Thread 11930951

Post fun stuff that throws off your mental timeline. I'll start:

The last official SNES game released during the 6th gen, almost an entire year (8 months) after the launch of the PS2, and only 4 months before the discontinuation of the Dreamcast. Think about that: The SNES was on the market for an entire decade and competed against 3 whole generations of Sega consoles and at one point in time you could have opened up a magazine to see a SNES game listed next to games for PS2, Dreamcast, N64, and maybe even rumors about the Gamecube and GBA. Oh, and it was a download title.

And obligatory for any timeline thread but also known by everyone here: Nintendo was founded 24 years after the American civil war, and 15 years before imperial Japan won a war against the Russians. Nintendo predates Japan's annexation of Taiwan by around 6 years, and the self-annexation of Korea by 21 years. Nintendo is fucking old.

>Post fun stuff that throws off your mental timeline
199X rolling over to 2000. I may never get used to the idea that it was 25 years ago.

>>11930956
I was a kid at the time so I don't even remember it. I remember being in school and writing 1999 onto papers, and I remember writing 2000 onto papers, but I don't remember the rollover at all and I didn't even know about the y2k problem until like a decade later.

>>11930964
It's to your benefit and I won't romanticize it, it's a serious mental block that affects everybody I know who was a preteen or older in the 90s. Probably also contributes to societal problems like the infantilization of generations who came of age afterward.

>>11930987
Why is that? I've never heard anyone say that (or really anything) about it. I remember 9/11 and I remember things changing a lot after that (2003 especially seemed like a time of big change), but I was really young still during Y2K.

I got to play Dreamcast but I'm pretty sure it was after the discontinuation because my brother bought it used with money from his part time job when he was like 14. I remember seeing commercials for SA2 but it must have been the Gamecube version. I would have to look it up to be sure, but I remember the commercial was a real hedgehog on a film set and they kept telling it to run fast. I think maybe they even putsonic shoes on it(?). Game commercials were a lot of fun back in those days, they were always kinda funny. I remember one of the Wario Land commercials being funny too. That must have been Wario Land 3, I remember it was like a board of executives meeting or something.

>>11930951 (OP)
>Metal Slader Glory
Isn't the character designer for this game a mental nutcase that caused HAL Labs to bank all on his mecha VN?

Duke Nukem Forever has now been out for longer than it took to develop.

>>11931575
Why do you have to be an asshole about everything? The game was ambitious and pushed the limits of the Famicom hardware, so development took a long time and it required an MMC5 board and had a 1MB ROM so the cartridges were expensive to advertise. Between the long development time, expensive production costs and the ad campaign HAL ran out of money. But it's a good thing because their close relationship with Nintendo is due to that event and Iwata never would have became the head of Nintendo (or head of HAL) otherwise.

>>11931575
>VN
It's not a visual novel. The first visual novel didn't release until 1997, Metal Slader Glory released in 1991.

>>11932045
What is it then?

>>11932057
It's an adventure game.

>>11930951 (OP)
The first retro game video reviews that showed up on the internet during the early 2000's in places like Youtube, Google Video, That Guy With The Glasses, GameTrailers and many others are now older than those retro games were at the time.
Castlevania 2 wasn't even 20 years old when AVGN first reviewed it in 2004, Final Fantasy VIII was only 8 years old when Spoony One uploaded the first part of his review in 2007 and you could buy a brand new PS1 copy directly from the Square Enix website for a good half decade after that.
This has direct effects on the pricing for retro games as well, since even though the nostalgia for having played NES and SNES games back in the day is well past its peak, the prices are kept high by people who feel nostalgic for watching someone else play those games.

>>11932150
>Castlevania 2 wasn't even 20 years old when AVGN first reviewed it in 2004
This is just insanity, even CV1 was a 17-18 year old game at the time but now 17-18 year old games are CoD4 and Uncharted 1

>>11932150
>Castlevania 2 wasn't even 20 years old when AVGN first reviewed it in 2004
We talk about this a lot, but the age of the games is completely irrelevant to whether or not they are retro. They are retro because of the era when they released, not because of how many years ago they released.

Smurfs NES bundle was released in 1995

>>11932162
See >>11932169

Reggie and Dion were college buddies back in the 90s

>>11932172
Yeah I agree

>>11932179
Who's Dion? Is that Reggie on the far right?

>>11930951 (OP)
The last SNES and Genesis game for North America was a port of a 1981 arcade game released in 1998: Frogger.