/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4501531]

>Meanwhile, in /vr/ of the good ol' days...
Just heard that a new Nintendo game came out. Feels a bit meh. Really derivative of Pac-Land. The "punching blocks" gimmick gets stale after a while, and the washed-out colors don't help at all.

[Anonymous No.4501534]

Have you actually played Pac-Land? It doesn't even have physics.
This game is GOAT, but probably normies will ignore it and demand more Donkey Kong shit.

[Anonymous No.4501548]

>>4501531
Adjust your tv settings, background isnt meant to be blue!

[Anonymous No.4501569]

>>4501531
That literally never happened.
But for one to know that requires not to be underage.

[Anonymous No.4501584]

>>4501531
Not retro, fuck off.

This is now a Tennis for Two thread.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4501585]

>>4501569
This. Literally everyone was hype as shit over SMB and most of us saw Vs SMB before we saw an NES or simultaneously so we knew what the colors were supposed to look like.

[Anonymous No.4501590]

>>4501569
>>4501585
OP post is accurate though because /vr/ is full of hipsters with arcane knowledge like what the fuck Pac-Land was at the time. I'm sure at least a few jaded neckbeard Atari fans complained about Mario when it was about to come out.

[Anonymous No.4501603]

>>4501590
I'm sure there were cRPG players complaining about its childish aesthetics.

[Anonymous No.4501607]

>>4501590
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Pac-Land.

In all seriousness, I've never played it. It looks pretty terrible when I look up gameplay footage, like a Flash game, but it has some features that were no doubt interesting for its time. It took a while for Mario to incorporate inclines into its gameplay, since SMB only had flat surfaces. And the whole endless jumping thing looks pretty Kirby-esque.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.4501608]

>>4501590
Pac-Land was a pretty common arcade game. Jack Tramiel at least probably badmouthed Mario but the only neckbeards who would have were "serious computer gamers" who thought things like scrolling and physics were for children.

[Anonymous No.4501635]

>>4501531
>>>/v/
Monday the 8th please come already

[Anonymous No.4501667]

>>4501584
>”Hey, John, come look at this!”
>”Yeah, Mark?”
>”William managed to get a game made on his oscilloscope - it’s like a tennis match!”
>”Huh, really? Neat.”
>”You think he can sell it as a toy or something?”
>”Are you kidding? Who would want to play a game on a screen?”

[Anonymous No.4501727]

We had pac-land at the local laundromat in around 1985 and most kids hated it. First stage was easy (because of the hard hat hidden in the 4th fire hydrant) but no one locally seemed to know all the secrets that made the later stages manageable. Pac Land ended up sitting unplayed long before SMB or wonder boy came out.

Speaking of wonder boy it was by far the hottest game that year. SMB was big and both games had a lineup to play them at the arcade, but wonder boy visuals simply blew us away and the action was way more intense (especially the boss fights vs mario). When a good wonder boy player showed up a whole crowd would gather and watch him play all afternoon.

[Anonymous No.4502727]

>>4501667
Vidya was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.4502741]

>>4501531
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.4502749]

>>4501531
This feels way more like a /v/ thread than a /vr/ thread, despite you discussing retro games.

[Anonymous No.4502772]

>>4502749
Kids bored during Christmas break, wait till Monday.
At least it's not like that poster that recently considered DKC a questionable game due to having poor ludonarrative dissonance.

[Anonymous No.4502792]

>>4502772
christmas break is over though

[Anonymous No.4502808]

>>4501531
Yeah, that was called Usenet.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/rec.games.video/nS3pXBEriio

[Anonymous No.4502818]

>>4502792
In some parts it's not over yet for kids like where I live.