Thread 11873102

What pre-2000s games have a cute female main protagonist, and not a merely cool one like Lara Croft or Samus?

Monster World 4
Phantasy Star
Madou Monogatari 1,2,3 & A

>>11873102 (OP)
Popful Mail!

Burning Angels
Cotton
Valis
Power DoLLS: Detachment of Limited Line Service

Twinkle Tale.

Monster World IV.

FF6

>>11873102 (OP)
Magical Pop’n

>>11873102 (OP)
Parasite Eve

The Cotton series pioneered the Cute 'Em Up subgenre. Can't get much cuter than that.

>>11873110
wasnt this a redcoat offbrand mario

>>11873102 (OP)
Popful Mail

Puyo Puyo

Fuck off, frog posting retard.

>>11873794
?

>>11873646
Actually, yes. It was a bootleg Mario from the 80s and Nintendo actually managed to sue and get it banned. Ironically though decades later a second game was made and released on the NintendoDS of all things. (Unless you count Hard 'n' Heavy as the second game, which started out as a Giana Sisters game but was changed to having robot characters to avoid another lawsuit)

OP's image is the German box art for the Commodore64 version by the way, the British C64 box art was... not great. Picrel.

>>11873646
Yes. It was a bootleg Mario from the 80s and Nintendo actually managed to sue and get it banned. Ironically though decades later a second game was made and released on the NintendoDS of all things. (Unless you count Hard 'n' Heavy as the second game, which started out as a Giana Sisters game but was changed to having robot characters to avoid another lawsuit)

That image is the German box art for the Commodore64 version by the way, the British C64 box art was... not great. Picrel.

>>11873102 (OP)
Sairor Moon.

>>11873863
Chav females vs. eastern german female.

>>11873840
What anon is trying to say is that OP is a stupid asshole and needs to talk a long walk off a short bridge.

>>11873971
Don't be silly anon, you can't take a long walk on a bridge that is short. You would fall off and possibly die.

>>11873102 (OP)
Sayo-chan aka Pocky

>>11874270
The game of course being Pocky & Rocky

>>11874270
Reimu...

>>11873110
>barefoot
Pass.

>>11873102 (OP)
>girls
>cool
lol. Laura wasn't cool, guys just wanted her boob

KEK!

>>11874332
>Laura

>>11874286
Reimu's grandma
ZUN liked the game

>>11874332
Yeah but she jumped around with guns and shit so she was kinda cool as well as hot, same with Samus

>>11873102 (OP)
Rhapsody

Lara is cute, though.

>>11873794
https://voca.ro/1fJQGaE6Wukt

>>11873794
>>11876796
kek, bodied that freak

>>11875503
I don't play games which blatantly star g*rls, sorry

>>11874332
Ghost Lion, despite the western cover art. The MC is an 80s anime soap opera girl a la Lady Georgie or Candy Candy.

>>11873102 (OP)
>released in Japan December 9, 1999
Puts her just under the cap.

>>11873102 (OP)
A LOT of jap games anon

Brutally murder OP

>>11873102 (OP)
This is so common in Japanese games and media in general that they would be your main place to check.

Play Twinkle Star Sprites.

>>11881061
I have
Years ago
On NeoRageX using a Pentium 1

>>11881061
Meeoowwee! Whoo!
It's a so fun following Ran.

It's really a fun game to play with friends, just be careful that it can induce rage despite the cute cast.

>>11881634
>just be careful that it can induce rage despite the cute cast.
I know really. Nothing ruins your day like losing from full health because you got thrown into a chain of fireballs/extra attacks merely by touching a zako. Or going for a long match saving up all your hearts and bombs only to bump into death.

>>11881654
I discovered the game in 2008 thanks to a coworker when we were playing games on Mame during breaks. Others got into it, and we soon could do some small tournaments.

When spectating, everyone loved laughing at moments like these unfair fuckups or cheering during the tense moments with bosses. Good times and pigbirds ftw.

>>11881825
I'm fairly sure I know who you are.
..That or there is another job out there that had Twinkle Star Sprites tournaments on the regular in 2008-2010, and this is a just a weird coincidence.
I used Dark Ran

>>11881825
>Good times and pigbirds ftw.
[current year] and people are still getting tripped up by the pigbirds? Currently I only have trouble with the fairies, the bats, and Memory because she is stupidly overpowered, although Ran's rabicats are also bullshit at times. Nanja's extra is a little overrated imo, just learn the timing and don't hang out in the corner.

>>11881874
I don't remember everyone's main but if you worked in vidya at the time and are also a 4chan oldfag, I too have an idea.

>>11882769
Pigbirds seemed to work alright, the boss isn't bad and I liked the charged shot. Memory and Mevious were tacitly banned, but yeah the fairies and rabicats are annoying.

>>11883056
>Memory and Mevious were tacitly banned
What about Sprites? She is good, but it doesn't feel like she is really a gamebreaker like these two.
Not asking Dark Ran obviously because she is just a Ran skin.

>>11873102 (OP)
Misadventures of Tron Bonne

>>11873125
I like how the localisers didn't know SD was an abbreviation of Super Deformed and assumed it was a name.

>>11881150
she's so fat
I want to have raw sex with her