/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6912852]

Did anyone actually play this thing?
It just seems like a meme to go "oi me speccy" on here.
Considering it came out in the early 80's and also considering how most the posters here are Zoomers/Millenials, I find it hard to believe anyone actually played it here.

[Anonymous No.6912867]

>>6912852
>I find it hard to believe anyone actually played it here.
zoom zoom

[Anonymous No.6912923]

>>6912852
>It just seems like a meme to go "oi me speccy" on here.
>Spams "oi me speccy" for one day all over the board
>Then pretends to be a newcomer who thinks the forced "meme" is commonplace
Yeah, no. Don't get too excited, faggot.

[Anonymous No.6913170]

>>6912852
/vr is infested with zoomies who can't do anything but shitpost and 8bit computer threads are some of the worst. There was a C64 thread a little while back where some faggot posted this basic game he claimed he'd written. He got all sort of advice from wise old C64 mavens who'd been programming in assembly since 1492 when they were 100 years old. But none was even capable of copying and pasting the code into an emulator. Doing that and running it have an error and googleing the code turned up a blog where someone had scanned a program from a book or magazine and the OCR had made a mistake. The guy who "wrote" the program hadn't even tested the shit he stole from a blog and the entire conversation was larpers larping larpers larping larpers. I'm sure speccy threads are just as full of shit.

[Anonymous No.6913193]

>>6913170
>that whole story

[Anonymous No.6913219]

>>6912867
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdD1HcwgqvQ

[Anonymous No.6913220]

>>6913170
Are you suffering from an autism attack?

[Anonymous No.6913302]

>>6913170
>larping everywhere
That sounds like your typical /vr/ thread.

[Anonymous No.6913362]

>>6912852
It literally has been a forced meme and over the last few days newfags have been flooding the board with threads on it.

[Anonymous No.6913364]

>>6913362
>newfags
That’s a funny thing to call our long tenured resident autist.

[Anonymous No.6913369]

>>6913364
Another forced meme by this one guy is that every shitpost is done by a single person who is annoyed at the rule change.

[Anonymous No.6913376]

>>6913369
You’re not a forced meme, just a very sick autistic man.

[Anonymous No.6913382]

Jet Set Willy was fucking based

[Anonymous No.6913423]

>>6913220
Sup assembly language larper

[Anonymous No.6913424]

>>6913423
what does that even mean

[Anonymous No.6913431]

>>6913424
have you posted any loli porn of roll from mega man lately?

[Anonymous No.6913440]

I did.
It's total shite.

[Anonymous No.6913443]

>>6913431
is this some kind of code?

[Anonymous No.6913701]

>>6913170
Lazy dunning-kruger know-it-alls showing off their meagre knowledge based on something they half-remember reading somewhere 15 years ago?
It's not any different from any specialist board on 4chan, doesn't take much for someone to think they're an expert in their field, made worse by the anonymous nature of imageboards when no one has a face to lose for spreading misinformed knowledge and there's no reliable way for anyone's who genuinely new to the subject to separate those who are trustworthy from all the memers and dunning krugers.

[Anonymous No.6913725]

>>6912852
They didn't really. the C64 had a larger cultural impact outside of jokes about how naff Sinclair's stuff was (which came to a head with the C5). I know more people that had Amiga's than had Spectrums.

[Anonymous No.6913732]

>>6913701
90% of people who name drop dunning-kruger are extreme midwits

[Anonymous No.6913735]

>>6913725
Amiga also gets mocked a lot around here, partly because there aren't really many exclusives worth playing on it, partly because of the Amiga's infamous fanbase.
At least Speccy fans are more self-aware, Amiga spergs are on another level of the spectrum (no pun intended)

[Anonymous No.6913745]

Also if you want to get into British micro computers for some reason then go for the Amstrad CPC because you have access to the emulator WinApe which has all sorts of great features.

[Anonymous No.6913765]

>>6913745
luv me Gryzor
luv me Prince of Persia
luv me Ghouls and Ghosts
Simple as

[Anonymous No.6913768]

>>6913732
>name drop
Impressed by my level of knowledge are you? Did you just find out about dunning-kruger by looking it up on wikipedia after reading my post?

[Anonymous No.6913772]

>>6913735
The mistake everyone here seems to be guilty of is thinking of Amiga as a pure gaming platform when it was so much more than that. Then again it's a gaming board so I guess it's to be expected that a platform is primarily judged by the quality of its games. But amiga spergs who seem to genuinely think it was a gaming platform comparable to something like snes are certainly on another level.

[Anonymous No.6913782]

>>6912852
There's "most" and there's "anyone". For sure lots of people who come on /vr/ would have played it but they're likely something like 10% of the people here.

[Anonymous No.6913808]

>>6912852
OI, YOU STARTIN CUNT? ARE YOU STARTIN AGAIN? I'LL BASH YOUR FUCKING GOBBER IN IF YOU'RE STARTIN.

[Anonymous No.6913841]

A part of it is just that even many of those who actually used these computers "back then" and accurately remember something about it despite it being nearly 40 years ago, only ever had shallow exposure to the full breadth of games available even on their favorite platform. So they go around parading some crap like Dizzy like the all time apex of gaming, though it was just the only piece of entertainment they happened to be stuck with for a couple of weeks when they were 11 years old.

I only have extensive knowledge of the Spectrum and Amiga librares because I've been a no-life emulation freak since the 90's (used to run Spectrum emulators on my Amiga 1200) and spent decades sifting through the crap available for these old systems most people wrote off ages ago. Most of the Spectrum games that are my favorites now are titles I had never even heard of back when I was actually using a physical Spectrum. I wouldn't expect most Spectrum "vets" to really know about them either. And I wouldn't think of pretending the Amiga games library was superior to what was available on Snes. I only really know about Snes through emulation, and I remember being profoundly impressed by the consistent quality of its games the first time I started exploring them in the early-to-mid 00's.

I think most euros just wrote off the super nintendo because they thought it was something for kids or it was too expensive or whatever. Consoles didn't really become cool or acceptable until Sony pulled their amazing marketing coup with the Playstation and suddenly every chad and jock and le artiste eccentrique was aware of this obscure japanese game series called Final Fantasy and it was the new best thing ever.

[Anonymous No.6913856]

>>6912852

[Anonymous No.6913881]

>>6913841
SNES was a big deal in my social circle when it came out, although that was probably because most of us already had a NES. I think most kids knew all the other kids who had the same console as them because the games were so expensive so the best way to get a new game was to swap. The SNES came out during my first year at senior school, so my circle expanded massively that year and there was at least 50 people to swap NES/SNES games with. Don't recall the same level of interest for micros, despite the fact I had a Speccy & Amiga.

[Anonymous No.6913884]

>>6912852
I owned one at the time but nowadays theres really no reason to own one or even emulate, the vast majority of the library is total shit and the very few decent games all got ports to or were ports from much better systems

[Anonymous No.6913905]

>>6913302
>>6913701
Yeah, unfortunately that's the state of the board. It wasn't that bad to begin with but it went to shit pretty quick and was all down hill after that. I know it was getting pretty bad before "(You)" but I think that's one of the thing that pushed it over the edge.