/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4342832]

SIX GOLDEN COINS is 25 Years old!
Who played it!? why has everyone forgotten it!?

[Anonymous No.4342834]

>>4342832
Never played it, heard it was overrated it.

Isn't it the game where Daisy originated from?

[Anonymous No.4342840]

>>4342834
Its actually quite good but playing Game Boy games these days can suck, as in, We have so many better games to play. Not sure about Daisy i think thats the first one. this is the better sequel.
see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJUpEH-jIw
What GB games did you enjoy?

[Anonymous No.4342843]

>>4342834
No, that was the first Super Mario Land.

Super Mario Land 2 introduced Wario.

[Anonymous No.4342863]

I played it 20 years ago and I just started playing it last week for a few minutes a day, amazing level design which is to be expected

[Anonymous No.4342874]

This is when they learned to work with the shortcomings of the system: Large sprites, slower gameplay, still fun.

Mario Land 1 never felt quite right. This one does.

[Anonymous No.4342875]

Is there anyone that actually prefers SML1 over it?

[Anonymous No.4342876]

>>4342832
>why has everyone forgotten it!?
It's a short, easy platformer with no replay value. Basically a quick and under-budgeted adaptation of Super Mario World for handheld. You just play it for the novelty, then forget it exists.

[Anonymous No.4342892]

Played through this recently. As someone who is pretty tired of Mario I found this game to be fun. Good level design and I liked the world map. Will revisit it again sometime. Way better than the 1st Mario Land GB game.

[Anonymous No.4343041]

>>4342832
It's far from forgotten. If anything, some consider it to be the last good Super Mario sidescrolling platformer before the not retro New Super Mario Bros. games, only new in name but not gameplay wise came along. Comparable to the 80s era, Nintendo made more games with a twist but unlike many NES classics, they're more based on established characters but that doesn't make them any less fun. I dare even say that the Wario Land and Yoshi games are just as good as the Super Mario classics.

I also like it how SML2 feels quite different in its designs but still manages to feel similar enough to SMB1-3 and SMW that it doesn't feel like it's too different or a "tacked on" Nintendo game. It's short and you won't replay it dozens of times unless you don't have many Gameboy games or games in general but for what it's worth, you can beat most of the levels in any order you want and there are a few secret exits so it's great for a Gameboy game but not exactly the most impressive platformer Nintendo made but again, who expected a game on the level of Donkey Kong Country or Super Mario World on a handheld in 1992 anyway?

[Anonymous No.4343064]

>>4342832
Easily my favourite GB game, and my favourite Mario game in general next to the original. Even the boxart is incredibly iconic.

I love the intro to the boss theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP8kvxjnFH4

[Anonymous No.4343098]

>>4342875
I do

ML1 feels like a trippier Mario 1.

ML2 feels like a neutered Mario World

[Anonymous No.4343180]

>>4342832
Fun, easy game. Very charming.

[Anonymous No.4343191]

Wario Land>Mario Land

[Anonymous No.4343646]

>>4342874
>large sprites on a small screen
>learned the shortcomings of the system
Pick one

>>4342875
Me.
New weird stuff is more interesting to me than just another Mario game

[Anonymous No.4343659]

>>4342832
why the fuck would you wanna play as that autistic cuckold when you could be playing as the fat jew

[Anonymous No.4343665]

>>4343659
This guy gets it.

[Anonymous No.4344367]

>>4342840
That's a pretty well made video.

[Anonymous No.4344385]

>>4342832

>OBAY WARIO, FORGET MARIO!

[Anonymous No.4344392]

God tier powerups and levels, fantastic assortment of enemies. Great difficulty too.

loved this game

[Anonymous No.4344404]

>>4342832
Hell yeah I played it. Best fuckin handheld mario. I might replay it right now.
I had no idea the game was "forgotten", I thought it was celebrated as one of the best GB games. I never know with you fuckin contrarians

[Anonymous No.4344406]

>>4344404
it just doesn't get it's dick sucked as much as the "classic trilogy"

[Anonymous No.4344486]

>>4342832
Both Mario Land 1 and 2 are very near and dear to me, I’m dating myself hard but Mario Land 1 was my first Mario.

Both games are just wacky from aesthetic standpoints and are very novel. Mario Land 1’s hard mode is particularly great. This game, though slower and a bit more predictable, has great thematic elements, music, and an awesome final level. That gauntlet is never not-fun.

The Wario Land games are all superior, however.

[Anonymous No.4344610]

>>4342832
Because the game is depressing and disgusting. The world of that game is so weird, because the clockwork zone and the zone where mario gets shrinked and fights ants is so not mario. The music is sad for no reason. And there is no big fat titted peach with some juicy ass about to get graped by a huge monster.

[Anonymous No.4344641]

Mario Land 1 is awesome, it feels like a game that came out of SMB1, but on a handheld.

SML2 is trying to be like SMW, but the large sprites made them make a floaty/slow game instead which is fun enough but not superior to SML1. As a kid I was super surprised by how "good" SML2 looked though.

[Anonymous No.4344725]

I love it

[Anonymous No.4344763]

>>4343191
This, if only I could get the battery to work in my copy of 4

[Anonymous No.4344919]

>>4342875
I do. Mario Land 2 is WAY too slow and easy. There's the makings of a good game in there, but the end product is just severely lacking.

[Anonymous No.4345238]

>>4342876
>Basically a quick and under-budgeted adaptation of Super Mario World for handheld.
Did you even play the game in question? It's literally nothing like SMW. It's closer to Wario Land with Mario in lead role.

[Anonymous No.4345774]

>>4344367
Yeah! its my friends channel, They always look great but he doesn't really advertise them anywhere so they don't get many views

[Anonymous No.4348171]

I wish Nintendo had continued the Marioland series, they break with the Mario mold without losing the flavor and I love that.

[Anonymous No.4348213]

Used to play the heck out of this as young one.

[Anonymous No.4348449]

>>4342875
SML2 is a weird game. It feels more like a proper Mario game than SML1, but I'll be damned if I didn't like the first game more. The small sprites in SML1 account for the fact that you can't see that far if they're normal sized, and the stage design was tighter.
Can't bring myself to really want to play SML2 that much.

SML1 has some really dumb shit (superballs can get stuck in a bouncing loop, you fall at max speed if you don't jump off a platform), but it's a great, if strange game.

[Anonymous No.4348463]

>>4345238
>Did you even play the game in question?
I filled out the entire map about a dozen times that I can remember. I grew up with the game but eventually lost interest in my adulthood.

>It's literally nothing like SMW.
Overworld map, secret exits to hidden stages, somewhat non-linear progression, post-stage bonus games that reward you with power-ups and 1UPs. They both follow the same design.

Did YOU actually play the game?

[Anonymous No.4348537]

>>4348171
It just morphed into the arguably better Wario Land series.

[Anonymous No.4348576]

>>4342875
I do. A lot of nostalgia but also the game play is faster and this sounds weird but I like the weird designs of the levels and bosses

[Anonymous No.4348671]

I liked the first one, this one suffered from being too floaty and having the sprites too large/camera too zoomed in. Detailed graphics were never worth losing the ability to see where the fuck i'm going.

[Anonymous No.4348676]

>tfw guy who abandoned for the frog the bell tolls DX will abandon SML2 DX too

[Anonymous No.4348753]

Seeing this thread inspired me to play it through, so I've just spent the last 3 hours or so doing just that. It was a lot shorter than I was expecting, and a little on the easy side. I could have sworn I'd completed it when I was little, but I didn't remember anything of Wario's castle, or the ending, so I guess I must not have. Not a bad little distraction overall.

[Anonymous No.4348834]

>>4348753
Yeah its quite fun, the castle is the hardest part

[Anonymous No.4348865]

>>4348676
Nah, he just released a demo and planned the final release for december.

Fun fact: you can access more levels if you use saves in an emulator.

[Anonymous No.4348903]

>>4344404
Mario's Dick Zone

[Anonymous No.4348918]

>>4342832
the game was way to easy

[Anonymous No.4348930]

>>4342832
I still play my copy actually. One of the best Mario games ever if you ask me

[Anonymous No.4348937]

>>4343098
I feel this. Sml1 has a weird drug induced hallucination feel. Like having a bad reaction to prozac and when you close your eyes this game appears.

[Anonymous No.4348967]

>>4348671
Disagree. It's been a few weeks, but I recall SML2 being quite a bit more twitchy than I had remembered, and SML1 being quite a bit more floaty.

[Anonymous No.4350467]

https://youtu.be/W1T3DwGI3HY
A remake sort of hack is being released soon with added color and Luigi as a playable character. Looks really good, and I'll definitely be giving it multiple playthroughs.

[Anonymous No.4351337]

>>4342832

>dat casino

I CAN STOP WHENEVER I WANT, I JUST DON'T WANT TO!

[Anonymous No.4351807]

>>4342832
It was really good when it came out but seems kinda long now. Long and slow.

[Anonymous No.4351810]

>>4343098
Always loved it for that back in the day. It felt like a Mario game you'd play in a dream or something where stuff is just a little off.

[Anonymous No.4351836]

>>4348449
SML1 feels like a Mario brothers 1 portable

SML2 feels like a Mario world portable.

It's pretty easy to understand why both feel like Mario games. At that point in time Mario was poorly defined

>Arcade game
>Donkey Kong
>Mario bros 1
>Mario 2
>Mario 3
>Tetris
>Break out
>Mario Tennis (maybe?)

Maybe wasn't defined very well. He was just the generic fill in man and in his own games he had 3 vastly different games. Even on the Gameboy you have SML1, SML2 and Wario land (SML3) who are all radically different from each other.

[Anonymous No.4351906]

God I hate the boss of Space Zone. I used to get stuck on that shit when I was a wee lad

[Anonymous No.4351914]

>>4342875
I do. Faster and more linear, how I like my mario.

[Anonymous No.4351959]

>>4351906
That was one of the coolest moments for me. Fighting the final boss from the first game but without the help of your plane felt pretty cool.

Wish Wario would take up the role of major antagonist more often. His gang of mooks and crooks were fun to fight against.

[Anonymous No.4351965]

I could never get into the wario land games, though I only tried the first one. I like Mario because I can run fast and just jump over shit and dodge danger. The Wario games seem a lot slower and more focused on exploration. Is that an accurate assessment? Becaus for me exploration in a platformer is nice as a bonus thing or for repeat playthroughs, but as a focus I don't think it's really my thing. But I'd like to know if my impression is right before I write off the series as not for me.

[Anonymous No.4351967]

>>4342832
>why has everyone forgotten it!?

Because it is a bad Mario game. The physics are terrible and the bunny item is so overpowered when you can just glide through every level. It's boring.

[Anonymous No.4351968]

>>4342875
Of course. It's much better. Small Mario for a small screen. It's fun to run fast when you can actually see things ahead of you.

[Anonymous No.4352110]

I bought my copy of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins...with Kool-Aid Points off of the back of drink mix packets from their Wacky Warehouse.

750 points, to be exact. Most Kool-Aid packets were 1 point a piece. It's a wonder I don't have goddamn diabetes. This is actually the exact advertisement I saw to get the game.

As far as the game itself, I had a lot of fun playing it, it was a different kind of Mario experience, but close enough to how the NES games were that it felt right.

[Anonymous No.4352304]

>>4342832
The only thing it was good for was giving birth to this fat fuck.

[Anonymous No.4352384]

>>4352110
impressive ha. thats some dedication. it was one of my first gameboy games and still one of my favorites. i think its the best mario game for the gameboy by far. loved the levels and the music, tons of fun

[Anonymous No.4352415]

>>4342875

I do. SML2 is too zoomed in and the physics are too weird and floaty.

SML1 lets you see everything, and feels more like a SMB1 successor, all it lacks is momentum based jump physics.

vertical scrolling on side scrollers was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.4353237]

>>4344404
>The level that takes place in Mario's crotch
>Level is full of balls

Cheekiest Mario, or cheekiest Mario?

[Anonymous No.4353250]

>>4353237
DEEPEST LORE

[Anonymous No.4353269]

>>4352110
Better than Camel Dollars and Marlboro Miles. I'd hate to be the guy who had to count all those little point squares.

[Anonymous No.4353328]

>>4343659

[Anonymous No.4354346]

>>4351965
You are correct.

The even Wario titles (2 and 4) are pretty straightforward platformers, although 2 has tons of branching paths achieved through different objectives. The odd titles (1 and 3) have some broader world-based mechanics, where levels and their outcomes change based on over-arching elements.

[Anonymous No.4354353]

>>4342832
>tfw you realize there's no shark with boxing gloves in the game

[Anonymous No.4354418]

>>4354346
1 is very straightforward.

[Anonymous No.4354424]

>>4354353
Right here, dude.
https://www.mariowiki.com/Shark

[Anonymous No.4354456]

>>4342876
>It's a short, easy platformer with no replay value
No less than NSMB

[Anonymous No.4354667]

>>4354424
Didn't even notice them in the spritework. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.4354849]

>>4342832
I haven't forgotten it, it's my favourite Game Boy game