>tfw the 90s aren't coming back
>You no longer go into a game store and find something brand new and innovative.
>You can no longer go down to the arcade and find a new and awesome machine with mind blowing 3D graphics. Or find a new 2D game with the best smoothest sprite animation yet.
How do you deal with the fact that the 90s have passed and won't return. It's really difficult for me.
Pot n painkillers work for me.
>>3174098
>tfw no qt3.14 gf to play playstation with. why even live?
The 90s wasnt as great as you think. Its just gotten so shit today that the 90s seems like a fairy tale.
>>3174179
Not OP.
The 90s were amazing. Whether you were a teen or born in the late 80s/early 90s it was a great time.
>>3174183
The 90s wasnt as great as you think. Its just gotten so shit today that the 90s seems like a fairy tale.
>>3174179
>being this /pol/
The 90s were amazing in every way.
>>3174185
Oh please.
I still watch shows from the 90s. Re-watched XFiles and it was great until the end seasons.
The only thing good about the 2000s and later is the internet.
But everyone tells that that only the early-mid 90s were awesome, while the late 90s sucked.
>90s not returning
nope. all the 20 something coolsters are taking parts of it and re working it into their thing. just lurk instagram a bit
>>3174179
Only thing that was shit in the 90's was comic books.
>>3174205
The 3rd party comics were pretty great though. The Marvel and DC story lines weren't the best though. Few great hits but not much after that.
Spawn was probably the highlight.
I miss playing NFL Blitz in the arcade, man!
>>3174203
Everything from 1989 up until 9/11 2001 was fucking great, dude.
>>3174187
The 90s were terrible in every way except the video games.
>>3174234
Are you black/3rd world?
>>3174234
and anime and music
Early to mid 90's was a pretty amazing time to be alive.
>>3174238
Grunge was ok, but you're forgetting about the second half the 90s. Objectively terrible.
>>3174204
They weren't even around for the 90s....
>>3174258
A lot of kids think being born in like 1998 makes them a "90s kids".
I remember the time in the 90s when so many shopping malls have indoor rollercoasters.
Then they all got demolished/removed/shut down.
Why is fun not allowed after the 90s ended?
>>3174256
the late 90's were even better than the early 90's pham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMrIy9zm7QY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIXCVZ9evuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GHN1Mu6VG0
>>3174256
>second half of 90s
>bad
Are you joking? You best be joking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5LW07FTJbI
>>3174098
>FRIENDS poster
>Fucking Buffy the VAMPAIAH SLAYAH
IT'S ALL COMING BACK
>>3174268
>A lot of kids think being born in like 1998 makes them a "90s kids".
I hate those kids.
>>3174275
>>3174279
>>3174098
>late 90s cancer
>>3174310
>thinks a NES is 90s
Cool hipster logic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txo9d6TBNi0
>>3174310
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JPa3BNi6l4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbBvKaM6sk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORYO0atB6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHHT7dTmw8U
>>3174321
>implying the NES lifespan didn't last until late '91 in NA, '92 in many other countries
>ignoring everything else
Back to listening to NSYNC and watching Friends, late 90s cancer
>>3174256
>grunge was ok
No, it wasn't.
>>3174338
PS1 lasted until 2007 :^)
>Back to listening to NSYNC and watching Friends
Sure, enjoy your hair metal and grunge rock buddy.
>>3174098
>tfw the 90s aren't coming back
this is one of the main causes of my current depression, music was great, wrestling was great, games were great, spending every friday night at the icerink/arcade/bowling place with my friends was the best time of my life
I miss Squaresoft's innovation from their b-teams and Hollywood taking gambles on movie's from foreign directors like Luc Besson's The Fifth Element.
Oh and arcades and the middle class wage bracket.
>>3174338
>hating 90s boy bands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M6samPEMpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo-KmOd3i7s
Lol this kid is going all out.
The NES is a pure 80s consoles you idiot.
>>3174343
PS2 came out in 2000 moron, now let's see if you can figure out how that relates to the dates I posted for the NES
Late 90's nuclear bomb coming through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk
>>3174350
Squaresoft was really innovative in the 90s.
>vagrant story
>parasite eve
>jumping from fantasy to cyber-punk for FF VII
>chrono trigger
>super mario rpg
>>3174353
>Lol this kid
Says the shitposter spamming shitty links
>>3174371
Do go on about the NES being a 90s console though.
>>3174371
>talk shit
>get hit
>NUH-HUH, STOP SHITPOSTING
Every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw
>>3174256
>Grunge was ok
kill yourself
>>3174378
>Discontinued
>NA August 14, 1995: JP September 25, 2003;
>>3174395
Oh it's a early 2000s console now.
I'll have to remember that and correct my buddies next time they say the NES is a mid 80s console. Also on /vr/.
>>3174098
it´s hard to swallow that you´re getting old and new games arent gold ofc it feels shitty but like personally i´m plannin to go thru classics and join the right now of gaming with PS4 within this year. maybe in 20 years someone will be nostalgic about 2010 magic if people stop being complete dicks about modern gaming
What I miss most of all is the time before multiplayers got online because that´s where everything went south
>do you feel old yet
>>3174360
The only innovative thing listed in that post is PE and maybe VS.
You wanna talk innovative for Square? Bring up Racing Lagoon, Front Mission Alternative, SaGa, Tobal or Bushido Blade.
What I actually miss about 90's Square was their effort in branching out to other genres, they did fighting games, racing games, platformers, survival horror, SHMUPS, you name it.
Now it's only shitty RPGs/A-RPGs with some decent title once in a while, the actually good games they did after 2000 are really just a handful.
And good lord, don't make me talk about their mobage division.
>>3174398
>smuginternettoughguywithabackstreetboysdildo.jpg
Much more preferable to early 90's fans in pink polos and with Kenny G comps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2u5uUu3DE
Good news! Since the 90s were like the 60s they're due to be back for the 20s
The NES was popular and widely used through the first half of the nineties and had new games developed throughout that period. SMB3, one of the consoles most iconic games, didn't come out in the west until 1990. It is an 80s AND a 90s console.
>>3174424
Here's hoping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LBnMRWeV-E
>>3174430
It's a 80s console that lasted until the SNES came out in the early 90s.
It's not a 90s console.
Same way the N64 and PS1 aren't early 2000s consoles.
The most heartbreaking thing about walking down the game section today is it looks like a fucking toy aisle. Half of it is now consumed by skylanders, Disney inifinty, and amiibo.
>>3174417
sure thing nsync fag
>>3174443
It is 80s in that the system came out in the 80s, sure, but it was still widely used throughout the early 90s and had new, official games developed for it until the mid-90s. The console's mainstream lifespan objectively covered both the 80s and early 90s.
>>3174459
It's a 90's console as much as the Genesis is an 80's console.
>>3174450
Oh right, Lego Dimensions too.
>>3174459
It came out in 85, guy. SNES in 91. Basicly had about 1 year outside of the 80s.
I don't even get how this is an argument. Like are 80s kid desperate to be considered 90s kids or something?
>>3174430
Yo, nigger lips. The Rolling Stones were still a 60s band even though they were relevant and had charting hits into the early 80s.
>>3174468
>Basicly had about 1 year
psst, the 90s started in 1990. You got fucking BTFO trying to claim there's something wrong with NES units being in early 90s pics, deal with it.
>>3174481
Technically 1990 was the last year of the 80s and 1991 the first year of the 90s (decades properly don't start on a zero year).
It hurts to think I'll never eat greasy stuffed crust pizza and play rented SNES/PS1 games on a Friday night with my brothers again. I loved those days
>>3174481
Doom and Starfox came out years after the SNES release.
>>3174483
>1990 was in the 80s
>>3174483
got anymore shitposting in you or are you done
If you look at it from a cultural standpoint, everything in 1990 was still basically untouched from the 80s and the familiar 90s pop culture cliches hadn't been established yet. Just as 2000 was still just the 90s.
>tfw you just enjoy playing old games and don't wish you were eight years old again
>tfw you can play whatever you want for free
>tfw you have a job and you can *BUY* pretty much whatever you want
Feels alright, man
~259 NES games came out in the US in the 1980s.
~491 NES games came out in the US in the 1990s.
Someone can check my math, but arguing that the NES is not an apt inclusion in a photo depicting 1990s youth culture in the US doesn't make any sense.
Video Games that turn 20 years old this year:
Guardian Heroes
Duke Nukem 3D
Mega Man X3
Pokemon
Civilization II
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
Time Crisis
Super Mario RPG
Kirby Super Star
Resident Evil
Panzer Dragoon II Zwei
Warcraft II
Metal Slug
Final Doom
Quake
Super Mario 64
NiGHTS into Dreams...
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Tekken 2
Crash Bandicoot
The Elder Scrolls II
Die Hard Trilogy
Tomb Raider
Donkey Kong Country 3
Diablo
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Mega Man 8
>>3174503
That's the nature of every decade. The first couple years resemble the previous decade way more than the one to follow.
>>3174507
And how many Top Loaders sold?
Almost all those game were sold to people that had owned a NES for years.
>>3174513
IDK. I don't remember 2001 being all that much like 1995 in terms of pop culture.
>>3174490
>omg '93 isn't early 90s
The TV is also switching between Sonic and Mario even though there's a NES hooked up, anything else trigger your autism?
>>3174179
90's Depend on your location.
West Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, and Australia had good things, but East Europe, and Africa had bad things.
Most posters are most likely on the good things locations.
>>3174524
the 90's only really started being it's old thing by '94/'95
The 80's 2.0 were more '90-'93
>>3174098
That picture looks to be from 1999 or so. None of the stuff there other than Friends was around in 1994-ish.
>>3174538
Vat. The 80s were totally and completely over by 1993.
>>3174542
ironic considering only underage buttrockers defend grunge music and think it was any good outside of Nirvana & Alice In Chains
>>3174098
Thank you for this reminder of how much the late-90's sucked.
>Hair gel
>Nu metal
>They killed Kenny! Those bastards!
>Trench coat wearers
>Oh, behave!
>Generic blond qts
>Dithered PS1 graphics pushed way past their limits
>Cargo pants from Old Navy
At least there were whale tales.
I was still playing NES in 1997
>>3174552
nu metal was a 2000's thing anon
>>3174552
I tend to associate nu metal more with the early 2000s cos that's when all those shitty bands like Disturbed and A7X were around.
>>3174552
>hating south park
>hating cargo pants
If mods were worth a shit that should had been a public ban on your underage ass.
>>3174310
I was asking myself what idiot could've taken the time to make this image, then I realized they're a britbong and it explained everything.
>>3174552
truth
>>3174539
The late 1990s were, in fact, the 1990s (unless you go by the apparent /vr definition which has concluded that the "true" 90s never really happened save for maybe a few months smack dab in the middle).
>one anon says the early 90s were better
>another anon says the late 90s were better
Who do I believe?
>>3174564
Funny, all those bands are early 90's bands.
>>3174554
And my dad had a Commodore 64 until 1995. That doesn't make it not an 80s computer.
>>3174552
>nu metal=late 90's
>hating on south park
>implying there isn't an appropriate setting or weather for trench coats and that they aren't fine as long as they are just used for their intended purpose
Everything else is spot on though. And let's be honest, some of that nu metal shit was pretty catchy. I know its trendy to hate on metal these days(as if electronic music or modern hip hop/rap is any fucking better) but nu metal really wasn't as bad. It was funny seeing how badass those fuckers thought they were, I'll admit.
>>3174570
Korn came out in mid-decade though.
>>3174559
South Park was funny in 1997, when I was 12. The fact that adults still watch that show is embarrassing.
>>3174564
>pantera
>nu metal
>>3174573
>as if electronic music is any fucking better
I seriously hope you people are not _this_ ignorant.
>>3174580
Video Games were fun in 1997, when I was 12. The fact that adults still play games is embarrassing.
>>3174557
What is Korn (mid-late 90's)
What is Limp Bizkit (mid-late 90's)
What is Godsmack (late 90's)
Etc. You could even throw in shit like Marylin Manson.
>>3174564
It's kind of like pop punk which started in the early 90s (unless you want to argue that the Ramones did it first in 1976) but the early 2000s was when it turned into a horrible cancer with millions of shitty Blink 182 wannabees.
When did /vr/ become /mu/?
>>3174552
>>3174558
>>3174562
>>3174564
>>3174580
>>3174586
>>3174581
I said they were one of the bands that inspired nu metal.
>>3174590
What is early 90's hairy cock-metal and smelly grune rock, Alex?
Both parts of the 90's had their good stuff and bad stuff. We're literally cherry picking here and acting no better than /v/ would.
>>3174586
Did I trigger you anon?
Sorry bub, electronic music is shit.
>>3174580
The show isn't nearly as juvenile anymore nowadays as Trey and Matt have grown up and quit being edgy 25 year olds.
Pantera were just one more thing the 90s ruined forever
http://youtu.be/mUW9JH6cNFU
>>3174571
The NES is an 80s console in that it was indeed released in the 1980s. That is a fact. However, the fact that the vast majority of the console's library was released in the 1990s, including one of the system's most beloved first party titles, shows that the NES was still popular and culturally relevant throughout the first part of the 1990s.
This is all talking about the US side of things, of course.
>>3174586
I bet you write off fantastic rock music from yesteryear as "dadrock" and then go listen to shitty ass techno.
Kill yourself, my man.
>>3174606
It was directed to the shitposters saying the 90s were terrible and infested with "nu metal" and grunge.
>>3174604
Do you play other music while playing vidya or do you subject yourself to the torture of listening to electronic video game music during gameplay?
>>3174590
Korn and Limp of course were relevant up to the mid-2000s. Marilyn Manson was still big as a live act though he didn't make good albums anymore after the 90s.
>>3174613
>including one of the system's most beloved first party titles
Kirby's Adventure?
>>3174614
>not listening to the fantastic techno of yesteryear
>>3174542
Grunge sucks. In the 70s and 80s you had ballsy music, in the 90s you had mopey, whiney, woe is me angst bullshit. Give me Def Leppard over Pearl Jam any day of the week.
>>3174623
Hi dad!
>>3174623
>Give me Def Leppard over
>boyband for little girls
>ballsy
If you'd said Slayer or Venom, then we'd have something to discuss.
>>3174631
>metal
You have to be over 18 to post on 4chan.
>>3174627
All the 90s techno I ever heard was repetitive and boring.
I guess NIN is decent "electronic music", but its maximum edge that only a teenager could listen to. Most 90s music is like that, really. Painfully juvenile.
>>3174637
That's funny cos nobody over 12 listened to Def Leppard back then.
>>3174638
Most popular mu,sic always and forever has been once the nostalgia goggles are off
>>3174414
I don't get why people shit on Bushido Blade 2. It was a step in the right direction and made the gameplay much tighter while retaining the core mechanics. The series EASILY could have expanded and had more sequels imo, no clue why it didn't, probably sales. SaGa games are great, Frontier being my favorite and I still enjoy Tobal 1 and 2. Again, sales to blame that we didn't get Tobal 2 worldwide...
>>3174638
Stuff like big beat was an attempt at marketing electronic music as a sort of pop music instead of a club-oriented genre. Artists like The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method were marketed as new up and coming rock acts to the american mass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZPECFQ4NhE
>>3174554
Why aren't you still playing it now?
>>3174580
No it's the other way around. Watch a S1 South Park episode these days and I guarantee you nothing has aged so badly in the history of the world. They're terrible - just "hurr durr look it's kids saying fuck and cunt we're so edgy".
Then a few years later it got satirical and very funny. Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton, WoW, Pokemon, etc.
Haven't seen any in the last few years, mind you.
>>3174638
>Most 90s music is like that, really. Painfully juvenile.
Consider getting into IDM anon. Real intelligent music for real intelligent music fans. Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, the list goes on...
>>3174659
I had to sell it.
>>3174098
its sad how things age and inevitably get dorky and old looking huh?
I mean, if I saw that pic back when I was a kid in the '90s I would have thought that fucker looked so cool. Now he just looks like a kek.
>>3174675
Kek, Trent Reznor's record label was releasing IDM albums in the US back in the 90's. It's only natural if a NIN fan who hates electronic music as a whole would make a rare exception for Intelligent Dance Music.
>>3174205
The music was shit. Not all of it; but a lot of it.
90s white boy jamz like Smashmouth leave me sick
>>3174098
>How do you deal with the fact that the 90s have passed and won't return. It's really difficult for me.
All the media is still there, just with cool new modern tech and shit to make our lives more convenient.
>>3174735
>90s white boy jamz like Smashmouth leave me sick
As opposed to 2010's black memerap jams?
>>3174735
Didn't they do that "Might As Well Be Walking On The Sun"?
>>3174735
>>3174738
Born in 94 so my perspective is much different than majority here but i vaguely remember 98 and definitely remember 99 and 00. I remember going to disney world in 99 and you just got in no extra security and the airports whenever i visited family down south. Also all the old Johnny Quest and Casper reruns on Cartoon network and Digimon om Fox Kids. I remember when Smash was fairly new and my cousin got it and i snuck into his room to play it. Then 9/11 changed everything. The early to mid 00s were alright too.
>>3174735
Smash Mouth is pretty great. I love that shit unironically and am not ashamed of it.
Music elitists however make me sick. One trip to /mu/ can be summed up like:
>muh indies
>muh vinyls
>muh electronic
>muh 808's and Heartbreak-tier not hip hop trash
>muh intellectual superiority
What happened to just letting music be fun?
>>3174789
but /mu/ are responsible for the memefication of Smash Mouth on the internet in the past 2-3 years
>>3174574
Not one of those posters but honestly vaporwave has just the right amount of nostalgia in it that it really hits me just right.
I like it, especially listening to it at night. It's comfy
>>3174795
You got me there. I think they do it ironically though.
>>3174623
I am 33 and I still love Def Leppard.
I like grunge too tho. ironically I grew up liking both.
>>3174789
I like Smash Mouth.
Don't let other people bring you down anon
>>3174552
OK, ok. Oldfag here. Let's get this sorted.
>Hair gel
Gay. Made those frosted tips look even gayer
>Nu Metal
Yes, guys, Korn was a 90's thing. The numetal shit started picking up steam right around 98 or so.
>They killed Kenny! Those bastards!
Fuck you, South Park was awesome. ripip
>Trench coat wearers
Trench coats are rad, so long as you don't wear them outside of the goth/industrial club you're seeing KMFDM at.
>Oh, behave!
>implying it wasn't more "looks like a giant..."
>Generic blond qts
Still hot, fuck you.
>Dithered PS1 graphics pushed way past their limits
Boo-hoo, buy a Dreamcast or ps2 poorfag
>Cargo pants from Old Navy
Nothing wrong with cargo pants, unless you're talking about khakis. Those are the gayest shit since gay came to gaytown. Carpenter jeans. There's an epidemic for ya. Everyone had a hammer-holster on their jeans for ~15 years for no reason at all.
>>3174098
I'm pretty sure there will be a 2090-2099.
>>3174098
>How do you deal with the fact that the 90s have passed and won't return
I can deal with it because I've had 15 years to get over it. The second half of it wasn't really anything special either.
Nope. Fuck dialup, fuck Reality Bites, fuck OK soda, fuck Wicca, fuck Blockbuster, fuck Ally McBeal, fuck Toadies, fuck playing it loud.
>>3174834
>Fuck you, South Park was awesome
No, no it wasn't. The early seasons were so bad they took Matt Stone off the writing team, and only then did it really go anywhere. It was good for awhile in the 00s, and that's it. The early years survived on 12yo shock humor alone (what was shocking for late 90s TV, anyway).
>Trench coats are rad
Don't be like that fedora who was trying to claim they're ok in cold weather, everyone who was wearing one was wearing the edgiest black one they could find with those oval 90s shades for one reason and one reason alone.
>or ps2
He was talking about the PS1 and the late 90s, genius
>>3174789
Calling /mu/ elitist gives them too much credit
It's like a dumb 16yo's guess at what a smart adult might like
>>3174637
...for instance^ Sorry to single you out though but you are memeposting
>>3174849
Decades stopped ~2001, around the same time games stopped being retro. There will be no more decades. From now on, all pop culture will be an essentially unchanging, amorphous, social media-controlled blob, with no changing of the guard to clear things out every 10 years. If Justin Bieber had been born earlier, for example, he'd have been an embarrassing 80s/90s "thing" and be forgotten when the next decade started. But all future decades have been cancelled, so he's here until he dies.
>>3174834
You have to admit that Korn was less "nu metal" than all the other shit that came after it. Something about it was different.
>>3174868
Time didn't stop. Wtf are you talking about.
What broke that 90s reality for you? Pic related was the start of the 2000s of critique and rebellion of what i loved though the 90s
>>3174868
>third paragraph
>tfw its all true
Welp, i guess we at least have a small patch of the 80's/90's. Interestingly there seems to be an increased nostalgia for the 80's-90's - ie tape sales increased - recently so it seems like we aren't the only people yearning for another time.
>>3174871
While I disagree with him on the games thing--gen 6 is VERY different from gen 8--he's otherwise right in the sense that distinct cultural/aesthetic trends have largely stopped, as has overall technological advancement. The last thing I can think of was the skater/emo thing and that was basically a gayer offshoot of 90s skater/goth kids. Oh, and there was the gangsta show-your-ass lowriding rap bullshit of the early 00s which was an edgier corporate-sponsored version of 90s rap culture. Hipsters are kinda new, I guess, but otherwise everything might as well still be 1999. Only smartphones would really look out of place, and then only barely.
>>3174868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEgC69TMgpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDuE2HJD-g
I can hear a difference between the songs in these videos. Can you?
>>3174908
But there isn't that much. It is basically all uninventive, safe crap.
>>3174868
I'd argue that Social Justice/tumblrism is a modern cultural fad. Instead of looking back fondly on neon and afternoons wasted playing NES and SNES, the late 20-30 somethings of tomorrow will look back fondly on playing Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Undertale, and the time when they were all transfur genderqueer otherkin trannies withe headmates from Steven Universe.
![02_16_2014_14_02_27.mpg_snapshot_00.25.33_[2016.04.13_21.12.48].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/IbGGzyh.jpg "02_16_2014_14_02_27.mpg_snapshot_00.25.33_[2016.04.13_21.12.48].jpg")
1995 will never come back
>>3174865
>tfw I bought my first fashion trench coat in 1990 and it was people and gray distressed patchwork denim
Wore that motherfucker all through high school. Probably would have been profiled as a school shooter ten years later. I've always been a trend setter.
![01_02_2015_19_06_09.mpg_snapshot_10.11_[2016.04.13_21.10.05].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/YThFpjl.jpg "01_02_2015_19_06_09.mpg_snapshot_10.11_[2016.04.13_21.10.05].jpg")
>>3174916
>>3174912
>and the time when they were all transfur genderqueer otherkin trannies
But anon, they'll never stop being that.
I think what defines the "2010's sound" is that most pop music has this bright sound in the vocals and a loud bass, like if the producer decided to go crazy with the V shaped EQ.
this should have happened. idk why it didint...
>>3174910
The Hot 100 has always been like that. But there are differences. In the 2000s, hip hop is all Neptunes or Timbaland produced, with busy interlocking beats and sci-fi bleeps, and is the dominant music genre. Rock was either Nirvana-influenced post-grunge or twee indie stuff, and there was a clear separation between "indie" and "mainstream" music. Electroclash, trance and IDM were relevant genres of electronic music. Ed Banger was once the coolest record label in the world.
None of this really applies to the 2010s, with their woah-oh-ohs and their MUSTARD ON THE BEAT HOs and their 90s house pianos and their EDM superstars.
>>3174932
>most pop music has this bright sound in the vocals and a loud bass
... like all pop music?
>>3174928
Yeah they will. Lots of fringe sexual movements have died down, even conventional hetero ones like Free Love.
Tfw the 90s was the best time of my life, was mid-late teens by the late 90s.
>>3174360
the wonderswan was top tier for sega imo, awesome ports of front mission, final fantasy, and hanjuku hero. plus blue wing blitz.
>>3174450
that shit sucks. i feel like we've run out of ideas for 3d games too, only thing i'm looking forward to right now is space hulk deathwing and a few indie games.
>>3174952
>Lots of fringe sexual movements have died down
Except trannies who permanently transition, and are nothing new anyway. Or furries for that matter, who will always be furries regardless of whatever else they do. "Free love" didn't die btw, guys still try to bang as many chicks as possible and girls try to bang the richest guy they can find to take his money and bang more on the side. If anything it's traditional pairings that are dying out, in the west anyway. What was started in the 60s is now virulent and total to the point where court systems and politics are dominated by it.
I, for one, am perfectly fine with not having to live through the 90s again.
>>3174971
>sega
square
i'm retarded i was looking at sega saturn stuff on ebay in another tab
>>3174952
I assume he was being sarcastic.
>>3174175
because they are out there, trust me.
>>3174098
Only thing about the 90s that was better was the economy, the politics, and the video games. Everything else SUCKED.
>>3175045
>Only thing about the 90s that was better was EVERYTHING.
FTFY
>>3174098
New and innovative stuff comes out all the time. Do you just not bother looking anymore?
I can go down to the arcade and find a new and awesome machine with mind blowing 3D graphics. Sucks you can't. 3D gets better and better looking every year. I see plenty of new smooth 2d animation but it's mostly casual shit I'm not interested in.
I guess I deal with it by not living someplace that sucks for vidya. If it means that much to you move.
>>3175045
the cost of living hasnt gone up much
>>3174853
this desu
>>3174405
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT GIF DOING TO MY EYES AND BRAIN
>>3174981
>girls try to bang the richest guy they can find
yep. Pretty sure my fiance would dump my ass if a rich guy looked her way. I'm pretty good looking but its not like looks last forever.
I stopped believing in love after I grew up.
>>3174865
>No, no it wasn't.
You've missed a lot of south park friend. It's still pretty great.
>>3174869
Korn came out with their first album in 1994 too, people forget that.
>>3174284
>TRI
>BEAM
>HURAAAAA
>>3174098
>How do you deal with the fact that the 90s have passed and won't return. It's really difficult for me.
Same way everyone else deals with the fact that their childhoods won't come back: Copious amounts of alcohol.
>>3175241
Later "nu metal" was practically rap at the end of the day. People called System of a Down nu metal when they were really just avant garde/pop with yelling and metal guitars.
Korn on the other hand, well, its hard to fucking describe those fucking dudes. I've never liked them though admittedly they have SOME catchy tunes. "Nu Metal" was just some bullshit catch all term for any heavy sounding band that didn't sound like Slayer Megadeth Black Sabbath or Metallica.
>>3175252
Yeah they were doing something a lot different compared to all that alt rock/pop and grunge that was popular int he mid 90s.. I could be wrong but it seems like people just copied their sound once they got to be a household name a few years later, then copy cats came out of the woodwork.
I'm not a big Korn fan or anything but I did discover them when their first album came out in '94 and always respected that they were pretty unique for their time.
And yeah you're spot on about that. There was nothing really different about nu metal compared to regular metal besides the rap influence and the lack of guitar solos.
>>3175267
I'm not saying you're wrong because Korn certainly influenced a lot of artists, but I'm having a hard time thinking of any copy cats other than that one Sepultura cd, the name escapes me because I really didn't even like them before they copied Korn.
I guess I just wasn't into it so I'm not the most knowledgeable.
>>3174834
Does Jack Off Jill count as nu metal? Because I used to love this band. Clear Hearts Grey Flowers was my jam.
No better time than right now
>>3174360
FF VI was pretty steampunk m8
>>3174865
I wore a grey trench coat that I got at an army surplus store. Shades were those gold mirrored cop things, which I guess isn't what you're talking about. I don't recall any of the underage 90's kiddies wearing black trench coats but didn't go to faggot clubs so maybe that's why.
I will defend early South Park. Thought it was like an early Simpsons that focused on world-building a town full of crazy characters than of celebrity cameos and cultural parodies.
As for Buffy the Vampire Slayer I really liked it until the characters made a transition from high school to university. From that point the characterization went absolutely haywire, like as if proto-tumblr had been put in control of producing the series.
>>3174175
Get gf simulators for your playstation
>>3174098
Yeah but the internet exists now
Things like Arcades are matters of distribution, and the internet has solved the problems causing them. If I wanna play a shmup, I don't have to waste 2$ coins anymore. I just play it.
In the 90s, I was limited to whatever was available from the local store. If a Japanese game wasn't released here, I was shit outta luck.
Now I can just download it.
The 90s sucked dick.
>>3174187
>not liking the 90s makes you /pol/
Bit witch hunty anon.
>>3174098
>shit internet (and phones couldn't internet), no wireless internet connections basically
>no online streaming services of any kind, no Netflix, no YouTube, no PornHub, etc
>shit internet porn
>shit porn in general
>pitiful online shopping
>Assault Weapons Ban
>Colt's bullshit, aside from the fact that they could charge a premium for the AR-15 because they still had the rights (which goes further back, and still stuck around after the AWB), how they basically lied down and took it
>Ruger's bullshit, fuck you Bill, I'm glad you're dead
>VHS tapes still a thing
>lack of optic computer mice
>wireless computer mice and keyboards not really a thing
>wireless gamepads are a niche luxury product at best
>laptops were big and weak
>12gb was seen as an impressive harddrive size
>the pitiful storage space of CDs and diskettes
>a portable music player either required shitty 8-track tapes, or a more expensive CD player, which was larger and would skip if you were doing any kind of vigorous activity, neither was in your phone
>CRT TV's, CRT monitors, always makes that awful hight pitched noise, took up space, blurry display, glares if there's an open window somewhere in the house
There's lots of great things from the 90's, but there's WAY more things that I don't miss, I'm glad we've moved on.
The shit I like about the 90's, I can typically still get, so that's what I do.
I can't think of much things from the 1990's that I like, that I can't obtain now somehow.
>>3174342
Get raped, Alice In Chains were good.
>>3174580
Only the early seasons are bad.
>>3174554
I would too, occasionally.
>>3174603
This, literally /Cherrypicking General/, I can't say that people are approaching nostalgia in a healthy way here.
>KIDS THESE DAYS, THEY DON'T KNOW!
>REMEMBER BOBBY'S WORLD? IT WAS A GOOD SHOW!
I remember going to the dollar store and finding a copy of Wolfenstien 3D. So many hours lost to that game.
>>3174928
Yes they will, only the most autistic of them will go on.
Eventually, those dumbasses are gonne realize how fucking embarrassing they are, and turn their life around. Most of them are going to largely grow out of it at some point.
>>3175997
My brother pirated it back in the day so I didn't have to leave the house to get it.
Fucking sweet game though, even if I like Doom and Duke better, it has a rudimentary, arcade-like charm that those games lack.
>>3174272
High maintenance costs.
Potential health risks.
Lawsuits.
>>3174869
korn was the protogenic nu metal band, you could say they're more nu metal than all the shit that came after it
About a couple times a year, a bunch of my family members would get together at my Grandmas house. My cousin would already bring up his game systems (N64,PS1, GBC). Playing MK64 with my 3 other cousins on rainbow road on a big ass TV are some of the best memories I have.
>>3174993
Here's hoping we won't see another Clinton in the Oval Office!
>>3175235
You're one sad nigga, my man.
>>3175528
>I really liked it until the characters made a transition from high school to university.
I honestly think it was still kind of good. Like, not AS good, but not in such a way that it was unwatchable.
I sat through the series recently, and as a whole, it was actually better than I remember.
I noticed the occasional liberalism (most likely forced in by Whedon), but they were largely few enough that they didn't detract from the rest of the show.
I'll say, seeing an actor who is known as pro-gun (Sarah Michelle Gellar), reading lines such as "Guns don't solve anything", is pretty funny, and then the irony being that the character in question regularly uses violence and deadly weapons to solve her problems, things that likely went over Whedon's head.
eastern europe mfw got my nes in 98.
>>3176010
This, that machinery is expensive, and there's questions about the brakes (which you run each time), are a health hazard (they generate a lot of particulate which can be hazardous to your lungs in the long term).
Oh yeah, and lawyers, because you're looking at a small, high-speed train, full of children.
>>3176018
>the irony being that the character in question regularly uses violence and deadly weapons to solve her problems
To be fair, those problems are usually vampires and other evil creatures that are impossible to really play devil's advocate for, and are usually not particularly phased by bullets so much as axes and swords slicing their heads off.
>How do you deal with the fact that the 90s have passed and won't return?
A 6-pack of Bud Light and Twisted Metal 2 always take me back. If I'm feeling classy, I'll have some sake, sushi and a copy of Bushido Blade at the ready. Leave Bushido Blade 2 on the backburner - while it's fun, it's a sloppier, more casual take on the first.
>>3176024
You could conceive of ways to sever limbs with firearms.
Also, didn't those secret gov't forces use guns to passable effect in some circumstances?
>>3176025
>Twisted Metal 2 always take me back.
Who do you play as? I always prefered Axel myself
>>3176018
When I said proto-tumblr I didn't really mean liberalism directly, I meant like pandering to the trendy whims of teenage fangirls (which liberalism is a part of I guess).
Like making Willow a lesbian out of nowhere even though she had a boyfriend and the show never even hinted that she doubted her sexually. Or the fact that they made Willow the show's most powerful character even though that undermined the entire premise.
Or how they were trying to slip Spike into everything and ship him with everyone (and have him in every scene with his shirt off) or how Xander got turned into an emasculated pussy. I actually think the show didn't have a single good new character after they left high school.
Buffy started out as a show I thought that was squarely aimed at everybody in high school, no matter who you were you could get something out of it because it was well written, fun and had attractive characters of both genders. But after a point I think they just pandered squarely at the female equivalent of neckbeards. That's not to say there weren't good individual episodes in later seasons that I like.
>>3174098
>you will never again be able to experience Capcom, Konami and Squaresoft in their prime
>all three companies have long since fallen from grace
>Capcom continues to scam their loyal fans
>Konami has said "FUCK YOU" to video games
>Square continues to piss on the legacy of Final Fantasy and milk the Kingdom Hearts cash cow while squandering all their other IPs
>>3176032
I suppose I kind of agree, though I never found myself disliking Spike.
The local, family-own restaurant in my town actually had a few arcade cabinets in the 90's . Among them was Marvel Super Heroes. I spent so much of my mom's money playing that thing whenever we would go there!
>>3174179
>The 90s wasnt as great as you think
The '90s definitely saw the beginning of cultural decline here in the states, but for video games, the '90s were fucking awesome.
>>3175986
>muh internet
>muh degenerate porn
>muh technology
90s must have been pretty hard for you NEETs
Only '90s kids remember the good olde dayes
>>3176174
>using degenerate unironically
Why are you even on 4chan, famicom?
>>3174179
Alright let's put this to death.
Can we agree that the 80s were better than the 70s?
Can we agree the 90s were better than the 80s?
Can we agree that the 00s SUCKED HORRIBLE BALLS?
And can we agree that the 90s didn't have the problem of identity politics, race and gender baiting the way these 10s have?
Because if we can agree on these things, the 90s look like a pretty fucking juicy time.
I agree with this guy though. >>3174205 Comics were retarded. And remain that way.
>>3176174
>degenerate porn
Fuckoff moralfag
>>3174098
Damn, i also had that Casper glow in the dark stickers. I think they were in some Kellog's? At least in Germany. Really forgot about them already.
Also i think i had the exact same taperoller/deskset. Fuu--
>>3174098
as someone who loves the early to mid 90s, i absolutely disdain everything in that picture. All you're really referring to here is late 90s mtv gen x'ers
>>3174098
>that gold N64 controller
So the first time the N64 offered a gold controller was via Nintendo Power in 1997, but you would clearly be able to see the different Nintendo Power logo on the controller from here. It was bigger and darker than the stamped Nintendo logo you usually see.
The next time you could get a gold controller was as a pre-order bonus for Majora's Mask, which means that this picture is late 2000, at the earliest.
The lot of you were underaged gayboys. I lived in Manchester in the 90's and went raving at the Hacienda as a youth, and would play Nintendo while recovering the following day. I miss those tunes.
>>3176536
He definitely gives off a Y2K vibe more than 90s.
>>3176297
Dude, there's maybe 3 people here who were even old enough to remember how things were in the 70s and 80s. Of course everyone else is going to agree that the 90's was better than not being alive.
The 70s were pretty damn good. If you lived though it you know it wasn't all orange polyester bellbottoms and disco
>>3176536
Pretty sure this picture was taken in a PAL country and I think the gold controllers were more common there. Look at the large borders on the screen.
Looks like 1999 to me.
>>3176174
You were a baby in the 90s werent you?
>>3176783
He does sit on US flag pillow
>>3176030
I liked Specter because of the homing missles
>>3176796
Hmm yeah I just checked Driver and even the NTSC version has borders on that particular image. So yup, it is USA.
But is it possible that's not actually a gold controller? Could be a greasy grey with light shining on it.
>>3176174
>>3176796
Many euro countries had a fanboner for the US back then.
>>3176321
>as someone who loves the early to mid 90s
my condolences
>people don't know how numbers work
Year 1 = beginning of calendar (there is no year 0 brah)
1990 = late year of the 80s
1991 = first year of the 90s
2000 = last year of the 20th century
2001 = first year of the 21st century
2100 = will be last of the 21st century
2101 = will be firs year of 22nd century
>>3176827
whats wrong with the early-mid 90s? I think from 1997 on, the 90s took a shit and almost fucked up the decade.
>>3176828
Sorry, but 1990 is still the 90s.
>>3174272
There's a rumor some kid died on that one but I've looked for proof and never found any so probably bullshit. It was out of service a lot so I suspect they're a lot of work to maintain. Pretty sure it was running after the 90s ended.
>>3175986
You haven't mentioned one thing. The one thing that defined internet in the 90's. The one thing that makes it up for the lack of Youtube, Netflix and others.
Pic related.
>>3176845
HotBot is still a search engine. What the fuck.
>>3176831
the early 90's were a continuation of the 80's, a shitty one at that
mid 90's way up until the WTC bombing is where all the cool stuff's at
>>3176843
I honestly think people have less money to maintain shit these days. There's so many cut corners compared to the 90s. They went all out back then, now a days everyone is cheap because no one has the funding (economy went to shit and was never fixed properly) and also everyone is a pussy complaining about everything (someone breaks a nail, then you'll see a huge Tumblr/Twitter rampage going on that the media will be happy to exploit)
>>3176854
Eh I don't agree. I feel like the 90s went downhill towards the end. 3D systems that weren't that great, shitty TV shows, mainstream music was garbage, PC culture ramping up.. Guess we agree to disagree here. I personally really like the 80s tho.. don't see anything wrong with the early 90s.
>>3176859
>PC culture ramping up
If you knew anything about academia back then you would know that PC peaked in the early 90s. Clinton had it killed off in 1993 because it was making liberals look bad.
>>3176859
SEGA's late 90's vision for the future being a blue-skied clean utopia was beyond gorgeous.
Then the Dreamcast died and the PS2 and Xbox began constructing the dusty, dirty, yellow fratfuture we experienced throughought the 00's.
>>3176865
>because it was making liberals look bad.
Looks like we're going full circle again
>>3174405
>maybe in 20 years someone will be nostalgic about 2010 magic if people stop being complete dicks about modern gaming
This. It's important to give current games a chance, too.
>>3176858
>>3176843
There's a pseudo documentary on youtube. It continually gets taken down unfortunately.
The guy collects home video from the 80s and mainly 90s of all the crazy and I mean batshit crazy stunts and wild rides that were at amusement parks or just done for publicity like at a mall. Lot of hilarious racist stuff too.
If anyone has some of the links that would be awesome.
Basically we didn't give a fuck in the 90s. Unlike now where it's all insurance and being PC correct
>>3176859
PC got a lot better late 90s and early 2000s with GPUs actually becoming affordable.
>>3176858
>I honestly think people have less money to maintain shit these days. There's so many cut corners compared to the 90s
Yeah I've noticed this. I used to see so many amusement centers set up around cities, malls, etc. Rollercoasters, fairs, attractions. All of it gone. Arcades of course are part of that.
I also remember a lot of places used to have glorious water features, and those are gone too.
Even though this is the future, and things were supposed to be all round better now, I totally don't envy the kids growing up now. Possibly the first time in modern history something like that has happened?
>>3176174
Masturbate more, kid.
>>3176845
I hated Geocities back in the day.
It was basically shitty tumblrs but even less content.
>>3176874
Some things go in cycles, at least for a time.
We're bound to hit peak SJW eventually, then the question being if that's going to flare up again at a later date, like a horrible horrible rash.
If there's one thing that's been good about it, it's that it's woken a lot of people up to how absolutely absurd and hateful that shit can be, that the political left isn't without bigotry and inanities.
Perhaps people will be more careful and suspicious of politics in the future.
But maybe I'm just day-dreaming.
>>3176878
>It's important to give current games a chance, too.
Fully agree.
>>3176882
>6th gen is overall horrible
I don't agree, there was lots of good stuff during 6th gen.
>>3176892
>>3176858
>>3176879
>>3176843
>>3174272
If you don't have much of a connection to malls this is probably boring to you. This is one of those "urban explorer" guys. He has a series were goes and walks through dead malls and shows all the empty stores etc.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNz4Un92pGNxQ9vNgmnCx7dwchPJGJ3IQ
I think it's interesting just because I remember how crazy packed just about all malls used to be in the 90s.
