/vr/ - Retro Games

This nigga.

>>8940709
nigger*

>>8940736
It's clearly an indian.

story time. when i was like i dunno 12? i was sick or some shit and my mum sent me to my grandmas because she had work. grandma was the type that wasnt surprised when you left the house and came back at sunset. i walked to my local shopping mall because i was bored.

at the target in the video game section they had a gameboy advanced to play. new metroid game sweet. hours must of passed, and i barely remember there being many other customers (thats why i assume to this day it was a weekday.)

i must of been standing there for hours- i like to think a concerned clerk was casually watching me from a distance. this game was fucken awesome! then....as soon as thick fucker appears on screen (i remmeber the tension building up to it still holy shit)....I instnatly switched off the power and noped straight out of that store. I have never NOPED so hard in my life. holy shit this fucker was terrifying.

>>8940709
is this game made by the same people as turtles in time? sounds are identical

>>8940703
It took me years to beat labyrinth zone act 3. I beat Sonic 2 and 3&K first.

>>8940778
Yup.

>>8940703
This...

>>8940818
and this...

Please don't bully, I don't own the game and can only rent for 2 days a month coz poorfag at time.

>>8940821
and this. Kek, pretty much the whole game.

>>8940826
In your defense that thing is harder than everything else in the game other than the final form of the final boss.

>>8940826
This cunt almost filtered me just a few weeks ago lol. I know it has a pattern but fuck me I found it hard to try and predict his descent on the fly.

>>8940849
I play that for almost 20 years and I still don't understand her pattern, lol.

im retarded

>>8940969
I just assume his descent is randomly picked. He’s very fast, so trying to figure it out on time isn’t very realistic.

>>8940826
>>8940849
>>8940969
Bear in mind it has been decades, but IIRC the background is basically the spider's "web". It can only move vertically along the gray bars and horizontally along the green bars on its way toward X.
When the spider appears on screen the green bars spawn in one of many patterns. You don't have much time, but you can manipulate what path the spider takes depending on your position. In >>8940826 for example, the spider appeared on the far right gray bar. X could have avoided the spider by waiting in the center, then dashing to the right AFTER it started crawling on the only green bar intersecting the gray one.

As I said been a long while since I played X1, so feel free to rake me over the coals if I forgot something.

>>8940876
I remember it took me a while to figure out how it worked. I did have a couple of save files where I managed to get past it by accident, but wasn't sure how to replicate it.

Was legit stuck on this fucker for months and ended up grinding to something insane like level 37 until I beat him

>>8940876
This one also got me

>>8940818
Only if you didn't get the warp

>>8940703
Yep

>>8940709
Ironically harder in the console versions

>>8941080
I had my first play run of Lufia 2 this year and I got surprised and how hard it was, but beat it on first attempt. Think I spammed the hell out of Antitodes and other pots, and I don't remember if I had the Insect Crush on the right char. It was a mess.

>>8940805
You just... jump to the top. shouldnt take more than a few attempts.

>>8940778
Yeah I noticed this. As in, I knew they were both Konami, but the garish colours and oblique perspective made me suspect they were by the same in-house team.

>>8940756
That’s funny. I remember my friends and I at school talking about that game. good memories. Those were the days *sip*

>>8940703

>>8940976
I discovered it by accidentally falling into the water on my first attempt.

>>8940736
You have to be 18 to post here.

>>8940848
It's really not. You can just sit in one corner and dash out of the way if he's going to land in your corner. Otherwise you're completely safe and he's weak to a move that bounces off the wall if you miss.
The tank is harder.

Everything posted in this thread is easy and I beat it at six years old first try without a manual. I am a very cool hardcore gamer.

>>8940976
I'm pretty sure I also didn't know about that key

>>8941691
t.

>>8940876
How do you do this one?

>>8941767
Stand on the barrel and press up/down to move it up or down.
If you jump on it, it goes down and bounces back up. If you keep jumping on it, it goes down a little further each time, but never far enough to get past it.

>>8941383
It was too wild for the eyes.

>>8941376
Every match of this was nerve wracking for me for some reason.

>>8940703
Was stuck in the desert of the knaaren in rayman 3 for years but not because it was difficult...
this level scared the shit out of me!

>>8940709
ALRIGHT MA'AM WE WON'T SHOODIM!

>>8941910
BUUUUUUUURN

BUUUUUUUUUUUUURN

>>8941320
Childhood filters, anon. I got it when I was 6.

>>8941320
NTA but I always panicked after getting hit. 6 year old me was a spaz.

>>8940703
Figuring out how to get past the first few screens in A Boy and his Blob on NES

>>8941910
>how did you make the game harder?
>we made it so the swinging hitboxes randomly turn off

i had no idea what those emeralds did. must have wasted hours trying to figure them out. turned out you had to run on them to make them spin, then they start to float. thanks Shiny

>>8940826
Bospider is based on the Japanese lottery game Amidakuji or "Ghost Leg".

>>8941965
if the crystals were at the same pace as you immediately, this would've been so much obvious. i imagine with input lag, it's actually kinda tough to get this started.
also, that level has a pretty big chunky tight blind jump near the beginning

>Home schooled
>Religious
>Amer*can
I didn't stand a chance bros.

>>8942176
Shit made me nauseous.

>>8941930
According to Americans you are a child until 18 and then your ass is out the door

>>8940876
Fuck off you retard. This shit isn't funny anymore.

The first Key in the Forest Temple in Oot. I never thought to climb the vine at the entrance.

>>8942176
Retard

>>8942176
For me it's
CRAZY GADGET

>>8941910
The log waterfall was a pain in the ass too.

>>8941849
was it resident evil 3 on the gamecube? i rented it for a week, played it for 10 minutes but was too terrified to play anymore.... the game sat on the cabnet until i returned it a week later.

and i still cant watch horror movies lol....well i can but i never get any enjoyment out of them

>>8941376
>>8941816
holy shit what is game. i swear i have some uneasy memories of it aswell....

I could never figure out how to 100% that game.

>>8941376

How did they know you were reading their minds? Why else would they change theirs at the very last second

>>8942670
soul

>>8940826
I've played MMX so many fucking times and my brain still cannot process where this fucker is going to land in time. Especially the last quarter of its health, i have no idea how people do this so easily

>>8942725
>holy shit what is game.

>Five years old
>Playing Zelda 1, exploring the overworld while reading the manual
>Manual says the first level is in a tree at a certain location, so I go there
>Spooky dungeon, but I navigate through it
>And then the hands show up
>Freeze up IRL, they slowly move towards me and grab me
>Shocked from the experience

>Come back and play again in a few days hoping there won't be hands this time
>There are
>Throw the controller to my mom and run out of the room while yelling "IT'S THE HANDS!"

I'm over it now, but I still find them creepy.

>>8942187
Not homeschooled, but my mother kept buying me Myst and Riven and making me play it at 11 years old thinking it would make me smarter. I fucking hate Myst to this day I did go on to graduate with my masters and am 1/3 of the way through my Ph.D, so maybe she was on to something though.

>>8941775
So like every elevator in videogames under the sun? How could people get filtered?

>>8942176
literally made me motion-sick

I couldn't think of pounding him when he was belly-up....

embarrassingly enough it was finding Copy in Milky Way Wishes
it's not difficult to figure out but I was a dumb kid
I was able to get passed the meme Sonic 3 part in >>8940876 because I instinctually mash buttons when I can't do anything

>>8940703
My Dad and I both played this game at the same time. He got farther than I did.

Then he got to picrel and got filtered as fuck. I caught up. It took weeks, but EVENTUALLY I figured it out before he did. Still, to this day, I tell him, "The stones of sunlight are in Tantegel Castle" and he gets an angry look on his face.

>>8943356
KEK I meant he got filtered by the Stones of Sunlight puzzle part, lol not the opening castle itself.

>>8943363
based and drukpilled

>>8943090
Onii-chan uwu

>>8942924
just pick the one you are under and start following it up, if he starts coming down that same path, dash out of the way.

World 8 filtered me so hard I traded my copy of Mario Advance 4 with a kid in my neighbourhood for his Pokemon Sapphire

>>8942670
>TM

kek

It's the second thread in the catalog I mention this game but fuck it

I got this gifted to me by a friend when I was 10 or 11 years old. I think he gifted it to me because he couldn't play it himself, he also gifted me Resident Evil 3 a couple years later because he was too scared to play it.

As a kid I couldn't make it past stage 3 (venice). Later on I still couldn't make it past stage 4.

I've finally decided to pick it up again and beat just yesterday, reached the final stage. I'm only a few screens away from beating it but shit is hard.

>>8943481
the autoscrolls are simple, you can save up on P wings to help.

It's the castle maze of world 8 that filtered me.

I had no idea you needed the gas mask for this area. Instead I leveled up over and over and over again and tried to constantly use my heal spell to make it through. While I did get far, it ultimately did not work.

>>8941910
I could not beat this to save my life. The double jump killed me every, single time. My Mom actually figured out the trick before I did. You have to wait until the ostrich's foot hits the baby rhino and mash the jump button twice. Never had a problem beating it since that day. Thanks Mom.

>>8941262
The whole SNES game is unironically harder than the arcade version

>>8940976
I played some OoT Randomizer and totally forgot about that chest down there. I was stuck for like half an hour until I watched someone else's playthrough of the temple. Frustrating, to say the least.

>>8942675
That part at the end with the colored blocks was too much for my undeveloped child brain

>>8943096
The rest of the game was basically press right to win.

>>8941910
We may as well consider that the end of the game because no one got past that level

>>8944609
>>8944213
Someone who worked on the game came out and outright said they were told to make it bullshit so as to reduce the chances of you beating it over a rental weekend.

did they come out of the screen and kill you?

>>8943481
Who the fuck would trade SMB3 for damn Pokemon...

>>8942176
the one with the time limit is worse but yea this one sucks too. the knuckles version is comfy though

>>8944609
I got the feline through that level without breaking a sweat.

>>8940703
yellow dots = only one valid exit
red dots = more than one valid exit
there's no "filter", you were just retarded

>>8948939
>2022
>still nobody knows why certain dots are bigger than others

Totally, OP.
This thread made me remember how SMW filtered me a number of times when I first played it as a 7 year old.
Probably the first filter for me was Lemmy's Castle. The Magikoopas made my life miserable, and then I actually struggled with Lemmy's fight. It's funny because I play it now as an adult, after having played this game countless times, and I can beat that castle almost blind folded, but I do remember losing a lot there and was definitely the first filter in the game for me. The second filter was without a doubt the Forest of Illusion. I'm ESL so I couldn't read the manual, and anyway I would not read manuals back then, I just wanted to turn on the console and play away, only interesting thing about manuals was the artwork for me. So I had no idea about the whole red/yellow dots as hints to look for something else. I got filtered at the last level with the hidden keyhole inside one of the pipes, and which you had to reach as big Mario to break the yellow blocks. I probably spent a good time in the forest. And then Chocolate Island had that one level that would give you a fake exit and make you turn around in the map and return to the same level, that one blocked me for a while.
Figuring out all that stuff on my own was satisfying.

>>8941691
This but unironically. I genuinely feel like a gaming genius when I see people complaining about the Turbo Tunnel in Battletoads, lol. Megaman X is also probably the easiest Megaman I've ever beaten. Thank you, /vr/, for continually making me feel superior to the rest of you.

>>8942426
kek

>>8940969
>>8940849
>>8941069
The spider comes straight down the vertical pipes and if it comes across a horizontal green pipe, it will always take it. In the screenshot, it will end up on the bottom left of the screen.

>>8942670
Fucking kek, this filteted me too

Piss easy as an adult of course but when I was 5 or 6, this was THE roadblock for me in video games.

>>8941910
In your defense, that level is a horrendous pain in the ass and it sometimes flat out doesn't work. Shit, beating this game on easy as a kid was a fucking accomplishment due to the levels of bullshit it tosses at you. All Easy mode did was give you more lives but you'll fucking lose most of them to this shit, the river, and the Wildebeast stampede until you get the patterns memorized.

>>8940876
Oddly enough, I managed to pass it no problems when playing with some other kids at a kids dentist waiting room
>>8943220
I could get 99% as a 5-7 years old but it wasn't years after until someone randomly told it to me and I was able to get the damn copy ability. I can't believe I never thought to check for secrets there, as I found out absolutely every other secrets by myself

>>8943090
I beat Myst and riven when I was just a little older. Maybe you were dumb.

>>8940876
I actually got through this easily when i was a kid. then i decided to replay this game many years later and i got stuck here

>>8941080
I want to **** tia.

>>8942426
thanks for making that anon's point. red barrel is infamous for a reason. the fact that it's a meme that hurts your feelings should be proof enough

I never attempted to get all the stars in mario 64 because of this level (plus rainbow ride)

>>8952628
This one is easy and so rainbow one

>>8946419
The pokemon cart is more valuable, I'm sure

>>8952628
I'd say it's worth it. I managed to do it without a guide and I'm someone that terminally online /vr/ posters would call a zoomer but everyone else would reluctantly call a millennial (born '95)

>>8952693
The game is not hard, and this is not sunshine where some shit is very hidden

>>8952708
I didn't think so either. I really only found Rainbow Ride to be a little hard, even as a kid.

>>8952231
Good for you. I'm sure you wasted your time with a lot of other bad games too.

>>8940703
Fuck, this one still filters me! I refuse to look it up. What do?

>>8952775
Keep replaying red dot levels until you think you got all the alternate exits.
If you loop around, rinse and repeat the above strategy.

>>8952775
>>8952795
>filtered by a MAH-RI-OH wahoo game
ngmi

This stupid bitch.

>>8943356
>no npcs in pic
wow so liminal!

>>8952775
you can clearly see on the main overworld map that the exit is to the south. go to the southernmost level, and try going in every single fucking pipe.

>>8940703
the whole fuckin game