I've heard a couple times that gaming became really normalfaggish with the PS1 and so on. Is that really true? I'm curious about it because as far as I can see, the NES and MD were already "mainstream" beforehand, no?I wasn't around back then so sorry if this sounds stupid
>>12548063Nah, normalfags sportslop eating retards joined with the ps2
SNES:49 millions PS1:102 millionsI think that answer your questions
>>12548075ps2: 160 million
>>12548063depends. by "normalfaggish" do you mean "mainstream?" then yes.in the US, games were looked on as something for kids and nerds, until these four came along.then suddenly way more 20-somethings were paying attention to gaming.
>>12548063>I'm curious about it because as far as I can see, the NES and MD were already "mainstream" beforehand, no?If you were console gaming in the days before PS1, you were either a kid or a pedophile.
>>12548063PSX era had a stronger teenager/young adult appeal than previous game consoles, definitely. I think the move to 3D helped sports games capture the normalfag crowd moreso than before.
>>12548109>then suddenly way more 20-somethings were paying attention to gamingCould it also be that gamers were just getting older and continued to play games? Especially since the quality of videogames just kept going up (until 7the gen)
>>12548158most likely, a lot of gamers began on the NES, and if they were 5-10 when that came out then they were 15-20 when the playstation came out, which is about the age range the ads and games were mainly targeting
>>12548063I grew up with the NES, SNES, Sega Genesis as a kid and by the time that the PlayStation came out my older brother really got into playing PlayStation and so did my step-dad. My dad never got into gaming though. He has always been too much of a boomer for that kind of stuff. He still refers to Pokemon as Pokeman to this day. A friend of mine's dad was really into games even back during the 3rd and 4th generations despite even being older than my dad. However, he was also really into computers as well and introduced me to all sorts of DOS games.
>>12548063>I've heard a couple times that gaming became really normalfaggish with the PS1 and so on. Is that really true? I'm curious about it because as far as I can see, the NES and MD were already "mainstream" beforehand, no?>I wasn't around back then so sorry if this sounds stupidI would say thats true, here in central america you could see how cd burning piracy made ghetto youngsters talk about it, something that never happened in previous eras.
>>12548158it was more than just that, as i knew adults who didn't give a single shit about gaming before hand suddenly start asking me if Resident Evil was any good.
My zoomer gf's mom told me than she used to invite her boyfriends over to watch her play FFVII.
>>12548197>used to invite her boyfriends over to watch her play FFVII.>boyfriends>s
>>12548063prior consoles were mainstream but just among kids. popular jocks and cool kids had super nintendos and genesis but they were younger, middle school aged. part of the playerbase was those kids growing into the playstation and not leaving it behind, but there was definitely new entrants you wouldn't have seen with prior consoles. it circumvented being a kids toy and quirky hobby, and became a popular item in general. young adults who had missed out on priopr gens got a playstation to have in their crib.that said it still wasn't critical mass, it remained a young guy hobby, something one 'slick' might have in his apartment. still a ways off from call of duty and twitch.
>>12548075SNES: family/household consolePS1: bachelor consolehence numerical difference
>>12548197Yeah same thing happened to me on my Time Crisis playthrough. I would have a gf over, we'd break up, I'd pause the game and call over another girl, break up again, and then call over another girl, and keep doing that until I finally beat the last boss.
>>12548063Normalfags owned a PlayStation to play sports shit, Tony Hawk and Gran Turismo. Some also owned an N64 for Goldeneye and Mario Kart. No one but weird people owned a Saturn (even though it’s objectively the best 5th gen console.)
>>12548063>Did games really become "popular" in gen 5 era? yeah. became more appealing to more people>the NES and MD were already "mainstream" beforehand, no?yeah but those generations of consoles were seen as toys for children and teenagers. serious business and gaming was done on computers like amiga and pc until psx era
>>12548063this is a pretty zoomer question tbqh
>>12548070This, because of the DVD drive.
When did gamer start meaning madden and military shooters and when did it stop meaning that?
>>12548063>Is that really true?No.Video games were mainstream popular from day one with Pong.Next question?
360 was the true normalfag apocalypse where you'd hear two black guys or two brahs at the gym talking about ballguns. PS1 and PS2 were still mostly for children and adult nerds and normalfag adjacent people would secretly play and never talk about it.
>>12550642>When did gamer start meaning madden and military shooters? I would say around the mid to late 2000s when halo and cod were at the high of their popularity. Sport games were at their height of popularity at the same time.>and when did it stop meaning that?For military shooters, "gamer" never did stop meaning that, Cod has been consistently in the top ten best sellers list each year for 2 decades now. As for sports games, they stopped being synonymous with gaming because EA sports shot themselves in the foot and killed their sports games series with questionable business decisions.
>>12550769wrong.they were still marketed as a family activity.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw1AJSWvTUwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMFy-Iw4CcA"games for adults" saw very little success. pic rel.but games like RE1, Tomb Raider, FF7 and Metal Gear Solid were "serious" enough to start pulling above the usual demographic, at least in the US.the late '90s was the tipping point.
>>125506422004 or so
3D was the trigger. 2D games are typically too cartoonish for most older demo but 3D games started to pull in new crowds.
>>12550853>they were still marketed as a family activity.Family activities are "normalfaggish", like the OP asked about, retard.
>>12550924nevertheless, video games were still predominantly viewed as "for the kids." kids and nerds, until the late '90s, my little sea anemone.
>>12550773There was a Friends episode where Ross and Joey are playing Playstation, and when the other friends walk into the room, Ross immediately drops the controller and goes "No Joey, I don't want to play fucking VIDEO GAMES", acting faux offended at being asked to do something so childish. That's pretty much what the normalfag opinion was. Playing video games was childish and embarrassing. Playing computer games was dorky. Both were massive pussy repellants if you were over 20.
