Thread 11836636

What are games that feel like summer vacation to you?

>>11836636 (OP)
early 2000s ps2 games

Mario Sunshine
Duke Caribbean: Life's a beach
Leisure Suit Larry 6 and 7
7-up Spot
TMNT Manhattan Project
Cartoon Cartoon Summer Resort
Outrun
Wave Runner
Wave Race 64

Duke Caribbean

>>11836636 (OP)
California Games

>>11836636 (OP)
Star Fox 64, because I played that game daily every summer.

Wild Guns. I first emulated it on a summer break in the 2000s. Never heard of the game but the title sounded promising, and DAMN, it was a fucking hoot, instant favorite.

Ocarina of Time feels like a summer game.

Liquid Kids arcade game reminds me of the dinner of 1996 when I was at the beach in Sangineto, Italy and playing it at a beachside arcade.

>>11836636 (OP)
Sonic 2 always reminds me of summer
>stay the night at friends house during summer vaca
>wake up and play Sonic 2
>get to Death Egg Zone and use up all continues
>play ALL OVER again from the beginning and we finally beat the game for the first time
>by this time its the afternoon and a beautiful out so we go outside and play all day

>>11836636 (OP)
Super Mario Sunshine is literally THE summer game
But besides that, Super Metroid really reminds me of summer for some reason
And Sonic 2, God i loved playing that game with my brother, good times

>>11836636 (OP)
Super Mario RPG. It came out right around the time the school year ended. I rented it after the last day of school and more or less dedicated my summer to the game. It was the first real RPG I had ever played and every part of the game felt magical. Take me back to a warm summer evening with me playing the game in the living room and all the sounds of summer flowing in the open window.

>>11837232
Feels

Sonic Adventure

>>11836636 (OP)
Predator 2 on Genesis. Used to spend a couple weeks at my grandparents during summer vacation. Rented predator 2. It's set during an LA heatwave and is one of the best iso shooters I've ever played

>>11836636 (OP)
To be honest tons of games could be summer games. Even some snow games feel like summer like SSX.
Maybe some lengthy but relaxed games too because you'd be playing that all summer long. I mean something like going through the Resident Evil or MGS games, you grab a sip from your soda, you look up a walkthrough and all while feeling the immense heat.

>>11838152
I haven't played Kelly Slater yet but I love Wakeboarding Unleashed ft. Shaun Murray. Easily one of the best THPS-like games, with some unique gameplay thanks to how wakeboarding works. It had a demo in THPS4 under the title Shaun Murray's Pro Wakeboarder, but they changed it before release.

>>11838152
absolutely based

NBA Street Vol 2 for some reason just gives me summer vibes. Just amazing classic hip-hop music that makes me feel like rolling up a blunt and chillin in the summer, people outdoors having fun and playing ball in the sun, all the bright colors and positive ghetto atmosphere that isn't all about stupid grimdark crime and niggershit. it's such a vibe.

>>11838221
Based, freekstyle too

>>11838027
>dinner
Summer. Fucking autocorrect.

>>11838221
Damn I love the nba street series and this is epitome of summer time vibe, but for some reason, this is the only retro game as an adult I’ve come back to and I’m way worse at the game then I remember.

>>11838027
>the dinner of 1996

>>11837232
I love the music in this game. Here's a great cover of the intro theme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZIDS56wzQk

I kinda hate this thread. I get it, but no. There's no game that will make the blazing heat going on in Europe go away. Literally go touch grass

>>11838403
>the blazing heat going on in Europe
Just buy an air conditioner. All of Europe goes through this every single year.

>Ugh, it's so hot people are dying!
>Buy an air conditioner.
>What? No! We don't need air conditioning because Europe is too temperate for that!
>But you just said--
>This is different! The heat this year is UNPRECEDENTED! It will NEVER get this hot again, so an air conditioner would be a waste of money!

One year later...
>Ugh, it's so hot people are dying!
>Buy an air conditioner.
>What? No!

>>11838195
>Even some snow games feel like summer like SSX.
The arcade machine for Arctic Thunder had built-in fans that would blow more air on you the faster your snowmobile goes, which was a great way to cool down in the summer. But there's not really anything summer-feeling about the actual game software itself.

>>11838442
Ahh, I owned this game on PS2. I forgot if it had any summer vibes

>>11838403
>europoors crying about heat
Bitch it's 99F here and we don't have AC you crying little BIIIITCH

>>11838403
Just open your window and turn down the blinds.

>>11838403
>Europe
Not my problem.

>>11836636 (OP)
Yoshi's Island
>>11838036
>Super Metroid
Same here, I played it a lot during the summer, and the clouds you can see in the background on the planet surface always reminded me of summer monsoon clouds. The Samus Aran theme (the real one in Crateria) still plays in my head whenever I see clouds like that

>>11838403
>The Swamperlands
>37 degrees at 57% humidity is apparently 50 degrees
Just close your windows and blinds in the morning and drink some more water. Heat is a total meme.

The only thing I really have to worry about is when to walk my Indonesian. Don't want to burn its paws.

>>11838403
>shut all your blinds
>dress light
>make sure you didn't forget to turn off any of your radiators
>open a window or two to let in some airflow
>put up a bugnet on the window opening if needed
>run a fan or two on the really hot days
>especially run a fan if you're in the kitchen and cooking, lifesaver
>keep a thermos bottle with ice cold water and ice cubes in it with you
>consider investing in awnings for your windows because they help a LOT with reducing heat buildup
>seriously, window awnings are super underrated

>>11836636 (OP)
Most 80s and 90s Sega games. The blue skies, city pop inspired soundtracks, and overall vibrant colors reek of summer vacation for me.

>>11838964
>put up a bugnet on the window opening
Are Europeans so poor they can't even afford to put screens on their windows? I didn't even know you could buy windows without screens in this day and age.

>>11839214
We don't generally have screens, no, but it has nothing to do with poverty, it's not not a thing that's done, is all, like how you don't vaccinate your children against diseases that shouldn't exist in the first world or practise a modicum of portion control.

>>11839214
We don't generally have screens, no, but it has nothing to do with poverty, it's just not a thing that's done, is all, like how you don't vaccinate your children against diseases that shouldn't exist in the first world or practise a modicum of portion control.

>>11836636 (OP)
Links Awakening.

>>11840229
If you don't think the first world is doing a good job with preventable disease, maybe you should do your part and put screens on your fucking windows to slow the spread of insect-borne diseases you AC-less cunts

>>11839214
I'm sure you can get them, and I can't imagine they're expensive, but they're not common around my parts.

>>11840383
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but we don't have Malaria up here in the north, and I've never gotten sick from any kind of insect bite. The worst thing I've experienced with bugs here was accidentally stomping a faggot wasp who was hiding in a shag carpet, which fucking hurt.

>>11836913
spbp
Wave Race 64 is my top summer game. Nothing comes close.

>>11840383
You misunderstand. American education in action, I guess. The first world is doing a great job at preventing disease. We don't have measles outbreaks in the first world. You have them in America. Glad I could clear that up for you, Jaquaan. <3

>>11840692
And I don't have insects in my house shitting on my food because the concept of "bug nets" for windows is too hard to comprehend, let alone magic air temperature changing devices powered by electricity

>>11836636 (OP)
Hamtaro!

>>11840736
You have dead babies and medical debt. : )

>>11840758
if they made a screen to keep out jews I'd put that on my windows too

>>11840767
Wouldn't bring your kids back from measlesdeath, Jaquaan. : )

>>11840736
>And I don't have insects in my house shitting on my food
But you do have various micro-organisms fucking and shitting on your food at all times

>>11840774
And giving her preventable diseases.

>>11840774
Do they not have refrigerators in Europe either? You guys just never want anything to be at a lower temperature enough to get a cheap appliance?

>>11840780
>Do they not have refrigerators in Europe either?
That only slows it down a bit, it still happens while your food is in the fridge which is why it'll eventually spoil in there. No escaping it.

>>11840786
>No escaping it.
Like a mass-shooting in Texas.

how has no one mentioned vice city yet?

>>11841360
not retro

>>11838194
As a kid I got to play one of these cabinets at a hotel outdoor pool in california. It kept zapping me probably because I was wet, but also it had free credits on it. I had always thought getting zapped caused me to get free credits, but probably the previous person got zapped and just stopped playing. Anyways ya feels extremely summer vacationy for me.

>>11841418
Emulators will NEVER EVER replicate Outrun's iconic zap feature

>>11836636 (OP)
FFX

>>11842648
That's what you have forks and wall outlets for.

Summer isn't all about beaches and the tropics. Who hasn't had a lazy Sunday afternoon over Summer? The sun is up too long, the parents aren't home, just free reign to play and the heat so thick you can see it in the air.

>>11843678
I remember hearing this game was deceptively good, like the cover makes it look a bit like shovelware but it's actually pretty novel and had a lot of good effort put into it.

>>11843681
Frontier did a good job. Their British autism honed in on the physics of dog movement that feels extremely grounded - they had to make an IK based animation system for all the different dog sizes you control.

It is very polished and shows. British programming autism from the creators of Roller Coaster Tycoon and Elite.

The cartoon network summer flash game on their website back in I wanna say 2002 , perhaps 2001

Oh yeah baby that's it

Slapping the nostalgia synapse of my brain right in its G spot

>>11836636 (OP)
Super Mario World, I mean the premise is that Mario and crew have gone on vacation. Plus the game has mostly warm "summery" environments. There's no typical ice level or anything like that.

Tropico, Phantom Brave, anything with sea, sand and a blue sky.

>>11844213
who even were those characters anyway

>>11844429
I remember the cactus girl, from one of those What A Cartoon pilots. I didn't know she appeared in anything else.

StarTropics and EarthBound

>>11844336
>There's no typical ice level or anything like that.
I remember at least two of these, one in Valley of Bowser and another in Secret World. Both were off the main path, though.

There's two games that make me think of summer, but in different ways. One is final fantasy tactics on ps1. I played it in an air conditioned bedroom with the lights off. Another is warcraft 3. When it came out I played it at night during the summer of 2002 in my brother's room, which had no AC and always smelled of tanning spray.

>>11838238
man I tried going back to freekstyle....but it's just shit, im sorry. It's so fucking jank. Give me MX vs ATV any day of the week

>>11844739
Of the negative statements that could be used to accurately describe Freekstyle, "jank" is not among them. The only "jank" thing I can think of is the later GC port that had crappy controls simply due to trying to shove all the PS2 version's controls onto the GC controller's fewer buttons. Unless you're trying to say the CPU opponents being very hard to beat is "jank", but that's not an accurate usage of the term. Freekstyle aside, MX vs. ATV Unleashed rules too.

>>11836636 (OP)
Every Mario Party.
Every Mario Kart.
Every Ape Escape.
Every Kirby.
Sonic Adventure's city hub with the hotel pool and Emerald Beach.
Grand Theft Auto Vice City.
Dead or Alive, both the fighting games and island fanservice games.
Every Donkey Kong Country, plus the other ones.
Final Fantasy 7 once you reach Costa Del Sol and Gold Saucer.

>>11843678
>Summer isn't all about beaches and the tropics.
I'm glad someone said it. Summer break to me was all about exploring my neighborhood and wooded park trails backed by the droning of cicada mating calls and running around in the cool but still humid heavy evening air catching lightning bugs in the yard.

>>11845268
From the sound of it, you would love the atmosphere of Dog's Life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IaPQvC3j1k
>134 views
that's how you know it's good.

>>11838419
Some parts of the US do this and I've always found it retarded. A small air conditioner (especially used) doesn't cost much money, but they'll be living in super expensive areas, yet decide to suffer and bitch every summer, rather than just throw a tiny air conditioner in their window and not have to be miserable just because there's a heatwave.

>>11843678
Dog's Life, Chibi Robo, and Katamari are my all time favorite comfy summer 3D games

>>11838419
Europoors will never do this. They are so obsessed with their own copes for being too poor to enjoy 20th century comforts that they will deny it for themselves out of principal even when they could afford them. So for example, they will avoid purchasing cheap AC window units because it is "wasteful" and not "environmentally friendly."

>>11846045
You've never ever seen a European window.
AC window units don't fit them - you're pretty much forced to use mini splits.

>>11846045
Fuck the environmentalists, they deprived me of nuclear power.
In my current house, I can get by without, but if I ever live in an apartment again, I'll probably look for a window AC unit of some sort.
Summers haven't been all that harsh to me, but I remember the one around 2018 or 2019 or so, which was MISERABLE, especially in my apartment.

>>11837973
this.