It feels like the difficulty shift from Classic to Metroidvania is understated. I mean, everyone knows that they're harder games, no question about it, but I don't think enough people talk about how t...

What the fuck were they thinking when deciding to have one of the coolest characters getting killed off in the first game?

Mispronunciations of videogames characters or enemies and misseen sprites thread. How do you say "Yoshi"?

What's in your shit right now? I currently have Zero Mission, Doom 64, Zelda 1, Desert Strike, and God of War 2 in my /vr/ consoles

What is the Richard Gere of retro game consoles?

PS2 or arcade version?

how was this possible on the PS2?

FUCK YYYOOOOOUUUUU

What does the Retro Gaming scene look like here? I've heard they love KOF '98 which is based. I'm moving there for job.

Did anyone get the wrong impression of him when he was originally introduced? I thought he was supposed to be like Lan's bully but Lan was a better netbattler than him so he could win in cyberspace b...

Why does almost no one talk about street fighter lore? I don't think he's the best but I'm curious to know his story.

This makes /vr/ extremely confused and dizzy

Are these worth playing?

Wudda dubba da true?

I always loved the variety of pokemon in gen 3. What were some of your favorites? I definitely love shroomish and breloom.

The single most comfy game of all time.

>gets released in the west >saves the saturn

I just beat Majora's Mask for the first time and I have to say, I loved it. I don't get a lot of the criticisms about it being an "expansion" of OoT or overly reusing assets, it definitely feels like ...

Man been a while since i dropped a game, i saw in a thread about how New horizons is such a good game so i decided to try this one out and holy shit does it get old fast. The beginning is harsh but c...

Are pre-2010 games considered retro games now?

I hate playing on PC and kb/m, but I want to try out Half-Life so I was thinking of playing these. It seems like people always shit on perfectly competent, or in some ways even superior, console por...

The original game's combat benefitted from its limited mobility by making you have to consider what the best weapon for the job was. It made each encounter feel almost like a puzzle. In every game aft...

Bros... I've played through the entire game four times and I still can't find my last missing health pickup

i found 3 games that dont work on my og xbox operation flashpoint, rainbow six critical hour, and painkiller. anyone else have this problem ?

Ken Kutaragi said everyone at Sony thought the PS1 would fail when it was first pitched What went so right with the PS1?

Why aren't that many scenes depicting girls doing their business in classic era gaming

Brawler/Beat'Em'Up thread. Also- FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

>beat all the childhood games I had set out to >got nothing lined up on the backlog Anon, I need your retro turn based JRPG recommendations, but only the ones that really sell the genre. Best of the...

What is the most active retro FPS? Something I can just play with some randoms, no fucking ladder or queuing or perks, just simple shooting. Quake 3? CS? Does /vr/ do nights? I've played Marathon and ...

So, I was playing Gamecube recently and realized that it's way to small for my freakishly big hands. How hard would it be to make a larger version. I have a 3d printer and a soldering gun. Also, I won...

>drops one of the hypest fighting games of its era >disappears Why'd they do it?

Were the developers just retarded? Pic not related.

It's a shame the Zelda CDI games suck because i really like the art direction.

Now that the dust has settled, was this the quintessential jailbait-adjacent genievania?

Alien and Giger's impact on pop culture in 80s to about mid 90s Japan can't be understated. What are your favorite games that feature this aesthetic?

Nintendo has quite possibly had the worst transition to 3D after playing most of their game. Almost all their core franchises like pic related failed to replicate and understand what made their origin...

If only they printed more copies... the Saturn would have been saved...

>we should buy a Playstation instead of a Sega Saturn because Playstation doesn't have Panzer Dragoo-

Recently Hybrid Front was translated for the MegaDrive, and apparently someone is doing Surging Aura https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=39789.0 Not counting MEGA-CD games, what story he...

It's out and it's pretty good, I didn't play Crusader as much as the original but the soul seems to be intact. More wood required.

>Get to the next portal on Star Road >Can't really go anywhere from there Damn. Always felt like a missed opportunity to jump to the next world quickly, like in SMB1/3. Why didn't they allow it? And ...

You still don't have a Sega CD?

I've been stuck on level 7 for three weeks :(

Apparently this game has 5 frames of input lag on the jump and requires you to hold jump for 3 frames or else it just eats your input. In case you didn't already have enough reasons to hate this stup...

ITT: Underrated games from big franchises

The thinking man's Mario Kart.

How was Nintendo okay with this?!? Shit is gonna give me nightmares

I think I haven't seen one of these since the hack. Post your screencaps, settings, anything else, and hear others shit on your shader while they proclaim theirs is the best; why you're dumb for not p...

How many games have you played through on each of the following platforms? >Master System >32X >Sega CD >PC-Engine >Game Gear >Wonderswan (+ Colour) >Neo Geo Pocket >Neo Geo >3DO >X68000 >MSX >PC-88/...

This is so much worse than the main series

Would you say Knight Rider on PS2 has a vaporwave aesthetic?

Is Guild Wars 2 good?

Does anyone else prefer playing with original controllers on official hardware? Especially older controllers that are starting to get kind of crusty and the buttons start to feel a bit mushy or loose,...

Why does the N64 and GameCube controller get so much hate?

>In order to progress the level, you have to match color based objects or activate them in a certain order >Color blind? Too bad, you are stuck. Nothing can be done about it How was this even accept...

What are some other bad games with good music to trick impressionable young autists into thinking its good?

Blades of Vengeance?

Yeah.....I'm thinking it's kino

>You're Dealin' with cold blooded assassinators. Decapitate your body give the food to alligators What did he mean by this?

The BOUNCER!

Whis does this CPU cause so much seethe?

why didnt brapzilians make more games if they had these guys on the sega shit?

Was this the last time game consoles were unique? >Dreamcast had the ability to perform what was called Order Independent Transparency. Dreamcast can output VGA natively >PS2 is full of beautiful par...

Why are Germans hoarding all the good games for themselves?

>Remember the 2000s? S0VL 2000s games were already soulless compared to the 90s. "Urban" games centered around pop bling wiggershit (50 Cent), dull orange/grey filters, oversaturation of sports/Maddde...

Anons here have said you need a degree in EE to beat it.

These aren't very good are they? Every batch I've purchased needed the cog holes expanded, the range is subpar and the entire internet is telling me "bro it's as good as an almost perfect stick" What?...

I played the shit out of this game back in the day, and it’s wild how (even for someone who didn’t care for super challenging games) this inspired me to “git gud”. By the end I finished with all the k...

So, what does /vr/ think of the remaster so far?

sexy sprites

Post FPS you enjoyed playing with your controller

This is the end result of every marginally employed gez Z pencil neck thinking they're an investor because they bought pokemon cards or video games or a fell for a crypto scam. Games aren't games anyo...

I'm looking to play for Retro Racers, but I'm not sure where to begin outside of the major mainstays of the genre. What racing games would you guys suggest good or awful?

The book is a subtle joke.

Sonic The Hedgehog

How much do you guys normally pay for your retro game save files?

Clone Wars edition Screen Utility - https://shauninman.com/utils/screens/ Handheld Comparison - https://retrocatalog.com/ Google chart - https://tinyurl com (slash) AllHandhelds has anyone asked my q...

Almost the perfect sequel but for some reason they completely bungled the tone of the game and removed the einherjar introductions, What a shame

What am I in for?

imagine playing it for the first time

Geez even when playing AA on actual hardware through an upscaler with progressive scan the game still looks like shit. If capcom was smart they could have incorporated 240p mode in these collections. ...

https://www.youtube.com/c/pr0nogo/live

Endokuken

Man remember when we used to buy games and they came with beautiful booklets and sometimes even mini guides and cool stuff like that? I feel sorry for current and future generations who grew with game...

I like this game

Why was it such a kino masterpiece compared to the soulless, phoned-in turd that was the sequel?

Brunette Tina is cool

>end of 1995 >most people still didn't upgrade to PS1 or Saturn >gaming magazines hype all those cool 3D racers and 3D fighters >32X price is cut down to $99 (or $139 when bundled with VF) Were the pi...

Discuss and recommend games I already know >Wonderswan Ghost'n Goblins >Game Gear Shining Force Gaiden >Neo Geo Pocket Rockman - Battle & Fighters Metal Slug 1/2 Sonic

I always thought it was weird how you don't swing from a single vine in any of the games from the DKC trilogy. That's like rule 2 of monkey shenanigans.

I think Seiken Densetsu 3 (also known as Trials of Mana) has the best pixel art for a 2D top-down game and is one of the best-looking SNES game. There might be 2D games that look better with side-scro...

I'm Scorpian Vader. Your friend is here.

Anyone ever beat this game without a guide?

this game is a lot harder (and spookier) than I expected. Im starting my file over again as i didnt realize you get no fucking ammo in this game and Im already screwed, i have nothing but my knife. am...

Just finished replaying this and holy shit I forgot about how hard it was. I barely even managed to beat the game on normal and you people are playing on higher difficulties? That's just insane. That ...

>American retro computer >the entire modern homebrew scene is European This happened more times than you would expect.

How mind-blowing was to play games online on consoles in the early 2000's?

A game that was truly groundbreaking

This is barely even a game. It's a strategy "game" for the kinds of "people" who bitch about APM requirements in REAL-TIME strategy games. It's a "strategy" ""game"" for people who hate strategy. Like...

Did people actually bother to learn these back in the day before e-sport compfaggotry came around?

ITT: retro vidya for furfags

I liked it...

most people only really get into about 25% of Sonic 3’s soundtrack. The stuff in the main levels is okay, but the real gems are in the competition mode levels. That’s where the magic happens. Like Des...

Was the GameCube mini-DVD really an excellent anti-piracy system?

What are some underrated gems on this thing?

>first game in a series is also the best People don't understand how fucking good it was. No game like this existed that genuinely terrified you. You grew hair on your chest just by playing it as a k...

Did Resident Evil need a full remake in 2002? Who asked for this? The original game still held up fine.

Settle a debate /vr/. Should the most reasonable definition of 'boomer shooter' include the very first generation of true 3D shooters too, or should the cutoff be the pseudo 3D '2.5D' engine games, do...

This... would have saved the Saturn...

This is so bad compared to the first one. The mechanics allow to go faster except the level design does the contrary and is full of gimmicky shit that slow you down and barely anything that rewards sk...

Just wanted to make a thread about one of my favorite of the lesser known NES games. It's Chitei Senkuu VAZOLDER Also known as WURM: Journey to the Center of the Earth (Also a cool title) It's about ...

Looks like classic MK fighting arcade action is back lads!!!! https://youtu.be/Bs-RmcOCSLc?si=on6yKMBQXF7qYqTc

As a kid I never figured out he went away when you threw the key and waited a bit, so every time Phanto appeared was maximum panic for my kid self! Somehow I feel SMB2 has a sort of "behind the scenes...

Was the Dreamcast and its 200Mhz SH4 CPU and whopping 16MB of system memory really impressive in 1998?

There is something timeless about Final Fantasy 4 It was just as groundbreaking as Final Fantasy 7

Papriumbros, it's over... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QaBYuRwcDs

It's Friday. Let's celebrate with a retro ads thread.

Discuss the state of retro console/handheld/computer emulation, any news or discussion on settings. Discussion of emulation of non-retro systems can go to /emugen/ on /vg/, which can be found here: >...

>is the perfect JRPG in your path

How am I supposed to catch the 15 pounder, with blood dough balls?

Can someone recommend some translated eroge games that are not VNs

Fucking masterpiece and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

How do I make my GTA 3 look like this?

post cool screencaps from games you've played

...And thus, the video games industry revived.