Is there any major technological breakthrough that felt as revolutionary to you as the invention of sliced bread? For example, the jump in storage capacity that made CD drives obsolete, or the transition from HDDs to SSDs so you no longer had to deal with the loud, clackly sounds of spinning disks
it was the hard drive for me. no more disk swapping hell on my Amiga
>>11987296Downloading games from the internets
>>11987296>, the jump in storage capacity that made CD drives obsoletethey were replaced with dvd, and then bluray. still a lot of people have bluray drives (and burners) and bluray players for their house. it's likely a new format will arrive in a few years to replace bluray as people are hitting the limits with it. and they all read/play CDs.>major technological breakthrough that felt as revolutionarynand flash memory
The ability of the Famicom to do fluid scrolling was huge that's why there is so many sidescroller Computer of the time couldn't so instead you get point&click or dungeon crawler A huge shift of game design from console to computer just because of that
>>11987296CD drives(or in my case Blu-Ray drives) are very useful still to this day. In case you want to back up music CD's, movies, video games or download your favorite PC games without running the risk of running into a malware infested download from a shady file sharing website. Plus it came in handy when there were some lost & very rare songs that I've already had on my CD-R from two decades ago. Songs I can longer find on the internet. So I retrieved it after digging through all the CD's I own. Downloaded the songs from some websites that use to host it 20 years ago.
>>11987313spbpIt felt magical. In fact, I refused to believe it until I booted up a game myself.
Flash media dropping rapidly in price in the 00s. Really, it was crazy going from floppies to multiple gigs of storage in your pocket, I was amazed by my first MMC card which was a whopping 128MB or something. I always hated mechanical drives, floppies, CDs, HDDs, they all suck. I only still tolerate HDDs because they're far more affordable than flash media, and flash media just bricks itself without warning, most hard drives I've had have started to fail and given me enough time to make a backup even when they're struggling, while all the flash failures I've had have been "everything's fine!" one day, and "oopsie woopsie I don't know what happened to your data" the next.
>>11987386>The ability of the Famicom to do fluid scrolling was huge that's why there is so many sidescroller ???Side scrollers existed long before NES. Jungle hunt and Pac land and countless others, plus flying scrollers like defender. These had C64 and other ports which had side scrolling work just fine. PCs were the only system that struggled really, due to difficulty of programming it for CGA used by IBM clones in the 80s. But even then they got old side scroller arcade ports plus games like thexder. It simply wasnt popular on PC.
The Internet, duh.For me It's hard to describe what it felt like to connect to the web in 1997 for the first time.
>>11987296"sliced bread" as you know it is poorfag garbage so I guess the best comparison would be 1,000,000 in 1 famiclone carts that have literally zero actual complete games on them just garbage broken hacks.
>>11987969You sound like a pretentious faggot
seeing a rich friend c.1998 with zip discs for their personal crap when I was still using floppies blew me away
>>11987296I often think about how the first computer I bought myself had a pair of 500mb drives, and now I can buy a USB stick with 256gb of space for a dollar.
>>11987296the world wide web with graphic html browsing. That was the big jump. I'd used BBSs and email clients before that, so "the internet" was already there, but the web was the leap to consumer viability and became ubiquitous in a couple of years.
Getting composite video cables for the C64. Not having to deal with the noisy RF signal, getting a solid, stable, interference-free picture was impossible to describe.Beyond that probably broadband internet, HDDs reaching 1+TB in size, and SSDs becoming mainstream.
personal one, the combo of internet piracy blowing up with Napster + getting a cd burner.
for me it was when i found out about nes emulation. i was more excited to be able to play all the games i used to rent and play here and there at people's houses and whatnot rather than playing new ones. it felt too good to be true but it worked, despite those early days being a huge pain in the ass to find working roms. navigating all those stupid webrings and everything with that neon green hypertext. and then snes/genesis and everything else got emulation too.
>>11988282>it felt too good to be true but it worked, despite those early days being a huge pain in the ass to find working roms. navigating all those stupid webrings and everything with that neon green hypertext. and then snes/genesis and everything else got emulation too.Oh yeah. I recall when Genesis was ok, except for its music. And SNES working "ok". Another thing I loved was the fact that it helped heal the wound of selling my collection in the past.
>>11988282Emulation in general really. There wasn't a kid alive who said>you mean I could play games...without having to buy them???And didn't go pic related from the revelation. It didn't even matter that most emulators back then were shit, you could play console games ON YOUR COMPUTER
>>11988330>most emulators back then were shitBeing 11 and playing OoT with a keyboard on an early, even shittier version of PJ64 that runs like shit on your old machine in 2002 is pure soul
>>11988330I was sure it was a hoax until I booted up Super Mario Bros. on FCEu or whatever and then it hit me that it was truly a 1:1. I had *not* been lied to or misled. And...now I can play....~anything~?Yes, mind blown indeed. It was like a childhood sleepover conversation come true.>Hey, dude.>WHAT>Wouldn't it be cool to have ALL the Nintendo games on ONE cartridge?!>YEAH THAT'D BE RAD!^actual conversations like this happened all the time in the late 80s, but we were just having fun and never expected that to ever, ever become reality.
>>11987296Hardware accelerated 3D
>>11988434It's funny how back then literally everyone was cumming over texture filtering but today people prefer the software rendering look
>>11987296I remember being super impressed seeing a PC play FMV for the first time ever. That MW2 intro is forever seared into my brain.Also, high speed internet and being able to play BF1942 with other people around the world for the first time.
>>11988468I never understood how people could enjoy that shitty blurry look of texture filtering back then, so for me it was like people finally came to their senses. It was a generally unwanted effect, like motion blur and depth of field etc.
>>11988489The mentality was that pixels were unrealistic, so people wanted to get rid of them at any cost
>>11987296nothing. In my experience it has been pretty gradual. My first pc was a dual core with a gt 9800.
>>11987296Already mentioned but the Internet is as revolutionary a breakthrough as electricity itself.
>>11987313The internets was pretty slow in the mid 80s. HST was the way to go. In fact it was mandatory for most decent boards.
>>11987367you are retarded, no one has a blu ray drive, no one buys physical media, and there will not be a next physical disc format
>>11988582based and WEFpilled
games being voice acted was a monkey paw but very impressive when it was new. The last time i was truly impressed with a technical leap was going from n64 to physics engines in such a short period of time. Half life 2 and City of Heroes with PhysX support just felt so beyond what we had seen before.
>>11988330>>you mean I could play games...without having to buy them???at the point i learned about emulation in 1997 i was still fully willing to buy NES games second hand, but finding the specific games i wanted was not easy and my NES wasn't working so great eitherso in my case it was>wow i can finally play all those games i read about in magazines or had rented from a place that no longer exists
emulation still feels like magic to me, no matter how it's done
>>11987296>jump in storage capacity that made CD drives obsolete?cd drives were more like less and less games were bothering with physical releases until one day there were simply no cds left to put into the drive
>>11988282>>11988330I remember discovering rom hacks. Taking an old game and then modifying it to have all sorts of crazy shit in it, I was convinced it was done with black magic.Sure there were flash fan games, but they tended to be much shorter or just quick jokes, and tended to play worse.
>>11988910How can it not?>download emulator under 10mb>download ROM under 37kb>put ROM in a folder labeled games>it just worksI think for anyone born after the 80s, it can't be magical because I for one, was taught again and again how massive 5megabit (not megabyte!) games were on fat carts with fat chips inside them, and now to tell me that all that physicality means jack?Magical.
>>11988934i'm the guy you replied to, and i'm 30 years old; most consoles i emulate were released before i was born in '95. i see what you mean, though.
>>11988910you just don't get it unless you were there
>>11988953Close enough. Should have said born before 2000, but the cocky spirit of the 80s was on my mind.
>>11988282>>11988624These. Growing up wanting to play Mega Man X2 but only finding X1 and X3 to rent was sad. The day my friend gave me a CD full of SNES roms and ZSNES it's like everything changed. I went from begging my parents to buy me a GBA to just emulating it.
>>11988045You sound like a poorfag faggot who's booty blasted that I mocked the bologna on wonder bread sack lunches your mommy makes for you.
