Any other fellow anons from those countries can give me their experiences with retrogaming (growing up, popular games, collecting or emulating in current day, etc..).All I know is that the PS2 is still incredibly popular there, would like to know if Sega, Atari or the OG Xbox had their fans.
>>12261390I'm from Chile and every kid I knew had a Playstation 1 or 2 with Winning Eleven hacks, Crash Bandicoot, Tekken, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, Driver, GTA, Need For Speed, the shitty nes/snes emulators and Dragon Ball games.Nintendo is mostly popular due to Pokemon, though oldheads love the NES and SNES, specially the DKC games and Killer Instinct, the N64 and the Gamecube aren't as beloved but there are fans of them and I do remember seeing places where you could pay money to play N64 and Gamecube games for an hour (Smash and Mario Kart being the popular picks).Sega shit no idea, I saw a few Dreamcasts and some Genesis games but I only knew one person with a Dreamcast, never saw an Atari and the only time I saw an Xbox hueg was on a retrogaming store.PC games I remember Age of Empires 2, Starcraft, San Andreas, Gunbound and Counter Strike 1.6 being popular on Cyber Cafes and Computer Lab classes.Fighting games are very popular too, mostly Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, KOF and Tekken.
I'm from Argentina, I didn't experience the Atari era but I know there was a local version of the Atari, called "edugames" or "edu juegos", not sure if they really had the license from Atari, probably not.My personal first experience with video games (other than arcades), was the Coleco Vision which my family had. Played many arcade classics on the Coleco.Then around early, very early 90s, like 1991 or so, the Famiclones arrived en masse, I'd say it was a golden era because Famiclones and the games were affordable and at least that early first wave of clones were really good, I had one that looked just like a real Famicom (of course I had no idea it was a clone, and I was confused about the NES my friend had, he had a bigger console, but the games were the same).Family Game (in its many incarnations, there was an argentine line, obviously without license, ala Dendy, called Electrolab. I just had a regular generic taiwanese "Family Game" though, and that's what most kids had during 1991~1994.From the mid 90s, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis were popular, and Nintendo had an official distributor in the country so we got TV ads and magazines (Club Nintendo, the same one from mexico and chile but slighlty edited), but Super Nintendo was more for upper class kids, as carts were expensive and there were almost no bootlegs (actually there were some, but were much harder to find). So, the next console most kids had was the Genesis - which was almost all bootlegs and super cheap. And while there were original consoles around, most of what was sold here hardware-wise was also bootleg, clones of the genesis/md, there was for example a console called "Songa", they all played the bootleg Genesis games anyway.For the late 90s and moreso early 00s, modchipped PS1 was the new popular console, though at this time, more and more people started having PCs at home too, and with the economic disaster of 2001, most of the country was playing Counter-Strike for cheap at cybers.
>>12261390I'm a PC-only gamer from Argentina.I can list a list of loose gaming concepts.I knew about DOS Genesis emulators. Never had one, but a friend of mine did, and I played a bunch of them on his computer.Discs with MAME32 and a bunch or ROMs. I did have one, gave me lots of fun.I remember pirated games being openly sold via classified adverts in newspapers. I once acquired a Harry Potter game, and couldn't play it because my drive couldn't handle DVDs.LAN parties in cyber cafes, mostly playing WarCraft III.Copying shortcuts to a pendrive to play games at home.Shareware/demo CDs were my jam, as I didn't have Internet at home.Budget releases of PC games were a life changer.Buying games at Musimundo and Compumundo.During the late 90s and early 2000s, we had games bundled with magazines every month.In the mid 2000s, every summer we had a new game on CD bundled with a magazine per week.They were often very mid, but they were cheap, and became something of an acquired taste.
>>12261390SEGA was a big deal in Brazil thanks to Tec Toy, love their models.
>>12262583Man, most have sucked only having bootlegs for most of south america, here in Mexico I never really started to seeing bootlegs up until the late 90s if that makes any sense.
>>12263849Eh, it was great in a way. They were cheap therefore affordable for most people and they were everywhere. I'd go downtown to check out the big specialized stores, which sold both, originals and bootlegs. Though to be fair, finding original Sega Genesis or PS1 games was rare, I don't think I ever saw any. NES I also don't really remember seeing, as Family Game being so universally popular made the NES kind of pointless (though many of NES's most complex games weren't bootlegged, no Zelda or Dragon Quest). But then most of the other classics were there, SMB series (and its many hacks of different games), Ninja Gaiden, Mega Man, Contra etc plus with Family Game you had japanese games too, like Twin Bee and Mitsume ga tooru, among many others that NES never had.Same with Genesis, piracy allowed for japanese games to reach here, same with PS1.I had most consoles so I enjoyed both worlds, also PC. SNES also had bootlegs and I had many, but starting with N64, I only ever got 1 bootleg cart (which requires an adapter)
>>12263843Was Nikita Russian or Brazilian, here in urgay everybody had one, I still got mine from like 25 years ago.>>12261390Used to buy Club Nintendo every single month from November 2004 to July 2009, around 2007 they got rid of Nintendo Power articles and the magazine took a huge nose dive in quality due to the shitty filler articles they have to do, one of them talked about Kunio Kun and it was a literally copy paste from Wikipedia, I knew right away cuz at that time I got internet and looked for the games I used to play one of them being the Kunio Kun series, month later the magazine had the same shit I read on Wikipedia, stoped buying it cuz there's wasn't any point to the magazine anymore.
>>12263871DS/Wii-era CN was filled with shitty mexican phone ads.
Me and all the kids I knew played SNES until like, 2003. There were always people (or shops) to trade cards with. Then I got a modchipped PS2 and forgot what happened to my Super.You weren't getting any videogames for christmas so you had to get used to socializing and trading carts. There was honor in not deleting another kid's save slot (or at least asking). The experience was pretty cool. That was later replaced with having to acquire pirated discs from shady sellers. When DVDs/disc burners/ good internet became accessible, it felt like a new world... My first torrented game was MK Armageddon when it released.Another fun thingBecause to me "piracy" meant actual physical bootleg stuff, when I got on the internet and saw english speakers referring to the mere act of downloading a game or program as "piracy", I thought they were a bunch of pussies. I still kinda do.Also, I still have my club nintendos, most of them from 2000/2002
>>12264583I remember buying a few issues in 2002, and then someone gave me an issue in 2006, which I thought was sad how many ads for SMS shit it had.I also remember when around the Gamecube era, they started importing the mexican ones (I'm in Argentina, and we got the chilean edition, which I think was actually worse than the mexican version, it had less pages iirc). But there was a big change between N64-era and Gamecube-era. N64-era CN felt like a modernized version of the early NES/SNES-era issues, while the GC-era felt like it was revamped and given a total new design criteria. It was still quality, but not as colorful or imaginative as the older incarnation.90s Club Nintendo was one of the best vidya mags around.After discovering who Gus was, I understood. The guy loved video games for real
Chilean here who spent a lot of years reading Club Nintendo.They started fine and where pretty respectful towards the competition acknowledging good games on other consoles.Then the Wii era started and I'm sure they changed everyone who wrote articles there because overnight they turned into huge fanboys who either refused to even say the P word (Playstation) or even dared to call Sega out for shit Nintendo also did (like uncreative names) and that's where I decided to stop reading them because I didn't consider that something ok to do.Up until the Gamecube era they were a great magazine to read tho but sometimes Panteon had some incredibly shitty takes.
>>12264809I've seen complains about N64-Era CN being too biased and even saying that bad games were good but I dont remember that happening that often, at worst they would give some incorrect info about some games (I think they said Banjo-Tooie supported the expansion pak), besides, thanks to CN I got to see a lot of games I would probably never have played during my childhood (goemon, mischief makers, tetrisphere, snowboard kids, etc...).I don't remember much abour GC-era CN, I do have some magazines from that period but I dont remember much besides the RE4 having a vidya girls section featuring Taki's delicious nipples and CvS2 Morrigan art
>>12264857>PanteonI remember him hating Crash Bandicoot and Rayman so much he would always give their games bad scores because they were "generic platformer mascots".Same guy gave the GBA Nightmare before Christmas game a 10/10 solely because he's a big fanboys of the game.Besides him there was Crow, Conejo and Master and I don't remember if they were as biased as Panteon was.
>>12261390Mootxican here. I grew up with mostly Nintendo consoles, though I got to play a bit with my dad's old Atari 2600 and XE computer, and later we got a 386 PC with Windows 3.1 and played some DOS classics like Prince of Persia and Indiana Jones. But yeah, mostly NES and SNES stuff, and not just us but my extended family and friends as well. I only knew like one person who had a Genesis. Club Nintendo was my bible, and I read every issue cover to cover multiple times so I knew damn near everything about every game they covered, even the ones I wasn't all that interested in, which was a boon for whenever we rented games. I still have a lot of my old issues, from circa 1993 to 1998 (the last issue we ever bought was the one with the F-Zero X cover). Looking back on them, they were fun and had a sense of humor, but of course they were biased as all fuck, especially later on into the N64 years, and apparently from what I understand the quality declined markedly during the GC years and it never recovered.Amyway, RIP Gus Rodriguez.
>>12263863maybe its because i grew up on frontier cities in mexico, but we got starting the early 90s NES games, tough most were either bought on fleamarkets or swapmeets or in US stores, Itochu became an official distribuitor for Nintendo tough.
>>12264809Man, I remember when I first tried playing Super Metroid in earnest sometime around 2003 or so, instead of looking at GameFAQs or whatever for the location of hard-to-find missile expansions or whatever, I just dug out my old Club Nintendo issue that had a full walkthrough and maps. Way better than looking at a text-only FAQ. Shit was so cash.That said, sometimes they did have some baffling information. Does anyone remember when TMNT Tournament Fighters came out and they published a "trick" to unlock Rat King and Karai by quickly turning your SNES on and off in rapid succession until they just magically became available? I'll see if I can dig it up, but I know they did this because my brother and I actually attempted it without success lol
>>12263871>Used to buy Club Nintendo every single month from November 2004 to July 2009, around 2007 they got rid of Nintendo Power articles and the magazine took a huge nose dive in quality due to the shitty filler articles they have to do, one of them talked about Kunio Kun and it was a literally copy paste from Wikipedia, I knew right away cuz at that time I got internet and looked for the games I used to play one of them being the Kunio Kun series, month later the magazine had the same shit I read on Wikipedia, stoped buying it cuz there's wasn't any point to the magazine anymore.I was about to ask if it was the same Club Nintendo as the mexican one, but i dont know really, all that i know is that during the late n64 era and GC and GBA era they started to go down hill and lie constantly and become Nintendo shills, they might have been since the b64 tough and we used to make jokes about it in forums, those were the days, but if you can get ANY issue before number 101, Get EM!
>>12264935I can test for myself that i was a NintenĆûck because Nintendo hold a monopoly in most places to forbid selling any products from the competition, being Sega or Sony, at least during the 90s, Blockbuster was the exception, they had Genesis games to rent, but most kids in mexico didn't had a Genesis because Nintendo forbid sellers to carry them, you were still more likely to see them in local Pa N Ma video stores, some of em stuck only with NES games and never got SNES games, man i loved goin trough video stores, it was magical to me.
Ah, found it lol it's in Year 3, issue 2 (Super Metroid cover). Love how they even hesitated in publishing this until they went over to some dude's house to see it with their own eyes.Looking at the very next issue, they ended up publishing the actual real codes to unlock all those things, which is even funnier.
>>12264957lol really? BTW there is no "nintendo of mexico", was there any actual NoA exec really forcing retailers to not sell other consoles?Here in Argentina, Nintendo had its own distributor, I think it was Gamela during the later years but I think the first years it was a different one, I could be wrong.Anyway, besides Club Nintendo, here we had another magazine that was sponsored by Nintendo coupled with a TV show, called Top Kids.This magazine had a lot of the same ads you'd see on Club Nintendo, I think they even also did a contest to win Super Metroid, and on the TV show kids would battle on Mortal Kombat to win prizes (mostly toys from the company Jocsa).Despite Top Kids being definitely paid by Nintendo, they were still free to have sections on the magazine that talked about Sega and Sony games no problem.
>be me, 5yo>mom is gonna buy my first ever console>always wanted a N64, all my neighbors had one, zelda is so cool>the day finally comes, mom is about to make the purchase>retail employee starts talking to her about this new futuristic system called playstation, "you can even listen to music in it!">WTF is this mom, I want N64 all the cool kids have it!>the guy actually convinces her and we take home the PS1 much to my disagreement >hardly ever played it, instead went to my friend's and played nintendo games>mom tries to encourage me, says there's a videogame store in El Dorado where I can buy 5 PS1 games for 20 bucks (pirated)>"I gotta see this">Discover the wonders of piracy. Get myself Legacy of Kain, Spyro, Gran Turismo, Bloody Roar and Resident Evil for cheap. My life is changed forever. >My friends are in disbelief at my ever growing game collection>Kids start noticing games can be cheap, PS1 starts growing in popularity>Feel like a pioneerThat was a cool retail employee, he was looking out for kids back then. I remember growing up being enamored with Nintendo because the first console I ever played was the Gameboy and Tetris blew my mind, didn't even realized there was a whole world of consoles out there besides the big N. Then piracy was the next big thing for me because I grew up poor and videogames were a luxury for us but suddenly they were this cheap and affordable thing thanks to piracy. By the time I was 14 I was downloading and burning my own ISOs.
>>12264874I remember Conejo being pretty based talking about different games and other stuff, I don't remember scoffing at his takes when I read the magazine back in the time. Same as Crow.Conejo's segment in the magazine was my favorite and introduced me to Super Robot Wars. Crow's segment was also pretty cool.Panteon's was alright but seeing his takes kinda brought his whole persona and segment down. Man, in the Megaman X Collection review, he shat on the Playstation games just because they didn't release on a Nintendo platform.Yeah, like X3 is any better.
>>12266093>he shat on the Playstation games just because they didn't release on a Nintendo platform.Based Panteon. X5 and X6 sucks, X4 is iight but is not as good as the SNES OGs.Panteon did a small review (one paragraph, can't recall the magazine #) where he shilled EVO Search for Eden, it wasn't on the VC but still he said it was a great game worth to "find it out". I emulated it on ZSNES and it was a good experimental action RPG.He has my respect and I would fight anyone IRL who disagrees with him.
>>12261390Chile here, Nintendo and Sony have always been popular (Playstation more so due to piracy). Sega was never a thing here, only the dreamcast had some sort of cult following, as for Xbox it only got popular with the 360.PCs picked up from around the Doom era onwards, Arcades were somewhat alive until around mid 2000s (though there's still a few decent ones in Santiago)
As for the "brown ps1-only kid" thing I'd say it's mostly a mutt myth. At the time we had acess to both the n64 and ps1 but felt like the ps1 had a more vast and varied library, people mostly played the 64 for Mario or its multiplayer games (personally never cared for OoT or Smash)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OezpDiwoJnMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n383a38Nu54I knew there was a Sega focused TV Show in Chile.
>>12266213Looks like an ad for some businessman trying to import Saturns. First time I heard about Virtua Fighter was the PC port.
>>12266213>games played on live TV through the phone's keypadMan this just unlocked a memory. desu it still seems like fucking magic
Ecuadorian nintendrone here, people used to call all consoles " nintendos"There were famicons and ppl called them chinese nintendos, ome strange thing that happened here is that sometimes when you tuned on channel 3 you could watch other people playing beneath the static, I called it old world twitch
Mexican here. My uncle was a homie living in LA, he got me SEGA Systems like Genesis and Dreamcast. I grew up as a Tendie faggot with a NES, SNES and N64. NGC looked so gay so I went full Snoy.
>>12266484>when you tuned on channel 3 you could watch other people playin@grok is this real
>>12266559Yeah most ppl dont believe it , but u had to be there, I used to play on a toshiba dial tv , you could actually move the dial to refine the channel 3 frequency, last game play I remember was someone playing the level 1 underground in mario bros for Nes, houses here are very close to each other maybe someone near was playing idk
>>12266484>>12266601I believe you, it happened to me one time as well while my older brother was in our room playing Street Fighter II and I decided to go to my parents' room to watch TV. I was flipping through the channels, and one of them was very static-y but it was clearly someone playing SFII, and so I ran to my room to see if it was the same thing my brother was doing, and it was.
