Retro video game thread

Psittacus · 2023-08-25T07:37:06+00:00

There already exists a general vidya thread, two RPG threads, so why not a specific kind of vidya? I'd define retro as closing off with the release of the Dr...

Ross_R

Kind of relevant to the short discussion above: https://boards.4channel.org/vr/thread/10329254
And just so this post will not become obsolete once the thread will go off the board, here's a copy in the archive: https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/10329254/

Lumeinshin

Psittacus Dont forget that to many, even the Wii is retro 🤯
I've been playing more retro games lately, I go on and off a buying megadrive/genesis games kick. I will one day stop being awful at Super Hang On

Lumeinshin I still suck at densha de go 🙁

Fantasy DQ1 is a fun time, I played the SNES remake a good bit last year. Definitely one to appreciate its legacy

Ross_R

Lumeinshin Dont forget that to many, even the Wii is retro

It's 2006 console. ~~It is retro by 4chan /vr/ rules.~~ (edit: Double-checked. It's not. While the games are accepted up to 2007, the consoles are only up to 2001 at the moment. The rest of the post stands though)
And it is frankly quite retro by the norms of modern society, where borderline life expectancy of an average thing is 5 years. Good thing if anyone will remember about an average video game 3 years after it came out.
I'm not aware of such cases, but I'm pretty sure some franchises might be rebooted 5 years after the first part came out.
So yeah, Wii is, unfortunately, quite retro it seems.

Psittacus

Lumeinshin

Lumeinshin Dont forget that to many, even the Wii is retro 🤯

The moment I read this, I aged from 19 to 100. Git off my lawn, ye doggone kids!!!!!!

The Gardener

I'll write down some of the retro consoles and the games I mostly liked from them, I'll be listing from the ones I remember from the get-go.
SNES - Super Mario World of course, and Megaman X (Loved the last one)
NDS - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, Apollo Justice Ace Attorney, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth took MONTHS from me, GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!
GameBoy Advance - Pokemon (Emerald), Castlevania Aria Of Sorrow and WarioWare (Also that Danny Phantom game, never managed to finish it though)
PS1 - METAL GEAR SOLID, impossible to not say it, what a game. Castlevania Symphony of the Night, managed to get the complete Alucard experience and stopped halfway through with Richter, that game had stolen so many days from me already 😭 . Gran Turismo and Ridge Racer 4, both introduced me to racing games.
Misc - (PC) METAL GEAR SOLID 2 AAAAAAAAAHHHHH WHAT A GAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, THIS FRANCHISE IS SO GREATTTTTT, I'LL TAKE IT TO THE REST OF MY LIFE! Sonic 3 (and Knuckles) liked it very much, just not the whole searching for emeralds, kinda annoying.
I guess that's it

Fimm

I say this from the very bottom of my heart... I know no comfier feeling in the world than playing Classic Fallout at winter.
Ever since I got Fallout 1 and 2 as Christmas presents for myself a few years back, they've had a very dear and special place in my heart.

SteadmanSlick

My first console was the NES (No I'm not 50, it was my dad's) so I have a lot of nostalgia for it, particularly for a few games I played a lot.

-Dragon Warrior 1: When I was 10 I somehow managed to actually beat it. Took me a really long time though. Definitely wouldn't have the patience for it today.
-Zelda 1: I also managed to get to the last dungeon in this one, just based off of tips from my brother. Then the cartridge wiped my save. Still mad about that.
-Kirby's Adventure: Didn't get this one until much later, but it's just so charming and fun.
-Startropics II: Along with the first, which I got a couple years ago, is one of the best games on the system imo. The gameplay is fantastic and both games have good difficulty; challenging but not impossible. The music is also great.

System Shock 2 is probably my favorite game ever. Beyond that, most of my favorites games were made in the 2000s so I dunno if they fit here: Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, LoZ Twilight Princess, Mario Galaxy, and Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) to name some.

I also do really love 5th gen consoles like the PSX and N64; something about their visuals I really like. The original Silent Hill is one of the coolest-looking games ever.

Lumeinshin

SteadmanSlick I have one of those 3 in 1 HD clone consoles. The only game I have on NES is Dragon Warrior 1
Fun game, tho I mostly played the emulated SNES translation
Kiby'd Adventure is a great game, a proper classic.
Weirdly, I have Smash Bros Brawl to thank for playing many NES and SNES games, they had little trials you could play. I do wish we had better internet and use the wii virtual console though. Wouldve loved to play the full games when i was a lot younger

SteadmanSlick

Lumeinshin Yeah I really regret not buying a bunch of virtual console games on the Wii when the shop was still up

Lumeinshin

There is a WIP Perfect Dark PC port thats been coming along. This is technically retro 😆
Link to the GitHub Project here
It is early days for it, there are not really any custom pc options in game yet and all the references are to the n64. Does look promising and should be very nice in another year for the average joe.

SteadmanSlick you can mod your wii really easily, I think you can basically add the wii shop virtual console games as if you'd bought them. I modded mine way back when for the custom mario kart wii mod CTGP (would recommend)

RegiVAPOR

I LOVED this old game that was on Sega Genesis. It was pretty obscure. It was called Ristar.

Link

I like playing old Source/Goldsource games on steam. I've been playing Team Fortress Classic, despite being owned by the old school deathmatchers I really enjoy it. Also on the topic of Retro Games, what do you consider to be Retro? Nowadays Consoles like the GBA Advance and even the original DS are "Retro". Honestly I cant describe how I'll feel in a few years when people consider the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii to be retro.

1996FordMondeo

Link
Man Source/Goldsrt engine and games are so kino.
Very few games have such a nice feeling.

As for retro term.
for me personally its the games that came out before my time. So anything up to 6th gen consoles(excluding dreamcast since it was released before I was born)
Same thing applies to PC games.
While 6th and 7th gen I consider to be just "old"

Ross_R

Link
Well, I already consider XBox 360, PS3 and Wii retro. I mean, let's be honest, it pretty much is. In my experience, same people play XBox 360 games and Sega Genesis ones.

1996FordMondeo

speaking of retro.
its 25th anniversary of HalfLife so its free on steam.
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Lumeinshin

Unsure if it quite counts as retro (it IS discontinued). I've been playing on my 3ds a good bit lately, largely doing animal crossing chores at the moment. I have had my YouTube recommended become pokemon videos so I'm in the mood to play through that series as well...

Comsat Rex

Lumeinshin Pokemon is usually good for a replay on the games your nostalgic for, but there is a romhack called Emerald R.O.W.E. that backports a bunch of mechanics and Pokemon into an open world emerald. Might be worth checking out if you got the itch.

Lakitu64

New 1986 Sony Trinitron crt and a new super monkey ball adventure high score.

frijole del alta

anybody recently hear about the majora's mask recomp? any thoughts? it's one of my favorite retro games to play, be cool to see it all in high def.
*edit: don't know if this needed a separate thread, decided to reply here where its on topic.

Lumeinshin

frijole del alta
The Majora's Mask Recomp + more importantly the tool that allows it to work N64 Recomp (github link) are really super cool.
Like I posted prior, there is a native Perfect Dark recompilation but this tool will allow many of the more obscure games to get their own native PC ports as well.
For me I think im most excited to have good native versions running on the linux retro handhelds like the Anbernic RG ones. The more stuff running efficiently on those the better!
Also don't worry about a separate thread for this. I can always move posts to another if it gets busy on multiple topics in this thread 🙂

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