Thread 11832901

>open up early 90s game magazine
>bunch of weird-ass games for consoles nobody you've ever met in real life owns or can afford

>>11832901 (OP)
I wonder what thread had to die for this dumb bullshit.

>>11832905
>>11830679

>>11832901 (OP)
I would rather find out about them from a page or two in a magazine full of pages about normal games on normal systems than have to deal with the 3DO magazine and that abomination of a mascot on every cover.

>>11832907
damn. that's kinda sad

>>11832901 (OP)
Game magazines made Earthworm Jim out to be a lot bigger deal than it actually was.

>>11832905
I wonder how many more times you are going to spam that in these last three hours alone

>>11832921
well I was gonna stop because the humor was wearing thin, but now that I know someone's getting all butthurt about it, I'm going to keep going for at least several more hours

>>11832931
You need to be at least 18 to post here, that's both physically and mentally.

>>11832936
so why are you here?

These are literally the types of responses someone would expect from a kid, you don't even deserve a (You) or me even acknowledging your posts anymore.

>>11832947
>GRRR I SAW THE SAME SENTENCE 3 TIMES
>GRRRR FUCK YOU GRRRR
>LALALALA I'M IGNORING YOU LALALALALA
wow so mature lmfao

OP is a turbo idiot, but >>11832909 reminded me of that thread with the fanmade 3D model. That shit was hilarious

>>11832954
Someone made a fan model of that thing?

>>11832956
Maybe I got it wrong, but that old thread was full of funny shit
https://warosu.org/vr/thread/8889305

>>11832901 (OP)
And there's only half a page and two screenshots of the game you care about.

>>11832901 (OP)
I feel this so hard. I remember reading about 3do being 128 but next gen and how amazing jaguar is and wondered who in the world can afford these things. Sigh. Now as an adult I know they are all complete shit and everything is shit in general I can buy anything and everything and I don't want anything

>>11832901 (OP)
Early EGM had a huge chunk of their mags dedicated to previewing Japanese imports well ahead of their localization dates (if they even get localized at all). It was cool seeing that stuff and learning about Japan's gaming scene in a time when information resources were extremely limited, but I had zero chance of ever playing these as a kid. Thank god for the internet.

>>11832919
Obviously Jim wasn't much in hindsight, but he was a big deal at the time. Those graphics and animations weren't the norm for video games in 1994, in some ways he represented the pinnacle of 16-bit pixel art. Same reason why DKC was treated as a big deal, and why everybody scrambled to get their hands on CG rendering machines/software even if they weren't making 3D games.

>boot up 3DO
>get treated with a goatse screamer

>>11833018
lol

>>11832901 (OP)
I was fine with the NES, SNES, and Duo. Plus I convinced my cousins to go for the Genesis. I would have really wanted the NeoGeo, but that will always be out of my price range. Those other consoles were still interesting anyway despite not knowing anyone with them.

>>11832921
This also happens in other boards. If it's not a bot it's the saddest Anon to ever exist

>>11832901 (OP)
Yeah, the video game industry was circling the drain in the 90's desperately trying to make a console that didn't suck flaming demon cock before Sony came and saved it with the PSX. If it wasn't for the Sony Playstation we wouldn't have video games anymore at all.

>>11832919
Man fuck you Earthworm Jim was the bees knees

>Doom (Jaguar)

I was a weird kid, I grew up with Jaguar. Never knew any other kids who had one. Honestly a great console, the controller got a lot of hate because of that AVGN episode but it was actually very comfortable, to this day I'd say it's the most comfortable controller I've used.

>>11832919
>Game magazines made Earthworm Jim out to be a lot bigger deal than it actually was.

Earthworm Jim was big enough to have it's own cartoon series and toy line. Even though the cartoon series only lasted for two seasons and has 23 episodes.

>>11833256

And Earthworm Jim has its' own toy line from Playmates.

>>11832901 (OP)
I had a neo geo. My neighbor had a 3DO and a 32X. My nephew had a jaguar. Everybody on my street had mega drive. You are just a fucking snes / plebstation noob up there.

>>11832901 (OP)
this but more with pc-games rather than console ones. there's a lot of apparently good games (7/8 rated) that nobody EVER talks about, all of them of somewhat not so popular anymore genres (rts, space shooter\sim, early 3d action). more often than not they dont look that appealing and i suspect they're not even that easy to find or run on modern systems. good consoles games have more talk or they usually get a re-release or a remake.

>>11833256

For a 1995 cartoon adaption, it was pretty good overall. The animation quality was generally on the good side. The cartoon has a different tone from the games, but I feel like hey carried over enough elements. Voice cast is great. Because it was on WB, the production quality was overall good. I saw it on Canadian TV back in the day.

https://youtu.be/jZTJqiTMthg

I a not familiar with Wing Commander Academy at all. I never had the USA network. So I missed out of Street Fighter, Mega Man and Dark Stalkers.

>>11833256
Interesting point.
There wasn't much to the core gameplay of EJ so it didn't have any staying power. Similar to the Genesis version of Aladdin, it had sick visuals, animations, and sound effects which really carried its success. But the gameplay was only serviceable.

>>11833391
https://youtu.be/BVjvPSoOeoc

>>11833394
>There wasn't much to the core gameplay of EJ so it didn't have any staying power.

The first game was a fairly straight forward Euro styled run and gun platformer with some interesting deviations. The art, wacky humour, characters, and even music and sound effects really carried it. But I always felt it was a solid game. EWJ2 tried to be more like a variation of mini games. Earthworm Jim 3D really killed the franchise. I think it was rebooted at least once during development internally. Earthworm Jim 3D was developed by Viz Entertainment. I'm not really sure how Rockstar got the rights to Earthworm Jim. I think there was a weird split in ownership rights between the console and handheld versions. There was a PSP remake in development. Playmates had the franchise rights for a brief period of time, as they published EWJ2. They were responsible for the toyline and cartoon tie-in. This is the Dan Castellaneta era. He did the voice of EWJ for the Clay Fighters games as well as EWJ3D.

I used to buy this magazine in the late 90's which talked only about handhelds. Of course I only had a game boy and it also talked about the Wonderswan and Neo Geo Pockets, two consoles that I still have never seen irl to this day.

>>11832901 (OP)
It was part of the fun of that era. In the mid 90s you had a dozen or so active systems. The industry felt so much bigger back then even though it's dwarfed by today's game market. At the time of the OP issue you had:

>SNES
>NES (retired right around this time)
>Game Boy
>Genesis
>Sega CD
>Game Gear
>32X
>3D0
>Jaguar
>CD-i
>Neo Geo
>Turbo Duo (though it may have been completely dead at this point)

And that's without the Saturn and PS1. Arcades were still relevant and the PC had just started to show it could do action games just as well or better than consoles.

>>11833394
>Similar to the Genesis version of Aladdin

Yeah, because most of the Earthworm Jim team was founded by members of Virgin Interactive VIA Dave Perry. Most of the animation techniques that went into Earthworm Jim came from the development of Aladdin. They both are built from the TUME level editor (Just like 90% of Dave Perry's 16bit games). Which gave Dave Perry produced platformers a 'same-y' feel to them.

>>11833257
Playmates was behind EWJ from the start. The toys were the real product, the game was the hook, and the TV show was an ad for the toys.

>>11833449
>Playmates was behind EWJ from the start. The toys were the real product, the game was the hook, and the TV show was an ad for the toys.

Oh of course they were. Interplay took over the publishing rights from "Special Edition' and onwards. I guess Earthworm Jim was a collaboration between Shiny Entertainment and Playmates. Playmates did publish a few videogames for a brief period of time. EWJ1 and WWJ2, as well as stuff like Burning Road on the PS. But they dropped out of videogame publishing. I loved the first game, had a copy for the Sega CD. I had EWJ2 for the SNES. I liked the cartoon series. It was pretty impressive that it aired the same year as the release of Earthworm Jim 2. The cartoon really took most of its material from the first game.

>>11832905
You can check the archive, AI-kun.

>>11832936
You must be new here.

>>11832919
I loved EWJ 1&2 as a kid and still do. Had some of the toys, watched the cartoon, played the games a bunch. Earthworm Jim was popular at the time.
>>11833394
>>11833417
They're not super deep or anything gameplay-wise and there's some jankiness, but they still feel nice to play for the most part. The levels have fun ideas and some interesting secrets too. EWJ 1 and 2 felt more polished than most Western sidescrollers on consoles back then. Obviously everything else about the game elevates it, but the gameplay itself is better than it gets credit for sometimes.

>>11833256
i loved the EWJ cartoon. One of the few performances by Dan Castelawhatever that does Homer's voice.

>>11833448
>VideoGames mag
based.

>>11833391
>https://youtu.be/jZTJqiTMthg [Remove]


The intro did a pretty good job following the origin story seen in the instruction manuals for the original game. The Humour in the show is somewhere between The Tick animated series and Freakazoid. It is self aware, breaks the forth wall. I know the creator of Earthworm Jim wasn't a fan of this cartoon. But I don;t think it is much worse than Project GEEKER (Doug's original animated series) in many ways. They both come from the same era of western animation and have similar mid 90's production qualities. Earthworm Jim might have a little bigger budget being that it was funded by WB.

>>11832901 (OP)
41. Never met a person with a jaguar, a 3d0, Amiga any of it. I graduated with 110 kids in 2002. Not one person had a Saturn

>>11833546
There was one kid in middle school with a Saturn. We all made fun of him.

>>11832919
That's what magazines were for. Now companies use influencers instead to create trending for the next new thing before it becomes irrelevant in 2 years.

>>11832905
>WAAAAHHHH MY THREAD THAT WAS ABOUT TO 404 DIED FOR THIS WAAAHHHH
F off.

>>11833546
I'm 40. My class had about 75 people in it.

4 saturns (one of which was mine which I sold to another kid, so that counts as 2 alone)
1 CD-I (kid had no actual games for it, just three movies)

I saw a 3do once in a pawn shop that the guy wanted $300 for, it stayed there with the same price up until 2002 afaik. I saw Jaguars for sale once in 1994 at Toys R' US.

>>11833131
>Amiga CD as high as the Genesis
>Jaguar higher than the Turbo Duo
What were these retards smoking?

>>11833131
the amiga cd, yup, a console for true gamers.

>>11834494
>Jaguar higher than the Turbo Duo

my guess is cuz the turbo duo was dead at that point, while jaguar was new

>>11833449
>Playmates was behind EWJ from the start.

Playmates attempt to get into the video game industry was a good attempt. Earthworm JIm 1 was released to a lot of acclaim and it was reviewed well. Sold really well on all platforms. Earthworm Jim 2 was generally well received overall. They published the Battle Arena Toshienden games, and the first two were really big sellers, and the brand was popular for a radar blip. But it was popular. They published random stuff like Powerslave, Burning Road, MDK, Skeleton Warriors (based on the Playmates toyline), etc. Playmates was doing pretty good for a 'new' publisher back in the mid 90's.

>>11832919
>Game magazines made Earthworm Jim out to be a lot bigger deal than it actually was.

It had nearly unprecedented freeform levels (it had semi-free geometry, not just fixed tile sets), insane amounts of animation, and absurd humour. It technically pushed 16-bit consoles to their limits. It was exactly as big as magazines made it out to be, if not bigger. It had toys, comic books, a cartoon show, and Doug TenNapel went from barely scraping by to making six figures and having his Dad call and tell him he made it.

>>11834494
The CD32 came out with a ton of fanfare, and the AGA chipset was very good, the problem was that all of its games ended up being Amiga ports and Commodore went bankrupt in like half a year.

>>11835043
yeah, this, exactly. Turbo Duo was a mid 1980s console with extended palette, CD32 was a decent, if low-end, contender for 1993. Not on the level of 3DO or Jaguar but more affordable. In England it outsold every other CD based console at launch (1993 xmas).

but, again, Commodore folded in 1994 so that was that. Even if it didn't, Playstation would've eaten the CD32 alive, unless they manage to make a CD64 successor with the Hombre chipset.

>>11832996
DKC was actually good compared to EWJ

My brother and I had several of the "weird-ass" consoles you didn't know anyone to own. Between the two of us, we had
Sega CD
Turbo Grafx-16 (in the form of Turbo Express which annoyed the everliving fuck out of me because you couldn't save games on it; imagine having to play Neutopia II or Order of the Griffin using fucking passwords)
PC Engine + CD
Neo Geo
Lynx
Saturn
All the common consoles.

And my dad bought a CD-i cuz the guys at whatever that appliance store was called (don't remember the name; small regional chain) saw him coming a mile away. We didn't have any games for it, though.

I didn't know anyone else with a Turbo but a few school kids had Neo Geo. All immigrant kids for some reason and I didn't know anyone at all with a 3DO, Jaguar or 32X. I'm not sure I've ever even seen them. And for Neo Geo games, we had to go to this Chinese video store to buy them. I just always assumed NG was just for Russians slanteyes and Western wypipo just didn't buy them. I honestly had no idea back then how much they cost. My brother and I would take the train to Chinatown, get lunch at this HK-style diner then hit up the video store for a game and head home. He handled everything because I was still too young for my dad to get me a credit card.
>>11832996
I never learned to read nippleknees but my brother did and, besides the PCE, he had other import consoles. He would read RPGs he played aloud to me.

>>11836369
>Skeleton Warriors (based on the Playmates toyline)
Did the cartoon or the toys come out first? The cartoon was ass. We had a "describe a cartoon badly" that on /co/ and nobody guessed that one.

>>11833257
>red snot

Man, that sucks. Glad mine was green.

>>11836694
>Did the cartoon or the toys come out first? The cartoon was ass. We had a "describe a cartoon badly" that on /co/ and nobody guessed that one.

It was created by Playmates, so the toys were first and the toys and game (PS1 and Sega Saturn) followed.

>>11836932

The Skelleton Warriors game was made by NeverSoft. The game is a 2.5D sidescroller, with CG pre-rendered sprites and polygon environments. The Saturn probably has the slightly better version of these two games.

https://youtu.be/6QUAyGH7_dw?t=181

https://youtu.be/IfCX6qUZwu0?t=323

>>11832901 (OP)
>>open up early 90s game magazine
>>bunch of weird-ass games for consoles nobody you've ever met in real life owns or can afford


That's what the back pages of game magazines were there for.

>>11836954

The system you read about, but you cannot afford.

>>11836954

Back of the magazine for DieHard Gamers Club. Which dealt with Japanese imports of games and merch. This company advertised in multiple gaming magazines back in the day

>>11836954

Tommo Inc, another one of those companies that would buy ad space in the back of various gaming magazines and sell a lot of import goods.

>>11836954

GameSoft, another mail order company that put out ads in the back pages of various gaming magazines.

>>11836954

This was a weird mail-order company who put out a lot of ads in the early to mid 90's.

>open up videogame magazine
>videogames
wow stunning insight OP

>>11836946
Checks the boxes of what should be fun. 2d sidescroller with 3d bonus stages. Based on cool toys. Pre-rendered graphics. But it is unfortunately terrible. Zero game design. Enemies just randomly spawn everywhere while you wildly flail around.

>>11836998
the board quality has cratered in the last year. feels like 95% of the board are low quality threads now

>>11837002
>Skelleton Warriors

Music supplied by Tommy Tallarico studios...

The music created for this bonus stage:
https://youtu.be/6QUAyGH7_dw?t=1957


Was reused as the intro for Electronic Playground:
https://youtu.be/AiJSjT5Cgns

>>11837026
I feel like most of it has happened in the last month or so, like shit REALLY careened south after the hack.
Did it draw in the attention of too many fucking retards and assholes?

>>11837031
lots of people left after the hack, I wouldn't be surprised if they're using bots to make it look like the site isn't bleeding users. I've noticed some weird reposts as of late, like remaking a thread that was made 4-5 years ago

>>11837036
Don't see why they'd bother, that'd cost money to do, and there's always been slow boards.

The theme song really was the best part of this show. I remember watching it early mornings on TV. I also remember seeing the figures in stores. I could have had a chance to own the original Earthworm Jim figures when I was 14. But I was not into collecting figures. I swear I played the game on the PS1 at least. Never saw a Saturn version. Except for in magazine ads.

https://youtu.be/a3ZlpTp_dJA

>>11836975
>FM Towns Marty
>$750
Damn

Gamefan even had the fucking FM TOWNS MARTY listed in the console lineup on the cover of their mag for a while even. Truly halcyon days compared to the bland console landscape these days.

>>11836775
You even got the right color for Jim's red gun according to the EWJ2 game show.

>>11836954
>KICK & PUNCH

>>11837026
You're mad your shitty post got deleted don't lie you cunt.
>>11832905

>>11837036
I dunno I’ll remake an old thread once in a while if I think there’s something still to say about it.

>open up magazine from the 90's
>see this everyone
>modern "retro gamers" still insist that difficulty is bad design and it was all because of rentals anyway

>open up magazine from the 90's
>see this everywhere
>modern "retro gamers" still insist that difficulty is bad design and it was all because of rentals anyway

>>11837724
Regardless of if he's the same guy or not, I have no choice but to agree that post quality has hit an awful slump in at least the last month, it's like there's way more disingenuous faggots and retarded retards than usual.

>>11837983
>modern "retro gamers" still insist that difficulty is bad design and it was all because of rentals anyway
Who is insisting this?

>>11837983
Anytime anyone mentions Low G Man, I know it was me who did it. I think I'm the only person who actually owned that game.

>>11836775
there were two different jim figures
one had red snot/gun and the other had green snot/gun

>>11832901 (OP)
re-reading these and knowing you can play any of these weird games in a few minutes is still crazy to me

>>11838029
It’s crazy. You’d see a few blurry screenshots in a magazine and you’d have to use your mind to fill in how that game might look, sound and feel in real life. Now any new game will have a complete playthrough loaded up on YouTube within a day.

>>11838014
Says the big poopy face haha

>>11837983
Your collage also misses how Ninja Gaiden 2's box flat out made "HARD TO BEAT" a selling point

>>11837983
>opens up /vr/
>sees modern idiot reading retro paid "gaming journalism"
>implies fucking shit made to sell people stuff define quality
>close /vr/

>>11836690
So what was the family situation that enabled all of this? Neo Geo situation suggests living in SoCal or NYC.

>>11840267
it's made up, schmootz.

>>11836979


I've seen this ad in more than one gaming magazine back in the day. I never knew what to make of them. Some of the perennials looked neat. But the games...

- GameGear
Cave Dude (Unreleased prototype)
https://youtu.be/BEdGnv8iZ7Q


The Dinosaur Dooley (Dooley The Dinosaur) - I can find no information on a GameGear version. But it was on the Master System:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzPTxSW9AlI&t=45s

An unfinished prototype of a game called Street Hero:
https://youtu.be/DhgZXb_xvl0

Wonder Kid - To the best of my knowledge, Wonder Kid is this game Adventure Kid. Art matches the sprite. I would assume that the Game Gear version is just a Master System ROM.
https://youtu.be/uLd1Zzf_nC8

Street Battle (cannot find a game gear ROM, assume it is a Master System ROM files):
https://youtu.be/pGBi933BuYA

Buzz and Waldog:
https://youtu.be/Sb9KXViuILg

>>11832901 (OP)
For me it was Nintendo Power, GamePro and EGM in that order. Bought a Turbografx 16 because the games looked fun and exotic in GamePro.

>>11838015
Lurk more