/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8377065]

Post your favorite NES games that can still be enjoyed today. No obvious choices/ NES TOP 50 GAMES OF ALL TIME, please.
So far I had an awesome time with:
Panic Restaraunt
3 Eyes
Zen Intergalactic Ninja
Power Blade 2
Doki! Doki! Yuuenchi
Shatterhand

[Anonymous No.8377078]

> that can still be enjoyed today

that doesn't mean anything to me, but my list there is a good start

>>8372586

also
>3 Eyes
you mean 8 Eyes? I tried that it looked like a very poor CV clone

[Anonymous No.8377084]

A fuckload of them

Final Mission
Kage
Abadox
Guerrilla war
Konami world
Robocco wars
Kick master
Batman + returns
Maze of Galious

>Zen Intergalactic Ninja

Man, this game is rad but it always scared me to shit with its time limits

[Anonymous No.8377089]

Shadow of the Ninja
Journey to Silius
Gremlins 2
Moon Crystal
Kabuki Quantum Fighter
Vice Project Doom
Metal Storm
Xexyz

Just trying to think of good games that don't often get brought up on good game lists

[Anonymous No.8377097]

>>8377065
Shatterhand is the tits.
I'll say Gargoyle's Quest 2, Bubble Bobble and Metal Storm.

[Anonymous No.8377106]

First game that came to mind.

[Anonymous No.8377129]

I'm not autistic so I understand what people mean when they say a game has aged badly, but even then I think the NES largely avoids showing its age due to how simple its games are. Most action platformers in the system are as good as they were when they came out, and all the shovelware shit is as bad as it ever was.
But anyways, megaman, mario, kirby, all those are a given

[Anonymous No.8377138]

>>8377065
Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (Samurai Pizza Cats)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8012gzDnMc

[Anonymous No.8377153]

>>8377078
>that can still be enjoyed today
Think of a zoomer that plays a lot of modern games. What would he like on NES? Responsive controls, interesting level design, or a very cool gameplay gimmick.
>>8377078
"Mitsume ga Tooru", this one. Did it even have an English release?
>>8377129
>megaman, mario, kirby
The list goes on...

[Anonymous No.8377157]

>>8377153
>"Mitsume ga Tooru"
Forgot the pic.

[Anonymous No.8377283]

>>8377065
>Panic Restaraunt
is GOOD! I don't understand why I never see anyone talk about it so I am glad someone is finally talking about it. To me it is one of the best games on the NES and so weird it's never talked about. Guess that's because it is no Mario.

[Anonymous No.8377305]

Konami waiwai world 2 and Parodius are great.

Also not technically retro, but Micro Mages is a great recent release.

[Anonymous No.8377457]

If you mean hidden gem?

Crisis force
Isolated warrior

[Anonymous No.8377645]

>>8377283
The game is fun, but it's pretty easy and short.

[Anonymous No.8377662]

>>8377065
Little Nemo the Dream Master
The Goonies II
Trojan
Kung-Fu
Pro Wrestling

[Anonymous No.8377673]

StarTropics
Journey to Silius
Gun.Smoke
Skate or Die
Batman

[Anonymous No.8377747]

>>8377138
I love the translation hack for this game that attempts to emulate the dub's writing. Specifically the part where Kitsunezuka looks mad as fuck and the text says "I AM PERFECTLY CALM".

[Anonymous No.8378470]

>>8377157
Great game and I'm glad to see it mentionned more often these days, but a more accurate translation would be
>The Three-Eyed One

[Anonymous No.8378479]

>>8377065
zoomer here, outside of star tropics, zoda's revenge, and pic related, i don't know any outside of the obvious ones. well also there was a puzzle game on switch online i played a bit of called fire and ice and that seemed neat. so thanks for making this thread :)
time to get some new roms
well maybe tomorrow it's like 3am where i am rn.

[Anonymous No.8378542]

Wrecking Crew and Kid Icarus. I don't think those are too obvious, as I never hear good things about them here, even though they're well-known. Also (assuming they're not on top 50 lists) Banana Prince, Dragon Warrior 1, Metal Max, and Lagrange Point

[Anonymous No.8378546]

>>8378542
>Lagrange Point

tell me more about this game, in exchange I advise to play Radia Senki

[Anonymous No.8378553]

>>8378546
Thanks for the cool rec! I search engined it which led me to remember I had already had the fan translation of it, but I also discovered that it has an unreleased official localization. Very cool!
>>Lagrange Point
>tell me more about this game
It's most well-known for having a special sound chip that gives its music several additional instruments, making its songs like halfway between Genesis and Master System FM quality. It's very cool. Otherwise, the graphics are good, it has a great sci-fi story and setting, and the gameplay is somewhat typical NES RPG but with more choices and lots of different characters to recruit. I haven't beaten it nor played it in a long time, but it definitely by many is hyped for a reason.

[Anonymous No.8378590]

>>8378553
Cool I'll give it a shot at some point, a Konami RPG sounds intriguing

>Radia Senki official translation
I didn't know that, I played the fan translation and it wasn't too bad except from the use of swear words here and there. According to this gamefaq forum post the official translation also has gameplay differences like the moving speed of characters, I could have used that

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/575930-radia-senki-reimeihen/74399270

I enjoyed the game a lot but couldn't help thinking it could have used a 2 players mode (or even 3, 4 players using the multitap) a là Secret of Mana. Even if the other players only control the characters during combat, it's what you do for most of the game

[Anonymous No.8378640]

>>8377747
Where at? I couldn’t find it on the archive

[Anonymous No.8378646]

>>8377065
Hebereke

[Anonymous No.8378821]

>>8377065
Sugoro Quest
Guardian Legend
Space Hunter
Konami Wai Wai World
Magical Doropie for Megaman Fans
Moon Crystal
Layla

[Anonymous No.8378857]

>>8377065
I still enjoy Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Metal Gear, Rescue Rangers, and (no joke) The Little Mermaid is actually a solid game

[Anonymous No.8378884]

Capitan Tsubasa 2
Tag Team Match M.U.S.C.L.E / Kinnikuman

[Anonymous No.8379052]

Jackie Chan Action Kung-Fu

[Anonymous No.8379093]

>>8377065

[Anonymous No.8379119]

mad city
it's bayou billy quite literally, but famicom; and the game is actually fixed/good

[Anonymous No.8379130]

>>8379119
Mad City is actually pretty fucking impressive for 1987. The graphics, sprites during the beat em up sections specifically, are absolutely amazing for the time, that and the game has cutscenes including between levels, and this was before Ninja Gaiden. Too bad the controls aren't great, and a shame how they ruined the NTSC-U version because outside of the difficulty, it actually has quite a few improvements. Shame there isn't a romhack that resotres the Japanese difficulty in Bayou Billy to get the best of both worlds

[Anonymous No.8379138]

ice hockey is some stupid fun with friends

[Anonymous No.8379535]

>>8378821
>Moon Crystal
Damn, that game is good. I remember I was sucking hard at it and then my friend showed me how to beat it. I was amazed.

[Anonymous No.8380206]

>>8377106
The game is fucking creepy.

[Anonymous No.8381339]

Crisis Force makes me feel like I'm a Japanese kid in the 90's

and I'm not a weeaboo

[Anonymous No.8381359]

[Anonymous No.8381839]

>>8377065

[Anonymous No.8381886]

>>8377065
Adventure Island II
Air Fortress
Battle of Olympus
Battletoads
Bionic Commando
Bomberman II
Boulder Dash
Bucky O'Hare
Burai Fighter
Crystalis
Doki! Doki! Yuuenchi
dr chaos
Ducktales
Faxanadu
Felix the Cat
Gargoyle's Quest 2
Godzilla: Monster of Monsters
Goemon Gaiden
Guerilla War
Gun Nac
Gun.Smoke
Gyruss
Hydlide
Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu
Kick Master
Kickle Cubicle
Kirby's Adventure
Legacy of the Wizard
Life Force
Little Nemo: Dream Master
Little Ninja Bros.
Mario Adventure
Metal Storm
Milon's Secret Castle
Pinbot
Rad Racer
Return to Silius
River City Ransom
Rollergames
Samurai pizza cats
Snake Rattle & Roll
Solar Jetman
Solstice
sqoon
stinger
The Magic of Scheherazade
Tiger-Heli
Valkyrie no Bouken
Wacky Races
Wizards & Warriors 3
World Cup
WURM: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Xexyz
ZANAC

[Anonymous No.8381974]

>>8381886
This is a pretty good list. Although i think that:
>Burai fighter
>Godzilla
>Hydlide
>Milons secret castle
Are pretty bad.

How is faxanadu tho? I have been itching to play that one

[Anonymous No.8382000]

>>8377153
>interesting level design
Most modern games don't have that though

[Anonymous No.8382006]

>>8378553
Is Lagrange referring to the French mathematician with the loli gf?

[Anonymous No.8382026]

>>8381974

Godzilla is awesome. It's bad in some ways but it's awesome. I don't care about the other three though

[Anonymous No.8382338]

>>8382006
Just to his discovery.

[Anonymous No.8382349]

>>8377153
I love how your salty "list goes on" forced meme always adds an extra game name every time you type it out.

[Anonymous No.8382389]

>>8381839
So pissed this and that other Konami game on disk system that was like a top down asian platformer, never got cart releases overseas.

[Anonymous No.8382921]

>>8382026
I just rememb3r the bullshit timers and repetition with some enemies. But it may be a case of style over substance, sunce the game is pretty cool

[Anonymous No.8382923]

>>8382349
Me too.

[Anonymous No.8382924]

Does anyone actually like Kick Master? I find it to be so sloppy in every way

[Anonymous No.8383150]

I like Donald Land

[Anonymous No.8383789]

>>8377065
Mission Impossible
Shatterhand
Power Blade
MegaMan 5 (or 2, or your favorite, I probably won't mind)
Kick Master
Gremlins 2
Shadow of the Ninja (aka Blue Shadow)

[Anonymous No.8384457]

>>8382338
Which one? His work encompassed fields as disparate as celestial mechanics to abstract algebra.

[Anonymous No.8384461]

>>8383789
>Gremlins 2
Had this one growing up but never really played it (I sort of inherited my uncle's collection). It's that good eh?

[Anonymous No.8384475]

>>8377065
It has one of my favorite water level tracks of all time to boot
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZveXgxWSs

[Anonymous No.8384489]

>>8384475
How embarrassing, I posted the wrong music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5epDVqpwtjw

[Anonymous No.8384508]

>>8384457
Well obviously to his discovery concerning the place where the opposing gravitational pulls of two orbiting are balanced out via centrifugal force, his aforementioned namesake. I'm no astronomy expert, just gave the article about that a cursory glance. I'm guessing the name of the game is due to its theme of frequent and libertine space traveling (including, namely landing at ports). Reminds me strongly of Outlaw Star. I wonder if there was either plagiarism or just is a common source between the game and that show.

[Anonymous No.8384513]

>>8384508
*or if there is a common source

[Anonymous No.8385005]

>>8384461
a bit short but great


>>8383789
>Mission Impossible

I've had this game for more 20 years and I've always loved it but I could never beat it, apparently I only ever made it half way through. It's hard as fuck.

>>8384475
still one of my favourite games on the system

[Anonymous No.8386647]

One NES game I personally enjoyed (as a 19 year old) that I can assure you will never find on any top 50 NES games list would have to be Gaiaopolis. It had some detailed sprites and fun combat but had some pretty gunky music. Best overall underrated classics would have to be Kick Master, Shatterhand, and Shadow of the Ninja.

[Anonymous No.8386713]

>that can still be enjoyed today
I wonder if people on a retro game board like playing old games

[Anonymous No.8386725]

Metal Storm and The Guardian Legend are my "hidden gem" recommendations for the NES. Just be sure to play a patched JP ver of Metal Storm, the colors were better in that version.
Also Little Sampson, but ironically it's rarity has made it quite well known in the last decade.

[Anonymous No.8386735]

>>8386713
Zoomers do not. They like watching videos about them for Redddit points and then complaining about how 99% of them are too hard and therefore suck, here.

[Anonymous No.8386738]

>>8384461
There's one thing you have to know: you start with zero lives. Buy lives as soon as possible in your first playthroughs or you will get frustrated very fast by early game overs. Don't try to cheese the game with save states, I guarantee you it'll only make things more frustrating.
Protip: break down what's going on on screen into simple categories: where you can walk, where you can't be, and where you can be, be only for a short while. It helps when they start animating tons of stuff on the screen.
Protip: shops have different stocks, you may decide to pass an option to pick it up in another level, you may ignore certain shops, and it's sometimes better to buy an health upgrade rather than an extra life...
Last protip: some enemies hit boxes take elevation into account, others don't. It's possible to jump and attack to reach enemies (if the projectile and enemy overlap in 2D, it's a valid hit even if it doesn't make sense in 3D).

[Anonymous No.8386745]

>>8386725
Shit I had no idea about this. I always thought the colours looked like shit in Metal Storm, turns out they're fine in the original version

on top of this the original version has a kick ass intro which they simply deleted overseas. Damn.

[Anonymous No.8386751]

>>8386745
>original version
Actually the Japanese version came out a year after NA if I recall. Which is why it's so much better. If you've never played the Japanese version it feels like playing the definitive version of a classic.

[Anonymous No.8386768]

>>8386713
I love retro games. Doesn't mean I won't find a lot of them boring and dated.

[Anonymous No.8386771]

>>8386738
Is the game that hard? The first level was easy as fuck so the game felt not fun.

[Anonymous No.8386774]

>>8382924
It has cool ideas, but the game itself is rather slow and annoying.

[Anonymous No.8386775]

>>8377065
Janky bootleg dirty pair is pretty underrated

[Anonymous No.8386787]

>>8386745
>>8386751
What are the differences between that new ("reprinted") version that released a couple of years ago and the Japanese version? I heard the new version added something or something like that.

[Anonymous No.8386798]

>>8386751
Yeah okay that makes more sense. For some reasons the entire internet is talking like the Japanese version was made first, but the release date is 13 months apart and I don't see any build date in the ROM that would indicate it was made before. I wonder if it's just bad assumptions leading to wrong information which then everyone proceeds to copy paste, I've seen this happen a few times already.

>>8386787
apparently it's a translation of the Japanese version, so it has the intro and all the stuff of the Japanese version. I wonder if that has been dumped

[Anonymous No.8386836]

>>8386771
It's a NES-era Sunsoft game. Depends on how much you're used to that kind of difficulty. Once you get the trick, it's fine. But the difficulty does ramp up. There's also a lot of content in terms of setting, enemies, weapons etc. So it's worth playing at least for that.

[Anonymous No.8387236]

>>8379093
neat ive never heard of this hidden gem thanks

[Anonymous No.8387875]

>>8377106
Soul

[Anonymous No.8387908]

>>8386798
Sure has been (check the thread in the following link for more cool dumped homebrews; there's even a pastebin listing a lot of them): >>/vr/thread/S6146554

Thanks for the kind qrd, anon!

[Anonymous No.8387913]

>>8387908
>>8386798
Crap, looks like the link to Metal Storm 2019 is broken. I'll reupload my copy for you, give me a few, sorry.

[Anonymous No.8387974]

>>8386798
>>8387908
>>8387913
Here: http://files.catbox.moe/v8kc36.rar

[Anonymous No.8387998]

>>8387974
virus don't click

[Anonymous No.8388190]

>>8387908
Well either way doesn't look like there is anything to see here. Apparently the ROM doesn't work on emulators without doing some fuckery beforehand, and according to this page the controls are reversed by default and if you look at the comparison screenshot it looks like the fan translation did a better job (at least imo)

https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2020/01/product-review-retro-bits-metal-storm.html

so might as well just use the fan translation

>>8386836
>>8386771
It's not "easy" but it's definitely easier than other Sunsoft games. If the levels are too hard you can play the Japanese version in which they are easier (less pits and spikes)

[Anonymous No.8388559]

>>8377065
>No obvious choices/ NES TOP 50 GAMES OF ALL TIME, please.
Why not, you stupid faggot? I'm not allowed to have favorite games that are popular?
Go fuck yourself, you contrarian pile of garbage.

[Anonymous No.8388606]

>>8388559
You're allowed to have them as favorites, but not allowed to post them in this thread. Are you stupid?

[Anonymous No.8388618]

>>8387998
Catbox isn't a virus site, but if you're afraid that it's a virus because it's a rar file, use this link instead, then: https://ufile.io/i60px3co

[Anonymous No.8388746]

>>8388618
Neat, thanks.
also

>retro bit presents

All they do is translate 3 screens and they put their name first in the game, gee

[Anonymous No.8389143]

>>8384475
>that first comment
Kek

[Anonymous No.8389150]

>>8388559
Post them anyway.

[Anonymous No.8389245]

really liking Lagrange Point although gameplay is a bit one-dimensional, but fights and lvling up is pretty fast. The game really opens up once you're lvl 20 or so.

[Anonymous No.8389254]

>>8389245
Graphics are pretty great for 1991, the story/setting is original (although I had to read some shit in a FAQ to understand the basics but I suppose they're told in the manual) and the musics sound rather unique

I said gameplay is one dimensional because you'll be hitting attack 99% of the time as there isn't much in the regards of spells; hence why the weapon customization system is really important, you need to take the time to build up strong weapons, it'll save time in the end.

[Anonymous No.8389265]

>>8389254
>>8389245
The other great thing about the game is how many party members there are and how you can go back to base to swap them any time you want. Although I find that you're pretty much committed to your initial choices for the most of it unless you want to take the time to grind the ones left behind.
I found 3 characters which work great together so so far I've had no incentive to change, though I might have to soon if the MC doesn't get a better healing spell