/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.467642]

Time for a good ol' Commie thread

[Anonymous No.467653]

>>467642
Go to bed, Yurop

[Anonymous No.467656]

>>467653
enjoy your lack of health care, Cletus

[Anonymous No.467672]

>>467653
Is it our fault that Americans hardly used C64s and Amigas even though they were the blokes that created the things?

[Anonymous No.467686]

>>467672
Oh we did, it's just that our computer gaming was more along these lines

[Anonymous No.467681]

One of my favorite games on C64

Just look at that graphics!

[Anonymous No.467693]

>>467681
I agree; it's got nice details in there

[Anonymous No.467697]

‘One of the major distinctions between Monty and Willy, is that Monty requires a deal of luck in certain situations, like the crushers. While this might be thought to reduce the playing skill element, it does add one of sheer thrill and nerves. The graphics, design and animation of all the moving characters is excellent, amusing and attractive, and that adds quite a bit to the playability of the game. Whether Monty Mole is better than Manic Miner will have to remain a question of the near future, and more hours playing. I suspect it might be better by a touch; better than Jet Set Willy? I don’t know that either, pretty much as good though.’

[Anonymous No.467715]

>>467686
Essentially that Might and Magic was a typical US computer game of the time while Giana Sisters was a typical Euro game.

Computer gaming here was/is much more neckbeard than Europe.

[Anonymous No.467735]

>>467715
Euros didn't really have game consoles in the 80s which is why they did arcade stuff on computers.

I don't know how true that still is in Europe today, although American computer gaming is still pretty much the same (centered on simulations, strategy, RPGs, and adventures)

[Anonymous No.467761]

>>467686
That sucker was on two disks and MM2 (the C64 version) took three. Britbongs sure wouldn't want to try it on cassette tape.

[Anonymous No.467772]

>>467761
Many of our 8-bit games were single load, rarely bigger than 64-128k. Tapes aren't much fun but the British market got completely priced out of disk drives.

[Anonymous No.467778]

>>467672
'Murrican here, the C64 was my first PC. Still got mine at home in the closet.

[Anonymous No.467794]

The loader music. just... DAMN

[Anonymous No.467802]

>>467778
does it count if it was your uncle's that he gave you when cleaning out his basement?

[Anonymous No.467810]

>>467794
Also the artwork on that screen. All with only 16 colours.

[Anonymous No.467830]

>>467810
The VIC-II had a nice pastel color palette. If you did this on a PC of the period with EGA graphics, it would look hideous with those Day-Glo colors.

[Anonymous No.467852]

>>467830
Sierra was great at pixel art, but even they could only go so far with the EGA/Tandy palette.

[Anonymous No.467892]

Did you ever see that Mythos demo on the C64? Amazing shit.

[Anonymous No.467904]

>>467852
>>467830
And yet, still an improvement on pink, aqua, and white

[Anonymous No.469510]

>>467852
>peasant's quest

>>467686
THERE'S NO GOING BACK MOW!

[Anonymous No.474432]

>>467852
The issue isn't specifically the EGA palette. But the EGA palette combined with low resolution. Palette limitations are much easier to deal with when you have larger resolutions.
Using dithering, and combined with a higher resolution, this is what the EGA palette can do.

[Anonymous No.474443]

>>467852
Thing is those backgrounds were actually VGA, the game dithered them in real time. That's why they look cool.

[Anonymous No.474446]

>>474432
Here's the same palette when done at a small resolution. Scaled up for comparison purposes.

[Anonymous No.474984]

I'm getting one of these
But with an SD card interface instead of disk drive, for convenience.