/vr/ - Retro Games

Japanese people liked that back then, westerners didn't.

Any questions?

yeah yeah moeshit destroying the industry yadda yadda

would you rather have older men?

>>2116226
Only if they're cuties.

Probably because kids would not want to play a game where you are a little girl, and if you do you be mocked for being a little pussy.

Pac-Man was designed to be cute so that women, an audience most Japanese arcades hadn't yet acquired, would try out a Namco maze game (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/iwatani-pac-man-was-made-for-women).). Compile had the smart idea to use their assorted game characters for marketing a complex versus puzzle game building off of Tetris. Japanese puzzle games have focused on cuteness and personality for selling their games ever since; the audience playing these games for their mechanics assume that games designed by Compile or Sunsoft, or those sold by doujin circles, are going to build off of certain systems used in arcade classics. No surprises here, just a logical development over time.

Puyo Puyo is a spinoff of Madou Monogatari. It never got an anime though.

>>2116205
Even as an adult, i feel uncomfortable about playing games saturated with little anime girls. I think localizing companies at the time had the right idea.

They were changed as an attempt to increase sales. Guys would be considered not manly for playing a little girl game. Male kids and teenagers have pretty much always been the biggest console game demographic. Personally, I think the PDP characters are cute.

Rabbi was a guy, he just wasn't always called Rabbi.

>>2116205
It's a cultural thing.

In Japan, puzzle games are considered "for girls", so they primarily feature girly characters with lots of pink and stuff.

>>2116324
Even Sokoban workers are portrayed with cute proportions, at least in Japan where they're a part of commercial releases.

Goddamn is Sokoban everywhere...never gets old, and even automatic solvers have trouble beating it.

Puzznic has 3D girls in the arcade and on the FM Towns if that's more your thing. Other ports were censored in Japan as well.

>>2116298
The older I get, the harder it is for me to enjoy games that aren't saturated with anime girls.

>>2116232
City Connection was better for the change. Being a Steve McQueen type rebel is way cooler than some blueberry haired ho.

>>2116324
>>2116332
This is why I love these threads. I love Boxxle and never realized it was based off something.

Is it easy getting the early games to run? Recommend any console spinoffs?

>>2116474
For the PC versions, you can emulate the PC-88/-98 games with M88 and Neko Project II fmgen/T88/Anex86 respectively; the Spectrum Holobyte release (Soko-ban) is DOS, so DOSBox. Boxxle's an easy grab for Game Boy titles, and it can be emulated more easily than the originals. You should check out Atlus' Puzzle Boy series, which expands on Sokoban's mechanics with different game modes (first game was localized as Qwirk!, with a tomato dude on the cover).

Otherwise, sokoban's got tons of flash versions.

>>2116205
Because little girls are cute.

>>2116602
Excellent. Thanks man!

>>2116474
Sokoban is such a simple game you could probably whip a clone up in QBasic in about twenty minutes.

>>2116674
I had the same thought. I've never tried coding a game but making a clone like this is tempting.

>>2116205

My wife and I are great fans of herbeke's popoon. Our original cart still plays great on our RetroN V. I'm always Ebisumaru.

>>2116682
>Hebereke/Ganbare Goemon crossover
Best idea Retron Bot's ever given us.

>>2116321
Now that the phone market has proven what a hot seller puzzles games can be to girls, It seems kind of silly that nintendo and all those other companies went to all that trouble to localize this stuff.

Because Japs are degenerate pedos

Because the west is full of homos and feminists.

>>2116976
>>2117004
>4chan

>>2116205
I feel like Robotnik and Yoshi made more sense anyway, considering they are (at least partially) representative of their respective platform. It seems like it would be easier to sell them regardless of region.

>>2118013
nah, the western localizations are even worse... why not just have the plain game as it is? like the nes puyo puyo.

>>2118013
Why do those characters make more sense because they are most associated with the platform? Changing characters like that kinda bothers me. I wouldn't my work changed so drastically like in PDP.

>>2119668
Are cute characters the defining element of Puyo Puyo?

The idea of this box is cute. I'd like to get a bunch of them and recreate a puzzle from the same game in stop-motion (cardboard for the walls, maybe an amateur figurine assuming the walking/pushing sprites are mirrored). Better yet, trick a crow into solving a puzzle by offering food as a reward.

>>2119672
No, but they are an element I like.

>>2119672
no, but the vs mode is
and having two characters facing each other makes more sense than a faceless cpu

>>2119439
Because marketing and dumb murrican kids like us. Think about all the games you bought because they were all beefcake men with guns or western cartoon-looking characters.

Some cute warehouse keepers from the Sokoban official page.

>>2119672
They're a definite reason for the original Puyo Puyo's production, since Compile had a bunch of characters from Madou Monogatari they wanted to use.

>>2116349
Yeah, being a weeaboo virgin will do that to you

Sometimes they aren't so little.

>>2116205
I'm a little surprised that bugs you so much. They arent necessarily revealing or overtly sexual (in the case of panel de pon or puyo puyo), and it's simply meant to be cute and playful.

Are you still 12 or something OP?

>>2119884
Cuteness is subjective. Anything could be cute.

>>2116230
I lawd

>>2116298
If you're uncomfortable just adjust your pants so that your erection is along the side of your pant leg.

>>2116682
>my wife
>vaguely think about a retron joke
>you already made it

Never change /vr/

IT'S TIME.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QizG-EGkizU

>>2120529


awesome puzzle game!
watched a friend finish it almost on MVS.

>>2120529
Sakura is cute.

>>2119942

Welcome to 4chan. Enjoying your stay?

Here's a board you might really enjoy: >>>/v/

Speaking of Puyo Puyo, I have been stuck at this boss fight for a bit in Ganbare Goemon Kirakira Douchuu. I really suck at the game. Anyone have tips for me?

>mfw i just found out that theres a hidden panel de pon for game boy

is there a panel de pon for nes?