/vr/ - Retro Games

Issue #121

>>8877638
>the "lost levels"
Minus 20 of them and all the unique FDS graphics and effects.

>>8877672
>>8877673
>>8877675
>>8877678
Notice how none of these reviews mentions Superman 64. Even NP couldn't spin this one into anything salvageable.

>>8877294

First mention of the Dreamcast and the (as-yet unnamed??) PS2.

>>8877296

64DD quietly disappears from the Most Wanted list. Did it stop getting votes, or was it no longer listed as a candidate? Super Mario 64 2 is still going strong, regardless.

More later.

You finally caught up to where I became a subscriber.

>>8877989
>Plans to colorize Mega Man World 5 get cancelled
>Plans to colorize the whole GB series for GBA gets cancelled
>All re-releases are just the black-and-white ROMs without even token GBC shading
It's like these games just plain refuse color.

>>8877734
>everything about that Miyamoto themed envelope art
haha time for night terrors again

>>8877328
>We were pleased to discover that there was no need to steer the vehicle--

You can't even control your movement? Lame.

>>8877348
>Warp from one crab generator portal to the next until you reach the year 2000

The Man of Steel doing what he's best known for: warping from one crab generator portal to the next

>>8877354

This seems like a pretty serious bug to have left in a Tetris game...?

>>8877593
Rob Canton knows what's up.

>>8877590
>Hundreds of e-mail and snail mail votes later, Navi secured a spot as most annoying character with her frequent yelps of "Listen!"
They removed the "most annoying category this year and Navi still won it. And there are people are still convinced "nobody ever found her annoying, that's just a zoomer youtuber meme"

>>8877397

Such a gray, blurry game. All the screenshots for it look like they've been dragged out from underneath somebody's couch. I wonder if it's fun though.

>>8877416

This is my first time hearing of Riqa. Apparently it will be cancelled soon. Unseen64 says:
>Defined as the “N64 Tomb Rider” as stated by Nintendo, Riqa would have dealt Third-Person Shooter Action mixed with exploration, with Riqa (the woman character controlled by the player) up against both humans and monsters. With impressive graphics for its time, an immersive storyline, complicated levels full of action, including shootings and puzzles to solve, Riqa was going to be a new killer application for the N64.

Here is some video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6RxfQLvgy8
I like the menu animations.

>>8877417
>Stadium will be the same game as Pokemon Stadium II in Japan, which includes all 151 Pokemon.

Well that makes a person curious about the first game. Wikipedia says:
>The first Pocket Monsters' Stadium was released only in Japan on August 1, 1998. Once intended as a Nintendo 64DD launch title with a March 1998 release date,[10] it was instead converted to a standard Nintendo 64 game on a 32MB cartridge.[11] Because of technical limitations, this version features only 42 Pokémon that are available for battle, instead of the full 151 Pokémon from the Game Boy versions as originally planned.[11] The remaining Pokémon can be viewed in a Pokémon encyclopedia called the Pokédex, but the models lack the required animations for battle. Connectivity with the Pokémon Game Boy trilogy is available using the Transfer Pak.[11] Hal Laboratory president Satoru Iwata, who would later head Nintendo itself, was the one who managed to port the battle system to work in the Nintendo 64, taking a whole week to read the entire Game Boy source code, and afterwards convert Shigeki Morimoto's programming from the Pokémon games.[12] The game sold a reported 270,000 copies in its first month of release.[13]

>>8877418
>[Resident Evil 2] includes all the dramatic action from the PlayStation hit, but as you might expect, the graphics are a big step up in quality.

If I understand correctly, two thirds of Capcom's N64 library has now been introduced in Nintendo Power. (The first third was Magical Tetris Challenge.)

>>8877419
>Of the six motorcycle games set to be released this year,

Is this normal? Did other early 3D consoles get this many racing games, or is the N64 special that way?

>>8877298
Slippy absolutely hates Sony

>>8877316
>The parts in Watto's junkyard may look like good deals, but remember that they are used and have already taken some damage
>The cheaper something is, the sooner it will probably have to be replaced
This is almost Prof. Oak Master Ball tier advice.
There's nothing like buying a busted V8 and having it repaired back to pristine condition over the next one or two races. It's not like you'll be short on money in any way, but still.
I don't think I have ever bought something from the shop ever since my very first few races over 20 years ago.

I wish someone do this for Club Nintendo and EGM in Español. I would, but i don't have the whole collections.

>>8877381
I don't like this character's head

>>8877280
I have a couple hundred Nintendo Power in storage.

>>8883870
Same. Considering just recycling them because the boxes are so heavy every time I move. Doesn't seem to be a reason to keep them when scans exist.

>>8877573

Four pages for a game with "USA" in its title that will only ever be released in Japan and Europe.

>>8877594
>An elegant masterpiece, Shigeru Miyamoto's consummate gaming experience has become the watermark against which all other games will be compared.

The master himself hand-crafted every 0 and every 1, consummately.

>>8877675

Quite the score spread on Shadowgate. Was Levi filtered?

>>8877695

Shadowgate: Sexy Lady Edition, another one never to be released

>>8877702
>After Mars Guo makes advances on Sebulba's Masseuse Ann Gella, Teemto Pagalies enters the Boonta Eve Podrace fueled by jealousy.

Man this movie sounds really awesome, I can't wait

>>8877740

What is that thing on Meowth's head?

>>8887551
Japanese money

>>8877768
>The coolest feature is that the P.A. announcer will recognize 350 first names, 725 last names, and 100 baseball nicknames so that when your custom player goes to bat, the announcer will tell the world.

That is indeed cool.

Has anyone compiled these into a archive file? Also, are previous threads getting nuked? Finally, praise be to the demigod op for his service to mankind.

>>8888285
I don't know, but I'm not done with these issues so I'm bumping

>>8884284
By the later 90s and especially when Zelda 64 was new, Shiggy had gone from "that guy who helped make Mario" to "the amazing everything he touches golden idol" to the point that even other magazines that weren't Nintendo centered were hyping him up..

Do you guys follow any youtubers for ER lore? If so, which ones? inb4 vaati

>>8877870

Three racing game articles in a row!

>>8890229
Miyamoto was the Kojima of his day.

Thanks for posting this.

Man this generation buying Nintendo power and PC gamer, they had a way with ads where it would have nothing to do with the game but enthrall you nonetheless lol

>>8877913

This may be the first Game Boy Color game they've shown that just looks like a normal game in screenshots, and not like a tech demo for the display of super-saturated primary colors on a portable device.

>>8877989
>Earthbound 64 quietly removed from "Future" window in releast forecast
Wuh oh

>>8877936

Link doesn't die. He merely falls in battle.

My art was in 3 issues as a kid. Nothing was more exciting than getting a magazine and seeing my decorated envelope in the first few pages. I sent drawings for a new console and some engineer dude wrote me back. Man, I miss the 90's.

>>8888285
you can view all previous threads from sites like desuarchive if that's what you're asking

https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/8877280

>>8891656
>a tech demo for the display of super-saturated primary colors on a portable device
Did they maybe just not do color correction for early screenshots? The actual screen desaturates the image, after all.

>>8892894

Ah yeah that looks more reasonable.
Meanwhile, in the magical land of basketball where rainbows rule over all and no one is ever sad: >>8877902

>>8877982
Man, I have to wonder how the RPG fans must have felt if they made the mistake of being console loyalist going from the SNES to the N64. All you get is Quest, Pokemon, and Paper Mario and depending on what day of the week it is Nintendo-calling-Zelda-64-an-RPG-or-not. I imagine they must have been starved husks-- Ogre Battle finally gets a mention on the previews of the latest issue and it's just "future" right now with no other content. Pour one out for the Epic Center diehards who now can only have the crumbs of Poke Center.

>>8877983
>In the Create-a-Player Mode, QB Club 2000 may seem more like Color-a-Dinosaur than a football sim.

There's an unexpected reference.

>>8877986
>Kemco has a lot of irons in the fire right now, but one of the most exciting projects is an N64 version of Daikatana. John Romero, one of the guiding lights of Id Software, is now heading up his own development company,