Holy shit, people played video games before the NES!
>>12598871They mostly weren't any good
>>12598871Yes but they didn’t enjoy it.
>here's that thrilling pre-Nintendo video game I was telling you about
>>12599065I mean, it's not terrible.
>>12599065>Still mogs nintendie slop
>>12598943ya we did because we didnt know any better and most of us were children.
I remember back when I played Atari and I was like man all these games suck but I have nothing else to play I can’t wait for Nintendo to invent the NES so I can play some real games instead of this primitive slop that no one likes.
you, zoomers, will never have thishttps://youtu.be/-987swc3FG0
>>12599065WTF?!
>>12599169zamn kid you was a fucking chad. what happened that you turned out like this
>>12599065>smooth wireframe 3D graphics>real tank controls>that active volcano in the backgroundMore fun and more S0VL than any NEZZZZ game.
>>12599169>atari 2600>not atari 400/800Sorry for being poor.
>>12598871NES is when true gaming died. You can thank the 3rd generation for all of the cancer in modern gaming from cinematic bullshit to lootboxes.
>>12599325>You can thank the 3rd generation for all of the cancer in modern gaming from cinematic bullshit to lootboxes.Nah that's all Zorq's fault
>>12599306It doesn’t matter which Atari I had. The point is, it wasn’t Nintendo
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>>12599463lol moron-takes. SMB Arcade came after home. The US release of SMB on nes came after arcade, but the game was the same as Famicom's.Already he doesnt know what he's talking about.
>>12599463That reminds me:https://groups.google.com/group/net.jokes/browse_thread/thread/936255290cc94a96https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel
>>12599469Well he's not very clear about it, when he says "when it moved from Arcade to NES" I think he's referring to Mario Bros vs Super Mario Bros.What he's saying is for a "classic gamer" Mario Bros would be a never ending challenge, you can potentially keep playing for hours if you get good and it's non stop reflexes and challenge; and Super Mario Bros would be a story based graphics showcase that requires to pay for a tour guide to fully enjoy.
>>12599482will give you good faith, but that old post was already in a revisionist state even that close to the NES's life. If all you are is a completionist, then what would you care about the gameplay quality? Your goal isn't the gameplay experience, its checking all the boxes.Mario Bros is a platformer and has much more in common with Joust, sure. But SMB is not so dissimilar. Its a 32 level dash race and unlike his assertion, you do not need a tour guide/tip book to reach the end. And keep playing Mario Bros for hours but not SMB? If that was a point he was making, he was a twat then.The problem is that people can't articulate correctly what the gameplay goals are back then and oftentimes now either. Is it to reach the-end? Is it a high score? and if it is score, why agree to that? Look at all the ways people play games now where they reject even something as mundane as a score value as the 'correct' measurement of successful gameplay.
>>12599473>Not, even, assembly language.>Machine Code.>Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers.>Directly.This is how I wrote all my NES romhacks, lilttle did I know I was the realest romhacker
>>12599463This guy was a fucking idiot. Games were not made harder to sell hintbooks. Japans hintbook industry was thriving but it wasnt nintendo publishing those books, it was the mook industry. They were a byproduct of the famicoms success.>The Super Mario Bros.: The Complete Strategy Guide (スーパーマリオブラザーズ完全攻略本) was a massive phenomenon in Japan. Published on October 31, 1985, by Tokuma Shoten, it sold over 600,000 copies in its first two months, becoming the overall best-selling book (excluding manga) in Japan for both 1985 and 1986As for north America, Nintendo only published a single hintbook for the NES early in its life.
>>12599065>brought to you by Linear Algebra™
>>12600205There were official hint magazines/hotlines too
>>12600205>The Super Mario Bros.: The Complete Strategy Guide Even if it is not published by Nintendo, they sure paid money to Nintendo to be able to use their names.
>>12599325>And here we have anon, he's quite the contrarian.
