What was gaming like 30 years ago?
>>740230791Expensive, we just rented everything.
>>740230791they had it so good back then
You weren't there so why do you care
I played Diablo 1 online on the battle.net
>Free game on your birthday and Christmas that you had to replay for the rest of the year>9 month allowance for a 2 hour game>Buy gaming magazines instead since they're affordable and let you look at video games
>>740231001>2 hour gamenot true desukids dont't have this mentalitythey are ok to replay over and over
>>740230791Same as now except instead of buying games you rented them and had to try and speedrun them over the weekend. Everything was more inconvenient, by a lot.
Playing Duke multiplayer on Kali95
>Why do you want another Nintendo, you already have oneEugh
>>740230791Checking used game prices on Funcoland fliers
>>740230884>>740231001>>740231089>>740231176This is actually true. I had three games on the N64. They all sucked. I had to walk to the store and rent actually good games. Never beat anything except when my dad bought a PS1 and we played through games together. Some core memories of old Tomb Raider and MGS from that.
>>740230791It was fine. Gaming nowadays is much better.The people who are nostalgic about N64 shit and GBC shit only have nostalgia because along with the gaming scene the rest of the world and their lived experience was better.Video games were mostly a night cap to a long and adventurous day. That's why so many people romanticize gaming in the 90's.There WILL be niggers who reply to this saying gaming was better back then. They don't play video games or care about video games and they have mental issues, trust me.
I often played MK2 with my brother and sometimes our parents would take us to blockbuster or some random video store to rent a game. If exactly 30 years ago, we might have rented Super Mario RPG around this time
>>740231001>was a kid during the 90skek newfag
>>740231508remember, there was no internet mostlyevery footage was precious in the mind of a kidmagazines, etc were ery important
it was worse
>>740231608>having men plastered all over his wallswhat a faggot
>>740230791Ah, when the total US population of a certain group of people was still low enough that you could have full consoles on display outside of locked glass cases.Those were the days.
>>740230791>What was gaming like 30 years ago?Amazing and nostalgic
They catered to big booba enjoyers, it was the peak of western civilization, or peaks if you prefer
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>>740231954
>>740230791A time before consoles became shitty PC's. Good times
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>>740231925why did he choose that angle with a flesh-colored plushie obstructing the lower half of his body?
>>740232179He's just making a thirst trap (a sexually appealing photo/video of oneself posted to social media.)
>>740230791There weren't so many insufferable faggots
>>740230791Good.
>>740232179I thought that was his pants until I read this, you gay as hell for noticing.
>>740230791>Remember having a fuck ton of fun at LAN parties>try to show my brother in law and his brother how fun it is >they don't understand the conceptI miss LAN parties bros. Playing over the internet isn't the same experience
>>74023238090s-2010~ online play was still in a similar realm to LAN play because people still talked to each other in games. Now you can play a multiplayer game all night and not truly interact with a single person.
>>740232457This was the coolest shit.
Why is /v/ so jaded?
>>740232380Playing online is far better than any shitty lan party. Less set up, less work overall, same experience. If you want to hang out with someone irl, do something other than play games.
>>740231925I don't get it, I also don't get that ugly haircut, or why he puts on his glasses first, or why he puts a shirt on
>>740230791Better. No other way to put it.>>740230884No rental services in my country, and I still got like 2 games a year. Mostly by trading at local game stores, and a lot of vidya I borrowed from friends.
>>740232682No, Faggot. Kill yourself.
>>740230791Terrible
>>740232673We have been deprived of pixelated booba
>>740232692What's so good about sitting on the floor
>>740232756There's a reason why you're irls thought it was retarded, and they're right. Keep coping though
>>740230791It was wonderful. Games were fun and kept getting better and better.
>>740232823Why does the black kid get to sit on the couch?
>>740230791best era for co-op games
>>740232912Isn't he asian?
>>740231254>Some core memories of old Tomb Raider and MGS from that.both boring asf and are barely being played by anyone today
>>740230791boomers really thought "man this kinda sucks, i want to pay full price and twice that much for DLCs and ten times the amount for gacha pulls" and got us into this shitty messWhy did you ruin gaming, old man?>>740230884>>740231254Pokemon was like 30-40 € on release and you could rent games and play them for a friction of that price?
>>740232889What are you even saying? My wife? Who still has her N64 and wants to play Yoshi's story and Mario Kart? You have a lot of growing up to do buddy.
>>740231001tell m e one game you finished in 2 hrs as a kid
>>740233037>muh wife out of nowhereUh, you ok anon?
>>740233107is that you lil nigga?
>>740230791well the users you're asking were 30 years younger and likely loved life a lot more in general than they do now so the answers will be influenced almost entirely by that
>>740231608Everyone had that one friend. Shame he OD’d.
>>740233095>"you're" irls out of nowherejust playing the cards i was dealt by some stinky ESL
>>740233082closer to an hour than two but star fox 64
>>740233095I just don't think you get it. I spend time with my wife and friends. We get dinner, open a bottle of wine, "Hey let's play the N64 like the good old days". You wouldn't understand if you don't have a network of people who genuinely enjoy being around you.
>>740233343...You mentioned them first, then the other anon used that against you, then you brought up your wife and Yoshi's Story to a reply chain about lan parties for some reason.
>>740231225Fuck funcoland. Back around 2000 when I was 12 I sold my copy of Yoshi's Island "only game I ever sold to them" with the box cart and all the inserts expecting atleast forty bucks. Brought it in and the fat retard employee ripped apart the box and threw the inserts on the ground like a 3 year old and then handed me eight bucks. Went back a few weeks later and they were selling my cart for fifty bucks.
>>740231608>wearing those uncomfortable ass boots inside>nasty ass mattress with no sheetshe didn't have to live like that
>>740231689yeah i never got that shit, i had a ton of movie posters though since the local rental place threw them out and my dad would get them for me video game posters practically didn't exist unless you had a game store hookup, despite what every tv show kid's bedroom or modern "nostalgia" collage image like picrel would have you believe otherwise
>>740233421>try to show my brother in law and his brother how fun it is>they don't understand the conceptIt seems neither your irls did.
>>740233082Kirby 64
>>740233494Jesus. You can't even read. Seek help. Please.
>>740233547I feel like an idiot for every game I traded into GameStop. "Eh I'm bored of this and won't ever play it again anyways"
>>740233013Pokémon was actually cheap back then. Portable systems were cheaper. Portable - pirate some offline games - renting were the good stuff. Steam in fact shaked a lot of things against piracy over time. It's no wonder Money grubbing cheapskates are angry at its ease of access.
>>740233494gotcha faggot I'm a different anon that didn't read the conversation and wanted to point out youre're poor grasp of english
>>740230791In 1996? I'd be beating your ass in Mortal Kombat 3 and/or Mario Kart, because we can't afford a PlayStation yet. Which is okay because most of its good games aren't out yet and we're better off playing Killer Instinct or smth than Battle Arena Toshinden. Next year will be better. Maybe I'll even get to beat you in Pokemon via link cable
>>740232682sounds like you've never been to a LAN party anon
>>740233671>didn't read the conversationWhy am I not surprised
>>740233614Ok? I'm sorry things didn't work out for you.
>>740232768god i miss tribes
>>740233639>being this newI keep forgetting this place is newfag territory
>>740233739because surprise requires brain activity
>>740233751Eh? I'm not the one posting sob stories about their inlaws
>>740230791It was too expensive. I have an Nintendo while the N64 was out.
>>740233846Uh huh
>>740233872You posted a sob story.
>>740233934>merely pretending
>>740233370and unlike games of today you probably replayed it like 5x making it last 5+ hrsquality over quantity
>>740233082Starfox 64 story line is easily less than 2 hours. There is a good damn reason why those kinds of games are a rarity these days.
idk dude I was 3 years old
>>740234146and then theres zelda which would've taken the average kid 20 hrs or even longer.so whats your point?
>>740234046the only 64 game i truly put a lot of hours in was Perfect Darksingle player bot matches were a really fun time
>>740234186>Cart
>>740233985Look at those boobiesYou know it makes me realize something, all these years I believed that them ruining our videogames was their biggest mistake, but growing older and wiser I realize this, it was making all boobies smaller was really what will put them in the grave, they could have easily made millions of men woke with just bigger boobies in the woke games, the idiocy
>>740234243>so whats your point?>>740233082>one game you finished in 2 hrs as a kidAnswering that question, retard.
>>740233602Probably their heroes, idols and role models. Kids usually have items in what they're interested in and of who they look up to. Most of the posters there are of athletes, wrestlers and bands. He was probably too young to care about sex but there are women, edgy brands and cartoons there too. I could never have posters on my walls since my parents never allowed it but I do remember getting some from magazines and some novelty stores like Spencers
>>740230791>30 Years agoHere you go anon 1996
>>740234295>There is a good damn reason why those kinds of games are a rarity these days.The real reason is because technology wasn't stagnant the way it has been for the last 10-15 yearswe just jumped from 2d to 3d so it didn't matter than games were short now days difficulty has nothing to do with gaming at all and are just stupid things people play through while drooling we could still get a very difficult and fun star fox but it wouldn't sell because nu gaymers hate losing.
>>740234456>one(singular) good gameWhat a shit year
>>740231608Soulful Cool Edge
>>740230884the bargain bin was the saviourwhen someone traded-in old games, they'd go in the bargain bin with a discount that got larger the more tattered the case/scratched the disc wasi pulled FF7, rage racer and rival scools for the PS1 from that bin, and still have them to this day
>>740230791me and my brothers used to buy a new game every week from the flea market, piracy is so awesome, i still have my old pirate copies of ps1 games back when they'd have proper covers n' shit
>>740234516>nu gaymers hate losing.Objectively incorrect there's the shitty fromslop games that sell millions, and a whole genre of rage games, that also sell millions, both of which are extremely short experiences with playtime padded by deaths.
>>740234551>shit yeartheres like 6 games in there on their 10th shitty sequel
>>740231254Memory card were such a massive improvement for renting games. You could actually finish them without having to worry about your save being erased.
>>740230791janky online multiplayer, enjoyed by dozens, in an era when a 33.6k modem was cutting edge
>>740231689>ROFL You didn’t have to make me do that I’m in public man!
>>740231328>Video games were mostly a night cap to a long and adventurous day.We didn't all live out in the sticks anon. I was obsessed with videogames and played every second I was allowed and so did my friends if our parents didn't force us to go out and play. Best part of the day was going over to a friend's house and playing Red Alert or Quake over LAN.
>>740231925>2003>those tattoosis he a biker or into extreme sports?
>>740231775>1992Fun Fact, Mortal Kombat invented the ESRB Ratings we see on games today.
>>740230791Most games were expensive, so if you got them you usually got them on your birthday or ChristmasRenting was always an option. In my town it was 2.99 to rent a game for 3 days. Usually renting a game 2 or 3 times was enough to beat the game and again depending on where you lived, you had a good chance of renting for a weekend and next weekend rent the game again with your save data still intact. Game loaning and trading. You want to play Mario RPG? Lemme borrow your Street Fighter 2. Cheat codes. Games had cool ass cheat codes and I am very sorry they went away. Infinite ammo. Endless lives. Konami code. Big Heads. Kino.Turbo controller. Don't want to endlessly mash a button? With turbo controller you can press and hold and it'll do 60 presses per second.Durability. My SNES fell off the shelf loads of times, you pick it up and it keeps on trucking. Can't say that about modern consoles. Games were released fairly fast. No mutiyear dev cycle. Free play stations at Walmart. A screen, encased console and game, boom. Parents could drop their kids off at the electronic section, shop, then pick them back up. Unfortunately fat neckbeards soon hogged these stations. No internet guides. Got stuck? Hope that next month's Nintendo Power gave you a clue or maybe your friend knew.Blowing into cartridges to dislodge any dust.Transitioning from 2D to 3D. Demo disks for Playstation.
>>740231608i like the computer desk with no computer
>>740234695yeah, its either fromslop or (pic related) that appeal purely to the "im a more hardcore gamer than you" crowd
>>74023079130 years ago I was 5 years old and I remember playing a Command & Conquer net game and seeing the term "lol" for the first time ever in the lobby chat.
>>740232521always found strange that goro never became part of the main cast, he was pretty much the face of the game along scorpio sub zero and raiden.
>>740235108was he lolling at you?
>>740234551>heh I don’t actually like video games
>>740232332Most importantly there was no internet, well, it wasn’t as widespread as it is today and there was no social media for females become e-thots or to milk money off of by selling nudes.
>>740234970Oh yeah, buying a constant supply of AA batteries for the Gameboy
>>740230892Gaming sucked in the 90s. It didn't get good until the ps2
>>740233602Some magazines came with posters, I'm not sure around what time tho, when I was young my parents wouldn't buy anything that wasn't related to science so I had my room plastered with dinosaur posters, which I had to remove when my jw grandmother told my mom they were demons.
>>740232751>3 years full to the brim with godlike gameswe didn't know what we had man
Fuck the 90s, here's some 80s nostalgia.
>>740231608>Had that exact same desk>Had to throw it away 2 years ago because it was starting to fall apart/rot at the edges after some very humid summers because it was pretty much 100% compressed particleboard with faux wood laminate>New desk is just as cheap but has black laminate on it instead and made of 100% compressed sawdustHoly fuck what a trip seeing this all of a sudden, new one is already starting to fall apart as the screws are backing out on their own.
>>740230791Here’s how YouTube was 20 years agoYou just had to be there before the Adpocalypse, Sponsorships, Shorts and AI slops.
>>740232848>dumb woman pretending to care playing one of those trash unironic movie games>bunch of children playing shooters>that one nerd nigga cosplaying >registered sex offender playing with his joystick in public and looking directly at the camerasoul
>>740230884Dreamcast was affordable until it became a hipster collectible, I remember getting a lot of good games for $10-$20 and the Sonic bundle for $120, jfc we can never go back
>>740234813for me it was vagabond's quest for mud kino.
>>740230791pre internet gaming in general was peak. It had a lot of mystery and you often just went into a game not knowing whether it was going to be good or not. Also, games were made with much smaller teams on much smaller budgets, requiring a ton of creativity and talent to make something amazing. It's just something that doesn't exist anymore...mostly.
>>740235363>Jurassic Park>80's>>bbut the bookssure but earthworm jim is in the same picture so that's 90'a
>>740233602Posters often came packaged with vidya game magazines, or got given out at conventions.
>>740235152I was 5 my dad wouldn't let me type anything in the chat. I'm surprised I could read well enough to remember the "lol" at 5.
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>>740232918https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhtpm3lgoCY
>>740235336Japanese magazines still come with posters
>>740235363this was the tv we had growing up
If you had to be around boomers and simple technology you wouldn't find it so endearing, ass beatings over "tracking cookies" were common because "You fucked up the computer looking at bullshit"
>>740230791It was fun
>>740233786
>>740230884Renting and trading. I had three carts, two came with my SNES and one I got as a gift for my birthday later. WIth trading I managed to play like a third of the SNES' library.Also, emulators. Kgen my beloved.
>>740236160I'll never forget that castle flyby for as long as I live.
>>740235740Is this the fastest li'l zoom can bingbingwahoo? No-one played Quake that slowly.
>>740231487>Porsche challenge: 1 per customersDo scalpers really?
>>740236043I made some dogshit trades back in the day holy shit what was I thinking.>Finished golden sun and thinking because I beat it I didn't need it anymore>Swap it with my friend for his SMB3 despite already having it on the NES because I got tired of plugging it in the back of the TV every time I wanted to play it
>>740235740>playing Quake that way>that camera work
>>740234146nobody stopped playing after getting to Venom on easy ONCE. you played it again to figure out how to get to the landmaster levels. Not to mention all the hours you'd spend playing multiplayer with your siblings.
>>740236419westwood my beloved>we're going to have to act if we want to live in a different world
>>740231775It's always charming to see the existence of Landstalker anywhere. Such an underrated game.
>>740232612And even if you think it's a real person, it's a 50% chance it's not
>>740230791liminal
>>740230884Bullshit.We bought used. Most of my library is gamestop used bin.Most games were 5-20 USD.Pic unrelated.
>>740236632Rather genius, actually
>>740236516EA has done incalculable damage to the industry
>>740236448>Playing SMB3 on my way to trade my PSOne and GBSP in to get a NDS>remove the cart in front of the vendor>>No, leave it in:(
>>740232612a combination of people being too asocial or stressed out to bother with other people or just afraid of saying icky no-no boohoo words and getting their money stolen by some faggot mod or the autoban system serviced by some pajeet cunt for 2 dollars a month
>>740236749I didn't know the psx had a link like that.What even needed it? Gauntlet maybe?
>>740234456maaaannnn pokemon was the craziest thing so many GBAs locked in teachers desk
>>740236749wait you could direct connect ps1? what games did you even play that way?
>>740231001>>9 month allowance for a 2 hour gameachievements have had a disastrous effect on how people view games.
>>740235232Maybe if your skin was a certain shade of brown.
>>740236784>>740236843doom deathmatch
Everytime i see all those all pics i start to notice that maybe it isnt nostalgia that makes me remember the 90s so fondly. It was a world literally made to sell shit to children, nothing like that had ever been done before and probably will never repeat itself again. Like, what could possibly be the modern version of a toys r us? A fucking eshop? What could possibly replace all of the constant wave of advertisement we were subjected to? Popups? Unskippable videos on youtube? And yeah im actually nostlsgic for kids conmercials in the 90s, they had soul fuck you.Post 1 picture from recent years that kids in the future will remember in the same way we do with the pics in this thread, just one.
>>740236803oof old internet makes me so nostalgic it hurts on the inside it was such a different time i can't put it into words and i'm so sad young people will never ever experience it
>>740236876>being this old>and also racistPathetic
>>740236843wipeout games, twisted metal 3, doom, destruction derby, c&c, and a few othershttps://game-rave.com/?p=1185
>>740232521NBA Jam is the only good sports game. NBA Street Vol. 2 as well by extension, but NBA Jam is fucking addictive. I still put it on from time to time just to watch my friends scream since it's way too easy to land the most bullshit three pointers.
>>740232521its unreal just how many stores looked exactly like this. Nowadays they're all card shops with the exact same layout.
>>740236927>And yeah im actually nostlsgic for kids conmercials in the 90s, they had soul fuck you.I feel you man, I was born in 2000 so what I say might not apply to you but I'd rather watch that Chef Boyardee commercial at least once a commercial break while waiting for Ed Edd n Eddy or The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy to start, while enjoying whatever was currently on.
>>740237036I only ever played NBA Hangtime on the N64, which was awesome, but i never tried the original NBA jam.
>>740237362>duke nukem forever>september 1998
before steam(ing pile of shit)
>>740230791It was great. Right around now, I probably would have been replaying Resident Evil or Tomb Raider for the 10th time on my bedroom CRT. I had a Saturn, but traded it in for a PS1 just so I could play Resident Evil. I also would have been in ridiculous Nintendo 64 hype mode.
>>740235008those are called desks
>>740230791>30 years ago1996? Holy shit you are about to enter the best decade of gaming humanity had.
>>740231925This guy needs a longer hairstyle and he could get any girl or guy he wants.
>>740237260Honestly I was being a bit too harsh, especially since a lot of those games built off Jam. One of my friends showed me NBA Showtime on 64 and it's basically just 3v3 NBA Jam.
>>740237026> RB was £25> TCG packs were £2.20I want to go back
>>740237593https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp50yG8we2U>composed by jeremy souleTA blew my mind as a kid. I still have the disc on a shelf somewhere no clue if it still works.
>>740232848wow she's beautiful~
>>740236956Brownoid identified.
>>740231608>shoes indoorsTurd world behavior
>>740236228>@i_8_yer_grandmaSOVL
I don't just miss gaming 30 years ago I miss society as well.
>>740237036nfl blitz is kino
it was better tiems
>>740236602>We bought used. Most of my library is gamestop used bin.Like a solid 80% of games sold were used games. I have never understood. Who bought those games new so we could buy them used? Are those idiots homeless and dead now or something?
>>740238594Unhinged fucking taskbar. 2 stack and all that shit on the quick launch? THREE word processors? Character map? Winzip? ZoneAlarm? QUICKTIME? My dude plays enough freecell to need a button for it on his taskbar. Only one I don't recognize is that note block one.
>>740238821I miss color. Used to be if someone had colored hair they were probably fun to be around now it's a sure sign of mental illness.
I was born in 1987.Yes it was better than what we have today.It destroys my heart and soul seeing the world my children have to grow up in.
>>740230791worse than 40 years ago
>>740239482You're crazy. The 90s were the sweet spot. Graphics, sound and peripherals were good enough that developers could really create their vision instead of having it in text or in two colors using nothing but a keyboard. Also I don't miss computer speakers/bleeps being used for sounds or music whatsoever that shit hurt my ears and was always too loud.
>>740230884I'm in this boat. Used to rent the N64 console with two games for a week from our local store. $20. N64 games were $64 after taxes. That was a fuckton back then. This was san diego
>>740230791Comp usa 1995, egghead software. Seeing all those amazing pc boxes was magical. Doom, xcom, lands of lore, duke nukem 3d
>>740235194I had rechargeables. I don't know why, buy my charger was a remote control car that had a wall plug. I just found a picture of said car on google, neat
>>740230884This is untrue.I grew up in a below-average middle class neighborhood, and every kid had a huge library of PS1 (and N64 games, relatively speaking)We only ever went to blockbuster to rent old movies that weren't in the theater any more.
>>740240342damn I played so much of this game as a kid
>>740239885The triple clickers without a wheel were wild. Pretty sure i've seen some gimmicky 4 and 5 clickers before.
>>740234952I remember I rented Mario Paint cause it had a huge display box. It was a bunch of nothing
>>740230791>What was gaming like 30 years ago?It was great.>Quake 2, Mechwarrior 2, Warcraft 2 multiplayer at the local PC gaming club>playing Warlords III and Duke Nukem 3D at home>around the 2000s LAN parties with Quake 3, UT99, C&C:Tiberian Sun, C&C:Red Alert 2 and Star Craft>at home Warlords:Battlecry II, Heroes of Might&Magic 3, Wizardry 8, Thief II and NWNThose were the days. No Steam cancer. Every game came with a manual.
>>740230884>Expensive, we just rented everything.We were children. I remember every time I *REALLY* wanted a game, I saved up birthday money or allowance or I traded in some games to fucking GAMESTOP (or Funcoland) and bought the game. Or I asked for it for Christmas if it was around that time. And my parents let me rent a game pretty much every weekend which I got to keep until the next weekend, and that was mostly just to cure boredom. After you played all of the games you really wanted to play, sometimes I just wouldn't even rent a game, or my dad would pick out some game that he thought looked alright (he somehow kept track of the games I had already played and never picked one that I already did) and I'd play that.
>>740236602>>740238649I almost never bought used. I didn't buy a lot of games but when I did, I always went for new. Didn't like the idea of buying a game used for a long time. I did eventually but it wasn't really until the ps3 era that I started doing that.
>>740236843>>740236784Looking at the game on the picture. I had no idea and I have it
>>740239885i really don't miss ball mice shit got stuck in there all the time and you had to clean it out>>740240701apple mice had 1 clicker that was it, to right click you had to hold down alt or something like that it was insane
>>740230901ThisThese threads are dumb.
>>740231442Thanks Shitman!
>>740240413The birth of the gamer girls. My best friend's little sister loved the Sims. She was also a bitch.
>>740240849
>>740237026I liked those bouncy balls
>>740236448I remember trading Contra away to my cousin for A Boy and his Blob.
I WANT TO GO BACK
>>740239482This is true. Go back far enough and things just got progressively worse as time went on, but I think 9/11 is when everything completely changed.
>>740240849>set map q2dm1Good shitpersonally I was a q2dm8 kinda kid
>>740239482I was gaming in the 80s, saying that the 80's is better than the 90's when it comes to gaming is insane.
>>740230791Expensive compared to today, and a hugely popular novelty, since it came to home consoles fairly recently.It was the end of the SNES/Genesis era, and the beginning of the N64/PS1 era, and games were quickly moving away from arcade cabinet concepts like very short and repeatable playtimes.PC was actually more niche, comparatively, despite having the fucking bangers of Quake and Diablo. At the time PC were still considered 'work machines' by the majority of people.
>>740239618while it was a bit of a nostalgic shitpost, you're giving 80s micros less credit than they're dueyou had incredibly good looking & sounding 16bit computers like the amiga 500 or the x68000and even the older 8bit computers could produce very nice tuneshttps://youtu.be/yKWl-R7BOy8
>>740238468I liked the whole midnight release aspect of going out for physical copies, physical copies in general are better
>>74023948280s was peak for arcades, nothing else
>>740241192Ah, remember Serious Sam and GL Tron split screen?>GL Tron had 4 people split screen for one keyboard LMAOHotseat was still a thing back then.>hotseat Worms Armageddon>hotseat HoM&M3
The 90s were truly the peak of humanity.
If only we had better portable recording tech back then. I'd kill to see more footage and sounds from those old times.
>>740239141Hey, nevermind the cool Dreamcast shit. Dino Crisis with the pack-in demo disc, and Lunar right beside it
>>740233370>>740233631>>740234146See how that's all Nintendo games?PS1 chads had>Final Fantasy>Suikoden>Xenogears>Legend of Dragoon>Wild Arms>Dragon QuestThousands of hours right there
>>740241239I still think it's bizarre that there's no need to leave your home anymore as long as you have an income. Food, tools, clothing, entertainment you name it and you can buy it and get it delivered to your front door. Sure you could order games by mail back in the day but not like this and online storefronts were merely a fever dream of some marketing or sales guy. Now stores are dying and being replaced by giga corporations or online stores (that just ship in from SEA) because there's no need to actually patronize one. There's a lot to be said for having a physical item in your hands nobody can take from you unless they do it by force. All my old physical games work even the cartridge ones even if Nintendo goes bankrupt tomorrow they'll still be there. Also meeting and talking to people even if you're just chit chatting.
>>740241395>flat screen crt Ewwwwww
whats the current cutoff for considering if something is retro or not?
>>740240740A lot of old games come with manuals on GOG but you'll have to make your own physical version. Which at least is possible since all games on GOG are DRM free. GOG is my personal solution for modern gaming. Better than buying second hand unironically.
>>740230791Millennials weren't in the game industry yet, so it was nice.
>>740241361yes, many are saying this!
>>740241361that's actually a good debate to havefor media entertainment and general cultural products there was a peak there yespeak of humanity not so much, i'd say the peak was 60s and things went down around when we cut programs for nuclear propulsion, and computers and games were a separate things on their own
>>740230791Fun
>>740241658Why do you say millennials if you mean corporations?
>>740241207i respect your opinion but i gotta fire back withhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLIB94Ikb2Uhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1uVpA4OaBMcould the c64 do that? i think not!
>>740241658millennials didn't produce these thoit's still boomers and Xers
fununlike now
>>740241797It's really not.
>you will never experience childhood in the 90s ever againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYIaWeVL1JM
>>740241865https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9b09Ljnh0k
>>740238083>i'm literally quaking
>>740241585you get it Getting a physical game on release in 90s/00s may not of been as quick as just buying it online today but getting it alone, not even playing it, was a story, a memory, an experience. Now it's just click and pay and wait a minute for a download in your underwear. A bit lacking compared to before. And yeah it being truly yours is nice. No need for DLC update bugfixes either.
>>740241618PS360 while ancient is basically current, everything older is retro
>>740241407https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpEBUV_g9vUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SekM6yD26Qchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LX-f7VviGEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEKv77cTipghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbe-35_BaAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cBZhc_zkRQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRR027lJ1-s
>>740241635love it
>>740241658you mean>what millennial men consumed>what millennial women produced
>>740242161this
>>740241865>90s>walk into a store>ace of base plays on repeat
>>740242010Have SegaCD, play NHL cart insteadThis is why it was so easy for me to buy used SegaCDs back in the day
>>740241865*90s childhood in europehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMtf_ouMTHw
>>740232131I first played Mario World on a setup exactly like this. I remember losing my mind over how good it looked. I talked about it to my mom on the whole ride home. I remember being really excited that the fire flower was back and had a new look for both the flower and mario's overalls.
>>740242248https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqu132vTl5Y
No microtransactions, you buy the entire game. And with internet being very limited you had no way to tell how it is except the illustration books that used to come with it.TUNIC caught that "feel" of reading instructions book.No youtube tutorials and reviews, no IGN guides. Discovering games by yourself was a great moment.
>>740241658those people are not the ones in charge of character design or have the final say on it these days the people making characters aren't gamers but people who majored and art and 'like video games' and their whole job is to design characters
>>740242072>but getting it alone, not even playing it, was a story, a memory, an experience.Hell yeah. I still remember buying some of my more beloved games 20+ years later and how it felt to sit and read the manual while the game was installing or if I couldn't install it right away like being away from home I'd take the manual or booklet with me and just read it cover to cover in awe. Playing a game was more like an event now it's so rote you don't even think about it. A 1tb SSD can store thousands or even tens of thousands of games and you can just plow through them without a thought. I'm not saying they were all gold of course.
>>740232179>>740232719>>740234934>>740237623>heLook at the shoulders
>>740242342https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3XJRk8Cyagyou know it
>>740234813Thanks doc
>>740242692WhateverHe most likely prefers those pronouns
>>740242248>the year is 1997>turn on the radio>mmmbop>go to the mall>mmmbop>go to school>mmmbop on the PA system>go grocery shopping with mom>mmmbop>go to a baseball game with dad>mmmbop for some fucking reason
>>740239975
>>740232751>a lot of vidya I borrowed from friends.this is the real dog whistle as to whether or not you actually grew up gaming in the golden age. Kids nowdays can't even fathom the concept of borrowing a game from their friends, because they're not allowed to own anything, nor do they have friends. The 90s may as well be an alien world to them.
>>740242843dilate and kys, freak.
>>740242849The Macarena and Who Let the Dogs out was worse
>>740242473https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
>>740231862You've never been in a poor white community, have you
>>740242849Some pop songs were pretty good at least for dancing but I will never understand that fucking mmmbop shit. Were they nepobabies or something?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc
>>740242959was no good then, its much worse now more layers between top and bottomregardless, no gamers making decisions
>>740242849I know, awesome right?
>>740242936Don't you have a lost childhood to cry about?
>>740243259You'll be buried with your real name, likely soon.
I'm glad we have millennials to tell us how diverse and inclusive they are while showing off their 2D pixelslop game about depression and becoming a troon.
>>740243037not him but i grew up in a small town as lower-middle class with plenty of trailer trash friends and in our town's 100 year history we had zero crimewould you like to take a guess when that changed and why?
>>740243313Someone is grumpy today, and yesterday, and apparently your entire life, so sad...for you.
>>740243267What would a Sonic the Hedgehog 3 tournament be? How far you could go in 1 life?
>>7402307913d games were magic. 4 players was amazing We loved to replay games.Nobody really gave a shit about PC because Nobody had one.Renting a game on Friday was your whole weekend.Kids made up outlandish lies about secrets in games because there was no real way to prove them wrong.Most people were a generation or even 2 behind.Demo systems at big box stores were amazing. You would play the whole time while your parents shopped. We still went to the arcade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-QJxdB4_U4
>>740243092hold up, let him cook
>>740232673You know how any time anyone points out that something has dropped off in quality, someone chimes in to say that it's just nostalgia and you shouldn't worry about the past?They're wrong and over time those things add up and here we are today. Things have gotten worse in a lot of different ways. For the most part we've conflated>I need to get off of the couch less to do thingsWith>things have gotten better
>>740243092What is this expression trying to convey?
shockwave/flash games and demos were a bigger deal
>>740243816>look at dat ass
I was gonna post and say I spent half my time playing Duke 3D on ________ but I can't for the life of me remember the name of the online service. They talked about it in the strategy guide.
>asking on a board where most people are underage and larp as older people
>>740243740So the 50's were better according to you? Same with previous decades? Or is it just the one you like
>>740231225>Wisdom Tree games are less than a dollar despite even loose carts demanding high prices today>Super Mario Bros. 3, an actual good game, is almost worthless>Snow Bros. is one of the most expensive games on there at $20 loose
>>740241658>retarded weeb gives only japshit examples>nonsense generational conflict bait ignoring the real problem of gigacorporationspff
>>740242121>1990s Pre 9/11 America
>>740231328I have this theory that if you owned or played a LOT of video games as a kid you probably grew up in a broken, abusive, or neglectful home. Anecdotally, I've usually been right.
>>740244428Pretty much, which is why I don't feel any kind of nostalgia
>>740244428>i played a ton of games>neglected by parents and latchkey kid>friend also played a ton>his parents fought a lot and divorced>other friend was the same>neglected by his parents who later divorcedhmm...
>>740231225Where the hell did these SNES game covers come from? I remember I had a bunch but I don't remember ever buying them. Did they come with new games only?
>>740234934>poster for something on November 2017>a flatscreen TV like that in 2003Use your brain anon
>>740244265https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHMGHz-pvCI
>>740244052>So the 50's were better according to you?NTA but holy shit yes. Everyone could get a job and with that single income support a family, buy a house, car, gas, and if you encountered a black they were generally good people trying to fit in white society. Nevermind that vidya didn't exist, the 70's were around corner, you just had to suffer through the 60's which were all about casual sex without any STDs
>>740244614Ah sure because life was that simple
>>740243494The number of different "How to resurrect Aeris" baits I got swindled with back then, mostly on gamefaqs and CCheats
pirating is so much easier now and theres a endless supply of gamesback then we had to cherish turd games because there was nothing else a lot of games were trash
>>740244565>Did they come with new games only?Yes, nobody ever passed them along when selling used games, they kept them. They held onto them because only the first 3rd of SNES games included them, Nintendo dropped them to cut costs so the majority of brand new purchased games didn't have themEvery single NES game came with a black slipcover. Where the fuck did all those go?
>>740244689If you delude yourself into believing a narrative pushed by people on a politics board, everything is simple. According to /pol/ hitler is a hero. The same hitler who was a vegetarian, used a hindu symbol for his whole party, thought highly of arabs, pushed for women's rights in his own country and did drugs.
>>740243345Based, early 00s but I don’t think I ever sent mine in. Tips and Tricks or was this in multiple publications?
>>740245025>did drugsThis is his worst crime
>>740245041 (me)Well, obviously I didn’t send it in or I wouldn’t have taken this picture a few months ago. Thought it was funny looking through old stuff from when I was a kid and seeing I had started to cut it out and everything.
>>740234864I remember spending every day of the summer playing videogames with friends.
These threads help keep me sane because it's comforting to know I'm not alone in this fucked up world and other people experienced it with me. Everything is so fake and unrecognizable now and it makes me feel depressed and alienated. If nothing else it's a nice break from the porn and twitter rage threads.
>>740232673no idea really
>>740244565I recall some being with the games, but not all. Wouldn't surprise me if they cut them after early releases to save money. And here it is:>Metroid and Killer Instinct. Transition Period: By 1995, many titles, such as Chrono Trigger and Donkey Kong Country, were released without dust covers, often just wrapped in plastic bags inside the box. Later Releases: As the SNES lifespan progressed, the inclusion of dust covers became inconsistent, with many later cartridges sold in simpler packaging
>>740245041>or was this in multiple publications?I'm sure it was. It's a for profit lottery, made to scam kids to buy lottery tickets. Read the details, for each prize you had to buy $9 more worth of entries
>>740244428how many is a lot?
>>740245532Not surprising, didn’t have more than one subscription growing up but knew immediately I had seen it somewhere.
>>740242797kaBEWWWWWWWM
>>740236242>only one woēman in pictureBased beyond belief
https://youtu.be/cdv_t9o-awo?si=FS8fa08c0Bhz2qWQ
>>740245267Everything's fucked. If modern society were "normal" they wouldn't be trying to shove their propaganda down our throats and berating anyone who opposes it.
>>740246545I agree, but what makes you think this started this decade, or the past 30 years, or the past century or the one before that? You seriously think they managed to get ahold of the entire world in a lifetime?
>>740245041>>740245201I'm pretty sure that it appeared in Nintendo Power around 2002, though I haven't gone through extensively to find it.
>>740245542I don't know, maybe more than 10-12 for any given system bought new, generally more than accounting for birthdays/holidays/saving up for something you really wanted.
>>7402354102017 really was the last good year for YouTube. There was a lot of slop, but at least you could gain a good following by making fun of the slop. Now you either have to religiously conform to the system or get shadowbanned by the algorithm for not being "advertiser friendly".
>>740245267>world was better then because I consoomed my fav slop!world went to shit after Reagan and Thatcher turned working class into drones not because your favourite Soldier Shoots 3 game gets a remake
>>740246703because back when i was young evil was evil, disgusting was disgusting, and ugly was ugly.
>>740231001>Buy gaming magazines instead since they're affordable and let you look at video gamesI poured over this thing so much. Only ever bought one game previewed in it, Mario Land 2 Six Golden Coins. I distinctly remember picking up at Kay Bee also.
>>740244052That's what I find funny, although decades I was alive were better, many previous decades where I wasn't even close to being born yet were undoubtedly better too.If you aren't old enough to have witnessed the drop off in 2001 and then around 2012, you probably couldn't even picture a USA where regardless of politics or whatever people mostly just got along (because we actually had to interact with one another) and a collective shared optimism for the future was just a normal thing.(It's actually utterly pathetic if you look up a video of top songs of 1965 or some random year, and compare it to today. They seriously put out more truly great music that will be beloved forever, in any random old year you pick, than they have now in the last 2 decades)
>>740230791Fun.
>>740231001>Buy gaming magazines instead since they're affordable and let you look at video gamesAs a kid, Nintendo Player's Guides were a godsend. It wasn't just affordable, it was also because I was technically reading a book and that made it okay by my parents
>>740246703I know it didn't happen over night. People kept giving an inch and one day people open their eyes and realized they had taken miles. There was no going back.
>>740230791You could own both consoles even if your family was on food stamps
>>740246703>You seriously think they managed to get ahold of the entire world in a lifetime?They've been at it for thousands of years, but only in the last century have they really started to succeed, because we stopped fighting back.
>>740248549jews were impotent until 20th century
>>740230791>1996I'm 7 years old. I managed to convince my mother to buy me a bootleg NES friends who had parents that worked in Germany have the real NES. Nobody has anything else.I used to go and buy bootleg NES Japanese style yellow carts with games such as 1 in 50. I had Mario 64 it was a romhack of some Japanese game called Saiyuki World II: Tenjokai no Majinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjrDmrNOyPYSNES is something I once got rented from a store I didn't know it existed. One friend has a 386 we play games like Blues Brothers, Dangerous Dave, LHX, Commander Keen, Test Drive, Price of Persia, Lemmings, Funny Face, Street Rod, Cycles International Grand Prix, Grand Prix Circuit.A Croatian quiz game named SRAZ He didn't have Wolfenstein or Doom but I did play at other peoples PCs but only for short periods.We had no idea PS1 existed until a good 1998. When mod chips came and suddenly everyone had one.
>>740248612Damn right, everywhere they push this false narrative that they've always controlled things, no they fucking didn't. They were pushed into ghettos and forced to wear funny hats
>>740248753OG and the Bootleg the Bootleg could play both EU games and Japanese style Cartridge games.
>>740246862Not trying to blogpost but I just miss how cool printed media was back then.
>>740248612>muh /pol/ narrativeDumbfucks, that's why you'll live your entire life under someone else's control
>>740248935Good goyim
>>740248969>muh /pol/ said so therefore it is trueGullible retard
>>740238468Why are Aragon and Butcher buying Gundams?
>>740248935jews were so much in control they were constantly massacred
>>740249343>reading comprehension >not being able to follow a reply chainLurk more
Feels weird to think about how that world will die with us, once we are gone people will only get to experience a mirage of what the 90s was, a fake interpretation extrapolated from movies and photos, but no one will ever experience it again... I understand that the logic applies to every single time in history, im just saying its weird growing old and realizing how much dies with you.
>>740249676hello bot how are you today.
>>740249676>receiving hand me downs mean you are in controlNice try
>>740249248That is Eomer at the time.
>>740250372>your religionlol
>>740244689There will always be hardships but when you have things you truly love and things to work towards or look forward to, they become way more bearable.
>>740247815I still remember every single page of this and '95 by heart.
>>740250439Whatever makes you feel better
>>740230791Looking at this image makes me feel like I'm mourning the death of a loved one. Never knew how good I had it.
>>740230791White
>>740238821Why can't places look this cool today?
>>740238821I can smell the carpet.
>>740230791Less arguing without the internet.
>>740250924jews
>>740230791I couldnt really get into video games back then because I grew up in a poor family.Missed out on like 4 generations of consoles by the time I got my first computer game, and it was educational baby shit like Pajama Sam and Freddy Fish that I could only play on the family computer.Once I turned 18 and moved out and started making my own money it was around 2012 which was arguably when gaming as a hobby was at its "peak".
>>740249676>xDkys
>>740250924>>740251169>>740238821The true answer for why stores look so lame today is the real estate marketA nondescript greyscale concrete cube can easily be a McDonald's one year, a Domino's the next, then an accountant's office, then a diabetes clinic, and a Spirit Halloween six times in betweenYou lose resale value if you can't easily flip it because you have to take down the pyramid roof and giant clown statueIt's the same thing with houses, right before being sold every house gets remodeled into the Algorithmic Median Resale Meta
>>740251554This, I do residential electrical for new construction and everything is left white and modern looking so it’s easy to sell and buyers won’t turn their nose up as much by a builder/prior owners attempt at decor. I hate it but it is what it is.
>>740251554Its weird how it became a modern phenomena within the last 1-2 decades, where all of a sudden everyone collectively realized "hey, we can save money if we don't decorate our real estate". I feel like there's something deeper culturally going on. People naturally desire beautiful/well designed areas/things. I don't think I ever came across a real person that actually liked flat design, but it was forced on us anyways.
I'm a zoomer. How do I replicate the same feelings presented in these pictures?
>>74023445698 was better and the GOAT year of all time.
>>740232326you will never be this happy againthe world is shit now
>>740252268Reroll and hope you get reincarnated in the 80s or 90s
>>740252193>>740251941>I feel like there's something deeper culturally going onUnless you’re getting something custom get used to it. It literally is just cost cutting/branding. Have you ever gone to a place and could tell immediately it used to be a Pizza Hut because of the roof or something similar? Business owners don’t want that.
>>740252498>98 post numbernot quite gets but neat coincidenceadd picrel to your list
>>740239975>>740242859I fucking love the smell of compusa. Used to go into the computer games section and read the strategy guides.
>>740253083I absolutely know that smell. Mixture of newly printed pc game boxes and pc plastics
Zoomer suicide fuel thread
>muh happy childhood is when consumerism
Remember when video games were marketed towards gamers?Good times.
>>740230791Very, very, very, very, ver, very little stealing and way less stinky people.
>>740237026I had this issue
>>740254763Yes, even consumerism was cool and had soul back then.
>>740231001>birthday is November>Christmas is DecemberKids these days complain about "droughts" when a system goes a month without a new game. They don't understand the meaning of the word drought.
>>740257524JuneCHADS living the good life.
>>740257668I remember I was ten and I was finally able to mow the lawn and I realized I could then mow other houses's lawns for money. It was mind blowing. Like suddenly, I wasn't stuck waiting for games, I could just earn money. I saved up that summer and bought a Gameboy Color when it came out in the fall.
>>740248753>I managed to convince my mother to buy me a bootleg NESHoly fuck the Nasa NES is awesome. I have one, but it's broken, somehow
>>740230791Heterosexual.
>>740257146Random movie suggestionWatch Josie and the PussycatsThey weren't paid for any of that marketing, they thought it was funny so they did it
