r/retrogaming

I grew up in Japan in the 90s, and some games felt absolutely huge back then.

But looking back, I realized many of them were barely known outside Japan.

It’s interesting how different the experience was depending on where you lived.

For me, games like Sakura Wars and Rayearth had a really strong presence.

What’s a retro game that felt big in your country, but wasn’t well known globally?

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By Esaka station in Osaka, the city where the SNK headquarters were previously located.

If this is the wrong place to be asking such a question, I apologize because I figured that since the show was based on a series of classic games, I could discuss it here.

I just wanted to better understand why the studio would use such a questionable approach in remastering retro cartoons since the more I look at the so called remastered edition, it just looks so hideous in art style.

this title was inspired by the release of Super Meat Boy 3D, available for the PS5, XBox series X, PC, and Switch 2. Alas, I have only a Switch 1. It may be time I get a Switch 2. Meat Boy 3D looks amazing in the trailer. but I can't just buy it and play it without making a larger financial decision.

On a more retro-ish note: The original Sonic the Hedgehog convinced me that a Genesis would be a solid consolation prize when my mom wouldn't spend $200 on a Super NES which had the game I really wanted, Super Mario World. But my mom made it clear that was not happening.

So I told her a Genesis was only $150. She agreed but I had to compromise and go outside more often and do more chores etc. The Genesis turned out to be a really solid console and the Sonic series delivered some of my fav experiences on it.

Funny thing is I still remember the first commercial that got my attention about Sonic. It was this sassy woman in glasses sitting down addressing the camera like a news anchor would, making all these comments about Sonic. I later learned it was a man in drag. As a kid though I couldn't tell that. Kinda funny now though.

Wrote an article about Sonic X-treme for the Saturn, give it a read when you can.

Hey all. Last time I asked reddit to help me out build a PC for a man in a care home and got great responses. Well im back and need help again. So here it goes.

I have an older guy in my care facility who used to play tons of retro games (pac man,galaga, secret of mana,chrono trigger etc etc) and he knew I did a set up for another guy. So my idea for him was to get a small computer and hook it up to his tv and play retro games on those browser retro sites for free. How would I go about it? How would he navigate on his tv to get to those browser sites.A good small/tiny pc? As always im a newbie tech guy(generous) so any info or help is appreciated. Thanks all.

oh and his budget is hopefully under 200,thx