/vr/ - Retro Games

>>952015
What, in one of the games Tails dies? Seriously?

Tails dies? Thats awesome

Tails gets killed by the exhaust from a rocket in Sonic 3

>>952018
In one of the Game Gear games, Tails has been kidnapped by Dr. Robotussin and you have to collect all the chaos emeralds to save him. If you don't get all the emeralds, the game ends after you beat Silver Sonic in the Steak and Egg Zone and they show this really depressing picture of Tails's face in the sky.

>That picture
10/10

>fuck Kaufmann and Cybil I don't need them to find my girl!

>>952032
>Steak and Egg Zone
is that what it's really called?

>>952054

not that guy, but its the scrambled egg zone

really not much better

Yeah that was total bullshit, especially since the one in Sky High Zone is so fucking hard to see.

Gimmick Mountain's took me forever to find too, what bullshit. And what do I get for my hours of searching? Tail's death. Great.

>Never have gotten all the Chaos Emeralds in Sonic 1 or 2
>Never have cleared blue sphere even once in Sonic 3

I will never know what it's like...

>>952029
Source for this?
I read something that alluded to that in the recent Archie comics (in the Worlds Collide crossover actually) but I played the originals a hundred times and never even saw anything like this.

The Archie Comics mentioned Launch base but Tails can't get hurt in any way there since he's canonically needed to get Sonic back to safe ground so... what?

>>952212
You should give it a try again, it's likely not as hard as you remember it being when you were a kid. For me when I was 11, I got good enough in Sonic 1 and S3&K to get all the emeralds, but I just couldn't get them all in Sonic 2. I always thought they were too hard to get, but a few weeks ago I thought "This is it. I'm going to properly beat Sonic 2," and I did it in one go.

>>952054
>Dr. Robotussin
>Steak and Egg Zone

Princess Attentionwhore made a funny and it zoomed over your head.

>>952514
I'm curious about this now too.

>>953559
1 and 3 are not that hard to get all the emeralds. But Sonic 2 seem to have been designed to be beat by 2 players. So if you are playing alone it's almost impossible to get all the emeralds. At least that's how I always seen it as. There maybe someone here that could get them all in 2 by his/herself.

>Tails thread

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE not gonna stick around long enough for this one

>>955663
*CLICK*
*CLICK*
*POST SUBMITTED*
That's all it takes for this comic to be posted . Why don't you play video games, /v/?

>>955648
Go to options and set the game to Sonic Alone. It makes the special stages easier.

>>955663
I heard Tails has a tight ass. :3

>>955757
Either this or play Classic Heroes. That hack seems to have made things a little bit easier.

>>955663

Hey, it's not that bad. If this was /v/, the comic would've probably been posted already.

>>955791
There are so may "comics", I'm not even gonna ask which one you're refering to

>>955809

That's for the best, honestly.

Oh hey. I'll just leave this here.

>>955835
Fuck, I remember renting the Master System version of this and never getting past this stupid boss.

I wanted to finish it so bad, but it just didn't happen.

>>955841
What? The Master System is the easy version. All the balls bounce low.

>>955835

The hardest Sonic boss in all of history. SMSfags need not apply

>>955835
I have NEVER had so much trouble on the first boss in a video game before this shit.

bravoop

>that feel when just spent 3 hours playing S&K, stacking lives and continues, spent at least 1 hour of that time trying to figure out how to beat Robotnik in Death Egg Zone Act 2

I thought I was damaging him by hitting the face to reveal the Super Emerald shot, figured it was just an extremely long fight at first. After getting to 8 mins of having to dodge that shit I realized I had to have been doing it wrong or this is the worst boss fight in any Sonic game. Finally said fuck it and looked it up, god fucking dammit.

>>955925
How did you do on the barrel?

>>955770
heard?

>>955954
I've never had a problem with Casino Night Zone because I'm not an idiot and read manuals. Also, I said S&K, not 3&K. I am going through S&K and getting all of the emeralds first before connecting them as I've already gotten the emeralds in 3(as well as every game before it).

>>955963
*Carnival Night Zone

>>955963
You meant Carnival Night. Casino Night is Sonic 2

Today I picked up a CIB copy of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for $3.99. How did I do, /vr/?

Cart is VG. Instructions are G/F+. Box is NM.

>>956117
No poster?

>>956127
No

>>956117
Literally the most common Genesis game you can get, even with the box.

But if you didn't own it before then hey, congrats.

>>956156
I didn't have a Genesis growing up so this is my first copy, yeah. I've played the game before but just never owned a copy. I figured $3.99 for a reasonably good quality one was a good deal.

>>956173
Not a bad price at all considering it's with box and manual. It is the most common Genesis game since it was a pack-in with the system, but I don't see a "Not For Resale" icon on your box, so you may have a store-bought Sonic 2, which is more desirable from a collector's stand-point.

>>956193
I thought Sonic the Hedgehog 1 was the one included with the system? And yeah it doesn't say not for resale anywhere.

>>956203
Altered Beast was the original pack-in until '91, when Sonic 1 came out. Sonic 1 was the pack-in from '91-'92, after which Sonic 2 was released.

Sonic 1 was actually the most common game on the Genesis, with a whopping 15 million units out there. Compare that to 6 million for Sonic 2.

The other pack-ins, for reference, are NHL '94, The Lion King, Streets of Rage 2, Vectorman, and the Sega 6-Pack. While Sonic 1 replaced Altered Beast as the only pack-in for the Genesis model 1, Sonic 2 was just one of many pack-ins available for the model 2 console.

>>956203
Altered Beast was the original pack-in until '91, when Sonic 1 came out. Sonic 1 was the pack-in from '91-'92, after which Sonic 2 was released.

Sonic 1 was actually the most common game on the Genesis, with a whopping 15 million units out there. Compare that to 6 million for Sonic 2.

The other pack-ins, for reference, are Aladdin, NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic Compilation, Streets of Rage, Streets of Rage 2, and The Lion King.

While Sonic 1 replaced Altered Beast as the only pack-in for the Genesis model 1, Sonic 2 was just one of many pack-ins available for the model 2 console, with even more available when the model 3 debuted in '97.

>>955835
I always recall that boss not being that bad back when I was a kid but every time I try to replay it I can't get past it.

>>955636
>>952514
At the end of Launch Base zone act 2 right after you beat the first boss Sonic hops into one of Roeggnikmans egg-o-matic airships and flies off, right? Then Tails with his "gotta follow Sonic" AI walks into a bottomless pit and dies.

it's not actually part of the cutscene but it happens _during_ the cutscene so obviously someone thought it was significant for some reason. I don't see why myself, Tails is always killing himself.

>>955835
Protip: Stand right above the steep incline and jump as needed. It's really not that bad.

>>956723
Actually, it is probably the original sonic 3. In that version Tails just waits at the side of the cliff when you enter the eggmobile.

I never got why poor Tails looks like he's wearing lipstick...

>>956897
His mouth is open.

>>956908
Even old Sanic. Still...

>>955757
This. I dunno why people even try the Special Stages with Tails.

Is it wrong that i find this kind of attractive?

>>952032
>>952015

holy fucking shit man this ruined my fucking day

>>957395

>>957728

Why does Tails have two tails?

so Sonic and Knuckles don't have to take turns

>>956897
>>957395
>>957728
>>958383
Fuck off.

now you know why tails should have died

>>952212
>mfw getting all emeralds in 2 in the first zone
The checkpoint count is exactly seven so that you can pull it off.

>>955648
It's mostly memorization. You can beat all special stages with one character if you don't fuck up badly.

>>955757
>not tails alone

>>958615
>not tails alone

This. I always played as tails.

>not playing the master system versions of sonic, sonic 2 and sonic chaos
>playing the craptastic game gear ports

>>958661

SMS versions are easy mode, but I wouldn't expect a casual like you to understand

>>958590
No, this is why.

>>952015
It doesn't mean he's dead necessarily, but yeah, you failed to rescue him. If you get all the emeralds you get to fight robontik in this big weird chamber thing with pipes going around it, then when you win you and tails run with the credits rolling, if memory serves. (It's been about 15 years since I last played).

>>958615
For all the reflexes I've lost as an adult, playing
Sonic and doing those blue sphere stages was like riding a bike.

>>959770
This along with the spine snapping animation from Heart of Darkness is a surprising turn on

>>959770
What's with the addition of an owl anthro in the very last sentence? Kind of late to enter a new character, there.

>>959770
People like you give Sonic a bad name. Yiff in hell.

>>952015
Fuck, I remember actually getting this ending when I was a kid.

Jesus Christ, what the fuck is up with Sonic Spinball? Finally made it to the 4th zone and it keeps telling me to "Break the Walls" or something to get to the emeralds but whenever Sonic hits them he just bounces back?

>>960657
Maybe you didn't hit it enough times? Or a secret switch?

How does /vr/ feel about this game?

>>966192
Best Game Gear Sonic. Nack was great. Sub and snowboard were fun.

Sky zone emerowd was hard to get, the Gimmick one for a kid was just some random guess, Scrambled zone was confusing as fuck in one of the acts when tubes everywhere with the sign post just near there. So, everyone had to have the bad ending at least the first time.

Dat boss was harder in the gg version but not impossible, but I can see how people without patience can lose in there because it requires timing. And it wasn't the hardest boss in any Sonic game, even in this game the last Eggman boss can be real hard or annoying because it requires loads of patience.


>>958661

I played both versions due to Megacollection and Gems, but fuck you. Sonic Chaos was on of those games that had different tracks in some stages on both versions, like Gigapolis GG's version that was better than the MS, but both Aqua Planet's versions were awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy9CElcLOWQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH7J90xPiJ0

>>966192

Good game, but short as hell like the other 8-bit Sonic games.

>>966250
Youbetcha.

>>952015

Wow, that is the most depressing thing I've ever seen in a retro game.

>>956117
Anyone else see Robotnik with a beard in that cover?

>>966192
Would have been my favorite Classic Sonic title had it been on the Genesis. It really felt like Sonic 4 to me.

>>959781
>It doesn't mean he's dead necessarily
Yeah it does.

>>970070
Yeah, what the hell was with that?

>>970070
>>970095
It was early in the series and they hadn't really established his look in promotional material.

Besides, do we ever see his chin prior to that?

>>970403
He has a chin?

With all the extensive Sonic romhacks around, I'm surprised nobody has ever converted the 8-bit sonic games to 16 bit. That would be amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_EtM25PH0s

>>970434
Versions of him.

>>952032
>Him

>>970731
>not watching the various animated series back in the day
>not noticing his name is "Miles"
>not noticing Sonic constantly referring to him as "bro"
Either that or you're looking for an excuse to post more of that rule63 art.

>>971386
>not watching the various animated series back in the day

One of them was really fucking dark IIRC. I really liked it as a kid but can't say I'm surprised they stopped airing it where I live.

>>971517
I never knew the difference as a youngun, but at the time there were two series, one was a zany cartoon and the other was a serious plot-driven affair. I personally didn't see any reason to believe they were different shows, since Robotnik and Sonic and Tails were always in it, I figured that it was just different places Sonic was going to help out.

>>971386
>You now are aware that tails was voiced by a woman and refered as such in the spanish version of the show.
That will clear some confusion.

>>971534
>You are now aware Sonic was voice by Urkel and thus is a black man

>>971553
>Sonic is a black man
>Some old japanese games and animes had to revamp the image of stereotipically hurting characters
>The regular colour of choice is blue
>this proves true for jinx in pokemon and mr popo on dragon ball

Yep. He's totally black

>>971590
Explains the chili dogs..?

>>971601
Chili dogs are the archenemy of chicken buckets and Sonic's onion rings are the opposite of watermelons. They just distances themselves from ebonics food style as possible.

>>971615
But why can Knuckles lay eggs?

>>971618
Because he's a spiny echidna

>>971694
Did you know Echidnas have four penises, using two at a time to mate. They turn off the two penises they lose last tame.

>>971715
used last time*
What happened there...

>>971715
I did not anon, do they stuff both of them in at the same time then

>>971726
>971726
I assume females have two vaginas, or they just go at it twice, to ensure successful insemination.

>Almost near the end of the game.
>Get stuck...as usual
>Read a walkthrough: Meet this guy BEFORE you reach your daughter.
>Can't go back, beat the game, get the bad ending. Oh well, guess ill play it again
>Play it again but get bored because the game is boring, never see good ending.

>>971759
Fuck, forgot my quote
>>952049

>>971517
The Saturday morning one, yes. Or "SatAM" as it's often referred to. All about Sonic being a part of a resistance movement and Robotnik already controlling the world. Pretty outside the scope of the games, but it was interesting at least.

>>970072
>Sonic Triple Trouble on Genesis
>Nack fights in glorious 16-bits.

I'm sad this will never happen.

>>972386
Probably would have made Sega acknowledge the character to this day as well. Brief mention in Generations not included of course.

Shit like this right here is why I try to beat EVERY game without dying and, consequently, why I fail to beat so many games.