>Tekken 3 >"you see, Ogre has killed all these Tekken 2 characters, absorbed their souls and now uses their signature moves" >later Tekkens >"uh, ackshyally he didn't kill them, they are alive and we'...

Which is the best game?

>the defining PS1 mascot game >gets one spinoff, one sequel, two disappointing anime series, and a handful of mild references >then dead for a quarter-century going What went wrong with the Parappa fr...

I don't get the appeal

What are some specific movie scenes that influenced old games? And I mean specific, not just "anything from 2001 Space Odessey or Alien(s)" I'll start with an easy one: the minecart chase from Temple...

>be a grappler character >can't move while grappling What's the point?

Post videogame songs that go hard for absolutely no reason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCKluC7wzKg

isn't it weird that Mario is like the worst character in his own game (this one being Super Mario Bros. 2) just like Donkey Kong was the worst character in his own series, the DKC trilogy. idk if the ...

I just discovered this game. I've seen it described as a Star Control 2 roguelike. What do you think of it?

Drol whats the point? can you even die if you just keep firing a volley of bullets down the corridor? seems incredibly repetitive and easy but supposedly it was the influence for sega's Flicky

All you need are four buttons, because on thump - four fingers.

These were great.

How mindblowing was to play Metal Gear Solid in 1998?

Previous thread: >>11823645 Rules of the thread are simple: >You can only talk about games and systems made before the US release of the NES (1985). Everything before it from the CRT Amusement Device ...

>Elsewhere, the dynamic camera system is superior, and nearly always gives a sympathetic viewpoint, which is essential when you're trying to dispatch a bunch of mutant undead, although there are a few...

I want to write up something to hopefully be helpful to people new to playing old systems using my own experiences and mistakes, and what I personally own. Including the cost of quality flash carts an...

Video game mysteries. You ever wonder where all those logs came from in Plok!?

Why does nobody talk about the unique and interesting Hitachi hardware in the Saturn and Dreamcast? >Saturn had Hitachi SH-2 >Dreamcast had Hitachi SH-4 and only console ever created that supports a...

Holy Hell you guys! The new updated DOOM for the snes is about to go on sale from our bois over at Limited Run. Check it out, standard gives you a box, game manual and even a cool poster for $100. b...

How do Save States work? How do emulators know to save your exact same position in game?

Retro music that sounds like other retro music Raging Mountain in Threads of Fate sounds a lot like Besaid Island in FFX

Its Kusoge.

What's your favorite point-and-click adventure game? Mine's pic related.

So is it possible to have a 3D game without a camera?

I was playing my OG Xbox and I noticed that the screen started glitching out of nowhere. At first I thought it was just my cables or maybe my capture card crapping me, but only the Xbox is fucking up....

How do you make 4:3 look presentable when using an emulator on a fixed pixel display? In Retroarch Snes9x, my options seem to be >ugly non-integer scaling on the horizontal axis, or >ugly smudgy bilin...

Would you go to Chuck E Cheese's new nostalgia retro arcade concept targeted to adults?

WHAT

Hey it's Duke Nukem 3D for the Sega Saturn. Whoa you can't do that on a console Duke! Sega is so cool.

Is Aria of Sorrow the best Castlevania game ever made?

What are some of the most exciting PS2 racing games?

imainge playing this in 1991 right after the fall of USSR lmao

I think I finally played through every FPS on GBA I wanted to play. But first let's start with the 2 that I didn't beat. >Medal of Honor - Underground What a piece of shit. This isn't even alpha mat...

So I impulse bought a Genesis with Sonic 2. I ordered Shove It the Warehouse Game on ebay. What are some other high level kinos I should look into as cheap entry price games? I know want Mega Turrican...

Are fan HD remasters of games with 2D backgrounds true to the original creator's intent? Since the assets made to use these backgrounds are gone, are we left with just accepting low resolution upscale...

post 'em

Akira Kitamura has opened a blog on patreon detailing his career as well as lent his personal design documents for Rock Man to Capcom to display in their museum and to host on their sites. I think t...

Man, what a rushed, soulless, phoned-in, casualized game >shit level design full of pointless empty space where there will be 30 doors, 25 just background textures, 4 lead to an empty room, and 1 is t...

Do you guys have arcades or local fighting game meetups in your area? Do you play on original hardware? There's a comic store that recently opened up in my town that has all kinds of vidya nicknacks ...

BradyGames got mogged here

How easy is it to repair GC controllers? I've read several reviews of the aftermarket stick caps that they have some sizing issues (like they're too tall and don't fit under the front shell very well...

How many GB do you need for your NGC

The NEO•GEO Advanced Entertainment System. A quantum leap forward in video entertainment.

this is pretty much the only way to beat virtua fighter 2 in arcades. they released it knowing that fact very well.

Anyone else a true YNer through here? It’s infinitely more convenient than (especially for 2KKI) updating the file versions constantly. Collective Unconscious is also pretty good for a startup fangame...

I've set up multiple different Gen 1+2 playthroughs, made a ton of custom graphics, made up different challenges the players could do for cool rewards, set up tournaments where everyone's Pokemon leve...

Hello everyone, I want to ask I once played an old-school platform/2D game on my Blackberry. Unfortunately, I don't know whether it was a Java game or something else, or the publisher and developer....

Should I bother playing this or is it just shit? Also, not really /vr/ but is the Daxter game on PSP better?

ITT: Times you went from "This game is cool. Why it isn't more popular?" to ""Oh, that's why it isn't more popular." For me such game is Septerra Core. Cool setting but once you play more the sluggish...

This game is brutal

They really went and fixed the issues Prime had with a stand alone expansion pack sequel. How does anyone even go back to Prime 1 now.

>Traverrer's Tares...We need your help to make a next gen Sonic game for our new Saturn hardware... >Hmm? Sonic? Your most successful franchise? What a pain, can't you handle it? >Oh, oh no, we are ve...

>Supple amount of continues, almost to a point where you don't need them >Farming lives just by being thorough can usually grant you 5 lives before you hit anything major >Fire and Laser, while are no...

I know console wars are dumb, it's all fucking plastic at the end of the day. But I wanted to ask the anons that were alive and conscious during that time period their thoughts on it, and in hindsight...

>Here's that video game you wanted, son!

I can't see shit: the game. Jokes aside this was pretty good but damn does the combat suck, I get that it's a survival horror game but at times fighting enemies made me really fucking annoyed. So do y...

Which port had the best rendition of the music from SF2?

Who was the target audience for this?

Watashi tachi wa uchi ni morutaa kombatto ga imasu!

What are some other good retro JRPGs that are user-friendly/accessible to people who don't normally play JRPGs

Why do Tony Hawk skating games rule but Dave Mirra BMX games suck?

What was the best looking PS1 game?

I understand that the later home console copies didn't have Charles Barkley on the Phoenix Suns because Acclaim lost the rights to his name and likeness to Accolade (the makers of Barkley Shut Up & Ja...

After 30 years, I am finally giving this a chance. What am I in for?

Were the Scooby Doo games from this gen really as bad as people say?

How massive was the launch of Halo 2? What was the experience like back then? And what made it so special that it attracted more attention from normies than major blockbuster movies?

Constantly see this game heralded as one of the greats, at least one of them ends up on every 'top RPGs of all time' list. Seemed like required playing, along with Xenogears and Wild Arms. Yet my reac...

What's the best way to play these? I'm mainly split between SNES, PS1, GBA or PSP versions.

Could the demise of arcades -in the West- have been delayed somehow? how would (You) have SAVED the arcade scene?

I've fucking HAD IT with Sonic 2 >Great first 3 zones >Really feeling it >Casino zone ruins everything Absolutely shit zone in every game

This is the best NES game of all time. Prove me wrong. Pro tip: you can't.

Rare cart from any console. Pic unrelated

In the Grandmaster Ending of Wizardry IV, Werdna—the villainous protagonist—ascends beyond good and evil, beyond gods and mortals. The game essentially rewards the player for mastering its brutal mech...

How the FUCK am I supposed to get good at the Streets of Rage games on the Genesis? Played 4, replay it a lot, fucking love it. Went back to the old games and while I can beat it I have to use contin...

WHY IS IT SO SCARY, I really really liked system shock 1 and was excited to try this and now I think I might drop it from how unnerving it feels to play I don't think I ever feel safe anywhere and it ...

I own an N64, PS1 and Sega Saturn. The Sega Saturn has like 3 decent games and some good light gun games. That's it. I barely touch my Saturn. The PS1 has a huge library of games ranging from good to ...

Underappreciated soul.

>Famicom release date: July 15, 1983 >Master System release date: September 1986 Why does it seem like this thing is only slightly more powerful than a Famicom?

Ah just like I remember it

Kitana would easily kill Chun Li, and this is because Chun Li is a grown woman who puts up peace signs and giggles

how were 7 year olds in 96 supposed to figure this out? even with all the clues its far from easy or obvious. the only letter given to you is the l, the r and s have multiple spots they can be. Im pre...

What are the best Amiga games? What games are better on Amiga than they are on other platforms? Are there any Amiga exclusive video games?

This was my favorite Spider-Man game until the PS1 game came along.

What the FUCK did I just play?

The most iconic game of gen 6!

This thread is dedicated to discussion on retro battlestations, this may include discussion on hardware, cable, and furniture topics and optimization strategies. Please be polite in asking questions, ...

I love Wario

Which game comes to your mind when thinking of the word minigame?

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Three questions for you all: -If you had to choose 3 puzzle games to take to your grave, what would they be and why? -What truly makes a puzzle good or bad? -In your opinion, what makes games like T...

Were developers simply more talented back in the day?

Yep, this is the best console ever made

It's that time of the year again to put 150 hours into beating all the campaigns on hard.

How do you know if the price is right

>*blocks your path* you have 45 sec to tell him about the last Dreamcast game you played... or else...

David? Who gave Solid Snake that name? Being a clone he had no parents to legally name him. So who did? What is the in-universe Lore meta why his non-classified government paperwork lists him as David...

This system is a fever dream. Did anyone here actually had it or does everyone's experience with it come from emulation?

Post games that are good but also the epitome of mid

Was this game actually bad, or did it just get memed on for some petty reason by more "competitive" fighter fans?

Why isn’t there a retro game dedicated entirely to the GT saga in Dragon Ball? Is it because the anime itself was bad, so no one wanted to make a video game for it?

>What was the original name of the Sega Master System in North America?

You. Yes, YOU! What were (You) playing in 2003? INB4 gogogaga

Been watching Iron Blooded Orphans recently. Anyone know any good retro Gundam games?

i love bomberman, do you too?

Gameplay and development discussion: What homebrew / hacks are you playing /vr/? Are you working on anything? Would you like to learn? Projects and questions welcome. Active Communities: romhackplaza...

I played D2 on the Dreamcast and really enjoyed it. The snowy setting is pure sovl, the enemy design is totally weird in a good sense, the plot increasingly feels like a schizo movie and I really like...

What's the lore behind the weirdness of Metal Slug?

What a steaming turd compared to the first game.

Why didn't 2d collectathons become as popular as 3d collectathons?

I wish ubi would put all the old Tom Clancy games on gog. I really want them without needing some gay bloated drm launcher.

Has anyone ever written a definitive list ranking how easy or difficult it is to emulate various retro platforms on low-end hardware? Like sure, you could just go by generation to get a broad idea, b...

You're the only other group of people I know that care about retro games who aren't totally gay. I'm going to commission an artist to create a banner for my game store. I'm taking a big huge retarded...

Is this game worth finishing? I've heard its a boring slog later on but can't confirm that's just side quests. Can you complete the game without doing side content or is it mandatory? I finished the 4...

What are your favorite arcade shooters?

Konami's 8th attempt at the fighting games genre

spoonfeed me a list of cool shit that can be done if I hack my Wii U. for reference I've cracked my 3DS

what is your fave ps1 game

Bulbasaur > Squirtle > Charmander

Let us discuss the Shoot Them Up genre.

What went wrong with the EE versions of the Baldur’s Gate games? I thought Beamdog did a great job remastering Planescape: Torment

How much untapped potential does the original xbox have?

Excuse my 'tism, but I just can't seem to get perfectly smooth frame rate in RetroArch on Android. I mean in systems like SNES that are easy to emulate. I read somewhere that it's almost impossible to...

Do you know that feeling when you run around the entire perimeter of a game and still can find the thing you need to interact with to move the game forward?

Honestly it's one of the most beautifully designed and packaged retro gaming products I have ever bought. Whoever made this, it's a labour of love. Highly recommended for anyone who loves 8 bit games ...

what's your favorite retro sports game?