/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5055797]

Let's talk about ports or games that were "reworked" for other platforms. Ports that are
>weird
>terrible
>underrated
>different
>unrecognizable
What comes to mind?

[Anonymous No.5055806]

[Anonymous No.5055814]

>>5055806
the whole Game.com library (like what, a dozen games?) was fucking weird

[Anonymous No.5055872]

>>5055814
It looka horrendous, but I can't help but be impressed by Resident Evil 2. There's no characters or anything, but they accurately recreated every single room, hallway, and hidden passage. Pretty decent work.

[Anonymous No.5055919]

>>5055797
Can we just get it out of the way and say that ZX Spectrum ports are low hanging fruit?

[Anonymous No.5055932]

Re-Volt on Playstation. The game is too much for the PS1, and it looks like ass. Although it does have PS1 flare into it, more cars (pre-Dreamcast), and there's ICEBERGS in the last level taking place on a ship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZXPiwDiHiE

[Anonymous No.5055953]

>>5055932
Awesome. I have the 64 version, didn't even know the game was released on PS1. The pop-in and textures look awful in this version.

[Anonymous No.5056040]

>>5055872
it was pretty decent for the tech it was, but i always thought this was funny (pic related)

[Anonymous No.5056041]

Blades of Steel in CGA graphics!

[Anonymous No.5056328]

>>5055797
If the Mega Man DOS port interests you, check out Super Mario Bros. Special for the PC-8801

[Anonymous No.5056517]

Unrelated. Is looking up the stage order for mega man games considered bad form? Never played the series before.
Anyone played statecraft 64. Does it handle as bad as I think?

[Anonymous No.5056526]

Anything ported from arcades to microcomputers, basically.

[Anonymous No.5056538]

Dragon's Lair on the NES, Space Ace on the SNES.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKIN'?

[Anonymous No.5056957]

>>5056538
After watching Mike "9-inch-pike" Matei breeze through Dragon's Lair on NES, I think I understand what it was going for a bit more.
In order to avoid the obstacles and not die, you need intimate knowledge of each area and a solid ability to memorize the order that hazards come in - just like Dragon's Lair on an arcade machine. They just made it play/control like a platformer to appeal to the Nintendo crowd. So in reality it's a series of quicktime events cleverly disguised as a platformer, unfortunately it just comes across as an awkward, clunky platformer.

[Anonymous No.5056984]

King’s Quest 5 on the NES, reprogrammed by Konami. Not nearly as impressive as when the system got Maniac Mansion, but it’s competent enough.

[Anonymous No.5058575]

>>5056517
if you cant be fucked doing trial + error or getting_gud then looking up pattern is fine... C&C N64 is pretty ok, so assume sc64 is the same

[Anonymous No.5058580]

[Anonymous No.5058582]

This is The Unholy War by Toys for Bob for the PS1.

[Anonymous No.5058587]

>>5058582
And this is its revamp made for the Japanese market, Majokko Daisakusen.

[Anonymous No.5058716]

why were DOS ports usually ass?

[Anonymous No.5058720]

>>5058716
They were most of the times developed by amateur studios contracted by publishers like US Gold or Hi-Tech who didn't give a single fuck about quality.
What surprises me is that japanese companies allowed them to do that with their IPs. But I guess japanese didn't give much of a fuck about DOS ports. It could potentially hurt your franchise though. The first time I played Mega Man was on DOS, and I avoided the series thinking the console games were just as bad.

[Anonymous No.5058721]

this beast on Famicom
pretty much as good as you're going to get for an arcade to Famicom rework

[Anonymous No.5058756]

>>5055919
this

[Anonymous No.5058785]

I hated that trope and still do. I'd rather play the original game at 5fps than the watered-down Tiger LCD tier shit that publishers trick people with.

>>5055919

There's surprisingly few Spectrum ports given the "reimagining" treatment. The only 2 I can think of off the top of my head are Paradroid/Quazatron and SQIJ.

[Anonymous No.5058792]

>>5056517
I think you should at least give it a go without the pattern. The boss fights are one of the best parts of the games and the weaknesses are rigiculous sometimes, like 6 or 8 shots to kill them. You may get through a battle without even seeing all their patterns. Maybe look up weaknesses when you hit the boss rush but in most(if not all) of the classic series your weapons don't recharge between fortress levels and you may want to save something for Wily.

[Anonymous No.5058798]

>>5058792

[Anonymous No.5058880]

>>5055797

Mortal Kombat 1, 3 and 4 on Gameboy. They put their SNES/playstation counterparts to shame, MKII on the Gameboy however is decent, a golden egg among the other three portable turds

[Anonymous No.5058926]

>>5056538
The dumpster fire, granted gorgeous-looking, of an arcade "game" and its sequel that laid the groundwork to the cancer of quicktime events. What would you expect of their console ports?

[Anonymous No.5058945]

>>5056957
>Mike "9-inch-pike" Matei
Wasn't it 10 inches?

[Anonymous No.5059391]

>>5058575
Statecraft is pretty micro focused and the n64 controller is ass. Ok I guess I will give it a shot and only use a guide if it's balls hard.

[Anonymous No.5059396]

>>5056957
>>5058945
>mike's big dick meme
He just stole that from an old AVGN meme. Like always, he needs James to achieve fame, even in memes.

[Anonymous No.5059409]

super mario world for the game & watch is pretty interesting.

[Anonymous No.5059413]

>>5059409
I had the SMB3 one. It was surprisingly entertaining for a watch LCD game.

[Anonymous No.5059954]

>>5056984
>>5058580
I was wondering why they would even attempt this, but apparently KQ5 sold more copies than Doom which got inferior ports out the ass. Question answered.

[Anonymous No.5060003]

>>5058880
The only bright spot in MK1 for Game Boy was getting to play as Goro.

[Anonymous No.5060040]

I love posting this thing any chance I can get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKYWUfAgX98

[Anonymous No.5060049]

Any CRPG ported to Nintendo or Sega

[Anonymous No.5060117]

>>5059396
I dont see how anyone likes this guy. I barely like AVGN but this dude is just straight boring.

[Anonymous No.5060119]

>>5058582
??? Your complaint?


Its a badass game. Really fun back in the day

[Anonymous No.5060123]

>>5060049
Buck Rogers is good, tho