I saw the chess thread and it got me thinking about Go. Any Go players here with opinions on these games?
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Go Simulator (DOS, 1991)I remember playing this to learn the game when I was a beginner. None of the retro era games give a real challenge if you're even an intermediate level amateur but they can work for beginner study.Honestly you'd have more fun playing against real opponents at your level at somewhere like OGS or KGS, though. You can feel the computer plays all soulless and machine like when with humans you can see their thought process. Yes this is true even when you're below 50 kyu.There was also some GBA game based on the Hikaru no Go manga/anime which was not totally awful and had fancy animated effects lighting up the board while you played against the cartoon characters, but when I was exposed to it I was already at too high level to enjoy it so didn't play it that much.
>>11697395I heard Hikaru no Go only had 9x9 and 13x13. Could be cute to play anyway. I can't deny that the manga started me on the game, so it's kind of appropriate. Still, I can't find a translation.
>>11697412You don't really need a translation to play Hikaru no Go on the GBA, most of the fun (IMO) is ranking up in the free play and survival modes and collecting the custom stones.I recommend starting with 2 since its basically just 1 but better, at least in those modes.As you can see, it has 19x19.If you need help navigating the menus or something, just let me know and I can write you a quick tutorial.
>>11698216Hey, thanks!
Apparently Igo for the Famicom Disk System is thought to be the only videogame Ninty president Hiroshi Yamauchi ever actually played, though he was displeased with it.
This Rin Kaihou endorsed Go game for the Super Famicom is 12Mb AND uses the SA-1 chip. I'm guessing most of that space and extra processing power was used for the CPU logic, since the presentation isn't too elaborate.
