/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8612883
Ah, I was wondering when the next issues would pop up here.

>>8612952
>Waterworld
>popular success
Yeah, NP clearly doesn't pay attention to the movie news.

>>8612949
I totally just got rid of the thread on my watcher when it turned grey with no attention to what I was closing out.

>>8612937
I like Amy's "This is stupid, I really don't want to be here" half hearted smile in that SEGA picture

I guess she just isn't cutout to be a POWER SOURCE

Issue #87

>>8613238
The DS version may have more material, but the SNES original is pure Kirby soul.

>>8613257
Or you can just use Kirby's slide move to break it.

More later.

>>8613319
Interesting that this will be the most the US knows of Fire Emblem for some time yet.

>>8613321
>NP thinks FE3 Book 1 and Book 2 were separate Famicom games
So, what, they forgot about FE Gaiden? Pretty sure they mentioned it in passing many issues ago as "Legend of the Fire Emblem".

>>8613327
Probably the only time NP will ever print the word "Jihad".

>>8613331
The birth of the Zigludo/Serlis memes. Also very hilarious that they pick a screenshot of Eldigan and Lachesis to illustrate the marriage function.

>$60 for GBP
>$100 for VB
In today dollars, that's $100 for the Game Boy Pocket, and $175 for the Virtual Boy.

>>8613061
>>8613063
This is one of the few post-N64 issues of Nintendo Power I bought back in the day and seeing Star Ocean covered made me wished they had made a localization back in the day. Pretty cool to be able to comprehend the Japanese text here, even if some of the kanji are a bit blurry here.

>>8613319
>>8613321
>>8613327
>>8613331
Also, pretty cool to see pre-standard translations for the titles of the unlocalized Fire Emblem games. "Lightning Sword and The Dark Dragon" is not one I would go with, but "The Descent of Jihad" actually sounds cool, even if it's not exactly kosher in these days.

>>8612896
>Nintendo printing the word "sex" in their official magazine
This has to be first right?

>>8613281
It should go without saying here but if mole mania is unknown to you, its 100% worthy of giving it a try.

>>8612893

Whew, DKC is coming back and now here's Tetris Attack and some new Game Boy thing! Something to talk about!!!

>>8612894

But in the meantime, we still have to feature Brainies and some fishing game... sorry, readers... please continue subscribing so you can get all the cool tips and secrets and become Power Players who Play It Loud...

>>8612898

Mireille Jacques producing some straight-up anime art for Tales of Phantasia. Maybe she speaks Japanese?? Looks nice anyway.

>>8612902

Virtual Boy is not "most wanted" anymore, thanks to the increasing promise shown by the N64.

>>8612960
>Dorin the Dragon Prince lived a happy life in the magical Kingdom of Celestia until the corrupt prime minister jailed his family.

>>8614190
It never was wanted to begin with.

>>8612969
Robin is an under-rated low polygon waifu.

>>8612883
>make hideous cgi Kirby abomination for the cover so the characters all match up better
ok
>leave the Tetris Attack block alone and it remains a drawing
Nintendo Power you crazy

>>8614396
I like how her name is Hooters in the Japanese version.

We're about to hit the Bronze Age of NP, which I think will last until Future US buys them out.

>>8613409
>A google of them

>>8614185
It's because Tales of Phantasia was covered a few issues ago. >>8581128
It's pretty interesting how Nintendo Power started giving extensive coverage to JRPGs that were never going to be localized (at least not on their platforms) around this period.

>>8615040
They've got to fill pages somehow, since SNES is dying, Virtual Boy is already dead, and N64 hasn't even started yet.

>>8615045
Makes me wonder if they ever covered Marvelous (Eiji Aonuma's pre-Ocarina of Time Super NES RPG) at one point.

>>8615040

Ah okay, yeah the designs on the envelope could have been modeled after the ones shown on the second page of that article. I forgot the magazine had published those clear drawings of the characters. So probably the envelopist there was just catching some of Epic Center's doomed hope that more great Japanese games would be localized.

>>8613118
>having to explain basic math to children

>>8613471
Aside from NP having to improv on the character names and the omission of FE Gaiden, it's actually a pretty-accurate article on what Fire Emblem was like up to then.

>>8613193
They didn't deny the allegation that Naomi as paying them though. Her art may be good but she's been printed like 10 times, you're saying out of all the thousands of art NP gets each month she is always the best of the bunch? Yeah ok. I can go on dA and find much better stuff in 5 minutes, and I'm sure people of that level of talent existed in the 90s too.

>>8612980

Thread soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFRqhktLckg

>>8613000

Even fishing game creators are providing fancy 3D renderings to Nintendo Power these days.

>>8613018
>You can conduct unlimited searches, download up to 20 files per day and even submit your own codes for inclusion in the Code Bank.

Then they explain how to sign up for something at a website, because that was new then. Moreover, it seems you must click the button that says "SEARCH" on it to search!

>>8613021

Mystic Quest was successful enough to be rereleased?

>>8615813
More like because FFIII was popular enough, anything with Final Fantasy on the box could sponge off that success.

>>8612898
>Tales of Phantasia fanart in Nintendo Power
color me surprised

>>8615301
I get the impression the author of the article mistakenly believed that Mystery of the Emblem was a compilation since it describes the events of the second campaign as "the second game". Nintendo Power did cover Fire Emblem in the past as "Legend of the Fire Emblem" though (I think it was in their January 1994 issue, where they covered unlocalized Famicom and Super Famicom games).

>>8613167
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7GW9YLrW_Q
Looks like it would have been a good game. shame.

>>8613080

This game always sounds like such a hassle.

>>8613161
> - A 29-character password. Uggh.

>>8613161

Not mentioned, NEVER to be mentioned: This Iron Man and X-O Manowar game is apparently the Game Boy version of a PSX and Saturn game. Is this the first time the obviously "greater" version of a game has been untouchable by Nintendo Power? I mean we've seen plenty of SNES-Genesis multiplatform games and such, but in those cases the magazine could say something about more colors on the screen and so claim that the SNES version was the most important one. I guess there could easily have been an earlier instance of this that I just didn't notice though, like some sports game or something. Yeah this probably isn't the first one.

>>8613207
damn i didn't even know the lava piranha boss from paper mario came from tetris attack

>>8616102
Kinda missed the part here (>>8613321) where it describes the third.
>The third F.E., Secret of the Crest, released in 1993, was a remake of the first two Fire Emblems, but with new battle scenarios.
Yeah, they were getting their games mixed up.

>>8617565
It came from Yoshi's Island first.

>>8613172
>If there's ever been a reason to pick up a Virtual Boy, you can see it in this month's coverage of Dragon Hopper and G-Zero, and next month's look at Bound High.

Emphasis on the "if". G-Zero sounds pretty great though, when they say it's F-Zero but a little different. Then it stops sounding great when the reader remembers that it is on the Virtual Boy and will apparently not be able to draw opaque walls any more than Red Alarm could and also it will probably make your head feel weird.

I mean I'd still try it though, in another timeline where the Virtual Boy flourished and this game was actually released.

>>8613174
>They are considering releasing classic Super Famicom hits such as Dragon Ball Z--sort of an action RPG title--

Ctrl-f for "dragon ball" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games and... no North American releases. I guess this Bandai America venture didn't go anywhere probably?

>>8613176

Nintendo Power has now used the term "lamer". Also 32 bits suck, psh

>>8613184

I have only briefly played Mario RPG. Does Boshi really deserve to be on the cover of the player's guide? I feel like he doesn't.

>>8618901
I'm guessing they wanted something to tie-in with the U.S. airing of Dragon Ball Z at the time. I wonder which of the DBZ titles they were planning to localize. Seems odd they would go with an RPG and not one of the fighting games.

>>8618917
Yeah. He was a pretty cool dude.

>>8613118
https://www.f6s.com/yvettekirbywaters
Wonder if she is related to the lawyer

>>8613120
>>8613113
Just noticed that these power counselors are brothers as well.

>>8618907
>what about 16 bits
>SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>8614190
The Virtual Boy basically stopped existing not even a few months for people.

>>8613220

What a downer it is to go from that ebullient Tetris Attack article to a stripped-down port of a British Amiga game starring an aggressively ugly main character.

>>8620610
I think if memory serves, the next issue will have part 2 of Kirby Super Star as its only SNES article.

>>8613271
>It's the game Virtual Boy was designed to run.

Sounds like a really good one to not release then!

>>8620692
>only three reviews this last issue
I'd believe it.

>>8613284
>fine-grain texture maps

>>8612992
This is good content in the age of emulation where it's more realistic to have your choice between all of these games.

Would be great if a comparison chart like this existed with the PAL and JAP games too.

>>8613335
>and the fantasy land of Hyrule, which was the inspiration for every other pseudo-medieval kingdom that later sprang up across the epic landscape.

This very magazine has covered multiple games featuring pseudo-medieval kingdoms based on Arthurian legend, and at least one based on Lord of the Rings. Willow and Crystalis (on this very page!) owe a lot to Zelda mechanically but have their own unhyrulian settings. If they meant to be talking here about influences on only game design and mechanics then they should have phrased it differently.

>Not usually as intricate as RPGs nor as frenetic as action games, adventure games

I had Nintendo Power's distinction of "adventure" from "RPG" in my head for quite a number of years before the more common idea that "adventure" means Roberta Williams or Zork finally overwrote it. They've been consistent about it across multiple consoles, but it doesn't seem to have taken root. I've never heard anybody else use this terminology.

>>8613340
>Final Fantasy spawned no less than six sequels

Are they going to... will they actually mention...

>for the NES, Super NES, and Game Boy,

Oh. No they will not.

>>8623679

(And I immediately remember an extra reason why they wouldn't mention FFVII, which is that it won't be out for another several months.)

>>8613343
>Like RPGs, interactive games actually

They say "interactive stories" in the title but then immediately revert to "interactive games" which is all games. My subscription ended before this, so this is my first time seeing this bit of their weird taxonomy...

>>8613353
>Mixing characters will lower alignment,

I don't think this is true at all. GameFAQs claims that a character (other than the army leader) only changes alignment significantly when killing another character in battle, and that only the features of the killer and the victim (not those of their companions) play into the game's calculation of what the change will be. So putting a wizard with a cleric, an octopus with a birdman, or an amazon with a man should be irrelevant to alignment, despite what they say here. My own experience seems to reflect this.

It's understandable that even an official source would get some details wrong when talking about such a willfully cryptic game, though.

>>8623739

...Actually as I finish the page I seem to see basically nothing but errors. It's possible that I've got something wrong though. But I trust my source (weirdos conducting lengthy labors of love on GameFAQs) much more than I trust Nintendo Power.

>>8623739
I always saw it in this magazine and thought it looked cool as hell. Finally in the early 2000's I downloaded a SNES emulator and the game and tried it out. Had a friend over one day who saw it on my computer and asked about it. I showed him a bit of the game and how things worked, then game him a copy of the emulator and game on a burnt CD.
About two weeks later he comes back with hand-drawn maps for the first 9 or so levels with all sorts of info. I tell him about Canopus(sp?) that he didn't know about, and show him how to recruit him. I only knew about it because of NP. His mind is blown. He grabs his maps and heads back home to get even deeper into the game. I never saw him again.
I managed to beat the game a few weeks later. I thought it was fun but I didn't get into it like he did. Wonder whatever happened to that guy.