/vr/ - Retro Games

Shuma is grotesque in a neat way. His sprite has so many moving parts and every frame is a near masterpiece. On top of the fact that he is basically a Lovecraftian horror.

Pretty much Gynoug.

Unused sprite from Marathon 1, seen in plenty of fan levels.

Surprised this guy wasn't posted within the first five...

>>944538
Damn, dude, pretty much that whole fucking game.

Everything from contra. The boss where the guy is gene splicing those insects and they come out looking veiny makes me want to vomit.

More bizarre than gross

Its like they took a bunch of random sprites and threw them in a blender

X-Multiply arcade

>>944220
Christ, I thought those static things were scary enough.

>>944574

This boss in particular is pretty gruesome especially in motion.

>>944565
Artistic laziness.

Blazing Star, stage 7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FqZFl7b7B5Y&t=1807

This put me off the idea of being a parent, forever.

>>944157
Even though he was a fairly obscure character, Capcom specifically made him a playable character because of his potential for visually interesting animation.

>>944574
>>944603
>look up a video of this game
God damn, this whole game is fucking gross.

like any of the biomonsters or dark falz forms from ps4

>>944618
>Game is about riding a dragon of Chinese mythology into war
>All the enemies are still horrifically alien monstrosities

I love Irem with all my heart.

>The beta sprite is... something nasty, I guess. I heard someone say it's meant to be like in the midst of decomposing, like her face melting or something, but... yeah, it's not a very good graphic.

>>944164
Anything Jedah can be considered gross

>>944565
>>944605
It makes sense considering how Exdeath was born. The humans sealed away the souls of many demons inside a tree in the Forest of Moore. The souls made the tree self-aware and it took human-like form - Exdeath. The final battle shows the demons Exdeath is composed of.

>>944828
being a tree also gives Exdeath the power to turn back into a tree or piece of a tree at will.

>>944150
Oh man that looks awesome

Bad Mojo is a pretty messed up game.

>>944684
Hellish!
What are those terrors from? They look familiar of old.

Nothing from Earthbound? Surprising.

>>945589
earthbound is babby's first spooky game

The entirety of Cybernoid. Hell, that woman who appears when you lose scared me, especially with how her eyes suddenly open.

Gynoug - Wings of Wor

The final area of Contra also made me really uneasy, and Red Falcon didn't help much.

Shadow of the Beast

Paranoiascape

All of the results from googling Troma games, really.
Time Slaughter being the most famous of the titles you'd get.

Mewtwo's Red Blue sprite was especially horrifying to me. It was horrifying enough for me to keep night lights on to this very day. The fact that he took down my tank, Blastoise, with no problem made me cry in fear.

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>>945657
This is some crazy looking shit.

>>945576
World of Xeen

>>945636
>>945638
Ugh, that penis is disgusting

>>945482

So much this. The dying fish, the bleeding rat in the mousetrap, crawling on the guy's face -- no no forget all of those, the STUDY ROOM with all the eyes following you around and the horrible creepy chanting in the background, holy FUCK that room gives me goosebumps every single time. Everything looks gross when you look at it up close, especially in small unhygienic motels.

The bad endings of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream are just awful. They really make me feel pity for the deformed characters, and their eternal fate as something immobilized and agonized is the stuff of nightmares (literally, it reminds me of my sleep paralysis which is a terrifying experience).

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>>945621
Fuck you none of the SC2 aliens are gross. Well maybe the Umgah but they're comical.

>>945998
Also they're constantly fondling tits, which I guess some might find gross.

>>945998
>grotesque, gruesome, or downright bizarre
No fuck you

This thread needs more Chakan.
And genesis games in general.
Man over half the library of the genesis consisted of games with morbid enemy and general design.
Anyone remembers the geisha head that desintegrates into a skull or some shit while covering it with floating rocket hands in musha aleste?
Man those were the days.

Everything in Xenogears

Clearly inspired by The Thing's dog mutation. It's from Splatterhouse 3.

>posting Zeromus
>not tree Exdeath

Seriously? That was the stuff of nightmares.

>>945998

Ahuuuuurr hurrr hurrr.

>>945835

It's even crazier when I found out that it's some sort of pinball game.

Not exactly sprites, but posting some deaths from Waxworks.

>>946057
>たのしさ∞ - セガ・エンタープライゼス

>>946123
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>>946128

Woah. What kinda game is this?

>>946172
It's a first-person RPG/graphic adventure/action mash-up game.

You play the nephew of a recently deceased student of the occult (IIRC). Your family has some kind of curse that is connected to a variety of supernatural horrors in the past. Your uncle had a waxworks collection that lets you travel to these events and try to undo the evil. (I admit, the story's a bit hazy to me at this point.) Anyhow, one of the scenarios has you chasing down and fighting Jack the Ripper, another takes place in a mine filled with killer plants, there's a sequence in a graveyard full of undead.

You fight monsters in real time, gain experience by exploring the maps, and collect items and solve puzzles. A strange feature is that your level drops to 1 every time you enter a new scenario, but I think that's mostly to keep the game feeling tense. You can never become too powerful.

>>946190
Ah, yeah, the curse is that the family keeps having twins, one of which is always EVIL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxM_KJFPKVg

>>946190
Woah dude ! That game sounds awesome !

>>945638
>>945895

Looking it up, apparently the same guy did the art for this and Cho Aniki.

Explains a little, doesn't it?

>>946103
>pinball game

Wut. I'mma have to track this down.

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>>945619
These things are adorable.

I wanna go on an adventure with them to save the galaxy.

>>945648
It's the tube running from the back of his head to his spine that really grosses me out.

It's like... what's it pumping?

>>944675
There's something really eery about the DOS colour palette. I'm not sure why.

>>946516
This reminds me, there was a grotesque pinball game I played years back on I think the Sega Mega Drive. Anyone happen to know the name?
I think it was Pinball Science or something, but a quick Google search says I'm way off.

A lot of the dragon sprites in Bahamut Lagoon look pretty odd but the Uni Uni forms take the cake.
I mean, what the fuck is that thing even supposed to be?!

>>946549
Dragon's fury?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOspQg3xv0U

>>946591
The whole game had weird graphics. Colors don't blend well. Everything seemed out of place.

>>945624
Can anyone tell me what this is from?

>>946741
Snatcher.

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>>946636
Bahamut Lagoon is beautiful

>>946743
>Snatcher.
Thanks bruh

>reading Giger's artbook/memoirs
>stumble upon this thread.
That's enough grotesque shit for me today.

>>946145
So ... what's the story behind this ?
I keep seeing it everywhere ...

>>946525
He just has an eerie design, and RB's graphics weren't exactly pretty. I'm assuming he looks even worse in Green.

Funnily enough, he's turned into some kind of porn icon. Funny how the world works.

anyone who played the original splatterhouse knows exactly what i mean.

>>946802
EWUWAHAHAHAHAHA! I love how the song starts out as something as being in relief then abruptly changes into something of pure horror.

Here are some 16 bit Square boss sprites.

>>946802
http://youtu.be/Y6zbprR2OZs

skip to roughly 13 minutes in to see that exact scene

>>944603
>>944618
Here's the space jockey pulling his throttle, also his head comes off and you fight the heart. The player kills it pretty quick but you can still see it.
http://youtu.be/5Rx2HCwNxXs?t=2m02s

>>946802
Oh... I'm dying!

>>946543
The colors are sort of...Off, in the EGA era. Like the green is a bit pussy, the pinks are really fleshy...

>>947364
We really need to establish a better term for things which are comprised of or covered in pus.

>>944237
Because I wasn't here yet.

I love this stuff.

With a limited palette of colors they sure knew how to make them creepy. Just think for each one of these pictures, some guy had to sit there and design and draw these for each frame.

This thing.
Looks like a sickened turd with vaginas growing out of it.

>>947603
When I was younger, I thought that the pendulum and the neck of this dinosaur thing looked like an uncircumcised dick, with the foreskin pulled back a little.

>>947654
Umbrella makes fleshlights for Godzilla! It all makes sense now!

>>945835
It's like if LSD was made using the dream journal of a serial killer.

>>945642
Ridley?

>>947691
That's an NES game? God damn, Capcom were the masters of making NES games look good.

>>947691
I like the look of Maniac and Ghoul as well.

>>947691
I really need to play Sweet Home sometime. Happy Video Game Nerd made it sound awesome.

>>947873
It's pretty neat, not so much an RPG as it is an adventure game with RPG battles, and still worth a playthrough.

Nothing quite like getting attacked by decaying rabbits constantly trying to scoop their entrails back in themselves.

>>948187

No Monster Party so far?

No Monster Party so far?

Also, ever wondered what this mess of pixels was supposed to be?

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>>948290
>a dead lizard with huge boobs

Why boner, why?

>>948283
>Have giant package of NES games on my PSP, been playing them in order by alphabet every night before I go to bed.
>Get to monster party, never heard of it.
>Play for a bit, get sorta freaked out, hide my head under my pillow for the rest of the night.

>>948302
I'm pretty sure that's its chest cavity filling up with gas. Probably a serious form of indigestion.

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>>948290
I still don't know how Deceased Crab ever thought this thing was a... well, a deceased crab.

>>948290
Oh now I finally see it. Still kind of looks like a fucked up tranchula though.

>>945595
Well, OP said bizarre, and I would think that fighting a giant puke monster would qualify.

It's kinda bizarre, the first boss of metal slug (can't remember which one)

>>948912
Third.

And it's probably least bizarre of all the stuff that's in the game.

>>946597
OMG my childhood, I played this all the damn time

>>948912
Holy shit, that spritework is mindblowing.
I can't even describe how happy that explosion makes me.

>>948982
Welcome to Metal Slug. You'll never be satisfied with anything else again.

>>945657
maximum lol

>>947691
>fleshlights for Godzilla

>>945657

I used to see nightmares about giant woman's face in a black abyss. This looks too much like it. Turns out I have a phobia of large places and pictures.

>>948187

What game is this?

>>949138
Phantasy Star II

>>945643
Damnit, spent the last hour trying to find an iso with no luck, anyone happen to have it?

>>946776

Every fucking Pokemon has been turned into a "porn icon" by furries.

>>948917
fair point, but it's the only one i have, other than the final boss.

Grotesque stuff in games is definitely a retro thing, I wish we had more of it. Do you think it isn't as prevalent today because we don't use pixelart as much, or simply because it's fallen out of fashion?

>>949624
It seems like it's hard to render sloppy, wet, pulsating, fleshy gore properly in 3D.

>>949624

I think you can do some really disturbing stuff with 3d, but sort of the same reason why horror is consider a niche genre (real horror, not pg-13 teen scare stuff) doesn't reach a large enough audience so publishers are scared that it will flop.

Some of this stuff is rather extreme (and beautifully created), I can already see shitty clickbait sites like Shit-taku trying to spin it around and say that its racist/sexist/torture porn/etc.

Don't know if this counts, but have a giant space testicle courtesy of Gleylancer.

>>944563
The maggot spitting boss is even worse. I have no clue what he is even supposed to be.

>>944563
>alien boss has "legs"
here is X-multiply again

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>>946525

The tube is a second spinal cord, because his brain is so powerful, it needs an extra one.

I think, it has been a while. Let me check the bulbapedia.

>>950263

>One of Mewtwo's most notable features is the tube extending from the back of its skull to its spine. It is most likely a secondary spinal cord, or a system of nerves, allowing for an increased amount of blood and sensory transmission to the brain, heightening its psychic powers.

Oh ok, the second spinal thing was just speculation. Nevermind.

>>949987

Why wouldn't that count?

I think one of the best designed sprites was Ultros' in FF6. While not grotesque, there is mystery and even a garish charm to him.

>>950718
I'll say! He sure is Gore-at

>>950718
The wall-eyed look sells it. Manages to look goofy and menacing at the same time.

>>950718
Same goes for his buddy Typhon - well, minus the not grotesque-looking.
In fact, quite a few of the enemy sprites were pretty bizarre.

>>951120
For example the Hidon here.
I honestly have no idea what I'm even looking at.

>>951154

Ribcage centipede with a two headed dragon-thing on it?

>>951154
Makes you wish that the artists would comment on what the sprites were supposed to be or how they designed them. Maybe if you send them a letter with some included sprite printouts, they would send a response.

>>944565
Didn't FFIV After Years have something to that effect too?

>>944612
Nope, it was obvisouly because of the tentacles.

Why else would they pick him?

If it's one thing I miss from retro, it's the likeliness of characters like these appearing. It still happens today, just it's extremely rare and mostly saved for horrors.

necrosaro

reminds me I have to go replay this it's been too long

>>951931
>dat scream

Here's some from Contra: Hard Corps.
Konami really did some bad ass work back then on their art.

Annnd last one.

Is it just me, or do a lot of supposed-to-be-intimidating bosses from Japanese games just look like big confused messes rather than powerful or interesting?

>>945617

>"Stop your gross blinking!"

Mara, of course. He's been around for a very long time.

>>954995
It's a 'she', sorry.

>>949373
This. I'm dying to play it

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>>955024
This worked for me
http://theisozone.com/downloads/playstation/psx-isos/paranoia-scape/

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>>954997
"she" is a giant penis? WTF. Why have I never heard or seen this before. Where can I encounter such a beautiful specimen

>>955039
She's the embodiment of sexual desires, apparently.

It's from Shin Megami Tensei II. The later Persona games that got an english release are rated M for Mara.

Oh, almost forgot these ones!

And THAT'S all I got. Enjoy.

>>955046
Oh, thanks. Ill be looking for this one now.

>>944142

amazed no one posted this yet...

>mom walks in.
>"Hey anon, watcha play-..."

>>951197
>what the sprites were supposed to be
The sprite artist were just trying to copy whatever wack-ass shit Amano drew.

>>955295
yeecchh

>>946773
If you set the sound test a certain way in Sonic CD you get a screen with that image tiled and a message that says something to the effect 'Fun from sega' in Japanese.

>>956785
HE DIDNT EVEN DO ANYTHING TO YOU ASSHOLE

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>>956867
I find it less creepy in the JP version, oddly enough, due to the funky JP boss music.

>>958748
I thought it used the US music no matter which version you played.

>>958860
What's this one from?

>>958873
Street Fighter 2010.

>>958764
The US soundtrack was composed after the JP/EU version release, so that would be incorrect sir
http://youtu.be/LOnK4olyWj0?t=45s

>>958907
I certainly was incorrect, my good sir. I should have known better.

>>948290
Is this the "Sorry I'm Dead" thing from Monster Party?

What's the deal with this image?

>>946057
MAH NIGGA
My little sister bought chakan because it looked like a witch or something on the cover. My mom HATED that game but we refused to get rid of it

the penis monster from cyber lip (neo geo)

>>958978
obligatory penis themed ad

>>956785
>>958707

I'm playing Super Metroid for the very first time, and I just got done that sequence. Crocomire's a pretty tough boss. I wouldn't say he "didn't do anything", since he killed me once.

>>946190
I'm going to play this game now, because that's an awesome concept.

>>945668
Probably a little late but what game is this?

>>959047
Judging from the filenames, it looks to be called Weird Dreams.

>>959061
Thanks anon
I can't actually look at the filenames because I'm on mobile

>>959079
>anon
I mean stumpbot

>>959080
Oh, no problem.

>>951939
The arcade version's even more grotesque, lots more animation in all the little landscape faces.

>>947591
Pustulent?

>>959035
That whole Highway Leading to a Foreign Space. When I look at that name, I picture a modern-day highway in deep space, not a cave of blood, guts, and lava.

>>959657
And this indestructible abomination pops up if you take too long. I triggered it here just to show off a little more of how gross this level is.

>>956785
The Metroid series has a lot of really cool, creative boss designs.

I especially like Mother Brain in the original game. Just the unexpectedness of the final boss being a literal brain, when most 80's gamers would have been expecting some kind of mad scientist or weird alien.

>>958984
He's completely non-aggressive until you shoot at him. He just chills there.

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>>951120

Holy fucking shit he has another face on his butt.

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>>944828

Trivia: the monster designer for Final Fantasy V was Tetsuya Nomura

That's why Neo Exdeath looks the way he does.

>>962607
I remember when I first saw that. Freaked me the fuck out.