Thread 11992710

What are some games that really feel like the 90's? Things like Startropics, EarthBound, etc.

>>11992710 (OP)
You'll never feel it zoomer, especially with a constant high speed internet connection.

>>11992710 (OP)

It depends on what 'era' of the 90's we are going with... when it comes to that early 90's vibe ... ToeJam & Earl is a top contender...

https://youtu.be/LD5eEakGkds?list=PLA468E2813CF52C60

i'm a fan of the late 80s

>>11992710 (OP)
This version specifically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC4rJ5Xouo0

>>11992710 (OP)
U.N. Squadron

Gex
Jonny Bazzokatone
SCUD
Earthworm Jim 1&2
Working Design rpgs for that 90s anime localization feel
Violent Storm(maybe more so 80s)
Final Fantasy 8
Chaotix
Loaded & ReLoaded
Willy Wombat
Twisted Metal 1 & 2
Rascal

Twisted Metal 2 is my go-to mid-late-90s attitude game. It was in your face and loud and rockin.

Rare's Banjo Tooie and Conker's BFD both represent the very late 90s and early 2000s mean-spirited attitude, where people are casually insulted for being different and characters are heartlessly killed off while the main characters shrug their shoulders.
A real harbinger of post-ironic feelings and sentiments that grip society today.

>>11992710 (OP)
Sonic
Streets of Rage
Comix Zone
Literally any single thing on the 3DO

Uniracers

>>11992821
Area 88/UN Squadron is really a product of the 80s, but yeah the SNES game definitely has an early 90's feel.

I feel similarly about Zero Wing, from 89 but somehow the overall aesthetic is just so quintessentially early 90s in so many ways.

>>11993747
I always forget about the obscure Japanese cartoon. Aero Fighters also felt very 90s.

Late 90s mog the early 90s so much that it's not even funny, especially with music.

Not the answer you're looking for but there is nothing that screams "1996" more to me than vehicle FPS games like Necrodome. This genre was everywhere between 94 and 97 and peaked in 96 before disappearing almost overnight.

>>11993747
The PC Engine version of zero wing has a very 80s/early 90s soundtrack that almost sounds like sitcom music.

The SNES library
The Mega Drive/Genesis library
The PS1 library
The Saturn library
The N64 library
90s PC games
90s arcade games
The 3DO library
The PC-FX library
The Jaguar library
The Gameboy Library
The Game gear library

>>11993904
If you just said "all games made in 90's" instead of typing all that shit out, you'd look much less butthurt and even smug.

cool spot

>>11993981
>Not SNES version
NGMI

Super Street Fighter 2, Alpha 2 & 3, 3rd Strike
Virtual Fighter 2
Tekken 2 & 3
7th Guest
Myst
Resident Evil 1,2&3
Pokémon Red & Blue
Tempest 2000
Rayman
Warcraft 2 & StarCraft
Metal Gear Solid
Zelda: LttP, LA & OoT
Super Metroid
Sonic 1-3&K & CD

>>11993904
>>11993946
>Forgetting the Phillips CD-i

>>11992772
>depends on what 'era' of the 90's we are going with.
This. 90s was a very distinct 3 part decade. Early would be TJ&Earl like you posted. Mid would be Comix Zone. Late would be Omega Boost.

Any of the games in those mags

>>11992710 (OP)
Skitchin' is the most 90s of 90s games ever made.

>>11995726
>This. 90s was a very distinct 3 part decade. Early would be TJ&Earl like you posted. Mid would be Comix Zone. Late would be Omega Boost.

I was 9 in 1990 and 18 in 1999. It is hard to summarize an entire decade. But early 90's was more of an extension of the late 80's. The Genesis released in 1988 in Japan and 1989 in North America. But it kinda did kick off the 4th generation of consoles, even though the PCE/ Turbo Graphix16 was there too. The Super Nintendo was 1990 in Japan and 1991 in North America. Nintendo always felt like they were the latest in the 16-bit era. Because they were so reluctant to move from their popular NES. Early 5th gen consoles were the Jaguar and the 3DO in 1993. They were still in the thicket of the 4th gen era of consoles. Sega had the Sega CD. So 1992- 1995 was more of the rise of the CD-Rom based consoles, and computers too. The multimedia age. The music trends in the early 90's were very clean cut and pop-ish. MC hammer, Vanilla ice (He was big in 1991), New Kids on the Block. I guess Grunge was starting to become big then too. Mid 90's, was the Playstation domination era and the Saturn. Windows 95 was a huge deal, and the rise of the internet. With the N64 in 1996. CGI artwork was also big in the mid 90's. The top music fads were alternative, East Coast/ West Coast rap, R&B, Industrial/ Techno/ House/ Drum and Bass, Brit Pop/ Boy Bands. Pokemon became popular in the mid 90's. The late 90's, really only saw the release of the Dreamcast, where it launched in 1998 in Japan and 1999 in North America. 1999, Arcades were dying. Too much shit to unpack.

>>11995580
he's spilling that shit everywhere. They added some really pointless details while neglecting others.

>>11992710 (OP)
B.o.b is so 90s. Just check this theme music, it's rad to the maximum
https://youtu.be/RQ76EicbS4s?si=Jvb8YllFGvzEbZUT

>>11992710 (OP)
>early 90s
Sonic 1 & 2
ToeJam & Earl

>mid 90s
DKC
Crash

>late 90s
GoldenEye
PaRappa

>>11993695
Oh yea... that was one of my first PlayStation games. I think I bought it used for $10 in 97.

honestly, sports games in general have a way of taking you back

>>11995854
>New Kids on the Block
It's crazy how far that marketing campaign they did with PopTarts got them.

>>11992710 (OP)
I mean it's pretty 90's up in here.

>>11993150
Add Rayman 1, Lemmings, and Jetpack Christmas Edition.

>>11993779
Starsiege Tribes gives me similar vibes with its HUD.

>>11993904
Off yourself

>>11998007
I agree with this partially. This type of game kind of peaked with the early 2000's though, since most of the good ones were PS2 era, and always had slight edgy soundtracks to them.

>>11992710 (OP)
Rise of the Robots.
It isn't a good game, but it absolutely screams mid-90s, from the music to the shoddy overly ambitious CGI.

>>11992710 (OP)
Any X-Men, TMNT or Power Rangers game, things like that. Maybe mascot platformers too.

>>11993713
>Literally any single thing on the 3DO


The 3DO was one of the most 90's buzzword-y consoles of that generation. It was the first stand alone 32bit system released in the western markets, , it was pushing the 'multi-media CD-ROM' craze of the early 90's. It was in the middle of the live action FMV fad. It was aligned with the Sega/ Mega CD and the Philips CDI. PC games between 1993-1996 were also using a lot of live action video. The system has 3D capabilities, but it renders quads in a similar way that the Saturn does,

>>11998068
>It's crazy how far that marketing campaign they did with PopTarts got them.

They were huge in the early 90's, and lead the way for the backstreet Boys and N'Sync.

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>>11992763
>You'll never feel it zoomer, especially with a constant high speed internet connection.
He just has to suppress the urge to find guides and that's it.
Someone has to preserve the interest for 90s media I guess...

>>11993973
>Make new friend
>Invite him to play with my Ballz
90s friendships must have been wild

Crazy Taxi did get released in 1999 in arcades. But 2000 on the Dreamcast. But the original incarnation of this game is incredibly 1999.

>>11998350
Crazy Taxi doesn't feel "90's" to me, it feels like the precursor of the Tony Hawk / Jet Set Radio era of the early 00's.

>>11998350
Didn't realize that guy was rocken a 10 pack of tits.

something that could only exist in the 90s culturally would be ecco

>>11998354
It's 90s AF.

>>11998469
The ost of these games is absolutely incredible.
Go listen the SEGA CD one.

Normality = mid 90's as fuck.

>>11998469
>inspired by a conspiracy theorist who was trying to contact aliens while his assistant was in the basement jerking off a dolphin she had convinced herself was her boyfriend

Based on a property that was primarily popular in the 90's. The series ended with season 9 in 2001.

>>11992710 (OP)
Which 90s?

>>11992710 (OP)
Parasite Eve

>>11998971
Remember how culture used to shift prior to 9/11

Dino City?

>>11995854
>Pokemon became popular in the mid 90's.
Your memory is a bit fuzzy on that one. In Japan it did at least (1996), but Pokemon Red and Blue didn't come out until September 28, 1998 in America. The anime actually aired starting September 8th, before the games came here. I remember watching the show a bit first and getting hyped for the games. So Pokemon and Pokemania was more of a late 90s thing.

>>11998971
>pick an era movie
For me it's Mallrats

>>11998993
Dinossity.

>>11998971
>90s neon nightmare
Cool spot
>grunge era
Wcw vs NWO World Tour
>Goths Vs Preps
FFvii

It was trendy to be a cave man in an early 90's videogame.

>>11999727

One of Titus's best 16 bit games.

>>11999727
>Since they hadn't invented the ladder in 10,000 B.C.
>10,000 B.C.
>dinosaurs

>>11999727
Cavemen need to make a comeback. It would save gaming.

>>11992819
Fucking embarrassment of a campaign. lol
If anyone is curious why they shilled it the way they did, it was Viacom trying to get into video games.

>>11992710 (OP)
>NES/SNES early 90s
>PC doom clones and flight sims to end the 90s.

/CACA WON YOU STUPID NIGGER. HAIL CACA. HAIL VICTORY. THE 'BOREA IS FUCKING REAL.

All of it is goyslop

>>11999931
>BUY THE GAME, GOY!

>>11999983
Man if they made that with the right ingredients I'd eat that shit up.
It's too hard to make shit like that on your own just so you can enjoy something with out ingesting poison.

>>11999983
VANILLA POWER!
. VANILLA POWER!
. . VANILLA POWER!

>>11999996
>shartybot found us
RIP /vr/

>>11995726
Wow, this is actually a pretty concise answer.

main propagandist has an agenda to stop all environmental polluters and clean up the world with their mass produced products. Yup, it's early 90's mascot time.

Main protagonist has an agenda to stop all environmental polluters and clean up the world with their mass produced products. Yup, it's early 90's mascot time.

>>11992710 (OP)
Windows 95 era computer games and earlier.
STARS! was an epic 4X game before the term 4X was even a thing.

>>11992710 (OP)
The most 90s game is Killer Instinct for the SNES. It feels like what it is, a kind of ripoff of Mortal Kombat infused by the 90s edginess and attitude. The whole game desperately tries to be cool and throws whatever the fuck it thinks will stick, be it werewolves, skeletons, aliens or mystical Asians. In hindsight all of it becomes endearing.

>>11998236
That Kirk Cameron game immediately comes to mind (The Horde). Not because it has a 90s vibe, it's medieval fantasy, but because it could have only been made in the early 90s.

FMV, bad acting, not taking itself seriously, combining elements from other games (sim-building, RPG, action, RTS) being needlessly complex. And of course, Kirk fucking Cameron.

>>11993752
Based culture club and triphop enjoyer from london in the late 90s.

>>12003341
>The most 90s game is Killer Instinct for the SNES. It feels like what it is, a kind of ripoff of Mortal Kombat infused by the 90s edginess and attitude. The whole game desperately tries to be cool and throws whatever the fuck it thinks will stick, be it werewolves, skeletons, aliens or mystical Asians. In hindsight all of it becomes endearing.

I would go one step further and say Killer Instinct the arcade machine. Pure early 90's Silicon Graphics pre-rendered video and sprites.

https://youtu.be/Zd4THIP6YR4

>>11998268
He'll never feel it no matter how hard he tries. It's such a bizarre question in the first place, "what is a 90s feel game" as if the 90s were as flat and homogeneous like the 2010s and 2020s are. Like he'll never get the feeling of going from 2D sprites to actual 3D graphics.

>>11998275
>Invite him to play with my Ballz
>90s friendships must have been wild
I promise you, no one played this game.
The poster advert was something along the lines of "Tell you dad your buy you ballz for christmas."

Love this game as a kid.

>>12004503
I actually have a loose cartridge of that. I hardly ever see that game outside of gidden hems conversations.

>>12003369
Kirk Cameron was so hot back in the day.

>>11992710 (OP)
Mick & Mack Global Gladiators
James Pond

Grim fandiago
Torrin's passage
Some of the leasure suit larry

>>12002274
>Dr. Machino™
kek

>>12005805
>>>12002274 (You)
>>Dr. Machino™

Those trademarks would have long since expired. Given that nobody has done anything with Awesome Possum since 1993 and Tengen went bankrupt.

>>12005636
gay

>>11993779
There was another one called Shock Force (later Wulfram 2) that was 32v32. It was released in 1998 and was an interesting FPS-RTS hybrid. It limped along for some years but it was tied to an ancient engine and shut down sometime in the early 2010s.

>>11999727
>Bonk's Adventure, the most popular 16-bit video game of all time
What a bold claim.

>>12002274
>Doesn't he ever shut up? No!
Is that really how you want to advertise your game?

>>11993904
>The PS1 library
You sure?

Everyone else stop posting, you can't get more 90s than The AIDS Awareness Disc for the CD-i.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfyV7C2n0Fg

>>12006534
It is the twenties and there is no longer time for Klax

>>12006568
You sassing me, boy?

>>12006568
It is the twenties and there is no longer time for gays.

>>11992710 (OP)
>made your 9th birthday party in 1996 the stuff of legends

>>11995854
>But early 90's was more of an extension of the late 80's.
yup. the 90s as we all know them didn't start until 94/95. and then the 90s officially came to an end on 9-11 (along with the entire 20th century)

>>12008598
The 1990s didn't even officially start until 1991 because the Gregorian calendar didn't start with zero.
That means the millennium was in 2001, not 2000.

>>12008598
There were 80s trends like colorful Memphis Design-influenced styles that bled into the 90s but there were 90s defining styles like Grunge (both the music genre and the grungy typefaces in advertisements) that were well underway by the early 90s. So there is an overlap.

>>12000050
>poison
Anon. Back in the 90s those ingredients were preservative, not poison. Why do you think boomers are living so long?

>>12006501
>AIDS Awareness Disc
Shit, bro. Must've worked like D.A.R.E. Instead of pushing all the kids away from it, they just became informed faggots instead.

>>12008383
>Shoot only the friendly soldiers and not the aliens just to be cheeky
>TFW you unlock the hidden Predator mode

>>12008661
Say what you want, but I am 100% legally and historically correct. This is good to know because it means that Pac-Man is a '70s game.

>>12006501
They used to warn kids about AIDS. Now they encourage them to get it.

>>12008808
lmao take your meds incel

>>11998997
This. I was 5-6 years old when Pokemania was in full swing. It was a late 90s thing outside Japan.

>>12008697
it's a bit of a challenge to hit the second guy, and colors don't invert on the Maximum Force version because the video has been re-encoded.

You may have thought you were playing a 3D game back then, but it's all pre-rendered video and sprites :O

>>11995854
>Pokemon became popular in the mid 90's
Only in Japan, Pokemon was released in America in 98 and 99 in Europe

>>11992710 (OP)
For me it was mario paint

>>12009414
me too. train from child.

>>12008856
Okay, faggot.

>>12008598
I disagree. I'm 50 and the 90s felt like the 90s right away. Total Recall was the last hurrah of the 80s and people were excited to move onto the new decade. To me, 1991 feels culturally further from 1988 than 1994. Watch some movies or tiny toons or something from the early 90s and it's so different in tone than even stuff from the late 80s

The Simpsons are definitely a symbol of 90s pop culture. Back when they weren't associated with sneed memes, or bad seasons. It was still this weird yellow freaks cartoon for adults that were also a sensation with kids via bartmania.
The "Sing the Blues" music album is a staple of any 90s kid music CD collection.
Video games were more of a mixed bag, with the Konami arcade game being the only real good one. But I still want to give credit to Bart vs Space Mutants for having one of the most iconic vidya Simpsons moment with the first level.
Also the weird atsmosphere of the game, with OC aliens because Kang and Kodos didn't exist yet.

Death trap dungeon:

- female character with anti-woke design.

- 90s play station graphics.

- some gore execution to the enemies(such as mortal kombat).

>>12011234
>anti-woke
>also esl
You are a faggot zoomer who will never experience 90s gaming without filtering it through the lens of the modern culture war.

None of it was anti-woke you fucking retard, it was boobies and violence because they knew their audience.

>>11998954
I rented this as a a kid and fucking hated it.

>>12012424
I'd believe it. They really should have tried to make a Resident Evil clone.

>>11992710 (OP)
The Coin Game is pretty close

sim city 2000 for mac and pc. it doesnt get any more distinctively 90s than that, the package and cd design, the audio.
for konsoles its sonic on mega drive and mario world for snes.

>>11998354

This, games like that are very late 90s and feel more like what was to come in the early 2000s with more refined grafics, more sophisticated styles and higher resolution games. focus has much more shifted to "cool, gangsta, street, hiphop, skateboarding", where early ninties "coolnes" was more or less limitied to animal mascots with attitude, like sonic and something like toejam and earl.

Gonna give a non-conventional answer here and say MGS1. The game was representative of the peak post-Soviet collapse, pre-9/11 "End of History" era political zeitgeist. I mean it's literally about soldiers trying to start a war because they have no purpose anymore. Boy, if only they waited a few years!

>>11992710 (OP)
zombies ate my neighbors

>>11998905
You're making Ecco sound was more interesting than it actually is. I've seen people convinced that this is somehow the Megadrive's answer to Super Metroid, which makes it even more disappointing.

>>11998976
that's because new(ish) culture was still being created. Post 9/11 is when REmakebootimagining shit began. I really feel sorry for zoomers. Their entire "culture" is basically "here's a stained and smelly T-shirt your older brother wore for 6 years and then outgrew."

>>12011234
>anti-woke
Fuck off zoomer. You weren't even born in the 90's

I was so pissed because my parents got me a Genesis instead of a SNES for Xmas. But I knew better than to complain so I spent the entire Xmas vacation playing Altered Beast and picrel. The moment I discovered you could buy war elephants and decide if gladiators should be executed with thumbs up/down I was hooked on both strategy games and Roman history.

I guess my parents knew what they were doing. Genesis had an excellent library for strategy games, and all my friends who had a SNES grew up to be drooling anime retards while I did rather well for myself.

This hunk of shit is really late 90s. There was a shift in public interest towards stuff with naturalistic 'earthly' vibes (like Global Village Coffeehouse) after the excess of the 80s (colorful Memphis Design and Laser Grids). I think The Fifth Element film exemplified that. Maybe Snapple's Elements drinks too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G9p6Ajyeag

>>12013175
>... fucking damn it. I guess I'll be a Sega kid.

>>11992710 (OP)
Alligator Hunt for arcades

Night trap sums up the early 90s perfectly:
>The nonsensical idea that new CD-ROM technology is best used for live action FMV games
>the moral panic that went all the way to congress
>The hair and fashion in the game is right out of a 1992 sitcom.
>the painfully low color pallet and pixelated video looks far worse than a laserdisc game from 10 years earlier
>sega CD launched with this and sewer shark as their flagship titles to sell the hardware, with some very cringe commercials on tv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdoVjrhJn8Y

"The future is now! Only it is terrible! Sega shit the bed. Get ready, this will happen many more times before the decade is over!"

The first 2 killer instinct games

>>12008383
I played the fuck out of Area 51 and I do not remember her having tits that amazing. Who's the FMV actress?

>>12008383
Yeah Area 51 is peak 90s. Sucked when the local movie theater finally got rid of it.

doom 1 and 2 if you mean something imersive like you are waling around earth in the 90s i have no fucking clue.

>>11992710 (OP)
The Quiet Game is the game I probably played the most in the 90s.

>>12008687
damn bug chasers

>>11992710 (OP)
Your older brother's PS1 demo discs on a shitty (good) CRT in your family's basement

battletoads and double dragon the ultimate team

>>12015478
True, doesn't get more mid-to-late 90s than Killer Instinct

>>12023117
Good cartoonnetworkcore

Eurodance is one of the things I associate the most with the 90's, so I will mention games I remember had one or more eurodance/ish songs:

Killer Instinct 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmKxgX3NVVU
Sonic R https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9XYsm3c28U
Dance Dance Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhgvI3Ri-1o

Unmistakably early 90's fashion, including rolled jeans.

>>11992772
Glad to see this was second.

>>12013163
>uses dogshit streamlined image macro for zoomers without creativity
Makes me appreciate the old black border images.

>Their entire "culture" is basically "here's a stained and smelly T-shirt your older brother wore for 6 years and then outgrew."
That's partially their fault. It's why many modern games are all cookie cutter games.

>>12015478
>>12022173

Many nintendo and videogame in general magazines of the 90s used to talk about killer instinct 2 and killer instinct gold in many of their numbers. They talked of them both a lot.

>>12006401
>Wulfram 2
jonathan blow worked on this lol

This game COULD have been very 90's, but it was cancelled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D43HBg9joZs