What was the hype for Ocarina of Time and Final Fantasy 7 like 30 years ago?
>>12930484Ask grok
>>12930484We're not your grandparents. You were either there for it or you weren't. Sorry.If you want to get a real idea, look up old magazine articles and forum posts.
>>12930484There wasn't hype back then. Only incels had internet access. It wasnt on the news so the games didnt exist until they came out
>>12930539>didn't talk to his friends at school about upcoming games>didn't have any gaming magazine subscriptions to see all of the cool new shit coming soon>didn't have the internet (brown)Man, I'm so glad I didn't have your childhood.
>>12930484Both were pretty hyped, most people (I was like 12/13 when these came out) hadn’t played a final fantasy before, Zelda was a known IP. I still feel like ffvii had more hype than OOT. Also the post release hype was high since these were games that lived up to their billing and console movers for both systems.
>>12930539Fake and gay, they had commercials and advertisements and if you read comic books let alone gaming magazines you would have seen and heard about their releases
>>12930539>only incels had internetZoom zoom
>>12930539>There wasn't hype back then.el final fantasy siete de los videojuegos.Dude magazines creamed themselves over FFVII, features, guide, cheats, previews and reviews. Hundreds of printed pages.
>>12930858>guideslop game gets guidesthose are all after release
>>12930484It was normal. Games weren't popular. The Fandom existed on forums. Zelda and FF7 RP was huge. 4chan didn't even exist yet so people played games for personal enjoyment. Games were enjoyed as games and not as content or rage bait.
>>12930484Eh I don’t really remember much excitement about ff7, but I did have a female neighbor who had it. Tony Hawk was the big ps1 game from what I remember. Well that and sports
>>12930862>Games weren't popularThere were ads at bus stops for Final Fantasy VII. Full-page ads in mainstream magazines like Maxim too.Pretending the games industry at large wasn't a big deal before Halo or whatever is complete historical revisionism.Sega and SNK had fucking theme parks in the '90s because they had no clue what to do with all of the money they were making.
>>12930484My cousin was a normie who played mainly sports games he had a PS1 and even he bought FF7 cause it was on the cover of all the magazines
I honestly dont remember anything about their pre releases, but i also got no gaming magazines and mostly only played on PC and game gear at the time. My friends still had snes and genesis and my one cool friend with divorced parents with a playstation only played Crash and Silent Hill. First time i saw oot was when my friends older brother was playing it and thinking it was cool that they made a 3D version of the zelda on game boy which i had played. I don't recall when i became aware of ff7's existence, but i recognized the cover when i bought it so i must have seen it on a shelf or advertisements. My only exposure to final fantasy at the time was with Mystic Quest.
>>12930943No, I am very special and unique because I played mass-produced games in the 90s, just like millions of others.
>>12930962Apparently not, because games just weren't popular at all. Nobody wrote anything about them, let alone played them. All of those copies of classic games are complete fakes.
>>12930484At first I ignored both of them because all I played was beat-em-ups and platformers. But as 5th gen went on I slowly started getting more curious about story focused games, it seemed like all the most popular and highly rated games were starting to be of that type. Finally I gave in and got a used copy of Ocarina of Time from Funcoland with a strategy guide since I had never played a game like this before. I ended up really enjoying it.
>>12930539>Only incels had internet accessWhy out yourself as a zoomer like this? The years of 96 to 99 were peak early web, just about everyone in the US was online, everyone and their mother was using email, and they started advertising websites on TV. Literally, you went from them not mentioning anything about the web (except maybe some text in the credits), to every show saying "Visit us at www.[insert site here].[com/org/net], every other thing was talking about the internet.
>>12931092In 98 i had 2 computers. A desktop my uncle gave me and a laptop my middle school gave me, both with internet access. PCs were pretty common. Though my dad didn't get one until the early 2000s when he realized there was a ton of porn online and he didn't have to buy playboys anymore.
>>12930484None. Thankfully people don't play RPG autismos at all where I live. Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat and sports games were the hype at the time.
>>12931115Yeah, we know they love fighting game and FIFA in south america, anon
>>12930539>There wasn't hype back then. Only incels had internet access. It wasnt on the news so the games didnt exist until they came outWe had game magazines and even commercials on TV. I was hyped as hell for FFVII, since I was already a huge FFVI fan back then.
>>12930484>>12930539Final Fantasy VII is actually the game that taught me how bad letting yourself be overhyped is. I read absolutely everything I could about it, poured over import magazines, bought the OST a good six months before it came out here and listened to it constantly. My bedroomwas covered in wall scrolls... by the time the game actually came out I was so saturated. It was a pretty good game in the end, but nothing could have lived up to my expectations.
>>12931156>brother comes home with ff7 one day>never heard of it before that moment>ends up being the best game imaginable>bought the OST 25 years later
