/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8676294
>>8676295
No Naomi Chiba this month.

>they're birds, but also bananas
The fuck were they on when they came up with this idea?

>>8676489
>Q: How do I defeat an enemy?
Holy...

Issue #97

>>8676537
Meanwhile, Sony is stuck with a dinky sprite-based Castlevania game that only barely looks above outdated SNES graphics. Clearly, Sony needs to get with the times and PLAY IT LOUD! in full 3D 64-bit action.

>>8676547
What does Konami have to offer to the PlayStation anyway? Metal Gear Solid? Pssh, who would want a sequel to a mediocre NES game. That shit will never catch on. Now Hybrid Heaven, that has the potential of becoming a big ongoing franchise.

>>8676537
>the first titles should be released by the end of 1988
Editor, you had one fucking job. Shit like this is why the FF6 guide I bought with my power stamps had bad info in it.

>>8676730
>Mars Man
Someone wasn't paying attention at how the Stardroids don't use the traditional naming pattern.

>>8676740
The answers to these questions will be coming soon to the N64. Fuck no! Mega Man is Sony's bitch now.

>>8676754
And the Super NES continues to be marginalized as the only game coverage it can get is for budget re-releases.

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>>8676716
>those faces and eyes
Well, if Injustice Ground Zero is any indication, Pop Mahn upped his game over the years.

More later.

>>8676295
Is this Sonic's first appearance in the magazine?

>>8676418
>>8676419
This game will always be fascinating to me.

>>8677118
Likewise. I tried getting the patch working on a N64 emulator but was to much of a mongoloid to get it working right.

>>8676417
>a little known Super NES title called Legend of the Mystical Ninja

Was it really little known? That's too bad.

>>8676418
>This game doesn't have flashy graphics,

And yet it looks prettier in screenshots than every other N64 game so far.

>>8676428

I went to YouTube, wanting to see Disco Mode and Pen & Ink Mode, and I figured I might as well link them here. But then YouTube recommended me this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lXmO98Hcy0
So I mostly ended up watching that instead.

The Turok special modes look about like you'd expect and are not really worth linking after all.

NP feels so weird in this early N64 era. With barely any more SNES to speak of and the Game Boy having not yet realized its destiny with Pokemon, the writers are so lost and desperate for anything to hype up besides Mario. They don't even have Ocarina of Time yet and already they're milking what little beta footage they've got.

Thanks OP, I remember reading and re-reading this issue as a younger kid. Man, what simpler times. Was so hyped for Star Fox

God so much filler it's unbelievable.
Surely Nintendo had the data and numbers at the time.

Imagine them looking at the software published on NES year one and SNES.

NES: 300 games year one (made up for arguments sake)
SNES: 427 games year one
N64: 37 games year one

How did they not see an immediate problem? Why didn't they reduce the cut they took from publishers? Why didn't they reach out and create more incentives and arrangements with big studios? It's fucking insane how starved the N64 was. Did they really think this was ok?

>>8676280
i really regret throwing out all my old 90's vidya magazines over a decade ago.
I even had the one which showed the early Halo prototype screenshots and the early WoW screenshots

>>8679856
And then the few N64 games they could get they shit all over like Project J because it's not "3D enough"

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>>8680017
I remember Nintendo Power doing an 8 page spread on Iggy's Wrecking Balls, so it gets pretty dire.

>>8676536
Finally, THE definitive SNES game is about to come out

>>8680017
I think Project J had other problems beyond being 2D. I don't know who you'd even market that to.

>>8676537
>The picture shown here is of the PC version [of Unreal], which is currently in development, but the N64 version should look even sharper.

"Sharper" is an unfortunate word choice there.
>With the game still in development, Epic MegaGames started work on a port for the Nintendo 64DD. Mark Rein stated in an interview that "We still have to get Nintendo's approval on everything, but we're working on it. We're already coding the engine. ... we'll have to reduce the dimensions of the textures, so they'll be scaled down quite a bit, but with the bi-linear filtering, you can get away with much lower resolution textures and it will look just as good".[5] He added that while a port for the standalone Nintendo 64 would probably be possible, the limited storage space of the cartridge format would necessitate heavy compromises to the details on the monsters and the number of unique textures.[5]

Presumably this porting project died with the 64DD?

>>8676550
>>8676556

This game STINKS and will give you the urge to VOMIT

>>8680685
EarthBound was three years ago.

>>8676664
It clearly says 1998 if you zoom in

>>8680274
People who want a daughter simulator (me)

>>8678858
nintendo power was always this way. isn't this issue post-ken griffey cover? i feel like OP posted that issue already in one of these threads and the ken griffey issue had the pokemon reveal

>>8682302
I feel they were starting to become that way a bit before the N64's launch, during the late SNES-era, when they were hyping movie-based dreck that was just coming out on the console like Batman Forever and Waterworld.

These threads have made me realize how much shovelware based on American cartoons or movies NP has given the spotlight to. As a kid I guess I didn't know better but looking back, damn what a waste of space. They could've used those pages to give more focus on actual good games.

>>8682320
batman forever on SNES was based and my big booba babysitter at the time used to play it with me. my cousin had it for sega and we could play multiplayer on his nomad so i think that was the superior version but it was still cool and i can still smell her boob sweat

>>8682302
No, that's #108.

>>8682385
He was already on a past issue too. Wtf he got TWO covers?

>>8682389
What issue?

>>8682389
i was talking ken griffey for N64 he had his SNES games too. his N64 game cover shot was the same as the 10 page pokemon reveal. griffey was a big franchise dude like jordan or kobe i literally owned griffey sneakers as a kid

>>8676280
Did these storytime threads of Nintendo power already introduce Pokemon?

>>8682415
Pokemon has been mentioned in passing, but it isn't yet the juggernaut it would be famous for.

>>8682430

In particular, I don't think they have used the word "Pokémon" yet. The pocket monsters are still just pocket monsters.

>>8682440
>>8682430
I think it was only brought up once in the letters page, when a reader commented about the unlocalized Game Boy games that he saw on Nintendo Japan's website. The reader referred to the title as Pocket Monsters Trainer.

>>8680909
I think something is wrong with your eyes.

>>8682350
I always wanted them to go back and cover games they never gave good coverage to like Blaster Master or The Guardian Legend.

>>8676569

Are you okay, Justin?

>>8676572

Wow, a whole paragraph about how the game isn't actually finished but they decided to go ahead and cover it anyway. Apparently several characters in this review didn't even make it into the game until its Blockbuster-exclusive enhanced edition came out later, except for Hobo Cop who would be cut permanently to increase family-friendliness or something? I guess the magazine will be updating us on that in a future issue, then.

>>8676690
what is Hawk's gender

>>8683495
Male. It's a moot point anyway though...

>>8683573
...because in the actual US release they changed his design.

>>8676751

A rare mention of some Japanese game development celebrities other than Miyamoto. (But then they cut out almost all the quotes from those people.)

It seems that he approves of Turok.

>>8676771
>NOA reserves the right to award the cash amount in the form of a check.

>>8676767

I still wonder about the purpose of the Trivia Question.

>>8684157
It's what they used in the 90s instead of Captcha to screen out robots.

>>8676280
Thanks op

>>8684227

On websites yeah, but what good is it here?

>>8676813

More gushing over Miyamoto. Pokémon 64 appears to be mentioned (but not by that name). And a sequel to Super Mario 64! And Cabbage, which is reminiscent of Tamagotchi? Is this some kind of early seed of Pikmin?

Also it's time to get excited about Street Fighter 3, possibly coming out for the N64! And PilotWings 2.

Wikipedia seems to be telling me that there will actually be only three Capcom games for the N64, ever...

>>8685919
>some kind of early seed of Pikmin

>>8685270
To make sure you actually read the magazine and aren't just mailing in cards randomly.