/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10089459]

What are some games that just "take you back"?
Timeframe in pic. unrelated.

[Anonymous No.10089462]

>>10089459
Nasty-looking hand.

[Anonymous No.10089751]

>>10089459
> games that just "take you back"

To suck ass?
I don't know, probably Banjo-Kazooie.

[Anonymous No.10089768]

>>10089459
Read the sticky OP
>This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games [...] Retro gaming means [...] official game titles for those platforms released no later than December 2007.

[Anonymous No.10089791]

I have a vivid image of 2004 ingrained in my mind, so everything I've played that year (but especially during summer) evokes certain kinds of flashbacks.
Games like Counter Strike: Condition Zero, Sonic Adventure DX, Neighbors from Hell, Shadow of Destiny, Civilization, Warcraft and Heroes 3 are all hitting that nostalgia spot.

Sonic feels like home. I've invested an unhealthy amount of time in free roam only, just running around adventure fields and looking for possible new secrets. Or riding cars.

[Anonymous No.10089798]

>>10089459
Fallout
I know it's not exactly a normal game topic on /vr/ but the game came out in 1997 and exudes a feeling of despair and finality.
When I feel too pained by the forward motion of reality today I retreat to Fallout and soak in that feeling of violence crossed with the edge of nothingness that seemed so real to me as I sat in front of a glowing CRT in a basement at the end of the millennium

[Anonymous No.10089837]

steins gate brings me back to when "@chan" was good, the internet was based, technology was exciting, and I still had hope for the future.

[Anonymous No.10089854]

>>10089837
yeah, steinsgate, lucky star, welcome to nhk, melancholy of haruhi
all those evoke 2000s computing feeling

[Anonymous No.10089863]

>>10089837
Okay, but what if we'll buy a Sega Saturn off Ebay, reconstruct it into time machine and go BACK IN TIME to fix it so everything will be based in present?

[Anonymous No.10089886]

it's not retro (it soon will be) but playing tf2, when the conditions are right, always takes me back to 2009
Really helps that Valve added cashworks

[Anonymous No.10089924]

>>10089837
>spend the 2000s reminiscing about the wonders of 90s internet
>not realizing I was still living in relative glory days
Maybe one day I'll look back and miss the 2020s, but I really don't think so. I certainly don't miss the 2010s.

[Anonymous No.10089951]

>>10089459
phantasy star online takes me back to the original xbox chilling with the boys at 2 in the morning.

[Anonymous No.10089991]

>>10089459
>What are some games that just "take you back"?

[Anonymous No.10090047]

>>10089459
Pokémon Red and Gold are just unfiltered nostalgia, start playing them and I am taken back to the early 2000s summers playing my GBC while watching Ed, Edd & Eddy, Sakura Card Captor, Pokemon and Toonami, after that I would spend the rest of the day playing soccer with my cousins. I don't give a damn about the new Pokemon games anymore outside of the porn, though.

[Anonymous No.10090056]

[Anonymous No.10090098]

>>10089459
Phantasy Star Online and Pokemon Red
>>10090047
Yeah, playing gen 1 always gives me a big wave of nostalgia for childhood

[Anonymous No.10090102]

>>10090098
Gen 2 gives me nostalgia too, but the first thing that pops into my head is the experience of using emulators for the first time. I first played Gen 2 with a partially translated rom.

Gen 2's music is almost painfully nostalgic too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XjouKSkSeM

[Anonymous No.10090108]

>>10089459
All 3 Sims games on gba.

[Anonymous No.10090118]

Romhacks for gens 1-3

[Anonymous No.10090119]

>>10089459
xbox live mw2 shouting faggot in the mic all day

[Anonymous No.10090225]

>>10090119
BASED

It's a shame we've lost such faggotry

[Anonymous No.10090264]

>>10089459
to be honest, a lot of the games I've played have lost this "time capsule" effect for me after I've replayed them. and many feel literally "timeless" now, e.g. you could easily replay SMW or Super Metroid or SF2 or Diablo today and not feel like you're playing a game from 20-30 years ago. classics like SM64 get brought up so often, it's like they came out last year.
so… weird as it sounds, I might miss crap that actually feels "aged". something that really makes you say that no one makes games like these anymore. or stuff that was actually forgotten by most. and also stuff that I used to play, but never replayed because I fear that I'd lose patience after 3 minutes and see just how basic those babby games were. e.g.: Boogerman, adventure games, crappy shareware games, Miniclip games, etc.

[Anonymous No.10090287]

>>10090264
Sounds like you've burned out a little from having too much games available.

I still like to play all that you've listed from time to time, and enjoy it (not as much as I've should but anyway).

Miniclip games were never meant to play for too long, they're "minis", it's something you'll entertain yourself with during a break.

> something that really makes you say that no one makes games like these anymore
There's a whole bunch of weird experimental games from late 90s and early 2000s that no one ever attempted to recreate (even modern indie devs). Cookie's Bustle, Seventh Cross: Evolution, Aquanaut's Holiday, Intelligent Cube, all that stuff. I suggest to look for them as a last resort, but you really should take a break and distance from games for at least two-three weeks.

[Anonymous No.10090289]

>>10089459
Wonder Boy III
Super Metroid
Zombies Ate My Neighbours
FFVII
Warcraft 3
Vice City

[Anonymous No.10090326]

>>10089459
My going to 2009 what?

[Anonymous No.10090347]

Almost any retro game that I played back in it's time conjures up some sort of memory, anecdote or vague warm and fuzzy feeling for me. For 2009? I had gotten a decent job and had someone I know build a bad ass gaming PC for me, so I was spending a lot of time playing TF2 and Starcraft 2. My job involved me staying up all night and I wouldn't break that schedule on my nights off so I have a lot of fond memories of staying up all night playing PC games. Unfortunately, one of the cooling fans on the PC broke and the motherboards ended up getting overheated really bad and it was never the same after that.

[Anonymous No.10090360]

>>10089459
Halo 2

[Anonymous No.10090416]

gonna have to say glover and turok for peak 64 aesthetics

[Anonymous No.10090417]

Something about the Dreamcast, had a Playstation before which I traded in and later for an OG Xbox on release midnight but those couple of years playing Crazy Taxi and Sonic Adventure, end of high school, before college, barely a worry to be had about anything

[Anonymous No.10090465]

me when thinking about 2010

[Anonymous No.10090514]

[Anonymous No.10090545]

Model 2 arcade games

[Anonymous No.10090589]

that was around the time when I realized that I hate videogames despite wasting most of my time on them. what I enjoy is the competitiveness of 1vs1 games and games are just a vehicle of it.
/blog

[Anonymous No.10090654]

>>10090589
wanna 1v1 me in stronghold? thats 2000s game

[Anonymous No.10090665]

>>10090326
The (unwashed) hand should answer your question.

[Anonymous No.10090746]

>let's seeeee
>double-u double-u double-u dot dork dot com

[Anonymous No.10090761]

>>10089924
sic transit gloria mundi

[Anonymous No.10090767]

The 2000s were already my 20s and a bitter wasteland

[Anonymous No.10090825]

2009 was fucking garbage and shouldn't even be considered "retro".

[Anonymous No.10090868]

>>10090825
people are already nostalgia fagging over 09 as the peak of gaming

[Anonymous No.10090905]

>>10089459

[Anonymous No.10090937]

>>10090825
It's no use getting mad at the people who look back fondly to the time they were 9. Let's be fair, they had no control over their world when they were 9, they also had no control over the fact that they were 9. Sure someone like me born decades earlier can see how 2009 was garbage and things peaked between 95 and 99 especially if you were at least old enough to drive by then, but they can't possibly know that.

[Anonymous No.10091007]

>>10090937
name one game that's worth a shit in 2009. it's objectively bad

[Anonymous No.10091018]

>>10091007
NTA but SF4 and L4D2

[Anonymous No.10091042]

>>10090937
>Sure someone like me born decades earlier can see how 2009 was garbage and things peaked between 95 and 99
You're no different, you have the same nostalgia goggles strapped on as them. Nothing peaked. What happened was that the entity people call "AAA gaming" sought out a different audience and we got left behind. Now all the money funds normie friendly trash and we have to scrape the AA and indie market to find anything decent. You either accept that fact, or move on to a new hobby.

[Anonymous No.10091069]

>>10091042
objectively, things did peak between 1995 and 1999

[Anonymous No.10091126]

>>10089854
Great era for anime

[Anonymous No.10091134]

Turok on N64

[Anonymous No.10091154]

I get nostalgia for the 2000s spongemania playing this, and also for ps2 platformers

[Anonymous No.10091165]

>>10091007
The thread is not about 2009. Wolfenstein was released then and it is one of the best shooters ever. I was 18 in 2009 but I first played Wolfenstein in 2010, just so you have more to judge me by.

[Anonymous No.10091185]

>>10089459
Majesty
I remember playing it at friend's house when I was like 9, and I was mindblown by it: all those unit/enemy designs, portraits, music, voice acting, and that amazing map screen. It took me almost a decade to find the game and get my own disc copy, and even now it brings me joy and bitter feeling about simpler times.

[Anonymous No.10091593]

>>10089459
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, along with Civ 2 are the fastest way to go back to 1996
Kupiec, while much older, is the eternal 1999. Believe it or not, but whenever I play it, I spot a Maluch driving somewhere around that same week
Age of Wonders 2 is a perpetual summer 2003.
Rise of Legends is a perpetual October 2009. So is Original War.

[Anonymous No.10091838]

I want to go back so bad bros.

[Anonymous No.10091848]

>>10091154
how old are you

[Anonymous No.10091850]

2008 and 2009 was the last time I was happy

[Anonymous No.10091907]

>>10089459
>>10090264
>I might miss crap that actually feels "aged"
For me it's Candy Crisis (AKA Skittles) for Mac OS 8 and 9. It was a Puyo clone with some custom graphics and a bunch of 90s MODs for a soundtrack. It takes me right back to 1999. I've been playing it as a sort of ritual in order to prepare my soul for time travel back into my former vessel. On a certain numerologically signifcant day in the not so distant future I will commit sudoku and time travel back to childhood while maintaining my current memories and personality.

Also here's a download link for anons who want to play a port on Windows, Linux, and even Mac.

https://candycrisis.sourceforge.net/
and one of the composers Leviathan, plus his other modules
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_artist_modules&query=69621

[Anonymous No.10091939]

>>10089924
Well the 00s were mostly shit so a good internet culture was more like that thing you take for granted because you don't know how bad things can get. I don't miss the 10s either but I can see myself doing it if shit keeps getting worse and worse.

[Anonymous No.10092380]

Team Fortress 2 playing with Huntsman, Black Box, etc

[Anonymous No.10092427]

>>10091154
My man

[Anonymous No.10092646]

>>10089459
>Zeonic Front and MSG: Encounters in Space
>Front Mission 3 & 4
I lived out in the massive housing development that was out in the middle of nowhere. People lived here to buy massive McMansions on the cheap. Anyhow, it was over 110degrees in the summer so it was too hot to do shit. I would play Gundam games (I had Federation v Zeon, Zeonic Front, Encounters in Space and Gundam v Zeta Gundam), Armored Core games (I had all the PS2), ZoE, and the Front Mission games. I basically spent my summers watching TV (Toonami, AS, KotH, Simpsons, MTV) and playing vidya. A lot of my friends had divorced parents so they would go visit their other parent during the summer. It was boring and lonely. Still, I have a lot of fond memories of these games.

[Anonymous No.10092704]

>>10092646
This sounds a lot like me and probably why i was so fat.
>Mom and dad divorced
>mom was a slut and lazy
>just bought bill frozen food at costco
>mommy was always meeting new guys and not wanting to deal with me
>just played vidya and watched tv
>hitting puberty around this time
>heard the garage open and hid in my mom’s closet
>her room was a mess so it was easy to hide
>she brought this guy home
>I jacked off while watching her get fucked. I came all over her dirty laundry pile and shoved the shirt at the bottom.
>they went to go outside to smoke
>ran upstairs to pretend I was playing FFX
Not too proud of that one

[Anonymous No.10092725]

I played Digital Devil Story recently. I hadn't played it before, but it gave me vicarious nostalgia imagining people playing it in Japan in 1987 before I was born.

Also Yu-No but for 1996 which was after I was born. Oh yeah and Kojima's VN's and Metal Slader Glory.

Are there any old VN's or RPG's from early 90s/late 80s that are translated?

[Anonymous No.10092737]

>>10090289
pretty gud list anon
ill add trackmania sunrise and soul calibur 2 to the list

[Anonymous No.10092831]

>>10089791
>Sonic feels like home. I've invested an unhealthy amount of time in free roam only, just running around adventure fields and looking for possible new secrets. Or riding cars.
Based. SA1 is janky but it's extremely soulful. If you're not already aware the PC version of DX is amazing when patched and arguably the definitive version of the game, restoring the lighting engine of the Dreamcast version among other things:
https://sadxmodinstaller.unreliable.network/

This thing is the best way to patch/mod SADX (betterSADX is shit for various reasons)

[Anonymous No.10092953]

>>10091069
Cool non argument. Have fun living in your nostalgia bubble until you croak.

[Anonymous No.10092958]

>>10092704

[Anonymous No.10092993]

>>10092704
>and this is how I got my cuckold fetish

[Anonymous No.10093074]

This always makes me miss the calmer cooler days of then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aFqjEuicUY

[Anonymous No.10093082]

This piece of shit

[Anonymous No.10093086]

I have this vivid memory of playing Super Mario Kart on a saturday morning with the mattress on the floor and it was raining outside. I haven't played it in ages but I'll never forget that game.

[Anonymous No.10093197]

[Anonymous No.10093201]

>>10093197
>INTIRE 3D ENVIRONMENTS
VERY WOW

[Anonymous No.10093387]

>>10089837
The first was never true, and the other two predate 4chan.

[Anonymous No.10095053]

Used to play a lot of SLAI & Phantom Crash with my brother. Really takes me back whenever I see it or hear some of the music from it. I miss playing games with him. We almost always had Mona Lisa's Awaken to Love as the only song in our arena playlist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdpwsRn_X84
I wish most games now didn't totally neglect couch co-op. I hate how they want you to buy two systems, two subscriptions, two copies of the game, two copies of the DLC. Greedy fuckers.

[Anonymous No.10095413]

>>10092646
>Zeonic Front
My guy! I was and still am a huge /m/echa fag. So many memories just flooded. My parents were upper middle class, so we had a lot of money growing up. We lived in a big house, had satalite, a big screen (POS but it was cool at the time). Surround Sound, Laser Disc, and pretty much every game system. My dad lost his job, and my mom died of cancer. Everything really spiraled when I was in HS. My dad always drank a lot, but turned into a raging alcoholic, that would get drunk and piss himself. It just reminds me of happy times as a kid.
>moms older brother was a loser and lived with us
>gave us his old PC and he had Earth Seige and ES2
>loved it, and got into it more than Mech Warrior
>so many memories of staying up all night in the den, playing PC games
>my uncle showing me Akira and Robotech
>friends coming over and playing Mario Kart
I wasn’t expecting these feels

[Anonymous No.10095415]

>>10092704
>FFX
>Cuck into Incest
This all checks out

[Anonymous No.10095425]

>>10092646
I have an ungodly amount of hours in FM4. I originally got it thinking it was another mech simulator, and being pissed it was a turn based strategy. Then I got really invested. I like FM3, but FM4 was my favorite.

[Anonymous No.10096151]

>>10091007
Did MW2 players banged your mom, sister and crush back in '09? Or you just too autistic to tell why you hate on it so much? (One does not exclude the other)