Tell us about your country's /vr/ games
in soviet russia, video game played you
Golden age for thirdy gamers.Every console from the NES to PS2 was pirated out of the box, games were like 5$, 3 in 1, sometimes 5 in 1 CDs/cartridges.SNES era had some hiccups because most pirated games didn't have a battery to keep your games saved, and any cartridge that had an enchantment chip also wouldn't be pirated, but that was ok.Game rental was non-existent since there was no demand.
The only major difference is that nobody gave a shit about the N64. It's an American console really.
>>12253142Disgusting normalfags that only play football shit, I envy the civilized people of America that actually play real games.
Spanish boomers idolize this game for some reason. I haven't played it. Somewhat of an unofficial gaming version of The Name of the Rose.
If you lived in the third world it was basically the same everywhere. Everyone had a PS1/2 because you could pirate games easily. Burned CDs/DVDs were sold in public and you could browse the selection and buy them for less than $1 each. Everyone played Winning Eleven, Medal of Honor, Mortal Kombat, and (later) GTA.If you owned an N64/GCN you were rich and/or a loser but you'd get together with the other losers and play Goldeneye/Smash Bros on weekends.Everyone middle-class and up had a Gameboy for Pokemon, including girls and kids who would never touch another video game afterwards. No one owned a GB game that wasn't Pokemon.Arcades could only be found inside malls and cinemas and the occasional bowling alley, you'd play House of the Dead or maybe Metal Slug. If you deigned to play DDR in public you'd be a fag and a pariah for life.Later in the mid-2000s Guitar Hero fever swept the nation and kids flooded internet cafes to play CS, Gunbound, Maplestory, etc. If you were in Asia this probably started happening earlier.
Piracy, basically.
>>12253315There's also Commandos. That one was pretty popular in its time.
>>12253142>Anons who aren't from USA/Japan/Canada/UKshould Canada be included in this? What are some Canadian games I have no idea.
Very few people had SNES, nobody had N64, and I was the only one with GameCube because I really wanted to play REmake and 0.
>>12253181I miss that sort of meme.
>>12253142>South of the Rio Grand', so "Country we call Mexico #21" for United Statians.No games have been made in this place. Not a single one.Piracy, though, was done in the open at all times during the 90s. Most people I knew had a chinese bootleg console and cartridges that they would buy at low prices. Also, most people were still playing 3rd gen games in the last years of the 4th gen consoles' commercial life; seeing someone with a SNES was rare and finding a kid owning a Nintendo 64 or a PS1 meant he was the son of a filthy rich politician or a drug dealer.Things changed quickly in the early 2000s when burning CDs was easily done and counterfeit PS1 consoles flooded the market, making 6th gen consoles the new symbol of status while most of us poorfags were playing catch-up with bootleg consoles and emulation.Eventually, the fine art of piracy was lost as the gaming experience moved onto online console multiplayer and the people playing the latest games had to go legit to properly enjoy them. Sure, there's still people playing cracked PC games and emulating old ones, but that became a niche pursuit compared to the marketplaces stacked full of cartdriges with '100000 games in 1' scams, untranslated, obscure Famicom games from the 80s or booths where people would burn for you a CD with any game you wanted for the PS1 in minutes.
Caimán Co. managed to make games in a piracy-ridden country like Argentina by making 1 (one) custom engine, and using it over and over again, just swapping assets and sell them very, very cheap compared to the competition. Pretty much all of them using licensed IPs (like Yo Matías!, Manuelita, Anteojito, and so on). Peak shovelware.>"One complication for developing a game here is piracy. If you invest 100,000 pesos, it's very difficult to recover them," says Pablo Zimmerman, co-founder of Caimán, one of the most prolific local producers. With some 120 titles on the market, they have achieved repercussions and sales with products based on popular characters from our culture: Yo, Matías (Sendra's comic strip), Manuelita, Chiquititas, etc. "The business is to have several products on the market, reusing the code from one in another. It's the only way to recoup the 20,000 pesos that are usually invested in a new development and be able to sell it here for 20 pesos," he adds.https://www.lanacion.com.ar/tecnologia/videojuegos-hechos-en-la-argentina-nid543208/They made some original games, tho, but they are lost media.For context, at the time 20,000 ARS at the time is the equivalent of $12,431.69 USD in the current year.Some of the major multimedia productions here was Magia 3D, from 1998.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW7VlilG9QoFun fact: The publisher of the title also distributed Riven in Argentina, so the discs get to appear in the minute 26:16.
>>12254298Prince of PersiaNeed for SpeedFIFABaldur's GateMDK2Knights of the Old RepublicBullyThe WarriorsDef JamSplinter Cell
>>12253293Sportsgamefags are so retarded I question their sentience. They are the textbook definition of cattle/sheep/NPC/whatever you wanna call it.
>>12253293America loves their sports games, thoughbeit.Nothing wrong with that, of course.Actua Soccer 3 is awesome, fuck you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhff_fBmjAE
>>12253142Eurofag checking in. We made some garbage games based on some comics. We haven't produced anything of value for hundreds of years,
>>12254298Homeworld, Dawn of War, Company of Heroes.
>>12254464France?
>>12254427>>12254476Thats a good spread I was definitely ignorant to Canadas output. I didnt even know there was a rockstar vancouver.
>>12254486There's also a Rockstar Toronto, they're probably best known for the GTA IV PC port.
>>12254478France made Alone in the Dark which was one of the most influencial games of the 90's as it was the first to mix 3D models and 2D pre-rendered backgrounds, a technique later used by so many including Final Fantasy VII.
>>12253142From Canada, but live in Saudi.Pepsiman was huge here back in the daym that's all I know. I think they generally went from Atari straight to PS1
>>12254432There's plenty of fun /vr/ sports games, get off your high horse.
Here's some good games that I noticed were popular in Brazil but don't see talked about much in english speaking sites:- Rock n Roll Racing- Biker Mice from Mars- Top Gear 1, 2 and 3000- Goof TroopFor some reason James Bond Jr was kinda popular too and it's a terrible game (pic related)
What are some stereotypes of old games from different countries? Like how Japanese games tend to look cartoony and have linear gameplay, American games tend to go for realism, British games like egg shaped protagonists, etc.
Just Beach Head and Teacher Busters all day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80M6StfZeBgbefore el fifa, before el pro, before the darkness.A more civilation era, from more educated anons.Micromania, dynamic multemdia, hobby consolas, superjuegos and I am pretty sure that list goes on.Seeing sega saturn and psx consoles in PRYCA (before carrefour) kiosk was absolute kino.
the only CRPG trilogy with a boozing stat
Turrican, pure german awesomeness on Amiga. Manfred Trenz then got to SNES to code Rendering Ranger R2 (was supposed to be called "Targa" originally) to teach japanese programmers how to code their own machine.
>>12253279This but game rental certainly existed, at least where Iive it was often done in the same places you'd rent movies.>>12255114Agreed with this list and I had completely forgotten James Bond Jr. existed even though I played it. Speaking of "popular in Brazil but don't see talked about much in english speaking sites" every other Brazilian I know apparently grew up playing Cadillacs and Dinosaurs on arcades which I somehow missed out on and only played recently.
>>12253142We got mortal kombat 2 on sega in 1997
Hi! I'm from Japan. I was born in 1984 and i played Tamagotchi in 1996.
>>12255114Burgerfag, here.Rock n Roll Racing was basically the spiritual successor to R.C. Pro Am and sadly underrated.Biker Mice is one of those higher quality licensed titles, the kind Konami and Capcom were known for back then. Goof Troop gets brought up all the time here in co-op threads.Admittedly, I don't know anything about the Top Gear series.JBJ, however, is the typical shitty licensed title. Neither the game nor the cartoon it's based on had much of an impact here.
>>12253142Space Rangers series in Russia was very popular in 00s. It's a mix of RPG/turn-based tactic/text quest/arcade with the fully simulated world and NPCs which exist and do war/piracy/trade regardless of your participation. SR2 also has optional RTS battles.
>>12255149The only thing I can think of is probably Germany and work simulation games.Pic related isn't retro, but I'm sure there are many pre-2008 examples out there.
