How did the uncs deal with this all the time?
>>737569750We had imagination.
>>737569750Unc blud six seven no cap rizz.Nintendo used ingame sprites in box art because there were too many Atari games that had an amazing cover and then the game was sliding a few squares around.
>>737570185Show me those motion lines on the ingame sprite.
You're a middle aged man, stop talking like you think teenagers do.
>>737570185
You never really had that problem with the NES and on. Most games represented what was happening decent enough to still pull you in, and if the gameplay was good then you didn't mind either way.
>>737569750Nobody’s defending Atari games anymore. NES sprites still look good.
>>737569750We knew the boxart was an exaggeration of what we'd be getting. We knew the developers were constrained by technology so we knew everything was a representation and they were doing their best. We didn't stand in the store looking at a cover and yell "BULLSHOTS, FALSE ADVERTISING" or similar dumb shit. We rolled with it. Because we knew as technology got better one day the boxart might actually mirror what the real game looked like. And eventually it did. It was an enjoyable thing to watch happen
>>737569750Imagination
Where is that one autist who would always reduce 4 panel comics posted on here into 2 panels?
>>737569750>LGBT/v/ OP is braintrotted schizophrenic that dont have imagination News at 11
I pity those who let their imaginations wither away.
>>737570709You didn't know any of that shit, larptard
>>737570264Used ingame sprites, not took a screenshot of the game and slapped it on the front cover.
>>737570758In order to reduce this one you'd have to redraw the whole thing, that's why they don't attempt it.
>>737569750Back then we all knew what games actually looked like because TV ads actually showed gameplay (at first, and not always, but usually) even if was just a short clip at the end of some attention-grabbing skit. As time went on, a lot of ads became more theatrical and gameplay basically disappeared entirely, so it became more important to see the game on a playable demo at a store, rent it first, or see some screenshots with a review in a magazine. There were still disappointments, but I can remember my expectations for graphics always being pretty low unless it was literally the selling point of the game like some of the later FF games.But I basically never purchased a game brand new unless I knew for sure I was gonna like it. I bought random shit based on box art used for super cheap, and GameStop used to let you return them within 2 weeks or something for store credit, so I would just beat shitty games and return them to get a different game until I ended up with one I liked enough to keep.
>>737569750It got better when the snes rolled around
>>737569750As a 4yrold who got to rent a game every time we went to blockbuster, the struggle is real.
>>737570840Yeah we did, and you're angry you missed it
>>737571245I remember renting some medevil vegetales rpg in 1990. It was my first rpg at 4 and was unplayable. Ive always wanted to replay it and I cant find it?
>>737570758>>737570876ten million years in GIMP
>>737569750What do you mean? The box art literally looks just like the game graphics.
>>737569750We didn't.
>>737571686too much text
>>737571805Kek
>>737571632Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom.I was the only one who rented this game as a kid, and when the rental place shut down, they just gave it to me for free. I still fire it up from time to time.
>>737571686All jokes about minimalist edits aside, there's a point to them. The bottom panel would be way better if you took out the guy you added to it, it makes for a better comic when the reader has to draw his own conclusions instead of being spoonfed how he's supposed to feel
Unc here. Video games didn't get good until the snes and genesis.
>>737570124>we
>>737570876The first panel is completely superfluous and the last panel just tells you what you're supposed to think of the one before it.
>>737572145Fuck yea. You are a real one Anon. Now there will be two of us, we can start a general.
>>737571887
>>737572346Now remove the guy you added from the other panel, like I said here >>737572179
>>737572179>>737572405This one is actually way easiest so far since it's the actual panels.
>>737570758>>737570876>>737571686>>737571887>>737572346>>737572179>>737572296
>>737572531keeeeeek now THIS is a joke!
>>737570758Look what you've done.
>>737572531This is just some random observation. I don't feel like this is trying to tell me anything. It's too obtuse.
>>737572645>t. modern audience
>>737572645Like real art then.
>>737572569QRD?
>>737572531>>737572645I dont get it, what political argument is this making?
>>737572760The joke is that Dr. Mario isn't a Kirby franchise game
>>737572708No it just feels like 2 images strung together
>>737572760heres the short version
>>737572760The Far Side version of this.
LOL
>>737570124This. We were all White back then.Now kids get confused if you ask them how they'd feel about not eating breakfast.
>>737569750It didn't really happen.
>>737570709This. You didn't look at game box art and think "I bet it looks EXACTLY like this." That's retarded.
>>737570124fucking BASED it's better to write ones own lore because the devs lore always sucked ass, your own was always better
Imagine the downgrade posting in 1985
>Turn game case over.>Has screenshots of what the game actually looks like.you guys love to fantasize about things you never experienced huh?
>>737570709>We knew the boxart was an exaggeration of what we'd be gettingI kinda miss it when even games did that
>>737572760>>737572879>>737572980>>737573027
the alterative was going outside
>>737572645>>737572913
>>737573271>posts a game 1998 because he's too much of a zoomer to realize OP is talking about video games 20 years before that
>>737573274I like how that one trailer single-handedly did so much "damage".
>>737573292>did Susan let the window open
>>737572145I know this game from Gamecenter CX.
>>737572980
You watch anime and imagine that in the game, I still do that.https://youtu.be/cBH995Y03vE?si=0uF-CKdj9yXD57nu
>>737573038the hell is a clemon?
>>737573271A lot of games didn't have those. I remember thinking it was actually cool that Pokemon did back then.
>>737572145This game is actually pretty cool
>>737569750Why are you talking like a nigger?
>>737569750Everyone understood that in-game graphics were different than the illustrated cover because they weren't retards. Nobody was EVER disappointed that the game didn't look like the box art.
>>737573042But doctor, I did have breakfast this morning.
Did old games have this phenomenon too or is it a newer thing?
>>737573389deep silver was wild back then
>>737573530I remember my SNES games all having them or maybe I just automatically skipped the ones that didnt because I knew they were shit if they didnt want to show the actual game.
>>737572531This is basically the same joke, but much better because the audience is trusted to figure out why it's funny.
>>737571632I actually had the same exact experience. Same year and age too. I hope you enjoy it.
why does this always happen
>>737573840Oh yea some manufactured drama about that bust as well, one of the earlier attacks on gaming IIRC. Good times. I did play a lot of games they published
>>737570124Yeah based I like to play a game as a single pixel throwing pixels and imagine that the rest of the game is good, take that millenials!
>>737574098Yes.
>>737573793Bike Cuck is probably talking about RPGs where early enemies would be like wolves and the last enemy was a gigantic being that looked like a fallen angel. Most of them at least tried to be exciting early if they were going for a big finish, so I can't think of any with a huge disparity between the beginning and end.
>>737574224>RPGsHoly fuck can you not read?
>>737574224i'd say there are a ton of old games where you start on a minor quest and then get drawn into the big quest later
>>737573793Everyone always talks about that trope but I only know one series that did it, and it was fuvking amazing.
>>737574498Epic Battle Fantasy
>>737574276I know it says webcomics. He wasn't talking about XKCD or something. Webcomics that started silly and ended with killing God were likely based on an RPG the author liked.
>>737574674Between oldfags like you and esl zoom zooms like the Anon you are responding too, lot of weird conversations. You are more patient with that dumb autistic fag than I would be.
>>737573793The only webcomics I can think of like this are problem sleuth, and housepets if you squint.Most die way before they can get to the anime bullshit, or are more upfront about what the comic will be about.
>>737569750Literal level 0 apple generation
>>737570586This is actually a good representation of the game though. Everything in the box art can be clearly identified within the game despite the graphical fidelity and the art makes it clear that the game is a platformer.
>>7375761430 is the highest level, though?
>>737573241Valbun resorted to porn?
Vgh, I neeed more
>>737575519You forgot B^U, and, if you will, Sinfest
>>737570709The story behind this picture is wild The kid in the back is literally dead
>>737577287Too much RADiation?
>>737574674>were likely based on an RPGIncorrect
>>73757333010/10
>>737569750I'm an unc and my first console was the ps3
>>737573992Ronnie did it better
>>737575519>>737573793It Hurts
>>737573505That thing Virgin girls have
>>737570185>>737570586*in North America, and only for the earlier releases. They were trying to rebuild consumer confidence, and after a couple of hits they went back to cool art.>>737570264>he doesn't play on CRT where you can see the motion lines and Mario is your real dad
>>737569750Atari 2600 was total garbage, this comic is correct.
>>737569750It only takes a little imagination.
>>737575519So many old webcomics did it. Adventurers, Sluggy Freelance, Schlock Mercenary, most of Kris Straub's, all the furry or troony ones, almost every sprite comic. If you don't remember you're either too young or repressed the memories because they were shit>>737577725It Hurts is special because he planned ahead and did it on purpose
>>737569750I dunno, I wasn't born in the 70s so I didn't experience the 80s gaming industry crash. You should ask your grandparents instead of random uncs online.
>>737572269Yes, that's what I typed.
>>737578446so all games are good and if you say they're bad then you're a mindless zoomer with no imagination
>>737571861HOW FAR TO PARADISE?
>>737573358Nta but 2600 games had screenshots on the back of the box typically. So did coleco and intellivision. No one was tricked, even the dreaded ET has in-game images on the back.
>>737579148Everything can be fun if you have imagination, yes. Kids learn that early in life, we just forget it as we get older.
>>737579148You must have a lot of imagination to have got that from my post, good job sport.
>>737577508I was thinking of Final Fantasy Sonic, which is a webcomic obviously inspired by an RPG that has the same silly to Eldritch escalation. 8-Bit Theatre also fits the bill and that's basically a retelling of FF1.
>>737579419Very interesting. I understood it on games in the 2000s where the back of the box is supposed to get you hyped for how awesome the game looks. In these cases it seems more like a legal requirement so it's not false advertising lel
>>737575247I figure it's not worth just posting "Go fuck yourself" and in this case I figured there was something worth explaining.
>>737571861heh, i didn't knew how to use graphics library but I remember I did a simple shooting game thinking about un squadron in school, it looked like ass, with some kind of vector graphics but it had the portrait shaking when you get hit and that made me happy.
>>737579419The back of the ET package for reference.
>>737573430Someone needs to had four extra panels where the receptionist leaves her desk to check the window, then four more of her checking the window, then four more returning to her desk and answering Dr Mario. I can't fill in the blanks otherwise without seeing it.
>>737573330Very Perry Bible Fellowship.
>>737581021That shit's just been woke slop for like a decade at this point
I played games on my dad's Amiga 1200every 5 minutes it asked me to change diskettes but I had fun anywaythis one was hard, never got to beat it
>>737572308It'll be a refreshing change
>>737573027The far side version should be this
>>737577005She's a leftoid, always assume there's a patreon with nudes somewhere in there.
>>737581548I would also have been hard trying to beat it off to those 8-bit jugs
>>737573241I don't get it.
>>737569750>How did the uncs deal with this all the time?You know how when you pick up the thing that's basically many paper pages glued together and numbered up? and you see letters on the pages forming words and sentences? those words and sentences basically summon imagery inside your mind by using your imagination to project reality inside your brain from simply reading symbols on paper. It's fukken neato, i'll tell you that. You still use your fingers to flip pages just like on your smartphone too, so it's really easy to use!If you've been lucky enough to not get a screen until you were age 10 or older, you too may still possess the power to imagine an apple inside your mind.
>>737582657The apple example is pretty boring. What I'm interested in is whether people reading books usually remember the character description when a character is first introduced and then imagine that character in their head doing the action described
>>737570185>>737570612>>737578330It amuses me that Atari defenders are basically a nonexistent speciesOf course there's the Nintendo legion, but I've encountered more people with passion for Sega, or Neo Geo, or fucking TurboGrafx-16 than AtariThe 2600 has to have the worst ratio between "how popular it was" and "how many people actually loved it"
>>737582752When I read a book I picture the characters as actors even if a movie based on the book doesn't exist yetCuriously I always saw Randall Flagg from The Stand/The Dark Tower as Matthew McConaugheyThen they actually made a movie where he played that role and he was way worse at it than the version of him I imagined
>>737582265Make no mistake, these nurses were a nightmare when trying to escape the hospital.
>>737569750Last time I got a game exclusively for the boxart and the boxart alone was Golden Sun: The Lost Age. Though it sucks I skip the first game and only became aware there was even a first game long after I completed Lost Age I can't say I regret playing the game I chosen just because it look like a sick RPG. Nowadays I don't even play games unless it is a game I already know I will like by pirating/demo/videos.
>>737574224Speaking of Bick Cuck, I read a blogpost of his the other day that was about him on a date and the girl didn't know who he was online until he mentioned the bike comic and she knew immediately that he was Bick Cuck and laughed at him then asked someone in the other seat if they could borrow their phone to take a pick of him at the table beside the comic. I can't imagine how much mental damage that poor bastard must of suffered from that.
The only time I had this happen was during Playstation games, would see these really cool cinematics in FF and RE at the start and then I was left with shitty blurry 3d models on a blurrier background.At least there were games like Metal Gear where everything was made with in-game graphics so you don't feel cheated.
>>737577725>>737578824>It Hurts mentionedThat was a wild ride
>>737582994The horror!
>>737569750Box bullshit completely killed my interest in JRPGs.
>>737570586yo does that hammer bro have tats?
>>737573776no talking on penis inspection day
>>737569750Worked out more often than it didn't.
>>737569750it was kino
>>737569750You zoomers wouldn't get it
>>737573793SMT predate Nintendo and even they had this. It always been a thing but became a lot more common around PS1. Early Dragon Quests had actual endings, it was really only FF that decided you need to end with a god fight. You gotta understand it mostly Japanese making fun of Christianity even though it such a trope nowadays they themselves likely not even aware of that fact. Why believe in god when you can just punch it in the face and possibly even kill it after becoming a "god" yourself? Japanese don't have it as bad as the Chinese who have the whole cultivation thing where they be drinking their own piss with a bit of mercury trying to become immortal. Might sound like I am shitposting but that is how it started.
>>737572760
>>737571861and it looked even better because it was designed to be displayed on crt
>>737571686>>737572346>>737572531>>737573330>>737578446holy fuck you're shit at these
>>737569750by coping. boomers had no shows to watch, no places to go, no internet to socialize in, they'd all slowly poison themselves with smoking and drinking until going mad and turning into serial killers and shit
>>737569750This>>737570124Even if I'm from a newer generation (90s), it's that obvious.
>>737570876you can literally just do panel 2 and 4 and have it be a subtle joke about the game not looking anything like the cover
>>737582265>those 8-bit jugs16-bitThats an Amiga screenshot, and like all cineware games from that era they used the 16 but color pallet to draw titty ladies. Cinemaware always built sex appeal into their games, even the queen from battle chess made erotic moans as the rook stone elemental vored her. Pic relayed isndefender of the crown, one of multiple women you can sleep with while unifying england.
>>737584751This is more subtle, methinks
>>737584778>Cinemaware always built sex appeal into their gameswe need that back
>>737570124Why we never got Kitsune?
>game box doesn't even give you a single idea what the game is about
>>737570185>pixels aren't the creators actual vision>CRT is the way the game is meant to lookMeanwhile, on the box...
>TFW you never got to play as this guy>TFW you're not even defending your moonshine still in Appalachia with a spaceship
>>737582870What's to defend? They put out a dirt cheap console and had literally bucketfuls of games (that were some variation of squares moving) and cornered the market for like 4 years. Most families in the US had an Atari 2600 in the era it was relevant.The games had maybe 10 minutes of content unless you were going for the high score. No one formed lasting memories over Kangaroo or Stampede. At best they'd say, "Yeah, that was fun."The sad thing is Atari would literally never top their relevance from 1982 in spite of decades of trying. Chuck E Cheese (Bushnell's other company) had way more success.
>>737569750>zoomer admits to having zero imaginationYou faggots being mindless golems really is true
wtf were they thinking when they drew this blood-eyed abomination?
>>737584195god i love this color palette. Space Quest, Invader Zim, Duke Nukem
>>737570185*in AmericaAtari almost killed vidya in the west by allowing any retard to ship a game, which is why that Nintendo seal was thing a as well.
>>737585941>>737584195wait no i meant Commander Keen, not Invader Zim
>>737569750
>>737586234Bruh.
>>737586234The nintendo experience.
>>737569750Berzerk stills holds up.
>>737570758
>>737569750Same way zoomers do with gacha
>>737584778House of the Rising Sun box cover.
>>737586627Lol, I meant Lords nothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4bFqW_eu2I
>>737586234My favorite game
>>737569750I didn’t. If not for FF3us/6j, I would have lost interest in gaming.
>>737586627Western gamingnwas even more fanservice based than japan back than. I cant believe it went so wrong, people not understanding what gamergate was, and coporations purging everything good in this world.
>>737586780We should start making a list for /divorcecore/.I bet we would get some interesting games mentioned.I was mostly playing Bootleg NES games at the time so I'll add Super Contra.
>>737581948That's actually pretty funny on it's own. Spot on.
>>737586780>Digimon movie>Angela anaconda on coverDid I miss some epic crossover, I never was into digimon as a kid
>>737587079>gamergate caused the early 2000s wave of puritanismstellar post
>>737586234
Are you saying the box art was a misrepresentation of the product?
>>737587079Ad from 1990s UK magazine
>>737587363bongs were far too horny
>>737587363DEREK SMART'S DESKTOP COMMANDER
>>737587516>jeet nation>blacked & bruised
>>737587260May have just been an NA thing, but they did have a skit of it run before the weird recut version of the "first" movie when it released here.
>>737572145I can masturbate to this
>>737587516>bongs too hornyAd from 1990s US magazine
>>737570124fpbp the golems will never understand
>>737587649I always loved this post because it's so fucking retardedI wonder if my 5 year old nephew will think he caused my sister to break up with her boyfriend because he cried when they went to watch a movie at Legoland that was too scary for him
Why do you think they went outside all the time? If you brought back all the modern tech and games to a kid boomer they'd be scrolling tiktok and playing roblox not splashing around in mud puddles.
>>737585342>pixels aren't the creators actual visionThe actual visision is the manga style sketches they did.The graph paper grid artwork is what was created for programmers, the pixels were never meant to be squares, they were just memory adresses on a grid. What would appear on the tv (with rounder oval pixels found on a CRT) is what they actually wanted. Japan sent all the art assets to nintendo of america for marketing. Nintendo used the blocky graph paper images instead of real CRT screenshots as they liked the simplistic look of it for advertising.
>>737587841Blaster master is one of the few NES games that had genuine pixel art on the cover.
>>737582752>whether people reading books usually remember the character descriptionJesus fucking christ lmao you are genuinely retarded. the world is fucked. an entire generation that cannot even fathom remembering a fucking character
>>737588264I'm 36. I'm saying I don't personally remember 400 pages later whether the author said on page 1 that the character has a big chin or notö
>>737588343Aphantasia it is, or as I like to call it: NPC.
>>737570185They stopped after a while.
>>737577287Uh huh. Sure. And my dad works for playstation after winning The Tester.
>>737586780Kek
>>737569750Serious answer from a sad old man, it was just a risk you took. When you were picking out a game at the store, you though long and hard and weighed every choice carefully, asked kids at school, rented it at blockbuster first, or you brought home superman 64.
>>737589897>cannot be displayed because it contains errors
>>737590812>>737589897fuck me i tried reuploading and catbox is super buggy failing to properly generate the file url every single fucking time
>>737590812Your system just got infiltrated bro
>>737590985catbox is an absolute piece of fucking shit and I don't know why anyone uses it ever for anything, there are better options for literally any type of file, like streamable for videos, or imgbb (or just imgur if you're not afraid of being called a redditor) for images>>737591027kinda hot
>>737581548>this one was hardheh. hehehehe. i'm sure it was hard and i'm sure you beat it.
>>737573038This one is good. Laughed heartily.
>>737569750You learned that a game's trailer isn't gameplay. Loads of trailers had CGI back in the days and kid me would go "Wow, what good graphics!" Just to be let down again and again.
>>737569750It actually really fucking bothers me how much I share a space in this hobby with people who don't even engage with "games" as a basic concept. They'll pump out open world grocery store shopping checklist slop for all time just because these people are incapable of parsing any kind of abstract premise.
>>737593386The only real problem is big publishers focusing entirely on huge-audience slop to the point where they think they HAVE to spend huge amounts of money on each project, while the indie scene is the biggest it's ever been, instantly disproving that assertion. Small developers do plenty of innovation and experimentation, but they're frequently limited by their access to knowledge and resources. If the big publishers stopped being retarded and went back to supporting smaller teams with a network of resources for development, like they expressly used to a couple of decades ago, they could still make piles of dosh AND things that are good for smaller audiences. But they're too fucktarded for that and instead prefer to burn hundreds of millions on filth.
I didn't like games until 16 bit graphics could make a vague semblance of what the creators intended.
>>737588940BETTY SPAGHETTI
>>737569750xoomers: they didn't. industry crashes.xillennials: read magazines to figure out which games are actually good and which are shitzillennials: eat the shit
>>737581948Why is this actually funnier than the original?
>>737570124S0VL
>>737570709>the equivalent picture from then would be from 1956I need a lie down lads.
>>737571861
>>737569750I mean, it's just like modern indie games.
>>737582657Have never been able to ascertain where I am on this chart. I just know I'm neither 1 or 5. Seems to depend on how hard I'm actively daydreaming.
>>737596198I bet you do grandad
The shitty games from back in the day where the peak of modern home gaming. So even moving two cubes around on screen had a level of wow factor to it. It's the same way early movies had no sound and then holy crap talkies! Wow! Amazing! They didn't sit there thinking about HD streaming in 2026 when watch a film in 1927.
>>737569750Why do you think we still demand to see gameplay?
Because by the SNES you could easily tell what you were lookin at.>MMX>Battletoads + Double Dragon>Contra>SMW>Yoshi's Island>LTTPSprite work is a lost art>>737597984lolfag
>>737570124I respect the creativeness and effort in MK's backstory, yet it never grabbed me at all desu.
>>737569750let me guess, you need more?
>>737577005it's clearly an edit
>>737574498Oblisk was actually that fucking big?
>>737569750we had imagination. same reason why i think a lot of remakes are shit compared to the originals. you quite literally do not even see the graphics after 5 mins of playing, it's all patterns and concepts (if you're white and you have a brain capable of such abstraction)
>>737569750>I hear that this bool has cool characters and story and settings and technology and combat and intrigue>buy book>it's just words on a page there is no imagerynigger detected
>>737570185freaking 1337 boxxy fag shit, yo! this is worse than the time the narwhal baconed at midnight, batman! alex, ill take "dubs GET" for 6 gorillion
They didn't. This is the exact reason why the video game industry crashed in 1983 and Atari went out of business.
>>737569750It was a crapshoot. Sometimes the game measured up to what the cover promised, and sometimes you got Solstice
>>737582752snape was very different in my mind than how rowling drew him
>>737570124Soul...
>>737607180I wonder what zoomers would do without Harry Potter and Pokemon being the only media they know.
>>737583737date cuck
>>737570124>We had imagination.You never had imagination, generations past and present never did. You played it because it was the novelty of the time, nothing more.
>>737581948>>737596049>Why is this actually funnier than the original?Due to being a single panel, Far Side often present a humorous scenario that was about to occur, or had just occurred. In this case you get to imagine the results of Kirby inhaling Dr. Mario. Which may be a more amusing scenario in your mind than what was in the original strip.
>>737607283going to the town Inn and selecting "with a meal please" lead to a lot of dialogue between party members in Grandia. and after each story part, probably half of the townspeople would have new dialoguethat stuff rules when you're eleven and have no responsibilities
>>737569750>How did the uncs deal with this all the time?You'd look at one of the videogame magazines in the grocery store to see what wasn't shit. Might not buy the magazine; but just flipping through it for the review scores would give you an idea of what you should check out. Then you'd rent a game with a decent review you were interested in at the video store and if you liked it a lot then you'd buy it.Now I watch lets plays on jewtube.
>>737596049You might be British.
>>737582602>I don't get it.She raped the young boy.
>>737587920Can't believe I had to scroll this far tor this
I despise 'people' born before and after me.
>>737604603It was a city.I have no idea, I thought it was weird too when I saw this pic.
NES era is as far back as I'll go. I tried a few Atari 2600 games and it's just not fun.
>>737609149Feud was pretty good
>>737573271ayo dis nigga neva played commodore 64 fr
>>737569750A little bit but it wasn't usually the graphics. It was the genre of game that would jumpscare you if you picked up a game solely based on the box art.Now you know exactly what you are getting because everything is the same.You think you're booting up a Mortal Kombat clone and it's actually a text-based strategy game
>>737572569
>>737608628>you never had imaginationYet everyone is still obsessed with franchises created in the '80s and '90s.
>>737609149>>737609149>>737609149I have to agree with this guyPre nes games suck
>>737582870I have zero nostalgia for anything pre-SNES. The only NES games that even sightly hold up are the Mario ones and Mother. But both of them are far better done on the SNES, anyway.
>>737609317UWU
>>737586627That sideboob. Nice
>>737579131That's what WE typed.
>>737582657Is it a bad sign if I can't picture not being able to picture the apple?
>>737609665
>>737569750I doubt anyone here is old enough to have grown up on Atari. NES was when games started to look like things and you'd be middle-aged if you grew up with that.
>>737609101Based on its size it’s a fucking artificial moon one can see from the other continent
>>737587079It hurts. You get so used to how things are, you forget what it was like. Then you play an old game and you see every single character was white, and every rrelationship was straight, and they actually made an effort to present the women as characters that men would be invested in knowing/helping as allies.It's just all gone globo.
>>737609809VCS games were largely shit, too. Aside from a few like Berzerk and Asteroids, most were buggy and ugly as fuck ports or original trash.t. had a VCS
>>737571686Still too on the nose.
>>737569750>How did the uncs deal with this all the time?they didn't
>>737587216>she she when when when mae maewhat
>>737573241https://files.catbox.moe/fkcqf3.png
>>737611928uoohh it's so clunky
>>737572145>DEI garbage
>>737574224Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon has you start by going to literal preschool and ends with you fighting the embodiment of all the negativity of the universe or something like that. All the adventures you have while in school are part of organized school trips or at worst a prank by some mischievous pokemon who meant well and were just trying to have fun
>>737572246Sort of agree. NES had enough good games to play, definitely wasn't the majority. But you could marathon all the good NES games for a good two months before you ran out of shit to play. I definitely can't go before that.>>737577508The main one I can think of is Homestuck where you think the concept is us using prompts to get this kid out of his house, but the main cast is fighting multi-dimensional time-traveling planet-buster entities by the end of it all. Not just RPG inspired, it's RPG-derived. Prequel is getting to that level of powerscaling, and I could see it for Ava's Demon around the time I took a break from reading.
>>737587516fucking simon cowell jumpscare
>>737608624holy grim
>>737587265I'm pretty sure what he's saying is that gamergate was a reaction to an artificial, top down wave of puritanism, feminism and forced multiculturalism but was presented as if it were an isolated incident of "misogyny" caused by nothing in particular
>>737582870anon, consider how old you need to be nostalgic for the atari 2600, it's not exactly surprising that there aren't many people into it. the games are so fsr away from our modern understanding of the medium.it's like fans of early early 1900 movies, they exist but nowdays they're a niche of enthusiasts.nintendo is a brand that is still relevant (and the avgn turned into general internet culture).>>737587649it was a thing in italy as well i remember liking that weird show as a kid
>>737570124>Ninja1>Ninja2>GongorzoPure soul
>>737570124cuck mindset btwpay money just to do the work yourself
>>737569750In my mind NES games look like modern 2d games and gen 5 and 6 games look like 4k ultra pc games.
>>737570124But that's dev material? I mean that's clearly John Tobias's art right there. How the fuck does this image relate to your post?
>>737569750>>737570124as a zoomer, i cant imagine what it was like to live in an era where games were so mysterious and you had to figure out everything on your own with no other options. must've been fun
>>737570124>>737573194>>737574098>>737615360holy shit you're retarded, that image is the developers outlining the lore for their own game, not a fucking player.that is literally a design document for a game. and yes, developers wrote those on notebooks and napkins at the time.a player didn't make that, you goddamn retards. nobody was "figuring out" shit.
>>737570185>cover art is mario doing ACE exploit to beat the game
>>737615360I'm not as ancient as some of the posters here, but strategy guides and video game magazines have existed for as long as I've been playing games. Didn't help with super obscure games, but whenever you got stuck the shop clerks didn't give a damn if you read the guide for a little bit without buying it. Of course you had to wait for the next trip to the mall or game store as a kid.
>>737577282>SinfestO God...Is Tats still in his NaziLarpPagan phase?Or is he finnaly switching?
I dunno man, this boxart looks pretty accurate to the gameplay
>>737570185It's still amazing how that particular box art foreshadowed the Lost Levels TAS.
>>737615893yes lmao, he's doing a very long-winded comic about WW2 right now
>>737575519Genuinely holds up well.
>>737575519While not a webcomic in the same format, technically Reiger's Heart Comic as well if you take down what the artist put out for its conclusion at face value before he stopped working on it entirely.
>>737569750>turn the box aroundZoomers and their weak gotcha moments
>>737617471How were we supposed to know????
>>737614640>being old enough to remember the 80s is like being old enough to remember the 1900s
>>737585615This is loss.
>>737608628whats it like to be dead inside
>>737616737Yeah, it does. The first arc is mostly shallow punchlines but even then he starts questioning his ridiculous existence and the narration just goes>careful Radd, you're starting to sound deepand he goes back to spouting 80's cartoon bullshit
>>737596373When I was a child I thought this game was Polish because you defend the eagle and eagle is a symbol of Poland, and that the tanks are German.I also always made my own level with eagle behind indestructible stone but everyone did that.
>>737570709This
>>737573038>picI would not turn my back to a "lemon" that has arms, legs and a face, demon are becoming very creative at making you drop your guard.
>>737570709The thing is ive grown up just between the "imagine" and "it looks like the ads/box art"But different games had different draws for me because of that.I liked Super Mario World because i coud bing bing wahoo with some funny music and the gameplay is just more or less a more complicated simon says.And Kingdom Hearts was more deep, you had a 3D environment, numbers, complex characters.I played those for the whole package.Pic rel is the only time of that era where i though that the box art looks way different from what i got ingame.
>>737623416>The thing is ive grown up>And Kingdom Hearts was more deeplmao
>>737623484No shit it was deeper than bing bing wahoo and textboses.Watchu playing at anon?
>>737608628You're boiling with anal rage.
you know how books have some cool shit on the cover and then you open it and it's just black words on white paper? What a scambest case scenario there's lie 12 images per the whole tome
>>737622415Lhx was a file compression format on Amiga.
>>737572269>>737574098>>737608628>>737614928>>737615360How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?
>>737569750Thats why we had this
>>737575519I know two more, "Errant story" (the author recently died so his website are in mourning mode)And "Dominic Deegan Oracle For Hire" where the powerscale goes really high.
>>737570124>Posting visually photorealistic looking game to prove how you had imaginationRetarded post
>>737615812You could not afford a strategy guide as a 9 year old boy, you just had to figure that shit out on your own, or talk to your friends, or steal their strategy guide
>>737623586Don't be silly, I got exactly what's on the cover.
Didn't anyone ever tell you Don't Judge a Book by its Cover?
>>737623586I want LoTR art that isn't derived from the movies so badly.
>>737570758It's an old meme about bullying webcomics and their inability to understand the structure of a joke.The jokes they'd typically tell would be structured like>set dressing>one liner>set up>punchlineYou only need 2-3 panels for these kinds of jokes.You probably could reduce OPs comic by taking out the first panel but then you'd lose the set up of excitement on his face. A commercial comic might put the box art in the first panel, but that's still 4 panels I suppose. I'm not a /co/fag
>>737624281My local library had issues of CVG, that got me though a lot.
>/v/ school of comics>Actually make it worseYou guys suck.
>>737624918>words words wordshere, I fixed it for you
>>737569750Games were fun back then.
>>737625305Games were never fun
>>737624281Like I said, I would go into the store, read them, and memorize how to unlock the thing or get through the next part. Very rarely I would have my parents buy me one, but only on games that were multidisc because I knew those games took forever. Typically, I'd rather they spent money on a new game.
>>737615360I mean I did that even in the early 2000s
>>737582657you can do the same with the tastes of things too, i regularly use it when I'm cooking to use up things before they go bad by figuring if they would pair or not before actually making it.downside is it can make you salivate.
>>737608758Sorta makes me think of Persona 3 FES and P4 Golden. There were so many NPCs that weren't important for the story (for the requests sometimes) that each had a different personality and stuff to say, which changed on average every week, but sometimes daily, depending on events taking place. Which meant, that if you were a completionist autist lord who had an entire month free just for himself, you could easily sink 130 or so hours into these games, trying to hear/read everything, do every request no matter how low the drop rate was (fucking rare weapons requests for Elizabeth in P3FES) and of course do every S-Link in allotted time plus defeat the superboss if it was available on the first playthrough (but usually on the New Game+, and with a good reason - Elizabeth is probably the hardest boss in Purseowner, not to mention you face her alone, with your protagonist only and you better have the ultimate persona on you by that time as she has a ton of gimmicks, including healing herself to 100% if her HP ever drops below 50%, meaning you NEED Armageddon fusion spell properly timed to finish the bitch off). You can't have any persona that blocks/absorbs/repels an element otherwise she'll nuke you down with Megidolaon too strong to keep up with.
