Sure you do.
So… I went to Japan.
Hey Ragnarok, fuck you man.
Seriously, though, much props to the new collection.
Rag…just wanna let you know I might come to your house and knock you out with a steel pipe cause that shit is amazing!
All these threats make my obligatory Hatsune Miku sad
(I don’t even like the sound of Vocaloids but I couldn’t not buy this thing).
It was a pretty amazing trip. In addition to doing everything I actually needed to do, I was able to head out and hit a couple Hard Offs I got almost everything on my list, except I could not find Slap Happy Rhythm Busters. I walked all over Akihabara but could not find it for anything :(.
Same thing happened with Primal Rage, though the initial SNES version remained unedited!
At that time I played the PC version of both MK1 and PR, which were almost arcade perfect.
beyond oasis was just a better game then the legend of zelda… period…
I didn’t appreciate games like that until way late.
I had an SNES because it’s what my mom wanted to buy me. I liked only JRPGS and Tetris Attack growing up. I didn’t get into any action/adventure games until I was in high school, and I found my old Genesis with Vectorman and played the fuck out of it… Then Megaman, ComixZone, ToeJam and Earl, Castlevania, Metroid… etc…
Also, after growing up I began to hate Mario and Zelda… So much for being a Nintendo fanboy. Playstation 1 with Twisted Metal, the FF series shift, WildArms, Suikoden, etc., and Tekken… I was done with Nintendo.
Also, I think I was the happiest motherfucker in the world when I found out that SF3 Second Impact was going to be on Dreamcast…
Speaking of Sega…
Remember this shit?
I would have been that dude… COPPING THE FUCK out of all SNES and Gameboy things…
And then hopefully having time enough to rage on that TMNT action figure set.
LOL, telescopes really? Dumbass kid…
Straight to whatever Transformers generation they had going at the moment…
I had a C64, that Donald Duck screencap gave me flashbacks. It was also the only system to get a port of the legendary Simpsons arcade game, even though it wasn’t a good port, in hindsight.
If we’re talking about the better version of Zelda, I would put my money on LandStalker.
Gonna ignore all of that Streets of Rage blasphemy on the first page…
I don’t even consider Saturn stuff old or “retro”, I guess because I’m also old. But I played through Megaman 8 and Megaman X4 a month or two back, and I have to say I prefer MM8.
MMX4 is more challenging, but 8 still has more replay value for me. Maybe it comes down to presentation- both games have good stage design, though I think the motorbike stages in X4 are pretty weak.
Speaking of Capcom stuff, Eco Fighters is a fun scrolling horizontal shooter. Some interesting enemy/weapon designs:
Back to the Saturn, I’ve been playing Albert Odyssey for a while, and it’s pleasant but largely unremarkable. It’s technically very good- good sprite work (has aged better than some 3D games from the same era), good soundtrack, overall presentation is nice, it’s just not particularly inspired and is a little too easy. And has a lot of lame jokes in lieu of translations- thanks, Working Designs! One of those games that you would probably love if it were one of your first RPGs, maybe if you’re just an RPG junkie in general.
Yo, idk how “retro” this is, since it’s a new release…
Any of y’all play Dragon Fantasy?
Book 1 was pretty awesome, and worth $8.
Book 2 should be released sometime soon.
Mega man 8 for the PS1 was so awesome but I could never finish it. I suck at Mega Man games…
Mario Paint was so good. I lost my SNES mouse years ago and forgot I still had the cartridge.
A Little update on my Japan haul.
I spent some quality time with rubbing alcohol and cotton swabs and all the Super Famicom games work.
The PS1 was a bit of another story. The open button would get stuck and you’d have to run your thumb nail along the edge to get it to pop out enought to latch. Also when I was testing it last night I found that it randomly reset itself. So I picked up a $10 PS1 at Goodwill today. Its disc drive didn’t work but that wasn’t what I was after. I swapped out the button assembly and power supply and now the Japanese PS1 seems to work flawlessly.
I beat it.
The girl’s voice for Mega Man nearly killed the already godawful cutscenes of the nigh unbearably bad hackneyed story.
Whoever thought Duo was a good idea probably takes a duo of dicks simultaneously up his or her ass.
The gameplay itself was absolutely fantastic, per always, and thus my impetus for beating it.
If you want one I can sell you my SNES mouse pad.
I dunno. Video dated 1993 and the TF line was kinda dormant by then. Unless Generation 2 was out by that point.
There is some amazingly bad voice acting in MM8 and X4. To the point where I was instantly sure they just got random people on the localization team or at Capcom USA to do most of the voice work.
Mega Man 8 was cool. Dunno why people give it so much shit. Yeah, the cutscenes were horrible, but MM was never about them, anyway. Hated Astro Man with a passion, though. Had probably the coolest subweapon but the most annoying voice/personality ever.
I don’t why Capcom adopted that “4 Robot Masters, then unlock other 4 Robot Masters” formula ever since MM 7. Just give us all the 8 Robot Masters from the beginning and be done with it.