Joust is so fucking good

[Anonymous No.10443836]

This game is so fucking good. I hate arcade games, but I've been playing this nonstop since I tried it at a barcade. How is this shit even possible?? Why is this not talked about in the same breath as PacMan and Donkey Kong, this shit beats the dick off of every other game at that time.

[Anonymous No.10443841]

The world of Joust is so unique and cool! I've been unironically looking for Joust fanfic just so I can h ar someone's take on what life is like in a world where they fly birds around and joust and there's dinosaurs and lava ghosts and knights are born from eggs. It's just so fucking sick

[Anonymous No.10443857]

>>10443836
Welcome to Joust, newfag. Enjoy your stay.

Joust has ALWAYS been based and has always been beloved, but for whatever reason the license holders let the franchise rot. You’d have a lot more people posting in this thread 15 or 20 years ago. One screen games besides Pac-man have basically all been pushed out of the cultural zeitgeist. Newfags have no familiarity with it because they have never been exposed to it, but it was on top of the world at one point.
Joust is definitely one of, if not the best arcade games of all time. Sincerely timelessly fun. So fun Nintendo straight up copied the game 1:1 for balloon fight.

I have actually written an extremely detailed outline on how to make a new Joust on this board before. In short, it requires turning it into a rogue-light and you transition to stages seamlessly on a balloon fight-esque “balloon trip” with occasional boss battles.

It’s a shame so much time has passed that Joust has been forgotten to younger generations (not that I’m super old), and a reminder that the never ending march of time will trample us all to dust.

[Anonymous No.10443868]

The modern indie arcade game Killer Queen took some obvious inspiration from Joust, you might want to try it out.

[Anonymous No.10443889]

My previous job (retail bullshit, enormous store) had a 1up arcade machine in the breakroom with this on it, and I played the shit out of it. Fantastic game. The other gamers at that job were lame as fuck though. They'd bring their Switches in to play at lunch, and I started doing the same. They mostly ignored that cabinet in favour of playing Animal Crossing or faggy RPGs on their Switches. Nothing wrong with Switch, but holy hell I think those "gamers" were allergic to anything that required even the tiniest amount of skill. They couldn't fathom why I'd want to play games like Outrun on my Switch, or why I was looking forward to the upcoming Metroid Dread. After all, paying full price for a 10-20 hour game is foolish when for the same price I could get 80+ hours of grinding and farming, amirite fellower zoomers??

[Anonymous No.10443891]

>>10443841
It’s got a real “Heavy Metal” vibe. It’s very unique and not afraid to be corny, therefore making it genuinely cool.
Late 70’s/Early 80’s is full of awesome shit like this in fantasy and sci-fi, nobody is brave enough to do this kind of thing anymore. Newfags make everything gay.

Look at any of the marquee and cabinet art for arcade classics. They take strange sci-fi or fantasy concepts of their little beep boop games and make them absolutely epic.

Joust was mishandled through the years, they needed to keep it in the public consciousness.

As far as the concept goes for knights riding ostriches, perhaps they took inspiration from “Wizards”.

[Anonymous No.10444031]

>>10443836
Joust is not a /zr/ approved game. The perfection of the simple elegant controls is beyond my comprehension, hence bad design. Being able to hit by a skilled player I'm trying to steal from, or just happen to get in the way of with my random spastic mashing, is artificial difficulty. There's no training stage. Just a short tutorial that shows me how literally everything I need to know works. BEFORE THE GAME!!! How the fuck was I supposed to know I wasn't supposed to just press start and start rambling to my youtube viewers about how I'm a clueless fuckwit? There's no DLC, no items with a marketplace to sell them. No loot boxes. Literally nothing that makes a game worth playing. Not even achievements. Some larping 30yo grandpa told me there are bonuses for not dying, by enemy, getting in the way of a skilled player, or an heroing. He's a fucking lying ass lying liar. I never seen any of those.

[Anonymous No.10444298]

>>10443889
Only literal faggots play animal crossing

[Anonymous No.10444448]

>>10443836
based, really fantastic game. I'd say Vs. Balloon Fight is also good and similar, with an arguably better mini-game
I think it'd be better if Joust was widescreen so there was more flying space, but that's about all I could wish for
as for the design of the game and how they settled on ostriches, lava, eggs and everything, I'm pretty sure they did it the Nintendo way where you come up with gameplay ideas first and then worry about aesthetics after

[Anonymous No.10444457]

>>10443836
Was at an arcade a few days ago and me and my sister hit top 15 ( she's fifteenth I'm 3rd) on the cab, pretty lit arcade.

[Anonymous No.10444463]

>>10443836 (OP) #
Was at an arcade a few days ago and me and my sister hit top 15 ( she's fifteenth I'm 3rd) on the cab, pretty lit arcade.

[Anonymous No.10444921]

>>10443836
Have you fathomed the secret of slaying the Dactyl yet, sir knight?

[Anonymous No.10444929]

>>10443841
I mean they fly on chocobos in FF games, and there's dinosaurs and lava ghosts. I guess knights aren't born from eggs though if that's important

[Anonymous No.10445523]

>>10444929
>aren't born from eggs
Even the ingame characters are incels?

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>>10444463
I have a three letter name so i blow initialsfags out of the fucking water

[Anonymous No.10447135]

>>10443836
Because it's American and gamers are notorious weebs who will put down and turn their noses at anything that isn't Japanese.

[Anonymous No.10447276]

>>10447097
Based prognostic parents named their spawn Fag

[Anonymous No.10449230]

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[Anonymous No.10449260]

Joust is great. I only have only played the arcade a couple of times, but used to play it with my friends all the time on Atari 2600 at his dad's and on the NES.

[Anonymous No.10450560]

>>10447097
> Not putting "ASS" or "THC" on the scoreboard
NGMI

[Anonymous No.10450569]

>>10443841
Very nice pic, I assume it's fanart. Got a source?

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really appreciating the Joust love itt

[Anonymous No.10450883]

>>10447097
>His parents named him nig
Ohh, well... ok then

[Anonymous No.10451181]

This used to be my go to as a kid but I don't see it much lately. Just found a place that has one though, so I may get back into it.

[Anonymous No.10451568]

>>10450686
But is it good

[Anonymous No.10451573]

Joust isn't an Atari or a Japanese game so nobody remembers it. Which is unfair but oh well.

[Anonymous No.10451579]

>>10443868
They have it at my local place but I'm never going to find enough people to play it since you need like 8 total or at least 4

[Anonymous No.10451595]

>>10451573
yeah if Namco had made it it would be far more well known to non-boomers

[Anonymous No.10451730]

>>10443836
One problem might be that Williams games were more unreliable than some other arcade cabs of the period (Namco cabs in particular seemed to have much better durability which is why they often stayed in use for decades). Guy on Arcade Museum forum believed it was because Williams liked running their boards at speeds that were too much for the components used in them.

[Anonymous No.10451770]

>>10451579
You can play 1v1, the drones are just computer controlled. It's more fun with multiple people, yeah, but it's still enjoyable with just two people.

[Anonymous No.10452137]

alright joustbro i have this on my midway collection so im going to give joust a good try tonight

[Anonymous No.10452149]

>>10451730
As I said in the Spectrum thread overheating was an issue in arcades where you ran the cabs all day long but I don't think running one in your basement for like 2 hours a day will overheat anything.

[Anonymous No.10452159]

>>10451770
2 player has coop against the computers

[Anonymous No.10452168]

>>10452137
Not retro but nidhog is also a great joustish experience

[Anonymous No.10452170]

>>10452168
And be sure to check out conga master too, for shits n giggles

[Anonymous No.10452193]

>>10451730
>>10452149
Midway did put sinks on the RAM on some stuff like Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man boards. That may actually be why Ms. Pac-Man machines proved unusually sturdy and long-lived compared to a lot of contemporary arcade cabs and they were still a regular sight into the 2000s. Seriously 4116 RAM was not known for being dependable and anything you could do to keep them cool helped.

[Anonymous No.10452206]

>>10452193
still remember in 2003 when i was 15 and i played one at a flea market, it was at least 20 at that time. got to the banana board on one quarter before i died. of course it helped that the game has a notorious collision bug where you can just go through the ghosts sometimes and it doesn't register a collision. i know that bug happened to me at least once when i was playing it.

[Anonymous No.10452745]

>>10443836
>this shit beats the dick off of every other game at that time.
okay but WHY though?

[Anonymous No.10452880]

>>10452745
Efficient, simple, and endlessly enjoyable gameplay that is engaging for newbies and veterans alike, an intriguing setting that encourages imagination, and appealing readable graphics. All the necessary parts that make any truly great game great. Anything beyond that is window dressing and should not be factored into the overall quality of a game, unless it's in a negative way because it distracts from or otherwise lessens the impact of the aforementioned parts. A-doyy!

[Anonymous No.10454636]

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[Anonymous No.10456223]

>>10452193
>Midway did put sinks on the RAM
Why would they do that? Wouldn't it break the chips or get them wet. I'm gonna need a source on that sink claim.

[Anonymous No.10456317]

>>10456223
Why would they break or get wet? Is this a bot posting or a human that doesn't understand how reality operates?

[Anonymous No.10456545]

>>10456317
Pretty sure he was just making a joke anon. What kind of sinks make things wet?

[Anonymous No.10457502]

Praise be to Joust

[Anonymous No.10457574]

>>10456223
No. The sink was placed in the cabinet so that when someone eventually got mad enough to kick the cab a brown pudding would spawn and it's cool bodice would chill the chips

[Anonymous No.10457591]

>>10443836
Play Balloon fight instead.

[Anonymous No.10459047]

I'm a Balloon Fight fanatic. What does Joust offer that Balloon Fight doesn't? Not saying it even needs to do so, it's a great game I've played a couple of times, just trying to learn what you all think.

[Anonymous No.10459065]

>>10457591
I have, it's not as good but it's a good joust clone. Play joust 2

[Anonymous No.10459071]

>>10459047
Balloon fight is a joust clone. It's cool I guess because you get 2 balloons. Joust is a precision arcade game with knights on ostriches fighting evil knights on buzzards in a cave full of lava, with a crazy bird monsters. It has the best artwork and aesthetic. Balloon fight is literally a joke in comparison, it's fun but it's just not on the same level, then joust 2 ups the ante

[Anonymous No.10460790]

>>10443836
Whats people's opinion on balloon fight stealing this game's thunder?

[Anonymous No.10462326]

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[Anonymous No.10462349]

>>10460790
Marketing mistake. If joust 2 was released on consoles and reworked to be more of a console experience, ballooon fight would be remembered for being joust jr. like it objectively is. I don't mind balloon fight being popular, but it seems as if you mention joust in a balloon fight convo, a lot of people have never played it or don't even know what it is. Its definitely annoying

[Anonymous No.10462814]

>>10447135
https://tcrf.net/Joust_(NES)
But, it was released in Japan.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88

[Anonymous No.10462885]

I first played these on the Midway Arcade Treasures collection on PS2 along with Defender and Robotron. That collection just turned 20 years old btw