Post proto-videogames.
>>694470563You mean... traditional games?
>>694470563how's the re-playability, any newgame+?
>>694470824The map could be modular. But regardless, your high-score wouldn't be limited by datatypes or hard-coded speed limits.
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Someone remade Screwball Scramble in Unity last year but now the site is downhttps://screwballscramble.net/
>>694470638To some extent but not all tg classifies as proto-vidya.
>>694471086Isn't that Monkeyball?
>>694471159Was just about to post this. Played the crap out of it while stuck with no games at uncle's house.
>>694471043woah..............meme magic is real...........................................
>>694471657>open-world slop
>>694471159is this AI
>>694471657putting it in H is too strong of a strategy, it needs to be nerfed
>>694470563
>>694471762no its art
>>694471657Man Soviet toys were so sovl here's a legit proto video game. The windows at the top were so bystanders can see you playing. Straight up vector graphics and just look at that cabinet it's something from a nuclear power plant
>>694471159>no Doug buttonWhat's the point
>>694470824You can play it backwards dmc4 style
>>694472069>brown adult hand
>>694470901Still have my nitro RC from my 21st I let the kids play with it it's fairly old doesn't go as fast.
>>694470563When I was a boy I had a simple toy that was a clear acrylic box, maybe 3 inches on a side and half that tall. In the center was a gently sloped cone with a divot in its peak, and the purpose was to roll a ball bearing up the slope and catch it in the divot. It was so basic, but great fun. Spent a huge amount of time trying to master it. Eventually it was lost when moving around, and I've never been able to find a replacement.
then
now
>>694472256Is Beyblade actually good again?
>>694472242how the f did this work
back in my day speedrunning used to be cool
>>694472256based blue coming back from the dead and owning that red faggot
The OG that Donkey Kong ripped off.
>>694472357The physics engine is more broken than ever.
Caveman games
>>694470563Actual proto-videogame right here.>the literal first vidya is also a proto-shmupI kneel. Truly the purest genre.
>>694472069based
Bertie The Brain (1950)
>>694472256I was too old for Beyblade. Is there any strategy or tactics to this, or is it mostly random? >>694471086>>694470563I really enjoyed these things as a kid. I had both of them at some point. Though, in Run Yourself Ragged, if you got all the way to the final dunk, you'd sometimes still miss even though you couldn't really do anything. I might have learned a life lesson from that game.
Technically this was made after video games were invented. So it was a mechanical game designed to mimic a video game.
Kids nowadays are too young to remember playing with POGs.>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game)
>>694470638If we want to go there, then DnD would be the "prototype" for a great number of vidya today as they tend to include RPG elements.
>>694474959>you'd sometimes still miss even though you couldn't really do anything.you have to slam the button otherwise it just tips the ball out the cup at the apex of the swing.
>>694475145For me it'shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiddlywinks
>>694475390Ye olde game fanart.
>>694475497lmao. But yeah it's a very old game, only know about it because of my grandparents myself.
>>694471159I remember raging cause I couldn't get the last ring on lmao
Fuck does anyone remember when there were these robot toys that you loaded with a ball and they would shoot it out? There was an anime about it, can't remember what this shit was called
>>694475337Good advice. Perhaps that game really was filled with life lessons.
>>694475812are you talking about these dumb fucks?
>>694475975WtfYes that was itI couldn't remember for years
>>694475812>>694475975remember cubix? he even got a gamecube game.
>>694476045I remember it being pokemon with robots and having a really stupid plot but the main robot and rival looked cool
>>694476043I had a few of them growing up. Turns out they're a spin off from Bomberman toys so I guess they're kind of vidya.
>>694476045I remember the theme song to the show. And how it was subtitled "Robots for Everyone" and I didn't really understand what it was trying to say. I still think that seems like a mistranslation.
There was also Lego Galidor which also got a game.>>694476147So basically Medabots
>>694471086https://www.reddit.com/r/playmygame/comments/13jhg9d/comment/l6nep94/It's over. (inb4 reddit, it's the developers account)
>>694476459Tomy boomers are so dumb. How do they expect to sell their 50 year old board game to zoomers if not through means like this vidya adaptation? It was free marketing!!!
>>694471086>>694474959>>694475337This looks incredibly sovlful but this never came to my country/had never seen them. qrd?
>>694476553Each button or lever controlled a part of the track and you'd try to get the marble through the whole course.
>>694474959Yes. Having the one that spins the opposite direction is an autowin button.
>>694476553It's sold as "Athletic Land Game" in Japan and some Asian countries.>>694476636They made a new expansion just year so a total of 3 sets and you can connect them in any order.
I don't have a name or a picture but in my grandma's garage I found this game that was like a cross between air hockey and pinball, with the paddles shaped as tennis rackets.
>>694477321thats called ping pong
>>694477408No I mean it was on a board, and you controlled the flippers like pinball trying to hit the ball through the gap in the other player's flippers.
>>694477081I'm actually going to try to buy this. This looks very fun.
>>694476314It's crazy but Takara managed to divorce B-daman from the Bomberman IP by the time Hudson Soft went bankrupt and when Hasbro brought it to the West. They just couldn't reuse the early designs that had Bomberman's likeness.
>>694471086I loved that and its expansion pack when I was a kid...
>>694471159checkout my speedrunhttps://youtu.be/N1sARe8okOM
>>694471858i wish cartoon network finished airing this fucking cup and ball anime in my country
>>694477665is that Cloud?
>>694477665MAR was a fun read.
tank simulator using a camera and a miniature model landscape to render the world.https://youtu.be/AcQifPHcMLEbut isn't this still a video game even though it's using real world materials to generate the image instead of a PC and code?
The GOAT
>>694478045Every doctors office waiting room had these
>>694470563Is bouncing the ball over the wall cheating or a real strategy considering the risk?
there are tons of mechanical arcade games that predate video games released by Sega, Taito, Bally Midway etc
>>694477861Fuuuuuuuuckkk that takes me back. You could pic related every single time if you were good enough
>>694478084They still have them. Last time my mom took me to the doctor, which was 2 years ago, I played with one.
>>694478248>crosscode.jpg
>>694477530majimbo had a hard life
>proto mobile gacha
>>694478560Kek
>we went form pure sovl to the soulless trash that are modern video gamesGrim.
>>694478248Based
>>694478961ikr
>>694478084>The Highlights hidden object where someone circled all the objects I guess I have to read Goofus and Gallant
>>694479638oh man i used to get that magazine subbed when i was little
>>694473023wasnt the first vidya just some tennis on some science equipment?
>>694471086>that kid who flawlessly did 4-skip every time
>>694480453Pong? First *commercial* videogame, but not the prototype for vidya. Closest would probably be "Spacewar!".
>>694472256No. You're not controlling anything after you let it go. Yahtzee's more of a videogame.
>>694480670Could be this toohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two
>>694471086I remember playing this>>694476459>>694473023tennis for two was way more impressive than pong. You can tell that pong was mass marketed slop
>>694480752>>694480793Kek.Alright but I can't really say "tennis" is the purest vidya genre.
>>694470563The knobs make this game impossible. As a handheld, its much more enjoyable.
>>694475223Still no digital rpg's with the freedom of pen and paper ones.
>>694471159I had the Sonic one as a kid
>>694481714Which is perfectly fine if you ask me. Japs got it right when they focused on fancy battle systems instead, that's the strength of computer games.Although it might be possibile to do something creative with AI now, not sure.
>>694480793Vector screens have a cool look.
Does Pinball count?
>>694477907No goals, so probably not.
>>694471086It’s up for me
>>694478260Concerned parents holding their kids, looking on, waiting for their turn.
>>694482205I guess most of those carnival games
>>694475975This is still wildly popular in SEA. I don’t remember it being very popular in the states back in the day. Beyblades were definitely more popular but took a while to catch on.
>>694481836Sometimes I wonder if generals and commanders doing these wargames and simulations actually got invested in them like its a game or actually got competetive
>>694482952>>694483139Not videogames
>teammate gets you killed
>>694472256>then>>694472305>nowidgiwhats changed
>>694470563I miss mine. Great friend to go through rainy sundays.
>>694476045The kid looks like it have several autism.
>>694470824You can play in reverse, find and exploit shortcuts, play with multiple balls or pull out tricks like jump and slides.
>>694471657I prefer the sequel
>>694478260are you 14
>>694472256Cool toys, blue beyblade almost was cooked for a second
>>694472305What's that shit, he's playing against a 3d simulation with his position transmitted to the computer?WHAT'S THE POINT?
>>694474608ONE GAME
>>694485520He's grinding out single player, bro,
>>694485705Imagine a PS5 owner staring at that image and seething.
>>694480809SO HERE I AM
>>694478045That trash was supposed to occupy your mind while you wait for your turn with the doctor to stab you with a needle. I hate it.
>>694478560Tried it in VR that shit is rigged. Most people can only play once so they don't know.
>>694486007Hmm, interesting. I don't have any VR equipment, but I'm gonna give it a shot, brb.
>>694470824there's multiplayer but your friend needs their own copy
>>694484880That's the one I remember. Didn't have one, but saw one at another kids birthday party.
>>694484880My cousins in another city had one of these but when I visited them one time it didn't have any batteries, so I never got to play it. I would have probably shidded myself because of how cool and magical this shit would have been to my child self.
>tfw I was the one kid with multiple LEGO men and imagined his own RPG, even writing down their stats magic and skills on flash cards>literally four niggas in a row, and they would fight various other toys I had lying around, even so far as making a boat to travel across a stream outside>the final time I played with them was a fateful showdown between a toy that was just John Silver from Treasure Planet except he was possessed by green Play-Doh, it was already too late for him so the four guys had to kill the Play-Doh and seal it forever and toss it in the giant trash can called the "Irreversible Void">The four guys are no where to be found. :(
>>694477709Marbles and Trains, the thinking child's games
>>694480793>>694473023>virtually infinite fps, since it was just a crt beam being moved >pretty non-aliased graphics cause of vectors>extremely snappy and responsive controls with extremely little delay>p2p multiplayer>had actual highly accurate physics because it was played on a military analog computer made for calculating missile trajectories These games were so far ahead of their time compared to games that came out decades later, it's not even funny. Hell, you can even say they're better than contemporary games in many ways.
>>694491118>pvp multiplayer*
>>694491118>Hell, you can even say they're better than contemporary games in many ways.Not unlike arcade games and modern games.Gaming is really the "old = good, new = bad" hobby but 100% unironically.
>>694492806RNG shit with no skill involved. Not vidya.
stickandhoopchads rise up
>>694490714Their adventures continue!
>>694480736>wii bowling is not a video game
Keeping your finger between the pages where you made your choices was like proto-quicksaving.
Me playing Factorio in the 2000s.
>>694477665chaton best girl>>694477709i had these growing up, my siblings and i would often stack them to our height and then have our parents stack to their height. we never got a successful run from that high up, but it was always fun
Woah some of you guys are fucking old, same as me.
>>694499605
>>694499605Those "mother will die" reply bait things can get you banned for off topic or spam btw
>no one posted a fingerbox yet/v/ is dead and i hate you newfaggotspublic ban everyone ITT
>>694499871Oh man i forgot about these. My dad loved this shit for some reason and went all in buying tons of sets. Really fun but I bet he spent a fortune on them.RIP pop, miss you a lot...
>>694499871
>>694501376This clip gave me autism (This is not an insult).
>we have Minecraft at home
>>694477530The original was good, where you could change which slot made him pop up. The mass market later version was fixed to the same hole all the time.
>I have bulletball
>>694471086Based as fuck.I'll have to try remaking this in Source or something.
>>694501212>you have to post old meme because I get mad if you don't, b'awwwwShit was lame then and is lame now.
>>694501523That's more of sportfags than /v/irgins.
This shit is fucking impossible. The computer always cheats.
>>694484880Yep, this is the exact one I had. Fucking loved this goddamn thing and was absolutely devastated when it broke.
>>694471086Man, I had several variants of this, they released a huge series of them here in Norway. Never been able to find any info on them online, it's bizarre.I remember one was called "BMX Race" and had a plastic figure of a bike molded on top of the metal ball, probably the most unique one.
>>694502560>Never been able to find any info on them onlinehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwball_Scramble
>>694503309Nope, they were similar, but none of the games I had were that specific one.But I actually managed to find it now, it's a localized version of the Japanese Epoch Mini Game Series. Picrel is the BMX one I talked about.
>>694503661Here's another, this was renamed "Crocodile Swamp" here I believe, and the sticker in the middle was replaced with one featuring hungry crocodiles.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR8MsX4c47M
>>694477709I remember the daycare I went to had an insane amount of these marble tracks for some reason and one time the teacher helped us build a track that went up to the ceiling of the classroom. She stood up on a table to build the last bit and everything.
I always was a slightly RICH KID, but I truly felt like some kind of billionaire with a private jet when I had a Rokenbok set.It was INSANE. Moving the trucks around was just like a video game, the controllers worked phenomenally, you could go multiplayer, build tracks, lift up objects, crash one little truck against the other, it was the closest thing I ever tried to having a video game moving irl on the floor of my bedroom.you have to understand, this stuff was NOT as cool as it looks, it was even cooler.All my friends loved to play with it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbooiFMQ6gA
>>694491013This was my jam, I even had two toy steam engines for those tracks that were made up to look like Thomas and FriendsI don't know how but I grew up to be only slightly autistic
>>694503892Didn't have this one, but remember seeing the ads for it and really wanting it, but never being able to find it in stores.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BSQfGAq8qENice to finally see how it plays.
proto cookie clicker
>>694475812I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of Bakugon. My school was obsessed with it for all of two weeks before we collectively moved on.
>>694504778Oh man, this one is NOISY. My condolences to the parents that bought one.
>>694481714SS13 and other sandbox roleplaying vidya come close. Obviously vidya roleplaying will forever be bottlenecked by needing actual content and assets in order to do whatever you want.
What'll they play in '32?Ballyhoo!What'll they play in '32?Ballyhoo!
>>694498879Based VN appreciator
>>694482759If you can stomach the moralist handwringing and the fag’s behavior, this video actually has some interesting history on professional war gaming and how it is used by real world countries to prepare and plan.https://youtube.com/watch?v=lYaDXZ2MI-k
>>694481078Skill issue.>cheatingHave some dignity.
>>694494453Physics are not RNG
>>694505369My parents bought me a super noise toy pinball game that mysteriously enough "broke" pretty quick.ie they removed the batteries and I was too young to understand it was batttery-operated.
>>694501976>looking back at us before the mazeHoly kinoShe should have gotten lost in there and went back the same way once or so.It needs a cute finish with a dizzy pose or something
>>694505090Box cars must have been so fucking fun when every kid on the block was doing it and you had a decent hill to race down
>OK faggots line up, no shotgun throws, no opaques, jumbos get a foots advantage and no fucking leaning
>>694505304I remember refusing to get into Bakugan out of spite as a kid because my school banned damn near everything kids brought to school, but bakugan ended up being the one fad toy they didn't ban so I missed out on it for nothing.
AHEM
>Gacha faggot enters the thread
>>694478045The original walking simulator
>>694478238This looks so cool:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1WSYdn1b8I
>>694510328menko is a shit game
TO THE WINDOWTO THE WALL
>>694510328Feels old man
>>694511413You are 38 and live on the Swedish west coast
>>694501376I completely forgot I had something like this growing up. Got a massive blast of nostalgia just now, fuck.
