This generation sucks so bad that zoomies are playing old games now.
>>727643245>buy 50$ chinkheld>plays like 80% of all good games
>>727643245anon i'm 35 and all i play is old games. i've been doing this since 2012. indies and classics. that's it. i'm literally playing snatcher on my steam deck right now.
>>727643245If my students are well behaved and finish their work early I boot up dosbox and let them play scorched earth. They're really in to it. I think that most games they've experienced have xp grind or some kind of meta reward or persistent world or objective. The idea of a game that you just play until it's finished is new to them. Granted they're probably too young to count as zoomers.
>>727643245Does their old PS3 count?
>>727643245Something similar happened to television. Instead of watching all the newest goyslop, apparently kids and teenagers prefer binge rewatching 90s and 2000s TV shows on repeat. The slop makers are in a panic over it, because the earlier assumption is that the goy cattle will consume anything as long as they're trained to like it during childhood.
>>727643245I feel bad for them if true. This shouldn't be happening. I mean its cool if they want to like retro games but not if it comes at the cost of the modern industry sucking so bad that they feel forced to.
>>727643245"Retro gaming" probably means xbox360 and minecraft for zoomers
>>727644589That's exactly what I feel.
>>727643245>24% of Gen Zers now own a retro games consoleDSes don't count
You obviously wanted a stupid and tired old good/bad new bad/good fight, but instead let's get *very slightly* more interesting.Hows about a generation ranking?4 > 5 >= 6 > 8 ~= 9 > 3 >> 2 >>> 1 >>>>>>> dog shit >>>>>>>>>>> 7
>>727643473>50$ chinkheldi got gifted one of these and it has a surprisingly vast and good game gallery lol
>>727643245>nowretard
/v/ is not ready for gen z, who are "Roblox only" gamers and literally have panic attacks when they use different platforms.
>>727645495>PS360 era last
>>727646296Do you mean gen alpha? They are the ones that aren't 18 yet. Gen z have been among us for several years now. They are the gen that have been playing the games in the last 15 years. The oldest ones are nearing their late 20s.
>>727643245>Playing old games nowIt's fucking been like this since the late 2000s/2010s
>>727645495Hardware releases have gotten too out of sync for "generations" to really mean much any more, I think. But for me, you're underrating 3 (I'd put it above 8, the NES library was very good and makes up for a lack of console competition) and overrating 1 (there's basically no reason to ever touch anything from this generation nowadays).
>>727644589It makes sense. They can either pay $200 pajeet coins to "enjoy" a temporary license to an always-online piece of slopware that will occupy the majority of their hard drive space and occasionally scan their computers for scat porn to send back to an AI data center to create more scat porn, or they can download an emulator and a romset for free.
Are you sure it's not just zoomers being poor? New BF is pretty good...
>>727643245I’m not buying this “la based Zoomers are flocking to retro games guys!” I belong to several retro gaming and collecting groups and nearly everyone is late 20s or older. The average age is probably late 30s in most of them. Every Zoom Zoom I know either plays Minecraft, Roblox, or Fortnite, or they don’t play anything and just watch ecelebs play and talk about games.
>>727643245No shit>new games are $70-80, have no guarantee of being good, and require thousands of dollars in hardware to even playvs>time-tested classics you can download for free and play on the phone you already have
>>727644201oy vey dat's very anti semitic
>>727644056>>727644724>>727644878If you google the survey in OP, the definition of retro in the survey is "Magnavox Odyssey (1972) through Xbox (2002)"You made up your own fictious conditions to get mad at and complain about. Why?
I bought an Everdrive for my GBA a while ago and I've just been mowing down that fucking system's library since. Practically half of the SNES library, Minish Cap (with the Wind Waker voice patch), the Sonic Advance trilogy, FE6-8, the Golden Sun duology, Pokémon Clover, Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, my GOD I forgot how cool this system was.
>>727649223Anon someone born in 2008 is an adult now. You're thinking of Gen Alpha.
>>727643245>retro gen consolethe ps4?
Call me if they put a real retro console: Sega GameGear, Atari Lynx or the PSP in the giant stock photo>>727644201because old Tv shows are free in Youtube meanwhile Streaming services only have a catalog of 2016 and later. And old shows not have black people, "They" pronouns or the blue and pink flag everywhere.
>>727651113forgot pic
>>727644589People still love 80s movies
>>727643245I think zoomies are pretty susceptible to memes and groupthink so the rampant millennial doom posting about how shit games are has infected them and they have begun to believe it despite not experiencing any decline. Every generation goes through a cycle where they shit on new games, gen X did it too but millennials just ignored them.i do happen to think games are worse but i also think that before the internet people just ran with what they had.
>>727651076No one is talking about kids born in 2008. I’m talking zoomers in their 20s aren’t playing shit except what I described.
>>727643245Escape from what?
>>727649223
>>727649223Thanks for the pic. I saw the Area 51 arcade machine young at a local community college and liked seeing her cleavage though I didn't really know why at the time.
>>727643245Let me guess, you need more?
>>727649913>being lostBeing saved?
>>727643927Basedthey're learning early that modern games are scams and old games are where the fun is at
>>727643245>Everyone will be priced out of next generation
>>727643245Zoomers have no soulAll their shit is from other generations
>>727643245That's a good thing. This is such a young medium that it would be fucking stupid to not play "old" games just because they're more than ten years old
>>727643482It's normal for every generation to stay attached to the media of their youth. The oddity is youngsters getting into things made before they were born.
>>727654631Yeah, millennials never obsessed over the 70s and 80s, and gen X never obsessed over the 50s and 60s...
>>727643473Bought mine earlier this month and it's been the best $50ish bucks I've ever spent. Small, portable, great battery life, plays up to PSX flawless and can handle a lot of PSP and DS games fine if I really need it. Frankly it makes me a little sad that GB, GBC, and GBA style games are basically completely abandoned to touch screen phones (and I guess the playdate)
>>727654735>Yeah, millennials never obsessed over the 70s and 80swe didnt... I remember even thinking the original starwars was crusty and old. The oldest things I was watching was late 80s/90s shit like akira, ghost in the shell and evangelion. There was no reason to give a shit about anything old, we had so much good media.
>>727654529It's not their fault they were born into a soulless, by the numbers, gacha and microtransaction riddled hellscape. We were lucky enough to have lived through the height of videogames. I don't mind them tagging along on our coattails as long as they speak like human beings and don't try to change things.
>>727643245I've genuinely found more fun playing Bubsy for the SNES than I have for anything modern as of late. It's not even a bad game, just tap run, and every level has generous checkpoints and shortcuts.
>>727655117>I remember even thinking the original starwars was crusty and old.How? Star Wars had a huge comeback in the 90s because of the 20th anniversary, the VHS releases, and the Phantom Menace. The Star Wars drought happened much later.
>>727655117Whatever, retard. You were the odd man out.
>>727655206>How?Anon is a zoomer talking out of his ass, that's how.
>>727644201Maybe if they stopped making everything visual vomit and learned to slow down for half a goddamn second and let a scene sit without audio mixing that will blow my eardrums out my anus I'd want to watch their shit, but we can't have nice things so I watch Hey Arnold and Spy Kids 2.
>>727649223"le based zoomers/le gen Zyklon" is massively overblown PR, mostly cashing in on clicks from people with Millennial Derangement Syndrome
>>727655206My introduction to starwars was phantom menace, why would I have any attachment to a film that released decades before I was born? it wasn't even the most exciting pop culture film the year it was released in, the matrix came out at the same time and completely overshadowed it. Growing up in that era every year some new crazy genre defining media was releasing, there was no reason to look back.
>Retro gamingIt's Mobile gaming. Gen Z and Aleph are more aware of how fucked cellphones are making them. That and they are extremely performative, so being seen on a handheld instead of a cellphone is "aura farming" or whatever AAVE slang they would call it.t. Sees hot teen girls playing DS games
>>727655205Once you become a Bubsy chad you earn a spot in the based gamer hall of fame.
>>727655704lmao
>>727655845jesus are they really that big?
>>727647581Fair, and I actually originally considered putting 3 right after 6, but a handful of *really fucking good* modern things pushed me over the line, and separating 8 and 9 doesn't work super good (as you say), so they stayed together.And yeah, if we're trying to be really objective about it, 1 is pretty bad... but I wanted to make the point extra clear for people like >>727646404 that 7 deserves to rot. Even if on its own merits it was better than 1 - which I'm willing to consider but not agreeing to yet - the damage it did strips away a lot of points. We still haven't recovered from 7's mistakes, and at this point I don't know if we ever will without another crash.
>>727643245That's cool
>>727652558Less actually. The Miyoo Flip Mini is objectively superior. More compact, better looking, no useless sticks (genuinely even if you wanted to use them they are impossible to use on that system), sharper/higher PPI display, lower price and superior OnionOS.
>>727655845American women are completely ruined. Self-centered, narcissistic and entitled.
>>727649223>collectingBoomer mentality
>>727656335Everything looks bigger when held with small hands.
>>727658726>American That's a chink, or a Malaysian. Same shit.
>>727658962Yea like I said American.
>>727643245It's because their first console is now considered retro even if all the games stil look the same
>>727658962>Same shitAmerican
>>727652201the internet. while the internet is a great thing in itself, being online 24/7 is a hidden burden for most people.
>>727654631anon i never played snatcher when i was a kid. it's a part of my 25 year long backlog. i have no nostalgia for snatcher. it's just kind of a fun game.
>>727643245my feeling tells me its more like:>millenial parents give kid retro present>kids go back to fortnite every day>parents pick up the gift that was for the children
>>727643245the 'retro console' zoomers are playing is a 360
>>727644589blame valve for fucking up their steam algorithms to such an extent that only slop does well
>>727655562>that eraMy 9 year old ass liked that fucking batman and robin movie when it came out too
>>727645601Get one of Anbernic's XX handhelds.You can load up whatever OS you want and setup your own gallery.I use muOS on my RG 34XX, but there's like 20 different ones you can choose from.
>>727655845>playing vidya in publicKek that's embarrassing
>>727658726it's because the men are ruined from phytoestrogens and microplasticslow test men = society fails
>>727654631Something weird is definitely going on with zoomers. Not all of them but a pretty significant chunk of their generation are really, really into things you wouldn't expect like watching reruns of old game shows.
>>727661887I'm 31 years old. I watched all the way through Hogan's Heroes and Red Skelton christmass specials when I was a teenager and genuinely found them to be entertaining media.I'm not surprised younger generations are enjoying shit like Chrono Trigger and Super Mario 64. Good media is good media.
>>727651727Everything on YouTube seems to be rage bait, and “old good, new bad” content. They’re not wrong but it just depressing how everything is capitalizing on nostalgia.
>>727643245 Based. Just bought a Red Magic 10 Air and going to play emulators on it.
>>727663147You can use winlator for older PC games like gta5 or skyrim
>>727655845>just let me sit my phone down and carefully angle it, hit record, sit back on my chair, act natural while pretending to be in the middle of gaming for long enough to get some footage, pick it back up and edit the video to post online for attentionIf she had actually been gaming she wouldn't have been able to make this video.
>>727644201>growing up in the 2000 to early-2010's>every single year multiple banger games are releasing with vast improvements or at least tried new things>mid-2010's to current year>lucky to get one, maybe two good AAA releases a year>their gameplay designs, graphic fidelity, storywriting have all stagnated or plainly worsenedat least the AA and bite sized cheap indie releases are flourishing while large studios continue to burn money on 7+ year development commercial failures.
>>727652726Account is probably based in India and thats the reaction he wants from you.
>>727644056The NES was retro when the Ps3 came out and the Ps3 is as old as the NES was when it came out so I dont see why not
>>727643245why do bongs insist on pluralizing nouns when they're used as adjectives? It's not a "games console" it's a "game console". Yes, it's a console that plays games. So it is a game console. As in, "game" is an adjective here, not a noun.
>>727650525>through Xbox (2002)"the xbox released in 04 dough
>>727654631yeah anon is scratching that itch replaying a game that came out before he was a 1 year old
>>727644201Instead of being brainwashed by executives in corporations, kids and teens are being influenced by the contents they binged on social media. Don't for once think they're rebelling against the status quo or have gained independent thought, they're as useless and blind as sheep, just flip who whatever is trendy to follow at the moment.
>>727654631>The oddity is youngsters getting into things made before they were born>he forgets about the lewronggeneration trend of the early 2010s when late millennials and early zoomers listen exclusively to music from the early 90s and before Remember Justin Beiber is a lesbian?
>>727664293Take a break from the internet
>>727664934Being fairPic related
>>727655117Anecdote experiences aren't evidence. When episode 1 came out, my friends and I were ranting about how much it sucked compared to the original trilogy.
>>727654631>stay attached to the media of their youth>pokemon that didn't last long at all I'm just drifting at this point and playing what ever I feel like playing.
>>727643473fpbp, kind ofI think about $70 would be the minimum amount needed to get a quality Chink handheld, but if you truly want a huge quality gaymen library for cheap, emulation handhelds are the way to go
>>727643245Gen Z aren't exactly literal children these days, so it makes sense. As the article says, the oldest zoomers are nostalgic for N64/PS1 and the massive combined Zillennial demographic holds PS2/GCN/Xbox nostalgia in high regard. It also helps immensely that old games aren't constantly asking players to pay for battle passes and other microtransactions. You just play the game and enjoy it
>>727664487PS3 will never be retroPS2 will never be retro
>>727644056My personal definition for a retro game is "any video games whose original hardware is a pain to set up and/or is prone to failure due to age". Wii/PS3/360 games have met that criteria for a long time for me
Plenty of kids enjoy older media. It's not weird that they're picking up things like this.I'm pretty sure I was the only listening to pic related while I was in High School.
>>727649640This. I used to pay a ton of attention to the gaming industry and made a mental note of at least 6 or 7 games I was looking forward to playing each year. Nowadays, it's a miracle if I give a shit about more than 2 new games a year. Unironically, they can stop making new games and I am more than happy exploring the current ocean of games I have yet to try for the rest of my life
>>727643245just yesterday my retrogame (RG plus v1.0) started to refuse to turn off its led and it drains battery slowly:-(
I wonder if gen-z was already used to playing old games because all recent games are already just remakes of old games.Gamers and publishers both know. Just like in the real world, sports are ancient and hardly changed, basketball is basketball, Tetris is Tetris, Chess is Chess, just because they're old doesn't make them bad games and just because games are new or whatever else doesn't make them fun or desirable.
>>727665442>I will never be old>I WILL NEVER BE OLDLook at the mirror right now, do it.
>>727665250I play a miyoo mini plus I bought for $40 dollaridoos more than my PC these days.
>a smorgasbord of classic soulful games that invigorate the divine spark in all of us or>AI slop fortnigg battlepass always online DRM hellscape soul sapping corpocracy byproduct
Is this the chinkheld thread? Are they really that great if I have a PSP and 3DS already? Even if they are cheap I don't want to be a buyfag.
>>727649913>make living impossible>people who literally aren't being allowed to earn money don't spend moneyGee whiz
>>727665818What consoles can it run?
>>727666750Up to PS1.
>>727666898PS1 but with no Analog sticks? I mean, it's doable, but I wouldn't want to.
A tip for the future of humanity, if you have nephews, nieces, cousins under the robloxtard age gift them chinkhelds like a r36h if you're poor or a fancier one if you're rich with your curated rom library. The robloxtards are a lost cause.
>>727667229>The robloxtards are a lost cause.Too true, it's literally all they care about. Allowing children to play Roblox is basically the same as allowing them to do heroin. It's child abuse, and that's very little hyperbole.
The fact even gen alpha ipad toddlers are playing old games instead of COD slop has really redpilled me to the fact that I'm not just old, new games are just dogshit.
>>727643245do these chinkhelds come preloaded with games? I assume they don’t; I’ve not messed with Linux but have emulated on android a lot
>>727667713You can find them preloaded, but the ROMs and the shitty third world microSD cards are prone to failure. It's highly recommended just downloading your own games
Modretro looks cool for the cartridges. I dearly miss my SP. Worth or is there some drawback I’m not seeing?
>>727658660>superiorIt doesn't have a headphone jack, which disqualifies it immediately.
>>727667713They do but you're better off just curating your own ROM list on a better quality SD. Having 10000 games in a big pile usually just gives you choice paralysis.
>>727666965I mostly just play GBA, snes and GBC to be honest.The auto start feature of onion os so you can jump back into your games from boot has been great for a pocket carry.
>>727668187I'd go for the flip model, the GBA SP is the best handheld form factor ever created.
>>727667921>>727668016fair point. going to do some digging on the retro snap
>>727663684I know, and I can't wait. I was planning on buying a shitty phone but due to the current circumstances, such as the AI and the RAM crisis, I decided to splurge this time. My wallet hurts after buying a 5070ti, and a sennheiser wireless earplugs during Black Friday, but I will cope.
