/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8592424
>IN-DEPTH
>Mohawk & Headphone Jack
>Lobo

Oh, no. It's even worse than last month. Poor Nintendo Power

>>8592429

OH only now do I realize that this is the Jim-on-a-tricycle image they were talking about last issue, not anything on the game's cartridge or box. Duh.

>>8592443

Hahaha "That could happen to anyone." He's totally right too

>>8592747
>Lobo and Mohawk & Headphone Jack were heavily featured this issue
>not one of the editors picked either
>instead they picked every OTHER SNES game being released
>Lobo scored lowest on graphics out of all games, despite the review talking about how the graphics looked good
Funnier than it should be.

>>8592604
>>8592607
>>8592609
Finally, a poster for a good game.

Issue #85

>>8592493
>>8592495
>>8592497
>>8592501
Was Mission: Impossible on the N64 any good?

>>8593024
>neither Jeff nor Henry liked a single game released this month
>not ONE of the editors that like puzzle games liked Brainies
These transition periods were always slim, but Brainies must be pretty bad even with the poor graphics to get snubbed that hard.

More later.

>>8592424
BASS
NO ONE CAN STOP THIS

>>8592453
>played Bound High and Dragon Hopper

Nice, dude got to play them decades before anybody else.

>>8592470
RIP wahoo

>>8592562
>how to avoid baby mario crying: turn down the volume or get good

nice

>>8592574
>>8592580
>>8592584
>>8592586
neat

>>8592621
casual discussion of what would soon be the thing that consumed america

>>8592678
amy sounds like a winner for the prototypical nerdy girl type

>>8592774
>play it loud pog kaleidoscope
the level of 90s fad, I can barley handle it

>>8592474
>Move the blue dot, representing the fielder closest to the ball, into the path of the moving white dot.

They are really going into detail on this Griffey game! They don't carefully explain the interface for other sports games... but this one was published by Nintendo and received the magical blessing of ACM, so it gets a taste of the Killer Instinct treatment.

I wonder whether Ken Griffey Jr. still plays his own video games.

>>8592501
>The quality of the texture mapping is one of the keys to making a gorgeous N64 game. "We are working with these little 32 x 32 pixel texture maps, which seem very small," said Adrian. "When you see them on the Nintendo 64, though, they look terrific, even if you blow them up to fill the screen."

>>8592801

I just found a review under a longplay video, it seems to cover the matter but leaves out some details.

GameFAQs reviewers seem to generally think the game is just okay. Here is a typical judgment:

>As the game was so hyped around the time of release, it's hard to say it's NOT a bit of a disappointment. But seeing it for what it is, it's a pretty interesting game; it doesn't really try to compete with the giants, it manages to have some fun gameplay that you don't really see in many other places. But it also has some problems; the visual draw distance isn't the best and the action feels a little clunky and has been made up for by making the AI bad too. It can be worth a playthrough if you like the Mission: Impossible movies, are starving for games on the N64, or just want to check out something different, but overall it isn't that remarkable and deserves a score of *6 out of 10*.

>>8592508

I find it hard to imagine a character uglier than Mohawk.

>>8592950
Coinciding with the re-release that fixed the game-crashing Sketch glitch, I think.

>>8592539
>Keep in mind that game elements and control commands may change before the Pak is released.

This is so sad. The game looks ugly and isn't finished, but they're giving out move inputs for it... that might not be correct!

And in the end it isn't even released.

>>8595396
See these two posts:
>>8592758
>>8593024
We're currently knee deep in the last gasps of the SNES, a lot of gamers have already moved on to the PSX. Other than major titles from AAA devs like DKC 3, KSS, and Kirby Dream Land 3, the SNES is pretty much dead in the water now.

>>8595421
Whoops, meant
>>8593048
Not the page.

>>8592669
>With the recent surge in the popularity of RPGs, many players are just now discovering Breath of Fire and its adventurous brethren. Perhaps other titles will achieve the same "sleeper hit" status BOF has.

Poor Epic Center writers, forever wistfully speculating about a possible future increase in American children's affinity for menus and stats.

>>8596284
>it finally happens
>on that OTHER console
September 7th, 1997. Remember the date.

>>8596313

Just a blip. June 1, 1998 is when the real revolution goes down. And Nintendo Power will no doubt be on the case.

>>8592441
>I was very offended by Charles' letter
Jesse sounds like a modern day Karen

>Quit printing these stupid letters about the portrayal of women in video games.
Based Colin. Just proves Charles was right about how NP has gone down the toilet when they're printing stuff to stir up controversy instead of just video game facts.

>>8592747
Another example of the minus not really being a negative. Not allowed to talk shit about Mario.

>>8592741
>Play Control is a bit too quick
Lufia 2, especially the English version is a notoriously buggy game. Figured that would've been considered a negative. Also what the fuck does that even mean?

>>8596824
From watching speedruns you can blast through your commands in battle in an instant which is great if you know exactly what you're doing but can be frustrating for a dumb kid

>>8592705
>Q: How do I start a stage?

Not a question you want to see if you're that game's UI designer!

>>8592713

You have to play the main part of The Lost Levels in one session, without saving and quitting, to reach all the following worlds? I don't think that's actually true...?

>>8592735
> + Ken Griffey Jr.

>>8597935
>A: Press the A button
Considering there are only 2 buttons on a Game Boy there must be a lot of dumb kids out there asking this for it to get printed. I blame user error in this case.

>>8592757
>With 18 million Super NES control decks in North American homes, you can be sure that publishers will continue releasing their biggest hits on the Super NES for some time to come.

It's not over! It will never be over!

>>8592782
>MOHAWK & HEADPHONE JACK Part Two

Ah god make it stop

>>8598602
I seriously wonder why Nintendo didn't bring over their "Nintendo Power" flash cart service to the west like they did. The Super Famicom a bit longer in Japan because of that.

>>8592796

Japanese fighting games are universally inferior to British and American fighting games.

>>8598703

What the hell? I never heard of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Power_(cartridge)
It lasted until 2007! That's awesome!

Hm but it doesn't seem to support a lot of games. Maybe they didn't think there was an American audience for episodic Picross? But I suppose that list of games could probably be expanded pretty easily. Star Fox might never work but you'd think most games could. I guess they'd need to work out agreements with a lot of the games' original publishers though, to get permission for this? I don't really know what all the complexities would be.

It looks like it worked out better for Game Boy, anyway! (Also for all I know these Wikipedia lists might be incomplete to begin with.)

>>8592849

For some reason I have never for a moment considered actually playing Wave Race 64 until today. It looks fun!

>>8599384
Seriously one of the best water racers I ever played, the graphics and water physics were pretty amazing for the time

>>8592827
>the bull masters
Why is that so fucking funny to me

>>8598789
To be fair, Thracia 776 was really the only standout of the service, and that ended up getting a full retail release because it sold so well.

>>8599650
Weren't Marvelous and Rockman & Forte part of that service too?

>>8599654
No. Rockman & Forte was always its own cart.

>>8594560
and other creative lies about the N64 kek

>>8599665
pretty sure Marvelous was also not available

Anyhow, nobody in NA wanted to talk about 2D games once 3D became the big trend. You got shit on in reviews and online for making 2D games

>>8600106
>1998 gaming magazines and reviewers:
>UGH, these losers decided to do a 2D game, how fucking lame
>it's 2D so it will probably be shit, don't buy it, graphics suck
>actual gamers in 1998:
>DUDE, YOU CAN GET GAMES ON THESE NEW GRAPHING CALCULATORS! CHECK IT OUT, I GOT TETRIS AND DRUG WARS!
>THIS MONOCHROME 2D RPG ON A HANDHELD FROM 1989 IS THE BEST THING EVER, LET'S BUY FOUR TIMES AS MANY COPIES OF THIS GAME THAN THE NEWEST 3D FIGHTING GAME OR 3D PLATFORMER
>THIS 2D RTS IS THE BEST THING EVER, LETS BUY THREE TIMES AS MANY COPIES OF THE BEST SELLING PC GAME OF LAST YEAR DESPITE IT HAVING SUPER PRETTY PRE-RENDERED GRAPHICS AND FMVS
I swear it feels like the entire videogame industry and associated media took a sharp turn away from their audience in the mid 90's.

>>8600154
Wasn't Pokemon Gen 1 the biggest selling Nintendo game in 1998 as well?

>>8600160
Worldwide, probably. In the US alone, I think OoT might have given it a run for the money. Don't know for certain though.

>>8600160
and tamagotchi probably outsold everything in its release year. Easier for someone to buy because it was cheaper and didn't require a separate purchase, but still. Even Miyamoto commented in an interview about how he felt after doing all that hard work on Mario 64 and then a very simple toy is the bigger success.

>>8600160
Did the anime air in the US before the game came out? I remember the NP article they ran on Pokemon just before the game came out but I never really heard of being massively popular until well after the show debuted. Just wondering where all the little kids got their hype from if not from the show.

>>8592891
>In Olympic Summer Games, you're an athlete, not an armchair coach. That means you're going to have to train. Training for the Super NES games means toning up those fingers and thumbs so you'll be able to tap the A and B Buttons quickly enough to put your athlete on the winner's podium.

How tedious that sounds.

>>8592891
>In Olympic Summer Games, you're an athlete, not an armchair coach. That means you're going to have to train. Training for the Super NES games means toning up those fingers and thumbs so you'll be able to tap the A and B Buttons quickly enough to put your athlete on the winner's podium.

Nintendo Power having to try to make speedrunner-level tedium sound cool while they await their next life raft - Tetris Attack, DKC 3, anything!

>>8592901

Well so much for >>8594686

>>8601216
The manufactured Izzy "hype" was something else. Nobody fucking liked that thing.
Least the World Cup 94 Dog was kind of cute, so I can somewhat understand the marketing push he got. Izzy was just butt ugly.

>>8592964

The maps make this game look like Metroid. It almost seems like it could be fun. Seems doubtful, though.

Thank you for these comfy threads OP

>>8602001

I suddenly remember that I once read an interesting article about this character: https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/what-is-it-oral-history-izzy-atlanta-olympics/

It's weird that the original design was LESS ugly, and then they faced a backlash and gave it a stupid nose and a dopier mouth. Or maybe the mouth came before the public unveiling? Oh well. It was terrible at all times, evidently. But apparently some kids liked it.

>>8602001
What a shit "mascot"

>>8602001
It was a lot of "You GOTTA love it, it's OUR mascot, WE made it, USA USA USA" but most Olympic mascots are complete shit.

>>8602471
Sam the Eagle was ok. Helps that he was designed by someone at Disney though.

>>8602001
>>8602182


Believe it or not, I actually liked Izzy as a kid. I didn't give a shit about Olympics, I just saw him in a magazine where they were explaining about Olympic mascots from different years and thought he's cool. With his red lightning boots, starry eyes and blue colored body he looked almost like Sonic. I didn't even know wtf Izzy is, i guess it's olympic torch or something.

Now, please don't bash me for this autism, it was a long time ago, but I actually drew a comic series about Izzy. And to be 100% completely honest, I wouldn't mind to have some of that merch.

>>8602519
> Anime based on Olympic character
> clearly kids-oriented
> still managed to slip in some big titties

Never change, Japan.

>Olympics set in Atlanta
>not using Atlas as a mascot holding up something Olympic related
>instead get the most derpy retarded faced mascot no one even knows what it's supposed to be

Izzy was the real Olympic Park bomb

>>8602519
I like the two little guys Japan made for the Olympics that just happened, but "Japan" and "make marketable mascot" is easy mode.

>>8602559
Hey, you like what you like, different strokes for different folks and all that. He was made to appeal to kids after all.

I assume you've seen the animated special?

https://youtu.be/TzGr9ibFkrw

Despite my overall dislike of the character, the cartoon itself is rather charming

>>8602580
She kinda looks a bit like Red Hot Riding Hood.

>>8602637
Very cute

>>8592972

Somebody decided it would be fun to celebrate Mode 7 by arbitrarily rotating the final paragraph of the Mohawk article.

>>8592981

I did not remember Earthworm Jim having a shield like that. I had to download a ROM just now to satisfy my curiosity about it.

>>8593014
> - Graphics and sound.

One of the greatest flaws of Brainies is that you can see and hear it.

>>8593047

Battle Zone: somehow not being ported to Virtual Boy. Are you okay, Virtual Boy? You didn't get any new games this month. Well, you're probably fine.

>>8593049
>Disney Interactive reports that Maui Mallard has been renamed Mojo Rising.

But then...
>Cold Shadow is actually the third name for the game. We wanted the PC version to be a fresh start and announce a new line of titles from Disney Interactive for PC gaming. So we decided to rename Maui Mallard to Bad Mojo or Mojo Rising, as a reference to voodoo and the haunted island. Somebody at Disney felt that “Mojo” had sexual and pagan meaning and we had to abandon Bad Mojo. Cold Shadow became the title afterwards.

>>8593051

Pinocchio has been in this list forever, even though I don't recall seeing the magazine actually say anything about it. According to Wikipedia, it will in fact be released eventually!

>>8604184
He used it in the cartoon first. A lot of EWJ2 carried over elements from the TV show.

>>8604332
I know NP will cover it eventually.

>>8604343

I would think so, given that they appear to be about to feature a fishing game next to Tetris Attack and Turok. If Frantic Flea and Power Piggs can get big articles during the fallow period between SNES and N64, surely any halfway decent Disney game will be able to!

>>8604326
The big change is because for some reason, Disney insisted that Donald Duck's name be stricken out of the game.

>>8604381
It's actually a relief to see Disney being retarded isn't a new phenomenon, but a tradition dating back decades.