/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1505897]

Moments in retro vidya where you felt like an idiot.
>Play on Death Wind in F-Zero for the first time
>Notice my car is moving slightly left or right
>Think my game is messed up
>Removed the cart and clean it
>Play again, reach Death Wind
>Same shit happens
>"Oh man, I think I picked up a broken game"
>Sit their and looking at the game
>Say the level name to myself quietly
>waitforit.gif
>"...OH!"
>therewego.png
I'm not the brightest person

[Anonymous No.1505907]

I never got past the second level of Death and Return of Superman as a child because I already knew that Doomsday was going to beat Superman to death, so every time I got to the boss, I just let Doomsday kill me instead of fighting back and was puzzled as to why I could not continue the game.

[Anonymous No.1505908]

When I first played Earthworm Jim as a kid, I was never able to get past What The Heck because I never realised that I'm supposed to jump on those green crystal things and start running until years later.

I was kind of dumb as a kid.

[Anonymous No.1505957]

My brother and I actually managed to clip through the wall a few times just by timing our jumps right.
In everyone's defense, that was the weirdest one time use game mechanic ever.

[Anonymous No.1505972]

Secret of Mana. When you're near the sword and your character says "The village is this way...I need to find something to cut through." It took me like 10 minutes to realize I could walk through the little waterfall to get to the sword. this was like three months ago. I'm 25.

[Anonymous No.1506038]

Flying Battery act 2 -- got stuck as a kid because I didn't know to jump over the dash panel that sent you the wrong way. I'd always end up level-selecting past that. Only found what to do 4 or 5 years ago...

[Anonymous No.1506045]

>>1505957
Yeah, I don't think that one was your fault.

[Anonymous No.1506051]

Took me about a week to leave the house in Pokemon Blue.

[Anonymous No.1506054]

>>1506051
How...?

[Anonymous No.1506064]

>>1506054
Needed to git gud

[Anonymous No.1506070]

>>1505908

it took me a while too

[Anonymous No.1506071]

>>1506051
i couldnt find flash for the life of me, so i ended up wandering through mt moon in the dark for about an hour before i made it to the other side

[Anonymous No.1506096]

>>1506071
I never got flash and just realized you could change the color scheme on the gameboy color to get through.

[Anonymous No.1506117]

When I was a kid I legit thought my Pokemon Blue cart had a bug or something since the screen kept flashing every 5 steps, little did I realise this was supposed to happen when one of your team is poisoned...

[Anonymous No.1506128]

>>1505897
>Sit their
>their
...
>I'm not the brightest person
Yeah I can see that.

[Anonymous No.1506238]

>>1505908
i realised it, but then i got owned some levels later. that game is impossible to finish. no password, seriously?

[Anonymous No.1506243]

>be small anon
>playing Link's Awakening
>always played with my volume really low so my parents wouldn't bust me playing late at night
>could never find my way through the last dungeon since I couldn't hear the hollow wall noise
>like six months later randomly trying everything and finally realized what was up as I tapped the right spot

[Anonymous No.1506354]

>>1506054
Same thing happened to me, didn't know that the mat was the exit. Had to hand the game to my brother, and he showed me.

To be fair, I was 5 or 6.

[Anonymous No.1506402]

>>1505957
i think little signs in the level with Up and Down arrows that light up as you press Up and Down respectively would have helped to indicated that pressing those buttons is of some special importance in that level. It is even worse because when Sonic is on those barrels U/D don't seem to have any effect at all, and the fact that jumping on it in rhythm makes more sense than simply pressing buttons that at first blush seem to not garner any response at all while he is on the barrels.

[Anonymous No.1506410]

>>1506128
>Sit their
Oh wow, didn't even notice that.
I feel dumb.

[Anonymous No.1506437]

>secret of evermore
>return to Antica (the second world) after I get the plane
>that dungeon were the end if Tiny throwing stuff at you while you take teleporters to get to him

i got lost for weeks at that part
All I had to do was go through the teleporters in order but for soem reason I kept going back because I expected the solution to be more complicated

[Anonymous No.1506474]

>>1505957
That makes me feel a bit better that it took me about 30 minutes to figure out. I thought it was jump timing related as well.
I hit a roadblock for about a year in Resident Evil where you're supposed to put the battery in the lift, THEN re-crank the flood gate to shut off the waterfall. I was stuck on that through grade 6, and it wasn't until I started year 7 that someone told me how to do it.

[Anonymous No.1507431]

In Shining Force 2, I never knew I had to put the wooden plank into the hole of the tree, until the internet and gamefaqs came about.

[Anonymous No.1507440]

Playing Donkey Kong Country without realizing there was a way to run and wondering why the jumps were so insane to pull off. I got as far as Millstone Mayhem before cottoning on.

>>1506071
Mt. Moon isn't dark. You're thinking of Rock Tunnel.

[Anonymous No.1507441]

>>1507440
Oh and that was about two years ago when looking at the games I missed as a child. But when growing up I made the exact same mistake in Doom II and couldn't figure out how to get the red key in the second level.

[Anonymous No.1507456]

>>1507440
I had a roommate in college who didn't know that Mario could run.

He had been trying to play Super Mario Bros. for years.

And did not know that Mario could run.

[Anonymous No.1507457]

Super Metroid's noob tube.

Turns out nate pulled it off years ago, though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w9FYWR_RYM

[Anonymous No.1510094]

>buy genesis and sonic 2
>forgot about A/V
>buy A/V (2 weeks shipping)
>see headphone port on genesis
>hmm, I can at least test if this genesis works
>plug everything in, plug headphones in
>forgot about controllers
>buy controllers (they come quick)
>turn it on, plug in controller
>everything works judging by what I hear except one thing
>push all 3 jump buttons in sonic 2
>hear 2 jump sounds
>"Fuck are my controllers shitty? Or is it the console? FUCK."
>whine and moan about retro /v/idya, regret all my purchases and wish I didn't invest
>a/v cables finally came but not many fucks are given
>plug into TV
>push all jump buttons
>hear 2 jump sounds, but see tails shortly jump after sonic
>mfw

[Anonymous No.1510098]

>>1506054
It's an epic /vp/ meme from a few years ago.

[Anonymous No.1510124]

>>1506238

It's not that hard, even without passwords. Don't get me wrong, there are totally trouble spots (game overs aplenty in Buttville) but I wouldn't call it impossible to finish.

[Anonymous No.1510125]

>>1510094
One day this knuckledragger will forget to breathe.

[Anonymous No.1510163]

>>1506071
I got lost in Whirlpool lslands in Crystal without Flash and had to make map just based on the wall bouncing sound, then compare it to actual maps on serebii before I finally managed to get out.

[Anonymous No.1510171]

>>1510163
Why didn't you just get all your Pokémon knocked out? But if that didn't occur to you, you probably happened to have escape ropes or Dig.

[Anonymous No.1510179]

>>1510171
I haven't really thought of killing my precious friends but I'm sure there were no escape ropes in my bag.
Only found one on way out

[Anonymous No.1510216]

>>1510179
You're not killing them though. It's just a knock-out and it happens all the time in the anime.

[Anonymous No.1512404]

>>1510124
It's definitely do-able. I remember the XBLA HD remake had a chievo for finishing the whole thing without dying, weirdly enough the Andy Asteroids after Snot a Problem was where I had the most trouble.

[Anonymous No.1512452]

I remember when i got Oot when it just come out. Took it over to a friends house to play it because if everyone from that era remembers it was sold out everywhere so some unlucky people did not have a chance to get it. Anyway we were stuck on a part we had no idea what to do so we spent a half hour trying to figure it out till we said screw it we need help we walked down to a convenient store closest to us bought a Game Pro or something else can't really remember took it back to his house soon as we got back into it we stumbled on what we were supposed to move and thought damn we did not even need to get that so he figured ill rio a few pages and take it back tell them i bought it this way and get my money back Ha he took it back and they exchanged it he lost anyway. Sorry for the long story but it is the most vivid time i can think of were a game made us feel and look like idiots.

[rashad No.1512486]

>>1506071
haha me too, I also had problems locating team rockets hideout in the game center.

[Anonymous No.1514071]

>>1507431

to be fair shining force 2 gets a bit all over the place around half way through the game. I always used to get confused about what to do next when i was younger.

As far as my own idiot moment it would have to be suikoden. You get told at the beginning to og outside and find the dragon/gryphon (whatever fantasy flying creature it is) so you can travel to the first place.

When they said outside rather than thinking outside of the room i thought they meant outside of the entire fucking town, so i spent hours wandering around the world map fighting shit and levelling with no party and no clue of where i was supposed to go. I fully gave up on the game until a few months later where i tried again and realised how stupid i had been.

[Anonymous No.1514080]

I borrowed the Jungle Book for SNES from a friend once. I think the second level boss was Kaa the snake.

Neither of us could figure out how to beat him and I never borrowed it again and I think he never beat it.

[Anonymous No.1514096]

>>1507440

I seem to remember Rock Tunnel being light enough to see the walls and make it through in Red and Blue, but pitch black in Yellow. I was determined not to waste a slot on Flash so I just played Blue and Yellow in sync. Allowing that sort of sneaky trickery is just magic to me.

[Anonymous No.1514103]

>>1514096
>not just having an HM bitch
Good ol' Likitung

[Anonymous No.1514104]

The first time playing LttP as a kid, got to the third temple in the light world and gave up for a few months.
I didn't know you could pick up the heavier stones with the mitt.

[Anonymous No.1514137]

>>1514103

Why do something simple and efficient when you can do something needlessly complicated?

[Anonymous No.1514143]

You're not an idiot. You sound mentally retarded. Go see a doctor