/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10047601]

What console libraries would you consider shovelware?

[Anonymous No.10047605]

Pic related, without a doubt. If it's not trite and overplayed cookie cutter Nintendo IP's, then it's RPG Maker JRPG's, or horse racing simulators.

[Anonymous No.10047608]

Most of the NES library and the entire Saturn library.

[Anonymous No.10047676]

>>10047605
Get a lobotomy already, auster.

[Anonymous No.10047703]

>>10047605
>not enjoying horse racing sims
filtered

[Anonymous No.10047705]

>>10047601
Playstation ones, no real games at all

[Anonymous No.10047707]

All three of these. The 5th gen is the worst gen.

[Anonymous No.10047710]

Master System

[Anonymous No.10047713]

>>10047601
Playstation 4
Playstation 3
Xbox 360
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Switch

[Anonymous No.10047715]

I don't enjoy the GBA's library very much.

[Anonymous No.10047785]

>>10047601
Philips CD-i, no contest.

[Anonymous No.10047792]

Gamecube

[Anonymous No.10047794]

>>10047601
Does the PS2 count if most of it's games are on better, superior platforms?

[Anonymous No.10047805]

2600, hands down. Really everything pre-master system/famicom, just a terrible, terrible generation of vidya

Shout out to Saturn for making a billion puyo pop knockoffs and putting garbage like bug! and wild woody out to shelves

[Anonymous No.10047812]

>>10047805
wild woody was a sega cd game

[Anonymous No.10047813]

>>10047605
We get it. It's not making us laugh, but we get it.
Mostly to do with the vast gulf where effort should be.

[Anonymous No.10047820]

>>10047812
My guy I apologize. You’re 100% right and I mixed the two systems up during that awful era of sega

Pretend I said super tempo or Mr bones instead

[Anonymous No.10047824]

>>10047820
it's all good, don't worry about it. I just have a habit of correcting people.

[Anonymous No.10047980]

>most answers are complete bullshit and one guy literally says non-retro
What a fucking sad thread

[Anonymous No.10047982]

>>10047980
Welcome to Neo /vr/. It's mostly australiakun samefagging and /v/ kids.

[Anonymous No.10047986]

>>10047980
>>10047982
Why are you taking an obvious joke thread this seriously?

[Anonymous No.10048000]

>>10047986
Where's the obvious joke?

[Anonymous No.10048023]

>>10047605
>horse racing simulators
name 3

[Anonymous No.10048095]

>>10048000

[Anonymous No.10048120]

>>10047713
This is the correct answer, especially Wii and Wii U

[Anonymous No.10048171]

NES had a lot of shovelware 3rd party developers

[Anonymous No.10048197]

>>10047707
terrible opinion

[Anonymous No.10048213]

>>10047785
Not a gaming system though.

[Anonymous No.10048251]

Unironically can I get some horse racing sim recommendations from 8-bit through 32 bit consoles? Preferably with English or translation patch available since I don’t speak moon

[Anonymous No.10048485]

>>10047605
This and the PS1. They both have tons of fantastic games, but even more slop.

[Anonymous No.10048561]

>>10047785
This feels like the only real answer thus far. Every other post has been contrarianism or some form of "this console if you ignore the good games".

[Anonymous No.10048639]

>>10047601
Every computer system that was ever popular in England

[Anonymous No.10048698]

>>10047605
I'm sick of zoomers like you using "RPG Maker" as a derogatory term. You have no idea what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.10048745]

>>10047608
As a NESfag myself I was going to defend it but in all honesty most consoles, if not all, are mostly shovelware. I'd be hard pressed to think of a console that was only bangers. I may be the exception but I love a lot of the NES games I've played, even some of the bad ones.

[Anonymous No.10048809]

>>10048698
Auster is not a zoomer, he's a bitter old anglo khhv

[Anonymous No.10048903]

>>10048213
>Not a gaming system though.
Meanwhile dedicated Tetris goes brrr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBmwU5xkzaE

[Anonymous No.10048907]

>>10048903
>random nature FMV

I unironically love this fucking era, it seems utterly incomprehensible to me what the design discussions at the time were like.

[Anonymous No.10048915]

>>10047713
None of those are retro.

[Anonymous No.10048956]

>>10047601
The ZX spectrum is the undisputed king of shovelware.
The Amstrad CPC gets an honorable mention

[Anonymous No.10048963]

sega thread

[Anonymous No.10048971]

>>10048903
>nature and JAV-tier music tracks
based

[Anonymous No.10048984]

neo geo and wonderswan. i grew up in japan (us military but didn’t live on a base) and remember being excited for these until we discovered there was nearly nothing on them. then they died within a few years thanks to gba.

[Anonymous No.10048991]

>>10048956
LOL. If Spectrum is "king" of shovelware, then Atari consoles are friggin' extra-terrestrial emperors of it.

[Anonymous No.10049463]

>>10048023
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Thoroughbred Breeder I-III (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Tekichuu Keiba Juku (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Super Keiba 1-2 (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Super Honmei - GI Seiha (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Jumpin' Derby (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Computer Nouryoku Kaiseki - Ultra Baken (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Winning Post 1,2 + Program '96 (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Take Yutaka GI Memory (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Super Kyousouba - Kaze no Sylphid (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Super Baken Ou '95 (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Stable Star - Kyuusha Monogatari (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Leading Jockey 1,2 (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Keiba Eight Special 1,2 (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Derby Jockey 1+2 (Kishu Ou e no Michi) (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Classic Road I,II (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Derby Stallion II,III, 96,98 (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Turf Hero (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Turf Memories (J)
>Sports (Horse-racing)~ Battle Jockey (J)
How about instead, I name 31 of my favorite horse racing simulators that anyone can enjoy on their Super Nintendo Entertainment System

[Anonymous No.10049489]

>>10047605
I don't know why Super Nintendo has so many horse betting simulators. It's like 1 in every 3 games is one of those.

[Anonymous No.10049501]

>>10047601
Wii immediately comes to mind as the king of shovelware
Runner up probably the PS1

[Anonymous No.10049513]

I’ve always felt the Wiis library was literal shovelware (aside from a couple games of course). Especially when I saw games for it in check out lines at the grocery store. Like $10 clown games or whatevrr

[Anonymous No.10049518]

>>10049463
Thanks

[Anonymous No.10049524]

>>10047980
What did you expect from the OP? It's just asking for shit posting.

[Anonymous No.10050241]

>>10049513
This is mostly true. There are maybe a dozen or so exclusive gems on the console. Most of them being Nintendo games.

The ones that were good were phenomenal. and the console sold well. But everything that wasn't the best was really just mediocre at best.

Even though the Wii U was a disaster of a release, it had much better software and allowed them to ultimately get the Switch out. Especially Splatoon since it became an insanely massive hit out of nowhere.

The problem with the Wii is they still keep trying to use that same design ideology and it's going to hurt them again. Especially with their inability to let go of successful legacy titles, unwillingness to support current successful titles, and completely lackluster efforts on newer releases. Thats not even getting into the shitty hardware.

[Anonymous No.10050248]

>>10047601
n64 look at mario 64 as the prime offender.

[Anonymous No.10050254]

>>10050248
Based, nintendo bad!

[Anonymous No.10050386]

>>10047605
Kind of agree on phoning it in with the rehashed NES IP. Also the amount of shovelware mascot platformers is phenomenal, absolute flood of dull trash.

[Anonymous No.10050429]

>>10048903
I prefer the Dutch yearly news roundup series to Jazz Tetris. It is more engaging and understandable than modern movie games.

[Anonymous No.10050438]

>>10048907
>it seems utterly incomprehensible to me what the design discussions at the time were like
Dev 1: We have no artist and need a background. What should we do?
Dev 2: I dunno, mate, stick a picture of a field there and call it a day? Lunch is in five minutes.

[Anonymous No.10050694]

>>10050438
>Dev 1 and 2 went to lunch
Dev 3: Yup, it's background animation time.

[Anonymous No.10051060]

I would say Atari but they're not even games at this point, so its Amstrad for me,
A.K.A C64 (Reddit Ver.)

[Anonymous No.10052471]

>>10047707
I don't agree 100% with this but I will say N64 and Saturn both share the same problem, not many games outside of first-party games, in N64's case you get Midway and Rare games, in Saturn's case you get Capcom games. Both much weaker libraries than their predecessors, especially if you include SEGA CD and 32X titles for Genesis. PS1 is the only one that had a truly stellar lineup throughout. At least Dreamcast and GBA were better

[Anonymous No.10052481]

>>10047601
>>10047605
SNES and PlayStation both have very good libraries from their respective generations but also received the most amount of shovelware. If it wasn't games capitalizing on a trend, it was copy paste garbage.

>Super Famicom had a shit ton of pachinkos, card games, idk just name whatever
>PS1 Japanese market was also filled with the same but also copy cat games

What I still find fascinating is that the Japanese rehash-fest was interesting because the core gameplay stuck to being practical despite not having anything to make it stand out. Even the budget garbage that would come to PS1 in all regions had some charm to it because the tools were very primitive and expensive so some amount of effort had to go into it.

[Anonymous No.10052491]

>>10047707
one may make the argument that less is more, but N64 had far less games that you WANTED to buy and not just buy because it's the only console you own. Nintendo really stunted the potential of the N64 with their overburdening rules.

[Anonymous No.10052506]

>>10052491
Oh definitely. Despite having a decent first-party lineup, it had no where near as many great titles as the SNES.