Biggest retro dissapointments

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Biggest retro dissapointments Anonymous Tue Dec 17 14:38:13 2019 No.6078010 [Reply] [Original]

>Sitting in back of moms car in 1994 reading the box of your brand new atari jaguar pumped out of your mind
>Getting home and actually playing it
Mfw ill never be this let down again in my life

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 17 15:24:59 2019 No.6078102 >>6078010 >Tiny toon adventure and alien vs predator listed twice cause nogames

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 17 15:29:37 2019 No.6078115 >>6078010 We got our from Tiger Direct after the system had pretty much died. It came with Raiden, NBA JAM, and AvP. Those were pretty good games.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 17 15:41:37 2019 No.6078143 >>6078010 I always figured that somewhere there had to be at least one person who was fooled into thinking the Jaguar might not be hot garbage. What a surprise that they showed up here.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 17 16:04:43 2019 No.6078181 File: 28 KB, 300x300, snes_mario_is_missing_p_hc1oq4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6078010 I hope they hung someone over this game.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 17 16:50:23 2019 No.6078259 >>6078010 >Tiny Toon is advertised twice despite getting canceled LOL

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 17 17:18:29 2019 No.6078286 >>6078181 I rented this game for 3 bucks and still felt ripped off

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 17 23:46:57 2019 No.6079168 >>6078259 The fact that they're double advertising some games and that controller is as shit as it is on the box should have tipped OP off.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 03:49:54 2019 No.6079539 >>6078010 Why would you buy a console without ever trying it first?

Anonymous Wed Dec 18 04:16:52 2019 No.6079584

>>6079539
It was a different time, I got a SNES without having ever seen a single game played on it. Advertising worked back then, it wasn't like you could just hope online and look up a review. And if you didn't live in a highly populated area, your local store might not have a playable display.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 06:39:50 2019 No.6079709 >>6078010 I know a lot of people like the game. But when I picked Rayman as my first game for the original Playstation I was extremely dissapointed. My dad questioned whether it was a good game to pick. Unfortunately I had already made up my mind.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 07:22:30 2019 No.6079753 >>6079709 The PS1 launch lineup was generally pretty ass. If that was an honest take of things to come it would have failed miserably.

Anonymous Wed Dec 18 08:17:21 2019 No.6079806

I was saving money until 1998 to buy Amiga 500. I tought games were cool and good looking because an older friend had one (older kids were cool kids back then) and I was buying computer magazines, where there was a few pages dedicated to Amgia. Then other neighbour and some friends form class started to have ps1, so I bought one as well. Glad I went that way.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 08:25:58 2019 No.6079812 >>6078010 >He fell for the Atari meme Wouldn't be me, bro.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 09:07:49 2019 No.6079863 >>6079753 Is there any console with a really good launch lineup?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 09:12:45 2019 No.6079868 File: 318 KB, 1500x1051, A1Ht6BlvvqL._SL1500_[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6078010 >holy shit it HAS A TOUCH SCREEN, a PERSONAL ORGANIZER, and you can CONNECT TO THE INTERNET! Biggest letdown of my life. Fucking Amerisharts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 09:32:49 2019 No.6079891 >>6079863 Xbox One had a decent one (and I'm talking about the context of the time), but that's all that thing had.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 10:06:01 2019 No.6079916 >>6079168 >One of AvP is just the logo because they couldn't get two good looking frames

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 10:10:03 2019 No.6079921 >>6078010 >Atari >made in the USA That alone is the undeniable proof of shittiness. Only garbage would appeal to patriotism to sell. >Buy American, not these jap shit consoles!!!! Remembuh Parl Harbur!!!!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 10:52:15 2019 No.6079971 >>6078102 Rayman and Tempest 2000 were available. Just 2 exemples.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 11:43:25 2019 No.6080021 >>6079863 PS2 had a great launch lineup. Probably the best of any system.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 11:45:52 2019 No.6080027 >>6079753 We didn’t even buy it at the launch. My brother picked FFVII so it has to be in 1997 or later.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 11:51:55 2019 No.6080029 >>6079863 Dreamcast lineup was gold >house of the dead >sonic adventure >powerstone >soul calibur

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 12:39:14 2019 No.6080068 >>6079868 The only cool thing about it is the startup >GAMECOM ACTIVE!

Anonymous Wed Dec 18 12:47:03 2019 No.6080080

half of the game are duds, the other half are worth trying. then you got the homebrew action on it. The homebrew scene is nuts for this. Engineers, programmers.. theyre actually fucking cloning the jagduo. the unreleased next of kin of the console. The whole.. branch of the console is public domain. Theyve clones the 'pro controller' also and.. its just a mental homebrew scene.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 12:49:32 2019 No.6080085 >>6079863 OG Xbox, 360 and the One. Sega Genesis, Dreamcast. SNES and the GameCube. The Master System. TurboGrafx. It’s honestly about 50/50 and doesn’t determine how well the system will do either. It’s nearly meaningless

Anonymous Wed Dec 18 12:57:31 2019 No.6080105

>>6079921
>Buy American, not these jap shit consoles!!!! Remembuh Parl Harbur!!!!
>Company named themselves a Japanese word
They wanted people to mistake them for a Japanese company because everyone assumed that Japanese products were the most high-tech back then. Yes, I know Atari was their second choice for a name.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 13:02:27 2019 No.6080109 >>6080105 >made in the you ess ay

Anonymous Wed Dec 18 13:17:19 2019 No.6080137

>>6080105
>They wanted people to mistake them for a Japanese company because everyone assumed that Japanese products were the most high-tech back then. Yes, I know Atari was their second choice for a name.
Atari was named in 1972, long before Japanese electronics earned their cachet in the 1980s. Back then, people associated Japan with the kind of trinkets and crap we would call chinkshit these days (with some exceptions: Pioneer and Sansui were making nice stereos by that point - I have a 1967 Sansui tube amp that could rival hifi shit like McIntosh).

Bushnell chose the name in 72 because he was a big go player. IDK if the Tramiels were hoping for some Japanese association in the 90s, but that big USA flag says no.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 14:59:14 2019 No.6080321 >>6079868 How the fuck is it the Americans fault that you bought a shitty PDA by Tiger?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 15:20:35 2019 No.6080358 >>6080068 It's so muffled that I could swear it was saying "fuck you."

Anonymous Wed Dec 18 15:40:21 2019 No.6080397

>>6080137
This is true, Japan got flattened in WW2, and their industry was in a sorry state for quite a while after, as a result, almost all of their exported consumer goods was crap. Nobody associated Japanese consumer electronics with high quality in the 1970s.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 18 15:43:49 2019 No.6080405 >>6079868 >bought a product by a company that is known for making glorified wristwatch "games" >blame country that company is in ...okay?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 01:38:08 2019 No.6081350 >>6080397 They didn’t have a good reputation before ww2 either. They only became a relevant country in the 70s.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 03:44:41 2019 No.6081501 >>6080397 Maybe not in America

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 03:46:06 2019 No.6081502 >>6079921 The Jaguar hardware was designed by Brits. Same lads behind the Amiga IIRC.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 03:46:11 2019 No.6081503 >>6080021 Launch as in the same year it came out. So 2000

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 03:53:20 2019 No.6081510 File: 285 KB, 1400x925, sega activator.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6078010 This thing

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 03:56:14 2019 No.6081512 >>6078010 >Biggest retro dissapointments Buying a Nintendo 64 at launch after seeing TV footage of a Zelda game that summer the the endless years of no Zelda game to follow

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 06:14:50 2019 No.6081629 >>6081512 Do you mean the tech demo from 1995?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 07:20:06 2019 No.6081690 >>6081512 Tetrisphere was originally being made for the jaguar. Nintendo swiped it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 07:21:06 2019 No.6081691 >>6081512 Tetrisphere was originally being made for the jaguar. Nintendo swiped it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 09:33:44 2019 No.6081810 >>6081510 You mean the 2003 game? It was good

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 09:40:46 2019 No.6081816 Forsaken on the n64. Total rubbish

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 09:51:39 2019 No.6081836 >>6081502 >Same lads behind the Amiga IIRC No, different guys (Flare Technology). The Amiga guys did the Lynx and later, the 3DO.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 10:26:00 2019 No.6081883 >>6081690 So Nintendo rescued it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 10:37:41 2019 No.6081910 File: 369 KB, 583x584, Where_did_you_learn_to_buy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6078010

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 14:22:50 2019 No.6082237 >>6078010 I really want an atari jaguar now but there so expensive i think i may have had one in my house at one point because i definitely remember playing cybermorph unless it was ported to something else

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 19:21:09 2019 No.6082684 >>6080137 In the 60s and 70s japan made very high quality transistor radios. My dad has one that still works and it has reception almost as good as a brand new radio from ccrane.

Anonymous Thu Dec 19 19:35:46 2019 No.6082707

I almost bought a Saturn because I loved the Genesis, and NiGHTS looked really cool. Plus it was from the creators of Sonic, and I loved Sonic. The guy at the store strongly discouraged me from buying a Saturn and told me to get a PS1 instead. That guy saved my life. NiGHTS is okay, but I had no idea what it actually was, and I would have been pissed upon getting home and realizing the actual 3D parts of the game are completely pointless, and the game plays nothing like Sonic. Thank god I got Crash Bandicoot instead. Plus, the Saturn would have died sooner, with a much smaller library. Now it's fun to go back and look at the good games it did get, but if you picked it at the time, you got burned.

>>6079709
Rayman always sucked. Its reputation is from Europoors trying to pretend like they had something as good as Mario or Sonic, even though really it was competing against 3D stuff like Crash Bandicoot, to which it couldn't even compare. Rayman 2 is an okay game, but it's shovelware compared to Crash. Just another generic failed '90s mascot. A slightly less fun Gex.

>>6081502
>The Jaguar hardware was designed by Brits.
That explains a lot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 19:43:38 2019 No.6082715 >>6082684 I wonder if the negative reputation of Japanese goods in the 1970s wasn’t being pushed by American labor to try and undermine the threat it posed.

Anonymous Thu Dec 19 20:11:51 2019 No.6082748
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>>6081350
Nah, people jerked off Japan for a while before WW2 in the early 1900s. The Sino-Japanese War put Japan on the world map and the western world were cautiously admiring the country and going full weeb over their seemingly newfound prowess and "polite ways", considering them to be the "good asians". For those decades, Japan was hip and happening

The 1930s is when the west started to not be so big of a fan for obvious reasons

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 21:01:57 2019 No.6082804 >>6079539 I got mine for $40 brand new at Kaybee's Toys for my birthday in around 1997.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 21:21:15 2019 No.6082834 >>6078102 >same games listed twice Wow, they had no shame.

Anonymous Thu Dec 19 21:31:13 2019 No.6082854

>>6082804
Shit, I remember the piles of Jaguars at KB for $50. Hindsight and all, but to have bought them all back then.

Reminds of another cool Kaybee thing: I remember them uncovering piles of old Atari games they had found in the store sold for cheap in the 90s.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 19 21:34:46 2019 No.6082860 >>6082854 I remember seeing them too when I was like 10. All I got out of Kaybee clearance were two Dark Sun Modules and Super Return of the Jedi. Good stuff, but they had a whole shelf of Dark Sun stuff and Jags on Clearance.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 20 07:43:42 2019 No.6083434 >>6078010 >that board on 4chan where people use to talk about old games but now just talk about emulation, LCDs and other such bullshit

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 20 14:14:56 2019 No.6083957 >>6082715 Its possible. Japan generally made more reliable vehicles than america back then as well.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 20 14:32:37 2019 No.6083983 >>6083434 Ok boomer

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 20 14:33:40 2019 No.6083985 >>6083434 PAST GOOD PRESENT BAD

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 20 17:34:50 2019 No.6084285 >>6082748 Nope.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 20 18:38:33 2019 No.6084412 File: 98 KB, 504x552, 0f89927f.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6082707 Absolutely no one gives a fuck about your Crash Bandicoot fan blog, you demented autist

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 20 19:05:02 2019 No.6084445 File: 67 KB, 1398x1064, nes_turbo_touch_360_ctl-547485.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I don't know why the fuck I wanted this piece of shit back in the day. I think we returned it the next day.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 20 20:54:13 2019 No.6084645 >>6083983 Ok zoomer >>6083985 >ON TOPIC BAD >ZOOMING GOOD Ok zoomer

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 04:30:17 2019 No.6085140 >>6078010 It could have been worse. Your mom could have dumped 700 1994 US dollars on a 3do...

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 12:58:22 2019 No.6085664 >>6085140 At least the 3DO had Japanese third party developers so you could get a jrpg or two and a Sailor Moon fighting game.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 13:15:52 2019 No.6085694 >>6084645 >le goomer zoomer boomer maymay t. 6 year old fuck off to /v/ faggot, can't even fucking speak english, thinks lcds aren't retro, thinks emulation isn't retro, all around a dumb fucking faggot probly never had sex too lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 13:44:14 2019 No.6085731 >>6082748 This. Weebs have been a thing since Perry.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 16:29:28 2019 No.6086039 >>6082715 Might have persisted since the 50s?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 16:48:29 2019 No.6086074 >>6078010 I remember really wanting one specifically to play Rayman. Then finding out it was coming to PS1 and never looking back.

Anonymous Sat Dec 21 16:58:54 2019 No.6086102

>>6078010
Sorry I have a vision condition that blots out some letters from a sentence, but I'm assuming you're talking about Biggest Retro Ointments?

For that I'm going to go with the VINTAGE ZINC OINTMENT. It's reliable, effective and great for my eyesight.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 19:56:20 2019 No.6086395 >>6078286 I found my copy while dumpster diving and still felt ripped off.

Anonymous Sat Dec 21 20:03:25 2019 No.6086407
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I begged my grandmother for Mario Paint for Christmas because I actually thought it would turn my SNES into something like a personal computer. They should have called it Fly-Swatter Tycoon.

I could have had ALTTP or FF2.

Anonymous Sat Dec 21 20:04:12 2019 No.6086410
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This.
I saw it heavily advertised in EGM and the like, and it sounded cool.
Holy shit, it's in 3D? And the boxart is rad! Then my parents bought it for me and man oh man did I feel bad. What a waste of money, what a stupid gimmick, what an awful game.

Anonymous Sat Dec 21 20:16:45 2019 No.6086426

>>6079584
>And if you didn't live in a highly populated area, your local store might not have a playable display.
Kmart, Target, and Walmart had them on display. What kind of shithole would you have to live in to not even have one of those? Damn dude, rural Iowa even had one in the town 20 miles over where we shopped once every couple weeks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 21 22:30:51 2019 No.6086574 >>6085694 >all that projecting lol

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 01:29:32 2019 No.6086794 >>6082707 >That explains a lot "If I don't remove this FUCKING CLOCK CAP, then my XBOX might die!"

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Anonymous Sun Dec 22 01:58:46 2019 No.6086839
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>>6078010
Nintendo DS, got it in England with the Robots game and was fucking salty about how I hated all of the games. I'd gotten used to RPGs on the GBA like Golden Sun, seemed like it had better graphics too. Metroid was fun for a few weeks. My parents got burned on a few Sega consoles but I was too young to remember much besides looking through marked down games when they were liquidated.

Anonymous Sun Dec 22 02:07:18 2019 No.6086850 [DELETED]

Don't really have too many disappointments that were meaningful since some of the major ones I remember were renting Rise of the Robots for SNES and Mario is Missing for SNES.

In terms of things I was gifted, maybe Saturn The House of the Dead? I didn't get a Saturn until it was already a bit dated (I want to say 2001), but the main reason I wanted it was for lightgun games. Loved The House of the Dead arcade, but this port was just so inferior. The US version was already expensive even then, so that plus the Saturn itself were a big chunk of my birthday that year. To be fair it was enough to give a taste of the arcade experience, so it certainly wasn't awful or anything. My current negative opinion of it is probably not much like the overwhelming "holy shit The House of the Dead AT HOME!" feeling I had when I got it. Since then I've obtained a The House of the Dead arcade cab (and even a prototype disc of the Saturn port), so it all worked out in the end.

Anonymous Sun Dec 22 02:08:53 2019 No.6086856
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Don't really have too many disappointments that were meaningful since some of the major ones I remember were renting Rise of the Robots for SNES and Mario is Missing for SNES.

In terms of things I was gifted, maybe Saturn The House of the Dead? I didn't get a Saturn until it was already a bit dated (I want to say 2001), but the main reason I wanted it was for lightgun games. Loved The House of the Dead arcade, but this port was just so inferior. The US version was already expensive even then, so that plus the Saturn itself were a big chunk of my birthday that year. To be fair it was enough to give a taste of the arcade experience, so it certainly wasn't awful or anything. My current negative opinion of it is probably not much like the overwhelming "holy shit The House of the Dead AT HOME!" feeling I had when I got it. Since then I've obtained a The House of the Dead arcade cab (and even a prototype disc of the Saturn port), so it all worked out in the end.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 02:09:12 2019 No.6086857 >>6086839 Not retro

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 02:14:22 2019 No.6086864 >>6086857 Look at that shit, it is retro even if you don't want it to be

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 02:28:03 2019 No.6086880 >>6079868 >BONUS: Lights Out game cart! WOW! What a bonus!

Anonymous Sun Dec 22 13:42:00 2019 No.6087658
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>>6078181
>see this
>want to rent it
>get told no because we were just getting a movie
>months later
>mom comes home from the video rental store when they were selling their snes games
>"anon i got you a new mario game!"
>think it's mario is missing
>it's pic related

I'm still mad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 14:26:06 2019 No.6087721 kick off (2) on Gameboy. pure shite.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 16:08:10 2019 No.6087882 >>6079921 Such a shit argument, no one wants garbage from China and Mexico You sound mentally ill

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 16:16:40 2019 No.6087898 >>6084412 Butt hurt rayman fan detected lol

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 16:56:24 2019 No.6087945 File: 78 KB, 300x300, crash-intense.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6078102 >>6082834 >One of the two games that got listed twice wasn't even released

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 17:52:58 2019 No.6088021 File: 117 KB, 480x351, 2210178-snes_yoshis_island.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6078010 SMW2 sucks, doesn't even feel like a Super Mario World game.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 22 18:18:15 2019 No.6088047 >>6086426 I could swear I saw one in a SEARS and it was a shock to me how shitty it felt and played. I'd been duped by game magazines.

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