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Favorite Retro game company, /vr/?

>> No.488252
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Capcom. Can't beat em. Shame they are a shell of their former selves.

>> No.488263

Squaresoft

Oh how times have changed

>> No.488261

>>488227

SEGA
BLUE SKIES FOREVER

>> No.488272
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488272

Rareware

>> No.488283

Looking Glass.

They never made a single bad game.

>> No.488520

>>488227
Bullfrog maybe, or Team 17, I have a soft spot for those guys for some reason.

>> No.488548
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488548

Back in the day, they fucking rocked.

>> No.488556

>>488548
Did they do the pickle game? As in, "I haven't had this much fun since I pickled my brother." What the fuck was that game, anyway? Logo reminds me of it.

>> No.488720

Squaresoft, PS1 era, final destination.

Square Enix actually isn't that bad, especially considering the rest of the industry, but fuck if they haven't fallen a long way.

>> No.488953
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488953

The fallen emperor for all of the video game industry.

>> No.488973

>>488953
Aren't there still Taito arcades in japan?

>> No.489005
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489005

I miss the old Konami, today they're absolutely nothing like their glory days now.

Seems like they forgot a lot of their older franchises as time went by.

>> No.489015

>>488548
>The Height of Gaming Excitement

They must put that phrase back on the ROTT remake.

>> No.489052
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489052

V8 and V8:2 are my favorite games.

>> No.489072

>>489052
> dem randomized messages

>> No.489078

>>489052
Even the name is fun to say.
It still blows my mind that Vigilante 8 was made by 5 people.

>> No.489094

whoever did all that eroge for the PC98

>> No.489106
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>>489052
I was so disappointed that the XBLA remake was utter shit.

>> No.489271

>>489106
My brother and I made up characters for a third installment. A robot on a quadbike was one, Convoy had a tanker as his default and Padre Destino had returned with a skeleton army. It was pretty awesome... I'll see if I can find our sketches.

>> No.489361

>>488973

Yes, but Square owns them now.

>> No.489374

>>489361
I don't mind that at all, but it's a shame Taito's just a brand now.

>> No.489376
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>>489005
>>488227
>>488953
These are the ones I miss the most along with old Sega, old SNK and pic related, at least when it comes to arcade and console gaming.

>> No.492450
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492450

It's always been Working Designs, for me.

>> No.492480

>>489376

I think I agree with you on all parts there. The old Puyo Puyo/MadouMono games were awesome, Sonic Team never really got Puyo Puyo right in my opinion. I mean Fever was good but 2 and Sun were badass, though 20th anniversary was fairly good now that i think about it. Its a shame Compile Heart just make RPGs, they kind of forgot who they were when Idea Factory got hold of them.

Also old SNK were god-tier. Metal Slug/Samurai Showdown/KoF'98 etc.

>> No.492489

>>488953

Its a shame to see Taito fall from grace. I mean, they made fucking Space Invaders. That game was a juggernaut back in the day.

>> No.492494
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>>488227
Didn't Hudson Soft make Super Mario Bros. Special?

>> No.492498

>>489106
Oh god.... Why did you have to remind me...

Alas, my copy of Vigilante 8 for PSX is MIA. I have the case and manual, but no disc. Barf.

>> No.492517
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>>492480
Yeah, and in regards to Compile, Hudson, Taito and Konami, an entire way of making shmups has been lost.
I mean, I love Cave as much as the next guy and can understand the appeal of Touhou(though I don't share it), but often I feel myself longing for less insanely manic and more "novice" friendly and even horizontal shmups that don't require you to be super aware of the scoring system or ranking in order to be fun and 1cc attemptable.

>> No.492521
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492521

Many days were spent exploring the backwater cesspools of medieval Germany.

>> No.492542
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492542

Sunsoft

Thai knew how to make Fun Games.
Especially on the Nes.
Thar Nes games pushed the limits of the hardware.

>> No.492663
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>> No.492687

>>492663
Fucking Disney.

>> No.492743
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492743

Always pushing the boundaries of my autoexec.bat and config.sys, but oh so worth it. One of my favorite memories was the atmospheric feel of the various Privateer ports and stations.

And one day, EA announced they were bringing back the Origin name and I was so excited...

>> No.492776
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492776

Back before they merged, still made games for the neo geo aes and the pocket color, and had their chain of neo geo land amusement parks in Japan

>> No.492878
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>>492687
The change in leadership during the late 90s all but ruined the old Lucas Arts long before Disney disbanded it. In fact, disbanding them was all but a mercy killing. Pic related.

>> No.493807

>>492687
Also they still plan on making games just outsourcing production instead of doing it in house. I think we might get better titles now that the games will be made else where.

>> No.495390

>>492663
I'd be inclined to think that Double Fine is their spiritual successor, if only because of that magnificent bastard Tim and his writing.
All they did post-Monkey Island 4 is make Star Wars rehashes anyway, I doubt any of the adventure game fans are mourning.

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>> No.495453
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495453

>Granzella still hasn't made a game yet

>> No.495559
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>> No.495560
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Puyo Pop *and* Zanac? Yes, please.

>> No.495570
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495570

Westwood

>> No.495572

>>492521
seconded
sucks that they're stuck making no-risk generic games, what a shame

>> No.495586

>>492743
>Always pushing the boundaries of my autoexec.bat and config.sys
Oh god, you are so correct on the config bit.

Wing Commander. Fucking Wing Commander. I remember being so impressed that Luke Skywalker was in one of them.

Origin: "We Create Worlds"
;_;

>> No.495606

>>495560
>>495559
>>495453
>>492776
>>492542
>>489376
>>489005
>>488953
>>488227
Damn, this is a depressing thread.

Taito. Motherfucking Taito. Space Invaders, Bubble Bobble, Elevator Action, Rastan, Operation Wolf, New Zealand Story, etc etc. Damn shame.

>> No.495618

>>492489
but taito didn't fall. aren't they the pillar of the arcade industry right now ?

compared to Irem who failed miserably.

>> No.495640

>>495618

Are arcades even a thing in the west anymore? They're still popular in Asia right? Imagine how much money could be made if someone put an R-Type cabinet in Pyongyang,

>should i play this game or get some food for my starving brother

>> No.495636

>>495618
>taito didn't fall
They're just a brand name now, they haven't developed a game proper since they were bought by Square in the mid-90s.

>> No.495663

>>495636
Dariusburst Another Chronicle EX

>> No.495679

>>495663
>Dariusburst Another Chronicle EX
Oh wow, a twentieth variation on the tried and true Darius formula, I'm so excited.

>> No.495689

>>495663
not developed by taito, they don't exist anymore. it was only published under their name.

>> No.495696
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>>488227
they made AMAZING pinball machines

holy shit what a blast, I played the robocop one every day after school

>> No.495702
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495702

>>488261
Stay strong, soldier.

>> No.495708

>>495572
They are actually still around?

>> No.495716

>>495696
I will forever love Data East for Magical Drop alone.

And forever hate them for Robocop on the NES/Famicom.

>> No.495723

>>492494
Wow, that was terrible. Thanks for sharing.

>> No.495730
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495730

Tetris

fuck yeah, fuck Nintendo I remember my dad getting me Tengen Tetris

>> No.495735

>>495730
TETЯIS, spell it correctly you bourgeois cunt

>> No.495739

I always loved Konami. Though I am honestly curious how they are still up after having only Metal Gear left as their quality series. I doubt you can gain much money from pissing off Castlevania and Silent Hill fans non stop.

>> No.495741

>>495730
Fuck Nintendo?

Nintendo never owned it, Tetris was stolen from that Ruskie.

>> No.495747
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495747

why are you guys even on /vr/?

>> No.495758

>>495739
they make good money with PES since it is the only other Football(soccer) game in the world today

also Konami owns a lot of stuff in Japan like record labels so they can bring additional money

>> No.495759

>>495741
>>495730
Do you think Tetris was secretly a ploy by Russia to get us addicted to legalized crack so they can attack us off guard?

>> No.495774

>>495759
SOVIET MINDGAME

>> No.495783

WARP created by Kenji Eno(died a few months ago)

they made the D games and also Enemy Zero, guy was a boss. He was hated by a ton of people in the video game industry!!

>> No.495784

>>495739
>only Metal Gear left as their quality series
Oh, Anon-kun, you so funny. Although, considering the rest of their output, I guess you're right.

> pissing off Castlevania and Silent Hill fans non stop.
Well Castlevania turned into endless animu Metroidvania redundancy, but that wasn't as bad as what happened to Silent Hill, starting with SH4: The Room, which was a different game shoehorned into the franchise. And then we got American devs take on the series, which were terrible with the possible exception of Shattered Memories. Everything else is shit. At least we got the masterpiece that is SH2.

>> No.495801

OutSide Directors Company

they made LSD for the ps1 and I guess they went broke after that

>> No.495804

Ocean
Codemasters
U.S. Gold
Activision

>> No.495827

GT Interactive (fuck Infogrames)

Accolade(fuck Infogrames)

Paradigm Entertainment (fuck Infogrames)

those french bastards

also I want to add Interplay before the french bastards from Titus destroyed it

>> No.495840
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>>495827
SSI, french also killed them

>> No.495847

>>495783
That bummed me out, hearing he died. He was a true weirdo and rebel who did things his way, he was pretty punk rock. I can't say any of his games are great but he tried to innovate in gameplay and storytelling. I wished he hadn't gotten so discouraged and had made more games. It's sad, he wasn't very old.

I need to get around to D2 one of these days.

>> No.495848
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495848

Broderbund before Mattel went batshit insane and bought them along with the Learning Company and destroyed them

>> No.495852 [DELETED] 

>495784
Shit, Konami sucks so much now; they don't even remember their old franchises anymore, man.

Whatever happened to stuff like Goemon, Gradius and Twinbee? I miss them.

>> No.495863

>>495801
Yeah except LSD is a bad "game" that is really more of a demo and is only interesting because it's "weird".

If you want to check out a really GOOD "art" game, seek Wordimagesoundplay for PS2.

>>495783
RIP Kenji Eno. A true original.

>> No.495868

>>495852
Policenauts and Snatcher, can't Konami release them on PSN or LIVE

the fuck

>> No.495869

>>495783
I don't wanna be that Negative Nancy but Kenji's games were not really good. They were interesting and unique but I can understand why a lot of people did not like what he made.

>> No.495876

>>495868
They would probably have to change a lot to prevent getting sued for copyright infringement.

>> No.495882

>>495876
how, Kojima made them and Konami owns the ip rights

>> No.495885

>>495882
A lot of the designs in them were pretty much ripped straight from movies. Especially Snatcher.

>> No.495884
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495884

Cyan Worlds, I played Myst and Riven with my mom!!!!

>> No.495895

>>495840
oh god, all those gold box games.... D:

>> No.495897

>>495885
That didn't stop 'em from gettting released back in the day, still.

>> No.495906

>>495897
Back in the day it was much easier to get away with it. If they rereleased them now I am sure a ton of lawyers would try to rob poor Kojima of everything he worked for. I would love a rerelease but I just doubt it will ever happen because of that.

>> No.495928

>>495869
No, I agree with you. But he was an interesting figure with ideas who worked against the grain, which was especially difficult in Japan at his time, unlike a guy like Suda 51 who has a modern reputation as a weirdo and is much more accepted in Japan even though he makes some bizarre half-assed shit.

We gotta support the weirdos, they're what push the boundaries of vidya.

>> No.495929

>>495884
Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, dead

>> No.495938
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Kronos Digital Entertainment

Fear Effect

>> No.495964

>>495938
no loss there, sorry bud.

i suspect you are a former employee or i guess just a person with bad taste, as those were awful games that were only notorious for LOL LESBIAN.

>> No.495971
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495971

GREMLIN INTERACTIVE!

They've been forgotten hard but almost everything they made was 10/10 god tier underrated game.

>> No.495982

>>495971

They were located in Sheffield, England. My brother in-law passes their old offices almost every day to get to work.

>> No.496057

>>495747
Still around, still making decent games and licensed work.

>> No.496171

>>495739
Whatever happened to all those awesome franchises like Goemon, Gradius and Twinbee?

Did they Konami forget they even exist?

>> No.496268

>>496171
Key people kept leaving the company I think because the high ups there are out of touch douchebags that constantly failed to maintain a creative environment there, Kojima being the only one that managed to wrestle his franchise away from them and into a 2nd party studio. Those who remain behind like Koji Igarashi are constantly forced to make the same type of games again and again with shoe string budgets and no saying on what systems they are one (he's been trying to get a branching path console Classicvania game made since the SotN days).
There's a reason why Treasure was formed and there's a reason Team Silent left.

>> No.496321

>>496171

Konami and Capcom are the infected. They hate fun and thus can never make good video games again. But they're not BAD at making video games, so they can still crank out technically playable games. You can feel the love has gone from these studios, though.

>> No.496345
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>>488227
Co-developed and published all the good Disney movie games during the 16 bit era

Think Aladdin for the Genesis (not the SNES, that was capcom)

Beautifully animated, just what I have always loved about 2d sprites

as close as you got to playing a real-life cartoon

>> No.496370
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>>488227
In a time when games were sewwious business these guys showed you could have action-packed games mixed with comedy

Never afraid to laugh at themselves in the past, sadly they fumbled the punchline in their later years, then stopped being funny altogether.

>> No.497253

>>496268
Ouch man, you really nailed it. It's the truth. But it still hurts...

>> No.497296

>>496370
MDK is still one of those games that makes me go "holy shit" while playing it.

>> No.497315

>>497296
me too, bro, me too

>> No.497342
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Yo bro, i'm happy for you and imma let you finish, but Interplay is the best publisher of all time. Of all time!

>> No.497360

>>497342
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Interplay_games

Other publishers, are you even trying?

>> No.497460

>>496370
So, they did Messiah, then what? Wild 9? What's Dave doing nowadays?

>> No.497505

>>497360
>>497342
Well they single-handedly killed the Earthworm Jim franchise by publishing that abomination Earthworm Jim 3d

They also came up with Boogerman

So I wouldn't put that list out if I'm trying to argue that it's the best of all time

Really doesn't help your argument

>> No.497515

>>497505
Also may I remind you that Earthworm Jim was on its way to be one of the greatest gaming franchises ever until interplay killed it with one crappy game

>> No.497849
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Atari Games. They did some damn nice stuff.

>> No.497881

>>497505
>on it's way to one of the greatest gaming franchises
>2 titles. both reasonably fun and enjoyable but suffering badly from Variety Show Gameplay

Now platforming! it's a maze! now it's a quiz! now it's a boss fight! now item hunt! now shmup!

I enjoyed the games as much as the next guy, maybe more, but a strong franchise will generally not have completely new game mechanics every level that are then never used again.

>> No.498010

>>495739
konami makes lots of slot machines a lot of their gaming business is probably in the gambling type of gaming

>> No.498037

>>497881
>I rather play rehashes of exactly same mechanics for 20 years straight

>> No.498057
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>>495971
Gremlin and Magnetic Fields made a few of my favorite racing games
>Lotus 3:Ultimate Challenge - Gremlin and MF
>Fatal Racing - Gremlin
>Rally Championship - MF

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I miss quintet. Why did 3D games have to become a thing so soon?

Games Include

Granstream Saga
Illusion of Gaia
Terranigma
Act Raiser

You can't beat a track record like that.

>> No.498112

>>488227
I've never been able to decide between Squaresoft, From Software (yes, Armored Core blew my 13/14 year old mind that much) or Enix
Old Capcom or Westwood are my 4th and 5th though.

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>> No.499913

>>499762
Yeah, nah. Only good thing it did was to supply the Follin brothers with work. But then again they might have landed on more competent developers if they hadn't been able to work there, so it makes me hate 'em even more. I mean, imagine this track in a good game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx9uLg6pYc0

>> No.499921

>>499762

Someone really, really likes Maximum Carnage.

>> No.499950

>>499921
It has a surprising amount of fans, though most are sane enough to admit a huge part of it is 90s nostalgia at its strongest. It might just be the best game Ljn ever published, but it's mediocre as far as beat 'em ups go.

>> No.501434

>>496370
its a shame that the last game they did was golden compass a shitty movie game what a horrible way to end the company