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>>3616175
Contra.

>>3616179
That's retarded. Konami still owned the name so there would've been literally no reason not to just call it Super Contra if that's what it actually meant

That's conclusive evidence that it doesn't mean Contra

>>3616175
Cockadookie.

There's no single reason you can pinpoint, but the gap between PCs and consoles back then was easily explained. Consoles had hardware design for playing games, which meant sprite generation, parallax and other things were entirely done through via hardware, which made games programmed on a 2mhz processor play like a dream. On the other hand, PC was this clusterfuck of technologies and standards (CGA, VGA, etc) that quickly superceded one another and made stuff harder to understand for programmers.

You can probably look around the internet for some of the pitfalls of PC game programming before 1994, but in a nutshell: to show sprites on screen, you had to initialize a "dumb" buffer, put all the graphics in there and "keep watch" over it, so stuff wouldn't be overwritten, or fed garbage. While in consoles, you just pointed to the index of the sprite (where it was on the ROM), and the hardware took care of the rest.

When we finally got stuff like Glide, 3dfx, DirectX and OpenGL, was when PC gaming finally started to take off.

>>3615930
Paratrooper was pretty fun. Simple but has high replay value.

most devs were shit at making fun games

Lack of quality control.

>>3615763
pssst ... we were all better at games as kids

>>3616273
That would make sense if I had beaten the game as a kid, yeah. That's not the case though.

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Good job on Nemo. That game busts my balls, I've never beaten it

You can ask all of /vr/ the order in which they rate Mega Man games and all of them would answer differently.

IV is better than V and VI. It's more balanced and carefully crafted. V is painfully average on all accounts. VI is much better than V and brings some new refreshing ideas in terms of mechanics and level design, but still lacks the tight gameplay of III and IV.

>>3615484
Nope.

>>3615484
>are the further Mega Man games just as disappointing?

V: even more
VI: yes, but it has its good sides
VII: absolutely not
VIII: haven't played
& Forte: absolutely fucking not
X series on SNES: all are great too
X4: yes
X5–6: haven't played

Why what, faggot? Just get some alcohol and clean it up, you dirty fuck.

>>3615457
As kids we didn't know how valuable these would be in the future.
I took really good care of my cartridges but wasted all boxes and most manuals.

I wish I could go back I'm time and tell the past me to keep every box.

>>3615457
He jizzed on it.

I think it comes from one my dreams.

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Metal Slader Glory, an adventure game with mechas and hot waifus made by HAL for the Famicom and later remade for the Super Famicom, that gif is from the SFC version.

Pic related is from the original Famicom ver.

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>>3615398
Thank you, anon! Appreciate it.

>>3615371
Your first RPG? Ever?

>>3615371
I remember when people used to shit on this game all the time on this board. It was meme hated.

>>3615371

Play Chrono Trigger instead. Earthbound is childish and the combat is boring.

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Fifa 98 and the Captain Tsubasa games

Good luck today

super sidekicks series on neogeo

Lots of prayer.

Originally the Saturn was supposed to be the 2D machine to end all 2D machines.

Then the PlayStation came along and Sega shit its pants.

>>3615012
whats up fag what gives i got that fuck back in the day day one that means on the saturn kapishe,my pcfriendo was so jelly u have have seen him go schleichfahrt

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>>3614893

Civ II has always been my favourite

>>3614893
I love Civilization2 on PS1, but it just lacks border management for it to be perfect. Its level of simplicity is perfect for smatphone and portable console.

>>3614893
I've never played Civ, but I can relate since the first Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the best one.

Demolition Man.

>>3614472
judge dredd and terminator cd, maybe alien 3 but it has a timer.

>>3614472
dont know about the genesis version but the SNES box, made to look like the CPU for Terminators was a stroke of genius, quality product from beginning to end wow

It's clobberin' time!

gay thread pal

I never finished Warcraft 2, despite finishing 1 & 3, I should get around that sometimes.

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>>3614423
Bumping with Perfect Dark art

Also I am looking for a Perfect Dark infograph of why it is the best FPS ever, anybody have it? Would much appreciate if you could post it

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Anybody else get an inkling to play Perfect Dark after watching Luc Besons Nikita?

Why are female assassins/operators so hot?

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Dat future Chicago level tho

>>3613964
Should be a setting in whatever control center for your graphics card to not stretch these games to widescreen.

>>3613964

honestly i play it on widescreen all the time and stretching is barely even noticeable, i wouldn't worry about it

STARLEAGUE IS BACK starting december 4th, featuring TaekBangLeeSsang

>>3612624
>inb4 PSX fanboys come in and shit on the Saturn

>>3612656
Psx fan here. Saga was a great game never had a saturn but I played it thanks to my friend that had one. The music in it is stellar and Azel is mai waifu.

>>3612671
stop breathing right now