/vr/ - Retro Games

As a kid, I used to love the Fallout universe and lore, but I could never reconcile the fact that the world was frozen in time culturally for a good 120 years. I always thought just prolonging World War II and then having the nuclear apocalypse take place in the late 50’s or early 60’s would produce more or less the same result in terms of advanced nuclear fission based technologies and badass power armors, and make a hell of a lot more sense. Imagine if total warfare never truly ended until the nuclear apocalypse, for example, and essentially WW2 was the Great War that’s oft spoken of by the characters. You wouldn’t even have to change a lot of the dates, since it’s perfectly logical for the vaults to open up 200 to 300 years later anyway still. I prefer a tweaked timeline like this so much that I often play with this head canon in my head. Has anyone else ever put any thought into this, or shares my quibbles with the timeline?

I'm looking for the scans of the Artbook that came with thr "Private Edition" version of Garage: Bad Dream Adventure,can someone that has them upload them o megadotco and post it in this thread?

don't understand how someone can be a retro gamer and be born after 1995. People born in 1996 like to claim they "grew up with" the N64 but they didn't, their first console was probably as PS2.

I'm 26 years old. So I was a teenager not too long ago, but honestly, my generation seemed A LOT more interested in actually play just good games instead of you Gen Z kids born after 1995 who only want to play the "cool" games like COD, Madden, FIFA, LOL, DOTA 2, and GTA 5. Hilarious how the teenagers playing these games are all hipster idiots who need to constantly rub in the fact that they're liberals.

It's weird, but if you look at those "Teens React" videos (particularly the Smash Bros. one), you'll see that the 1996 and up generation just doesn't know anything about classic 90s video games, anime, music, movies, or TV shows.

Heck, they don't even know early 2000s classics. Why is that? Shouldn't a 19-year-old remember shit from 2000-2005?

I'm trying to come up with a comprehensive list of good 8-bit arcade games. I wanted to put Gradius and R-type thinking they were 8-bit, but no. Not all of these games are good. Just ones that I thought were good as a kid. Please add to this.

IREM Moon Patrol

IREM Kid Niki : Radical Ninja

IREM Kung-Fu Master

IREM Vigilante

SNK Ikari Warriors

SNK Guerrilla War

Atari Breakout

Atari Pong

Atari Asteroids

Atari Centipede

Atari Missile Command

Atari Tempest

Capcom 1942

Capcom 1943

Capcom Black Tiger

Capcom Commando

Capcom Trojan

Capcom Ghosts'N Goblins

Data East Burger Time

KONAMI Frogger

KONAMI Pooyan

KONAMI Gyruss

KONAMI Yie Ar Kung Fu

KONAMI Green Beret / Rush'n Attack

KONAMI Contra

Midway Wizard Of Wor

Midway Defender

Midway Joust

Midway Tron

Midway Ms. Pac-Man

Midway Rampage

Namco Pacman

Namco Dig-Dug

Namco Galaxian

Namco Galaga

Namco Pole Position

Namco Mappy

Namco Rolling Thunder

Namco Dragon Spirit

Namco Splatterhouse

Sega Zaxxon

Sega Choplifter

TAITO Space Invaders

TAITO Jungle Hunt / King

TAITO Arkanoid

TAITO Bubble Bobble

TAITO Tiger Heli

Step 1: Go to collage https://www.befunky.com/create/collage/

upload boxart of your top 9 from your systems.

Step 2: post here.

Step 3: be praised for your epic taste or lambasted as a normie.

This entire board… should just be replaced with this… this one… single image. It's the only thing that should be here. Nothing will ever be greater, video games should have just quit after this game, there was no need to try and go further. It is peak perfection.

I've seen this chart posted a few times but it only extends back to 1988. There's also a brief history of PC gaming chart which only goes back to 1990. Why is this? I'm not someone who's very knowledgeable when it comes to older PC games but I've been growing more curious. Is there any way we can compile a new chart to include notable PC games which released prior to 1988? And how far back should we go? I'm not sure if it's really worth going through the 1970s but there were a good chunk of significant PC games in the early to mid 1980s that should be worth sticking on a PC gaming chart. Akalabeth, Zork, the first Ultima, Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0, Elite, Trinity, Starflight etc.

So /vr/.. home computer general thread. I don't own many HCs but I do have two MSX computers. One's a Sanyo MPC-2, the other's a Sanyo Wavy70 FD. I reside in Arabia and the MSX was really popular here back in the day. I'm a bit of a youngin, so I decided to ask my parents if they owned them as kids. My mom replied affirmatively.

I want to have a chart that covers the origin points for everything vidya related, as well games that defined a genre, such as SFII.

The reason I'm posting this as a work in progress is because I don't have the ability to do all the research myself in any reasonable amount of time.

Allow me to start, and please any and all corrections and criticism is very much requested.

>First game

Space Wars

>First fighting game

Heavyweight boxing (1970s)

>First stealth game

0077 (??)

>First use of isometric

Zaxxon

>Revolutionized fighting genre to what it is today

SFII

>First FPS

Maze Hunter (??)

>First Roguelike

Rogue

>First turn based RPG

Ultima

>First dungeon crawl TB-RPG

Wizardry

>First game with a story

???

>First game with a cut scene

??

>First of every genre

This is a base necessity for this chart

>First [insert graphical improvements ie vector graphics, first color game, first game with actual video/photo(s), etc]

This is also a base necessity

>First x-bit games

First 8bit, 16, etc, this applies to both sound and video

>First game with samples

??

>First Japanese game

??

>First rotary joystick game

Even things such as this should be included.

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I'm currently setting up a news site dedicated to reporting on and documenting new ROM dump releases. I'm having a hard time thinking of a name for it though.

What do you guys think it should be called?

What game did you play as a kid that you couldn't find until years of searching?

Shadowrun scared me as a kid and I only remembered the cover. Took me 20 years but I finally found it

Has anyone here ever heard of a game called "Freddy: The Fantastic Frog's Frogging Out"? It was developed by a (presumably) German company named The Merging Minds for the Amiga.

There is very little information online about this game and its developers. From what I could gather, Freddy's gameplay is somewhat similar to Frogger, if the German magazine where I found out about it is anything to go by. As for the company itself, they worked with several publishers and are known to have developed three games. Those being the aforememtioned Freddy: The Fantastic Frog's Frogging Out for the Amiga (currently undumped as far as I know), Solius The Sorcerer for the Amiga (dumped for years), and Dan Burry: Jump & Run for MS-DOS (dumped recently). It's possible that they developed more games, but I could not find much more info beyond what I already wrote.

Does anyone here have any more information on this game or the company that developed it?

Here's the magazine in case anyone wants it: https://archive.org/details/Aktueller_Software_Markt_-_Ausgabe_1991.11/page/n158

Ever wonder what the best version of a game is, or if the version you are playing is worthwhile compared to other ports? Wonder no more! Starting with 3rd gen consoles, I'm making definitive lists of every official US release for the console, with notation on if that version is the best or if a better version exists elsewhere. I'm sticking to English releases, and versions that can be played in English either officially or through a translation patch. If a superior Japanese only release exists, I note it as such. I typically favor arcade releases, but in some cases the home port is superior.

NES ROM pack:

https://mega.nz/#!JZ8VkYDY!Ji9VdqZwfReEFoNS1cfp_w7EJ_ZEpjVTMwP7fv32Lqs

NES PAL ROM pack:

https://mega.nz/#!hIMHHKxL!ziLVYFgHMShxTzWRNbpmSebOItDG-5Rk9mdmn1R14HQ

NES ROM chart in PDF format:(version 1.3)

https://mega.nz/#!pA8V2SxC!f_EP4Vde0D8e2gO_NQqll67cyRExGkxOfT8uRaAANrE

SMS ROM pack v1.1:

https://mega.nz/#!1QtDAYLI!zvWpYQ0l17GrFV-GkILwrnY7eCZlsHWTbTrf9xV7UQ8

SMS PAL ROM pack:

https://mega.nz/#!wF9X3K4J!2U5SUJ4cgCmcGSapoOIeoFahWdFaEwQBlJ4MQ1TxrEY

SMS ROM chart in PDF format:(version 1.3)

https://mega.nz/#!YA9jzIDQ!sYsolds9PZdZkiSMEUwNqEB9cQTi9oirPvmmoQhIVAA

What is the best place to start the mega ten series?