How would you describe videogames from the 90s?
Innocent, pure and a fucking hassle, atleast on IBM PC.
>>731093396Great? What kind of a question is this?
>>731094320>and a fucking hassleI don't remember it being a hassle, as long as you used hardware that was properly supported (which usually meant Creative soundcards and first Voodoo, then nVidia videocards).
>>731093396Innovative. Tons of new game types, tons of graphical leaps, it seemed like gaming was constantly getting better and at a rapid pace. Not this modern era stuff where the PS4 is still getting new games 12 years after release. If you got 3 years out of a GPU back then, that was insane.
>>731093396Superior to video games that came after.
>>731093396Made by people who truly loved video games, played them regularly, and actually wanted to play what they were working on.
gamey
>>731093396Fragmented, social and enjoyable. You had sneakernet piracy, shared strategy guides, enjoying video games of many different technical generations, since stuff like Frogger kept getting ported to newer PC platforms.'98 might be the best year of all time for how many notable video game titles were released, and those were all developed at a small fraction of the current year budgets.
>>731093396Janky but innovative. And there were plenty of games from a plethora of genres to choose from, something for everyone.
>>731093396it was ingrained in people that sunlight was the worst enemy as you can't see the screen. it took the flawed gen 3 and the gba sp to fix that.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C19O5xm51dk
>>731093396Like bags of salty coins and milk
>>731093396new polygons every year
Exciting. 2D was being refined to perfection in the first half and 3D was innovative and interesting in the second half.
>>731093396Fun.Adventure.Sometimes hit or miss of courseBut it was just putting game in and playing. On PC of course installing first, but no billion launchers or console interfaces updates and shit.Just gaming
>>731093396Totally freakin' rad, broseph
>>731094320>fucking hassletry 80s early 90s.90s games were mostly a smooth ride.plus, you sound like an entitled zoomer who couldnt understand or appreciate the reward of gaming in that era.
>>731093396LIMITED you either shared CDs/floppies with friends or someone brought in a CD from some bootleg flee market. Then the CD got passed around and you played the thing more then ten times. Like I did with HL1 Other thing was space on hard drives. Had to delete almost everything off my 2gb hard drive so I could squeeze in an install of Baldurs Gate 2 (five or six CDs) There were no reviews, no social media, net only existed either in your school or dial up and when you ran into technical troubles you prayed for a random patch to float at some web 1.0 site or gave up on it
>>731093396Considering I didn't and don't play strategy games, this is how I describe 1990s gaming:Shit polygonal games, except for early ones like Alone in the Dark. Terribly designed and repetitive FPSs that all wanted to be the next Doom, but didn't have a prayer -- all plodding key hunts that would give you a headache.Some fun DOS arcade games, like Skyroads, Jill of the Jungle, etc.Adventure games that were total bullshit, or amazing . . . and just when they started to get really good like Broken Sword, the early polygonal bullshit came along and blew it all up, because you couldn't do a good adventure with everybody looking like a geometric sex doll, and the smaller objects worse.It's way better now, if you like playing games. And you can go back and play fixed versions of the stuff old nerds had to wrestle with badly broken versions of!
>>731098781>It's way better now, if you like playing games.What are some good adventure games from the past 10 years?
>>731100327The Idiot's TaleWhispers of a MachineKathy Rain duologyGolden IdolWho's Lila?ESPECIALLY The Crimson Diamond
>>731093396I wish I knew more about PC gaming back in the 90s when I was a kid. My family had a PC in the computer room for most of the time I remember (I think some kind of Dell, then later a Gateway, no idea what the hardware was). I'm sure they could've played at least some of the notable PC games from back then. But we only ever had edutainment games like Reader Rabbit, Super Solvers, and stuff like Pajama Sam and Freddie Fish. So I never realized until much later on that PC could also have VIDEO GAME video games tooOf course we were also behind the curve on console vidya too. I grew up with a hand-me-down NES for the entire 90s and next after that only got a used N64 in I think 2000.
It actually felt like real technological progress was being made every year. Developers were constantly pushing new limits and boundaries, genuinely innovative things were being made, new hardware was a huge leap each time. Platforms were fundamentally different from one another, and while ports and multiplats existed to a degree back then, even the multiplats might be extremely different from one system to the next, and differences in design and architecture lead to different systems having completely unique looks and feels. Think of it this way. Imagine growing up in the 90s. At the beginning of the decade you had the original NES in its heyday, and a decade later we had progressed to the PS2. Compare that to what it must be like as a kid growing up now. What real difference is there between games released in 2016 vs 2026?
>>731100938>Kathy Rain duologyWoke slop.>Whispers of a MachineWoke slop.Idiot's Tale looks abysmal visually. I didn't play The Crimson Diamond, looks like a Colonel's Bequest ripoff, is it also woke slop? The other two aren't really adventures. Are there any normal people making this stuff?
>>731101390Eh, you ain't missing much. These old PC grognards are rightfully nostalgic about the fun times with their friends, but today you've got access to mostly better stuff. Here's a list of notable games from the time:Doom Alone in the Dark seriesSystem ShockApogee stuff like Commander Keen and Crystal CavesEpic Megagames stuff like Jill of the Jungle and XargonDOS amateur arcade/adventure games by the bushel, like Skyroads 3D God of Thunder (on Steam) and Mutant Space BatsBroken Sword (They're reanimating it from the original drawings, looks great)LemmingsWarcraftDiabloYou can look around and find other good things, but I prefer gaming now, or emulating NES.
>>731101731>Slop slop slop sloptardsYou're obviously a fucking idiot, so I don't care what you think or play. I never thought I'd say this, but fleshbots like you are as tiresome as any tranny, maybe more.
>>731102073Oh, I know all about 90s PC games now, I just wish I knew about them at the time and got to experience them when they were new. For instance I doubt my family PC at the time would've been able to handle games like Half-Life and System Shock 2, but DOS games from earlier in the decade and classic WRPGs like Fallout, absolutely.
>>731102384Or, you may not have had the patience for them when you were a kid. If I could cheat, I would just do that then, and I didn't have the adult patience required for some of the other stuff. I thought back then that NES games had a more satisfying design sensibility, and looking at the era, I still mostly think that.
>>731101731>The Crimson Diamond, looks like a Colonel's Bequest ripoff, is it also woke slop?>redhead main character in a time where le women were le oppressedWhat do you think lmfao idiot.
>>731093396I hated how white everything was. Fucking stupid.
>>731102073You're literally just listing the most obvious stuff that a third world child would have access to because it was shareware or spread around among school children. There were more good games per month than you listed there for the entire 90s.
>>731102228Woman or gay?
>>731102726Okay, give me some of those gems then.
>>731093396still copied to this day, is how
>>731102798Here's just 1992.https://www.mobygames.com/platform/amiga/year:1992/page:0/https://www.mobygames.com/platform/dos/year:1992/page:0/
>>731098210>There were no reviewsWhat? They were in magazines, and there were dozens (and if considering globally, hundreds) of them.
>>731104621What lol? Who reads that shit?
>>731093396Gaming back the was much better than the slop shit we have today, it was comfy, exciting and games felt rewarding, there were no launchers, chats, discord or achievements, you could fully immerse yourself in the game because there was nothing that could distract you other than your friend randomly visiting your house to watch you play
>>731093396White mans hobby
>>731093396I want to kill billionaires. (In Minecraft).
mom always guilt shamed me to get off the puter cause it was costing a fortune to keep on
>>731095730Post more of this cat fren
