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Your first comfy game.
SMB1 or 3 for the SNES. So comfy I never cared to finish them, I just played.
![Broken-Sword-2-The-Smoking-Mirror_3[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/byIp7Wl.jpg "Broken-Sword-2-The-Smoking-Mirror 3[1]")
Certainly everyone who's heard of Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, or Blood, etc should play them. But what would /vr/ say are the other, lesser known or talked about older FPS titles are must plays?
Exhumed, Chex Quest, Strife, Malice for Quake, Heretic and Hexen.
Also the Rareware era of console shooters. GoldenEye and Perfect Dark. But the top tier console must plays are actually TimeSplitters 2 + 3
>>3254141
Not sure if must play, but I also played these:
Rise of the Triad, Shadow Warrior, Delta Force
Previous thread: >>3237024
This thread is for the spirited discussion of CRT displays - Televisions, monitors and projectors used for the playing of retro games!
>Try to keep it /vr/-related: Nothing past 5th gen(+Dreamcast). Slight OT might be okay if related to CRTs (E.G. 16:9 compatible models, flatscreens, etc.) Systems with backwards compatibility are also pretty safe territory, assuming you're focusing on the older games. PC CRTs are also a-ok.
>Produce OC! Get out your real cameras and take beautiful pictures of your CRTs displaying recognizable characters with the kind of beautiful accuracy that brings tears to the eyes of young and old alike! If you take 100 photos, at least one of them will turn out alright! (maybe)
>Try to be as detailed as possible when asking info on a specific model. As always, google is your friend, and we are your friends with benefits. Older archived threads aren't a bad place to look either.
>Share appreciation for others choice of technology and personal philosophy of gaming. As always show courtesy in your discussion and moderate yourselves first.
Discussion of video processing and scaling devices is okay, but try to keep the focus on CRTs and CRT accessories
CRT Pastebin (WIP): http://pastebin.com/1Ri5TS3x
An Anon's Guide to CRT Hunting: http://pastebin.com/H9H9L2LQ
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>>3253787
>/CRT/ - Custom Robo Thread
god dammit.
Threadly reminder not to fall for the SCART meme.
>>3253805
Can we at least get some CRTs posted before we start pissing people off?
Did Plok have the most best/most technically sophisticated soundtrack of the 8/16 bit console era?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-lo298icj8
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ODKKILZiYY
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5c2wU_oMFo (full)
Must be so.
>>3253580
No.
Next question?
No.
I would personally give that award to Final Fantasy 6. That game used all 8 sound channels masterfully. Also its synth quality was perfected by that point - the Strings synth was 90% there to sounding like the real thing, and indeed sounded better than 7's synth quality.
ITT: Retro reaction faces
Let's have a lego games thread, I used to love these games back in the 90s and even a few of the early 00s games. Hell, I was playing lego rock raiders just earlier today, my first RTS game.
LEGO Island was surprisingly fun for such a cheap tie-in.
>>3252530
What do you mean by cheap tie in?
>>3252787
>cheap
Does this game look like a AAA or even a B-tier game to you?
>tie-in
As in a video game based on the popular block brand. There's probably a better term but I'm too tired.
Why is he so smug?
He's fucking the queen behind the king's back, driving the king to suicide.
>>3246370
Because he's the king
The games that come included with Windows are at the very bottom of the gaming hierarchy.
Only the lowest of casuals play that shit.
Imagine some elderly retired couple in their trailer park home taking turns playing this game on their old beige shitbox PC.
They have no conception of what real gaming is like and no curiosity to look beyond the games folder in the start menu.
What a fucking pitiful existence.
so ive wanted to start retro collecting but everything expensive as shit online,Ebay is shit,Craigslist is shit, nobody sells retro games in my shitty country and or even has them.I am spending a month in the united states soon and ive wanted to try to see where to go and find games. At this point i feel hopeless, is their any place online or any store /vr/ recommends?
No.
The best time to scoop up old games is 1-2 generations behind, just as gamestop and normies are trying to push things out the door.
You missed the window for anything /vr/. Scoop up as many 6th gen games as you can before shit like Melee starts blowing up like Earthbound.
Just buy flashcarts, kiddo. The prices you see online ARE the market prices, just check "sold" listings. Most of the shops still carrying old shit just mark up to maybe a dollar below ebay price anyways.
Dumb frog poster
>>3267697
I agree, now's the best time to buy PS3/360 and Wii games.
Unfortunately I think a lot of people are just holding onto them, or they're retaining their value more for the most part.
I was looking for asura's wrath because a friend wanted to play it and the only NTSC-UC version was like 45 CAD.
So yeah, unfortunately you're 20 years too late friends.
I don't know if this is serious or not, but don't collect games. Buy ones you really want, ones you'll play more then once. My father gave me good advice when I was a kid, "Don't buy something just to buy it."
I recommend making a list of YOUR must have games and just focus on getting those.
Beyond that just emulate them.
Favorite? Least favorite? Let's discuss Nintendo's best handheld platformers. Wario Land 4 discussion isperfectly fine, chill out anon.
>>3266927
This seems to be a consensus around here. As for least favorite, I'm not crazy about going through 3 right now. I 'get' the invincibility concept, but honestly, sometimes I'd rather just die and respawn, then retread multiple rooms because of an unfortunate status effect.
Speaking of 3, which levels do they highlight after you get the throwing glove? I missed one of them.
WL1 is great in a kind of austere, simple way. Four colors, nothing too complicated going on. Even when playing it on GBC they left it tastefully monochrome and only added color to the sprites.
I find it very relaxing to play.
I grew on Sonic 2. I didnt get Sonic 1 until 2005. While it's fun, I think starting with 2 ruined it. While 2 is gottagofast, 1 has neither spin dash nor fast levels. Every level has enemies every 20 feet and just when you get a running start you hit another obstacle.
1 was good, 2 really polished the sonic system
>>3266521
>tfw started with Sonic 1 and Sonic Adventure 2
Nowhere to go but up
>>3266521
1 definitely feels more primitive than 2, I agree, but I enjoyed how slow 1 was. It was a nice comfy platformer with cool physics.
>and just when you get a running start you hit another obstacle
That's because you suck. Once you git gud you can gun through levels like a boss.
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This is the thread for the translation of RS 2 snes title. We teach them how to translate shit. Hackers and translators are welcome.
/a/ has a daily japanese thread, they may want to help us. I'll call for help
>>3266261
They'll help you learn Japanese, they won't translate for you.
Here's how you can start translating Japanese stuff within a week
>Start by familiarizing yourself with the Japanese writing system by reading Tae Kim's sections hiragana, katakana and kanji. Skipping the videos is fine.
www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/writing
>Grind the hiragana and katakana column by column until you remember them all somewhat consistently, should take 3 to 5 hours. Hiragana should be properly memorized, katakana you can just look up for when you need it.
http://realkana.com/
>Read Tae Kim's grammar guide up to the end of essential grammar. Don't get caught up on hard vocab or big tables of verb conjugations, just get familiar with it. Can take up to a week.
>Get the rikaisama add on and download kanjitomo so you can cheat through all the kanji, no one has time for those.
That's all you need to translate like half of everything Japanese. Good luck with your shitty games.
Your opinion on Last Battle (of Hokuto no Ken)
Better than Super Metroid
Possibly the laziest hackjob of a localization. They literally only changed the names of the characters and palettes, but kept the actual script and character designs mostly unchanged. At least Black Belt, the first Hokuto no Ken on a Sega console, went through the trouble of replacing Kenshiro's jeans and vest with a karate gi.
removed the blood making the game boring. hokuto no ken on the other hand is good just because bloody explosions
Okay /vr/, I need you to show me the worst game you own.
Now, I ain't talking "oh, I saw this terrible game on an episode of AVGN and I just had to buy off eBay it so I could try to play it with my girlfriend, lol!", I want the worst game you actually owned of your own volition. Games that you begged your parents to buy, or even worse, games you spent hard-earned allowance on, expecting it to be a magical experience, only to have your hopes and dreams crushed. Bonus points for including a story about how/why you got it, and the exact moment you realized it was shit.
Pic related for me. My local video rental store was selling off their old game stock, and I saw this and got excited because Back to The Future was like my favorite movie of all time. I dug FIFTEEN of my own dollars out of my piggy bank, and rode my bike to the store, and made the transaction myself. I raced back home, eager to have the most blissful gaming experience of my life. My dreams were shattered before I had even caught my breath from pedaling back. God damn. I played that game for another hour or so, trying to rationalize my purchase, wanting the game to redeem itself, but it never happened.
I've kept this game in my collection all these years, as an important reminder to look before I leap.
Nagano Winter Olympics '98.
I'm not sure why I thought it would be good, but at the time I was really into winter sports and had a blast watching the actual 98 games so I thought it would be a good pickup. I was really looking forward to some Bobsledding action but man the whole game was basically QTE's.
Thankfully it was a bargain priced game so it didn't eat much allowance (I think I nabbed it for $10 used at Blockbuster).
this piece of shit right here, it didn't even had NFL teams and everything from the graphics to the gameplay was abysmal, to be fair it wasn't onmy own volition since I won the game in an interactive TV contest and it came with 2 other decent games (Super Return of the Jedi and the Tiny Toons one)
>>3264867
I hadn't heard of the series before because I started with SNES and hadn't emulated older consoles yet, but it's probably the worst game I've ever owned. I recall it actually being unplayable although I haven't tried in over 10 years.
It has average ratings online but it was worse than Superman 64 to me.
What's your favorite racing game?
Gran Turismo 2 on console, San Francisco RUSH or SF RUSH The Rock in arcades.
>>3264814
Wave race 64
>>3264814
never played them much... gran turismo for the playstation comes to mind, monster truck madness too, yeah... more than gran turismo.
Carnage knocked me into the secret room accidentally and saved my ass. Once you have to continue, you're pretty much screwed in that game.
Great game, anyone else enjoy this? Should I play Separation Anxiety? I heard it was kinda rough.
Every single boss murders me, do you have any protips
Like I don't grasp which attack I'm supposed to be trying to hit them with
best spiderman ost
>playing the K-A rated SNES version instead of MA-13 Genesis version
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