/vr/ - Retro Games

Issue #99

Did OP die again or was he asleep?

More later.

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>>8689125
After casual mentions and little else, Pocket Monsters reaches large enough of a media monster in Japan to get the full treatment. A big change up from how Nintendo Power mused it might not even come to America.

>>8689087
>Making sure not to say anything about Treasure as that company's more associated with Sega

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>>8689125
It starts...

>>8689405
By the time this game finally sees release, Conker's going to be far from cute and friendly.

>>8689125
Was this America's first look at the legendary Misty? God the amount of porn that would be drawn in the coming years...

>>8689074
>"The N64 reached the two million mark in just five months, while PSX took all of 15 months, and Saturn took 21 months to reach only one million units."

Sounds pretty great I guess? But as >>8679856 pointed out last thread, maybe things would look very different if the counts were of titles published per console rather than of console units sold per console.

>the most talented and prolific game developer of all, Shigeru Miyamoto.

Why do they celebrate him so relentlessly now? Did somebody behind the scenes calculate that it would help sales somehow? Or maybe they're just trying to pad out their word counts, and Miyamoto's transformation into the magazine's pet game development celebrity happened organically?

>>8689117
>Poke-Mon (pronounced "poh-KAY mon,")
Ugh

>>8689417
>be basically Nintendo of America's propaganda arm
>still have the cast iron balls to ask "hey, why doesn't Japan care about the N64" to Japanese Nintendo staff

>>8689683

You think? My impression is that they just don't care to talk about Enix being a publisher in general, for whatever reason. They have never once mentioned Chunsoft either, as far as I recall, and I don't think they've said much (if anything at all) about Quintet.

greatest fucking threads thanks a ton

>>8689153
>koopa the quick in zero seconds
I would have been absolutely furious if I had spent time practicing only to see that.

>>8688948

Man I forgot about these

>>8689097
>1998 will be the windfall year for epic games,

Their evidence for this: Ocarina of Time and Quest 64, basically.

Meanwhile, some Epic Center writer is quietly playing Suikoden or something on the break room TV after hours (with the console tucked under the table and the screen pointed away from the door).

On EarthBound 64:
>With Shigeru Miyamoto directing the project, we expect great things.

No one else worth mentioning had anything to do with that game.

>>8689115
>Space Station: Silicon Graphics

>>8692703
Those entries really should have been disqualified, maybe given an honorable mention as being resourceful, but they didn't do the spirit of the challenge which was to actually win the race legit and get best time.

>>8690640
>pokey mon!
First "Legos" then this. fucking burgers ruin everything

>>8689252

Have they ever before printed such a long, unbroken article about a single game?

>>8689026
>Korak

>>8689326

I have skimmed this article and watched two YouTube reviews of this game and I still can't figure out whether it even looks like fun. Nobody even seems to want to give a concise description of its rules. The main thing I can gather about it is that a lot of people are super excited about its seemingly generic and annoying techno soundtrack. I guess I have to just try it now.

Also, I am annoyed for the hundredth time that YouTube people can't seem to get the aspect ratio right in their videos of old games, presumably because they are idiots. Or is that happening on my end somehow? I don't think it is... Anyway, looking up games for these threads has driven me to install a plugin that will optionally force videos into a 4:3 ratio, which is good enough to make the tetrillipsoid into what my eyes perceive as a tetrisphere.

The problem seems to be worst with sports games and with N64 games. It's hard for me to believe that people have such bad taste as to be okay with the wrong aspect ratio, but of course, there are also people who use some of those "lookin' good" filters in their videos, and I know that that at least is not being caused by any problem with my browser settings or whatever. God damn people and their low standards. Oh well, it's still pretty great that you can type the name of pretty much any obscure game into the search bar and get a tolerably informative video of it.

>>8689352
SNES perfection finally has been achieved

>>8689402
Three editors loved this bowling game (the crowning jewel of the SNES). They would marry it