/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10492713]

>still have no games except for Pokemon series

[Anonymous No.10492726]

>>10492713
Yeah I know later nintendo handhelds made them pointless
such a shame
it's totally not that pokemon fans are retarded and easily fooled into wasting over a thousand dollars just to transfer digital files instead of just starting with brand new characters
something which pretty much every game does

[Anonymous No.10492729]

Apologize to Donkey Kong

[Anonymous No.10492742]

Wario Land and the Zelda’s are great

[Anonymous No.10492745]

[Anonymous No.10492776]

Nice veiled recs thread, OP

[Anonymous No.10492781]

>still a low quality thread

[Anonymous No.10492805]

you have not played Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru and it shows

[Anonymous No.10492886]

>>10492729
And Tetris

[Anonymous No.10492895]

>>10492713
Harvest Moon is literally better in every way, just like Animal Crossing

[Anonymous No.10492921]

>>10492713
Even if that was true it would be fine.

[Anonymous No.10492942]

Reminder that /v/ tier shitpost threads are allowed if they are against Nintendo. One reason for that is that jannies are fanboys. The other more psychological reason is that Nintendo is kinda like the tall big Chad guy in the room so no one really cares if you shove him a bit

[Anonymous No.10492946]

>>10492713
It has a lot of good games. I'm literally just playing Samurai Kid, Molemania and Wario Land 3. You yourself posted good games in your picture

>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.10492950]

>>10492713
the gbc is very cool, i love its design and the screen is still quite good. the pic you posted is a nice example. also the wormlight grants you comfy bed play. most of the library is shovelware, sure, but there are some good games if you bother to search. the original gb is an ugly brick without any good points save nostalgia factor.

[Anonymous No.10492951]

kino

[Anonymous No.10492954]

>>10492713
Mario Picross was pretty fun

[Anonymous No.10493117]

>>10492954
Second one is also good and has a translation patch

[Anonymous No.10493214]

>>10492950
I always hated the wormlight glare and just used a desk lamp back then. Reading lights are a good way to play GBC with the old screen if you have one

[Anonymous No.10493287]

>>10492713
dragon quest monsters and last bible absolutely destroy pokemon

[Anonymous No.10493289]

>enter

[Anonymous No.10493306]

I like the Mario Land games

[Anonymous No.10493357]

>>10492713
I have quite a few games for Game Boy/Color (either virtual console or physically) that are not Pokemon. I don’t even own any of the Pokemon Game Boy games.
I have the all the Mega Man GB series games, all the Bomberman GB games, Super Mario Land 2, Tetris, Dig Dug, Mole Mania, all the Kirby games, Game & Watch Gallery 1 and 3, Shantae, Bomberman Quest, Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite, and Mr. Driller. So that’s at least 20 non-Pokemon games.

[Anonymous No.10493362]

>>10492729
I had no idea how good I had it, owning that game as a kid.
I don’t know what happened to it.

[Anonymous No.10493372]

>>10493362
Same here. At least I still have the instruction booklet

[Anonymous No.10493373]

>>10492713
Maybe I realized this way later than everyone else but now it's obvious to me that when people talk about handheld games being good, they really mean "good for a handheld game." Handheld games made sense as a kid because I had to go places with my parents and we also only had one TV in the house that they didn't want me hogging with a console. But now as an adult why in the world would I ever choose to play Aria of Sorrow instead of Symphony of the Night, or Golden Sun instead of Chrono Trigger?

[Anonymous No.10493381]

>>10493373
AoS>SoftN

[Anonymous No.10493392]

>>10493373
Not true at least for me. I emulate these games nowadays so they're both on the same device. There are some handheld games that exceed console but obviously not in the graphics or spectacle department. Some companies also made slightly retarded decisions putting gr8 concepts on handheld that could've been better as console

[Anonymous No.10493403]

>>10493373
Not true. A good game is a good game.
I'd rather play any GB game than 99% of modernshit

[Anonymous No.10493407]

>>10492713

[Anonymous No.10493417]

>>10493373
Sometimes I like to play trimmed down versions of old classics, there's an appeal in how short and accessible handheld games tend to be. But yeah it's rare that there's an handheld game that doesn't simply have a superior version of itself on home consoles.

[Anonymous No.10493419]

>>10493403
>I'd rather play any GB game than 99% of modernshit
How old are you?

[Anonymous No.10493425]

>>10492713
I play anything on that but Pokemon

[Anonymous No.10493863]

>>10492713
Mario Land 2 is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.10493923]

>>10493373
Because you've already played Chrono Trigger and SotN a bunch of times and want something new? Using that logic, why play NES games when SNES games exist? Stop comparing handhelds to their home contemporaries, they're all part of history now, we'll probably never have dedicated handhelds ever again. Just pretend they exist in their own timeline where the year 2000 is more like the year 1990. Substract 10 from the release date and be impressed with great graphics for its time

[Anonymous No.10494081]

>>10492745
>mostly just 1st party games
Sad

[Anonymous No.10494198]

>>10492805
>Was told this is like Link's Awakening
>Combat completely sucks ass and the game is pretty fucking stupid

[Anonymous No.10494210]

>>10492713
ENTER

[Anonymous No.10494237]

>>10493373
The flaw here is that you’re looking at it from a modern day perspective rather than from the perspective of a kid on a road trip in 2003 that didn’t have a smartphone capable of emulating sixth gen tier games. And that’s if you were lucky enough to have parents willing to get you a Game Boy Advance.

[Anonymous No.10494352]

>Nemesis
>Final Fantasy Adventure
>Bionic Commando
>Out of Gas
>Ninja Taro
>Mercenary Force
>Gradius Interstellar Assault
>Astro Rabby
>Miracle Adventure Esparks
>Castlevania Belmont's Revenge
>Trax
>Blaster Master Boy
>TMNT 3
>Operation C
>Aerostar
>Ultima Runes of Virtue
>Parodius Da
>Ninja Gaiden Shadow
>Fortified Zone
>Avenging Spirit
>Noobow
>Tumble Pop
>Fish Dude
>Amazing Penguin
>Vattle Giuce
>Trip World
>Batman
>Ghostbusters 2
>Nail n Scale
>Daiku no Gen-san
>Sagaia
>Balloon Kid
>Snow Bros Jr
>Spanky's Quest
>Gargoyle's Quest
>Chalvo 55
>Battle Unit Zeoth
>After Burst
>Battletoads
>Tail Gator

There's plenty of games that would be solid on any 8-bit system if you take the time to look

[Anonymous No.10495049]

>>10493373
I get your point, but still disagree, since to me it's all a matter of perspective. I mean, to me it's not about "WHY would I EVER play [Console] OVER a [Inspired/Similar Handheld]???" when to me... I'll just play both! If I like a series and/or genre/style of video game, then to me it's like having a single chocolate bar over having a couple of them when one is slightly better... I'd still rather have BOTH!

[Anonymous No.10495470]

>>10493373
>Chrono Trigger
Ironic that you'd use that game to make your point because the DS version is considered definitive by most people.

[Anonymous No.10495480]

>>10493373
SOTN does not have tactical soul system

[Anonymous No.10495685]

>>10493373
>choose to play Aria of Sorrow instead of Symphony of the Night, or Golden Sun instead of Chrono Trigger?
Because those games are fun and you're going to buy a super gameboy to play them on your tv

[Anonymous No.10495696]

>>10492726
The modern series has managed to achieve a reliance on being able to import Pokémon through previous generations, due to certain moves being exclusive to certain generations (whether that's event distribution, learn pool, tutor pool, TM pool, etc).
Which means the move is legal within its own generation, but inaccessible without directly importing due to some moves not passing down through breeding or mirror herb.

For the GB and GBC Pokémon titles, playing on the original systems really is strictly for the enjoyment of those games.
Unless you're playing the 3DS VC versions, in which case, they too can be imported up to modern Switch games.
If you have a way to recover save data from your GB/GBC carts, you can inject them into 3DS VC titles as a way to move Pokémon from your original game.s

So, yes whilst the modern games can be enjoyed casually and just playing with a strictly in-game team, the transferring of digital files that gets subject to strict legality checks, that level of autism is for the competitive scene and extreme collectors.

[Anonymous No.10495837]

>>10495049
If you were a kid in the 90s, having a Game Boy or Game Gear on a long family road trip was a million times better than being stuck with this.

[Anonymous No.10497547]

>>10494352
A lot of those have way better home and arcade versions which these days are all equally portable via emulation. Parodious is gorgeous in arcades

[Anonymous No.10497569]

>>10495837
And as a third world poorfag you'd have a Tetris brick instead. Somehow I never got good at Tetris despite playing it all the time

[Anonymous No.10497729]

>>10493373
The aesthetics and design principles for handheld games are different and I like them.

[Anonymous No.10498465]

>>10493373
That's why DS is my favorite system because it had games that took advantage of the hardware
The PSP had some console quality games as well

[Anonymous No.10498760]

>>10497547
Just because a game is fancier in the arcade doesn't make its ports to other systems not worth playing. Parodius on gameboy is a fantastic game on the system, the arcade version existing doesn't make that not true. Also there's often differences in ports to make them more suitable for the hardware it's being ported to, often those differences change the game enough to make it a fresh/unique experience. Take something like Bionic Commando, the arcade/NES/Gameboy games are all totally different.

[Anonymous No.10498774]

>>10498760
This. Contra is much more well known in its NES form than the arcade original.

[Anonymous No.10498787]

>>10498774
wtf were they thinking giving the arcade version of Contra a vertical screen? shit looks wack.

[Anonymous No.10499148]

>>10495837
This.

>>10497569
I actually loved these things, way better than the Tiger Electronic ones, that's for sure.

[Anonymous No.10499291]

>>10495837
This was the only handheld I had before getting a Gameboy.

[Anonymous No.10499478]

>>10494198
You're very fucking stupid.
The enemies are just progress gates that you can only beat once you find the right items.
Once you accept the game for what it is, it's fun and charming.

[Anonymous No.10501367]

>>10499478
>You're very fucking stupid.
I'm only telling you what was told to me and that the combat sucks ass, completely.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Anonymous No.10501419]

>>10501367
That's like saying the combat in a point and click adventure game sucks.
You're dumb.

[Anonymous No.10501438]

>>10501419
>the combat in a point and click adventure game sucks
WELLLLLLLL

[Anonymous No.10501618]

>>10501438
I don't like point and click adventure games, but plenty of people do, so there must be something to the genre.
The Frog for Whom the Bell Toll's genre is hard to pin down but it's the same situation.
Maybe it's not for you, but I just need you to understand that saying "the combat sucks" is peanut-brain retard shit.

[Anonymous No.10501642]

>>10501618
>so there must be something to the genre.
But it's not the combat.

[Anonymous No.10501649]

>>10501618
nta but I need you to understand that not everyone voicing their opinion is trying to start an argument. If I think your gay I can just say "u r gay" and there's no need to start a semantic battle over it

[Anonymous No.10501657]

>>10501642
Why do you think you're saying anything of value? You're not.
I'm telling you that of course the combat sucks, but that's not the point of the game as it isn't in some other genres.
It's like saying the combat in Dragon's Lair sucks. No shit. It's a fucking FMV game.
You're dumb for feeling the need to say that this game where combat is a cutscene has bad combat, just because it superficially looks like other Game Boy games with actual combat.
Like those games of other genres with bad combat, it has other things going for it.

[Anonymous No.10501660]

>>10501649
Everyone voicing a stupid, worthless opinion should be prepared to be told their opinion is stupid and worthless.

[Anonymous No.10503291]

>>10492951
Just played this recently, pretty good Zelda clone

[Anonymous No.10504419]

>>10501657
>the combat sucks
>but that's not the point of the game
It's a little bit the point when you go into the game expecting it to play a certain way.
Dumb fuck.

[Anonymous No.10504429]

>>10504419
Not the game's fault you were lied to.

[Anonymous No.10504441]

>>10504429
I didn't say the game was bad (I called it stupid), I said the combat sucked.
And I also didn't blame the game, I blamed you faggots for saying it played just like Zelda.

[Anonymous No.10504498]

>>10492805
Just played this recently, pretty good Zelda clone.

[Anonymous No.10506043]

>>10495696
>The modern series has managed to achieve a reliance on being able to import Pokémon through previous generations, due to certain moves being exclusive to certain generations (whether that's event distribution, learn pool, tutor pool, TM pool, etc).
>Which means the move is legal within its own generation, but inaccessible without directly importing due to some moves not passing down through breeding or mirror herb.
Recently they actually stopped this, transferring to Gen 8 or 9 I believe resets your moveset.