I've been digging into retro computing and it's really changed my understanding and my perspective on gaming history. There's a lot of good shit (both Japanese and Western) that simply never gets talked about because it wasn't on a console. And some well-known developers made much cooler games when they focused on computers. For example, Square made some really cool games before moving to Famicom.Micro computers are especially cool.Also type-in programs are fun.Pic related but it's not my pic.
>>12251901>There's a lot of good shit (both Japanese and Western) that simply never gets talked about because it wasn't on a console.Like what? Is it actually good?
>>12252007>Like what?How much time do you have?Alpha for PC-8801 is really cool. Did you know that Popful Mail was originally a PC game? There's an official version of Super Mario Bros for PC-8801 that's pretty interesting despite the technical flaws. The original version of Portopia was on PC and is really interesting. Recently I've been playing this game on MSX called Eggerland Mystery, it's a puzzle game from HAL that takes place in the same universe as Kirby (the characters show up in Kirby) and it's kinda hard.Speaking of MSX, recently in Japan there's been a renewed interest in it and there's been a lot of homebrew coming out recently. Someone even wrote a book on making games for MSX (in Japanese).I'm starting to dig more into Western stuff now. I'm focusing on the C64 at the moment but I want to dabble into Atari stuff too. I've been downloading old magazine scans looking for type in programs and they're pretty neat. Of course Japanese magazines had those too so I'm also looking for Japanese ones.
>>12252048There are a lot of cool Taiwanese MS-Dos games that never get talked about. Look up The Legend of Sword and Fairy and Jin Young. Apparently Chinese RPG was a separate genre in the 90s early 00s
>>12252072I hate Mandarin, I really don't want to play games in it. Do they have some English like old Famicom games do?
>>12252073I'm learning chink so I'm playing retro Chinese romhacks. There is a big Chinese Famicom scene too, Famicom was a platform that chinks made original unlicensed games on into the 00s. Some of them look good actually.So I haven't gotten deep into it that much, it seems none of them have English translations or relevance on the English internet. It could change in the future, China might start making waves in the game industry soon and then that would generate interest in their old stuff
>>12251901>simply never gets talked about because it wasn't on a console.lol. You mean dosn't get tiktoked about. Grownups have been talking about old computers all along.
>>12251901Look, I know Hydlide was important for its time, but I'm still mad my mom paid $40 for it in 1989
>>12251901If you're into PC-88/98 stuff, I recommend checking out Basement Brothers on youtube
