/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1290315]

Those shit games you played because you were a kid and there was nothing better to do and you didn't know any better...

[Anonymous No.1290317]

I rented supes 64 for a weekend and made it pretty far. The ring levels actually get much easier as it progresses.

[Anonymous No.1290326]

As a kid I thought every single game was good.

[Anonymous No.1290364]

[Anonymous No.1290376]

I used to break controllers playing this with my older brother.

[Anonymous No.1290441]

>>1290326
And that's kind of the point. With hindsight now all those bad games we played and put hours into because of young naivety and lack of anything else to do or play we look back and realise that they are in fact, bad games.

[Anonymous No.1290479]

>>1290315
Fucking hell, OP! I can't remember ever being so disappointed in a game.

I adored Miracle World because I got an SMS2 for Christmas. And then I finally got around to renting this...

I distinctly remember putting the controller down after the part where he falls down the stairs and you get a game over.

Even my child self knew that a guy who punches octopuses in the head for a living shouldn't have to put up with this kind of shit.

I'm going to finally go play the original version, because shit might make more sense.

[Anonymous No.1290482]

>>1290315
Stunt Race FX
Digimon World 2 and 3, and Rumble Arena

For some reason, I thought Mario Kart 64 was better than DKR as a kid, but I always thought of them (and still do) as good games. These days, I realize DKR clearly has more depth and variety and is generally a superior game in pretty much every way.

I thought both BattleTanx were perfect at the time, but playing them again I realize they're pretty flawed.

Body Harvest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnocQS1maqg
This came out before GTA was 3D, so it was a big deal to me at the time despite being a pretty bad game.

Quest 64

Many more probably.

[Anonymous No.1290484]

Be honest, this game has aged terribly.

[Anonymous No.1290487]

>>1290479
Badmouthing an Alex Kidd game?
For shame, now go and say 100 Hail Mary's.
Get it?

[Anonymous No.1290491]

Donkey Kong 64. I mean, there were many good aspects of the game, but I think they just tried for too much... I beat it eventually, with less than 70% of the game finished.

[Anonymous No.1290501]

>>1290484
Why do Sega games have that weird white graph paper background? I don't quite understand it. It doesn't look very good.

[Anonymous No.1290521]

>>1290315
Tekwar. While technically speaking a shit game, the level architecture was awesome enough that in the Christmas of 1995 the 12 year old me found it interesting enough to explore it for hours on end with cheat codes, until every nook and cranny was seen.

[Anonymous No.1290527]

[Anonymous No.1290651]

>>1290376
that's a good game though,probably my favorite baseball game. it can seem cheap as hell till you get the mechanics

[Anonymous No.1290662]

>>1290501
it was a different time,also allowed games to be instantly identified as sms games
>>1290527
lulz

[Anonymous No.1290668]

>>1290487
Straight through to the keeper, I'm afraid.

>>1290491
>Too much collecting?
Sure.
>Objectively fucking horrible?
Not by a long shot.

>>1290501
It's not graph paper - it's the future. Tron's toilet paper, maybe.

[Anonymous No.1290927]

Loving this movie as a kid i thought the game was going to be just like it and a lot of fun. nope!

[Anonymous No.1291095]

>>1290482
>Body Harvest
That's regarded quite highly and doesn't qualify as a bad game.

[Anonymous No.1291286]

I wouldn't go as far to call it a terrible game but it really wasn't good or fun either. I rented this bloody thing about four times in the same year, I think.

[Anonymous No.1291293]

>>1291286
I would.

I own it and it's terrible. It's tacky trash that wasn't in style then and isn't in style now. Doesn't play very well at all either. It's definitely playable, but it's still bad.

[Anonymous No.1291298]

>>1290315
As soon I saw that image the music came back to me in an instant

m.youtube.com/watch?v=I9kmflXwfgw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DI9kmflXwfgw

This game pictured gave me mad stockholmes syndrome

[Anonymous No.1291374]

Karate Kid for the NES.
If you aren't aware of this game, youtube search "Karate Kid NES No Deaths". The game is 9 minutes long if you can master the shitty controls. Every level begins with a series of round fights, making it seem like a fighting game. THEN it's a side scrolling beatemup with minigames littered throughout the stages. The final level takes place on what appears to be Mars, or at the very least the middle of the desert which I'm sure did not happen in Karate Kid, and then you have to fight someone to save your girlfriend.
Karate Kid, everybody.

[Anonymous No.1291376]

I remember playing a shitty hospital simulator that tried to be funny and edgy. It contained a lot of made up illnesses. Luckily i got aoe soon after

[Anonymous No.1291383]

Whats the point of this thread? If i had no better games to play i just asked mom to give me money so i bought one or two new ones.

Were you that poor or something?

[Anonymous No.1291384]

>>1291376
Theme Hospital, right?

[Anonymous No.1291390]

>>1291384
Yeah thats it. Just look at the kitkat ad and the retarded doctors face

[Anonymous No.1291391]

>>1291384
>Be german
>grow up playing this game
>Believe you have to pay in hospital
>Tell friends in class
>They laugh at me
>Find out about our social health care

[Anonymous No.1291450]

>>1291390
Damn, I still adore that game.

[Anonymous No.1291459]

>>1291450
me too! i hope >>1291376 gets Bloaty Head

[Anonymous No.1291749]

>>1290527
I still use this for pixel art sometimes.

[Anonymous No.1291794]

I remember having lots of fun playing this on my friend's pc and sometimes on playstation when I was 11,12. I tried to play it last year, it's pretty fucked up controls and a classic cheating AI.

[Anonymous No.1291840]

>>1290364

This. I new this game was shit even then. Got it from the used game bin at KMart. I loved the movies so much. But this game. Its horrible.

[Anonymous No.1292937]

No idea why I even rented this trash despite multiple game magazines telling me to avoid it like the plague. I should have played one of those mediocre playstation ports of capcom fighting games I had at home instead.

[Anonymous No.1295187]

>>1290315
play a little of a game boy game called "swamp thing"

[Anonymous No.1295198]

>>1290376
wasn't there a trick to shoot the ball with an impossible swerve and really slow velocity making the ball unhittable?

[Anonymous No.1295205]

I thought it was such a good game

[Anonymous No.1295302]

>>1290927
but it was a power play series!

[Anonymous No.1295319]

>>1292937
CLAYTALITY

[Anonymous No.1295328]

Oh god those slow controls.

[Anonymous No.1295338]

This game still makes me nostalgic, even if it's practically unplayable.

[Anonymous No.1295345]

>>1292937
>>1295328

my black companions

anyway this. I still like it actually

[Anonymous No.1295348]

anything i ever had for gameboy/gbcolor/gba
it's a miracle i was able to parse through the shit and end up with so much good stuff for my n64
>>1295328
this is what i'm talking about. i know i have no fucking idea how i came about owning this, so what's your excuse?

[Anonymous No.1295349]

>>/v/

[Anonymous No.1295350]

>>1295348
>so what's your excuse?
Robocop.

[Anonymous No.1296085]

>>1291286
I remember jumping up to the gates in the sky, getting past the ghost area thing, then when I finally got enough remotes to go to another area losing the code that I needed to get back and then never playing it again. I think it's still in a closet somewhere.

[Anonymous No.1296129]

>>1295345
Good game, actually.

[Anonymous No.1296146]

>>1295338
i like it because athena <3

[Anonymous No.1296149]

Dear god, I didn't even know what I was doing.

[Anonymous No.1296172]

The droning music is forever burned into my memory.

[Anonymous No.1296178]

>>1295345
Heh, this is an awesome game. Name one thing that was poorly done except it being too short.
This on the other hand ...
I liked it anyway because I loved dinos and it was pretty spectacular at the time.

[Anonymous No.1296196]

kung fu, bayou billy and roger rabbit. i still like roger rabbit because the world just seems so big

[Anonymous No.1296197]

>>1290482
Body Harvest was OK.
>>1291095
See

>>1292937
Was OK when didn't know any better.

>>1296172
Dat shitty music, dem awful jump controls. TFW you can just walk back into the portal and skip entire levels.

[Anonymous No.1296451]

>>1291095 >>1296197
I think it's a little too cryptic. The game leaves you wondering what the hell you're actually doing and why you're doing it a lot of the time. You often don't know
>where you're going
>why you're going there
>if you're supposed to do anything before going to new zones
>what the bars even mean all of the time, I thought I had to fill up the bottom left bar by killing humans as a kid and that aliens were just bonus obstacles
>who you're even fighting against other than vaguely killing off things that appear randomly and shoot at you sometimes

I dunno, it's hard to explain, but the game had like no structure at all. It just threw a block of text at you in the intro then let you wander around in a largely barren and lifeless world with no clear objective and very minimal communication or "waypoints". That's how I felt anyway.

These days, with the internet and games like Terraria and Minecraft, that isn't so unusual because games have progressed to the point where the general things you should be working towards are heavily implied and you can always look things up if you get too confused. Back then, this game wasn't quite so refined and seemed like an experiment in game development rather than an actual video game.

So yeah, I'd say it wasn't so good. It was a great concept and I'm sure people loved it as just that: a concept. But as a standalone experience, it needed more direction.

[Anonymous No.1296490]

>>1296451
Fun fact. DMA Design themselves didn't know what the fuck they were doing. Nintendo offered to help them, and while they were impressed with their technical know-how, Nintendo reps were becoming progressively more depressed with how aimless DMA was. Nintendo dropped support for the game because progress was incredibly slow. Despite that, DMA firmly believes that they simply took on a challenge that was way too big for them, and they even believe Nintendo was not at fault.