They're free, of high quality, in abundance, have a small footprint, and strangely enough are till being released to this day due to translations, hacking, and leaks. It's such a vibrant collection of things to see and do, and all of the time and effort that went into making them is now worth zero dollars because everyone already got paid.

>>12141974
FPBP

Also no retarded politics or micro transactions

>>12141960
They aid with nostalgia in other areas.

Too poor to play new games.
I can't even play real time games at the moment because my controller and my laptop broke so I have to play turn bases games on touchscreen with android emulation

By my professional assessment every medium I'm interested in (video games, film, literature, music) sharply declined in quality at the turn of the millennium

Low costs all around and they're often better than much modern stuff.

>>12141960
I don't. They just sit on my self while I take pictures of them and shitpost on the 4chin.

>>12141960
I don't. I just buy them and argue about them online, which leaves no time to actually play them.

>>12141960
Because I can. Later I use my esoteric knowledge to reconnect all anons with the time-wasters from their blurred past. Nobody is safe.

I just like old school gameplay better.

Modern single player games are all ARPG-lites with curated hallways, setpieces, and voice acting.
Microtransaction begging reduces immersion.
Old games were just games.

>>12141960
My hardware is weak

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>>12142081
I'm over here playing NES, SNES, and PSX games with my RTX 5060, 32GB RAM, and i5-14400. PUBG is the only game later than PS2 I play. Overkill.

Based frogposter

>>12141960
because modern games suck balls and are pessimistically pseudo-developed by money-grubbing retards rather than spirited developers. just look at the credits of a modern game; so many names and paychecks and for fucking nothing at all because everyone is tard wrangled by tards into making the best slop possible. pathetic.

honestly a lot of it is simply the ease and feasibility of pirating full rom sets and storing them on a single drive. if I could have a ps3 and ps4 system in retroarch as easily as the pre sixth gen consoles I can't be sure that I wouldn't be grazing from modern games more often.
that said retro games are generally much quicker to get into. also a lot of modern games fall into that black hole of being polished/streamlined enough to not have any novelty but falling short of the few obvious genre peaks so they're just completely pointless to play.

Every single post itt is a bot.

>>12141960
>Why do you play retro video games?
Well they didn't use to be retro. I just never stopped playing them.

>>12142214
especially when we include your post, faggot

>>12141990
buy a usb controller and you can play all the retro shit again. thats what I did before I had enough for my new laptop.

>way more fun than modern slop
>no mtx, dlc, drm, online, constant updates, or unoptimized slopcode
>totally free
>incredible variety and selection
>always more classics I havent played yet
>hacks give old favorites totally new life
>nostalgia
>better graphics despite being simpler

>>12142245
>we
Ok, bot-kun. Enjoy your pointless frog noise.

>>12142262
enjoy schizophrenia

>>12141960
They are cheap, have a defined beginning and end (w/o taking all of your time), and have soul.
What is soul? It's like when a bunch of retards put on a play with fingerpuppets instead of hiring a midget to act out a play for you. It's some abstraction from something forced due to constraints that creates the soul. In the modern day we don't get soul, dev teams are outsourced and massive.

>>12142265
Kikes programmed you to spread schizophrenia, yes.

>>12142270
nothing you say even bothers me, schizophrenic. why bother addling yourself, with your own made up bullshit?

>>12142274
>why bother addling yourself,
Incoherent bot babble. Kikes program bots to destroy human (White) conversation, because that inevitably leads to them being losing control.

>>12142276
sad to witness people like you. again, enjoy schizophrenia.

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>>12142280
Nothing schizophrenic about it, it's a stated fact by kikes. Here, read.

>thread derailed because two spergs can't stop sperging at each other
Great job lads.

>>12142289
>the single most worthless thread in /vr/ history is being derailed
And I'm here to make it worse.

>>12142289
sorry, i'm done talking to that guy. i take it offensive when people presume my post is ai. i'll leave now

>>12141960
>Why do you play retro video games?
I like 2D gameplay and pixel art more than 3D gameplay and graphics and retro games have those in abundance for free. For me, it doesn't have to be retro, I am actually quite happy with the ever increasing selection modern 2D games many of which look and play beautifully.
It annoys me I can not discuss said games openly here because time and not style of gameplay is the great divide here between Contra and Blazing Chrome, Sonic 3&K and Sonic Mania and Turtles in Time and Shredders Revenge.
People characterize these types of games as simply chasing nostalgia but I more feel it is correcting the wrong that was the near total transition to 3D when it became available along with the notion that it was an evolution.
To me, 2D is just another category and pixel art another artstyle, one that was for a while underserved. I'm glad it is back now and am looking forward to more great new games in the future.

>>12142285
Whoops, jew boy doesn't have a snappy scizophrenia-based comeback for that one!

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>>12141960
To try to recover that feeling that I had as a ten year old, sitting in the floor in my parents’ house, the snow falling in the background outside as I played whatever game I had downloaded on Sega Channel (probably Shining Forces 1 or 2, should have just asked my parents buy them) or whatever SNES game I had rented that week, and I knew peace
As a 40 year old man with children, you can guess how well I’ve been able to pull it off, and yet I keep going through phases where I set up emulation boxes or buy retro games at the insane markup, chasing the dragon
And I keep coming here, where at least I know everyone else is a 40 year old boomer that doesn’t actually play games

>>12142325
Thank you for your nostalgia inducement. Beep boop.

>>12142329
Thanks for reminding me why I mostly lurk on this godforsaken website nowadays, anon
I really need to get off the Internet and do something with my life

>>12142339
You won't, or you're a bot.

>>12141960
As pleb as it sounds, I saw videos of people playing old systems and games on Youtube, and tried some of them out, and enjoyed them. I think the first I tried out was a MECC game from the 80's called Odell Lake, and it went from there.

> 1/2

>Nostalgia
I miss my teenage days in the 90s. I only play old games, games I used to play back then as well as others I am only learning about now. It's comfy and it takes me back.
>Time
I have a nice job + other hobbies. Games are a fun thing for the last few hours of the day.
>Aesthetics
Old graphics are fascinating, even when they're shit. All my niggaz love Bayer matrix. Devs back then used abstraction in cool and fresh ways.
>SOVL
Old games took chances and went all in with some obsessive ideas. Excellent. All my fav games are flawed. I just want to see some mad shit, not an optimised product.
>A golden age
It was a time of great experimentation. Devs hadn't themselves grown up with video games. They grew up doing cool stuff like pen & paper rpgs or camping in the woods or flying kites or reading weird books. When they started making games they were trying things that had literally never been done before. Like Looking Glass who wanted to translate the freedom (not the mechanics) of rpgs into vidya and solved this by going all in on the world physics.
A team of 5-10 people would create the most incredible video games. They fell in love with ideas and went to it with total dedication. Imaginative people in small teams that are on the same wavelength and communicate well ALWAYS roll out amazing stuff. It's basically a law of nature.

>>12142367
> 2/2

>The state of vidya today
Retro was before things got all expensive and complicated, before the suits and big money were moving in and turned everything into a service.
Good devs back then had real ideas. They didn't just want to make a game 'like that other game'. Devs today grew up doing nothing else but playing vidya. They have no frame of reference outside of gaming. They lack the balls and the brains to try anything fresh.
Instead, you get games that are optimised to keep you hooked in order to extract as much of your time, money and data as possible. I don't have time for games that just want to steal all my time. Give me 1 or 2 hours in some cool world and I'm fine.
The last straw: 'One engine to rule them all' makes everything look and feel the same. Games running on their own engines added soul and character.

>>12141960
I love all video games -- new and old, as long as they're good games. One benefit of retro games is that they won't have a re-release 7 years later with a limited amount of additional content that makes you feel like you never had the full experience the first time around.

Hence why I'm holding off on buying all Switch 2 games after my experiences with Wii U and Switch.

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Hi [X 4chan board]. Why do you like [x]?

>>12142378
How's the weather, anon?

>>12142380
Jewish.

>>12142378
>>12142381
How dare people encourage discussion about the things they enjoy. It must be the dastardly Israelites behind this.

>>12141960
I'm poor and I can play them on a cheap computer for free.

>>12142384
Beep boop. Hi [game player] why do you [play games]?

>>12142386
You must be really fun and engaging when you go on dates.

Oh wait lmao

>>12142389
Beep boop. Haha [date] is an uncommon concept for [retro game player]! Humor noted!

>>12141960
haha OP I love froggo XD

These Alinsky-learned jew boys just poke and prod you with frogs all day. It isn't "cringe" to point them out. They're pathetic kikes.

>>12141960
take a knife and slit your own throat, zoomer /v/ermin

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>>12142413
mean

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>>12141960
i dont. i just shitpost about them

Why should I answer to you? These empty threads are boring.

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>>12141960
As I play my ps2 on my crt in our spare bedroom (wife doesn't want the ugly "old" TV in the living room) I feel like im sticking it to the man(game dev trannies)

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>>12142375
>One benefit of retro games is that they won't have a re-release 7 years later with a limited amount of additional cont–ACK!

>>12141960
Because your mother is a drunk whore that fucked 1000 men and took the joy out of life

There’s nothing else fun to do when women are gross whores

What am I supposed to do look for the 1 non whore out of 100 women?

Because I want to play good games and modern games are all fucking terrible

>>12141960
Because they are fun.

Zoomers are a scourge. Vile generation.

>>12141960
haha OP I love froggo XD

>>12141960
They're better than almost everything coming out today.
Seriously, what was the newest game any of you played? Because the last new game I played came out in 2022 and that was Return to Monkey Island.

>>12142391
how about you start an original thread and link it

II just like video games. And naturally I have curiosity for games that came out before my time. Also, older games weren't as standardized as today.

>>12141960
Advancements in technology and 3D doesn't mean better games, there is a clear cut-off point where games are no longer widely considered retro. Innovation was at an all time high, everything was handcrafted with passion and love even if games undersold, and crunch wasn't as high compared to today. No wonder most games released today take inspiration or obviously replicate/ripoff games from better days.

The only thing I don't like is that good games in the western market suffered from shitty difficulty buffs due to Blockbuster rentals. Every western rerelease should be balanced as the original Japanese versions or atleast provide both options whether you want to play the game as intended or not.

>>12141960
Because I can.

>>12141974
>They're free
Most of the ones you're playing aren't, you're playing copyrighted material illegally.

>>12141960
I was mainly a Snes/Ps1/Ps2 kid so I have no issues going back retro.
I play retro mostly because as a third worlder who couldn't afford the console I skipped the entire 360/PS3 generation.
So series that started there like Uncharted, Ass Creed, Gears of War, TLoU, etc or series that already existed and became (More) mainstream like CoD, Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, etc were nothing to me so now the current generation big hits are irrelevant to me.
I used to play mainstream stuff back then like Twisted Metal, Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry, etc so I went back retro to replay games I havent played in like 15 years or to play underrated stuff I missed like Suikoden, Vandal Hearts, Forbidden Siren, etc.
Still play some current games but are usually legacy IPs like Resident Evil, Persona, Fire Emblem, etc.
Current gaming is just not very appealing to me. I Specially have zero interest in online only experiences like free to play or gacha or mmos.
Indies are cool and all but I feel they are either some pixel shit metroidvanias or deck builder/farming/crafting/roguelike/ stuff.
Guess I have never stopped playing retro in general.
Nevermind the status of current games being so politically or propaganda charged.

>>12141960
I just call them games and I play them because I like games, older games hold my interest more because they were made for my generation so it's natural I have affinity towards them than the zoomer slop of today

Unironically ADHD shit attention span. I absolutely hate long introductions and cinematic slop. I only have patience for games that immediately put you in the action.

>>12142261
>unoptimized slopcode
A lot of old games are full of it. Example: SM64.

>>12143847
why would devs give a shit how many times their game gets rented? thats blockbusters profits not theirs

>>12144351
>t. Nintendo of America representative

>>12141974
>leave a small footprint
Please, sound more like a dick sucking faggot why don't you.

>>12144351
If the original devs don't get any money from the sales, it's absolutely justified to not give any money.

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>>12141960
who controls the past now, controls the future, who controls the present now, controls the past

>>12141960
1985 to 2005 was the golden age of vidya

>>12141960
No internet connection required
Physical ownership
No subsciption
No digitally liscsenced content
No loot box nonline casinos

Where ALL modern games ripped their gameplay from but without tedious SJW FMV CGI interuptions

When I got my collection I was looking at things I had seen on sale for 60$-300$ being given away for free

I wrote some of them and due to life never had the time to go and enjoy all of them (or spend money on it)

I like them

I used play some of them as a kid and teen back when they were a coin a go and now I can play them as much as I want.

I like exploring the evolution of computing and software.

I enjoy exploring software that was so skillfully written it could fit a game of chess is less than 800 bytes

Why waste time on remakes and betoots when you can play the original? (Why bother with disnet star wars or some tards remake of Alfred HItchcocks psycho when you can watch the original)

Physical media is mine for my lifetime and my childrens

I enjoy finding and repairing old 8 bit computers and older generation consoles so they will run for another 30 years. Older systems are easier to repair and were not designed for obsolescence and unrepairable failure out of warranty.

I like that games used have cool peripherals like light guns, steering wheels, joysticks, dance mats, fishing reels, rhythm game controllers etc

I find the output of the gaming industry in the last decade to have collapsed utterly into unoriginal over monetised shit and find more interesting, well written and better gameplay in the past than now.

I find programming and developing for retro systems far more enjoyable and satisfying that I do developing the modern multinational corporate slop software that people like you use and so do most of the most skilled and able oldfag coders

Most important of all. I don't care what other people do or why as long as they leave me alone to do my thing.

>>12145043
Way too late. its 1976 to roughly 2016. For example stuff like pong, Atai, 8 bit computing and early 80s arcade machines are more important than all the nintendo or sega brandslop ever made in the late 80s or early 90s. It was a good run of fity years and now its basically over. There is only that body of work.

>>12141960
My computer is worse than my phone.

>why do you play *video games
In order to forget

>>12141960

Without Boomers and GenX there are no good games or movies or music or comedy or books all the stuff they made is now 'retro'.
t.zoomer

i dont have to have online connectivity
i press the on button and it goes
im old and my hands don't work on mouse and keyboard like they used to so controller works better for me.
i also prefer short arcadey experiences mostly

No updates
No 'signing in'
No terms and conditions
No spyware
No monthly fee
No trend politics

Space invaders does not display an lgbt flag in june. Space invaders does not even know it is june it just knows it must entertain. Space invaders does not have a billing cycle. Pac man does not require an internet connection or tier pricing for level two or an additional fee for fruit bonus content.

Pole position never made me subscibe or agree to terms and conditions. Galaxians never tried to monitor my browser cookies and advertise galaxians themed dildo and cooking utensils at me while writing everything it could find about me into a database for sale to strangers

You cannot choose the gender or ethnicity of your bat in pong or arkenoid and neither are you made to.

There's more artistry involved. From menus, to UI, to backgrounds, to promotional art etc. the illustrations were traditional and not digital. I'm not saying games are art exactly but i see more artistry in older games

Nowadays every game is made on unreal and look the same

>>12141960
I am playing tales of eternia right now on a real ps1+crt. So yeah I play retro

>>12141974
Thread should've ended here, there's really nothing more to add.

>>12145061
okay I'll grant the historic significance of the early arcade stuff but what on earth has you picking 2016 as the cutoff? You could make an argument for 2007, MAYBE 2010 but what fucking games came out in 2016 that you would consider worthy of a "golden age"? Fucking overwatch?

>>12141960
>Why do you play retro video games?
I'm caucasian and hetrosexual.

>>12145212
>what on earth has you picking 2016 as the cutoff?
The effect of the great recession on consumer spending and the delcine of innovative or quality gaming product and the increased monetisation in response to reduced sales and a need to increase margins by cutting peripheral deveopment and turning to dlc, lootboxes, tierrs subscriptions and digital distribution. Its not an exact date, a handful of good games re;leased afetr and some terribe ones released before 2016 but its the median point for when it all went to shit utterly. The same is refected in movies, books, music etc. Quality fell off a cliff. Might paralell with a wave of retirements from the boomers and genXers who originally created gaming too, or overlap.

>>12144351
I don't care, what now

>>12141960
Contemporary games are not worth my money or my time. Simple as. Corporate greed has let us all down this path. And it has unwillingly created this retro game bubble we all exist in.

>>12145287
no one asked desu

>>12145292
OP asked and many people are interested too
>b-but bot thread!
I don't think it's a bot thread, but even if it is it just means bots are making better threads than humans now, which should make some posters think really hard if they're even human themselves

>Why do you play retro video games?
I used to play modern games like Max Payne and Far Cry until around 2011 when my gaming PC died
Before that happened I was already having lots of fun with less demanding games like SNES emulators and flash or browser games, when the PC died I just continued playing those games on my old toaster PC that didn't even have a GPU
I never got another modern console or PC, I can afford them but I don't see the point, nothing I see on youtube interests me

>>12145317
do you have autism or asperger? not trying to insult you here buddy.

>>12145321
I'm not your buddy, pal.

>>12145212
>Fucking overwatch?
It was the golden standard of online multiplayer games. At least before OW2's release utterly destroyed it.

>>12144395
>Indie games that are like retro games but not quite as good
Why don't I just play the old game that's as good?

>>12146181
>>Indie games that are like retro games but not quite as good
I didn't say that. I mentioned them because a lot of people tend to say muh indie to defend current gaming but to me they are as unappealing.

>>12146173
overwatch golden standard? what the fuck are you even on about?

>>12141960
paying for slop is gay. I am not gay. its a simple equation.

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>>12142005
>Low costs all around

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>>12146846
Yes. Even if you don't want to pirate, the costs are low.

>>12146876
Good shit

>>12141960
They're fun.

>>12146876
What is this image? What does it mean?

>>12146939
It means that, completely disregarding piracy, you can turn to online stores like GOG (pictured), Steam, as an example of a cheap method of acquiring vintage games.

>>12141974
>They're free, of high quality, in abundance, have a small footprint, and strangely enough are till being released to this day
So are books.

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>>12147276
lol

>>12146173
I am BEGGING you to get better taste anon

>>12141960
everything knew looks exactly the same and makes me feel nothing. It's all unreal engine 5 realism simulator slop

>>12141960
fun

>>12141960
yes

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>>12147728
>It's all unreal engine 5 realism simulator slop

There is nothing realistic about most modern games. Almost no real physics, all just bling.

>>12141960
I'm broke as fuck and I can't afford new games

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>>12141960
>Why do you play retro video games?
No installations, just download
Windows 7 or 10, my choice
Not forced to make accounts
Games are 50x better
Woke shit nowhere in them

>>12147752
All the best games are free anyways.

>>12141960
I don't have a console and my PC is from 2010

>>12141960
They are interesting, and the well made ones continue to be fun and rewarding experiences. I've always found this sort of question to be bizarre, in the sense that you don't really see labels assigned to people who for example, like older books or movies or music.

Personally I always think that people who don't like older games just don't actually have that much interest in the medium.

>>12141960
I've grown tired of modern games monetization, photorealism, hyper competitiveness, Hollywood wannabe simulator and the flood of low quality indie games drowning searches when want to find something new to play that I fall back to a time when I knew games

>>12141990
Brother a battlexp G350 is sub $30 when its on sale

>>12141960
I don't support studios that support microtransactions or which censor online chat. So basically that leaves only retro for me.

>>12148340
>I'm broke as fuck and I can't afford new games

>>12141960
im a loser

>>12141960
Modern games are just intolerable. There are very few series I'm interested in that are still alive, and of those few, they are all obviously past their primes. I like to think that a massive portion of my matured vidya taste was established getting into classic Thief like a decade ago, and now that entire genre is dead and buried. It's all in the modern game design trends to chase a wider audience that has been ruining games I liked since Dragon Age II came out.
It's impossible to not imagine being at basically any point between 1990 and 2006 and just being fed GOAT after GOAT almost constantly. I guess I try to simulate that with the games I choose to play at this point. A lot of the popular fanfare that big AAA games get nowadays just comes across as coping because otherwise you're left with the unfortunate conclusion that this industry is just circling the toilet.

Probably the same reason I play indie games too, far wider variety.

>>12149002
I would call it less coping and more braindead people with no real passion for stuff easily falling for marketing. I spent time in a large gaming discord a few years ago and I noticed a pervasive pattern of people hyping up the newest trending thing like crazy, buying it en masse on release day, acting like it was God's gift to gaming and then immediately dropping it like a bad habit maybe 2-3 days later, tops. I'm convinced the number of actual core gamers has stayed the same and the majority of the modern, normalfag filled populace the industry caters to these days are far more interested in the feeling of being part of a social group than the hobby itself. They treat games as an adjacent towards socializing, which is what they really seem to want. It's easy to have positive social interactions with many other people if you all pretend to like the exact same things for the exact same reasons.

>>12149002
>>12149082
Yeah I feel this too. The urge to bandwagon due to fomo is a huge issue, that and how dull these games once you get over the flashy graphics. I haven't played a new game I enjoyed in a while. I gave up, I only play retro now. I see the buzz of newslop churned out for the crumbling culture that is Gen z and alpha and I'm dismayed at how far the consumption has degraded society. People joke, but Idiocracy and Wall-E are eerily becoming reality. You know what they say, art imitates life and life imitates art and art imitates life until it becomes who we are.

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>>12149138
>becoming
It's been that way for like 15 years now at least.

Still, don't write off indie games entirely, yes most of them are just "old game but not" uninspired sludge but there's a lot of genuine diamonds out there too.

>>12141960
>retro video games?
best games

>>12149148
>old game but not
Totally ruins games for me. I couldn't even get into super meat boy that much because it was just off somehow. Such a strange thing. You can really fully encapsulate the different eras of culture after the time has passed, there's always a tell. Post a few games, maybe I'll be interested, I'm not completely shunning new games.

>>12149167
You can't*

>>12141960
Because Matt Booty could suddenly decide he's allowed to revoke my digital content license for Call of Duty 69 with zero repercussions, but if he comes into my house to take my copy of River Raid I'm still legally allowed to shoot him.

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>>12141960
Retro games are more enjoyable that the non retro ones. Also variety getting more thatn 3 different games per genre is amazing.

>>12148649
>I spent thousands on games for children and I am insecure about it
So what are you complaining about here?

>>12149390
Video gamers have not been primarily targetted at kids since the early 90s and even then only on consoles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFa84MtQGMU

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I once built a decent enough machine to run "modern" games (7th gen and onward). They weren't for me, ended up bored out of my mind, and kept going back to good ol' retro.

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>>12144351
lol
>>12144926
I don't understand what's gay about this statement, a hard drive and computer physically take up less space than the majority of hobbies.
>>12147189
I enjoy both

>>12141960
Quality, Feels, Value. New games are full of shenanigans and fine print.

>>12141960
Because I'm based as fuck

>>12148480
>I've always found this sort of question to be bizarre, in the sense that you don't really see labels assigned to people who for example, like older books or movies or music.
This is a good point
It's also a good reminder that making great games is hard, it's not something you can just choose to do if you want to (assuming you even have the money)
I think modern developers wouldn't be so hated if they weren't so damn smug, always acting like modern games are better than old ones
Other media doesn't have this, many people agree some of the best movies/music are older
Some of the best books are hundreds or thousands of years old