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>go to friend's house>all excited to finally play some BLAST PROCESSING on his mega drive>he puts desert strike>slow ass green turd moving like molasses through a light-brown colored background>everything is tiny as fuck>BOOOORINGjust put Sonic bro
>>12253478I play the fuck out of desert strike and jungle strike
>it was a big deal because I got it for christmasthis is op
>>12253486>Desert Strike was an immediate commercial success, going straight to the top of sales charts.[29] The game remained a top-10 best seller for months after its release,[15] and was at the time Electronic Arts' highest selling game ever.[16]I'm starting to hate morons like you who enter threads just to spout bullshit upon bullshit
>>12253492>dude, this game was a top 10 for the sega genesis for a specific region for a slow month when nothing worth playing was being released!literally no real people knew or cared about this game
>>12253519I hope you have the most pathetic and laughable death to the point no one will remember you without shitting their pants in laughter
>>12253519>series is popular enough to span 5 titles >anon, an intellectual: hurr, nobody cared about the game Seems like, this time, the faggot is not OP.
>>12253519>>12253486It should be illegal to be a zoomer.
One of the PC best sellers in 1997. Spawned an entire genre.
The popularity of enlist-core games died out with the end of the Cold War.
>>12253532>muh sequelscall of duty and fifa must be masterpieces then
>>12253486he is right though it was a major title back in the day. MAJOR.
>>12253545Stop embarrassing yourself
>>12253545nta but you picked literally the worst titles possible to support your point
>>12253547>no argumentyoure easier than your mom
>>12253547Just ignore him, he tries to ruin every single thread
>>12253556meds
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>>12253478Fun game series. You'd think EA would have put out a collection or 2 by now.
>>12253532Can you list them all for me anon? Can you list the spiritual sequels/clones as well?
the Rogue Squadron series, feels like they were once held up as the gold standard for Star Wars games but they've been memory hole'd since
Here's another one
Prince of persia sand of time
>>12253482>furfag gets upset that he can't stare at animals anuses he wants to fuck so he spergs out with retarded nigger-faggot criticisms on /vr/Many such cases.
Mortal KombatDuke Nukem 3DStar Wars SOTEKiller InstinctTurok
>>12253972>Mortal Kombat>don't rememberMortal Kombat is the highest grossing fighting game franchise of all time, retard, out-sold all of its competition with Mortal Kombat 11 only a few years ago.
>>12253482>moving like molassesThe helicopter moves pretty fast, actually. Confirmed for being a shitposting retard that never played the game. Next.
>>12253492I just want to know why OP thinks it's forgotten, isn't that one of the most famous Megadrive games? Also was on other platforms like Amiga. I remember it being one of the games the segabros were showing off when other kids were visiting and we all thought it was awesome.
>>12253478
It felt like every game magazine was treating this as the MUST PLAY game of the year because of how craaaaaaaaazy and zaaaaaaany it was.
>>12254080to be fair, there weren't exactly that many standout ps1 titles released in america in 2000
>>12254104Don't slander my Breath of Fire 4 that way.
>>12253968>Projectmaxxing
>>12254161Copemaxing furfag weeb.
>>12253825love this so much
>>12253545Call of Duty 1 kind of is, yea.
>>12253478i tried playing this (or one of the other ones, i forget honestly) a few years ago because i remember really liking them as a kid, and i dont know if the early missions just werent that good, but i didnt find it nearly as cool and thrilling as i used to.
>>12254296Look at the kind of images you save
>>12253796Have to disagree. That series is usually mentioned whenever there's a nonspecific "Star Wars vidya" thread. If they seem less popular now than might be expected, there are a couple of reasons for that. 1) The original Rogue Squadron has N64 draw distance/fogging, and this is true of the PC version also. It can't be changed or modded out, and it's a major sticking point for some people. 2) The other games are Gamecube exclusives, and historically the results of emulation were said to be poor.
>>12254508>>12254161Kek
>>12253478The game that inspired it. Choplifter. A star of 1982.
>>12254508Look at the kind of games you play.
Dark Forces was an OVERWHELMING critical success while also topping the sales charts, and was also influencial and part of evolving the genre into where it was going (the influence it had on Duke Nukem 3D is very very obvious) and for the longest time it was completely forgotten as everyone would explain to you that the FPS genre went Doom -> Duke Nukem 3D. It's had a small ressurgence in recent years due to the sourceport and the mememaster but even then people would sooner give more importance to games nobody cared about like Shadow Warrior than to Dark Forces which actually mattered.
>>12254625>you now remember gem-grabbing-cave-em-upsThese used to sell computers and even arcade systems.
>>12254625I'd say Raid on Bungeling Bay was a closer inspiration
>>12254670>eating, throwing or crushing. Mr Do is very active!Back when maze was a genre, and making your own was the new hotness. Also Taizo Hori was the orignial namco pimp.
>>12254573The original Atari Star Wars has better claim of being forgotten, sure old fogies who were alive back then know what it is but ask zoomers or even younger millennials and they'll have no idea what you're talking about. And it was legit big.
>>12254670Yeah, and 99% of them were called Boulder Dash. I guess there was Repton but let's not pretend it was a genre when it was mainly just a popular series of games. I'm not sure I'd credit system-selling to it since it was available on almost every platform that mattered. But good catch, it seems younger generations get roundly filtered by this classic.
This probably qualifies too, even some players of Elite Dangerous are surprised to find out it's a 40 year old series. And it was big H. Huge in its day.
>>12254296>darkened pixel where anus would beWas this actually in an official game?
>>12254738It always seemed to me that the sequel, Frontier, is the more neglected game. Elite has its place in the annals of gaming history and its importance is widely recognised, even if very few want to play it now. Frontier doesn't get the same respect, and is typically seen as something of a footnote to Elite. It didn't do enough to impress, it didn't blow the minds of Elite fans right out of their skulls, so its legacy is to be "that other game that came out."
>>12253987Second that, Killer instinct on the other hand was almost fully forgotten, with the expection of that one new game lunched not too long ago
>>12254750It is neglected, I guess because the realistic physics were a great filter, but since it never was as "big" or popular as the original it's understandable it's memory holed these days.It sold well, but the pre-release hype was much bigger than its actual post-release impact. It was too different from the first game.
>>12253540Even had a great parody game.
It got a lot of promotion back then and ended up as a huge success. It's like a proto-Metroid Prime with its platforming and exploratory levels, which also makes sense since some of Turok's staff would move to Retro Studios. It has smooth animation for the time, and you could turn on "Quack" mode to make everything animate all jerkily like Quake. It was also an inspiration for GoldenEye and spawned many sequels. Yet nowadays barely anyone talks about Turok.
>>12253486>>12253519>>12253532jfc, stay on /v/ you cretin>>12253576not him but me and my Dad owned Desert, Jungle, Urban and when the PS1 came out we got Nuclear. There was one more after that but we got distracted with Tomb Raider series.
>>12253532didn't mean to tag you, sorry!
>>12254663I blame Disney for making Star Wars uncool
>>12254980It was already forgotten long before Disney bought it. Even when JK2/Academy were hot nobody cared about the first game in the series.
>>12254890There's a new one coming like every year
>>12254670What happened to this genre?
>>12253478Everyone with a Sega I knew had this game. Some excellent split screen two player gaming.Had two sequels.Even had a secret area where you could go hang out in a hot tub with babes.Completely gone now.
>>12254670>>12255028There was a game similar to these on DOS where you were a miner on an alien planet collecting gems. It's not called space miner, I wish I remembered what it was called.
>>12255035They tried to bring it back a few times, even got some costumes in Fall Guys. Nobody cared.
>>12255048>Nobody cared.Makes sense. It's big thing was 2 player simultaneous co-op in something that wasnt a fighting game or RunNGun. The gameplay wasnt anything special, though I never played the sequels so maybe it got better?
>>12253540I'd always seen that as a 'dad game'. Like the kind of thing a boomer would be to play if he didn't otherwise game.
>>12255040>what it was calledCrystal Caves, also from Apogee. you couldn't google that?
>>12255035Back in the groove came out in 2019, but didn't exactly set the world on fire. It's not /vr/ but it's pretty reminiscent of the original. >>12255054>maybe it got better?It got much worse....that's why it died.
>>12253478Sports and racing games in general.>>12254757KI is a weird case where the "new" game from 2013 was popular in its niche but not that popular. It's not a series I'd expect the average person to know nowadays. Yet the "c-c-combo breaker!" meme is widely known.
This simple thing didn't leave charts for like two years in 1996-1997.
>>12253478CarmageddonVirtua FighterEarthworm JimKiller InstinctBattletoads
>>12253825Ahhh, based game. Logan kicked ASS!
>>12255278Thanks anon
>>12254760Upgrading from the starter ship to the VIPER Mk.2 was the shit
>>12255432That was just VGA Planets for Windows.
I played Soviet Strike recently and it was shit. Obtuse objectives, tons of slowdown, and sometimes you would lose 50 mins of progress if you fuck up around the last objective.Do these games suck too, or are they much better?
>>12255714You just suck at it bro
>>12255742I hate when I suck at a game so hard that it slows down to 5 frames per second and makes playing impossible
Maybe zoomers are retarded because they didn't get to use educational software.
>>12255801Skill issue
>>12255714I belive the two 3D ones have a higher difficulty than the Genesis trilogy. They run better, but each campaign will take around an hour or so to beat. Just play Desert Strike to ease you in since it has the least campaigns in the series, and that it's an iconic one.
>>12255801never played these games, but wouldn't slowdown make it easier?
>>12255851No because when you hold left to line up your shot (for example), by the time your shot is lined up, if you stop holding the left button, input is delayed so you overshoot it significantly.>>12255824Yeah I've heard Soviet and Nuclear are kind of shit. I'll give the OG trilogy a try. I remember playing Jungle Strike as a kid and getting bored by how repetitive it was though, but maybe I'll appreciate it now.
>>12255801You're not emulating it are you?
>>12254635You lost
>>12253486No, OP is quite correct. The Strike series was very popular.
>>12253545>masterpiecesThis isn't about quality, it's about popularity, retard. And yes, FIFA and COD are very fucking popular.
>>12253478who the hell was that supposed to be? some random ass woman? it always scared the hell of kid me because she looked like some kind of a wraithalso lol @ that guard sporting a lever action rifle with a scope
>>12255972Is it not a guy wearing a keffiyeh?
>>12255961Loved the fights in this, and overtime shoot-offs.
>>12255953Says the man who lost.
>>12253486so true>>12253492>wikipedialmao even>it's good cause it sold a lotsad way of thinking
>>12256005
>>12256006???
>>12255824>>12255902Skip the 3D ones and just go right into the Commanche series.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q--FbZZlUvM
>>12256005>haha, it sold a lot? That doesn't mean it was popular???????????
>>12256018I guess it depends on how susceptible you are to fads, and whether you consider fotm stuff to be a big deal or not
>>12256027Yea, I'm not really into the anime fad either.
>>12256046I saw anime at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday.
>>12256002Projecting again
>>12256059Cool, I took a spicy shit this morning.
>>12256015>PC flight sims are hot>military is testing out new prototype helicopter that looks cool>it's the future of light helicopters for the military according to the military and just about everyone else>make game about it, it's very popular even if it's more action than sim>make whole series about it>actual helicopter is delayed by testing and continually changing demands>in the end, only two prototypes were ever built and it never went into mass production or got used in real combat, and was cancelled in favor of UAV's>instead of being an ahead-of-the-curve glimpse into the future of air combat, your games were alternate history fiction of what it would be like if the military actually got the Comanche into serviceI wonder if there's any other examples of a popular sim/action game featuring some weapon/vehicle/boat/aircraft that was slated to be a major part of the military and ended up getting cancelled or shelved.
>>12253478Now that I think of it, there really aren't many Desert Storm games.
>>12255812This was my jam in school.
>>12255961Used to get stoned with the boys and play this.
>>12253482An Apache fires chain gun rounds.On the first round, sanic loses his rings.On the second round, sanic dies.One pull of the trigger on a real Apache can mean 60 chain gun rounds fired into an armored vehicle.We are not the same.
>>12256276It ended up getting shelved because it was more cost-effective to just upgrade the Apache, and then after the Soviet Union collapsed, a next generation helicopter wasn't seen as necessary anymore, because most conflicts ended up just becoming asymmetrical wars against insurgents and third world armies.
>>12256117Coping again.
>>12256276OICW was in a lot of games.
>>12256474Same company. Was it Delta Force Land Warrior where they introduced that gun?
>>12253576>spiritual sequels/clones Megacopter and Cleared Hot.
>>12255942No, playing it on the Saturn. It's already very choppy (pun) to play, but the last mission of Scenario 1 is poison. And then attacking the giant warship and destroyers in Scenario 2 fucking sucks too
>>12256489There's also Cobra Strike, though it has no release date set.
>>12253482Retard.
>>12256489Zeewolf
>>12254076The statue could still be Altered Beast!
>>12254663I memba. I loved to shoot those little car droid things
>>12254826We acknowledge we are gathered to shit post about Turok on Treaty 1 Territory and that Turokland is located on the Treaty Territories and ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Anishininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Denesuline and Nehethowuk Nations
>>12255812Number muncher chads RISE UP
>>12255961Poor man's Galaga
>>12256297Damn them for cancelling the Saddam Hussein sequel!
>>12255986I guess you're right but them colors on the Amiga made it really difficult to tell back thenthe genenis/mega drive version is less ambiguous
>>12256456>and then after the Soviet Union collapsed, a next generation helicopter wasn't seen as necessary anymoreAnon, they picked the RAH-66 about the time the Soviet Union collapsed and kept on working on the program until the early 2000's. The collapse of the Soviets had no effect on it, UAV's just looked like a far superior solution for a 'light scout/attack' airborne craft. Cheaper, less risk of losing a pilot, smaller and stealthier. UAV's proved themselves in Afghanistan, reducing all military helicopters to transport/utility jobs and search and rescue.>Apache helicopter = $125 million>RAH-66 expected cost per unit = $60 million>UAV(the costly Reaper)= $40 million>UAV(that aren't the Reaper)= $2,300 to $170,000This is why we haven't put effort into new helicopters for the military since the early 2000's, and they don't even serve combat roles anymore.
>>12255902>Yeah I've heard Soviet and Nuclear are kind of shit.They're pretty awesome if you get over the picky stuff.
>>12253478return fire was better
>>12256123That's irrelevant.
>>12256489>>12256548>>12256759>>12254902Good shit thanks. I always played these games in passing but never paid too much attention to them
>>12254910Anyone into AG remembers 2097 and W3. It's W1 that is forgotten.
>>12253568I know the first two games were re-released on PSP as part of an EA Classics collection, but it's odd that there's never been a proper Strike compilation yet.
>>12256451For the longest time I thought chain gun was just another name for a gatling. They're actually much more interesting.
>if I played it then it was a big dealok boomer
~12257463Why do you guys come to boards whose main subject you hate? I don't go to /pol/ or whatever you come from to piss and shit my pants in anger
>>12257469op created a false narrative and claimed that a game he was nostalgic for was somehow a 'big deal.' it's an inauthentic thread, which is also not retrosorry not sorry
12257472You've been seething for days after being BTFO multiple times
>>12257479what the fuck is that supposed to mean
>>12257472>anything i don't like is not retro
is this the thread where people get mad at other people who like a game they haven't heard of?
I never played the PS1 games Nuclear and Soviet Strike but the 16bit games, Jungle, Desert and Urban were all good.
>>12253576Battletech: Armored Combat if you want a mech with no fuel management.
>>12253478I played the hell out of this game on my PS1.
>>12255812This has been my pet conspiracy theory for years
>>12257412As is your post you fucking idiot.
>>12257642I never could get into Urban because it's the one that actually does have pretty bad slowdown when even a single enemy is on the screen. Desert and Jungle never had that problem so I don't know what the problem was.
>>12257721What kind of asshole are you
>>12256276Not quite the same thing, since the F-117 saw active use, but because it hadn't been publicly revealed at the time the game was released, they had to make a bunch of guesses about the plane, some of which they got wrong, including the name.
>>12257458Ridiculously cool.
>>12253478I used to do yardwork for a guy just to play this on his son's Genesis. At the time all I had was an NES and thought graphics couldn't get any better than Desert Strike.
>>12254826Turok sold 1.5 million~ copies. Pretty good, and Playstation wouldn't have an FPS sell anywhere near that well until Medal of Honor, but Goldeneye came out a few months later and sold 8 million copies, completely overshadowing it unfortunately.
>>12258283See I thought Turok was known by literally everyone. Come to think of it 99% of the games mentioned on this thread are still obviously famous. So I don't quite know by what standard we're going. Games that were popular in the day but zoomers have no idea about? I guess everything from before 1995 or so is a black shroud to zoomies then. They wouldn't know anything but the games that consistently appear on every "top 10 games you must play on platform" list, and I suspect Desert Strike would still show up on a good number of those.
So if my hypothesis is correct, I guess this would also be considered a hidden gem?
>>12255432>simpleHow many space games can you name that have milligrams of antimatter as the standard fuel? That's if the ships even need fuel.
>>12257510don't quote your gay boyfriend
>>12254826Well, most newer players when this came out for GOG didn't like it that much. Oh and steam workshop killed the modding scene in its cradle.
The biggest 3d franchise of the 90s that was popular with all demographics, defined the direction of the games industry for years and the effects of its release still reverberate today. It feels like we're on the cusp of it being given its proper place historically but still the average person doesn't think highly of it when it's objectively a more significant than Mario 64 and Zelda Ocarina.
>>12258949>Tomb RaiderThis ip is so pathetic now. Her tits are way too small in all the new shit.
>>12253478It feels like people don't really talk about the old school MK games as much anymore
>>12259347Except when the Sega System spammer spammed MK threads for weeks
Who are you flying with boys?
>>12258949Tomb Raider stained its reputation with all the rehashed yearly sequels that staled the formula in a time when games were evolving quickly, and then came the Survivor trilogy which were Uncharted knockoffs.>the average person doesn't think highly of it Maybe in your headcanon world. People still look back on it fondly, and the trailer for the new remake got over 14 million views. No need to seethe about two other games out of nowhere.
Surely Unreal. NOBODY gives a fuck about Unreal in 2025. But EVERY modern game runs on unreal engine.
>>12259623You forgot Tournament :) Unreal Tournament is my favorite game xD I love playing botmatches while whining that AFPS has no players left.
>>12258949Nobody's forgotten Tomb Raider. You might as well post Sonic and Tony Hawk while you're at all.
>>12253825This game fucking sucks. It is literally unplayable.
>>12253478Can confirm that we all thought the Strike games were sweet as kids. Never owned them though, just rented a bunch.
