/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3768131]

Evangelion vidya.

Did you play any?

[Anonymous No.3768160]

>>3768131
I played the one on N64, it was okay if a little clunky.

[Anonymous No.3768165]

>>3768160
That's also the only retro Eva game I've played, unless you count its appearances in SRWF and Alpha.

[Anonymous No.3768374]

>>3768131
I played the strip mahjong games for Windows. Direct from Gainax, a crossover with a few of their franchises. I was amused with Asuka getting jealous that Nadia was pretty sexually aggressive with Shinji.

I also played on PC the first Iron Maiden Girlfriend visual novel. Story was nice featuring a new character named Kirishima Mana, who was also sexually aggressive with Ikari, but sadly she was portrayed by the typical Hayashibara energy. I didn't experience the newer version that was on PS2 which had new endings such as Kirishima having a one night stand with Shinji before running away or the one where they do it in a love hotel then both decide to leave Tokyo-3. I haven't played many visual novels, and they really aren't my thing, but this game was okay.

[Anonymous No.3768378]

>>3768374
>evangelion screen savers
still blows my mind people would sell screensavers

[Anonymous No.3768379]

I have been meaning to play the Ayanami Raising Project. However, I think I would more likely go back to Princess Maker 2 more likely and leave these in my backlog forever.

[Anonymous No.3768382]

>>3768378
I liked them enough and thought they were amusing. They also came with various desktop mascots (widgets) which were amusing to me as well. People sell lots of stuff, here in my country at odd hours on fringe channels they have infomercials for all sorts of stuff.

[Anonymous No.3768518]

>>3768379
>>3768374
Start wearing a trip so I can filter you. Almost as obnoxious as Xpearse.

[Swift S. Lawliet No.3768732]

>>3768131
Neon Genesis Evangelion 64 and the DS version of Ayanami Raising Project.

>I was amused with Asuka getting jealous that Nadia was pretty sexually aggressive with Shinji

Kinda ironic since Shinji's appearance was based on Nadia.

[Anonymous No.3768986]

>>3768518
You can see the autisic note in every pic, so you'll just have to use that to mentally filter.

[Anonymous No.3769126]

>>3768518
I get it, you are entitled to a safe space. Maybe 4chan can come together like for Iwata's passing and start a gofundme page to get you one of those pillows with a hole in the middle for your pained vagina.


>>3768732
Had no idea, thought it was just Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's typical character design style at the time. I think that was the peak of his style before he purposely changed it.

[Anonymous No.3769923]

>>3768131

>Anno thinks of Rei as some kind of abomination against nature you should feel disgusted about.
>She becomes the biggest sex symbol in anime with Asuka

Really puts your pineal gland to work

[Anonymous No.3769948]

>>3769923
>anno makes a movie telling otaku to stop being such fucking faggots
>they don't, but the movie becomes a beloved otaku classic

Really makes my top pop.

[Anonymous No.3769954]

>>3768374
I've missed your pictures collector-kun

[Anonymous No.3770000]

>>3769923
>>3769948

That's why true patricians choose Mana.

it's sad that Mana faded away in popularity, she used to be quite popular back then, now nobody remembers her, and instead they sell merchandise of that literally who girls from the rebuilds.

[Anonymous No.3770012]

I understand that money's money but I still have trouble getting my head around the unfathomable amount of merchandise for NGE.

It seems like some weird artsy 2deep4u deal from what I understand but then again I never watched it.

[Anonymous No.3770017]

>>3770012
Some people become obsessed with the psychological aspect of it. I just came to see giant robots beat the shit out of giant monsters.

[Anonymous No.3770018]

>>3770012
In fact Evangelion had trouble getting their first sponsors, since the mecha designs didn't convince toy makers. SEGA was the first Evangelion sponsor, that's why there's so many Saturn games. But Sega also did trading cards and even toys (the first Evangelion toys were made by Sega).
Evangelion then took off in popularity and Ban Dai and the rest jumped the bandwagon.

You should watch Evangelion, regardless.
I understand the hype and the crazy fanbase surrounding it might scare people away, but it's worth it.

[Anonymous No.3770021]

>>3768374
>who was also sexually aggressive with Ikari
ANYONE BUT KAWORU WITH SHINJI REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Nice pics anon, please ignore the anons who are butthurt for no reason.

[Anonymous No.3770031]

>>3770018
>In fact Evangelion had trouble getting their first sponsors, since the mecha designs didn't convince toy makers.
That's kinda hard to imagine in retrospect. I guess a limber purple robot is a bit of a hard sell with no context.

[Anonymous No.3770035]

>>3770031
Not just the Evas, but the enemies were also all weird as fuck.

How do you sell a Sachiel toy?

Well, make the series popular, and people will want to buy it.
I have pic realted and it's one of the best figs I've ever got.

[Anonymous No.3770406]

>>3769126
So are you actually Xshit?

[Anonymous No.3770568]

>>3768374
How's that Card Library on Saturn?

[Anonymous No.3770594]

>>3770035
That looks like it'd be a cool figure to have, I've never seen angel merch before. Do you have a picture of it out of the box, Anon?

Also, played the N64 Eva game recently-ish. I would've shit myself if it had come out in the west back in its heyday, but I can think of few things LESS likely to have happened. You can't go wrong with a MIDI rendition of Cruel Angel's Thesis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXfpq7q67IA

[Anonymous No.3770604]

>>3770594
Not my pic, but here's a decent one. Although it doesn't make it complete justice.
The body is made of actual rubber, and building the kit is quite interesting, you build the skeleton first (all the inside articulations), then you have to stuff them, part by part, inside the skin. The model is articulated but you can't see the seaparation (only the feet are made of plastic, and the claws).

[Anonymous No.3770605]

>>3768131
i just recived this to day along with a bunch of other ones

[Anonymous No.3771318]

>>3770605
What are those games about? Are those all visual novels?

[Anonymous No.3771343]

>>3771318
Not him but only 1 of these is actually a proper VN, the one in upper left, Girlfriend of Steel (which was consireded THE Evangelion game back in the day, mainly because of how Mana Kirishima got popular with fans, populairty which later faded away as Evangelion fanbase expanded with new generations that never knew this games existed. Also, during the 90s there was no translation patches, though I might remember transcriptions in english, maybe published in geocities webs and what not.
upper right and bottom left are both Saturn games, haven't had the chance to play them yet but I think they're a mix of strategy/rpg battles with adventure/VN parts, maybe some mini-games thrown in as well.
Those are Sega's own Evangelion games, and actually the first Saturn game was the first Evangelion video game ever made. The main attraction are the 3D modeled Evas, which in all honesty don't look as great, but in 1996, seeing a 3D Evangelion must have been quite something (at least until 1999 when Eva64 released).
The second one on Saturn presents a new character called Megumi who ends up revealed to be an angel.
Megumi was never popular for some reason, or at least I don't ever remember seeing her back in the day, compared to Mana who was everywhere in merchandising, art books and what not.
I wonder if 2nd Impression inspired the idea of Girlfriend of Steel. Both games were released within months of each other, 2nd Impression coming first, but who knows.
(cont)

[Anonymous No.3771363]

>>3771343
Maybe another reason why GoS resonated better with the fanbase apart from Mana was the fact that it was made by the in-house Gainax guys, they had help from actual TV series staff to help with the screenwriting and art for the game. Also, the plot of the game actually does fit the canon of the series, unlike 2nd impression where they go full non-canon, GoS isn't canon but could perfectly be another episode on the TV series during the action arc.
Another thing, the Saturn games, at least the first one, has some original animated sequences of the Eva-01 in some action scenes battling a new angel. Well, the animation of these is QUALITY-tier. It's a nice curiosity.
Finally, the Digital Card Collection is maybe the weirdest of the bunch, I'd say it's a mini-game collection with a literal digital card collection simulator, you play mini-games, you unlock cards for your folder (which is organized by Rare, characters, Evas, etc. You also unlock more mini-games, I think there are 9 or 12 in total. Some are pretty bizarre and remind of Wario Ware, like one you have to keep up with Gendo's sightline doing some QTE things, or a more arcade action game like Magma Diver where you guide Asuka to the bottom of the lavapit, and pick up the angel, evading falling rocks and lava currents. It's actually not easy to get a good rank. And I think the better you do, the more rare cards you may get. Another funny one is a quiz minigame where you're asked random things like how many times does Asuka say "anta baka" in the series, after you choose your pick between 3 options, a hilarious video plays where you can actually see how many times Asuka said "anta baka" it's just 12, by the way.
Oh, also the cards are actually short clips. They look like cards, but if you select them, a short video will play, short clips of different moments related to the card (be it Shinji, Eva-01 or a UN vehicle). There's also a whole section for the "episode preview" scenes.

[Anonymous No.3771390]

>>3770000
....Who the fuck?

[Anonymous No.3771393]

>>3771390
read: >>3771343

[Anonymous No.3771438]

>>3768374

>you'll never live in Japan like collector anon.

[Anonymous No.3771452]

>>3770000

I remember Girlfriend of Steel was one of the earliest VNs and Evangelion games fully patched in Spanish and I guess in English as well and easily available on the internet

I 'member her being quite popular for that reason.

An anime store near I used to live sold this picture as a poster, I wanted one one for my room but I was hiding my powerlevel from my parents that are the very religious kind of people.

[Anonymous No.3771456]

>>3771452
I believe the translation patch didn't happen until the 2000s, but I still played GoS completely in japanese in early '99 on the PS1.
Mana was still fairly popular in Japan, where fan translations don't matter.

[Anonymous No.3771472]

>>3770000

>>3771343

>I wonder if 2nd Impression inspired the idea of Girlfriend of Steel. Both games were released within months of each other, 2nd Impression coming first, but who knows.

Mayumu Yamagishi, the original girl from 2nd Impression, is even more forgotten than Mana,maybe she was never even popular in the first place.

>>3771456
>I believe the translation patch didn't happen until the 2000s

Well I was into anime since I was around 13 years old (I was 10 years old in the year 2000).

>Mana was still fairly popular in Japan, where fan translations don't matter.

I see. That's why it's relatively easy to find official art of her. There is also another original girl called Marie Vinceness from a tabletop-RPG called "Neon Genesis Evangelion RPG: The Nerv White Paper" that is completely forgotten by everybody.

[Anonymous No.3771476]

>>3771472
Yeah, that RPG was only really known in Japan.
I forgot about that girl, definitely one of the most obscure Eva-related characters.

[Anonymous No.3772803]

>>3771476
I just noticed I have that game. It's just a book with the rules and cardboards as tokens for everything.
Didn't even remember it had an original character.

[Anonymous No.3773135]

>>3772803
Yeah, I've seen some scans of the book, it has some new angels which look actually freakish and cool.
Did you ever play the game?

[Anonymous No.3773163]

>>3770031
>That's kinda hard to imagine in retrospect.
If you're into old /m/ stuff it's not. The robot basically look kinda lame compared to what was made at the same time. As a kid if you had to choose between J-Decker and Eva-01 you'd probably choose the former because he's fucking rad.

[Anonymous No.3773176]

>>3773163
>look kinda lame

I actually think the Evas look badass, but yeah, they aren't the super armored, multicolored multi-part mechas that manufacturers like Ban Dai like to produce.
It's known that, for example the original RX-78 was going to be grey, but they kind of forced Tomino to make it more colorful to make it more eye-candy and sell it as a toy.
That's why, as I said, the first ones to pick up the Eva franchise as a sponsor, and make toys for it, was Sega. Ban Dai jumped ship later on.

[Anonymous No.3773184]

>>3773163
I love the Eva designs both tv and Rebuild, but I've never been into more "toyetic" mecha designs.

[Anonymous No.3773209]

I've been meaning to play girlfriend of steel/2nd, but I've been lazy. I've also kind of been hoping the PSP version would get translated and released, since 2nd did as well. There's another PSP eva game that sounded interesting, but that's obviously not retro.

I've wanted to grab some of the saturn games but I'm a lazy bastard.

[Anonymous No.3773217]

>>3773176
Those on this pic looks way better though. Look like it's straight from Guyver, which looks pretty good.
>multicolored
The problem isn't that they're not multicolored (they are), it's the way they designed their body. Sure you can do less boxy and more human-like limbs (they already did that with power-armors in metal-hero toku shows and stuff like Sonic soldier Borgman among other) but the torso is kinda messy, and the pose is more akin to the bad guy than the good guy (looks more like a beast).
Remember that in the 80s toys manufacturers already released less-conventional/weirder mech designs as plastic models (the various mechs from Five Star Stories or Dragon's Heaven).
>>3773184
I don't dislike it, but it ain't that good imo compared to many other mech designs, even less "kiddie" ones.

[Anonymous No.3773231]

>>3773217
>Those on this pic looks way better though.
They look more like toku stuff, that was still early into the design brainstorming.
>The problem isn't that they're not multicolored (they are)
Yeah I was just talking about another example in terms of design, the RX-78 has the usual blocky armor, multi-part design, but it lacked color (in its original design), the Evas were always meant to be colored (especially units 00 and 02 which are supposed to be blue and red because of the traditional oni images), 01's old design used to be all white, before they went with the thanks doc colors.
But yeah I was talking specifically about their bodies, their shape, they're very skinny, and their armors are very minimalistic outside of some intricate details, like unit 01's samurai-horned helmet.
>looks more like a beast
I guess that was the idea and they succeeded.

>Five Star Stories
I love it and love the mechas, wish I had a figure.

[Anonymous No.3773245]

>>3773209
Definitely play Girlfriend of Steel 1. The PC version has an english translation.
Can't recommend the 2nd one because I haven't played it, but from what I saw, it looked way less polished than the first one, in terms of art direction and quality.

[Anonymous No.3773542]

>>3773135
Nope, I guess I just bought it because I found it really cheap and I was into everything Evangelion related. I also have the Digital File like in >>3768374 but without the cd's or whatever else had.

[Anonymous No.3773550]

>>3773542
I'd actually love to have these Disc Collector CD's.
So you got a book about them, but not the CDs?

[Anonymous No.3773580]

>>3770017
The ending of the show is pretty explicitly stating that the only thing that matters in a show is the characters.

[Anonymous No.3773582]

>>3773550
Yes. Don't know what happened with the cd's, I just saw the book for 1 or 2€ and bought it without thinking too much about it. Maybe there can be downloaded somewhere?

[Anonymous No.3773593]

>>3773217
In the 80s japan had the money to support all kinds of wildly niche things.

[Anonymous No.3773603]

>>3768131
Any of these were you dont play as that faggot Shinji and instead as an OC?

[Anonymous No.3773623]

>>3773603
The digital card collection has a mini-game where you actually play as Ramiel and have to shoot Shinji down.

[Anonymous No.3773636]

>>3773582
>Maybe there can be downloaded somewhere?

Actually, that's not the case. They're very hard to come by online in DL form. I only found pictures of one of them, but not the desktop utilities (screensavers, etc).

Still hoping collector anon (>>3768374) would rip and upload them someday.

[Anonymous No.3773661]

>>3773636
I remember that Eva clock. I think it came with a CD from an anime magazine in first 00's. It also had some minigames, don't know from where.

[Anonymous No.3773667]

>>3773661
Yeah, I also got them on a CD-ROM from a magazine, late 90s actually.
I think they actually come from these Eva Collector Discs.

[Anonymous No.3773670]

>>3773636
I was looking for it and i found this;
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/pc/other/neon-genesis-evangelion-1st-impression/

>A Japan-only release of a Neon Genesis Evangelion episode in the form of an interactive DVD video game. Following the story of the popular animé series, the game presents an episode of its own. The player controls Shinji Ikari, the main character of the series. A new Angel appears and attacks Unit-01. As a result, Shinji loses his memory. His friends decide he should fight Asuka in Unit-02, hoping his memory will be restored as a result of the battles. The game contains many cut-scenes made by Gainax, the creators of the TV series. Many scenes are taken directly from original Neon Genesis Evangelion episodes. The player gains control when they have to make decisions for Shinji (choose correct answers, etc.), and when fighting Angels. The player should figure out which attack the Angel is using, and press corresponding buttons to defend and to counterattack it. The first Evangelion video game, released shortly after the TV series's run. The story is set after the episode ASUKA STRIKES!, with Shinji badly injured and suffering amnesia as the result of an Angel battle and needing to retrain (by sparring with Asuka in Unit-02) and having to defeat the Angel to regain his memories. The game features RPG elements and FMV clips for combat; most of the animation is original to 1st Impression (with the voices of the original Evangelion voice actors and some other content recycled from the TV series).

Seems to be a DVD that included some sort of game, didn't know it existed.

[Anonymous No.3773673]

>>3773667
Holy shit, you got it from Dokan too?

[Anonymous No.3773676]

>>3773670
This isn't one of the PC desktop CDs (collector discs), that's the first Evangelion game for Saturn released in 1996, mentioned in this post: >>3771343

Here's some gameplay footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRSQSXZdKUk

[Anonymous No.3773681]

>>3773673
Yeah, I figure the Dokan CD-ROM was the most complete of the unofficial Evangelion CDs given away by magazines. They actually included official stuff from the Collector Discs (probably without any sort of permission by Gainax, hehe).
I still have the magazine and the CD.

[Anonymous No.3773687]

>>3773676
I don't get it, it's the saturn game "ported" in a DVD?

[Anonymous No.3773690]

>>3773681
Maybe it's too much to ask, but could you upload it?
I also remember they had most part of the soundtrack.

[Anonymous No.3773707]

>>3773687
No idea really, by the description of it and the name, it sounds it's just the old Saturn game. Maybe it got ported to PC later?

>>3773690
I actually uploaded some of it for a past thread, here you go:
https://mega.nz/#!PctQUb5S!w4fi-RNjL7PqtzGzfSy6lr4cWpuusnFs02QeGgVBGFo

It's just the desktop themes (screensavers, clock, etc). Be aware you need 32bit windows for them to run.

[Anonymous No.3773712]

>>3773707
>Be aware you need 32bit windows for them to run.

How's that? Sadly I use xp.

[Anonymous No.3773715]

>>3773712
I think it should run fine on XP.

[Anonymous No.3773720]

>>3773707
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.3774319]

>>3770594
>never seen Angel merch
I thought casual faggots didn't browse /vr/