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Are there any good Russian retro games?
Are there any games even made by a company that isn't from america or japan before 2000?

>> No.873865

Gaming didn't really get international until after that

>> No.873869

The UK made some great games anon

>> No.873871

>>873869
Such as?

>> No.873875

>>873865
>Gaming didn't really get international until after that
wat

>> No.873878

>>873875
2000

>> No.873886
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873886

Uhm...

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>>873886
You know he's talking about besides tetris right?

>> No.873897

>>873878
No, I mean, what the fuck does "gaming wasn't international" even mean? There was never just one country making games.

>> No.873910

>>873892
No, but that's probably what he's gonna claim now.

>> No.873913

>>873910
Alright tetris
Anything else?

>> No.873914

>>873871

Isn't Rare in the UK?

>> No.873917

Evil Islands

>> No.873919

>>873914
I'm not sure

>> No.873926

>>873861
Su-27 Flanker. (1995)

>> No.873947

>>873913
From the top of my head, El Fish and Rage of Mages are two good pre-2000 Russian games.

>> No.873990
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873990

I take it you are new to retro. The ZX Spectrum game scene was almost nothing but UK productions.

And this motherfucker of a game right here, which if you were old enough to recognise you would throw yourself on your knees from shame right now.

And most of everything on C64, Amiga, ST was from UK/Europe.

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874032

As for Russia, they had their own arcade games.

http://35summers.org/2010/01/05/the-museum-of-soviet-video-games/

>> No.874038
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>>873990
Germany and France were pretty productive during the 90's as well, with companies like Blue Byte (The Settlers), Cryo (Commander Blood, KGB) or Silmarils (Ishar series, Robinson's Requiem).

Also, Ubisoft.

>> No.874052

>>873919
>>873871

dear lord, what the hell has happened to this board
YES, rare was in the UK, also there was a huge PC game development boom there too, with the amiga and the like. I live in the US and even I know this, dear christ.

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>>874052
>What happened to this board
>Not even a million posts old

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874060

>>874032

>> No.874068
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874068

You really don't know about companies like Psygnosis, Adventure Soft or (early) Bullfrog?

>> No.874069

Off the top of my head:
>Another World
>Flashback
>Alone in the Dark
>Rayman
>Peter Molyneux's Stuff

All from France

>> No.874071

>>874060
also... I guess this was a machine that tested your strength buy simulating.... pulling turnips?...

>> No.874070

>>874069
Molyneux is British

>> No.874074

>>874069
Oh fuck i forgot about another world

>> No.874075

>>874070
oh damn. aite, they're all european then

>> No.874097

>>874071
I got no clue.
maybe if somebody here knew russian.

>> No.874159

>>874071
pretty much, the white cursive says Dynamometer and the score panel says "your strength: 59"

>> No.874174

>>874159
How would that even determine that

>> No.874206

>>874174
Maybe it had a certain resistance to pull back a thing with a marker. Maybe then the counter determined on how far back a marker in the machine went?
Like, if you puled that thing all the way to the back you got a full score because the machine detected that the marker was at its extent?

I don't know, I'm no engineer.

>> No.874257

>>873861
DMA Designs made Lemmings and GTA.

>> No.874268
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874268

Perestroika.

DOS game. It's all in Russian, but shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

>> No.874290
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874290

keep clapping and carry on.

>> No.874301

>>874206
Maybe it's based on air pressure. Like imagine there's a piston with an air pocket inside it. Pulling on the piston causes the air pocket to gain volume and lose pressure, and like a vacuum it wants to pull the piston back to its resting state.

>> No.874324

>>874290
I don't get it

>> No.874404
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874404

Remedy released Death Rally in '96 and started developing Max Payne shortly after (and released in 2001).

Finland had also a very active independent/demo-scene that produced titles like Assault Trooper, Liero, Tapan Kaikki, UnReal World and Alien Phobia (which was later homaged Crimsonland).

>> No.874405

>>873861
Dendy Chronicles for a lot of chinese hacker carts.

>> No.874439

>>874405
Huh?

>> No.874467
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874467

Thanks, France.

>> No.876902

Vangers

>> No.876930

>>874404
Speaking of demoscene, let's not forget Zyrinx who were Danish sceners. Subterrania is an awesome Genesis game, and of course Jesper Kyd now has had a long career of game soundtracks.

>> No.876934

>>873861
If you read about the struggles Pajitnov went through related to Tetris, you'd understand why there were no real internationally-released games during communism. Even after that, I don't know how long it took for the software industry there to recover. It's interesting, though, there's an incredible culture of optimized programming there, probably from having to live with outdated hardware like the Spectrum for so long.

Also, Zooming Secretary (which is new, but for the NES) was written by Russians.

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876936

picrelated is my 3x3 for Germany

>> No.877086

>>876936

Last two aren't retro. Der Kaiser is awesome though.

Unwritten Tales and Whispered World are still great games of course. All my love goes to Daedalic. War an der Zeit das mal wieder jemand Adventures hochleben lässt

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is this aspect ratio shit /vr/? Is it stretched? Am I retarded?

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>>873861
>Are there any games even made by a company that isn't from america or japan before 2000?

>> No.877185

>>877153
you are retarded for trying to start this argument in a thread that has nothing to do with this, yes.

>> No.877206
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>>876936
>>877086
That reminds me of my favorite Austrian retro game.

>> No.877272

>>876936
>no Amber trilogy or Battle Isle
at least you have Settlers

>> No.877284

>>877206
mine eyes

>> No.877293

>>876936
Turrican was made by germans?

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>>877293
Mainly one German.

>> No.877316

>Are there any games even made by a company that isn't from america or japan before 2000?

>Gaming didn't really get international until after that

>The UK made some great games anon
>Such as?
>Isn't Rare in the UK?
>I'm not sure
What a depressing thread.

>> No.877323

>>873861
You serious OP?I'm not even that aware of many non-US companies, but Croteam is an obvious one, making Serious Sam since late 90's. There's also fuckin' Rareware, British since at least the 80s. And even if you don't care about those, surely you know about games like Tetris, aka THE Russian game.

>> No.877331

>>874056
I hear that, some people need to chill out. He's still right about Rare and other UK devs. People surely aren't this unaware, are they?

Also out of curiosity (and thread related), are there any major Pinball manufacturers outside of the US? All I ever hear or see are Williams, Bally, Gottlieb, Stern, etc. Not looking for Pachinko either, for the record.

>> No.877337

>>874324
He's making a reference to that favorite form of shitpost, the Americlap joke. Basically assuming that the OP is a stupid American cunt. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, either way it's no excuse for bad posting like that. Good game though, for the record.

>> No.877339

>>877301
Goddamn he looks like a hobo

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>>877316
Cheer up

>> No.877353

>>877339
What kind of money do you expect of somebody programming on the C64 in the 90s?

>> No.877370

>>877339
do you really expect game developers to look like rock stars or something?

>> No.877379

>>877340
Thanks.

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>>877339

German fashion was pretty bad in the 80's and 90's.

So of course some C64 geek looked way below regular german fashion back then.

But dude was a fucking virtuoso. There was an interesting article about the development of Turrican in the german Retro Gamer mag a while ago. So all germanfags interested can look into it.

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878046

Weird Warcraft clone based on Mongol invasion period of Russian history.

>> No.878053

>>878046

That's strange. My history books never mentioned the giant monsters during that period

>> No.878059

>>877316

They must be having a laugh. I mean, how fucking stupid do you need to be to be on /VR and never have heard of-

Sensible Software
DMA
Codemasters
Bitmap Bros
Psygnosis
Lionhead
Rage
Sci
SI
Eidos

Do I need to keep going?