Topic: Retro recommendations thread

I'm surprised Run Saber was apparently never released in Japan (credited to Hori).
Possibly it was censored, because some guy auctioned a proto on ebay several years ago.
Apparently one boss was changed from a normal lady to a mummified lady (lucky I saved the picture to the Internet).
And the slide was changed to Down+Jump to R. Seller said nothing else was changed, but we'll never know, since for one thing, don't remember if it sold, and second he put in some "if you win, you must sign a written agreement not to distribute the ROM" clause (preventing anyone else from trying to find other changes).
Luckily I backed up the photo:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g155/sahagin/runsaberboss.jpg

I need something else for my Super Game Boy.

I ALREADY HAVE:
Super Mario Land 2
Donkey Kong

I HAVE ON MY 3DS
Super Mario Land
Radar Mission

Any recommendations?

cool, thanks for that. im glad they kept the mummy chick in the game

So for the past month, I have bought:

• A Neo Geo Pocket Color with Gals fighters, Cool cool Jam, Some pachislot game, and the Ultimately rare and Awesome Rockman Power battle and fighters.
• A Wonderswan Color with a Chocobo Sim game that would be great if I understood what I was doing.
• An NGage with alot of crummy ports and a decent SRPG

So any recommendations for those systems?
I'll be grabbing Match of the Millenium, Boimotor Unitron, Sonic, Pacman and Cutton for the NGPC; Megaman and Bass 2 for the Wonderswan; And Ashens for the Ngage.

Anybody ever played Haunted Castle in the arcade or for the PS2?

@Ryno: Yeah I've tried it. It wasn't too great.

i watched the whole game on youtube a long time ago, it was not that good to be honest.

That game's difficulty is insane. If I remember, by level 2, there's these mermaid-skeleton things which I don't think can be avoided unless you know their collision detection. And on the second level. KONAMI... I expect better from you!
(then again, it's an arcade game. They're not supposed to be fair, they're supposed to eat your money.)

people need to pay more attention to Castlevania Chronicles for ps1 than this.
Castlevania Chronicles deserves way more attention

Just beat Super Mario Bros. 2 on Super Mario All Stars. Man that game is fantastic...

^{And I had one life left with one heart.}

Super Mario Bros 2 is a pretty underrated game. I personally like the choice of characters..though I end up being Mario a lot of the time. and Toad.
Right now, I'm playing through Super Mario RPG (had played it before but never beat it).
I don't know much about RPG's, but so far this game seem real fun. Has a little bit of fun, yet just a little cheesy comedy mixed in too. Story is interesting, and the game does not seem to ridiculously/ want to throw the controller through the TV difficult. ....not saying that it is super easy either!

if you want rpg's get Dragon Warrior 1 & 2 dragon warrior 3 lufia zeldas and pokemon G/S/C
also grab wario land and mario land 2 also shantae a rare good game

I defeated SMB on my 3DS...by cheating with the VC menu.

I love Actraiser; the early SNES "look" and unique gameplay elements combine to make a masterful game in my opinion. It's basic with the sidescrolling, platforming, and town building but it all just works for me. Maybe because it was one of those first SNES I rented, but I recently played it briefly and was not bothered at all by the sim part. Then again, I enjoyed Sim CIty growing up but now playing that is like listening to Egon Spangler talk about his spores collection.

Try this for Hard Mode; highlight OPTIONS then press DOWN twice.

One of the best shmups ever - probably the originator of the genre - is on Atari 2600. Aaaah, retro goodness. If anyone has a working 2600, this game should be in your library.

That brings back a lot of sweet memories! the arcade version of Vanguard was the one and only arcade game i have ever truly mastered. I could keep playing forever, it just recycled the levels over and over and i knew them all by heart. They just dont make 'm like that anymore...

I need a SNES power adapter. I found a SNES at a car boot sale for just £2! However it came with no wires and only a 3rd party controller. Yellowed plastic too but it actually looks kinda cool.

I think you have to beat the game once to get Professional Mode. Indeed you get your HP meter from your saved game, but I don't think you get magic, but I'm not sure.

What is stranger is that the PAL version has a difficulty select along with an Action Mode that is not in either NTSC version.
It is different in that you get five lives and max HP starts at the minimum (so it is independent of the saved game on the cart) and you find max HP and magic icons throughout the game. But you don't get continues.
My guess is perhaps it was based on the Nintendo Super System (arcade console) version, but with one difference: the PAL version has 50hz sound but the gameplay is still 60hz. (whereas the NSS was full 60hz) And the NSS version allowed continues, possibly because it used time-based credits.

Is it too bad NTSC consoles can't play PAL games without serious modification or a rare/expensive cheat device.

Sonic Adventure 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-QHovhESW8&list=UUN_wvdNE...

It sucks but idk.

I agree with this!
I also have the manual for this game and it amazes me to see all the imagination and, well, actual effort put into these old Atari manuals.