Before the advent of wikis and YouTube tuts, how did uncs know how to make progress while playing video games? Some of the games were really hard!
>>738318515You basically sat down and played the video game while actually following what was happening on-screen, from music, dialogue to text.
>>738318586Damn! Actually playing the game to figure stuff out by yourself?? Ngl you uncs were pretty hardcore!
>>738318515i was looking through some old pics earlier this morning and saw one with my now dead for 10 years dog wearing sunglassesmiss you budvideogames
>mfw asked my mom to print out the entire ff9 gamefaq guide when she was at work>took her the entire afternooni do not miss it but I still god the binder somewhere in her house as a keepsake
>>738318515trial and errorreading the manualtalking to your friendsbuying the strategy guideusing a tips hotline (i dont know anybody who ever used these)
>>738318515There was trial and error yes But also in the ancient times there was gamefaqs.com
>>738318586Basically, this.Also, you had less video games in total, so when you wanted to play, you'd just sit down with the games you had and keep playing them until you figured it out. That, or you just dropped the game and didn't complete it. Nobody gave a shit if you 100% a random video game, so it wasn't such a huge deal if you just never completed it. It was only if you wanted to see the ending that you'd still keep working at it.
Codes and Gameshark et al.
You talked to your friends and if no one knew, then you bashed your head against the wall until you made progress because there wasn't much else you could do about it.
>>738318515Combination of several factors.We were kids and there was no social media, so everyone had a lot more time. I even played outside quite a bit, and still managed tons of games and even did fine in school (early 90s).Games weren't actually THAT long, they were meant to be clearable quite fast in fact if you knew what to do. They were just obtuse about it, so it was possible to be stuck for years. I was stuck for years in some King's Quests for example. Of course, I played other games in that time.There were in fact tips. Game magazines had them, albeit sparingly, but people also read them a lot more. They felt important. When I discovered local library had game mags from 80s, I was giddy and kept borrowing them a lot. Gaming media these days... holy shit what a pile of useless shit.
>>738318515magazineBack then people trusted game journalists
>>738318515GameFAQs has been around for over 20 years, as long as people have had regular access to the internet they've been able to look up information about video games>but what about before you had access to the internet?As other people have said, you played the game yourself and tried everything until it worked... or you talked to other people who had the game. They also sold 'strategy guides', which would contain advice and information about games. I still have a copy of "How to win at Super NES games" by Jeff Rovin on my shelf, it's like a mini strategy guide + reviews for a dozen or so games on the system.
>>738318515They used to sell books that would tell you how to do shit for popular games.
>>738318515GameFAQs.com
>>738319071Saved. He'll continue living through our image folders.
>>738318515Lmao supercheats and gamefags nigga aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
>>738318515Having a frontal lobe and critical thinking helps. It's like having your own Navi
Going in circles all over a map looking for how to progress, only to find out some stupid thing bugged and didn't trigger so you wasted 2 hours instead of just loading to last save.
>>738324231This So much this I know anon seethe about yellow paint, but my god those bugs are fucking annoying to deal with.
>>738324441>>738324231Yeah because old games only refer to nes and atari games retard. It's not like you were able to beat every single game from after the SNES released by using logic.And a guide if it was a lucasart game perchance. THIS SO MUCH THIS!!
>>738318515we had shit like gamefaqs, strategy guides, nintendo power, etc. kids would also share tips, tricks and rumors about popular games constantly
I beat NES Willow by making a map of the entire game on graph paper
>>738318586>follow what is happening on screen>get fucked in the ass anyway
You used your brain, I know, crazy
>>738325406Based
>>738318515You just play the video game until you figure it out or git gud. You also talk to friends / acquaintances about it and share knowledge or tricks.
>>738320319>using a tips hotline (i dont know anybody who ever used these)i did this a couple times, nintendo's was free except for the long distance chargei saw a commercial for one of those services that does cheap long distance by routing you through another service and tried to use it to save money on the long distance bill when i was callingi got us scammed cause they charged a larger block of a fee in addition to the cheaper minutes, so unless you were using long distance constantly it wasn't saving money at all
>>738325487yeah, but with no yellow paint, how? like it seems impossible to me.
>>738325712use your brain to see the yellow paint
>>738325712>i am le stupid zoomerwow... clap clap
>>738325406>play kings quest 3>too much of a little retard to know to hide stuff you picked up so evil wizard doesn’t game over you so didn’t get past that part until later>still had funWas a simpler time
>>738318515There were entire game mechanics designed to sell strategy guides or you would miss the secrets for sure.Pic related is one such circumstance
>>738318515I am fascinated by the fact that modern /v/ appears to be full of 30+ males all talking down to eachother pretending the other person is 14. Kids are not coming to 4chan you guys. There are no more "summer fags" anymore. It's just people like you, same as it's always been.
>>738327480What makes you think that?
gamefaqsbuying the strategy guidegaming magsasking someone who is older
>>738327480>Kids are not coming to 4chan you guys. There are no more "summer fags" anymore. It's just people like you, same as it's always been.He says this when are they are literal 15 gacha threads here daily
>>738318515Accept no substitute
