Who introduced you to Retro Games?
Elementary schoolers. I was also an elementary school student.
i agree gccx fags are retarded but so are you for posting wojaks, fuck off
>>12784808I did.
>>12784808kill yourself my man
>>12784808Games I grew up with are now considered “retro”.
>>12784808if someone introduced you to retrogames, you are too young for 4chan.back the the day we didn't call them retrogames, they were just games.
>>12784826This. I just never stopped playing my old games, and kept playing new stuff for old consoles. Old games never became less fun for me.
>>12784828What is this, the boomer LARP board? I got a badge on retro achievements for beating 12 Wii games this year lol.
Having a brick for a laptop when I was in college. It could only run 90s games at a good frame rate.
>>12784808I've seen that chink posted regularly for the last 14 years and I still have no fucking clue who he is or what he does specifically, and nor have I cared enough to ask until now.
>>12784808my dad.he let me play nes games on his laptop with an emulator.
Me
>>12784834Japanese AVGN
>>12784808>Who introduced you to Retro Games?My parents and siblings when I was 3 years old in 1993. We didn't call them retro games back then, they were just current games.
>>12784831>using retro achievements>thinking Wii is retroYeah, you're way too fucking young to be here.
i went to an arcade in 1987 and played galaga and donkey kong and defenderwas 2 years old. one of the few things i remember about being smol
>>12784872i mean he posted a jak it's self evident he's underage
>>12784808Me walking up to my NES hooked up to my uncle's TV, you stupid fag OP.
>>12784808it is weird that there's one specific e-celeb allowed here for years. There should just be an occasional general for any retro game content from anyone
>>12784872>>12784881This isn't a retirement home.
>>12784808i can say i "stopped" playing retro and upgraded every new cycle until the 360 and when the xbox one came in 2014 2015 whatever. i never got one cause the 360 games were cheap. always got shit like "genesis collection" etc knew about emulators but didnt use them alot. did beat some ps1 games like keyboard only basing the keyboard controls of games ive played. this was back in the deamon tools days. eventually i got a good cell phone and rediscovered emulators again so to speak. andriod one of those cheap ipega controllers to bind it and had little retro hand held for a few years eventually i got a wii home brewed it and a pi 4 and homebrewed that. still use my laptop for ps2 emulation sometimes
>>12784887Yes it is.
>>12784895No it isn't, you're just old man who yells at cloud while people play retro games.
>>12784808The less hair I have the stronger my desire to start series and genres at the beginning. And the more I find old games to be refined and soulful.It started with classic DOOM, now I'm on the original Final Fantasy and Warcraft.
>>12784808I just realized that technically I have no interest in "retro" games in the sense that I have no interest in games before my time. I started playing games as a kid with NES and that was "current" for me.
>>12784898This board literally was all millennials and genx before 6th Gen ruined it, fuck off newfag. We're still old 4chan here and you're going to keep having a bad time so go back to/v
>>12784914Well duh you started with the NES, I started with n64 and ps1 and NES is as far back games are good, gen 1 and gen 2 are shit
>>12784808My brother had a SNES. I'm like 7 years younger than him so I'm not part of that generation, but when I was like 3 I used to sneak into his room when he wasn't home and play with his SNES. He always got really mad about that, and my parents got sick of the fighting, so one morning when my dad came home from work (he was a trucker) he woke me up and surprised me with my very own SNES, 2 controllers, and a stack of games (including cool shit like Donkey Kong Country and Dino City).After that my brother lightened up a bit, realizing that I could actually play video games and wasn't going to destroy them. We started playing games together after that.One day I found a weird black thing in my sister's room while she was cleaning, somehow I recognized it was a video game but it looked different from Super Nintendo games, so I snuck it into my pocket and asked my brother about it when he got home and he said it was a Sega game. It was Sonic 2. My sister had a Genesis but she broke it because she's retarded. Soon after that my brother bought a Genesis model 2 and we played that in addition to the SNES. My brother had a part time job and over time he picked up some other consoles. N64, PSX, Dreamcast, even a Game Gear. Also he got a GBC as a Christmas present one year, and I got one for my birthday not too long after since I expressed interest in it. A few years later I bought a GBA and eventually a Gamecube. I had an Xbox at some point too.Eventually I grew up and my love of video games led me down other avenues, and my collective interests led me to move to Japan. Within a few months after moving here I bought a Super Famicom, and over the years picked up other consoles and slowly built up my collection over the years.And yes, GCCX is way better than YouTubers. It's not even comparable.
>>12784885Arino isn't an e-celeb you retard
>>12784921sorry, "regular celeb with a 600k sub youtube channel"
>>12784920Forgot to mention, in the early 2000s when plug and play things were popular we had a Famiclone that my mom bought through QVC. It had like 84 games on it, all real too, just hacked to have the copyright info removed. So that's how I played NES/Famicom games when I was a kid. At the time I didn't know what NES or Famicom were though.
>>12784927GCCX is a TV show and predates the existence of YouTube by several years. They only made a YouTube channel a few years back to upload old episodes as part of celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the show.
avgn had a bigger and wider impact in retro vidya culture and discourse than gcgx could ever hope to achieve
>>12784830That's how I've always been. I was born in the late 80s and had an NES and then an SNES as a young kid. The NES could play games I loved that the SNES couldn't, so I never viewed it as old and outdated, just a different console that could play different games.
>>12784942Considering I know who AVGN is and have no idea who the other guy is, I agree
Both are well liked and celebrated in Japan.Not sure if Japan even likes any other eceleb other than AVGN.
>>12784808The IGN retro website and a newspaper article.
>>12784834Japanese comedian Shinya Arino plays a character called Kacho ("the chief") he's like a supervisor of a blue collar sector but for whatever reason he plays retro games, and the whole gist of it is that his team must ensure the chief can beat the games on his own.The humor is very japanese and most of it revolves around Kacho being passive-aggressive or sometimes outright rude to his team who are trying to help him beat the game.Unlike AVGN, Kacho rarely critiques the game, and instead is very patient and basically exhausts himself (and his team) to long hours of filming and playing until he beats it or doesn't (and the the challenge fails and he doesn't, or rarely, re-attempts).It's a pretty fun show and Arino is a great comedian. Incredibly dickish at times!
>>12784808My dad, when he rented an N64 in like 1999 when I was a toddlerArguably my grandpa, who put me in front of the family NES with good ol' Mario
>>12784808His Ren and Stimpy reviewRIP
>>12784942>>12784957AVGN could never fill a stadium with 15000+ people to watch him play video games. Arino has. Multiple times. Also AVGN's game sucks, and Arino has 3 GOOD games + a remastered collection.
>>12785028>lots of japanese normalfags went to see his show because he is a TV comedian>b-but he has better modern non retro games!Okay, that doesn't changes the fact avgn had a bigger impact on the retro community and retro gaming discourse and culture.
>>12784808>Who introduced you to Retro Games?He's gonna take you back to the pastTo play the shitty games that suck ass
>>12784932Lmao why does it make a fucking difference whether a show is broadcast over cable or the world wide web?
>>12784808I stopped caring or enjoying video games after gen 7
I played them back when they were called new games>>12784831No, you got fucked by your dad and you see validation from older men here as a result
>>12785028>AVGN could never fill a stadium with 15000+ people to watch him play video games. Arino hasThat's just because America had much fewer autistic people Well, before now, seems every kids autistic these days
>>12785051>No, you got fucked by your dad and you see validation from older men here as a resultI'm making fun of you faggot. Where's the validation. The wrong people live to be old.
>>12785043>I stopped caring or enjoying video games after gen 7Based 30 year old
>>12785062I stopped caring or enjoying video games after gen 7 and I'm 26...
>>12785032>b-but he has better modern non retro games!Funny you should say that, given that one of the Arino-related games is the ultimate example of genuinely retro games that are not allowed on /vr/ because they aren't the insanely badly defined kind of fake "retro" that the R in /vr/ stands for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_Game_Challengewhich is a 2007 game whose contents are specifically designed to be genuinely retro, hence the use of the word "Retro" in its title.
>>12785059>I'm making fun of youBy bragging about your autism points? None of us are gonna love you good like daddy did, so fuck off
>>12785059Where did I post my retro score you dumb bitch. I only posted the badge that I got for Wii's retro rollout this year.
>>12785032>>12785054Cope>>12785037>why does it matter that what I said was wrong?
>>12785079Shit I responded to myself because the other guy's post got filtered for being low quality
>>12785071>NDSNot retro
>>12785085>what I said was wrong?What was wrong about it?
>>12785118He's not an e-celeb
>>12784956>I never viewed it as old and outdated, just a different console that could play different games.This is the correct opinion. Anyone who thinks otherwise (a surprising amount of people) is retarded.
>>12784808>who introduced you to the games you grew up playing
>>12784808My parents, but they were new games at the time.
>>12784808As a late 30 something who grew up with DOS and SNES games, classicgaming.com introduced me to Atari and Colecovision ROMs (which I probably played for all of 1 hour)
>>12785149Why not? Why does fucking satellite make GCCX more on-topic than AVGN?
They weren't retro whem I first played them
>>12785186Check out classicreload.com, although you're probably smart enough to own pr already know a way to play the games there. Still a cool website
>>12785202Why not? Do you not know what an e-celeb is? Arino isn't one.
>>12784928>QVC FamicloneArcade Action?
>>12784808AVGN was just the late 90s early 00s early millennial nostalgia wave and glut of I-mockery / Seanbaby type websites (remember when game screenshots had captions literally included in the image?) repackaged for Johnny come lately and underageb&s
>>12785256Power Joy
>>12784808I don't know what's more pathetic: obsessing over e-cels or creating a false dichotomy in your head that you can only like one or another.
>>12785268>early millennial nostalgia wave and glut of I-mockeryThat was more about turning things that people liked or revered into some retarded satire. AVGN focused mostly on shitty games that few or no people still liked by that point, which is different.
>>12784808We were poor and dad would pirate relatively old games (third generation console games in 1997) through dial-up internet, teaching me how to run and use emulators at the humble age of 4 and letting me play whenever he wasn't using it; Genecyst was my nanny while my parents worked or did chores around the house.
>>12784808Your fat cow of a mother
>>12785370Your dad sounds cool.
>>12784818haha it's you again. You're the fag that gets mad when people post pepe as well. Stay seething tranny. You will probably end up killing yourself in your future.
>>12784808weebs are truly subhuman and im not even defending avgn here
>>12784808My Dad, but back then they weren't considered retro...
>>12784808My family/dad I guess. I mean, they weren't retro when I started playing in the 90's, so can't fully answer the question.
My grandfather and father loved SM64 and SMB.
>>12785250You didn't answer the question. Why is GCCX more on-topic than AVGN?
>>12786163>Why is GCCX more on-topic than AVGN?the answer doesn't matter. all that matters is that the jannies allow one but not the other which can easily be explained by the weeb-centric nature of the site. in a perfect world they'd either be both allowed or neither.
>>12784834He's the king of retro gaming, and he just decided that Gen 7 is retro now by the way. #Controversy
>>12786258Lmao AVGN is off-topic but a show that regularly plays PS3/PSP/Wii is perfectly retro and perfectly on topic because uhhhhhhh he's yerrow LMAO
>>12786163Japanese website, so Japanese media gets special privileges. Deal with it, gaijin.
>>12786279>PS3/PSP/WiiThese consoles are like 20 years old, grandpa. In the 1997, was your dad's Atari 2600 retro?
>>12784808My neighbor showed me his Coleco vision when I was 5 years old. It had some games that were cooler than the brand new NES I had gotten for Christmas. Something about Centipede just grabbed me, ya know?Made me a retro gamer for life.
>>12786349retro is a period of time. no matter how old those consoles are, they are not retro.are events from 1999 and before classified as prehistory now? no! because prehistory is a period of time.
>>12786349the main argument for the cutoff to stay at 6th gen permanently is because of how radically the industry changed with 7th gen. online play, the start of mtx, graphics reaching a plateau, genres in general starting to homogenize. and i can see that side but obvious there's the raw time one as well. but pertaining to this thread weebs are going to defend this guy no matter what he does.
>>12786413>retro is a period of time.No it's not.>are events from 1999 and before classified as prehistory now? no! because prehistory is a period of time.Nice strawman you set up for yourself there to take down retard lmao
i wish soijaks were banned. those along with frogniggers have ruined the site for probably more than 15 years now
>>12785532100%The tranime brainrot, generated by japanese cartoons and comics, is so deeply rooted in the minds of zoomies that "anything: *JAPAN*" has become a cultural phenomenon. This situation got exponentially worse with the popularization of gacha games and related tranime mobile games.
>>12786541the obsession with japan started with milliennials. all there were on 4chan in the early days besides /b/ were anime boards
>>12784808I kind of just introduced myself because I used to play them before. >Zoomerslmao. zozzle even.
>>12786572newfags will never get it. however, there's nothing wrong with either GCCX or AVGN.
>tranimegee wondered why this hasn't been filtered yet
>>12786664because gookmoot doesn't care about enhancing the UX on this website which causes rapeape and the mods not to care
>>12786413>>12786414Millennials having Peter Pan Syndrome is 100% true. You lot really don't want to admit that you're old now. Even older zoomers who are in their 30s admit that they're now old and have good humour about it, but millennials just want to pretend that the 90s were a mere decade ago forever, and that things from after your own youth can never be considered old, because that would make you old.
>>12786681>older zoomers who are in their 30sabout to be in their 30s*
>introducedGood grief.
>>12784826I don't consider games retro unless they released before the year 2000.
>>12784834Subpar Japanese comedian that never made it to the big leagues of Japanese comedy, but nevertheless became a meme for weebs to onions over.
>>12784808CGR between 2008-2013 had such a vibehttps://youtu.be/Fo0JWIYZibs
>>12785043>>12785062>>12785069I'm 34, and I enjoyed 7th gen, but AAA games just really stopped interesting me after that. Current AAA games are just really shitty and max-blandified 7th gen games, why spend money on those when I can play the good 7th gen games?Or for that matter anything older.>>12785051>I played them back when they were called new gamesSame. But also I was already playing 'outdated' games when I was old enough to play them, my first console was the NES.If a game was really good, you didn't just stop playing it, you'd go back to it even if it was kinda old. Emulation was fantastic to me, because it meant I could, without paying, experience all those cool SNES and Genesis games I had previously missed out on.>>12786681Who the fuck doesn't consider it old? I don't care that it's old, is my thing.
>>12784808Your mom
>>12786693What's retro or not is for the current youth generation to decide. It was like that when you were young, too. I'm sure you didn't care if an older family member insisted that they were still "hip" and "with it". You are that older family member now. You are too old to matter when it comes to this subject. Age gracefully instead of coping about it.
>>12786703seethe
>>12785360Correct.>>12786414All true. I enjoyed 7th gen but it's so fundamentally different from all prior gens that it simply doesn't need to be on here. We basically never left 7th gen for what it matters, and while it would be nice to have a place to discuss the actually good stuff from that era, it simply should go elsewhere./v/ has been made out of increasing amounts of cancer and AIDS for 15+ years, so I understand not wanting to talk about those games there, I sure didn't want to talk about games there either, and /vr/ coming around was a real blessing to me, but I think what's actually needed is a /vr2/ or something for old games from 7th gen and later.I'd personally use such a board, and I think there's a much stronger case to be made for it than most of the other /v/ offshoots.>>12786717That would be a better argument if 4chan as a whole (and especially this board) wasn't primarily populated by Gen X and Millennial men. Doesn't mean that 4chan's userbase must strictly be slowly withering and eventually geriatric, and new blood still comes here, but when that's the current core audience, our say on a niche interest board like this carries some weight.I really think that a later retro board for 7th gen would better respect older users, while also accommodating younger users (or old users like me) who want to talk 7th gen games in peace.I think it'd reduce friction with older users tired of seeing people complaining and shitposting about bringing in 7th gen, which I think would probably relax those people towards younger users, and relax younger users towards older users.
>>12786754>That would be a better argument if 4chan as a whole (and especially this board) wasn't primarily populated by Gen X and Millennial men.Do we actually have demographic data that supports this? I get the impression that older members are moving on and most of the website is now zoomers
>>12786760I'm actually not really sure, in part because 4chan's user numbers cratered pretty hard after the hack (some boards are very slow now), but I'd feel that it's kind of besides the point for this board in particular, because I cannot imagine that /vr/'s userbase isn't primarily Gen X'er's and Millennials, along with the segment of the kinds of Zoomers who actually are into these eras of games.
>>12786770Seems to vary depending on the thread/game/series being discussed. For example, the Pokemon threads even here seem to trend into Zoomer/Alpha territory when it comes to demographics. I remember when moot first made /vp/ and then renamed it to "/tr/ - Team Rocket" and it was all very themed around the older games at the time with people who enjoyed discussing them compared to the newer ones, now those same first couple gens are openly despised across the site and you get called a "balding millennial" etc if you like them.
>>12786760As an older user (2006), there isn't really much for other places to move on. R*ddit is shit and I hate it, Xitter is bad in all its own ways, and Facebook isn't much better. Smaller and tight knit Discords can kind of be nice in their own way (public ones are complete dogshit), but it's still not the same.4chan and its structure is the kind of discussion is what I want and always primarily wanted, I like the general anonymity, and the kind of relaxed attitude and lack of overbearing censorship. It's seen better days, the loss of staff has been catastrophic for post quality all over the site, but I cling to the hope that things can one day be better again, and I treasure the little corners I still have left here, because there are still good people here who I want to talk to.I don't really care if posting slows down some, because boards being on a slow boil can be pretty nice and comfy (/vr/ has had periods where it was slower than even this), all I really crave is that shitposting gets actually dealt with.I'm holding on here for as long as the ship stays afloat, because it feels like it's going to be difficult to effectively build a new place QUITE like this. Could I try one of the alternate chans if it finally sank? Maybe, but they aren't going to be the same.
>>12786793Many of the old guard have moved on to altchans. The annoying politics-obsessed activist types became redditors.
>>127867602009 oldfag hereSpending too much time on any board makes me wish the website would kill itself already, but I doubt it's much better anywhere else. Loving videogames means having to share the hobby with the dumbest motherfuckers who ever lived. Simple as.
Uh, I was 5 when the Super Nintendo came out? But I didn't have a console until the PS1/N64 so I played everything I missed out on in emulation in the late 90s/early 2000s
>>12786785>Seems to vary depending on the thread/game/series being discussed. Most probably.>For example, the Pokemon threads even here seem to trend into Zoomer/Alpha territory when it comes to demographics. I think in part because many of the smarter ones recognize that recent Pokémon games are becoming increasingly shitty and low effort, so they look back towards what was regarded as the best stuff. Since Pokémon broadly plays the same as it always has, the older games are pretty easily accessible to newer kids because they already know what to do, there's rather little friction to try them if you just understand basic emulation.>now those same first couple gens are openly despised across the site and you get called a "balding millennial" etc if you like themI think that's an overcorrection in response to older overcorrection. In part because there were insufferable people way back then who more or less made it their personality to reflexively hate anything after Gen 2, or even Gen 1, because they were less into the games for what the games were, and more into it for their own nostalgia. Those people aren't interesting or worthwhile to talk to if you like any of the games after that, so people started hating them, and this snowballed into hating them becoming trendy, and then hating anyone who liked the old games at all (compare a bit to how weeaboo once meant insufferably obsessive japanophile, rather than anyone who liked anything Japanese in any capacity). It's kind of like two different contrarianisms at odds with each other.I think Gen 1 is good, and replaying it for the first time in like 15 years recently, I found it pretty fun still, even if Gen 3 was my favorite. Also I have long and full hair still.>>12786797I know. I miss when there were less people on the web and it was less polarized.>>12786815Roughly same. Stopped mattering that I didn't have a SNES or Genesis, because my big brother revealed the magic of emulation to me.
>>12786754>That would be a better argument if 4chan as a whole (and especially this board) wasn't primarily populated by Gen X and Millennial men.I don't think that's anywhere near as true as it used to be. I think specific topics attract an older demographic, but like the other guy said, I think most older users went to either altchans or discord at this point. I mean I'm in private discords too but I don't use them as a substitute for this.
>>12786824>I think specific topics attract an older demographicI play the mobile game Umamusume and its general on /vg/ is jokingly known as an ojiisan general because it seems rarer to find a poster under 30 than over. To be fair, you basically are required to have a decent-paying job to play a gacha unless you're full f2p, so that would attract older people who generally have more stable and thus more disposable income.
>>12786430Same, though I find that jaks are like 300x times as annoying as frogs.>>12786572Weeb interests were brewing pretty strongly in the western world while us Millennials were still in diapers, and moot sure isn't a Millennial. 4chan was created in 2003 by a 15 year old who wanted a place to discuss anime, and it became a hub for people of a similar age and older.>>12786824>I think specific topics attract an older demographicProbably true. Definitely true on /vr/.
>>12786848>and moot sure isn't a Millennial.>someone born in 1988 isn't a millenialHe's like the prime ago of one bro, he's only 2 years younger than me.
>>12786839>you basically are required to have a decent-paying job to play a gacha unless you're full f2pYou just need doting parents, gacha is very much a NEET hobby, at least in Asia
>>12784808My brother, who got an Atari 2600 when I was young in the early 90s. I remember really liking Enduro when I was four or five for some reasonWhen you were a kid, I was already playing retro games
>>12786865Yeah but I play the global release, not jp.
>>12786848>moot sure isn't a Millennialmoot is absolutely a millennial. Everything about him screamed millennial weeb. >>12786850Yep>Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996.[1][2] Most millennials are the children of baby boomers and older Gen Xers,[3] and are often the parents of younger Generation Z and Generation Alpha.[4][5]>Members of this demographic cohort are known as millennials because the oldest became adults around the turn of the millennium.[28] Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, known for creating the Strauss–Howe generational theory, are widely credited with naming the millennials.[29] They coined the term in 1987, around the time children born in 1982 were entering kindergarten, and the media were first identifying their prospective link to the impending new millennium as the high school graduating class of 2000.[30] They wrote about the cohort in their books Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 (1991)[31] and Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation (2000).[30]
>>12786850>>12786870I stand corrected on that point, I guess.
>>12784808>>12784857>>12784967>>12785532
>>12786905You will never be Japanese
>>12786907What a trite stock response. Sometimes the Japanese thing is better, sometimes it's worse, and sometimes they're about equal.
>>12786912It's almost always better, if we're honest. A high-tech, high-trust society that is demographically and culturally homogeneous is going to make good things. This is extremely annoying and inconvenient to the retarded, self-destructive pro-glomohomo crowd, so they try to shit on Japan whenever possible. If you see someone going out of their way to hate Japan, you can be virtually certain that they're some leftist retard. This has actually never failed me.
>>12786921Ok, but this era of western content isn't retro anyway.
>>12786921>demographically and culturally homogeneous It's hilarious that you actually believe this.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_of_Japan
>>12786430BOARD CULTURE, NEW FAG.
>>12786930>largest foreign ethnic group is 1% of the populationgaijin nations could never
>>12786930This. Anons like that have no idea how deeply ingrained tribalism is to the human condition and romanticize "race" as the key to finding like-minded and cooperative people. Makes me wonder what on earth has gotten him to believe something so terribly misguided.
Bitch I'm just that old, no one "introduced" me.
>>12786946They were never board culture, you mongoloid.
Halo 4. I got to the part where there was a fight on an elevator or lift or something, on your way to hit a button I think for the 3rd time or so. Decided it sucked and I missed gameboy advance games. Got an emulator for gba on my computer, then a ps2 and played whatever I found in the GameStop discount bin. Sly, ratchet and clank, shadow of the Colossus. It was dope. Recently got a crt and hacked the ps2. plan to crack open resident evil for the first time. Ace combat was awesome and so was metal gear solid.
This thread is hilarous because of the simple fact that the Japanese love AVGN just as much as Arino. They even have their own memes about James, and he even shows up as a cameo in an anime or two.It's really just /vr/ that keeps shitflinging over this.
>>12787019this right here. if you look onnico there are tons of videos.
>>12786349Are the Beatles classical music? But that's completely besides the point: why is GCCX more retro than AVGN?
>>12786921>demographically homogenous>he doesn't know about yayoi vs jomon
>>12785519Very sane post from a well adjusted individual.
>>12786946what like since 2016? sure lol lmao
>>12786963You're supposed to get mad at the cherry picking, chud.
>>12786414The DS and Wii can easily be considered retro tho. Wii was fucking 480p
>>12787080>online playIt's like you didn't read the post at all.
I had a NES when I was a kid. You introduced me to a brain fart.
>>12784808I played them back when they were called just "games"
>>12786541GCCX having an audience predates zoomies using the internet, and predates many of the boards on this website (including this one). The English fan community started out on the Something Awful forums way back when.>>12786572>the obsession with japan started with milliennialsLmao no it absolutely did not. There's a reason why the word "Japanophile" is 200 years old. Westerners have been obsessed with Japan since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
>>12787101*having an audience in the West
>>12787101To be fair, the vast majority of Gen X are cultural boomers who sneer at anything animated not made by Pixar.
>>12787101didnt SA ban moot for being a weeb?
>>12784808Arino actually enjoys playing games. The other is a performative faggot whose only appeal is to NPCs who get the giggles when someone screams at the screen and squeals about how "akshually thing is BAD".kys npc faggot
>>12784808zoomer watching AVGN: >"no cap... this balding guy is cringe af fr. fuck this janky ass old games, bro"the same zoomer, but watching GCCX: >"omg the japanese are so dope and funny, fr fr. I love retro gaming now... gonna play it (through an emulator on his phone) after my 100th attempt to get a reward in the gacha game."
>>12785171Maybe I should call him
>>12787101>GCCX having an audience predates zoomies using the internetGCCX started in 2003, at which time the oldest zoomers would've been 8. I was already using the internet regularly when I was like 6.
>>12787119I don't know, and I don't care but I find that hard to believe considering that the site was home to the GCCX fan community.Anyway this site is owned by a Japanese guy now.
>>12787192>I was already using the internet regularly when I was like 6This explains a lot about you.
>>12787219Fuck off, you dumb Gen X faggot.
>>12787216>Anyway this site is owned by a Japanese guy now.that doesn't give 2 shits about his userbasehe didnt care for the previous site he owned too
>>12787224I'm not gen x, go cry to your ipad.
>>12787231Oh, so a literal boomer.
>>12784808Name one game arino ruined. Exactly.
love threads where we make up people to get mad at
>>12787238I'm in my 30s you dumb fuck
>>12787253Then it's time for you to grow up, you pathetic faggot.
>>12787057Look up when /vr/ was created newfag.
>introduced Do zoomers really I never stopped playing them you little shithead
>>12787256I'll grow up and stop making fun of you for being an ipad baby after you throw away you're ipad.
>>12787275>hurr durr>you'reLow-effort Eglinslop. Shameful. My tax dollars should pay for better glowniggers.
>>12787245I lost all respect for Super Monkey Daibouken after Arino played it.
>>12787278>can't even speak EnglishOh I see now, you're a thirdie faggot who couldn't even afford an ipad. Please log off this website and never navigate here again.
>>12787284You meant "your," brown-kun.
>>12787286No, I meant "you're", which is short for "you are". As in, "you are a thirdie faggot."You should kill yourself now for not even knowing the difference between "your" and "you're".
>>12787263Me neither, and I just intermittently check out old games I missed. Turns out, wow, I was missing out, and it's a lot more fun than modern AAAslop.
>>12784808Who introduced me? Nigga, I grew up with the Colecovision.
>>12787260It was cancer then too.
>>12787123To be fair, you're a pretty cringe faggot to stand in line for a vtuber porn shop.
>>12786921As much as I love japan, they have never been good at software development compared to hardware. The way their systems are set up work great when designing say a bullet train, less so when it comes to something like a battle system in an rpg.
>>12784808Myself. Not some lame ass balding incel youtuber.
>>12787291I'm not brown, unlike you.
>>12787309>they have never been good at software development compared to hardwareWestern games were always heavily improved when they were reprogrammed by Japanese developers, and Western developers always struggled to make games with good performance while Japanese devs have always been able to squeeze everything out of the hardware (even still to this day).>something like a battle system in an rpgThe only notable example of a broken battle system in a Japanese RPG is Final Fantasy and the guy who programmed those games wasn't Japanese. He was Iranian or something.
We have a bunch of monkeys shitflinging each other. What a joke. Anyway, this thread sucks.
>>12787328You're not human.
>>12787290He's referring to your post here >>12787275
>>12787345Then he (You) would have replied to _that_ post instead of directing the accusation at an irrelevant post. Evidently you lack the mental capacity to keep track of conversations.
>>12787372His initial accusation was quoting that post.
>>12787389Then his (Your) reply should have replied to said post. Continuity is extremely simple to grasp.
>>12786785>I remember when moot first made /vp/ and then renamed it to "/tr/ - Team Rocket" and it was all very themed around the older games at the time/vp/ was VERY specifically made because /v/ was being flooded with threads about the at the time upcoming gen 5 games.
>>12787260soijaks were everywhere even before then, retard
Imagine if this board had moderation. Just imagine.
>>12787413>>12787416>>12787419>>12787432go away
>>12787394I just told you that's what he did. Here's the post >>12787278
Clean it up janny, the monkeys smeared their shit all over the floor.
>>12787413>>12787416>>12787419>>12787427>>12787432>>12787442What in the fuck is this schizophrenic gobbledigook?
>>12786681Why are just completely ignoring shit that anon is saying? Everyone KNOWS it's old, that isn't the point being made here. You fucking retard. Projecting a bunch of shit about how you're scared of being old doesn't mean shit to people who are already old and realize this. Fuck off moron.>>12787080Same thing with this anon who clearly wants to just pick and choose what he defines as "retro" because uhhh, actually you can hook up a PS5 to a CRT so that makes it retro!
>>12786921You really couldn't help yourself, could you? Pathetic.
>>12787420No, they weren't.
>>12786921Damn this really triggered "them"
>>12787492
>>12784808My dad, in 1992
>>12787290>>12787345>>12787372>>12787389>>12787394Run glowniggers over with your car. That's what you do.
>>12787493Cool it with the antisemitism.
>>12784967>Amiga, Britain>Amiga with good games
This is why 7th gen can't be retro on this board when it's discussions always keeps breeding out schizos
>>12786681NO WAY MAN, WE'RE GONNA KEEP ON ROCKIN FOREVERFOREVERforeverFor...e....ver...
>>12784808>>12784834Host of a popular retrogaming show in Japan, just like AVGN is popular in the West. Both were casual players, Shinya Arino (GCCX) was first and foremost a comedian / television host, and James Rolfe (AVGN) a filmmaker / content creator. The difference between Arino and Rolfe, is that the former started taking gaming "seriously" for his show.Rolfe is nostalgic for NES and SNES games, but he is a movie guy. His actual passion are films (like old Godzilla movies) and filmmaking. Mike "motherfucking" Matei, the guy who has a 10-inch cock and owns a legit copy of Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire for the PC Engine, was the "true" gamer guy of the AVGN show.
>>12787019damn even that screenshot is retro
>>12784808Being given an nes when I was a child by my childless neighbor, and growing up playing snes with my friends. /vr/ finds this extremely offensive however and is mostly collectors and third worlders who don't play anything for longer than 20 minutes that isn't an rpg.
>>12786714The video games industry got too big for its own good, capturing the attention of soulless corporatives, who will do anything to satisfy their masters (which is, all the investor, rich fuckers with political connections, who hold the industry in a vice grip) who really don't care or really know what video games are, except that they're "sorta like interactive movies, right? So make them like this". They're the ones who have enough money to buy out any promising studio and turn it into another gear in a big, slop producing machine. Before, even TV serials required a lot of brainstorming and only the best ideas came through. Today, they're produced like toys by a variety of streaming services, which also make their stuff streamlined as well, a new production or more a year, for every age group and genre, in order to capture as wide an audience as possible. Same with the AAA games. There's no room for anything new, just taking what worked previously, changing some things around in order to avoid getting sued for plagiarism, and voila. Same happens in the general music scene, I'm happy that at least the genres I like keep developing in a natural way (Down -> Top, people getting recognized for their sound and work, instead of Top -> Down where literal nobodies get promoted worldwide as "stars" and they're really nothing special - stuff that everyone with good looks and corporate training in this direction can achieve). We no longer have as many artists as before, they have been replaced by "content producers" and rewarded for enough "community engagement".
I dont understand the question. what do you mean who "got you into retro games"? my grandma who bought me a Sega Genesis with Sonic 3 & Knuckles for my birthday in 1996? what?you have to be over 25 to post here
>>12786921>yeah, this country which grooms their population since childhood to excel but never stand out, respect but bully those who get in your way, which has one of the biggest suicide rates in the world? it's actually a great
>>12786921>>12787493you will never be japanese. they will always see you as beneath them
>>12788191>I understood the assignment but I still had to be a bitch about itFragile male ego detected
>>12788293nigger
While I grew up with the tail end of snes and mainly the n64, I suppose it was the wii virtual console, virtualNES, and zsnes that exposed me to "retro" and got me into those games. A fond high school memory is my mates cheering me on playing Mega Man 3 over the summer on a school pc on VirtualNES. I couldn't figure out how to beat the final wily machine before the end of the session.
>>12788017100% correct.
>>12784808What do you mean introduced you stupid fucking zoomer? They were being published while I was a child, they’ve always been there.
Playing Namco arcade games as a kid, because they were only like ten years old at the time.I have literally never not been into "retro games". They were just games back then.
>>12784942He had a pretty negative effect on video game discourse, all things considered.A lot of perfectly good games and even consoles are written off because of AVGN. I used to believe a lot of that stuff, back when I didn't know better. I thought there were no good games on Virtual Boy, when there are actually like a dozen of them.
>>12787639>Worms, Lemmings, and Another World are bad games because they just are, okay. I will not elaborate
I'm just old. These are just games I used to play and I enjoy having discussions about them and offering insight where I can while enjoying shitposting as well.
>>12784808>thing :(>same thing japan :OThis behavior is comes from the inferiority complex.Such behavior tend to value more the opinions and behavior of people superior to them.A behavior typical of subhumans, thirdies and mutts.Sorry, but this is the harsh truth.
>>12788726>is comescomes
>>12784942And that's a bad thing.
>>12785268I miss i-mochery.
>>12786681No, it's because they recognize the newer stuff as shit.
>>12788272>This country is bad because it has some internal problems exclusive to its own people, which it doesn't inconvenience any other countries withNo, it isn't.Yours is.
>>12788736Same.>>12788738Yes, which is the why smarter kids look to the past, because there used to be actual variety in popular entertainment, so unironically they look towards the old for something new.
>>12788272>>12788276
>>12788848Didnt mention any of those, but thanks for adding more reasons for why Japan is a shithole bro
>>12788863Yes, good job aspiring to the image, you faggot.
>>12788873You're the one who mentioned those things, not me, take your hurt feelings elsewhere
>>12788848>no argument>soijakyup, that's a BTFOing
>>12788726>webmI don't get it
>>12788906people in japan don't like being filmed in public
>>12788915I'm so used to zoomer wannabe influencers filming everything the thought of that being the reason she started hitting them didn't even cross my mind
>>12787318First off, Japanese games on pc until like the last 5 years were notorious for being unoptimized and ran terribly unless it was the MT Framework which basically was powered by black magic. Secondly, I meant more in terms of innovation and actually taking good ideas from outside, there is an extreme culture of Not Invented Here in software development in Japan.
>>12788915>people in japan don't like being filmed in publicWho does?
