How did you "embrace" retro gaming?
I kind of just never stopped playing retro vidya thanks to emulation
>>11515010Why did you put the word embrace in quotes? What does that mean?
I just wanted to play some saint seiya games on Famiclone. At the time I had SNES, MD, PC, PS1, N64 and Saturn but none of them had a saint seiya game so I dusted off my old famiclone, bought a couple saint seiya and dbz games, and somehow was struck with nostalgia. I tried out my old games that I hadn't played in years and I was absolutely hooked at it like crack. Multicarts with early famicom classics are peak retro experience.This was around 1997 I guess.
Grew up during fifth gen. Older siblings, cousins, friends, and neighbors still had old consoles, so I played those as well. I was always a contrarian loser in school that listened to secret music and hated the radio and so on, so I naturally avoided the xbox and other such "trends". Really. I was that insufferable at that early of an age. I had a few other "N64 is still the best console" friends and we all discovered emulation at the same time and we all swore off modern consoles together. I feel so gay typing this but it's all true.
>>11515062You sound based
>>11515062>I was always a contrarian loser in school that listened to secret music and hated the radio and so onSort of related, people who laughed at me because I was into anime in school are now grown ass men talking about how they cried watching Makoto Shinkai garbage. Ironically I haven't watched anime in ages
To me it’s just “gaming”. I didn’t need to start embracing it, I already had done so. Now get the fuck off this board zoomer.
I was a child with no pocket money so I played emulators on the family computer (then laptop, then smartphone)
>>11515015This. I still had my older consoles and me and my friends still played them all the way up to 2002 (I was born in 1990) and I was actually buying a couple genesis games at the time until a friend of mine told me about playing a game I was thinking about buying (Haunting: Starring Polterguy) on the PC for free along with SOR3. I asked him how he did it and suddenly found myself playing older games a lot more than modern games.
>>11515082You beat SOR3 using savestates didn't you
>>11515082Discovering emulation felt like finding a treasure honestly
Doom Triple Pack on Newgrounds. It has the shareware version of Doom, Heretic, and Hexen. Even playing on a keyboard I was blown away at how fun it was. Before that the oldest game I really enjoyed was Half Life.https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/470460
>>11515085Back then I did lol. I was so curious for the longest time what the final boss was going to be like because the game was so fucking hard (I could only get to stage 4 as a kid). I figured you'd fight the big purple Mr. X ghost from SOR2 since nothing could get tougher than that IMO back then. The actual final boss was a real disappointment when I save stated to him as Shiva. I've been trying to beat it on Hard recently, but I can only get to Stage 5 shrine so far (with Shiva). I beat BK3 on V. Hard earlier last year, but now I want to beat the US version. Both games can get pretty fun at higher difficulties.
>>11515010Bot thread.
>>11515090Oh yes, it was basically a gateway drug for me. I spent the rest my 6th grade and following summer finding everything I could find from my childhood and others I wasn't able to rent before it was too late and was replaced with newer games or 5th gen games.
>>11515010By collecting the most rare and valuable games.>pic related
>>11515189lmao
>>11515184You definitely don't fuck
>>11515010What the fuck are you even asking?
>>11515015Basically this, but with original hardware and games when they were priced for hardly anything.
>>11515189>old games are bad but new games are also bad butShut the fuck up.
>>11515062>so I naturally avoided the xboxAt the early days of the system, i felt the xbox was the more "true gamer" system compared to the ps2, since it had a lot of weird or Dreamcast feeling games. It wasnt until the pre launch Halo 2 hype that i discovered it was apparently the "dudebro" system. I dont remember anyone ever talking about the console before that.
>>11515189>hopefully once gaming becomes good againThis will never happen unless the whole modern world collapses and gets rebuilt from the ground up.
>>11515219>Dreamcast feeling gamesPeople give it too much shit but the Gamecube also felt like that during the early days with Waverace, Super Monkey Ball and Crazy Taxi but it actually stayed like that unlike the Xbox. Even Mario Sunshine feels like it's a Sega game
All the games I played became retro. All I really did was age.
>>11515010I never really left. I grew up with the NES and even as it became outdated I never really stopped loving it. I recognized that Mega Man X didn't negate Mega Man 2 you know? Whenever I was a friend of family member's house that still one hooked up I'd always try to play it.I randomly found some NES websites in the mid-late 90s and it helped keep up my interest in it despite not having my NES anymore.I owned an N64 and by 1998 I couldn't stand the system's release schedule anymore. I remember talking to a friend of mine at school about the NES and our favorite games. His favorites were all games I hadn't played - it made me realize there was a GALAXY of NES games I had never played. I tracked down a Funcoland, picked up an old NES and a few games and started collecting and I absolutely loved it. Tracking down games (it was still very affordable) and trying out new stuff helped make my stupid obsession with video games into something resembling a real hobby.
>>11515232Did you end up collecting the whole set?
>>11515010I lay prone and accepted retro gaming into my anus.
>>11515232No but I probably have around 400 NES games and 200 or so SNES games. If I had been a little older when I started (i.e. had a car and a job) and had the goal of collecting every game in mind I probably could have gotten everything with the exception of a few white whales. I remember passing up a 30 dollar Bubble Bobble 2 once because I considered it too expensive. I just sort of enjoyed walking into a game store, picking out a handful of games and trying them out. It was fun and a lot more satisfying than perusing endless ROMsets.
When I was young during the late 2000s my older cousin and two of his friends lived in my house for 2 years while attending community college and they brought an N64 and let me play it with them. That was my gateway drug into playing retro vidya instead of like Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and when they fucked off for their summer vacation and took their N64 with them I ended up going out to buy my own and kept going from there.
>>11515010By spending whole days at an arcade when I was a kid.
>>11515010I grew up with the 6th gen, but I always had a fascination for older games. Melee kickstarted a lot of my curiosity. I played a lot of old games on the Wii, and now I emulate games on the Steam Deck primarily. I loved the 6th gen, but I just didn't care tons for the 7th gen. By the 8th gen, I was wondering how anyone could like this shit. I thought I just grew out of gaming, but I found I still loved old games I never played before, so it stuck.
>>11515010Grew up with 8/16bit retro gaming in the mid to late 90's, chased 3D through the early 2000's and then while poor in my 20's used GBA emulators. Got fully into 2D retro gaming in the last decade as well as playing new 2D games. Can't say its nostalgia because I play way more diverse genres of 2D games than I owned as a child, I just prefer 2D.
>>11515015Yeah I was introduced to emulation in the late 90s so technically even that would be considered retro according to this board. But I also still had my SNES and Genesis that I played regularly. Hadn't had my NES since 1994ish though so NESticle was like heaven.
>>11515010By playing them?
>>11515010zoomer here>got a gameboy advance, played all the "mario advance" games>grandma accidently bought me super mario land, and to my surprise it was backwards compatible>started buying GB/GBC games>at some point, got a bomberman game on PC which included bomberman 93 for turbografx>later got a wii and spent hundreds on the virtual console, particularly on turbografx games
>>11515010I grew up with a NES and then a Genesis. I sold off my games many times. And I had saved a good number of my favorite NES games until I lent them out around 2003 and the bitch never returned them. She left the area and has now died of an OD in Florida. Anyway that loss of my favorite NES games led me to wanting to rebuild what I sold and lost in the mid 2000's. I had an old cheerio cabinet filled with vintage video game shit ridiculously early.
>>11515184... Syphon Filter 3?
>>11515010It wasn't retro yet when I played, although I loved NES and I grew up playing SNES. So I guess I always enjoyed "retro."
>>11515678>he doesn't know
I was born in it, molded by it, I didn't see high definition until I was already a man.
>>11515010Seeing as the vast majority of modern AAA studio games are uninspired, agenda driven, virtue signaling, microtransactioned, always online, carbon copy, broken, full-price early-access shovelware compared to their astoundingly better predecessors...Rediscovering retro games became the natural solution.There was clearly something there in those titles besides the obvious nostalgia that captured the attention and fueled the imagination in a way that modern gaming has simply never been able to do. There are more games on the market today than ever before in history. Save for some very creative, hard working, down to earth indie devs, it feels more empty than ever.Retro gaming is a passage to a time when people who LOVED video games, CREATED video games.I think people embrace retro games because they're...>Simpler (in a manner of speaking)>Solid (work right out of the box)>Serendipitous>Soulful <3 Retro Games :)
>>11515710You're right, I didn't. I do now though.
Childchood>video games are the bestTeenagehood>video games are for BABIES, I'm playing in a rock band and I'm going to be RICH AND FAMOUS!Adulthood>goes back to playing old video gamesit was Mega Man 9 which pulled me back, I felt like "wow, they're making NEW video games for ME!!", I literally bought a modern console (a Wii) just to play it and one of the shop clerks mocked the "bleeps & blops" when I bought the MM9 soundtrack
>>11515935>There are more games on the market today than ever before in history.this isn't true in terms of major AA or higher projects.
It was just called gaming when I started
Games are games, but if I had to pick something it's because they are just more interesting. Almost everything that's being done nowadays has been done before. Larger titles obviously play it safe for an RoI and even the indies are generally "inspired" by older games in ways that aren't very interesting (or worse, old game but with a bad gimmick). So I just kinda stuck more to "retro" games.Ports and clones were more interesting too due to the more diverse hardware and skill/creativity required to get them to work and not just for the good ones. That's definitely more an enthusiast thing though, I get that most people just want the "definitive" experience.
>>11515010find ways to play my childhood games again, whether its 100%ing or downloading a romhack to get a new experience or download weird looking games that interests me.
>>11515018It's a botpost.
>>11515950>not true in terms of AA+ projectsIn terms of frequency, number of AA+ released in a specific time period, yes. The frequency has decreased, and as a result there are fewer "new" AA+ games than in previous periods.>1995 to 2009The best and most creative IPs (and number of IPs released), consensus is this was the peak period.>2010 to 2015 (golden age ends, enshitification begins?)Big slowdown in number of IPs released, game development shifts focus (some say to a more cinematic form, more watching less playing.)Videogame journalism becomes noticeably bought and biased.>2017 to Now (the long, sad decline)Inserted social agendas, virtue signaling, overall drastic decline in quality across the board.Most mainstream videogame journalists and outlets suffer from brain rot, and can no longer be trusted.Obviously (cumulatively), there will always be larger pool of games as time goes on.But for the exponential increase in releases and quality we saw from 1980 to around 2009,>not to mention phenomenal advances in technology during the 90's>or the advancement of game development tools making it easier/cheaper overallThe last 15 years have felt like a very long, ever declining period in gaming history. A colossal missed opportunity compared to years passed. Granted, there have been some great ones that redefined certain genres, or even defined new ones. Those seem few and far in between.But now that enshitification has taken hold, it feels like this decline is increasingly inevitable. I believe in some Indie devs, those I'll support. I'm pretty much done with AA+ unless its something specific, and even then I'll wait for the bargain bin. The so called "2nd Golden Age of Gaming" is PR bullshit, and will never come from big studios. Hype is long dead. The renaissance of gaming lies with the indie devs.For the time being, there's a whole catalogue of Retro games to be discovered.Support the indie devs working towards the renaissance.
>>11516796>>2010 to 2015 (golden age ends, enshitification begins?)>Big slowdown in number of IPs released,Ahhh yes the period of EA destroying video games for generations.
>>11515010When I was 4 in 1996. I only played whatever my dad had on his PC because we couldn't afford any console. From DOS games then he got me into emulation and I had to make due with Genecyst and NESticle when everybody was pretty much moving already towards PS1 and N64. Now, I got used to how simple and straightforward they are, so now I emulate 3rd, 4th and 5th gen consoles.Bless my dad for spending hours on dial-up after midnight, downloading ROMs so I wouldn't go out to play with the other kids and maybe get snatched away or recruited into a gang.
>>11517282By the time you were 6 or 7 you guys should have been able to get a console for super cheap. Like a Genesis or SNES. In fact you could have started collecting retro right when it was at its cheapest, but you didn't.
by spreading my cheeks and letting it go ham
>>11517139>Period of EA destroying games for generationsSadly, EA was destroyin games and buying up landmark studios with the explicit purpose of shutting them down.>No studios = No competition.I'll never forgive them for that. Bastards.
>>11515010When I was a kid I'd play my old games. I'd replay games often. When I got older and got newer games and consoles, I kept my old ones. When I found out my peers would trade in games at eb and gamestop I was confused. "Why would you do that? What if you want to play them again?" The response was usually something like "Why would I want to play them again?" Which I don't understand.Essentially I never stopped playing these games. I would play my old PlayStation, my old Nintendo, Sega, and computer games. I "embraced" it as a thing in the early-mid 2000s with emulation. I joined communities and focused on playing old games. I had my consoles and emulation, eventually my consoles disappeared and I focused on emulation. After a point I was chasing a rabbit I couldn't catch in emulation and decided it's time to get all my consoles back, and now I have everything I want and you all have to deal with me here.My embrace of retro gaming is engaging with the communities, discovering new-to-me games and sharing them with others, creating video clips and encouraging others to play. I also got into hardware repair, and now I run a retro game store in a "retro" hotspot in America.
>>11515015Yeah. I was born in 1990 and 8/16-bit consoles came kinda late here where I live, got my first one around 1997. Played it until 2003 then got PC and found about emulators, jumped straight from the real hardware to that.I remember myself seeing NES/Famicom romset for the first time and thinking "Wow, there are a LOT of games. Kirby's Adventure? What the hell is that about?"
>>11515010I grew old, and so did good games
