Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster

[Hentai-Semitism]

Europe may have had shit taste in games as a whole, but the Amiga was cool, I’ll at least give them that.

I'm European and I have the best taste in games. I also represent all Europeans.

 

[Green Kitbash]

Europe missing out on the Arcade scene was dire. They will show you a ZX Spectrum game or C64 game and unironically call it amazing but in reality it is the worst thing ever made.

I will name names too, Creatures, Mayhem in Monsterland. Any Sonic clone they loved to make

 

[Xarpho's Return]

For console games back then most developers operated on Japan first, then America and Europe if the game did well in the states. It always meant in addition to Europe's own retardation you also got the American censorship on top too and as you said the slower frame-rate that was a toss-up if the devs were bothered to at least speed up the music to try to hide that the game played slower.

When I was younger, I noticed that the intro music to The Lost Vikings II actually had a slower tempo for the PAL version to the NTSC version. As a kid I actually remember preferring the European version slightly. I couldn't find a comparison anywhere so I had to use Snes9x's recording tools, which use AVI.

JRPG's basically skipped all of Europe until the 2000s. The first Dragon quest game to get a console release here was DQ8, when at that point the series was a month from being 20 years old, and DQ8 itself was almost two years old from the Jap release. They didn't even put the 8 in title becuase they knew how stupid it would look.

I knew a few of the big JRPGs had skipped Europe, but scanning over, almost none of the JRPGs in America reached Europe. From the following: Final Fantasy II (IV), Final Fantasy III (VI), EarthBound, Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Lufia & the Fortress of Doom, Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals, Chrono Trigger, Robotrek, Breath of Fire, and Breath of Fire II, only Lufia II, Secret of Mana, and Breath of Fire II made it over.

 

[Curry Teafag]

Europe missing out on the Arcade scene was dire.

We did have arcades, just not as many.

 

[Never Scored]

We did have arcades, just not as many.

The human zoo exhibit at the Crystal Palace doesn't count as an arcade.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Europe missing out on the Arcade scene was dire. They will show you a ZX Spectrum game or C64 game and unironically call it amazing but in reality it is the worst thing ever made.

I will name names too, Creatures, Mayhem in Monsterland. Any Sonic clone they loved to make

Most hardcore Rare fanboys tend to be British or Eurofags, which explains their love of utter garbage games.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Europe got it the worse. Our manuals were B&W, with no illustrations; with only a few screenshots. Text was kept to minimum because our manuals were made with 5-8 languages in mind to save on localization costs. If they were even cheaper they'd put every language on the same page. It's laughable how bad Europe got it back then.
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Ours were in color and the Zelda one even had a word list to translate key words from english to meatballistani, ice-spick and norwbug


We had a dutch rudder situation going on with Nintendo so we were pretty spoiled in certain ways.

Europe missing out on the Arcade scene was dire.

We had lots of arcades, at least in the places where I lived over the years. @Pissmaster, how many taiko no tatsujin machines did you see in the early 2000's? That game actually bored me because I had played so much drum mania(home version with the drum kit, never seen the arcade setup over here). Speaking of mania, there's Fighting Mania(or as I call it, "that fist of the north star punch game"). That game was cool. Except being a graphics whore I was disappointed by the use of sprites for everything.


Prop Cycle was also really cool.


Same with the Ridge Racer setup that had the clutch pedal. The video rental store near where I grew up had Top Skater, Sega Rally and various stand up cabinets(couple of years before that they had SF1, SF2, Mortal Kombat 1&2 etc), other places had Segas Manx TT with the bikes, their Trucker game, Daytona, Ferrari-911 or whatever it was called(it sucked).

I can't really think of anything that we missed out on. Even with pinball tables.

 

[Curry Teafag]

The human zoo exhibit at the Crystal Palace doesn't count as an arcade.

Tell me you have no idea without telling me you have no idea.