bought me a Tandy Color Computer 2 instead. Because it was cheaper. I am in Canada.

As for the 7800. I have never seen them sold here in Canada in stores. I don't even know if it had any distribution outside of the US. The NES was in every popular department store. The SMS was sold in 1/4th the locations. The TG-16 was sold in a few retailers. I had a friend with a Colecovision and Intellivision. I even saw the Lynx for sale at one or two shops. But never the 7800. My dad bought a Atari 2600 jr in the late 1980's. Those were sold everywhere. If he brought home a 7800, I would be surprised.

>>7775679
The nomad looks good too, great handheld.

>>7775679
>A Saturn is always a good pick, in my eyes it's the most beautiful console of the 5th generation, much better than the N64 and PS1, although they're good in their own ways.
>Sega in the 90's was pure kino, it's one of the things that makes me miss them, the Model II Sega Genesis is simply phenomenal to me in looks.

I have owned multiple Sega Genesis systems. The first one was a model 2 Sega Genesis and it was packaged with Sonic 2 and one gamepad. You had to buy the second gamepad separate. The Model 2 was released in 1992, along with the Model 2 Sega CD. Also Sega changed the packaging design to the red stripes (Genesis), blue stripes (Sega CD), purple Stripe (Game Gear), etc to unify their packaging. The grid package design, was used from 1989 to 1992-1993. Even Sonic 2 still used the grid design for the US box art. I also have a Genesis model 1 that I purchased from a second hand shop.

>>7774557
I want to imagine that happened to you today

>>7777032
Konami were western fanboy

>>7774557
you fags joke, but 7800/Lynx was most interesting era of Atari. Trying to adjust to the new Jap-style of gaming, a transition between arcade traditions and new "console" style games. Lots of janky soul to be found on them, before they went full 3Dtardation.

>>7777046
NES at the time could be obtained for $90.

>>7774685
plays a mean game of H.E.R.O. too

>>7777086
>As for the 7800. I have never seen them sold here in Canada in stores. I don't even know if it had any distribution outside of the US.

They were sold in Canada and the UK. But they might have had bad distribution in Canada. Which is interesting, because Atari Computers were represented well in Canada. I saw Atari ST's sold in a few different Canadian department stores.

>>7774557
>Your response?
Dad i was born in 1998, i asked you for a Nintendo Wii. I mean thanks this will be fun maybe. Can i go to my friend's house later? I hear he got Mario Kart and i wanna play it.
Hey, when is mom picking me up again?

>>7774557
>pulls out 9mm and shoots dad right in the face

>>7774557
i don't know. i pretty much always got what i wanted and if that wasn't realistic, then they told me that and i chose something else or put my own money towards it.

>>7777359

>Imported.

What? That's the NES, not the Famicom. Aren't all Japanese video game product technically imported? Was that there to distinguish it from the "locally made" Atari consoles?

>>7774674
based

>>7777359
$90 in '86? I thought it was still around the $200 mark. I know it was about $350 when it first released. That was some hell of a deal, even for Sears.

>>7777947
You're doing it wrong

>>7777098
Indeed, i'm not sure why it never caught on much, but it was pretty good.

>>7777146
Model 2 Genesis.
Model 1 Controller.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2.

This photo has so much SOUL.

>>7778231
It's the most basic kit so that's why-- a lot of people who remember the NES costing more was the big bundle that had ROB and the Zapper too.

>Sorry son, I couldn't find that "Mortal Kombat II" you wanted anywhere, but luckily I managed to find something even better!

>>7774685
great Mario Bros port too. I used to play the 5200 version.

Something like this happened to a kid in my neighborhood who had a TG16.

>>7778697
>sorry son I screwed up and got you a turbographix
sweet

thats how i felt when I got the game gear. already had a gameboy though.

>Atari tapes
>tapes

hits close to home. my dad called every game a tape. he even bought me PS1 "tapes"

>>7778687
Fucking been there before

>>7778705
>implying discs aren't just spiraled plastic tape molded into a flat circle and written with indentations
your dad is an electrical engineer.

>>7778705
Funnily enough lots of old companies called cartridges cassettes (Nintendo did originally), since cassette literally just means "small encasing" before it became associated primarily with audio cassettes. By association, it would make sense to call a "cassette" a "tape" even though there's no actual tape.

>>7778664
didn't make much sense to buy a Nomad in '95 when you could save up a little more and buy a PSX or Saturn. N64 was coming a year later too.

>Christmas, 1994
>Open gift
>This is inside
>We don't have a Genesis

t-thanks...

>>7778727
the serial connections are the tape.

>>7778734
visual aid

>>7778729

>>7778664
>Model 2 Genesis.
>Model 1 Controller.

The model 2 Genesis/ Mega Drive was never packaged with the 6 button gamepad. Sega still treated the 3-button pad as the default. The 6-button pad was made due to Capcom requesting it for Street Fighter II: SCE. But many other games added 6-button support, like Mortal Kombat II. The Genesis/ MD model 3, which was released in 1997-1997 did have the 6-buttomn gamepad. Sonic 2 was the default pack-in game for the model 2 unit.

>>7778735
>visual AIDS