/vr/ - Retro Games

I thought that was an Alien from the thumbnail

>>8668002
Queen*

Issue #95

>>8668008
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 release date: November 21, 1992
Donkey Kong Country 2 release date: November 21, 1995

You're a tad off the mark there, Samuel. Also, I hope you took your meds.

Did OP die and fall asleep again?

>>8668269
Even the contemporary reviews had issues with the platforming? Nice to know.

>>8668982

Yeah I didn't know the Sonic release timeline but that part of the letter really sounded off. Nintendo Power could easily have corrected him, but maybe they weren't willing to grant Sega the level of respect that would be implied by any acknowledge that the Genesis does exist, is playable, and has an actual history that people can know things about. Normally they only mention a competing console by name in order to express that it is inferior to its corresponding Nintendo console in some specific way.

Also, the NES and SNES have been featuring small furry heroes in Disney and Looney Tunes games (plus countless others) for ages.

>>8668013

The X-Band modem is still getting people excited somehow. It really must have been fun for some people, I imagine. I've never even seen one though... it's too bad they didn't revive the concept for the N64. You wouldn't get online Street Fighter that way but you could do Killer Instinct, Mario Kart, maybe Doom or something similar... I gather from a brief, half-assed attempt at researching on Wikipedia that Internet connectivity for the N64 did exist, but died with the 64DD.

>>8668017
>Do we need more illustrations that aren't made by computers?

Yes, you do. Signed, a reader from 25 years in the future

>>8668984
Yes. I think maybe I should just do these the next morning when I see it dead.

>>8669312
>"He chose... poorly..."
So did anybody who bought this shovelware.

>>8669327
>"What? Star Fox 2? What are you talking about? Never heard of such a thing."

>>8669340
The Game Boy limps along with its gimped ports and travel-size distraction games, forgotten by all. Then, in 1998, its salvation came in a red-and-white ball...

More later.

>>8669326
lol those old smiling flowers are so obnoxious

>>8668010
More Fire Emblem fan art for a game they just saw like six pages about and they know was never getting a US release.

>>8669292

>>8669247
Is that map wrong or does snes doom start you in the acid pool/armor area outside?

>>8668027

These computer-generated swirly patterns are really getting old. And why not use black text there you weirdos...

>>8669515
It's meant to resemble the Turok tokens that have reflective gold textures

Idk if these threads mean I can finally throw away my Nintendo Power magazines or continue to allow them to sit in a drawer.

>>8669756
Depends. Which issues is the OP still missing?

>>8669472
Map's wrong, SNES Doom was made by a guy who loved Doom so much he made sure all the maps were as accurate as possible.

>>8669759
Um... good question. I have volumes 94-205 with several volumes missing in between. Newest volumes excluded, these used to be my dad's. He had older issues but I'm not sure what happened to them. Trash most likely.

>>8669756
I'm considering throwing all mine away. They're sitting in a 60 lbs box in a closet. I look at them once maybe every 10 years, and thanks to these threads this decade's already covered.

>>8669834
>>8669935
I had inherited a collection of old 93-95 issues from my stepbrother. They're long gone, though I still have the January '94 issue for personal preference.

>>8669319
>enemy animation too jerky
We're going to focus on that, and not the well known brightness issues Doom 64 has? Ok then.

>>8668147

These guys' faces aren't right.

>>8668153
>It might surprise you to learn that the original Zelda continues to be one of the games generating many calls to Nintendo's Game Counselors.

I suddenly have the thought that if somebody could magically obtain a compilation of recordings, sorted by start time, of all calls to that game counselor hotline, and publish it as a podcast, then I would probably listen to that podcast.

>>8669423
It really makes me wonder how the franchise would have fared if they had actually localized it in the 90s. It looks like there absolutely was interest in it at the time.

>>8670456
>The villain's plan in FE4 hinges on incest
That kinda put the kibosh on that hope, at least back then. It could have worked out if FE3 got localized early on, though.

>>8668010
>"See if you can get on top of the castle roof in Super Mario 64 without using the cannon"
Was this bait, or did they already figure that out back then?

>>8670003
>>8669935
>>8669756
You can just send them to me. Can't even believe you'd throw them away.

>>8670672
I'm not spending $300 on shipping these.

>>8668259

I think this guy was one of the Nintendo Power cyberjocks?

>>8668285

This is my first time ever reading about this Satellaview F-Zero game. And it was even being considered for adaptation to the SNES!

Also this seems to be the magazine's first reference to F-Zero X.

>>8668093
Was this on the honor system?

>>8668130
>You think you pack more hits than a machine gun fight played in fast forward?

Uh, what?

>>8668157
>>8668160
What could have been lads

>>8668306

Official word on why Luigi wasn't in Super Mario 64: He was working on his kart.

>>8668008
Love that Koopa comic

>>8669346
Hey, what's Mario doing on the Nevada-Utah border?

>>8671646
He needs to break the Hoover Dam at the Arizona border to lower the water level and get the power star.

>>8669335

>>8671896
Underrated

>>8669216

I wonder whether this game is any good. Going to check GameFAQs...
>when it first came out, I convinced my parents to buy me this game despite it being forty pounds, saying "all the reviews I've seen say this is great!" As soon as I got home, I ran upstairs, shoved the cartridge in and prepared to be blown away. Around a quarter of an hour later, I took it out and put it on the shelf, where it stayed for most of it's life. Even as young as I was, I still recognised when a game absolutely stunk.

Oh okay then.

>>8669228
>Bug killers serve long sentences testing games, sometimes working 14-hour days, seven days a week.

Sounds delightful

>>8673273
Sounds illegal, wtf

>>8669270

He is called Dee Dee?

>>8673273
As a kid I was jealous, but now I know that they were suffering.

>>8669317
>Although most people think of the N64 as a machine that maximizes creative fun,

Bold presumption there

>>8669319
>the 3-D graphics look more realistic than anything we've seen so far on the N64, and that's quite an achievement
>The sound is also exceptional, not to mention being an essential part of the game play.
>Graphics & Sound: 3.3

Why are the numbers so harsh for N64 games?

>>8669319
>Higher difficulty levels are truly demented.

This is given as a minus point even though the only difficulty level the review suggests is too hard is apparently a hidden one. Just play it on an easier level, you loser!

>>8669325

There is only one unambiguously female-sounding name on this entire page. (It's at the end.)

>>8669330

It's too bad we couldn't get more articles like this about Japanese developers. Also I found one of the Game Boys.

Only 19 issues are now missing.