/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6594096]

How did people react when they first saw this ending?

[Anonymous No.6594114]

I think my older brother spoiled the surprise for me when we were kids, using the code to take her armor off. I think my reaction at the time was
>Oh, she's a girl.That's neat. She better put her armor back on if she's going to start fighting aliens though.

[Anonymous No.6594131]

I don't remember how, but I knew Samus was a girl already before playing, around 1990. I don't remember anyone telling me.

[Anonymous No.6594189]

>>6594096
First time was a nice surprise.

Later, when I replayed it off of that bonus disc I got w/ Metroid Prime
>Hey, wait a minute. Didn't she used to be in a bikini?

[Anonymous No.6594256]

The coomer was born.

[Anonymous No.6594307]

>>6594096
I don't think many people made it to the end of this game back then.

[Anonymous No.6594316]

>>6594131
I believe it. You had 3-4 years to see the film Aliens or the cultural impact of it. It's interesting how they both came out the same year. Then again maybe you saw somebody use the Justin Bailey code and forgot.

[Anonymous No.6594467]

>>6594096
My reaction as an 7 year old boy was "Oh, Metroid was a girl all along. I thought he was a robot. Hey big bro, Metroid is really a girl! Yeah, let's play Contra"

No one's minds were blown like the revisionist meme narrative claims today.

[Anonymous No.6594590]

>>6594096
Nice tummy, but I used to play SF2 on SNES and pop little boy boners looking at Chun Li so my response may not be the one you're looking for. I can't remember anyone really giving a shit over the "metroid is a girl" thing.

[Anonymous No.6594618]

>>6594096
By masturbating furiously.

[Anonymous No.6594739]

i didn't find out until the previous decade as i never grew up on the NES.

i thought it was neat.

[Anonymous No.6594743]

>>6594096
The people who saw Metroid's best ending when the game was new were 100% male and happy.

[Anonymous No.6594747]

>>6594114
This. Almost everyone that beat it was using justin bailey.

[Anonymous No.6594752]

Even by 1988 Nintendo wasn't trying to hide it as much, since they had a "draw a picture of your favorite moment from Metroid" contest and more than a few had Samus without a helmet on.

[Anonymous No.6594976]

>>6594752
Those look like men desu I don't think those lads knew Samus was a she

[Anonymous No.6594985]

>>6594096
People regarded it as a surprise because everyone knows women are worthless irl.

[Anonymous No.6596330]

>>6594096
I jerked it right after

[Anonymous No.6596335]

>>6594985
Basado.

[Anonymous No.6596482]

>>6594096
When I was a kid in the mid 90s, I remember a friend brought his Gameboy and Metroid II to school and other kids getting surprised when he died and Samus was shown as a girl. I think I had already played Super Metroid at that point

[Anonymous No.6596625]

>>6594096
I prayed for a true peace in space

[Anonymous No.6596671]

>>6594590
There's something unsettling about the face in this drawing, like the perspective is off compared to the proportions of the rest of the body. It's like a mask that's worn over the actual face.

[Anonymous No.6596857]

>>6596671
Eh. I love this art desu. There's something about how all the colors balance between the backgrounds and the characters themselves that give them a distinct sense of light and ambience, really pulls you in. Sort of hard to describe. I guess it's what young people would call "a mood."

[Anonymous No.6596915]

>>6594307
Not only that you had to finish it for less than 5 hours

[Anonymous No.6596919]

>>6594096
>Thanks, JUSTIN BAILEY ---------- -----------

[Anonymous No.6597175]

>>6594096
>implying I ever beat the game fast enough for the ending where Samus is clearly a woman
I'm 99% sure I was just told Samus was a girl by someone.

[Anonymous No.6597189]

>>6594976
if you beat metroid in a certain amount of time that's longer than the best ending you get one with just the helmet off and a little kid could definitely believe the 8 bit head revealed was axl rose or something

[Anonymous No.6597208]

>>6597189
also researching this apparently there's an ending where Samus is in a one piece bathing suit and another where it's a bikini (achieved by making her belly flesh-colored). The reason this never became common knowledge is because you gotta beat the game in a fucking hour to get the bikini

I assume this feat was only ever accomplished by your weird uncle that played metroid and only metroid for 15 years so it never became playground lore.

[Anonymous No.6597228]

>>6594096
I wasn't there, but we are talking about a gen that had to either steal porn magazines or pause a movie (usually PG13) riiiiight in the moment where you could see the girl's nipple to beat one out.
A kid's game where the main character turns out to be a girl in bikini? What do you think was the reaction?

[Anonymous No.6597281]

>>6594096
The ending surprised people because everyone knows women are useless irl

[Anonymous No.6597356]

>>6597228
You have to have had your brain damaged by massive porn consumption only possible on broadband modern internet to be able to get horny from 120 pixel sprites, no one was beating off to that shit in the fucking '80s

[Anonymous No.6597372]

>>6597356
They literally made Atari porn games, like Custer's Revenge. Before Porn was so widespread people would jerk off to anything. I jerked off to the sunmaid raisins girl when I was 14.

[Anonymous No.6597415]

>>6597372
custer's revenge was basically a shitpost to get the media to generate publicity for it by denouncing it

I guess I pity the guys who didn't have a friend's older brother to buy you a few playboys

[Anonymous No.6597416]

I was like wuuuuuuuuuuut

It was really surprising back then.

[Anonymous No.6597516]

>>6597415
I think we all had that overly enthusiastic friends older brother.

[Anonymous No.6597518]

[Anonymous No.6597523]

>>6594096
Dunno. I never finished this piece of shit backtracking fest.

[Anonymous No.6597572]

>>6596482
>Before I knew anything about single parents, divorce rape, hookers, syphilis, chlaymidiya, BLM, Transrights, instathots, smart phones, alien/government takeovers, harrp, 2 girls 1 cup

What the fuck happened. How am I literally here right now or alive even.

[Anonymous No.6597594]

>>6597356
Also forgetting there almost always a qt girl next door who never saw what a pepe looked like, curious, impressionable, no smart phone, no internet, and easily pressured into "exploring" in the right circumstances. There was no need to beat to begin with.

[Anonymous No.6598581]

>>6594752
holy shit! I had this magazine or whatever when I was a kid.... I've been sitting here wondering how the fuck I remember it. good times, thank you

[Anonymous No.6598687]

I am not, and have never been, aroused by cartoon/video game characters. Should I be on 4channel dot org?

[Anonymous No.6598705]

>>6598687

[Anonymous No.6598998]

God damn, was I angry when I found out Samus WAS A GIRL!!!!
"GGGRRRR" I said. "GGRRRR, why are there GIRLS in my video game. This just isn't cricket. Hmph, what would the Vicar say"?
Then I put on my patriarchy pants and went and beat up my wife. After that I went and oppressed some minorities. Good times.

[Anonymous No.6599120]

>>6598998
I can't tell if this is an SJW shitpost or a /pol/ shitpost.

[Anonymous No.6599207]

>>6598998
Based anon

[Anonymous No.6599901]

>>6597518
If I remember, Samus was thirsty for Kevin.

[Anonymous No.6599929]

>>6598705
>w
>X = female body
>Y

>implying it looks anything like a female's body

[Anonymous No.6602817]

I instantly called my mom and sister into the room to witness this massive move in feminism.

[Anonymous No.6603118]

>>6594096
I didn't have Metroid back in the day but I remember learning Samus was a girl through Nintendo Power and I don't remember anyone talking about it. It wasn't a big deal I think.

[Anonymous No.6603132]

>>6594096
they fucking screamed and ripped their eyes out

[Anonymous No.6603139]

>>6603132
did they mail them to nintendo headquarters