What was it like being a retro gamer back in the 2000s?
>>12479642When this style was actually "popular," SNES games were only 4-10 years old. JNCO 4 lyfe.
>>12479642People still dress like this in New jersey
>GameboyMore like gayboy, amirite?
>>12479651xD
>>12479642>>>/trash/
>>12479659based /trash/spammer
Has to be a bot making these asinine threads
>>12479642We know you are a fag already no need to repeat over and over again faggot!!.
>>12479642As far as physical media: There were a lot of used game shops still, and even GameStop sold old cartridges (though often overpriced), so I used to go around and pick out random games that looked cool along with ones I wanted. I had no idea game prices would go up so much since then. It was rare that a game cost more than $100. Otherwise, emulators were good enough by that point and widely used, so a lot of us were exploring libraries and trying all the games we missed as kids. Along with playing fan translations of RPGs. Stuff like Earthbound became popular in America among retro gamers in the 2000s, because people tried it on emulators after Smash and word of mouth spread. I guess the emulation side of things wasn't too different from now besides the culture of rom sites to some extent, and the internet in general being different. And silly stuff like the "delete this rom after 24 hours and you're good" warnings.
>>12479678assinine haha xD
they weren't called retro gamers they were just called poor at the time.
>>12479642smoking endless amounts of weed and cigarettes in front of bigass crt monitors with a busted ass pc with no case on it playing innacurate snes romsa friend of mine had a box fan pointed at his pc because the cooling fan in it died, prob as a result of all the cigs smoked right next to it.used game prices were fucking insane. i bought an n64 with the oot and a bunch of other games for less than 100 dollars.oot cost me 10 bucks
>>12479642No idea. I didn't have internet back then. Just played PS1 and PS2, a bit of Dreamcast.There was no reason to be into older games back then, because you still lived right in the era were great games came out every week.
>>12479642It was fun because there were new emulators and improvements to emulation coming out all the time, all the "hidden gems" hadn't been played yet, and you could buy massive CRTs with RGB or component inputs for very cheap that were still in great working condition and you didn't have to drive across the country to get them.
Japan-only games were still very mysterious and little was known about many of them.
>>12479642i miss these days so much. challenging opponents on the streets was amazing.
>>12480343my heyday was the 80s. challenging people in the arcade looked a lot different back then.
>>12479642Smaller conventions, cheap to free shit at thrift stores, flea markets and garage sales, EB games bins, actual retro meant pre NES discussion and interest, until about midish 2000s when shift in concensus occurred and slowly "old games" began to become more trendy within popculture. All around a better time to be into the shit.
>>12480346>game preservationists literally screaming and crying when the arcade games get murked
>>12480352Yeah I remember around 2005 when hipsters (as we called them) started getting into NES stuff as a retro trend.
It was an affordable and viable alternative to modern gaming, and even the "stupidly expensive shit" was like maybe a hundred bux or something.
>>12480346I miss roller rink arcades. FUCK. I'm so glad I got pussy back then.
>>12480519nice of your mom to give you a whole day of fun and keep it going once you got home. how big are were her tits if you don't mind my asking?
>middle schooler/early high schooler>posting on the Digital Press/Retrogaming Roundtable forum>buying crap from said forum>browsing ebay and online shops for imports>of course people are trying to run businesses and make profits from them, but it felt like you were always dealing with "real" fans and legit resellers, not hustlers and investors and general hobby invaders (because nobody gave enough of a shit to "invade" the hobby)>reading retrogaming fansites and comedy sites, like tsr's NES Archive and ThisOldNES>picking up cheap old games from local stores like FuncoLand>downloading random shit to play on MAME>proto-sőyfacing over those pink package slips left by USPS, because it meant that I'd soon have some new import videogames to enjoyIt was a better time.
>>12480701Fuck yes it was.
>>12480658>how big are were her titssaar
>>12480658>trying to initiate incest roleplay on /vr
>>12480765take a fuckin joke man, god damngo outside for a few minutes
>>12479642What cartridge is that? Looks like final fantasy 6 but it's hard to tell
>>12480806Make a fucking funny joke then not just cringey edgy shite
>>12480519> FUCK. I'm so glad I got pussy back then.And I'm pissed that I was too retarded and socially inept to tell when girls were giving me interested signals back then.
>>12479649JNCO is coming back. I saw a kid wearing a pair just last week and I live in a nowhereville so it's not like you can drive out to the feed and tack store to get a pair of comically over sized dungarees.
>friend tells me about how he got chrono trigger>ask if he thought it was lame like i did>he hasn't played it yet he's waiting to play another game he hasn't bought yeti emulated trigger on snes9x around 2003 and it wasn't great. he paid $80 and not sure if he's played it in 18 years
nobody actually wore JNCOs in the 90s, it was the shit 40 year old gay fashion designers thought kids would like so they put it in music videos and movies.
>>12481748I had JNCOs in '99, not the flared parachute kind. I knew several kids with them. They were just a brand that represented the style because expensive.I continue the trend by buying the loosest cargos in 4 sizes too large with tight shirts. Gotta have the Nomura look.
I don’t know about console video game magazines, but nearly all of those for PC tended to include at least one obligatory article per month about "cool old retro games" (e.g., Doom or Alone in the Dark) -- I always skipped that stuff because, well, I had to make do with my 486 until 1996, so I knew Doom, Rise of the Triad, and Heretic inside and out.
>>12481794>tended to include by 2000
>>12479642I remember booting up emulators for the first time and wondering why everything looked like shit. I didn't realize the impact scanlines had on graphics at the time.
>>12481191Based friend saving it for a rainy day instead of playing purely to talk about it.
>>12479642Everyone was thrown by out their old junk ready to jump onto hd TVs and 7th gen. You only played last gen games if you legitimately were poor and your parents couldn't afford newer stuff. Like me, I had 3 siblings so I always had consoles like 4 years out of date that my dad picked up for cheap at some record store.
Old hardware was mostly seen as junk back then.Around 2002 I bought socket 4(Pentium60/66) base system for €20. Put it into a case, added a small CRT and started playing DoomII's Map26 - I Really liked it. After this I knew sooner or later I would revert back to the original hardware(relative to the software).
>>12479642Earthbound was a 50 dollar game
>>12483194Glad I got it back then, along with all the other major RPGs and stuff like Mega Man X3. I'm amazed to find that my SNES collection alone is worth 1000s now. Probably won't sell it, but it's an option if I desperately need cash.
