/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1305616]

What is your favorite Action 52 game?

[Anonymous No.1305643]

Steamerz

[Anonymous No.1306409]

>>1305616
None, thanks to god

[Anonymous No.1306445]

>>1305616
Alfred and the fettuc

[Anonymous No.1306457]

OOZE!!!!

[Anonymous No.1306461]

>>1306445
>Alfred and the fettuc

It's Alfred N The Fettuc you filthy casual fuck

[Anonymous No.1306498]

>>1305616
I've only played the Genesis version, but Darksyne is pretty cool. It was smart to stick it up at the top of the menu.

[Anonymous No.1306521]

>>1305643
This. Streemerz is the best game on the cartridge, not that that's much of a feat.

Anyone played that remake/reimagining of Streemerz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffGDPm0gQYY

[Anonymous No.1306535]

>>1306521
I played the NES version, like the one you posted.

Strange, this seems to actually out-do the original flash game in popularity. Possibly a first for a homebrew game. What's amazing is how rather professionally made this NES game is! I suppose there's still hope for homebrew games? All we need is Super Bat Puncher, and we'll have it made.

[Anonymous No.1306540]

>>1306535
>All we need is Super Bat Puncher, and we'll have it made.
Absolutely!
If that game is ever finished, it will be one of my favorite NES games ever made, commercial release, ROMhack, or otherwise. I'm that impressed with that demo of the game.

[Anonymous No.1306551]

>>1306540
SBP's demo rivals professionally made games from the best years of the NES. I dare say it gives SMB3 a run for it's money! What's strange, the programmer ever refers to the demo as using "an old, crappy engine", and he's reworking the entire engine. It'd be a shame if this is discontinued for the NES and instead moved to a different platform, or worse, it stays NES exclusive but is buried under obscurity.

Would Nintendo allow him to release a version of his game on either the eShop or Virtual console, on the grounds that, for example, it stays exclusive on Nintendo consoles? I'd hate to make a game as a tribute to one of my favorite game consoles, only for Nintendo to tell me to go fuck myself and C&D me. I think that's what happened to the earlier builds of Retro City Rampage, formerly known as Grand Theftendo.

[Anonymous No.1306558]

This thread reminds me.

I never tried the Genesis version of this.

[Anonymous No.1306576]

>>1306551
Nintendo can't stop anyone from making homebrew NES games to my knowledge, and even if they could, they wouldn't.
Nintendo rarely even messes with fangames. Even something like AM2R, a remake of a game Nintendo is currently selling on the 3DS eshop, is still being made, and that's a pretty high-profile project, there's no way Nintendo isn't aware of it.

I'm pretty sure development of Retro City Rampage was moved from NES to PC just to get away from the technical limitations of the platform, in particular the 8 sprites per line limit, if I recall correctly.

[Anonymous No.1306604]

G-Force Fgt

It's a game where you play as the Fgt

[Anonymous No.1306610]

>>1306558
The Genesis version is actually somewhat competent.
Still nowhere near worth the $200, but better.

Of course that's only because it steals a shit ton from other games because why the hell not.

[Anonymous No.1306804]

>>1306604
Isn't that real life?

[Anonymous No.1306836]

those dam busters

[Anonymous No.1306874]

>>1305616
Haunted Hills/Halls or maybe Cheetahmen

[Anonymous No.1306880]

>>1305616
Who could forget the TRUE classic of Action 52, Cheetahmen?

[Anonymous No.1306949]

>>1306558
The games are on the same level of fun/complexity as the NES titles but actually kinda worse since they lack all the crazyness from the original game. Obviously not worthwile at all.

[Anonymous No.1306974]

>>1306409
I clicked it.

[Anonymous No.1307015]

That one Shmup.

[Anonymous No.1307126]

Non Human, if only for Geriatric Hollywood Dracula down at the bottom of the screen.

[Anonymous No.1307135]

I thought Evil Empire was JUST BARELY playable, so that puts it ahead of pretty much everything else.

[Anonymous No.1307181]

>>1307126
>that filter

why

[Anonymous No.1307184]

>>1307181
Because it pisses /vr/ off. No other reason.

[Anonymous No.1307191]

>>1307126
I never really got what the character was supposed to be. Any ideas??

[Anonymous No.1307213]

>>1306804
Only when I'm the OP.

[Anonymous No.1307343]

>>1307191
It's a non-human.

[Anonymous No.1307394]

>>1305616
You know it.

[Anonymous No.1307432]

Illuminator is pretty innovative and challenging with the dark gimmick.

Megalonia is probably one of the better titles of the collection. Your kill count on the drones determines the boss' health meter.

Streemerz is another playable title.

Underground is playable if you time the beginning shots properly.

Non-Human is one of my favorite title simply for those vampire heads.

Slashers also has some hidden depth to it as well.

Lollipops after level 1 gets unsettling. Anyone play level 3?

Evil Empire is also playable and also unlosable.

Billy Bob makes me wonder how much money they had in general. Some games today don't have that amount of detail in their spritework.

Bits and Pieces is a playable title. Very misleading with the description.

Beeps and Blips is very fun. Very hard near the end.

Manchester is a guilty pleasure.

Hambo's Adventures is playable if you time that jump properly. People don't do that at all.

Ninja Assault is another impressive title. Again, I question how much budget they had.

Cheetahmen lastly, has the most polish and that's saying something.

Overall, Action 52 is one of my favorite games unironically. It serves as what a game should never become. It's a piece of education. I was fucking crazy about the game for years. The Genesis version was somewhat more polished, but not as memorable. Plus Cheetahmen got downplayed a little.

Anyway, take a look at this. Active Enterprises planned a third game along with Sports 5 and an SNES version of Action 52. I wonder if the comic is still somewhere online.

[Anonymous No.1308242]

>>1306576
Huh, I could've sworn that Nintendo asked him to remove all NES development related materials on his site in exchange for the rather basic NES version to be included in the Wii (and Steam) versions of his game.

Looking at his demo, flicker is really not that big of an issue since it rarely happens. What kills it is the slowdown, which he admits was due to his own program optimization. If anything would impose a problem for this game, it would've been the fact that he has WAY too many things onscreen, well above the NES' limit of 64 sprites. So if he modified the pedestrian and vehicle spawning system, he could make the game work as intended on the NES. That means it'd have to be cut down, and utilize many tricks such as forced flicker for bullets and making destroyed vehicles and people disappear.

[Anonymous No.1308268]

Mrs. Tits

[Anonymous No.1309324]

>>1306974
Good for you, anon <3

[Anonymous No.1309620]

>>1307191

In the inofficial remake it was a giant robot and you know, I can kinda make out one in the original game, too.

[Anonymous No.1309634]

>>1307191
Looks like Beetle uice wearing a cape to me.

[Anonymous No.1310883]

>>1305616
The one that isn't broken or repetitive.

[Anonymous No.1310903]

>>1307126
>>1309620
>remake
>it's an actual thing, albeit fanmade
I'll be damned

[Anonymous No.1311920]

>>1310903
Dude. I've wanted to remake Action 52's games for a while and some people have done it. Whoa.

[Anonymous No.1312018]

>>1307126
It's Salmonella Fitz-Gerald

[Anonymous No.1312387]

>>1307394

heh

[Anonymous No.1312635]

>>1312018
kek

[Anonymous No.1314847]

>>1305616

Crazy Shufle or Time Warp Tickers.

[Anonymous No.1314858]

silver sword

action 52 may have been shit but some of the music was fantastic. silver sword, cheetamen, etc.

[Anonymous No.1315091]

>>1307126
look at all that purple and green