#attract mode

[ultraviolencegaming]

Street Fighter EX3

[panamabarcade]

99th LEVEL SWEEPSTAKES

Chance to Win a Gauntlet Dark Legacy Arcade Game.

Contest ends December 31, 2000.

[posthumanwanderings]

Trap Gunner (Racjin / Atlus - PS1 - 1998)

[saltyash-draws]

[castleinthemist]

Attract Mode Issue 2 (June 2024)

Welcome to the second issue of Attract Mode. In these I’ll highlight old, new and upcoming lesser known, mostly indie, games that I’ve come across. Notably I have not played them (most I plan to); don’t treat this as a recommendations list but rather a collection of games that have caught my eye and ones I haven’t seen many folks talk about. Please look forward to it.

The Secret of Varonis Hearkening back to the original handheld SaGa games (called Final Fantasy Legend in English releases), The Secret of Varonis wears that influence on its sleeve and it could certainly do worse! From what little I have played of SaGa, it has offered a good deal of exploration in both how your party can be formed and how you explore the world. Varonis boasts a much of the same in how player expression is formed through your party members, the world and their story...honestly I could easily recommend something like this even if you are not a fan of these types of RPGs. The experience it offers is smooth, engaging and different enough from the usual fair while still feeling “classic”. Attraction: Honestly, if this little highlight doesn’t make it obvious, its inspirations from SaGa do hold a lot of weight in making it appealing to me. The range and customisability of party members is also quite enticing.

Dragon Ruins “A dungeon crawling microgame for tired people.” is what the steam page says. And it says what it does on the tin – a nice, bite sized, straightforward dungeon crawler. Attraction: Initially found it through another game from the same developer (Ringlorn Saga). I can appreciate it when a game keeps it simple. And I do love a good dungeon crawl.

Angeline Era Angeline Era brings back the old bumpslash system of combat, wherein you “bump” (walk into) enemies and objects to attack them, rather than using a button. This interaction is even brought into how you talk with NPCs in the world, overall giving it a really tactile feel that is absent with a button press. My impressions from the demo released last month stay really strong and the world and how you interface with it (you discover entrances to levels in the overworld by finding interesting spots and “searching” them, then enter the level with a charming little minigame, as well as the bumpslash combat) opens up for what is at it’s core, a really fun and engaging game that asks you to explore not just itself but the world around you too.

Attraction: Been a fan of Anagelsic Productions for a good while now, they’re always cooking up such interesting things in their games and this one is shaping up to be a real gem of game. If you want something fresh feeling in the action space, that excels at selling it’s narrative through the spaces you explore this is really going to be a game for you.

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And that’s a wrap! This entry was slightly shorter on games than the last but did you notice a genre to this entry? Part 2 will release later this month and if you’d like to catch some indie announcements in the interim (EDIT: Plans fell apart, this is a single issue), I’d recommend keeping an eye and ear out for whatever gets shown in the Future of Play direct next week! Take care.

[bobauthorman]

[cabinet-kisser]

hey did anyone else’s objectum realization come from novazone/attract mode ??? i vaguely remember it, but i’d love to hear if anyone else knows what i’m talking about lol

[ridgeracerpictures]

Daily Ridge Racer picture #54

Rave Racer

[devileaterjaek]

Soul Calibur

[sputnikfucker]

God, I want to play Attract Mode again so bad. I miss that game so much </3

[systemst91]

https://twitter.com/NegativeCrepe/status/1401558117222162446

[panamabarcade]

Sengoku 3 Attract Mode

[posthumanwanderings]

Sega Bass Fishing (AM1 / Sims - Dreamcast - 1998)

[negaversebuffet]

1/2 attract mode for DOWNHILL SNOW (PSX 1998) some very, very good use of titling in this one

[bobauthorman]

[db-39fm]

Project Diva Arcade 1.0 Attract Mode Video