/vr/ - Retro Games

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Shit, I don't know if I can fit two issues. What is the image limit again? I have 361 images.

how the fuck can you enjoy this

>>8913823
>nostalgia
>get to learn about obscure games, own everdrive and can play them
>retro look at the past
I enjoy it for many reasons.

Ty op for these

>>8913834
Yw

I want to date Vela.

>>8913809
Crazy how lazy NP covers got. After issue 100, they just started routinely taking boxart/promo art and pasting text over it. I think that’s when I permanently shifted my subscription to OPM and became a Sony kid for real.

>>8913809
Perfect Dark Zero and that Elf lady for GameCube

>>8913809

Those are some freaky-looking faces. Especially the dog's.

>>8913842
>My friends and I have come to the conclusion that RPGs are going downhill.

Trent's friends and him stuck with Nintendo too long, maybe?

>>8913846

Castlevania: GONE

I prefer gamepro, game players or Video Games magazine over Nintendo power. How about Electronic gaming monthly?

>>8913902
NP was what I grew up on. I have a ton of other magazines though. Maybe EGM after NP. We'll see.

Issue #125

>>8914070
So much redundancy in Pokemon moves here, yet NP will call out players on the same thing in later issues.

>>8914725
Oh the Giselle episode, always liked that one

Damn we still have 59 pages. I'll start the next thread with them I guess.

>>8914710
In Japan's Red and Green, you trade a Kadabra to the guy on Cinnabar and he gives you a Graveler. They didn't account for this when they made the Blue version, even less so when their Blue became the basis for the U.S.'s Red and Blue.

>>8914725
I bought this issue off the rack and it didn't have the Pokemon comic. Was it an attachment for subscribers?

>>8913934

Things that may not be suitable for younger audiences: bloodless violence, mild language, and a text-heavy story.

>>8913809
Nintendo is a great entry to games. Making it your sole obsession with games without discovering anything beyond it must mean you are sheep low IQ Reddit tier.

>>8913842
>Sailor Moon would make a great side-scroller or fighting game.

He's not wrong. He's just cursed with not living in Japan and knowing they already existed.

>>8914452
>1999
>run over Game Boy with a car and it still works, screen isn't even broken
>2022
>Joycons drift and stop functioning after 6 months of light use

>>8914765
Pikachu, no! You can't say that word!

thanks for the thread /vr/
ive been having a rough month
flipping through the pages from when i was a kid made me tear up a bit...

i wish i would have held on harder back then i was a fool

>>8913978
>The levels are liberally sprinkled with wrench icons, and if you collect enough of them

Every N64 running-around-in-a-3D-world game's gotta have its liberally sprinkled collectible nothings.

>>8913979
>Your main quest is to find 12 tickets on each level, and these are tougher to track down.

Whew, it's not just wrenches.

>>8913990
>Besides collecting tickets, Sprocket must also find machine parts on every level to attempt to get the park up and running again.

Wrenches and tickets alone might have been boring.

>>8913990
>Why did you design Sprocket for the N64?

>We wanted to emphasize great gameplay over long cinematic cut scenes, and the N64 excels at just that. It was also the only widely selling machine that had the computing power and graphics capability required to run Sprocket.

Shots fired!

>>8913992

I would like to hear the conversation in which the graphic designer was convinced that explanatory labels needed to be added to this.

>>8913880
RPGs are way boring and outdated and on the way, man. No way they're a genre people ever want to play. P-pay no attention to the Final Fantasy behind the curtain.

>>8914370
Once again, original Japanese footage altered for the magazine with a 4Kids script. The edited sign as it would appear on TV would look entirely different.

>>8914507
>1999
>already weird fans going "um, I think this game has the characters acting WAY off" about Smash
Huh.

>>8914017
>You'll have to defeat bosses to obtain the final two Hub Door Keys. You should be aware that the ESRB gave Gex 3 an E rating in spite of the questionable taste of some of the jokes.

Odd topic transition there.

>>8914056
>With the Expansion Pak plugged in, the 256-Megabit Starcraft 64 Game Pak also includes the Brood Wars expansion set missions and two-player, split-screen competitive and cooperative modes.

Locking a whole game expansion pack behind Expansion Pak access seems to be unusual on the N64, so far at least. Usually the extra memory just enables some graphical refinements.

>>8914062

Magmar is really stupid-looking.

>>8915880
Well they could hardly say "our publisher offered us ? dollars for a game in genre X, on system Y, ready for next summer".

>>8917376
I legitimately thought it was a fake until I saw it appear in the show. Same with Likitung.

>>8914105

Nintendo Power's first time mentioning Dark Souls.

>>8914174

Nothing says awesome radical punk skateboard dude like selling your personal information to Walmart in exchange for low-quality swag.

Hi OP

>>8914230

A sad reminder that Capcom still exists and is still pumping out numerous games, somewhere, on some console.

>>8914327

This Now Playing section has five full-page ads in it.

>>8914338
>The textures are one of the keys to making 3-D games look realistic, but working with the limited size of N64 texture caches isn't easy unless you have a plan that maximizes how those texture maps are used.

Now that the Dolphin has been announced, I guess it's okay for the magazine to casually acknowledge that the N64 has limitations?

>>8921085
They probably were waiting for this day so that they can finally put the N64 behind them.

>>8920297
The magazine is more ads than games at this point.

>>8914346

Zelda Gaiden announced! Mother 3 called Mother 3 for the first time (in this magazine), I think! Pokémon Gold and Silver called "even bigger" than a new Zelda game by Nintendo Power, even though Shigeru Miyamoto did not make them! "Gaiden" defined with no doubt perfect accuracy! An exciting page.

>>8914358

Are they advertising mainly the PC version here, by including only its screenshots? I wouldn't have expected Nintendo Power to allow that.

>>8913809
Love this. Thank you king.
If I may ask a question though, do you know where one might acquire an archive of old Game Informer mags? I have a full Nintendo Power collection but have never had luck finding the GIs from my childhood.

>>8914346
>Gaiden means "sequel"
Years ago, NP claimed it meant "message" when referring to Ninja Gaiden. Idiots.

>>8922273
I mean, they're getting closer at least.

>>8914456

Tammy draws some cute Links.

>>8913809
i cant believe i used to fap to this
so embarrassing

>>8922151
You have a full Nintendo Power? Can you upload it? The internet is missing a few of them and OP will need them.

>>8914459

Dolphin in the Most Wanted list for the first time. Nice to see something in there that will actually be released someday!

>>8913934
Absolute Soul

>>8913835
this game was so fucking hard for some resson. i never had any idea where i was going or what i was supposed to be doing

>>8913934
i rented the fuck out of hybrid heaven

>>8914670
Finally, a game for close followers of Saroczian politics

>>8914771

Apparently you can win pretty nicely by just stoning the opposing trainer with closed poké balls.

>>8923534
It's simple, just shoot aliens and collect everything, especially the tribals.

>>8914773

I just watched a review of this game on YouTube. It looks good.