falz posted:

Things to fill in for 'Cult Classics' for SMS in my opinion, in alphabetical order:

Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Astro Warrior (play this with the Sports pad!)
Golden Axe Warrior
Penguin Land
Snail Maze Game

There's probably a few Non-US games that could perhaps replace a few things on this list, but I cannot speak to them.

Captain Rufus posted:

Do it. Because I don't want to. ( Also the easiest answer for good pre crash games on consoles is : pretty much every worthwhile pre crash game was made by Activision, Imagic, Parker Brothers, and some of the console makers on their home system. Although many of these games are superior on the home computers of the day. )

Also the Vectrex is your god and master and all should praise it.

Edit: if I had to make a quick top 5 for the 2600, Inty, and Coleco:

2600: Pitfall 2, River RAID, HERO, Cosmic Ark, Berzerk

Inty: Snafu, Space Battle, Astrosmash, Microsurgeon, Burger Time

Colecovision: Gorf, Montezumas Revenge, Zaxxon, HERO, Frenzy

For the 5200 I just recommend an emulator or the Atari 8 bit computers because the machine is unreliable and the joysticks come from Satan's taint. But 5 for it? Gremlins, Berzerk, River Raid, Miner 2049er, Pac Man. ( Serious DO NOT PLAY ON STOCK 5200 THAT WAY LIES PAIN.)

Ofecks posted:

After playing it for a few hours, it's kinda romhack amateur in the design department. I'm stuck because they hid one of the metroids in area 3 behind some stupid poo poo. It's the last one I need to move on. I bombed literally every wall and cannot find it.

- The metroids' carapaces (even the baby alphas) deflect missles and make them way more difficult than they should be.
- Save point locations are really inconsistent - they are everywhere starting out but there are some spots near difficult challenges that lack one. Also it takes way too long to save, the original was instantaneous.
- There is a dark room section in area 3 with no mechanic to light it up. Maybe it's just me, but I loving hate these.
- A boss in area 2 has an interesting mechanic but it's entirely RNG-based, thankfully the boss and item it drops are optional (I think).
- Whatever DirectX code they're using does not work with my card's hardware Vsync. I normally don't play action games with it on, but it looks especially bad without it, so I have to use theirs and suffer the input lag.
- A minor bitch but having to press start at the title screen and wait for the animation just to quit the game is dumb.
- They let you place a marker on the map. A marker, you can only have one at a time, lol.
- I don't recall if this was in other Metroid games, but it really irks me having to bomb destructible blocks to see what destructs them, instead of just shooting them.
- The charge shot has been almost completely useless so far.
- You can wall-jump but that is also useless due to how early you get the Space Jump and Spider Ball.

RZA Encryption posted:

What are some good baseball games? I was playing Cal Ripken Jr on SNES last night, which I think controls well, but doesn't have real teams or stadiums.

Then I moved to Triple Play Gold on the genesis, which has real teams and ok controls.

Finally I jumped to MLB 2k13 on the PS3, which of course has incredible representations of the stadiums and even the fans wear different outfits representing their home team, but you need to take a course on the controls there. Way too much going on there. Compared to the other games I've mentioned this is like the difference between Daytona USA and Forza.

I remember Ken Griffey Jr. on the n64 being good, but I haven't played it in close to a decade, so I don't know of it holds up.

What's good with an mlb license and controls that you don't have to think about?

Schremp Howard posted:

Yeah Ken Griffey Jr presents MLB is amazing. I'm surprised Baseball Stars or Little League Baseball for the NES didn't get mentioned either.

If you're looking for something more current but not painstaking the way The Show can be, I highly recommend Super Mega Baseball.

I AM THE TOILET posted:

Hey, kind of a weird tangent, I guess, but if there's anyone who would know the answer to this question, I'd assume you guys would.

I just got the PS4 port of the PS2 game The Warriors - and it's been a long time since I've played it. I was watching the intro FMV, and one of the characters says "Are you going human being?"

It really surprised me - I don't recall hearing that at all when I played it, and I'm surprised that they kept the phrase in the game. I haven't seen the film - shame on me - so I'm assuming that it's drawn verbatim from it?

But it got me thinking - what other games have ever prominently used the word 'human being?' Because your garden variety swears of 'gently caress' and 'drat' and 'poo poo' et al have certainly become commonplace - but thankfully human being hasn't, and it's certainly fallen out of use in recent years.

I can remember, back in 2005 (when this game was released) and certainly before it, that I would utilize the epithet, casually even, in conversation and on the internet, but since then I've come to blanch and react negatively to it as strongly as I would incredibly strong racial epithets, which now brings me to a better inquiry - how many notable games in history have utilized what are certainly now nearly forbidden epithets/insults?

d0s posted:

I didn't know this and have never played the game but this makes me want to

Also is there a retro rap thread where we can talk about how good these guys were without being laughed at, being an earnest def jux fan is hard in 2016

Random Stranger posted:

I suspect that was the other baseball fan in the thread.

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

OK so I need everyone's advice on this. It's a bit convoluted so bear with me.

I am about to start doing the plexiglass cutting for my MAME cabinet (the machine was already gutted. Do not worry. I did not destroy an existing game)

So anyway, I need opinions on how to "angle" the 3rd and 4th player joysticks. Now when I say angle, I mean angle in the sense of will they "line up" with their respective buttons. Due to the layout of the room my cabinet is going in, the 3rd and 4th players absolutely must be on an angle. What I need to figure out is if I am supposed to compensate the directionals. Here is my control panel:

Zaphod42 posted:

It feels cool to "collect" them in a physical form. Downloading MP3s feels lame, buying vinyls feels rewarding. (or maybe I'm just opening myself up to criticism here)

Mercury Crusader posted:

Even thrift stores and garage sales aren't as great as they used to be.

Ineffiable posted:

Now here's a new thing: how you guys feel about repro boxes and manuals? Works for getting shelf candy, just like repro carts.

fishmech posted:

I doubt Gamestop deliberately threw out cases and manuals in bulk, so much as people traded in disc only games, or games in hosed up cases missing the manual/cover art paper or with that stuff ripped up. I mean they had all those blank DVD cases available for games they only had a disc for after all.

I mean I remember plenty of times picking up some game or other and there was someone ahead in line trading in games with literally the whole front half the case ripped off, or a disc or DS cart rubber-banded to a beat up manual

fishmech posted:

They probably were lying about it being new, yo.

Elliotw2 posted:

I don't have a link or anything, but there's a proper modern set of SCD/Saturn/DC isos now, instead of the old hacked up ones and the bin/cue/mp3 ones.

Soul Glo posted:

That Holy Diver game that never(?) came out in NA requires a glitched jump to beat it right at the end before the final boss.

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

Is nostalgia literally the only aesthetic value out there? Even if they don't look like the originals, I think they're kinda pretty.

Instant Sunrise posted:

unless you had parents who's reaction was "first they're gonna make a super nintendo, then a super duper nintendo, and then something else. what's wrong with the nintendo you already own?"

Squeegy posted:

This might be the appropriate thread for this. I have just acquired a CTX CVP-5468NI, manufactured December 1992, off the side of the road. It's in perfect condition, except when I plug it into my Win8 laptop and boot it up the screen is all hosed up (and extremely green, despite it being an RGB monitor) and there are black bars on either side of the picture. After fiddling with it for a bit, I determined that by setting the contrast down, I can get it to display a legible (but duplicated, and juxtaposed onto itself) picture of my desktop. However, after being on for a while the picture starts to get messed up, beginning at the top of the screen as it slides leftward until the whole picture smears into a static-y, horizontally vibrating mess. If I set the contrast lower, it will reverse this process and I can get the picture back, but only for a little while until the process occurs again, and eventually I run out of room on the contrast knob and it just goes black (weirdly enough, I can get flashes of picture when I'm moving the contrast knob near the end, but not when I let go of it, it goes back to black).

I downloaded a driver off the Internet which consists of an ICC profile and an INF driver. I applied the ICC profile to the monitor in my display settings, but it doesn't appear to have done anything. I installed the INF file, but it also doesn't appear to have done anything and I can't find it in the driver list if I try to update the display driver for the monitor. Anyone have any idea what might be wrong with it/how I could fix it or should I see myself out to SH/SC?

_____! posted:

And people wonder why the hoarding mentality exists in this community. This is why people buy every N64 they come across at garage sales/thrift shops since they'll just wind up on the street. That Gamecube has clearly seen some poo poo.

Random Stranger posted:

I'm shocked they went to 1982. Video games literally did not exist until Nintendo released the NES in the United States.

Most popular video game in the year of my birth was probably Colossal Cavern.

You're definitely Donkey Kong, BTW.

pinacotheca posted:

I'm even older and more irrelevant!

I spotted this on Wikipedia the other day, and if nothing else it proves that you're never too old or irrelevant to play videogames and learn something from them:


Hopefully the solution was "the murderer escaped by driving into a boathouse, thus immediately transforming his car into a boat and speeding off to freedom, leaving behind several mystified police officers on the road".

Fair play to her, though. You never saw Quincy getting one over on a gang of corrupt property developers by beating them at, say, Zaxxon.

Ofecks posted:

Not sure about the protoconsoles (although I imagine the VCS Activision library is sizable at this point), but 1981 saw some rather legendary arcade titles released. Probably the most popular would be Donkey Kong. Others:

Frogger
Galaga
Scramble / Super Cobra

Not as popular, but noteworthy for various reasons:

Borderline (Sega, possibly the first run-n-gun-style game?)
Fantasy (SNK, a super-silly but fun multigenre game with impressive voice samples)
Turbo (Sega, predates and influenced Namco's Pole Position)
Qix (Taito, spawned a bajillion derivatives, a lot of them lewd games)
Red Clash (Tekhan, the first vert STG to feature a non-starfield scrolling background?)

FireMrshlBill posted:

The only ones that were surprising to me were Gran Turismo, Nintendogs and Wii Play.

Ofecks posted:

I would argue that any of the influential arcade shmups that came out in 84 were more popular than VS. Duck Hunt (most notably 1942), but that's probably just me being biased for my favorite genre.

Tusen Takk posted:

al-azad posted:

Speaking of Formula One, the series is something I want to get into but there are conflicting opinions that F1 2014 is the best because it was the last game with a full career mode. 2015 is regarded as stripped down garbage while 2016 has the career mode but male only.

Annual games feel like phones where each year has new features nobody asked for, removed features everybody liked, but it's the latest thing everyone's using so you have to check it out. I have an image in my mind of the designers going off checklists with the producer popping in like "REMOVE THAT FEATURE OR WE'LL HAVE TO TOP OURSELVES FOR THE NEXT GAME!"

Rollersnake posted:

Oh, hey, other fans of this game do exist. It's the best game in its genre. Yes, better than Shatter even. Also, the soundtrack is totally great.

There's a sequel, but it's a PS Vita exclusive (?!) and plays like rear end.

XYZ posted:

Every time I enter the serial the game just quits without doing anything.Ok, needed to be in XP compatibility mode.

Shlomo Palestein posted:

I really enjoyed Wizball, but the genre hasn't had a lot of...breakouts in the past two decades.

XYZ posted:

Had to change my video settings to enforce the aspect ratio but it works great now. Fun game.

al-azad posted:

Why doesn't Ax=Battler wield an axe what kind of backwards universe do you want me to immerse myself into Sega?