/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5390643]

what game can you remember that was the most dissapointing game if your childhood?

[Anonymous No.5390835]

>>5390643

I'm going to get a lot of shit for this but this game isn't as bad as most people make it out to be. At least the genesis version. I mean, it's still a mediocre fighting game, but there's a lot worse ones out there.

[Anonymous No.5390843]

Vagrant Story. I blew what was then 10 weeks worth of allowance so I could learn not everything that Squaresoft made was good.

[Anonymous No.5390875]

>>5390643
Where's Waldo NES was the first dissapointment I remember. What a waste of a rental.

[Anonymous No.5390882]

>>5390643
The SNES port of Captain America and The Avengers.

[Anonymous No.5390883]

>>5390643
Where's Waldo NES was the first disappointment I remember. What a waste of a rental.

[Anonymous No.5390902]

>>5390835
i loved/love Shaq but the bad programming made my 5 year old self cry when it wouldnt work.

[Anonymous No.5390957]

>>5390643

[Anonymous No.5390963]

theres a lot of negativity in this board recently. i wish there were more positive versions of this thread. like, the best game of your childhood

[Anonymous No.5391005]

For me it was Earthworm Jim. The first two levels were ace then I couldn't do that submarine bit and just abandoned it eventually.

I remember being really resentful the game had so much promise and aesthetic appeal but shat all over it by pulling this shit.

I swapped it for Sim City with a kid from school - I still don't regret it.

[Anonymous No.5391008]

>>5390902
There was so much lag that I subconsciously started pressing the buttons really hard (to "compensate" I suppose) and my hand started aching and cramping.

[Anonymous No.5391046]

>>5390643
I cleaned old ladies' houses all Summer and wasted all my monies on this piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.5391053]

Mario’s time machine

[Anonymous No.5391079]

>>5390957

[Anonymous No.5391224]

>>5390643
Grew up a poor,white trash kid. At one point in my life all I had for entertainment was a Genesis, MK2, and Shaq Fu. I got really really good at MK2. Any MOH game post MOH:AA was a huge disappointment for me except Airborne. I must be one of a dozen people on this planet who loved Airborne.

[Anonymous No.5391267]

>>5391046
Almost posted this, but getting Mario is Missing was a much worse mistake. At least MKM:SZ had the satisfaction of pulling off fatalities

>pic related - not at all what 8 year old Luigi obsessed me was expecting

[Anonymous No.5391309]

>>5390643
Was sad, but did beat it.

[Anonymous No.5391347]

>>5390643

[Anonymous No.5391461]

>>5390643
5 year old me was so disappointed, but thank god for the great return policies of the early 90s.

[Anonymous No.5391513]

FF8, bar none. I actually thought the demo was great, too. In fact the first disc was fine, maybe not quite up to my standards based on FF7, but once I got to the prison it just felt like the game was peeing in my face. I stopped somewhere around there.

I’ve beaten the game as an adult but I’ll tell you if I could get that time back, I definitely would. I feel no better for having experienced it all.

[Anonymous No.5391517]

Peace Keepers. Worst rental I ever played

[Anonymous No.5391518]

>>5391513
The first disc is pretty good because the story remains cohesive as a sort of James Bondesque spy thriller. But the instant disc 2 boots up that story cohesion just falls apart and never recovers.

[Anonymous No.5391589]

>>5391005
I unironically think Down the Tubes is fun. Getting used to the momentum of it is a challenge but that's what the game is.

[Anonymous No.5391618]

>>5391347
but the Duke is based

[Anonymous No.5392137]

>cousin gets mk64 on launch, I need it
>go to kmart
>see snes mario kart exists, I hadn't known
>loved older games, always gave them priority over current consoles
>bro made us choose mk64
>love it but for years would dream about that cover art and the undoubtedly kino presentation the game must have
>finally get my hands on it years later
>boot it up
>atrocious fan rom title screen
>absolutely hideous aesthetic, mario looks like a monkey
holy fuck, talk about a let down. All these years and there still isn't a game that looks like the 2D Mario Illustrations

[Anonymous No.5392142]

>>5391589
I think having a hidden air thing was kind of BS. It's easy knowing where it is now, but as a kid I never found it.

[Anonymous No.5392317]

[Anonymous No.5392689]

>>5390843
surely you jest. that game was awesome

[Anonymous No.5392691]

[Anonymous No.5392753]

>>5390643
Shaq-fu had a sick OST.

[Anonymous No.5392762]

>>5392689
I sure didn't think so. To me it was Obtuse Crafting System: The Game

[Anonymous No.5392770]

>>5392762
well yeah doing that took up a good chunk of time as well as having certain weapons do better at harming certain enemies so you were always juggling weapons because one sword hurts lizard men better than your other nearly identical sword, but i'm a sucker for dungeon crawlers and i thought the presentation was impeccable

[Anonymous No.5392776]

>>5390835
The Genesis version is okay, but the SNES version is damn near unplayable and that's the one everyone remembers.

[Anonymous No.5392787]

>>5392137
Thank your brother for saving you from yourself and getting you the better game.

[Anonymous No.5393886]

>>5392787
I've thanked my brother for my entire gaming childhood. Every decision I get btfo and he knocks it out of the park. Mom says I can get any game, I almost go mario bros deluxe over banjo just because of the fucking awesome artwork again, no doubt in my mind it'd look cutting edge. Couldn't believe it was just nothing. World map was cool though.

[Anonymous No.5393926]

>>5392142
Granted I didn't play it as a kid. Had I it might have seemed to hard. The rest of the game last level especially gets pretty nasty in parts too so all might be for the best.

[Anonymous No.5394110]

>>5391618
but the N64 port blows

[Anonymous No.5394405]

probably breath of fire 3. i loved 2 too much

[Anonymous No.5394414]

Yoshi.
To be fair I was a dumb kid that only judged a game by the picture on the box. I didn't even read the part about it being a puzzle game.
I fucking loved that cute dino from Super Mario World, he used to be my favorite all time video game character before they destroyed him from Yoshi Story onward.
Well how excited was I to think he got his own game and I'd be doing some platforming with the green dino, eating Goombas, bloopers, piranah plants, and boos.
But no, it ended up being the worst of all the Mario Puzzle spinoffs.

[Anonymous No.5395094]

>>5390643
Megaman x3

[Anonymous No.5395109]

Brothers and I saved up and bought Superman 64 when it came out. Holy shit it’s worse than you’ve heard. I’m not sure how it got shipped, there isn’t any design in the levels, just fog and a few items. It’s like an elaborate test demo was approved for full sale price. Remember we paid $50 back the. Which was still a lot of money for me when I was in HS

[Anonymous No.5396327]

platoon for nes.
back then my brothers n i would get about 4 games a year. (1 for each of or bdays n 1 for xmas) and platoon was 1 of the least played.
itd suck when you'd get a new game that was just complete shit. but then you knew you had fallbacks already in your arsenal like megaman 2 or superC.
then youd just wait a few months for the next game and hope for the best.

[Anonymous No.5396367]

Alex Kidd BMX Trial

[Anonymous No.5396379]

Nobunga's Ambition on NES
that was just a big wtf for 7 year old me

[Anonymous No.5396781]

>>5390882
Which is unfortunate as the box art is genuinely badass

[Anonymous No.5397626]

>>5391224
it's alright but something about the mouse input on the PC version of Airborne is unplayable to me. I liked it a lot when I rented it way back on console. definitely not /VR/ though

[Anonymous No.5398424]

>>5392137
>>5392787
You niggers have awful tastes

[Anonymous No.5398431]

Mortal Kombat 3 by far

[Anonymous No.5398498]

>>5392137
>Not liking super
Holy shit dude
Cringe n bluepilled

[Anonymous No.5398563]

>Play World of Illusion on MD
>Fucking love it!
>See this at video rental store
>Graphics look awesome
>Rent it for a couple days
>Come home
>It's utter utter SHIT

[Anonymous No.5399267]

I loved the main Crash titles and MK64, but man I was not prepared for this stinker. Luckily I traded it to some stupid kid in class for Metal Gear Solid, still have that copy

[Anonymous No.5401069]

Ripto's Rage (if not technically retro)

[Anonymous No.5401075]

>>5391517
Lol, this is gonna sound fake, but my boy rented this and kept it for months. His dad was a corrections officer and he's now a cop.

[Anonymous No.5401081]

>>5390843
Agreed fully, got this game for my birthday, the hype surrounding it was off the charts, stopped playing it by the end of the week. Bland, boring, tedious, etc.

[Anonymous No.5401085]

>>5392770
Isn't that game REALLY short?

[Anonymous No.5401086]

[Anonymous No.5401101]

>>5396379
Yeah, with the exception of Uncharted Waters: New Horizons, I wasted about 12 rentals on KOEI games as a kid ($30, 36 Day's).