Where were you in 1998?
A crib.
Pre-school
Diapers.
>>344417471
>paying extra to reserve a game
>now buying a game early gives you a discount
>>344417471
playing zelda and banjo, the best games ever made
Begging my parents for a Playstation
>those demo discs
>>344417471
In my living room playing james bond with my brother and sister.
>>344417471
Iceland
>>344417632
you got the gold cartridge dummy
Graduating high school.
>System only costs twice as much as a game
Man, those were the days.
In kindergarten drinking juice and taking cozy naps
playing my ps1
Probably watching my brother play the PS1.
>>344417471
At my daughter's graduation
What ever happened to that bumpy purple texture used in advertising? If 90s aesthetic came back I'd buy more games instead of pirating them.
I was playing dragon warrior on my purple gameboy
>>344417919
Go play Half-Life or something grandpa
I was at my great granddaughter's graduation
>>344417471
I was watching WWF
>"BAH GAWD STONE COLD! STONE COLD IS HERE, KANG!"
>>344417471
I was in my last year at school.
>>344417471
goo goo ga ga gamestop
>>344417471
Renting and playing a lot of N64 games and enjoying the Summer vacation and spooky October that year.1998 was the first year I didn't go trick or treating because I spent the whole day playing Space Station Silicon Valley
>>344417579
My nigga.
I was sucking on my moms nipples
>>344417471
well after starcraft came out pretty much nowhere but sitting at my computer playing starcraft for the rest of the year
>>344417471
Playing Yoshi Story on my brand new N64.
Hanging out outside with my friends and coming back in later to play N64 and watch Toonami
I want to go back
>>344417471
God damn I miss that.
I was 10 yo, happy as fuck.I'm not doing that badly in Neurology, but I'm really tired.
>>344417471
>tfw sold OOT, smashbros and goldeneye for 20 bucks altogether at gamestop
>tfw smashbros is worth 80 bucks alone
>>344417471
10 years old and having the time of my life.
>>344418014
Same here man, the lack of comfy advertising these days with vidya is disgusting.
>>344418769
If only. If I could wake up in my body in 1998 knowing everything I know now, it'd be pretty cool.
>>344417471
playing pc games such as half life
In team Playstation. Superior choice to be quite honest.
>>344419078
Nintendo held out for a while, but the cartridge is just inferior to the disk, unfortunately.
I was 3 years old, but i already was trying to play my old master system, and would convincente the teacher of my preschool to let me use the school computer, wherd i would play Prince of persia
Some times authism. Comes very early on
Playing one of those shit $10 Polystations because my parents didn't want to spend any actual money on videogames and I didn't know better.
>>344418874
>selling anything to those crooks
Being born
>>344419078
Sonygger please goI loved both systems but unfortunately I only had an N64, I remember I used to play those Playstation Underground demos at Wal-Mart (especially Medi-Evil) all the time.
>>344417818
This. I've enjoyed videogames all my life, but for some reason, people my age are forced out of the hobby by their wives.
>>344417514
This
>>344419189
Wonder how mad they were when they saw how successful the PS became. This tech could have been theirs.
Things could have gone so much differently.
senior year of highschool
>>344419640
Not sure if it would have been a better future or not.
>>344417471
I was barely born. I just turned 18 this past month.
>>344419421
> only a single square game is Final Fantasy
> a bunch of different genre and styles represented
What a fucking era.
>>344417471
In a hospital with irreparable brain damage because of the meds I needed.
>>344417471
Kindergarten.
>>344419771
Do you think "edgy" FFVII, RE and MGS would have happened on a disk based N64. I have my doubts.
>>344417471
1st grade, bro
sm64 was the SHIT
>>344417818
you're like 40, what the fuck are you doing here
first grade. i still have that oot gold cartridge. got it that christmas with the rumble pack thing. couldn't even get past jabu jabu.
good times
>>344417471
I was 2 so I can't imagine that I was doing much.
I wasn't born yet. :^)
I wonder what it's like for people browsing /v/ who are younger than Ocarina of Time, or heck the N64 for that matter.
I mean think about it, the best game of all time came out before they were conceived or were only a zygote in the grand scheme of things. It's not even the retrospect that baffles me, so much as it is the fact they grew up with the 7th gen. The Xbox 360/Wii/PS3 era raised them. With a growth environment of that ecosystem, how can bad tastes possibly not be ingrained in their DNA?
Conversely however, those who seek to walk the path less paved and join us, find themselves in a conundrum because the games have aged visually or audibly compared to today's games. They will never be able to enjoy them as we did unless their parents raised them in a controlled environ, or they came from a third world.
It's a fact that video games have become worse, but can it really be helped? Is it not just a product of the generation before (us), making the greatest hits of all time and then becoming complacent? Or is it the concept of diminishing returns we should blame, which Miyamoto warned us about?
We must deliberate on this if we are to move forward. Assess where we went wrong. Do what we can to help out our younger brothers and sisters see games as we did; as GAMES.
God rest your soul, Yokoi Gunpei; godfather of 90's gaming.
>>344417471
Same as always, sitting in my parent's bedroom, playing Doom on an Atari Jaguar while they play Zombie by The Cranberries on the radio.
>>344417471
Being born.
>>344423968
This.
>>344417471
Playing Super Mario 64 everytime I would go to my cousin's house. It's the only game I wanted to play. I was 4.
>>344417514
This.
>>344417471
Remember, Anons, inflation roughly halves the value of currency every 20 years or so. The Nintendo 64 cost the equivalent of $260, while the games cost $100 to $120.
>>344425015
>inflation roughly halves the value of currency every 20 years or so
I was 4. I didn't go to preschool so all I did was watch Blue's Clues and eat lunchables.
>>344423909
You know these people can legally post on 4chan now and no one can stop them, right?
>>344423909
Ocarina of Time is gay and overrated as well as many Nintendo games from that time.
>A ton of people admitting they can't be much older than 15-16.
>>344417471
Top left
>When you by
Jesus Christ.
>>344417471
>people born in 1998 are old enough to post on 4chan
fuck im getting old
3rd grade. Going to some shop everyday after school to check if there is playstation i want to get for my birthday
>>344417471
I was born in Feb in 1998. So, I was in a crib
>>344417662
t.brainwashed nintendrone
>>344423909
I was born in 98 and grew up with a PS2, the greatest console of all time.
Playing spiderman on the SNES because little brother hand me downs. Also just barely unable to shit myself and get away with it.
>>344417471
Playing with my bootleg NES.
>>344417471
Highschool.
>>344426881
I know it's hard to believe but it's been 18 years since 1998
>>344426881
People born in 1998 are or will be 18 years old this year. Most people in this thread say they were in diapers or were toddlers making them possibly in their early twenties.
You're old as shit, anon.
Preparing my shitposting skills before 4chan was born.
Being four
>>344417471
Either 8th grade or Freshman year of high school.
Most likely playing the fuck out of Quake 3, Unreal Tournament (first one), Unreal.
Staying up as late as possible playing Goldeneye and Ocarina with friends at someone's house, kissing girls, running around the neighborhood just having fun. No social media, no distractions.
I hate my life now.
>>344427078
t. brainwashed "'90s kid"
Don't you have some Halo or Mineshit to be playing right now?
>>344427520
Why are you still on 4chan at age 28?
>>344427376
>>344427430
No...No...NO. PLLLEASE GOD
>>344417471
I was 8 years old and living in FL.
>>344418984
Learn how to SHIFT my nigga.
>>344427078
>I was born in Feb in 1998
Go kill yourself.
>>344427078
>my first console was the 3607PS3
You literally missed the golden ages, you have no fucking saying on this kid.
>>344427441
damn these niggas mad
>>344417471
in my mums womb lmao
>>344427857
I miss flaming segafags, although Nintendofags are pretty much the same.
I might have been looking at that very ad, prepping my Christmas list. We got a dope N64 smorgasbord that year.
>>344417471
I was in Pennsylvania
>>344427631
32
and if this was 1998 I would be a freshman of sophomore, my mistake.
Because it's the last place left where you can truly say whatever you want.
I only go here for freedom, if I want calm/rational conversations I go other places.
I have to constantly remind myself I'm not 22, I'm that fucking weird 32 year old that doesn't act or feel like it.
>>344428000
or*
School or at home.
Desperately wanting an N64 and settling on my SNES instead. So either playing Starfox, Kirby Superstar (fuck yeah) or obsessively playing my new Pokemon Blue game on my Gameboy pocket.
Or playing with legos.
Or doodling.
Or eating tortillas with cheese.
...fuck dude.
Smearing shit on walls or something
>>344427630
>1998
>90s kid
He's a 2000s kid.
>>344428312
Most le90skids are people born way too late to remember the 90s.
The 90's were special, especially if you were at least 8 (not super retarded and understood things) when it came to games.
Every console was new and amazing, they focused on games, not achievements or dumb shit, there were 234234234 games coming out. To play with friends you had to actually go to their house.
>>344417471
A crib.
Being 1 year old and all.
Enjoying being a babby without any worries and sucking on nipples.
>>344428454
I was born in 1987, but sure as shit wouldn't call myself an "'80s kid", though I got a fair amount of the culture through early '90s bleed.
>>344428690
wasn't* 234234234 games
>>344428454
You are wrong here young fag. Being a " " kid isn't about WHEN you were born, but when you grew up.
I'm a 90's kid cause I was born in the 80's. You'd have to be a real piece of shit to call yourself a 90's kid when you were born in '92 and weren't even allowed to go out alone without an adult holding your hand when the most important things of the era were happening.
>>344427709
That shit mechanic is fucking scary.
Just imagine being about your business one day playing vidya and the next you're on a plane that's about to crash without having any idea of what the fuck even is going on.
I mean, shit, I wouldn't want my ride to end like that.
>>344417471
playing DOOM and king's quest vi on my grandpa's old PC, running them from floppy discs
>>344417471
Playing Banjo obv
>>344426003
Roughly. Inflation tends to run at about 3 to 4%. 1.03^20 is about 2.
Inflation has been pretty low recently, financial meltdown and all, so it's not as bad as it is normally.
>>344427631
Once you've spent a decade here, you'll understand why other websites can't compare.
>>344429042
You could always SHIFT back to another point since you can only shift back to points you've experienced.
>shit mechanic
Kek
>>344429426
I wish I could remember when I started visiting this place.
It's been so long.
>born in 95
>been here 7 years already
I feel old as fuck, send help
Playing my snes
>>344417471
In 8th grade, playing the shit out of Goldeneye, Duke Nukem 64, Armored Core: Project Phantasma and Tenchu with all my friends.
Star Craft and Fallout 2 had launched around that time but I could only play them at my buddies house. Computers were still prohibitively expensive and my parents thought they taught kids bad things because of shit rumors they heard.
>>344417471
I was 7 years old at my childhood day-care watching the motherfucking Banjo Kazooie promo tape.
>>344417471
N64. Mario. Megadrive. Streets of rage 2. Why live anymore?
>>344417471
Working for Sony UK as an apprentice and enjoying my PS greatly, thanks.
>>344429809
>Not recycling old bottles and cans to earn money to buy what you want because your state gives like 5 cents per can
Get on my four year old level, faggot.
>>344417471
In yr mum's bum. Lol #rekt trollololol :^)
Playing PC and SNES because no one I knew had a current gen console
Did anyone else have this problem? My later neighbor had a PSX but shortly afterwards got a PS2, and I didn't even play an N64 until 2005, and haven't so much as seen one since.
>>344417471
Being happy.
I was 2 retard, I couldn't play shit
>>344429591
>the "I'm only 20 but I feel so old meme"
Shut the fuck, you aren't jaded or cool for saying that
>people born after 2000 are making the majority of posts on /v/
>and have girlfriends
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>>344430736
OUT
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>>344431316
2 of the people you're replying to are more than 25 years old anon, the majority of people aren't 40 like you are.
>>344417471
Playing Tekken 3 in the arcade
French immersion kindergarden
>>344417471
On my dad's lap, playing a variety of pc games and learning to play civilization
>>344432678
I was playing my gameboy. I don't think I got into Pokemon until the 4th grade. That was in 99 and 00.
>>344427709
Third grade, nigga. I would fake sick to go home and play Ocarina of Time.
>>344422237
you're here forever, anon
>>344429524
Considering that you only tend to shift in the split-second before death, the moment you 'snap' into another timeline whoever you switched with is fucking dead.
>>344419421
>>344419850
will it ever return?
>>344431316
>1998 was 18 years ago
>>344427120
I agree that the PS2 was the apex of games but honestly it really loses a lot of value if you didn't follow at least from the early 3D transition era to fully appreciate the logical climax of videogames.
>>344428454
>tfw born in shitty non-English speaking country so our localisations always arrived 2-3 years later so I was actually old enough to experience 90s stuff albeit a couple years later
>>344427520
>Most likely playing the fuck out of Quake 3, Unreal Tournament (first one)
>Quake 3
>Unreal Tournament
>1998
topkek go back to retaking english 10 over the summer pedro
