Thread 12146347

What were the retro games you were most excited to play back in the day?

I remember being incredibly hyped when Dragonball Budokai was announced, cause I loved watching it on Toonami. I saw ads for it in gaming magazines as early as 2001, a whole year before it came out. As a very little kid at the time (I think I was seven or eight) it was really hard having to wait that long to play the game.

wc3 tft

>>12146347 (OP)
Pretty much any Mario game. I remember being 6 years old and sprinting out of the car to run to the video store to pick up my (rental) copy of SMB 3. Left the door open and almost got hit by a car in the parking lot.
Getting my SNES and Super Mario World for Christmas in 1992 might have been the most excited I've ever been...for almost anything. If you could bottle the anticipation and joy I felt that day you would no longer have depression or war.
DKC also got me pretty hyped. Nintendo's marketing worked it's magic on me for that one (also a Christmas gift).
There's others but those are the big ones. Oh and TMNT 2 The Arcade Game

Why are you a pedophile, OP?

>>12146347 (OP)

Toy Story (SNES)
I had an old sketchbook my parents had given me and I vividly remember drawing scenes from the game as I imagined them from the screenshots of the game with crayons and pencils. I was so hyped for that game that I drew pictures of how I imagined it would be like.
I remember drawing the Rex chase scene, with the army men on the left.
Unfortunately that book has been lost to time.

>>12146391
Why do you want everyone to be a pedo?

>>12147196
Get off your ass and find the book!

After playing FF7, I was hyped for FF8, FF9 and FF10. FF10 came with Kingdom Hearts non-playable demo that showed the opening and snippets of the game. Seeing Cloud and Squall in it made me hyped for Kingdom Hearts

>>12146347 (OP)
Urban Chaos for me. I've replayed the demo multiple times as I was in love with the vibe, smack talks and interactivity of the world. And the full version I bought many years later delivered exactly what I wanted despite its bugs.

>>12147932
I was also impressed with the demo

I was probably most excited about Operation Flashpoint and certainly wasn't disappointed.

>>12147948
Damn right. The combat system had surprisingly large moveset for a free roam game, and climbing the buildings felt cool.
I was stumped that GTA 3 was much simpler in those aspects (apart from better driving).

>>12146347 (OP)
Pokémon Sun and Moon, i remember as a kid i followed any kind of info i could find on the internet

>>12148070
>sun and moon
>as a kid

>>12148092
Someone who was 9 years old in 2016 is now 18

>>12146391
Why, he didn't post any JCM2 cunnyslop for the OP for you to ask about this without looking like a normie-adjacent schizoid…

>>12148070
Same but I was 15 and that isn't retro, try again
Literally anything Sonic I could get my hands on after playing Mega Collection and discovering emulators

>>12146347 (OP)
TTYD. I was thinking about Paper Mario 64 one day, which I had only beaten as a rental. I wanted to look it up on the family PC, I guess, and saw on the Nintendo website advertising an upcoming sequel. I vividly remember one of the screenshots was Mario standing outside of the Great Boggly Tree.
I became excited for it to release, that day. Dunno if I had a GameCube or not yet.
Wasn't disappointed when I finally got to play it, either. Good times.

>>12148092
>>12148096
oof, right in the [me realizing i'm 20 years older than I should rightfully be]

>>12146347 (OP)
Zelda Twilight Princess. A new OoT style Zelda on the new Wii with new motion controls. So fucking hype. The best christmas I had as a kid lol

>>12148528
>not Skyward Sword
ngmi

>>12148528
This, but on the GameCube, like the hype surrounding the game, the wait for it while reading any tiny bit of info and then when it came out it fucking delivered like holy shit.
Last time I was this hyped for a game and the wait was worth was with DQXI, but TP was something else, everyone was talking about it.

Sonic Heroes, but that ended badly

>>12148294
Every gamer that grew up in the nineties had a Sonic phase. Did you want to fuck Rouge's fat bat tats as a kid?

>>12148514
How much of a big old bastard are you?

>>12148059
III is the best GTA
Vice City is a better III

>>12146347 (OP)
Pedophile cartoon.

>>12150328
about to hit 38

>>12151094
That's fucking old af. Can you still hold in your pee or do you have to go right away now?

>>12146347 (OP)
you didn't like budokai? like it's a bit clunky to go back to, but it's not a bad game by any means.

>>12146391
Anglo post.

>>12151501
>you didn't like budokai?
Why do you think that?

>>12151067
No, it's just a cartoon about a 50 year old man living with a 13 year old girl.

>>12151067

So, what's your favourite episode?

>>12151579
because you said you "were" excited for it.

>>12151985
Budokai lived up to the hype for me. I played the shit out of it for years. I actually never even got around to playing any of the sequels or the other Dragonball fighters that came after it, except I played a little bit of DB Fighterz at a friend's house back when that came out.

>>12146347 (OP)
the shit i was most excited for never panned out. i was looking forward to project hammer and some cel shaded racing game for the wii

>>12146347 (OP)
I guess Earthbound. I still have some old gaming magazines with ads for it in them, but it never came out in Europe. I also bought a gaming magazine just to get a cover mount demo CD with the first world of Quake on it because the internet wasn't really a thing yet. The full game came out like a month later. I'm still playing Quake.

>>12146362
I traded my NES with about ten games for an SNES with SMW in probably Christmas 1993. I was more excited for the console than the game itself though.

>>12146391
>>12151067
Lobby had her bat mitzvah so by Jewish law she is a woman.
And she's already having periods

>>12152097
Did you have the scratch and sniff one that was in angry nintendo nerd?

>>12151417
pee game is fine, but def seems like I have to urinate a lot more often than I remember

>>12153204
what the fuck is that supposed to mean?

>>12151667
Sounds just like my childhood desu.

>>12153912
What the fuck, why you pissin bro

>>12154639
It classifies anon as a grade A nimrod

>>12148294
In 2016, I was 12, but i thought 3ds was retro stuff

>>12155673
I'm still the same guy

I was super excited when I got a Wii for Christmas! My sister and I spent hours on Wii Sports, and for me, it’s still one of the games I’ve played the most. I also loved Monster Hunter 3 I was only about six or seven (no 67 jokes please) at the time, but I was beyond thrilled. My dad had homebrewed the Wii, so we had a ton of games, but the one I was most excited about was MH3 because I had watched a YouTuber play it and couldn’t wait to try it myself. I was so happy I really wish I could go back to those times.

>>12148294
I was 16 and same. I had every Sonic collection and game released on GameCube.

>>12155848
wasn't the mega collection on GameCube the cucked version that was missing some content?

>>12154639
He's positing that Libby, the character holding the shooped in Shadow stuff, is an adult Jewish woman by virtue of having had both her bat mitzvah and her menarche.

>>12156238
>Libby is an adult Jewish woman
Not old enough. You gotta pop your cherry first before you can say that shit.

>>12155693
>I'm still the same guy
Nah, man, you've changed, and I think we need to talk about it.

The hype around Ocarina back then was unreal for me. It was like everyone just knew that we were about to get one of the best Zelda games ever.

>>12156627
I want a nasty little Jewish Princess

>>12152095
>some cel shaded racing game
sounds like you weren't too hyped for it anyway

>>12147932
You can just play Grand theft auto bro.

>>12156123
No it was the version with less input lag, no audio issues, and was missing the game gear games that were in the ps2 version, which iirc were unlockable in sonic adventure dx on gamecube instead.

Super Smash Bros Melee. I was a SUPER hardcore fan of 64 and would play it with my brother every night. The hype leading up to Melee was probably the most excited I'd ever been for a video game release.

Ultimately, we didn't like it that much and went back to 64.

Like op image I was excited for shadow the hedgehog. Not for the guns or alien shit but just picking up where Adventure 2 left off. No mech levels no stupid team-up crap, just speed gameplay.

Unfortunately it was TURBO ASS and even back then I knew it.

>>12146347 (OP)
>What were the retro games you were most excited to play back in the day?
anything on the coleco vision
anything on the vetrex
doomdarks revenge
elite
wipeout 2097/xl
duke nukem 3d
return to castle wolfenstein
silent hill2
resident evil 2
tombraider 2
dune 2
gunship 2000
populous
sim city
utopia
another world
myst and riven
the hobbit
the empire strikes back
operation thunderbolt
star wars battlefront 2
xwing vs tie fighter
crash bandicoot warped
god of war 2
war in middle earth
dark forces
knight lore
jet set willy
freelancer
killzone
red faction 2
Medal of honor european assault
doom
sam fox strip poker
sherlock
starcraft
spy hunter arcade cab
star wars arcade cab
diablo and diablo 2
warcraft 2
command and conquer red alert
half life and counterstrike
operation wolf arcade cab
double dragon arcade cab
battlezone arcade cab
space invaders arcade cab
galaxians arcade cab
asteroids arcade cab
silent scope arcadev cab
outrun arcade cab
pole position arcade cab
2600 space invaders
2600 asteroids
pac man arcade cab
microsoft flight simulator
descent
red baron
tekken 3
metal gear solid 2

>>12151534
pedo post

>>12159146
I played Melee for the first time last week after 20 years of wanting to play it and I liked it even more than 64.

>>12159234
That's some weak sauce pretending

>>12159264
That's nice for you. What am I supposed to take away from that?

>>12159496
That my experience was different than yours. Why did you get defensive?

>>12146347 (OP)
>What were the retro games you were most excited to play back in the day?

killer instinct 2, because of orchid.

Eternal Champion.
Mortal Kombat mania + ads in magazines.

>>12159836
Based gooner child anon

>>12148070
>Sun & Moon
>as a kid
Remind me how many helium-filled balloons I need to buy to craft an exit bag?

>>12160056
it's over nine thousand

>>12159836
she looks like michael jackson

>>12160618
she looks like Janet jackson

>>12146347 (OP)
FF7 and 8

>>12150963
>>12159106
I've tried playing GTAs 1, 2, 3 and SA but they didn't as click much. But maybe I'll try looking into VC if it's really the "bestest" one.

>>12160828
Did you like 8 more than 7?

>>12146347 (OP)
I was super hyped for fucking Jade Empire for some reason. Didn't get to play it until 15 years later and it was mid

>>12146347 (OP)
Super Mario Sunshine when I was 10

Oyakodon with Libby and her mom!

>>12162258
Best post on /vr/ and maybe of all time

>>12149831
I think everyone that sees them is briefly mesmerized by rouge's fat bat tatties

San andreas

I remember it announced in early 04 and had to hold my wad for a year