/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4254501]

The year is 1996. Most video games look like this. You knew somewhere inside that they were on a 2D plane, but it never really hit you. Before long, you flip to Nickelodeon and suddenly see this commercial.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SqLta2JhTc4
What is your reaction?

[Anonymous No.4254512]

>>4254501
>Wait, it doesn't even play CDs? I'll stick with my Playstation.

[Anonymous No.4254513]

Go home and play Doom.

[Anonymous No.4254521]

>>4254501
I never knew Mario was in Toy Story!

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4254594]

Too busy playing Tomb Raider and Resident Evil to watch Nick

[Anonymous No.4254627]

>>4254501
>flip to Nickelodeon
Sunshine, we've only got four channels

[Anonymous No.4254629]

Not american and didn't have cable back in 1996.

[Anonymous No.4254641]

>>4254594
I remember playing Tomb Raider on the Saturn and buying a guide for the PC version.
It was crazy how every screenshot in the guide was super clear with no aliasing.
Back then I thought it must have been 128bit (I was like 10),
I didn't get a PC until about 5 years later.

[Anonymous No.4254648]

>>4254501
>lol it's still uses CDs? c'mon, it's 1996 now!
And Mario for babies, sure.

[Anonymous No.4254672]

>>4254501
I don't think I was ever as heavily affected by Mario in 3D as Sonic in 3D

[Anonymous No.4254718]

>>4254594
This.

[Anonymous No.4254798]

>>4254594
>it's another gaggage bramps acts like a grownup on /vr/ episode

[Anonymous No.4254806]

I would watch the adventures of pete and pete and go back to playing total eclipse on my 3do (I didn't have a playstation in 1996 yet).

[Anonymous No.4254813]

>>4254501
>it's another "millennial thinks Super Mario 64 innovated 3D gaming" episode

[Anonymous No.4254824]

>>4254813
Gen Z, anon, you want to say Gen Z.
And actually, Mario 64 did innovate 3D gaming.
The only other 3D platformer that innovated from around that time was Jumping Flash, but it did it in a different manner and sadly nobody else followed its steps.

[Anonymous No.4254826]

>>4254512
>he confuses the physical medium with the quality of the games
Oh no, he's retarded.

[Anonymous No.4254831]

>>4254824
>And actually, Mario 64 did innovate 3D gaming.

Please leave /vr/ forever, millennial scum.

[Anonymous No.4254837]

>>4254813
>It's another "contrarian-anon thinks it DIDN'T revolutionize 3D gaming"
Kek. Go on and tell be how Tomb Raider and Jumping Flash are better in every regard. I'll try not to laugh.

[Anonymous No.4254838]

>>4254831
>people mistake "being an early 3D game" for "being a revolutionary 3D game"

[Anonymous No.4254840]

>>4254831
Gen Z, anon, you want to say Gen Z.
You know, the demographic generation you're part of, that thinks they know a lot because they can use google and wikipedia.

[Anonymous No.4254852]

>>4254831
Wow, look at all these later games that borrowed heavily from it's design and extended it's influence for generations to come! Pic very related because there is no fucking pic.
>>4254840
There's a few gen X fags that are caught in the "later generations aren't as great as mine" meme, most don't give any more of a fuck than they do about their early 30-something coworkers though.

[Anonymous No.4254931]

>>4254501
Speaking as somebody who was alive in 1996, I'd played Doom, Star Fox, Virtua Fighter etc before Mario 64. I don't think commercials or screenshots blew my mind at all. What really impressed me about Mario 64 was that you could jump on the staircase's handrail right after you walk in the castle, and slide down off of it. That seems like such a minor thing but the fact that this incidental "background" object was a real physical thing that your character could interact with was a big deal to me. You were actually in a world, and not just walking past a picture of a world. Even in Doom, the trees and barrels etc are just these cylindrical hitboxes with sprites stuck on them, they're not really "there" in the same way.

[Anonymous No.4254969]

I was already used to 3D stuff since I grew up playing PC games. Doom was mind-blowing, and by 1996 there was quite a bit of great 3D getting thrown around. Everyone into video games knew what the PSX and Saturn was like. I remember being particularly impressed by Ridge Racer, since it was a big jump over the PC racing game graphics.

I did think the N64 looked really good at the time. The textures not getting blocky when you were close was a really big feature, and the games had a relatively high polygon count for the time. It wasn't until 3D accelerators became mainstream on PC that things really caught up.

[Anonymous No.4254973]

>>4254501
In 96 I think I've already played Virtua Fighter.

[Anonymous No.4255021]

>>4254798
In 1996 my older (24 year old) girlfriend had moved to my city from West Virginia working as a home health aid. She didn't have cable so we basically only watched The Simpsons on VHS. She had a spare bedroom and my best friend moved in so things would be cheaper so I was basically there all the time and didn't really see any commercials period. It was him that had the Playstation with RE and TR. I had played at launch at my friend's house and been pretty impressed but RE & TR blew me away. That friend got me the job at Babbage's early in '97 and that's when I really started partying with mall people and ended up getting my own place in which to party with hotter mall sluts. Or perhaps this is all just an artistic work of fiction.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4255027]

>>4254798
In 1996 my older (24 year old) girlfriend had moved to my city from West Virginia working as a home health aid. She didn't have cable so we basically only watched The Simpsons on VHS. She had a spare bedroom and my best friend moved in so things would be cheaper so I was basically there all the time and didn't really see any commercials period. It was him that had the Playstation with RE and TR. I had played at launch at my friend's house and been pretty impressed but RE & TR blew me away. That friend got me the job at Babbage's early in '97 and that's when I really started partying with mall people and ended up getting my own place in which to party with hotter mall sluts. Or perhaps this is all just an artistic work of fiction

[Anonymous No.4255116]

>>4254973
I thought Virtua Fighter looked absolutely awful at the time. Toshinden was the first polygon game I thought looked actually good. First Playstation game I ever played.

[Anonymous No.4255143]

>>4255027
Boring fic.

[Anonymous No.4255161]

>>4254501
>The year is 1996. Most video games look like this.

No, not really. In 1996, video games looked like this..

[Anonymous No.4255189]

I'd be more interested in this.

[Anonymous No.4255208]

*Shits diaper*

[Anonymous No.4255213]

>>4255027
>so we basically only watched The Simpsons on VHS

Jesus you might as well should've just killed yourself, I know I would.

[Anonymous No.4255304]

>>4254501
LOL WHY THIS IS SO BLURRY

[Anonymous No.4255320]

>>4254501
I had roughly that exact experience, OP. weird.

[Anonymous No.4255335]

>Why would they do this? Mario just wouldn't work in 3D. Where's my real sequel to Super Mario World?

[Anonymous No.4255435]

>>4255335
>tfw had to wait 10 years for new super mario bros tocome out

[Anonymous No.4255454]

>>4254501

N64 games looked more real than reality. My 7yo mind got blown away when I first got to play one.

[Anonymous No.4255460]

>>4255435
>tfw it ends up being shit

thanks nintendo

[Anonymous No.4255464]

>>4255460
I liked it.

[Anonymous No.4255471]

>>4254501
I had a PS1 by the time the N64 came out, and my parents wouldn't get it for me since I already had a PS. N64 had like 4-5 good games, ps had a shit load, even if graphics weren't as great, ps won that gen and the next by a fucking landslide.

[Anonymous No.4255478]

>>4255471
>n64 had 4-5 good games
I admit psx won that gen but n64 had like 35 good games, retard.

[Anonymous No.4255479]

>>4255471
The only winners of that gen were the idorts.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4255527]

>>4255213
It was only the brilliant first 6 seasons because that's all there was

[Anonymous No.4255563]

>>4255471
Graphics on PS1 are better if you compare multiplatform.

[Anonymous No.4255564]

>>4255464
I did too, until it became obvious Nintendo was content to make them as visually uninspired as possible. I could understand it looking the way it did on the DS, and I could somewhat excuse it for the Wii because of the simultaneous multiplayer, but 2 and U had no excuse.

[Rican asshole No.4255572]

>>4254501
I would not have gotten a N64 till about 2 to 3 years later due to being poor and would have kept on playing the SNES quite possibly collecting alot of the games when the stores were getting rid of them in the late 90's to early 2000's.

When it comes to N64 most of my games came from hollywood video or blockbuster far after the PS2 era (just right before the PS3 came out).

[Anonymous No.4255963]

>>4254501
I'd already been playing 3d games on computer long before SNES came out, also I'd played Starfow and Vortex as well as Virtua Racing at home so it was nothing surprising.

I thought the game looked oind of bad, but I wasn't a Mario fan to start with.

[Anonymous No.4255965]

>>4254798
It's another "why wasn't everyone five years old when I wad five years old" thread. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeees

[Anonymous No.4255980]

>>4254501
>most video games look like this
>this is what console kiddies actually believe

[Anonymous No.4255994]

Honestly you had to be a pretty young kid or a pretty casual player to be impressed by the 3D in Mario 64. PSX and Saturn were already out and Sega had been making 3D arcades for a couple of years by that point. There was no big jump, just a gradually improving tech.

What made M64 stand out so much were its godlike controls.

[Anonymous No.4255995]

>>4254501
Even SNES had 3D games

[Anonymous No.4256003]

>>4255161
DOS doesn't count.

[Anonymous No.4256012]

>>4256003
Suit yourself.

[Anonymous No.4256014]

>>4254931
i was disappointed at the time that the trees were 2d like in doom but there was no where else you could get texture filtering so it seemed extremely advanced

[Anonymous No.4256015]

>>4256003
Why would you say something as stupid as that?

[Anonymous No.4256045]

The SNES already had games with "3D" gameplay, like Super Star Wars and Pilotwings, and games with better graphics, like DKC. I didn't get the implications of full 3D, so I wasn't impressed.

[Anonymous No.4256050]

>>4256045
>DKC
>decent graphics

[Anonymous No.4256052]

>>4256050

I was comparing it to SM64, not the best-looking games of 1996.

[Anonymous No.4256062]

>>4254501
I never saw that comercial, but I did see one about Apple Jacks or some cereal giving out a contest to win Mario 64 and a party for 64 of your friends.
That was the first time seeing the game, had like 1.5 seconds of footage.
Super Mario RPG had come out just last year, so this seemed like a natural step.

That being said, actually playing super mario 64 in store displays had a big impact.

>>4254806
Total Eclipse was awesome. Had that on Atari ST

[Anonymous No.4256070]

>>4256045

>2D sprites on a rotating 2D backgroud
>3D

you were not the smartest kid, were you?

[Anonymous No.4256072]

>>4256070

You're one of those people who goes "actually it's a 2.5D game" whenever someone talks about Doom, aren't you

[Anonymous No.4256073]

>>4254501
Super Mario World > Super Mario 64

N64/PS1 graphics SUUUUUUCKED

[Anonymous No.4256080]

>>4256070

You're one of those people who buts in with "actually it's 2.5D" whenever someone calls Doom a 3D game, aren't you

[Anonymous No.4256125]

>>4255027
stfu tripfag
didn't read

[Anonymous No.4256128]

I already played 3D PC games like Fury3, so it wasn't a new thing.

[Anonymous No.4256134]

wew whats with all these tryhards acting like mario 64 pilotwings 64 and waverace 64 aren't the tightest fucking thing ever even today?
sick of /vr/s bullshit

[Anonymous No.4256182]

>>4256134
>pilotwings 64 and waverace 64
you shovelware you have there little buddy

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4256215]

>>4256125
Sorry for not being so sublimely concise as you

[Anonymous No.4256219]

>>4256073
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.4256232]

Like others said, we already had 3D for a long time by 1996. I was excited about the new games coming out, but it wasn't really that big of a deal. They were just new games, the 3D didn't really make them special or anything.

[Anonymous No.4256239]

>>4254501
All these faggots acting like they weren't impressed.

The 3D freedom from that game was mind boggling for the time. The worlds were huge and demanded you to explore them. To top it all of you could freely fly around.
The first time I saw it my jaw was on the floor. I couldn't even begin to comprehend how they could control Mario so fluidly and precisely. I had never used a joystick before.

I think I have never been as impressed with technology as when I saw SM64 for the 1st time. The only thing that came close was demoing the Oculus Rift, and even then, SM64 wins.

[Anonymous No.4256241]

>>4256134
Trolls and underage acting like they're not. 3d game consoles like the N64 and PS1 were probably the most hyped thing the game industry has ever had. But at the same time 3d games had been around for awhile.

[Anonymous No.4256243]

>>4256239
>I had never used a joystick before.

[Anonymous No.4256249]

>>4256243
My only previous consoles were a NES and a Gameboy.

[Anonymous No.4256251]

>being a console baby

[Anonymous No.4256258]

>>4256249
Then no wonder you were so impressed. Not everyone was living under a rock in 1996.

[Anonymous No.4256263]

>>4256239
>>4256249
>I had never used a joystick before
It's impossible to have been alive in the 90s and not use a joystick. Arcades were everywhere, even in third world shitholes. You must have been a literal baby in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.4256278]

>>4256263
We all know that being a baby in the 90s are technically impossible.

[Anonymous No.4256280]

>>4256258
>>4256263
I'm talking about proper analog joysticks, not those 8 directional shits on arcade units. I knew what a joystick was. It didn't help to understand how a character could move so precisely as in the videos.
I was 10 years old in 1996 by the way.

[Anonymous No.4256291]

>>4256280
Not the same guy, I'm only >>4256258

But this whole thing is just about 3D exposure. People that were up to date with the industry didn't have the same experience than someone jumping directly from GB to N64. It was natural for you to be blown away by the 3D in M64 because you had nothing else to compare it to.

[Anonymous No.4256296]

>>4254501
There year was 1994 and I was playing pic related.

Fuck off console only fanboy.

[Anonymous No.4256301]

>>4256296
1995*

[Anonymous No.4256303]

>>4256291
3d on home consoles and not a $2500+ PC or arcade was a big deal, child. Andthis is a different anon.

[Anonymous No.4256309]

>>4256303
>PSX and Saturn never existed

[Anonymous No.4256310]

>>4256291
>jumping directly from GB to N64
Of course not. But I had seen 3D stuff. I had played Doom and some 3D fighting games, but nothing remotely as impressive as SM64.
It didn't help the fact that I loved Super Mario.

I remember the host on the gameshow explaining "no, this is not an animated cutscene, this is the ACTUAL game, you can move like that".
I think it was the general opinion that it was quite groundbreaking back then.

[Anonymous No.4256312]

>>4256309
What are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.4256342]

>>4256310
>you can move like that
That's the thing that actually impressed me. No other game controlled like SM64 back then. The pure technical aspect, as in moving in a 3D space, not so much.

>>4256312
You're making it look like SM64 was some kind of pioneer in home console 3D gaming when shit like Panzer Dragoon and Ridge Racer came out a whole year before. It was a goat game because of the freedom and generally getting how to move in a 3d space right, not so much because of the tech itself.

[Anonymous No.4256351]

>>4256342
All I said was "3d on home consoles" you idiot. You seem incapable of not spewing some dank /v/ meme so that figures you can't read either. And you're really downplaying the importance of sm64.

[Anonymous No.4256361]

>>4256351
I said that 3D was already commonplace by 1996, then you said it was a big deal for home consoles and I told you that it was commonplace in that market too. Not sure where you're trying to get at.
>And you're really downplaying the importance of sm64.
No I'm not. Not controlling like shit was a pretty big fucking deal.

[Anonymous No.4256365]

>>4256351
Not him but if you're the one saying you needed a $2500+ pc to be playing 3D games back then you have no idea what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.4256368]

>>4256361
How was 3d commonplace in the home console market before the 5th gen?
>No I'm not. Not controlling like shit was a pretty big fucking deal.
K, champ.

[Anonymous No.4256369]

>>4256368
>M64 was the very first 5th gen game
You're doing it on purpose don't you.

[Anonymous No.4256373]

>>4256365
In 1996? Ya you pretty much did.

[Anonymous No.4256376]

>>4256369
Quote where I said that kiddo. I'll wait.

[Anonymous No.4256381]

>>4256373
You could easily spend that much if you wanted, that's how PCs usually are if you go for the bleeding edge. But it wasn't necessary at all. I put together a new PC in '98 for playing Tribes and monitor and keyboard aside the whole thing was just over 600$ and I wasn't on a crazy budget.

[Anonymous No.4256392]

>>4256368
It depends what you mean when you say commonplace. 3D games were common on PCs, and Genesis and SNES both had games in full 3D, but they were few in number.

[Anonymous No.4256410]

>>4256134
The past 2 week there were like 5 threads shutting on PlayStation and PC and saying how N64 was the best system ever. I really could not belive that people were seriously thinking this. Had to be a troll.

[Anonymous No.4256413]

>>4256381
What year are we talking about here? Either way you're spending more than $1500 for something that would be considered "good" these days. Not many people are trying to play Unreal on a pII with like 16-32mb of ram and maybe 800mb hdd.
>>4256392
And not everyone was like me with all the consoles and an expensive PC. Well I didn't bother with Saturn actually till later but generally I had all the consoles shortly after their release.
A $300ish purchase for a console and some games is what most gamers got. 3d was a big deal back then for the home consoles. Not sure why this is a debate.

[Anonymous No.4256417]

>>4256351
3D existed on home consoles. You're really overrating the important of Mario 64. It was a well crafted game, but hardly as revolutionary as you're sperging about.

[Anonymous No.4256420]

>>4256413
I said there it was 1998. I haven't built one in a few years now, but usually it's easy to push into the multiple thousands if you're buying everything new. But buy what's a year or so out of date and you can usually get something that plays most games well for not an exorbitant price.

[Anonymous No.4256424]

>>4256413
I was just trying to work out what you meant by commonplace.

[Anonymous No.4256439]

>>4256417
It like the 5th gen consoles are totally the same thing as Starfox on snes.
>>4256420
Ram was always expensive in the 90s. You were never going to get much more than 32mb on the cheap. Maybe 64mb towards the ass end of 99. Only thing worth getting for the money used were CPUs and controller cards imo. But buying a used PC was always not worth it because the ram and hdds would drive the price up.

[Anonymous No.4256449]

>>4254501
The previous year I had already been playing Descent and MechWarrior 2, seen Time Crisis at the arcade, as well as PS launch titles like Battle Arena Toshiden, Jumping Flash, Twisted Metal, and King's Field so I wasn't that impressed. In 96 I was blown away more by Resident Evil (because I thought the graphics were much better than Alone in the Dark, but similar game play) Diablo, Quake and Tomb Raider.

[Anonymous No.4256476]

>>4256449
Stop spreading bullshit, Mario 64 was the very first 3D game ever and it was mind blowing, no other game compared to it. You'll knew that if you were alive back then, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.4256480]

>>4256449
>>4256476
This is how underage attempt to do history revision in attempt to make Mario 64 seem like nothing. Take note.

[Anonymous No.4256532]

>>4256480
No one is disputing it was influential, but it was nowhere near as impactfull as the original had been. It was important to other 3d platformers, but not a ton otherwise. OoT had more influence in the end.

[Anonymous No.4256563]

>>4256291
Who cares about the experience of Nintendildos, though, they are the scum of this board.

[Anonymous No.4256571]

>>4256532
>but it was nowhere near as impactfull as the original had been.
The arcade game or the NES game? 64 was a lot bigger game in all ways.

[Anonymous No.4256597]

>>4256571
Super Mario Bros, and it was more influential by magnitudes.

[Anonymous No.4256604]

>>4256597
How so?

[Anonymous No.4256610]

>>4254501
I'm an oldfag. And I really did not like the 3D shit coming in at the time. I loved my 2d animations,. thought they looked so much better. Still never really gave Mario 64 a shake.Even to this day. I barely played it. Also too old for Nickelodeon at that point. Though I did like my 64 for 4 player madness.

[Anonymous No.4256637]

>>4256604
SMB's incredible popularity was the driving force behind platforming games exploding and becoming one of if not the most dominant genre of the 8 and 16 bit generations. It was the game and then series every other game of that type would get compared to.

Mario 64, was also very influential in having one of the first decent floating 3rd person cameras and getting 3D platforming feeling "right" along side it. But that impact wasn't nearly as universal, partly because 3D platform games were a smaller chunk of the overall gaming scene and also because it wasn't as much the primary influence that the original had been.

So overall, I would put Ocarina of Time with it's targeting as slightly more influential. But neither comes close to SMB. It will be hard for anything to come close to that kind of influence again. Just like no matter how big a film now can be it would be impossible for it to be as big or influential as Gone With the Wind was.

[Anonymous No.4256643]

>>4256637
Everything you can say about SMB you can so more about SMB3.

Mario 64 set a standard for movement.

[Anonymous No.4256654]

>>4256637
>Just like no matter how big a film now can be it would be impossible for it to be as big or influential as Gone With the Wind was.
What kind of shit are you spewing?

[Anonymous No.4256661]

>>4256610
Another oldfag here and lover of 2D animations, I feel similar. There were some great games, but overall I see the PS/N64/Saturn era as a dark time when 3D was pushed for consoles but the hardware really couldn't do it justice.

[Anonymous No.4256663]

>>4256476
>>4256480

I wasn't that impressed with Mario because
I had already been playing other 3d games before that so playing it for the first time wasn't that mind blowing; it was cool that you had the free camera and the 3d controls but again not mind blowing. It may have been the best thing that you've ever seen because you had only been playing 2D console games up until that point, but it wasn't for me so fuck off.

Too be honest I was more impressed with 3D games like System Shock, Magic Carpet, Panzer Dragoon and Virtua Fighter when they came out, so it wasn't that great of a leap to Mario 64.

[Anonymous No.4256671]

>>4256643
I agree with you on the first line.

Second I also agree, but the standards were getting better anyways. SM64 was a good and big stepping stone along the way, but not as major a one.

>>4256654
I think it's an obvious statement, if you don't see why, I'm not interested in discussing it.

[Anonymous No.4256673]

ITT: Nintendildos getting TOLD

[Anonymous No.4256676]

>>4256671
>but the standards were getting better anyways.
Ya no. The best you had before Mario 64 was tank controls. And I like tank controls. Maria 64 wasn't a stepping stone. It is the stepping stone that any 3d game like that needs to be able to step over.

[Anonymous No.4256678]

I would have already seen/played Tekken, Daytona USA and the other PS1/Saturn/Arcade 3D games and been all like, "looks slightly better I guess."

[Anonymous No.4256685]

>>4256673
>>4256678
Thank you late 90s millenails for parroting wiki.

[Anonymous No.4256694]

>>4256671
>I think it's an obvious statement, if you don't see why, I'm not interested in discussing it.
I love classic films and Gone With the Wind is one my favorites. Now tell what the fuck you meant by that stupid shit.

[Anonymous No.4256695]

This sudden amount of shitposting about the N64 can only come by the same people, what are they trying to pull here.

[Anonymous No.4256703]

>>4256695
Btfo'ing delusional N64 kiddies is funny, there's no deeper hidden agenda to it.

[Anonymous No.4256706]

>>4256703
>3 Mario 64 threads on a row
uh...

[Anonymous No.4256713]

Late 90's millennial here: I don't know and will never be able to understand what it was like.

[Anonymous No.4256714]

>>4256706
Mario 64 is popular/overrated, obviously it's going to attract many contrarians.

[Anonymous No.4256720]

>>4254501
If this is how Nintendo fanboys saw video games then I'm glad I had a computer first and foremost.

[Anonymous No.4256731]

>>4256713
It was a different, better time. We had tons of arcades, it was a golden age of game development where video games were still experimental while also being well defined, the internet was not commonly used so no shitholes like /v/ or reddit that bled into everything, game reviewers were just about reviewing games and were not as paid off nor did they ever inject their politics into shit, media in general was not overly sensitive about social issues, we didn't have cell phones, we had video rental stores and gamestop didn't exist.

[Anonymous No.4256738]

>>4256731
>game reviewers were just about reviewing games and were not as paid off
Imagine being this guilible.

[Anonymous No.4256756]

I fucking hate this game.

[Anonymous No.4256761]

>>4256738
Fuck you, game reviews were way less corrupt back then. You're seriously trying to say we had shit like gamergate? Get out of here.

[Anonymous No.4256776]

>>4256761
Magazines were literally advertising spaces also have some guides guys.

[Anonymous No.4256784]

>>4256776
And yet they were less corrupt than nowadays. Fuck yourself, contrarian.

[Anonymous No.4256795]

>>4256784
>It was crap instead of shit so they were perfectly fine
I still have many numbers of my Megasega Magazine. It was clearly a translation of some British Mag because no British game or Amiga port scored less than 8/10.

[Anonymous No.4256804]

>>4256795
>Megasega Magazine
Oh, you're that third world shitter who was making ridiculous claims about Mario 64. No wonder.

[Anonymous No.4256807]

>>4256804
Nice argument, retard.

[Anonymous No.4256809]

>>4256761
huh

its almost like gamergate wasnt about ethics in game journalism (which has literally never existed) and was actually something else

[Anonymous No.4256820]

>>4254501
>Be a kid with super nintendo
>Totally obsessed with my super nintendo
>Super mario all stars, super mario world, plok, donkey kong, Actraiser 2, animaniacs, etc...
>I am the only kid of my school with a super nintendo, all my friends have a sega something and play sanic games
>Buy nintendo magazine all the time for vidya news
>Nintendo magazine starts to post about Nintendo 64
>Nintendo magazine only talks about Nintendo 64
>Nintendo magazine stopped to post about muh Super nintendo
>Disappointed because nintendo magazine don't give a shit about my console
>Dad have a Pc (he works doing designs and shit)
>Start playing shit pc games
>My brother one day install Doom
>My mind gets blown with the satanic stuff, jumpscares and gameplay
>My brother one day install Monkey Island
>Start playing Pc games
>Mfw Super Nintendo was my first and last console... (I bought a gameboy for play pokemon)

[Anonymous No.4256847]

>>4256219
Why? 16bit gaming is more retro and more appealing than 64bit gaming. I think this is the correct board.

[Anonymous No.4256849]

>>4256809
>>4256738
Show me 5 obviously paid for reviews from a mainstream game magazine 1999 or earlier.

[Anonymous No.4256897]

>>4254501
I remember the first time I saw tekken 2 and twisted metal 2 at a friend's house on his psx. Going home to dkc2 on snes was very difficult that day. Little did I know psx graphics actually looked like ass lmao.

[Anonymous No.4256908]

>>4256373
I had a pentium 200mhz mmx in 97 and it ran everything amazingly well. That sure as shit was not a 2500 dollar pc u retard.

[Anonymous No.4256916]

>>4256820
A wise path.

>>4256849
Neither of them. It was much harder to know what was going on behind the scenes so it's impossible to prove anything at this point, but there were always questionable reviews.

I can't say anything about reviews nowadays though, I stopped reading any long, long ago and think they're mostly worthless unless you really know and follow a specific reviewer.

[Anonymous No.4256917]

>>4256908
K

[Anonymous No.4256925]

>>4256916
>but there were always questionable reviews.

Show me 5 from 1999 or earlier then. You wont because the retro game mags were the most brutally honest, authentic. and truthful reviews games have ever had. Regardless if you're talking new or old they can't be beat. You're just running your underageb& mouth about dank gamergate shit.

[Anonymous No.4256935]

>>4256917
>>4256908
It wasn't hard to rack up $2500 on a new PC, but it was the kind of thing only idiots did. It was similar to today, if you walk into a "computer store" and buy a pre-assembled rig built for gaming and made with the newest hardware it will cost you an arm and a leg.

But if you're not a doofus and buy the components carefully you can put something together for way less. $2500 was a kind of stupid amount to spend in 96/97

[Anonymous No.4256938]

>>4256935
With very little ram, hdd space, or much cpu power. As I said you're talking $1500 back then easy for an acceptable PC for what people use now to play DOS/Win9x games.

[Anonymous No.4256941]

>>4256925
I don't have scans of magazines I read in the 80's and 90's and even if I had most of the issues I'm not going to dig through them for you. I remember thinking Gamefan was pretty straightforward even when I disagreed with them but EGM often seemed odd. The times I had occasion to read a Gamepro or Nintendo Power they felt ridiculous.

I didn't mention gamergate, I don't really know or care anything about it.

[Anonymous No.4256949]

>>4256941
>I didn't mention gamergate
>It wasn't me defense
K, champ. See the post chain.

You're just running your mouth. You have nothing because there is noting. You wrongly associated modern journalism with retro. You made a mistake. Learn from it.

[Anonymous No.4256954]

>>4255213
Why would you kill yourself over that?

[Anonymous No.4256957]

>>4256938
I can't remember what everything was because I barely cared about component named back then, but with my old keyboard and a hand me down new monitor the machine I made to play Tribes and do photoshop shit was like $600 and change Canadian.

[Anonymous No.4256961]

>>4256957
So you got like half of it for free. Thanks for contributing on what PCs cost to put together back in the day,

[Anonymous No.4256962]

>>4256925
Not either of them but dude, just compare reviews in officially licsenced magazines and their associated brands' exclusives, particularly 1st and 2nd party games, to reviews in independent magazines and it's clear that there was a slant against objectivity overall in some of the most popular gaming mags back then. Even rags like Gamepro always felt very shilly at times giving incredible reviews to mediocre games that just happened to have a lot of the publisher's weight behind them.

Obviously it wasn't nearly as bad then as it is now with easily bought shitstains like IGN and Gamespot or you-scratch-my-back jokes like Kotaku, but gaming "journalism" never had any established standards to live by and things definitely got worse before the 90's were over.
>>4256941
I think I remember The Legend of Dragoon getting a perfect fucking score in Gamepro, and they rated games in like 4 or 5 different categories. Nintendo Power was probably the worst offender though, EVERYTHING seemed to score higher there than in other publications.

[Anonymous No.4256963]

>>4256962
>but but but
>claims you wont back up
>more claims you wont back up
Hey about you show it to me? You wont because there is nothing.

[Anonymous No.4256970]

>>4256949
>K, champ. See the post chain.
I don't care about the post chain, I only replied there and said I don't know or care about gamergate or modern reviews. I barely care about old reviews, I just jumped in to say I thought they were always a little suspect. If you had a different experience that's fine but I stand by what I said.

[Anonymous No.4256973]

>>4256961
Well if you could actually read my original reply the first time around maybe we could have skipped this. But keyboards have never been expensive and my monitor certainly wasn't worth almost $900.

[Anonymous No.4256980]

>>4256963
>but but but
Who are you quoting?
>claims you won't back up
I gave an example with Gamepro right there, which is as valid as any counter example you provided.
>more claims you won't back up
>more
This is the first time I've chimed in on this thread, I even stated I wasn't either one of those two you were responding to, sorry you have shit reading comprehension skills.
>>4256970
The dude seems to have trouble differentiating between induviduals, it might be a sign of a mental disorder.

[Anonymous No.4256987]

>>4256970
>>4256980
>The dude seems to have trouble differentiating between induviduals
We use a post chain here at 4chan. Simular to a bbs forum. It's not like reddit where you came form. See a post directly above another that is linked forms a chain.

You have given a single example. Not one. There's a whole database of game mag scans you can go and post.

>>4256973
K. Used and free parts. Thanks for the input.

[Anonymous No.4256990]

>>4255464
Nintendo's shark jumper

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4256991]

Posting this classic article from the September 1995 issue of Amiga Power. There have definitely been some questions on the ethics of video game reviewers even back in the 90s but can we ever actually be sure of anyone's ethics, especially public figures?

[Anonymous No.4257003]

>>4256987
> It's not like reddit where you came form.
0/10 trolling. I specified I was newly responding, learn to follow. I already explained why I'm not going digging for examples just for you.

Reddit calling and age baiting is the worst of /vr/ trolling, you weak fool

My free monitor and (previously paid for) keyboard didn't add up to my $600 pc actually being worth $1500. Paying $2500 for one would have been idiotic.

[Anonymous No.4257009]

>>4256987
>still can't differentiate between individuals
Haha oh wow
>post chains
That has literally nothing to do with anyone that wasn't a part of that chain. If one guy calls you a faggot and makes you cry it doesn't make any sense to bring it up with anyone except the person that called you a faggot. Saying "b-b-but da post chain!" changes none of that.
>I-I'LL JUST CALL HIM REDDIT!
Cute, really cute.
>You haven't given a single example
Yes I did, now here's a shit load;
http://www.metacritic.com/publication/gamepro?page=0
If you aren't an underage then you should be able to easily pick out Gamepro's /vr/ reviews from titles alone, and on average they massively overscored more than most publications.

[Anonymous No.4257014]

>>4257003
>I specified I was newly responding
Again kid. See the post chain. I got 2 anons talking to me.
>>4257009
Sorry you got called out on not knowing how the post chain works.


So are either of you going to post evidence or just run your underageb& mouths? It's not like your claims are hard to support if there was evidence.

[Anonymous No.4257017]

>>4257014
>I got 2 anons talking to me.
And can't keep track at all. That's okay, you think an monitor and keyboard cost $900 so I think we're done here.

[Anonymous No.4257020]

>>4257017
I can keep track thanks to the post chain. A reference that is foreign to you.

So nothing to back claims, got it.

[Anonymous No.4257023]

>>4257014
>not knowing how the post chain works
>thinks post chains mean you treat anyone that disagrees with you as a singular group
I don't think you're ready for 4chan kiddo
>>>/facebook/
>So are either of you going to post evidence
Already did kid, and I know you've never owned a gaming mag but I hope it isn't because you genuinely have issues with reading.

[Anonymous No.4257027]

>>4257023
>Already did kid
You posted a random link retard.

[Anonymous No.4257034]

>>4257027
>random
>literally struggles to read
That's just fucking sad, stay in school little guy.

[Anonymous No.4257037]

>>4257034
Yes retard. You posted a link to game pro reviews on metactritc. Most of the games aren't retro. Again retard, what is your retarded point in posting that random link?

[Anonymous No.4257060]

>>4257037
>Most of the games aren't retro.
>>4257009
>If you aren't an underage then you should be able to easily pick out Gamepro's /vr/ reviews from titles alone
That settles it, you're either underaged or you really do struggle with reading so there's no point in arguing with someone that has the mental capacity of a child. Take a nap kid, you need it.

[Anonymous No.4257073]

>>4257060
>http://www.metacritic.com/publication/gamepro?page=0
Yes retard. Idk maybe Bio Shock is retro to you. Not me. You're not even talking about Magazines anymore.The underageb& is screaming from your posts. It's kinda funny at this point.

[Anonymous No.4257085]

>>4254501
recation: wow! what a step back! we've got beautiful 2D and they want us to swallow low quality shitty 3D #nope

[Anonymous No.4257089]

>>4257020
>So nothing to back claims, got it.

You need me to back the claim for you that $900 would be a stupid price for a keyboard and monitor in 1997?

[Anonymous No.4257096]

>>4257089
$900 was stupid for a monitor in 97, kiddo? Guess you never bought from viewsonic or Sony.

[Anonymous No.4257106]

>>4255116
In 1996 I was also too busy with Toshinden 1 and 2, Ridge Racer, Warhawk, Need for Speed, Tekken 2, Wipeout and all those other great first and second year ps1 games to give a shit about N64 and its TWO LAUNCH GAMES.

[Anonymous No.4257109]

>>4257106
>first and second year ps1 games
>great

[Anonymous No.4257160]

>>4257096
Yeah okay sure you could. And man what is with the attitude? You come off like a raging preteen but by what you're saying are at least close to middle age as well. I've been nothing but civil and you can't seem to make a single reply without throwing in as much venom as possible.

And no I'm not new or from redit or any of tbat trash. Seriously what is wrong that you have to act like this over absolutely everything?

[Anonymous No.4257164]

>>4256003
Why?

[Anonymous No.4257171]

>>4254501

wow American ads sure are gay

[Anonymous No.4257178]

>>4257160
The other anons talking about the mag reviews and Mario 64 being irreverent annoyed me. I read your post fast and it seemed like more of the same. It seemed like you got a lot of the stuff for free. Sorry anon.

[Anonymous No.4257184]

>>4257178
>irreverent
???

[Anonymous No.4257189]

>>4257184
You got me.

[Anonymous No.4257190]

>1996

If you were too much of a poorfag to own a Voodoo, then yeah, I guess you didn't have this.

[Anonymous No.4257254]

>>4257190
damn, lara croft looks like THAT?

[Anonymous No.4257270]

>>4257254
Just imagine a CRT filter over the pic.

[Anonymous No.4257276]

>>4257190
>ywn get to shave your facial hair on Lara Crofts razor sharp tits

[Anonymous No.4257285]

>>4256381
pc's dropped in price massively from 1996 to 1998

[Anonymous No.4257307]

>>4257190
I always felt like if she ran out of ammo she could stab the raptors with her tits

[Anonymous No.4257313]

>>4256908
yes it was retardo

[Anonymous No.4257345]

>>4257184
I think the word you're looking for is irrelevant, not irreverent.

Mario still sucks even it was a technological advancement for the age, who the fuck wanted to play a game designed for 5 year olds when you could be blowing heads off of zombies, killing a T-Rex in a Atlantian ruins or shooting rockets at the demons of the abyss; unless you were actually five.

[Anonymous No.4257407]

>>4257178
The thing is you did it over two different subjects, neither of which really warrants getting that worked up over but it's like you go out of your way to turn everything into a fight. It's more tiresome than anything else and makes actually talking about things near impossible.

[Anonymous No.4257409]

>>4257407
All that's left to do when kid wont provide evidence is troll.

[Anonymous No.4257416]

>>4257345
IKR, playstation actually offered Mature Games For Mature Gamers Such As Myself.

[Anonymous No.4257418]

>>4257345
I was 10 when the N64 came out. I enjoyed Super Mario 64 and also enjoyed Resident Evil on PS, NFS and Tomb Raider on PC and later on I got a Saturn and also enjoyed Nights and Virtua Fighter 2.
You sound like someone who only got to play 1 system and dissed the other ones he couldn't get.

[Anonymous No.4257426]

>>4257409
When it causes you to troll everyone and act like a complete tool it's pointless though. But whatever, you can not believe that it was possible to build decent rigs on a budget, or not believe people found old gaming mag reviews suspect and fishy if you want.

[Anonymous No.4257436]

Well, if the year is 1996, some video games look like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzLJ0TgI6I
https://youtu.be/qGoSqRRWZtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrSTyGeDKdM

[Anonymous No.4257442]

>>4257436
Yeah but none of these arcade racers/fighters had free roam 3D control.
And, there was no way to emulate arcades in your PC in 1996. It was understood that arcades were always ahead of home systems.

[Anonymous No.4257451]

You morons. The argument was that game reviewers in the 90s were LESS corrupt than modern reviewers, not that they were saints.

Obviously, magazines that represented certain consoles tended to rate their exclusives high. But there were also plenty of big-time independent magazines that gave even handed reviewers. Either way, none of it was nearly as corrupt as the shit that goes on nowadays. Back then, being a video game journalist was less mainstream and people who reviewed games were more often than not actual gamers. It was quite different from the industry as it is now.

[Anonymous No.4257454]

>>4257442
OP is talking about what games looked like. Free roam was nothing new. Good graphics were nothing new. Not him but I agree, my reaction like many other people's was that it wasn't all that special. I thought it looked kinda crappy, it was one of the reasons I never got an N64.

[Anonymous No.4257474]

It was just the next step in gaming. It didn't really blow anyone's mind. Sure, we thought it was fun or maybe that the graphics looked good, but that's it. Do you flip out every time the next gen of consoles come out? It was just another console gen. We weren't cavemen.

[Anonymous No.4257483]

>>4257454
Well, I think part of what blew people's minds in SM64 was how free it was, the controls, rather than just the graphics. The graphics didn't look bad, I don't think, but yeah you didn't expect Toy Story-like graphics on video games just yet, and arcades were always going to be more technologically advanced.
I remember being impressed by Super Mario 64's attract mode on a TV in a store (before the american N64 came out, they had a japanese one). I was really impressed by the ghost house moments in the demo, when the bridge falls down, etc. I was already playing PS1, 3DO and PC games back then, and I frequented arcades and played the lastest games, but SM64 was different, it managed to catch my attention. I guess it was not just the graphics, but how dynamic, free, and different from anything else it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc0XCQuhbLY
1:50 on this video is what made my jaw drop back in mid '96.

[Anonymous No.4257492]

>>4257483
I think that was just your personal impression.

[Anonymous No.4257493]

>>4257418
Nah I was being hyperbolic. My dad and I are both gamers so we play through almost every system and a good share of the games from IBM to PS4. The only ones I haven't really played are the current generation consoles besides the PS4 and that barely.

[Anonymous No.4257498]

>>4254501

I didn't react that way towards SM64, but I did towards OoT.

[Anonymous No.4257502]

>>4257492
Of course it was, yours was also your own personal impression.
I was trying to explain how the game might have been still impressive for some people, even if you were familiar with other 3D games/arcades of the time.

[Anonymous No.4257505]

>>4257502
Given this thread, your opinion is the absolute minority.

[Anonymous No.4257506]

>>4257483
I get it I just didn't feel the same. Honestly I think Super Mario World still looks better.

[Anonymous No.4257509]

>>4257505
That's okay, contrarians tend to be very vocal and seem numerous online, especially in anonymous boards.
IRL, Super Mario 64 was impressive for majority of people who were into vidya, I don't remember nerds going "YOU KNOWWWW... I, Robot in 1983 looked better than this" back then.

[Anonymous No.4257516]

>>4257509
It's sort of sad how irrational you are about your personal experience. There are 68 posters ITT. The majority of them have cited many examples of why free roam 3D wasn't particularly new or revolutionary when SM64 was released. You're a sad little shit of a man.

[Anonymous No.4257519]

>>4257516
>The majority of them have cited many examples of why free roam 3D wasn't particularly new or revolutionary when SM64 was released
You're a mod? You can see who is and who isn't samefagging?
Anyway, thanks for the ad hominems.

[Anonymous No.4257520]

>>4257516
>SM64 wasn't revolutionary! 68 posters on /vr/ agreed on this! [citation needed]
Dude, I know you're most likely baiting, but still. The fact you call other people irrational about their personal experiences only add to the irony.

[Anonymous No.4257526]

>>4257519
You're a mod? You can see that out of 68 posters, with a majority of the thread's posts disagreeing with your assessment, that anyone who is going against your narrative is a samefag? Thanks for the laugh, dumbass.

[Anonymous No.4257527]

>>4256673
>Nintendildos
Sup australia? It's been some time since I don't see your typical shitposts.
Tired of getting banned?

[Anonymous No.4257538]

>>4257526
>You're a mod?
If I was, I could know for certain who is and who isn't samefagging.
Anyway, most of these posts seem to be from underage /v/ posters that pretend to have been alive back then and doing silly PC vs console war shitposts.
Anyway, 68 people on 4chan are still not representative of the whole world or the video game public in 1996.
If you don't think SM64 was impressive, that's okay, but pretending that anyone who liked it was "wrong" just shows how important console/system warring is for you, and how detached you are from reality.

[Anonymous No.4257550]

ITS NOT FAIR
WHY DOES NINTENDO ALWAYS HAVE TO BE MEMORABLE FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE
I HATE NINTENDO AND WANT PEOPLE TO HATE THEM TOO

[Anonymous No.4257558]

>>4254501
>tfw you live in 3rd world central america country
>never own a Super Nintendo
>get to play most of the n64(my first console) almost 10 years latter in 2005

[Anonymous No.4257570]

>>4257538
>they're samefag
>and underaged
You're fucking sad. There have been a lot of great posts about why Mario 64 was a particularly new experience for most people. You call others underaged, but to me you seem like the guy pretending to be an oldfag because you're acting like Mario 64 was mind blowing back in 1996. The fact that you have to resort to such petty, miserable scapegoats like "samefag" and "underaged" and "console wars" just show how painfully immature and fallible your position is. Just look at your shitposting >>4257550
Absolutely pathetic. Get real, pedro.

[Anonymous No.4257582]

>>4257416
>names two cross platform games (PSX/Saturn, PSX/Saturn/PC) and a PC game
>assumes I'm only talking about PSX

Nintendo fag detected

[Anonymous No.4257626]

>>4257509
If they're numerous and vocal it doesn't make them so contrarian. The universe doesn't revolve around your opinion.

[Anonymous No.4257647]

>>4257570
Yeah you're right. After looking through the thread the dude calling each everyone kid, teenage, not alive, too young, /v/, troll, you copy the wiki, you're pretending, you only had one system so you are angry, samefag, these all sound like he's just projecting. Even the thing said about Mario 64 being the most "revolutionary" and best video game of all time is literally ripped right from wikipedia (I checked). Who cares if people disagree, if you like the game and think it was great, good for you. There are other people that had different experiences, some people have more experience playing game before Mario 64 and disagree. That is the nature of the world. No need to be spastic retard and sperg on everyone.

[Anonymous No.4257650]

>>4257647
It's a good cue when someone immediately goes to Kiddo, samefag and U-FROM-Reddit! that they're just trolling and going for any meme they think will hook you.

[Anonymous No.4257678]

>>4257650
And you can always tell this guy from his same avatars
>>4257014
>>4256963
>>4256849

when he pulls them out you know things are going to get extra shitty.

[Anonymous No.4257815]

>>4257442
>emulate arcades
You could just, you know, go to the arcade.

[Anonymous No.4257840]

>Most video games look like this

What? My PS1 had already been in my living room for an entire year, and virtually every single game on the system was 3D.

[Anonymous No.4257878]

>>4257840
No, it was fucking mind blowing don't even dare to say otherwise we don't want to hurt that one shitposter feelings.

[Anonymous No.4257910]

>>4254501
Nintendo marketing is stronk... hype dem kids, HYPE EM HARD!!!!!1111

[Swift S. Lawliet !!VIQsbxF6xwO No.4257938]

>>4254501
>mfw
Whoa! It looks like Toy Story, but I can actually play it as if it were a video game? I'm in!
What can possibly top that?
*Nickelodeon returns to showing Clarissa Explains it All, which I always watched*

Never did I suspect that the PSOne Trilogy of Final Fantasy and the Nintendo 64 Zelda games would top Mario 64.

[Anonymous No.4257981]

>>4257626
vocal != numerous

Also, show me all 68 posts that say Mario 64 wasn't impressive, I'll wait.

[Anonymous No.4257987]

>>4257981
The only vocal minority here is you.

[Anonymous No.4257990]

>>4257516
>The majority of them have cited many examples of why free roam 3D wasn't particularly new or revolutionary when SM64 was released.
>majority of them
Care to point out said majority? I only see a handful of "console kiddies R dumb!" posts, but they aren't the majority of posts.

[Anonymous No.4257991]

>>4257570
It's funny how you complain about people accusing samefag, then you do the same in the same post.

[Anonymous No.4257993]

Looks like OP is back to shitpost more.

[Anonymous No.4257994]

I wasn't sold by the SM64 hype until I actually played it.
Judging by the magazines screenshots, yeah it did look good but at the time I was 14 and already started to see Mario as kiddy, but when I played the game my mind changed.
Still the games from 5th gen that got me hyped the most were FF VII and OOT.

[Anonymous No.4258141]

>>4257991
Not him but frequently it turns out the people who call out samefagging the most are projecting. It wouldn't be suprising if the guy doing the main shitposting here does it. He does every other trolling thing he can think of.

[Anonymous No.4258148]

>>4257678
It's a service that he recycles the same reaction pics over and over. Like a big neon sign that the post that goes with it is going to be some extra retarded trolling.

[Anonymous No.4258194]

>>4254501
>The year is 1996.
>Most video games look like this.
How much of a rock were you under?

[Anonymous No.4258208]

>>4256661
Where that gif from?

[Anonymous No.4258228]

>>4254501
>1996
I am born!

[Anonymous No.4258229]

>>4256847
>N64/PS1 graphics SUUUUUUCKED
get better bait then

[Anonymous No.4258240]

>>4257678
I miss when we just reposted the chips crunching penguin endlessly.

[Anonymous No.4258267]

>>4258240
That was a different guy.

[Anonymous No.4258270]

>>4258229
Not him but they really kinda did. Consoles should have focused on 2d for another gen

[Anonymous No.4258278]

>>4256849
You must be retarded or something
I'll tell you something, there were MORE briefcases back then than now

[Anonymous No.4258310]

Old game mags were never hyperbolic and questionable! Stop spreading lies!

[Anonymous No.4258330]

>>4258310
>i'm so buttmad i have to grossly exaggerate and distort what other said just to sound like i have a point!!!!11

[Anonymous No.4258346]

>>4258330
nice anime reaction pic

[Anonymous No.4258352]

>>4258346
>can't even recognize a retro video game
MARIO 64 BLEW MY MIND

[Anonymous No.4258365]

>>4258330
>posts hentai so he'll get a b& vacation from being called a retard for a couple days

See you soon fruitbar :)

[Anonymous No.4258367]

>>4254501
> Neat it's like Mario Tomb Raider.

[Anonymous No.4258374]

DID YOU KNOW THAT VIDEO GAMES WENT FROM FROM 8 BIT TO 3D IN 1996 WHEN MARIO 64 WAS RELEASED

WOAH

[Anonymous No.4258385]

>>4254501
not if you had a pc

i was playing shit like under a killing moon and other shit about that time

[Anonymous No.4258395]

>>4258385
Or a playstation.

[Anonymous No.4258402]

>>4254501
Having lived that, it was kind of odd. If you were really into games you had already experienced 3D on PC. A lot. But knowing that Nintendo was getting in on it and that something of Mario caliber was going there...it was a game changer for sure.

Funny thing is this is a huge part of why the industry started to rely on sequels more and more. And a game that was barely 3D was the one to really bring people into the future. FFVII, love it or hate it, was THE game to play of the entire gen. OoT got better reviews, others are remembered more fondly, but if you were serious about 3D on a console you had to play FFVII.

Nintendo never learned from the N64 either. The mistakes there haunt them to this day and I don't just mean they literally created their biggest competitor.

[Anonymous No.4258407]

Still waiting on those 5 mag reviews.

[Anonymous No.4258416]

>>4258402
Their spree starts well before that like when they tried to garner MK1 as an exclusive, failed, and then demanded their port be censored or allowing no custom mappers in us nes releases. Just baffling decisions left and right.

[Anonymous No.4258426]

>>4258407
>trying this hard

[Anonymous No.4258467]

>>4258407
lmao

[Anonymous No.4258476]

>>4258407
I like how when you image search this it pops up tons of Reddit threads. It's like poetry.

[Anonymous No.4258484]

>>4258476
I don't see it in my search feed. Seems like google is searching based on your most browsed sites.
I've been here awhile so you should recognize the 5000x5000 scaled reaction images.

[Anonymous No.4258490]

By 1996 you already had sprites on the level of Darkstalkers and X-Men Children of the Atom.

[Anonymous No.4258501]

>>4258490
but most people preferred horrid 3D. fucking normalfags

[Anonymous No.4258503]

>>4258484
I've never even posted there but nice try deflecting. Of course you're not going to admit it lol

[Anonymous No.4258506]

>>4258501
No just tards like OP

[Anonymous No.4258512]

>>4258503
There you go, champ. I got it off the wiki (then scaled it) which is the first result on google.

[Anonymous No.4258531]

Mario should have never come to the 3D plane. These games aged badly, simply because of the awkward animation which made all characters look retarded instead of cool.

Also platforming is horrible on the 3D plane.

And from bad to worse, they added this awful childish sound to Mario, which drowns all the little value that is left in these games.

Honestly, I hate every Mario and Yoshi game after 1995, when the series peaked with the great Yoshi's Island.

[Anonymous No.4258558]

>>4258512
The first link that's not a sponsored wiki is reddit. If your page is anything like mine most the rest as you scroll arelike that too. I know for fact it's nothing to do with my search history.

I don't give a shit about reddit or if you or anyone else posts there. But I find it telling that it's a regular part of your trolling repitore to accuse people from being from there and surprise surprise when googling the images you post all the time, that's what comes up. Literally all you do is troll all day, what is your deal?

[Anonymous No.4258561]

>>4255335
Super Mario World's spiritual successor is New Super Marisa Land. Really.

The NSMB games are lame reworkings of SMB and partly SMB3 (the world system and the bosses), with throwing stuff from SMW and SMW2 here and there.

NSML was a true 2D retro platformer with great leveldesign, 64 levels+shitloads of secret exits, and with some identity, original way of exits and lots of new powerups.

[Anonymous No.4258563]

>>4258558
>part of your trolling repitore to accuse people from being from there
Look at this back peddle. You called your own dumbass self out as reddit.

[Anonymous No.4258591]

>>4258563
You can't read

[Anonymous No.4258593]

>>4258591
Bit of a weak attempt there. I'd just stop posting.

[Anonymous No.4258625]

>>4258531
Even Paper Mario?

[Anonymous No.4258627]

>>4254501
Maybe I grew up spoiled, but I found a lot of early 3D games horrendous. My mind was actually blown when I played Gran Turismo. Back then I've only played Top Gear 1 and 2.

[Anonymous No.4258628]

>>4258561
>New Super Marisa Land
You must be joking, right?

[Anonymous No.4258631]

First 3D game I ever played was Wolfenstien3D. I was straight blown away. Totally addicted to that.

[Anonymous No.4258638]

>>4258627
They were horrible but we were mesmerized about the polygons and such
There will never, ever, be something similar as what is happening rn with the nostalgia from 8/16 bits with the 3D games from 96-03
That's why, instead, we are going to see a lot of remakes
FFVII is just the beginning

[Anonymous No.4258639]

>>4258628
Nope, do you actually know what is that?

[Anonymous No.4258649]

>>4258639
Yes, horrible game only retarded weeaboos can like
Are you a retarded weeaboo?

[Anonymous No.4258667]

>>4258561
Not retro and frankly not even that good a game.

[Anonymous No.4258673]

>>4258649
Great game only hated by those who think every Touhou games are automatically shit or dyslexic people who confused it with other not so good prequels, like the original SML.

Tell me what you didn't like in there anon. Certainly not the actual content (60+ levels and SMW number of secrets, 7 powerups, proper 2D graphics, catchy music, memorable bosses etc).

[Anonymous No.4258678]

>>4258667
Well, NSMB series is certainly not better. Maybe U, but the ugly aesthetics ruin it.

[Anonymous No.4258686]

>>4258649
>weeaboo
says a 4chan poster.

[Anonymous No.4258776]

>OP got so destroyed that he had to make a dedicated "why isn't Mario 64 everyone favorite I don't understand" thread

[Anonymous No.4258783]

Mario 64 is one of the best 3d platformers ever, I think most people will agree. It just wasn't the first by any means.

[Anonymous No.4258792]

>>4256637
>Just like no matter how big a film now can be it would be impossible for it to be as big or influential as Gone With the Wind was.

Wew, you know absolutely fuck all about film

[Anonymous No.4258897]

>>4258593
You're the one who can't follow simple sentences...

[Anonymous No.4258907]

>>4258792
>/vr trolls don't understand cultural significance

Should have anticipated that one

[Anonymous No.4258962]

>>4258897
Well I guess you can spam. That's something.

[Anonymous No.4258993]

>>4258962
Spam what? I'm just saying he apparently can't read well.

[Anonymous No.4258997]

>>4258993
You've said it 4 times at least ITT. Think that counts as spam. Being that all I asked for in the first place was a simple 5 examples to support your claim. Ya.

[Anonymous No.4259007]

>>4258997
I've said it each time that imbecile failed to comprehend a simple sentence, if it comes off as spam blame the illiterate troll.

[Anonymous No.4259026]

>>4259007
The irony.

[Anonymous No.4259385]

Am I alone in thinking World still looks better than 64?

[Anonymous No.4259448]

>>4259385
no

[Anonymous No.4259592]

>>4259385
I totally do. If anything you're probably in the majority.

>>4259026
Hey look, something else you don't understand.

[Anonymous No.4261412]

>>4259385
They're totally different World is more detailed but 64 has so much more scope and freedom to see everything. Mario World's aged better though.

[Anonymous No.4261456]

>>4258783
How many truly great 3D platformers are there though?

[Anonymous No.4262012]

>>4255335
>>4255435

Came here to post this. Dropped the ball hard and they never made a great one again

[Anonymous No.4262151]

>AOL@Keyword:NOA

Ok, this is the one part that got me.

[Anonymous No.4262173]

>>4255027
I don't know if you're real but I always enjoy reading your post.

[Anonymous No.4262178]

I was a huge fan of Super Mario World so I was amped when I saw Super Mario 64. I mean Mario can punch now?

Final Fantasy VII is what really blew me away and made me realize how in depth games could be.

[Anonymous No.4262236]

My TRU had an N64 kiosk with Mario set up next to a Saturn one with NiGHTS

I honestly thought Nights looked more fun...

[Anonymous No.4262790]

>>4261456
It depends, are collectathons like Spyro really platformers? That's what most of them are. Aside from SM64 and like Jumping Flash how many pure 3D platform games period are there even?

[Anonymous No.4262815]

>>4256296
THIS

[Anonymous No.4262823]

>>4256365
Around '97 I had a Pentium that cost me a couple hundred bucks and ran Quake great.
A year latter I added a original Voodoo that cost me around 90 bucks from a friend as he had recently upgraded.

Fuck, a brand new Voodoo 4 was around 220 bucks at the time.

[Anonymous No.4262828]

>>4254501
I actually wondered how you would control that back then. I knew you could go left and right and up and down with the dpad/joystick, so how would you go into the screen?

[Anonymous No.4262987]

>>4256003
>The Need for Speed
>DOS only
Originally released for 3-DO, then ported to DOS, PSX, and Saturn.

[Anonymous No.4263374]

>>4262823
Yeah that guy was probably 7 or 8 at the time and remembering prices from ads or something.

[Anonymous No.4263448]

>>4254798
>>4255143
>>4255213
>>4256125
>>4262173

Stop replying to tripfags

[Anonymous No.4263467]

>>4263448
You are contributing just as much