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>> No.4935883

>>4935829
Game players magazine gave Super SF2 a score of 98%, as well as Battle Arena Toshinden

>> No.4936494

"You fought well!" forever ingrained in my head

>> No.4936551
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>>4935829

>> No.4936559
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A lot of fighters fall into this category. I remember Primal Rage being THE hot shit game that everyone at school talked about. It's damn-near forgotten now.

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>>4936559
I remembered Primal Rage for a bit because I had some of the toys. I liked that they came with the little cavemen as accessory figures.

>> No.4936579

>>4936559
Well Atari games hit very hard times shortly after that and defunct in 2003. That was what killed a lot of fighters was the companies went belly up.
Primal Rage, Bloody Roar, Time Killers, ClayFighter, Mace Dark Age and others all had their companies defunct on them.
Hell if it wasn't for WB letting MKvs DC happen we could add Mortal Kombat to that list.

>> No.4937078
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It's a good game

>> No.4937701
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4937701

A lot of people I knew had this game but now it's considered obscure?

>> No.4937724

>>4937078
>all copies of this game being sodomized to make RARE EXCLUSIVE repros of shit ass Star Fox 2, game so shit they never even released it
feels bad dude

>> No.4937784

>>4937724
Its a shitty game and you can still get copies for $10 or less, who the fuck cares?

>> No.4937785

>>4936559
It was a fighting game that was made to appeal to kids instead of fighting fans, that's probably why.

But fighters in general tend to be that way. Players tend to focus on one or two games and only play others a little bit.

>> No.4937803
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Franchises that went nowhere.

>> No.4937830
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>> No.4937835
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Accordingly to Wikipedia this shit here "sold a combined total of over 15 million copies for all platforms", with the third game alone "shipping over 6 million copies".

The games had a good marketing, but they weren't hyped. Games like God of War and Halo sold way less on their first iterations and were hyped as the greatest thing ever and went on to become actual gaming juggernauts (altought I believe this will not last forever), while Gex was just forgotten.
And I understand why. It's just another mascot platformer. And the "TV/Movie worlds" trope is really tired. We had Gex, Garfield Caught in The Act, the two Bug! games, Conker, Cool Spot...

>> No.4937845

>>4937835
GEX IS SICK
>>4935829
that's how you separate the boomers from the zoomers

>> No.4937849
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One of the best-selling Playstation games. Yet people only remember the classic arcade game.

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>> No.4937856
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>> No.4937870
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>> No.4937876

>>4937870
>>4937861
these two are definitely still talked about

>> No.4937967

>>4937803
what is jotaro doing there?

>> No.4937980
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4937980

Popular for a hot second

>> No.4938029

>>4937835
I've always liked Gex, still have all of the games. Sure, they were just mascot platformers, but they played well, and I enjoy the cheesy jokes and outdated references.

>> No.4938151

>>4935829
>>4936559

Tekken came along and basically crushed everything. Only Street Fighter survived.

>>4937835
Mascot platformers are a dead genre and the only reason they're dead is because the suits decided they wanted fratboys to be their customers instead of 12 year olds and NEET manchildren. It's sad.

>> No.4938508

>>4937835
Don't talk shit about Cool Spot or Garfield

>> No.4938526

>>4938151
>Tekken came along and basically crushed everything.
Complete truth yet also an extremely unpopular one to actually say.

>> No.4938892

>>4937078
I still own this, should be at my parent’s house I think. Used to play it a ton with my sister when a i was a kid, although I remember trying to play it again in high school and having a tough time doing well due to not being used to the controls or movement anymore

>> No.4938921

>>4937830
I remember seeing a lot of art from this so it must have been popular. Obviously only in Japan tho

>> No.4938927

>>4937849
How the hell
Literally no one I knew had this. I had a lot of friends at the time and we all had big playstation collections because games were rather cheap and I have sero recollection of this game's existence.

Did it somehow sell millions of copies to distributors who were literal boomers who thought 'Oh, Frogger, I remember the kiddies like that' and then sit unsold by the millions?

>> No.4939346

>>4937701

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H50nqenYMDM

>> No.4939348

>>4937724
>>4937784
That's actually really neato.

>> No.4939349

>>4936559
Anyone who ever stepped foot in an Arcade in 1995 or 1996 remembers Primal Rage. It was everywhere. There's just nothing to talk about. It is a very shallow game that's not really any fun to play anymore. It had (still has, really) nice graphics and that's about it.

>> No.4939352

>>4938927
People actually bought it play because it was heavily marketed.

>>4937849
I remember there being input lag my fat brother's fatter friend was complaining about when he was over. "son of a bitch game!"
Did the game have lag, or was it the early DualShocks? I never used them much because I had a Barracuda 2

>> No.4939354

>>4937856
kid at school kept telling me to play it while pronouncing it weird but I never did.

>> No.4939359

>>4937870
>minimal content and exists only to show off mode 7 gimmick

>> No.4939362

>>4937870
Captain Falcon in Smash ensured that F-Zero would never be forgotten

>> No.4939546

>>4935829
every shmup ever. i'm surprised they even bother still giving NA the new releases

>> No.4940160

>>4937980
the magazine ads for Fear Effect 2 was very popular with my sperm cells

>> No.4940220
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>>4940160
What is this game?

>> No.4940230

>>4940220
Tank controls, science fiction, and lesbians

>> No.4940823

Almost every Sega series.

>> No.4943010
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>> No.4943356

>>4943010
this whole series had so much potential. it hit when ninja and stealth shit were hot. never went anywhere though.

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>> No.4943407

>>4943356

Both PS2 Tenchu games are also awesome.

>> No.4943409
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>> No.4943581

>>4937830
It's weird, Sakura Taisen is still a hugely popular franchise in Japan but there hasn't actually had anything new except crossovers in ages.

>> No.4943585

>>4937980
I was shocked when I saw a new Fear Effect game while browsing the Switch eShop.

>> No.4943593

>>4937856
One of the best trilogies when every game got better than the last. Never played the PS2 version though.

>> No.4946056

>>4937835
gex didn't age well so nobody cares anymore

>> No.4946076
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>>4943356
I still can't believe this series went to shit, a stealth game where you play as a ninja is just so goddamn perfect. I would kill for a ps4 reboot.

>> No.4946097

RIVAL SCHOOLS.

>> No.4946103

>>4946097
That came across to me as obscure at the time, with people only knowing it because Sakura from SFA was in it. The "Ness" effect, sort of

>> No.4946118

>>4940220
https://clips.twitch
.tv/ElatedHomelyKoupreyPupper

If you want to see it in action

>> No.4946125

>>4940823
This is pretty much true, outside of Sanic and maybe Phantasy Star in Japan most of their IPs are dead

>> No.4946163

>>4943581
They did announce a new project it for it a while ago, but no news since.

>> No.4946489
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4946489

>>4937803

I wish we got another Last Bronx

>> No.4946524

>>4937980
Just started these the other day, look real nice if you can clean up the pixelated animated cgi backgrounds with filters. Its like playing a tv show.

>> No.4946582

>>4937785
It was the 90s. We were all kids then.

>> No.4946632

>>4937785
>instead of fighting fans,

back then there was no FGC beyond what was popular in your own local scene. This is why shit got so out of hand and why no game can compete. Everything is too dependent on online play so only the one or two mass appeal games catch on.

>> No.4946975

>>4937724
They did release it though..

>> No.4947067
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4947067

I can still hear that starting theme.

>> No.4947075

>>4943397
I don't remember anyone actually talking about that game at the time, but perhaps that's just me. Fun game though. The most prime example of over-the-top 90s EDGE.

>> No.4947984

>>4937853
>Tfw no new games from Wii era and after
Feels bad man.

>> No.4947989

>>4937980
Fear Effect 2 had lesbian protagonists and nobody made a huge deal about it since cultural marxism in gaming industry wasn't a thing back then. Now all fake news and SJW treat The Last of Us 2 as the most woke game in industry.

>> No.4948002

Croc was a huge thing back then as the first well-made Super Mario 64 style game for consoles that weren't Nintendo 64. Then when more, better and more original 3D platform games came out like Spyro the Dragon, nobody gave a shit about the sequel and the spin-offs for portable consoles and mobile phones. And unlike Spyro that everyone still talk about it with fond memories, I never see anyone talking about Croc.

>> No.4948025

>>4947067
I had this game and loved it, but I was the only one I know who did. It's really just Bomberman without bombs, tho.

>> No.4948154
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>>4937803
>Franchises that went nowhere.

Wrong. It lead to Fighters MegaMix. I loved Fighting Vipers 2 on the Dreamcast,BTW.

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>>4938508
>Don't talk shit about Cool Spot or Garfield

Cool Spot was 7up's mascot during the early '90s. Cool Spot served its purpose to promote 7up products. The videogame franchise died when 7up/ Pepsi Cola stopped using the character.

>> No.4948234

>>4935829

World heroes 2.

OK so it probably was never that popular, but I fucking loved that game.

>> No.4950707
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>> No.4950710

>>4950707
Can confirm this was a hit among us NES kids
A proper Metafight 2 in 4th gen and ideally for SNES would have been a hit too.

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>>4950710
Sega(console)put out the sequel. Don’t know if it was good or not.

>> No.4950731
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>>4950716
>Sega(console)put out the sequel. Don’t know if it was good or not.


It was disappointing, to be honest.

There was a new Blaster Master game released on the Switch last year. It's called Blaster Master Zero, and it is quite good.

Plus there are also Blaster Master games on the Game Boy Color, Playstation 1 and Nintendo Wii.

>> No.4950745

>>4950731
>Playstation 1


Also, the PS1 game was surprisingly good, but it never really got much exposure. The tank was fun to control and the third person run and gun sections were not bad either. I remember buying this one for $5.00, and ended up being better than I was expecting it to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdqP_HKelvQ

>> No.4950779

>>4950716
Blaster Master 2 wasn't by the same Japanese Metafight developers, hence me saying a proper Metafight 2.

Instead, it was developed in the UK and as you may guess that meant it was garbage.

The Playstation game was good but they needed that non-shit 4th gen sequel and preferrably on SNES to capitalize on the momentum they built with the NES game.

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>>4950731
>blasting again

>> No.4951031

>>4950803
>frog poster
What you so mad at?!

>> No.4952918
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Anyone remember the Fighters’ History vs Capcom debacle?

>> No.4953148

>>4946125
>Phantasy Star
Too soon.

>> No.4953154

>>4937870

f-zero is basically a smash brothers mascot at this point. funny because it only got added to smash 64 because they felt captain falcon fit the pre-mario smash moveset perfectly

>> No.4953156

>>4950707

I remember this game, the music and aesthetic was awesome but the gameplay was fuckin shit. super mario bros 3 was where it was at 95% of the time.

>> No.4954174

>>4948154
>Wrong. It lead to Fighters MegaMix.

Fighters Megamix was mugen tier broken trash though. Put b,f,P+K on a macro, select Janet, hold down the key, come back 5 minutes later and the game is beaten.

>> No.4954189

>>4937701
>>4939346
unironically tomba 2 is one of my favourite games from when I was a kid, the fact that both are on PSN was a godsend. Hate that these games have become a meme or whatever they're really good.

>> No.4954208

>>4935829
Pretty much any PS1 game before Resident Evil. Everyone played that shit, and all of it was exactly that - shit. Resident Evil is also shit, but at least it had a decent remake.

>> No.4954512

>>4946076
Hnnnnnnnnnnnng

>> No.4956021

>>4937803
>literally the progenitor of Fighters Mega Mix, Sonic the Fighters/Sonic Championship and also got its own direct sequel
>went nowhere

>> No.4956059
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>>4952918
nah but this gem

>> No.4956134

>>4946056
>age