What was it like to grow up playing retro vidya during the '80s, '90s, and early '00s with those living in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries? What were your gaming magazines like? What were your gaming stores like? Did you have rentals? Did you have kiosks? What consoles did you own? Did you get a micro or a desktop computer? I like hearing about your childhood; Latin America and Iberia nostalgia.
Counter-Strike 1.6 was THE game in Argentina. People played it in cyber-cafés, and with their government notebooks.
I'm Australian but I am spiritually connected with the Latinos. You guys were the lifeblood of the sprite community in the 2000's and early 2010's, with the coolest Sonic OCs, the most ardent appreciation for Mega Man Zero at a time when all the Americans gave a shit about was dickriding Mega Man 2, and a Castlevania scene that still hasn't died even today. I find myself just implicitly understanding the Latino Castlevania community through some sixth sense despite not speaking Spanish because they at least play the fucking games; most English-discourse about Castlevania now involves blue hairs making homoerotic hornyposts about the Netflix show. God bless you, I fucking love Latinos
>>11493695>What were your gaming magazines like?I miss Club Nintendo a lot. I may be a filthy 2000s zoomer but I still miss thumbing through the ones on shelves when I was little, I probably have some of the 2010 issues somewhere in my house. Even when I was little I loved looking through the ones my cousins had and seeing stuff about the NES, made it seem like the cool console with the best games that I never got to play myself. One of my cousins specifically had a big SMB3 poster with the koopalings that always fascinated me since they looked like the Koopa Kids in Mario Party, but weren't actually those. Seeing them in NSMB Wii was genuinely exciting to me due to that. I remember liking the older covers a lot, issue 1's (picrel) was always really cool to me, it took Nintendo a long while before they committed to doing LatAm translations proper, so any scrap of Nintendo in Mexico was golden. Same goes with the Mario Golf GBC ad, dubbed by Martinet, he speaks pretty good Spanish even with the accent to the point he cameos in those dubs of the movie. https://youtu.be/5KLNDOfFbEM>>11493949>with the coolest Sonic OCsI always feel like Latino autism is more understated than the American, but it feels like it's more intense when it does happen. Loquendo shit is a rabbit hole and a half, same with Spanish sprite shit. Feels like living in an alternate universe from the English stuff at times.
Chilean here.As you could expect, PlayStation is the most popular with normalfags, every kid had chipped PlayStation consoles and could always go to their local tianguis/feria to buy pirated discs for a dollar, most popular games on PS1 were Winning Eleven mods, Need for Speed, Resident Evil, Tekken, Silent Hill and Crash. The PS2 was almost the same with new games like SotC, BT3, Black, Guitar Hero, GTA SA, GoW and many others being very popular.Nintendo is well-liked too, the SNES is probably the most beloved one besides the DS and the Wii, but Nintendo consoles were always too expensive so not many kids had their consoles (at least until the Wii/DS era where pirated discs and cheap R4s were easy to buy), I think the most popular Nintendo series are Pokemon (by far the biggest one), Zelda, Kirby, Donkey Kong and Smash (the later has a healthy competitive scene here too, they play 64, Melee and whatever new Smash game got released).I knew of Genesis and Dreamcast but I only got to play those consoles twice, I know there's fans of their consoles around but they're rare compared to Nintendo or Sony fans, and I never saw an og xbox in stores or someone with one at all.Arcades were very big, people would play Snow Bros, Tumble Pop, Metal Slug, Top Hunter and the like, and fighting games are super popular too, in fact Chile has tournaments for a lot of old fighting games still, with Street Fighter 2 CE, Mortal Kombat 2, Killer Instinct 1 and Ultimate MK3 being favorites (one of the best MK2 players is a chilean cumbia singer and SF2 had infamous personalities like Lad Cobra).In the case of PCs, it was usually AoE2, Halo Custom, SC1, CS 1.6, UT and Q3A the ones I remember seeing always installed on computers besides emulators like VBA, PJ64 and GGPO.And of course you had the Polystation/Famiclones or the plug n plays (usually the namco and spongebob ones)
BR here.>What were your gaming magazines like?I don't remember them much but probably the same as yours. One that I do remember is a magazine called ProGames which had a mascot character called Captain Ninja and featured comic strips of him interacting with video game characters.>What were your gaming stores like? Did you have rentals?Yes we had rentals. In fact I only had rentals because my mother wouldn't buy games for me, but I was allowed to rent three games every weekend which felt like a lot. Also in my area some gaming stores had a room in the back with a bunch of consoles set up on TVs and you could pay for time on a console with any game they had. I started doing this on weekdays instead of going to the arcade because it was more playtime for my buck, but because of that I missed out on a lot of arcade releases that didn't make it to console at that time.>What consoles did you own?I had a Master System, then a SNES, then an N64. Then I discovered emulation and never had another console again.
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>>11493695>all these fake images and mensajes.Do you even hobbyconsolas, micromania, revista oficial playstation, EOL, meristation, megasega, todosega and superjuegos?
>>11493695>BrazilMy father worked for a multinational here as a programmer (coded cobol, yeah ancient shit) and they gifted him a PC to "help" him develop his skills. Essentially he was bringing more work home, but no one thought about that back then. Anyway that's when I finally got my hands into the gaming world and I started playing AoE, FF7, Tomb Raider and much more. Majority of the games were RTSs, but I also played a lot of demos thanks to PCGamer magazines. Also, since we had internet, I played many games on websites that don't exist anymore like Digerati and Fliperama (brazilian miniclip knockoff). Early emulation was also part of my life.Now about the console world, we had "locadoras" which was basically a place like blockbuster or rentals as you specified, where you could play games on the same place. These places died during the PS2 era when the piracy market became mainstream; bear in mind many people still didn't own a PS2 until mid 00s. I never saw a Gamecube in my entire life and I never knew anyone that had one. Xbox was kinda popular for the time. Since I had a PC much earlier than most people did, I never had a console prior to the PS2. My father got me a PS2 in 2001 (obviously not unlocked) and I spent most of my childhood playing GTA, FF and Gran Turismo games. A curiosity is that most consoles were bought from the gray market (aka Paraguay) since we never had proper support from companies.
>>11494445No Loading, chaval?
>>11493949I mostly remember Latinos shitting up lobbies in FPS games, when they stood out at all.They're alright tho, I dunno. Weren't as big a thing in pc gaming, and I never gave a fuck about MegaMan or Castlevania (except 4).
>>11494525I seen to remember Genesis being crazy popular in Brazil well after it ran it's course elsewhere.Are you old enough to remember that?
>>11494607Genesis did sell well here, but Master System is the one to mention. Honestly NES clones were also huge here, but there are no official numbers for them being knockoffs. The reason why Sega gained the market in the 90s here was because of Tectoy, a brazilian company, giving official support for the product in Brazil. That's why I said few people had current gen consoles here because of no support. Dreamcast was the last big official (retro) console sold here until we got the 360 in 2007, following up with PS3 in 2010.
>>11493949>>11494606Latinos made the worst Halo 1 mods, and by made I mean they ripped other people's tags
>>11494653That was because the Brazilian government put heavy import tariffs on computers, including game consoles. The Tectoy SEGA was locally built, so no tariff
>>11494445>>11494585Zoomers... *shakes head*
>>11494585>LoadingI like it, but they were tryhard weabos, but I don't judge them. 1999-2003 was peak japanese era in vidya related stuff.
>>11494006I've never seen or hear the "tianguis" word used here, only once on the Mex Club Nintendo mag. Also>Lad CobraRIP
>>11497087We call it feria but no idea if they call them like that in other countries.>RIPI still can't believe he died, I still remember back when I would watch his SF2CE Money Matches against others.
In Portugal we had OPM, the same Playstation mag as in england but translated, including some ads. I remember the World Cup whatever year ad. In england it makes sense, it's a good ol' lad, fat as fuck with his pitbull and a big full body tattoo saying "England World Champions 2000" or whichever year it was. Makes sense in the UK but which portuguese man wants england to win the world cup? So the ad changed the tagline to "Only you can prevent this fate".Also I feel like Portugal was a HELL of a lot more interested in PCs for gaming because they were easy to pirate for. Playstation was pretty popular too, because, again, easy to pirate for. Other than that the videogame scene here is just a whole lot of FIFA and Counter Strike. As much as I hate to admit it, it's a lot like russia.
>>11493969They were good up until the N64 era cause they were trying to defend the bottlenecking that console was put trough, anybody remembers the infamous ad comparing a blurred PS1 and claiming that megabit carts were the same as megabyte CDs.
>>11494525>locadorasWell in Mexico we had these pay4play places mostly filled with xboxes, 360s and PS2s, but starting the 2010s they died down when people got smartphones and internet became more common and I think it finally boiled down with Guitar Hero.
>>11497215I still remember when someone asked them point blank in a letter, why people should stick with Nintendo, after most third party developers left them in the PS1 era, and they had to come up for bullshit reasons in a bulleted list, and their only real argument was the N64 does not have loading.
>>11497215I mostly disliked the N64 as a kid. It doesn't help that when I was finally old enough to look after my video game magazines, the only video game magazine my country had on a regular basis was Club Nintendo, which only covered Nintendo consoles, and by the time I started taking better care of my magazines, it was about 1995, just a year before the N64 launched, and they moved away from SNES games, to almost exclusively N64 games with some GB titles in between. By 1995, the NES was officially "dead" press wise on Latin America, even though Famiclones sold well throughout the '90s and you could still find some NES games CIB for sale in stores. Meanwhile, whenever I had the rare chance to buy a Super Juego or a Hobby Consolas, which were doing N64, PS1, SAT, and GB coverage, it made me really jealous of the amount of third party games they were having. It was not until I got older, that I started to appreciate the oddball library of the N64, where its third party games had a lot of western games, and for some reason, lots and lots of FPS (a positive thing for me). I think the N64 is THE console if you have friends or family over, because it has four controllers without a need for an adaptor, and plenty of multi player games. It may be lacking in third party support and ambitious RPG's, but it makes up for it with multi player and FPS games. Now I like the N64 as much as the PS1 and SAT, even though I like the Game Cube over it. Thank you for attending my TED talk.
>>11494006Speaking of Kung Leo, this shit is real and caught attention from Ed Boon who found it weird.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lUGWK8fh1cAnd this shit happened on our local version of Come Dine with Mehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdlApkrk5yA&t=517sJani Dueñas sucks
>>11497703I knew about Mortal Kumbia, I think it's hilarious, and yeah Jani is shit at everything besides voicing characters in 31 Minutos.btw here's more chilean retro tv goodness:https://youtu.be/YoIXgW7ow6ohttps://youtu.be/UjNH8S6CtJY
>>11497231I'm from Chile and we had a place like this in my home city, the outside was painted with Dragon Ball characters and shitMe and my uncle used to go there but it died one day, I suspect it was our fault because we were playing and the owner's kid wanted to play with us, my uncle said no and he started crying. After a week I'm fairly sure the owner had a fight with his wife about this and closed the place down, the house is abandoned now
Small town br here.Started wish SNES and then PS1pirated games were sold in stores and nobody cared, maybe the dumb store ladies weren't even aware they were piratedEarly 2000s I switched to PC, older brother had a IT friend with one of the first internet connections in town I think, pirated a bunch of games for usI remember gamers having a lot of amaraderie back then, whenever we got our hands on some new game we would just pass them around for our friends and acquaintances to make copiesbit off-topic, but anyone else got really good at english thanks to text-heavy games like Metal Gear Solid or Resident Evil 3?By the time we started having english lessons in highschool around 2003, my english was better than the english teacher. Some guy asked where I took english lessons, when I said I never did he acted surprised...
>>11494585I really wish we could have a thread about Waterful Ring Toss. Based game, easy to learn and hard to master.
>>11498260I had a Sonic themed one of these where it's the Chemical Plant Zone and you collect yellow rings.
>>11493695>kiosksBig cities like 80.000 to 200.000 inhabitants have sega saturn and PSX kiosks back then in 1996-1998.I remember visting Pryca every two months and playing sega saturn and PSX games.
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