![1456965394_0125830c97_b[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bbYO6rZ.jpg "1456965394_0125830c97_b[1].jpg")
God Tier
>candid period shots
Top Tier
>posed period shots
Mid Tier
>promotional vintage shots
>candid modern shots
Shit Tier
>posed/professional modern shots
Good thread.
![134be9d2609b7432301a1a499a5967ee[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bA4fXJb.jpg "134be9d2609b7432301a1a499a5967ee[1].jpg")
>>3185892
We'll see.
Can anyone beat these candid vintage HQ pics of a 12(!) year old Mila Jovovich? I submit them as the "gold standard"
>>3185890
>girls
>playing vidya before 2009
This is how you know it's fake. Also the TV stand looks a little newer, mid to late '90s.
And why is she playing as Luigi all by herself?I actually used to do that because I preferred Luigi.
>>3185907
I thought that was leonardo dicaprio with a wig
>>3185907
S-she's 12 in dat pic?!
![1f12171a022c3230cec88bcc39b26c21[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rfApvQ6.jpg "1f12171a022c3230cec88bcc39b26c21[1].jpg")
>>3185914
It's 1987. Milla is one year older than me and I'm one of the old-man posters.
Although pic related is a pro shot, Vicki Witt here would go on to get a crew credit in Return of the Jedi.
![Japanese-Playboy-08[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/26xlac5.jpg "Japanese-Playboy-08[1].jpg")
>>3185916
She's been drinking milk
![4_24[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/FjM5tvv.jpg "4_24[1].jpg")
At the risk of changing the tone too much, I came across this shot. At first I thought it was vintage but these poor Egyptians are just frozen in time. They're so poor they're living with their unclein his tomb. Tombs are big with Egyptians and they're paid off for the LONG residency
>>3185914
>This meme
This is the true sign of underage. Penn Jillette's wife was getting high scores in Space Invaders when you were in diapers. Girls have always liked games.
>>3185995
pics or it didn't happenalso would help the thread
>>3185995
>Girls have always liked games.
I think there's always been about the same proportion of girls who legitimately like video games to ones who mainly use it as an affectation it's just that gaming in general blew up so much where you used to know 1 real girl gamer and 5 fakes now it's 5 real gamers and 25 fakes which seems worse but isn't really.
![me_playing_sonic_2_by_chili19_foto-d378cog[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vSifmmG.jpg "me_playing_sonic_2_by_chili19_foto-d378cog[1].jpg")
>>3186132
that's not an old photo, is it?
Looks like some kind of "retro convention".
>>3186132
that's not me
![me_vs_old_school_tron_by_kaworufanboy-d30rytc[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/iuQLx4G.jpg "me_vs_old_school_tron_by_kaworufanboy-d30rytc[1].jpg")
this is a boy can you believe it
>>3186028
>I think there's always been about the same proportion of girls who legitimately like video games to ones who mainly use it as an affectation
I agree with this, but I think it's the same for guys as well.
>>3186143
Totally. That looks like any typical chubby 12-13 year old boy.
>>3186147
Sure, probably there's an even greater proportion of fakes on the guy side since it has a more positive perception but there's always been lots of young male real gamers so it doesn't seem like they're in any danger - although if /v/ is any indication there's a growing number of straight trolls in the community too.
![kids-playing-games[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/VhWVft4.jpg "kids-playing-games[1].jpg")
>>3186138
Yeah I think it's some kind of gathering but something about the sparsely decorated christmas tree made me like it, plus I'd like to believe it's candid but like Milla, she IS just on stage 1.
![11821787_976319172431116_1816277753_n[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/YtuYX32.jpg "11821787_976319172431116_1816277753_n[1].jpg")
>>3185915
>>3186158
>so it doesn't seem like they're in any danger
What kind of danger would they be in in any case?
>>3186186
Danger of become a minority
>>3186198
lol okay
![291359911_d7bb080b9b[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/x1Ejmkh.jpg "291359911_d7bb080b9b[1].jpg")
![threes-company-atari-2600-02[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/E2O3Qtl.jpg "threes-company-atari-2600-02[1].jpg")
>>3186259
The kisses are hers and hers and his!
>>3186164
What game is that in the picture?
>>3186132
Why is the Genesis' scan/geometry always so out of whack? I can keep my setting the same for every system I have hooked up except for the fucking Genesis.
here's one you've all seen before, adorable me playing sonic.
>>3186387
Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
This is my favorit shiggy photo
>>3186450
So... Do you require eye glasses to see probably today anon?
>>3186747
*properly
>>3186747
not him but 33yrs old vidya all my life (Sis had a Colecovision when I was born). Crt only until 2005, still game almost exclusively on an old ass consumer set. Perfect Vision.
>>3187032
I'm 34. Still only play/collect for SNES/MD. 360 is my newest "next-gen" console.
>>3186564
>TV set to channel 3
So RF is what Miyamoto actually intended for us to use all along!
>>3186747
Adorable kid here, I'm near sighted...
Although the problems didn't arise until my teen years. I doubt my younger gaming didn't affect it, my entire family has shitty eyesight.
>>3188806
Errr, I doubt it DID affect.
>>3186385
>not retro
>>3188790
A lot of 80s TVs still display the channel number when they're in composite mode. My 13" KVM from '87 does for sure.
>>3185892
o shit waddup
>>3185890
Hard Mode: Girls playing non-Nintendo developed games.
>>3189024
The only reason to have used RCA cables back then was for connecting to fancy stereo equipment. TBQH, I don't think any of the TVs I had back in the day could accept anything besides RF...
>>3189206
Twin-lead RF for life
>>3189206
You're not Shigeru Miyamoto or even an average Japanese gamer
>>3189212
You're a faggot. Of course you'd prefer three "plugs" in rainbow colors. I am having a hard time figuring out what's your point, homo.
>>3189206
The point is RF WAS the way to play. NES only came packaged with an RF unit.
>>3189201
![P1000919[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cUu6S2c.jpg "P1000919[1].jpg")
>>3189216
>three rainbow plugs
>>3189221
>NES only came packaged with an RF unit
Is it just me or are we getting trolls on /vr/ that are literally ignorant on retro games?
>>3186564
>Shiggy's Castle
>>3189230
It has outputs, but didn't come with wires. Try again.
>>3185928
>1986
>I'm one of the old-man posters
We have dudes in their 40s here, you are NOT old-man here. We have one dude who legit proved he was 67 on here once.
>>3189287
oh
so he's a young man
glad we have you, the king decider on ages here to tell us
>>3189287
Milla Jovovich is 40, dude. Making him 39 which is older than average around these parts.
>>3189230
>The NES Action Set includes:
>The Nintendo Entertainment System console deck
>2 NES Controllers
>NES Zapper Light Gun
>Super Mario/Duck Hunt NES Game
>TV RF Switch and Power Cord
>System manuals
Rekt.
>>3189380
that pic must have been taken in the first 5 minutes of fugging around with that thing before everyone sits on there fat butt and slaps it with their hands lmao :D
>>3185914
>Also the TV stand looks a little newer, mid to late '90s.
The trinitron log says otherwise -- the 3 dots logo was used until the early 90s.
>>3185928
>>3189405
>Shoes on in the house
Barbarian.
>>3189590
> Air Command Force
Totally house worthy. Those things take like 5 minutes to lace, so you don't wanna take them off too often.
>>3189715
Not laced in photo.
>>3189742
Even taking those off when loose like that requires further loosening of the laces all the way down, not to mention that they're clean af. I stand by my house-worthy assessment.
>>3189285
Pretty sure my NES Action Set came with a pair of AV cables.
>>3189912
your dad might have just had some extras from his stereo.
>>3189878
I bet the Chinese hacked into her game boy too.
>>3189878
Not really a fan of Shillary but that is a great pic. I wonder what she's playing?
>>3189930
No, I definitely remember taking them out from the box alongside the RF Switch and AC Adapter.
>>3189948
I'm just playing devil's advocate, you're right.
>>3189938
Tetris just like every other chick
>>3190295
Damn, those are some ugly ass feet.
>>3190287
what game-console is that
![4837545_a-game-pad-for-the-apple-ii_82ced15f_m[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/wNBdLUJ.jpg "4837545_a-game-pad-for-the-apple-ii_82ced15f_m[1].jpg")
>>3190362
That, Anon is an Apple IIe with a hard drive and possibly with both RGB and composite monitors.
>>3186543
Better keep that plastic on the couch. Wouldn't want to ruin its value.
>>3190287
sexy shorts
>>3190398
Is that a soap bar?
>>3190078
This. Even my mom played Tetris. She used to write her high scores on masking tape and stick them all over the back of the system, because the game didn't save them. Whenever I played Pokemon with my friends, they used to ask why I had tape all over the back of my Game Boy.
>>3189225
I would.
>>3189287
We have dude here in their 40s. He's one idiot who yells about 90s shitbabbies.
>>3190398
That's an original II/II+. Also...
>Apple II
>RGB
You must be 18 to use this website.
>go to Google Images
>type 1980 arcade games to search pics of ones that specifically came out that year
>Google for some reason interprets this as "1980s arcade games" and gives me a bunch of completely random pics from different years
Why u do dis.
>>3185907
>that doggie is probably dead by now
>>3186259
My web browser is fucking haunted
>>3185907
Holy shit, so she always had that V-shaped hairline!
I thought she was balding cuz of steroids or some shit like that but NO
>>3192332
>>3192348
It's like you've never seen the episode of Married with Children where Milla was the new foreign exchange student who was way more popular than Kelly
>look it up
>it aired in 1989
FUCK
>>3192358
kek you're right I never did, I'm an 80's kid so I watched dat 90210 and MMPR.
Might check it out just for some super early Milla goodness.
>>3192348
>V-shaped hairline!
It's called a widow's peak, if you were curious.
![d3c5353c82a26c859c2d3dbde5267f36[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/AJ06hGT.jpg "d3c5353c82a26c859c2d3dbde5267f36[1].jpg")
>>3192362
I don't usually say this but HNNNNNNG!!
>>3191383
I'm 40 but I concede the kid in that pic is older and knows more about Apple IIs than I do.
>>3191407
Try using mobygames.
>>3191394
>You damn kids stop playing that thing! MASH is gonna be on in a few minutes!
>>3186259
this pic is so hot to me.
I like the idea of this thread. Excuse the bong in the picture, I really like this picture regardless.
>>3193525
>>3193525
tfw no stoner gamer gurlfriend
One of my dad's old marine buddies
>>3193557
Some of my dad's old friends.
>>3191407
>google images
>>3185890
what the hell is a period shot?
is that milla j?
>>3185907
What game is that?
>>3193532
It's not as good as you might think it is. She is a total wasteman, pretty much ignores me 60% of the time. Also plays too much goddamn vidya.
>>3186258
That guy in the red jumper on the right! kek!
>>3193560
What a stinky looking shithole. Ew 2bh
>>3192424
She's supposed to be a junior or something in that scene iirc. When they revealed her all he audience starting whooping like she's hot etc (which she obviously was). That would literally never happen nowadays.
>>3192424
>>3193629
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0GCkpWZl4_U
>>3193624
That's how the carpet was. If you rub your hand on it, it makes it either lighter or darker. I'm sure there's a name for it.
>>3193560
What controller is he using?
>tfw that cat is dead :/
>>3193686
could be an arkanoid controller
>>3193560
Holy shit, it's Snot from American dad!
>>3185907
You have no idea what the fuck candid means do you?
I have a picture of me and my brother playing GTA 1 on PC somewhere. Will post it if I can find it.
>>3193527
>NES on CRT
>CRT is standing on 2 vhs cases
>everything is retro and dandy
>that PC tower in the background anno circa 2003
Immersion ruined brb drowning myself in a tub of Crystal Pepsi.
>>3191394
man they must have been fucking loaded to have a channel f
>>3193728
>that tiny ass tv
Struggle is real
>>3193527
I remember this one
![a4fad6f6b318b25b9e54840e32b3dff6[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/CSY8FCe.jpg "a4fad6f6b318b25b9e54840e32b3dff6[1].jpg")
>>3193737
>under 30 detected
>>3186543
did people this old actually play videogames back then instead of bitching about how the previous generation ones were so much better?
>>3185890
I don't recall exactly when it was taken but this is me going maximum 80s.
>>3195257
It was more of a "the arcade is so much better" attitude at that time, althogh the NES was a huge step forward and offered some pretty damn good arcade ports even of mid-80s games.
>>3195275
This picture is solid gold from the knees up you should crop it lol.
>>3195274
euskal party 3 - 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_GMKy1U3AA
>>3185914
>implying girls haven't been playing games all along
Seriously. The person who first bought and played video games in my house was my mother. And we're not talking underage b& here. This is a thing that happened in the early 80s, and she's certainly not the only one.
I'll grant you that the industry has always been shit at marketing outside their core demographic of sex-crazed teenaged nerds and manchildren, though.
>>3195280
euskal party 5 - 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS0JHPq-EHA
at 0:40 theres footage from the 3D animation competition
3:10 is the floppy disk throwing competition
3:50 the basque part of the video starts (unintelligible)
>>3189306
>1986
>2016
39 years old.
>>3186564
you didn't post where it says he is playing zelda
>we will never get these days back
>kids will never get to experience these days
>fucking consoles
>>3195336
>more than half of the identifiable cabs are Street Fighter 2
>>3195336
>mfw never had any arcade in my area
>closest thing was "cibers" with lan games
>even those are closing and the ones open only have MOBAshits gamers or literal 14 year olds on call of duty
>>3195336
theres an indoor theme park near me that has a pretty nice arcade and it can look like this especially on the weekends.
>>3195348
dude, it was west coast SF2 fighting tournaments
you just had to have been there
Hey yall,
Here is a video of me visiting 2 arcades when I was a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgsfjtF4e5M
BACK STORY:
My mother is Colombian, she moved to Canada and was making a tape to send to her family.
>>3195275
Holy shit, I think I had this shirt.
Anyways, here's a picture of me shitposting circa 1998 while listening to CD's. The flashlights were part of your typical science fair project (which batteries would last longest).
>>3195390
you are so happy on the vid :) im glad you had a good mother
i know another Colombian guy from Canada too but hes pretty young and barely speaks spanish wich is sad.thanks for sharing the video
>>3193728
Did you take this? Those look like UCF Libra residence halls.
>>3195401
those fightsticks look half decent actually
i wonder what games they have
>>3195391
And here is me a few years earlier playing NES.
>>3192332
>Blood masturbation.
Hadn't heard about that one.
>>3185914
I used to do 2-player just because it meant I technically spent half as much time on the start screen, not to mention I could essentially do two different playthroughs at once.
>>3186132
LONDON
>>3195414
>this picture screams the 90's
I love it and miss it all at the same time.
>>3186180
what game is he playing?
>>3195429
Survival Kids
>>3189878
That's it I know who I'm voting for
>>3193525
Fucking disgusting. Please keep your addictions out of my hobby, thanks.
>>3189380
it's like the beginning of some white boi dance moves
>>3190362
How did lines work in arcades anyway? Did people really put their quarters on the panel/against the bezel?
>>3195453
I remember people just putting them into the game and there was usually a self regulated thing going on. When I went to bigger cities they did the quarter on the panel thing.
>>3193728
this is reality right here
I remember in dorms everyone looked at you like you were jesus if you had a big TV
>>3195453
Yeah, a quarter on the bezel meant "I got next."
On multiplayer games you'd put your quarter above the player you intended to take. eg: "I got Raph next."
I guess multiple people could line up quarters if there's more than one person waiting for a given game/player but I never really saw that happen. People would sooner go play another game than queue up behind more than one person.
>>3195463
see that's what I was thinking, whenever I go to this one crowded barcade and I see a game I want is occupied, I just go play something else.
Granted that's also a freeplay everywhere place, my point is I would expect people to just steal the quarter(s). Though I guess in a big line that could mean getting beaten up by 4-5 guys.
>>3195463
It also helped that lineups were the bane of operators. It meant more people in your arcade standing around NOT giving you money. If that was happening you can bet the operator would rotate games to fix that problem as quickly as possible.
![3__73098.1347437795.1280.1280[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/IcmpnIo.png "3__73098.1347437795.1280.1280[1].png")
>>3195463
Oh they queued up. The coin racking is something that was inherited from bar games like pool, foosball and darts.
>>3189287
And you're proud of that? Jesus Christ. Pathetic.
>>3195471
>Though I guess in a big line that could mean getting beaten up by 4-5 guys.
Dude even people at other games would come over and fuck you up for being a shithead, and that's assuming the staff didn't get to you first and throw you out.
>>3195436
Never touched that thing in my life. I just like the picture.
>>3195481
Hell, my local arcade had this guy who worked as a bouncer playing there. He threw some shitter out on his face one day and the owner gave him like a week's worth of tokens for stepping in.
>>3195493
Man once in a while those M-16 Super Scopes pop up and they sell for a bundle.
>>3195472
yeah, but people stacked up were ALWAYS popping 25 cents into SF or MK or a konami beat'em up. they'd NEVER rotate those out
>>3195516
No. What they'd do is rotate out the ones that aren't being played and rotate in more of those.
>>3186165
/thread
>>3186259
This is my favorite picture on the internet.
>>3195414
I had that blanket.
>>3195414
>Hello, Skynet?
>Listen, I know we said wipe out humanity, but can that wait a few years?
>No, it's no problem, it's just that things are so intense right now and we're about to beat the boss...
>Yeah, 1997 sounds great!
>>3195493
should have used an RPG for that picture
>>3195406
>games
>plural
Anon, I'm not sure how to tell you this...
>>3195436
If you're playing old as fuck videogames and you're not high wtf are you even doing bro
>>3195701
enjoying games, regardless of their age?
>>3186258
That's how it was at the time.
>>3190295
Glargh, that was a lot hotter before I clicked on it.
>>3186564
I like to dress up to play video games.
>>3189938
Cloak & Dagger
>>3195406
What world has this become where all traditional arcade controls are called 'fightsticks'?
>>3195247
>Booger detected
>>3195463
When The Simpsons arcade came out, the machine was a mob-scene for several weeks at my movie theatre, with a crowd around it. People would just stand behind the players more or less in-line, and wait for people to run out of quarters. The sheer number of players meant that the game would be played until completion and the defeat of the final boss, then repeat through to completion, then again, then again...
>>3195701
DUDE
>>3195673
They're totally MAME rigs, I'm sure they've got a handful of games at least.
>>3195709
Fuckin' narc.
>>3195414
Fucking power stance
Best thread on /vr/ right now.
>>3196119
My guess is that the photographer got the game started and was Mario then he tossed his controller over her leg for her to play both while he grabbed his camera.
BEST ARCADE PHOTO EVER COMING THROUGH.
>>3196261
What a fucking time to be alive. I wish I could play Space Invaders all nite in a victorian era building.
>>3196259
saved lol
>dat halfshirt
>>3196267
to me arcades are entirely fictional places. When their time was, I was in the wrong place, and now they're largely gone
>>3195247
Not him, but did you just stop watching new stuff when you got older? Seems like an odd thing to do.
>>3196268
Next party I throw it's going to be early 80s dress code
>>3196273
Invite me anon, that's basically how I dress anyway.
![528266_031[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ozWkMVB.jpg "528266_031[1].jpg")
>>3196272
No - but I'm old enough to know that Snot and Toshi are modeled on Booger and Takashi from Revenge of the Nerds and that Snot is actually voiced by Curtis Armstrong.
>>3196273
everyone will just show up with exaggerated neon and fluor colors and other "I love 80s!" stuff bought at Hot Topic, people don't know what the 80s really looked like, the imagery of the 80s we have today is more connected to stuff like comics and cartoons rather than the real world and society in the 80s.
>>3196259
>mmmm yeah grab my ass baby, your so fine in that sexy shirt
>yeah, check out these two fine-ass bitches, they're all mine you fucking nerds
>i love it when you grab my ass baby, let's get out of here so we can fuck
>I do hope they leave. I wish to play Pac-Man in peace.
>>3196282
All I know is that barefoot guy in those gym shorts and sleeveless tee is there to fuck bitches
>>3196282
now remember that what you said is true for absolutely every other decade of the last century, and even the first one in this century. And it not only affects stuff like fashion, but also gaming. No matter how much we try, or how much respect we have for these games, we'll never be able to see them in the same light people of their era saw them. Even if we lived in that era, everything else changed.
Thorough research and dress-up is all we're left with.
Also, Martin still looks the fucking same, it's uncanny
>>3196295
pinball machines were larger in the past due to machining tolerances and the size of the circuitry. Nowadays it's all integrated, and the machines are about the size of an ipod
>>3196292
He looks older now, but he's still rocking that curly mohawk.
Find a more fly photo of pinball machines. I dare you.
>>3196302
same mohawk, same eyes, same teeth. Sure, same person, but still. Dave changed quite a bit in comparison
>>3196301
That's not even close to a stardard size machine though. That's Hercules, the largest pinball machine ever produced.
>>3196317
that's what you youngins think. Most of the large machines don't exist anymore because they were destroyed when pinball was declared illegal in Chicago in 1979. The makers of Hercules just realized quickly enough what's up and hid the machines under O'Hare until the scare was over
>>3195276
THAT DOESN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION AT ALL REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>3195327
Are you pretending to be stupid? 1986 was the year the photo was taken, not his birth year. He's a year younger than Milla.
>>3196336
Sorry if I wasn't being clear. When people were playing the NES there wasn't really much sentiment that "Man Atari was so much better" since it wasn't lack of imagination that was holding games back it was real hardware limitations. Some people like my dad felt "Atari is just as good" but nobody made arguments that it was better.
However, I personally did switch over to Atari once in a while to play a few games that I liked that weren't available on NES. Ghostbusters being the number one. It was available on Master System but I didn't know that and I didn't have a Master System anyway when I was still going back. I also played trackball games since NES didn't have one and I would play some paddle games notably Warlords when I would have slumber parties and people didn't want to take turns on the NES.
>>3196303
>Finding a more fly photo
I...I can't!
>>3195284
In my country, boys and girls both played video games about equally. Home consoles outside of Megadrive and, eventually, Playstation weren't popular at all, but arcades were packed with boys and girls playing in about equal number. The difference I noticed, even as a kid, was that girls tended to prefer cute-em-ups, maze chase and puzzle games more than boys did, though there was no shortage of girls playing Centipede, Galaga and Commando just as there wasn't with boys playing Mappy, Liquid Kids and Snow Bros.
I read, however, that the reason that video games skewed so drastically towards boys is because of how toy stores in the US were organised at the time. As I've heard it, when console gaming first arrived on American shores, toy stores were segregated, one half for boys, another for girls, a third for bikes and creative play (blocks/Lego, toy instruments and art toys like Spirograph and Etch-a-Sketch) and the last for infants and toddlers. Edutainment hadn't yet poisoned children's toys.
Toys R Us, Kiddie City and KB Toys, the three largest toy store chains in the US at the time, were trying to figure out where to put console gaming: it's not a bike or creative toy and it's not for infants, so it must be for one gender or the other, right? I mean... girls don't play with action figures and boys don't play with fashion dolls, right? Boys and girls clearly can't have the same toys... what do we do?! Well, lets cram it in the boy's aisles and hope it sticks.
And it did.
If you look at it, early video games weren't at all marketed or geared towards specific gender. That didn't start until the later mid 80s, even if by the early 80s, protagonists in video games were obviously male.
If you gimme some time, I'll try to find the source for that. I read it last summer and I might be able to refind that article.
>>3196372
>If you gimme some time
no, post it immediately or your point is invalid
>>3196372
Video games were in the front or center of the toy stores behind a counter in the US in the 80s at least at every toy store I went to. At Toys R Us I believe they were right next to the bikes.
>>3196356
Atari 2600 was loved even after the NES came out. It was even brought back and put on sale again in the late 80s. It did better against the NES than Atari 7800 did lol.
>>3196281
Ah... makes sense then. It has been too long since I saw that movie to make the connection.
Have another pic
>>3196423
moon war indeed, damn
>>3196372
>Toys R Us, Kiddie City and KB Toys, the three largest toy store chains in the US at the time, were trying to figure out where to put console gaming: it's not a bike or creative toy and it's not for infants, so it must be for one gender or the other, right? I mean... girls don't play with action figures and boys don't play with fashion dolls, right? Boys and girls clearly can't have the same toys... what do we do?! Well, lets cram it in the boy's aisles and hope it sticks.
>And it did.
Grossly inaccurate. Video games were literally locked behind glass behind check out counters at both toy stores and department stores. You could not go in a retail store in America in the 80s and pick a game off a shelf because they weren't on shelves.
>>3196423
What blows my mind is that there are "nerds" right now that have not even seen Revenge of the Nerds. What a world. Anyway I've got those promo pics from arcade posters coming out my ass and I also collected quite a few new-school internet-tier porn shoots done with /vr/ stuff. I'm sure there's way more to be found now.
I'm much more interested in stuff like >>3196268, >>3196261 and >>3196259. Where did these pics come from? Keep them coming.
>>3193560 >>3186543 >>3186258 >>3193557 >>3190389 >>3189380 >>3195275 >>3195264 >>3193728 are all great too
>>3195390
This video in particular is just adorable. I wish there was a video somewhere of a kid at that age in an arcade more in the late 80s when I was that age but it's still nostalgia city.
>>3189471
Okay, so the TV was made in the early 90's, what about the STAND, dumb fuck? Jesus CHRIST, you come on a fucking message board and don't even know how to read.
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>>3196969
It's 1989, Numbnuts. That's a documented pic of a celebrity.
>>3196376
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>>3196476
Sorry. Back. Went out to do things. The reason I couldn't reply immediately was because I was just about to go out when I typed that up earlier.
Anyway, I can't find the original article (which is just as well as it was in French anyway), but I found two English ones that speak to women's involvement in early video games, both playing and designing.
I'm trying to find one that supports my toy store claim, but I'm having difficulty. The French one, if I can find it again, said that in the US, you had your famous video game crash. From the ashes, Nintendo emerged. Nintendo didn't want to sell the NES in toy stores at first but department stores. They ran a mock-up or something of how sales would go if they sold them in the electronics section v the toy section and found the toy section would have been more profitable. Thereafter, toy stores had to decide where to put the games, boy or girl, and Nintendo's marketing department decided to market heavily to boys, so that's where they went.
If sometime after that, the games were relocated to a separate video game department behind a glass case, I can't say. I was not in the US at the time and I can tell you only what I read in the article. Gimme a bit of time to find the info, please.
>>3197101
Americans have told you explicitly that games were NOT sold on shelves, but behind check out counters. There's no need to bother with the article.
>>3197101
I found one! An English language article that discusses a lot of the points I made, though the details differ slightly. I'm not sure if it's that the article I read last summer made different points or I simply misremembered, but this article covers a great deal of the same stuff as what I read back then:
http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/12/2/5143856/no-girls-allowed
If you don't want to read the whole article (though you really should), just ctrl+f Nintendo, it should come up to a point where they start to discuss toy aisles and marketing to boys and so on.
>>3197163
That's nice, Anon. :-)
>>3197163
>being this young
when nes was launched, it was put in a glass case in the boy section while the girl stuff was at the completely opposite end of the store, near the sidewalk chalk and lisa frank stickers, so yeah video games were in the boy section, kiddo, and the only stores that had it at the checkout were video game stores like funcoland and babbages but those sorts of stores werent really a thing until the 90s
>>3196317
This looks like the arcade at Cedar Point, the only place I've ever seen Hercules
>>3196282
Vince's hair is so vibrant ~
>>3197274
It definitely is Cedar Point
>>3197256
Circus World and Kay Bee both had the video games behind the cash wrap in the front.
>>3197310
That one is sadly in a bit disrepair like most of the machines there. It's great to see so many classics but it's hurtful to see them not being kept up.
>>3196982
Then make THAT your point, not "HURR DURR DA TRINITRON MANUEL SEZ"
>>3196372
Videogames have always been sold in the Electronics section of department stores they were never in the 'Boys' section you have no clue what you're talking about.
>>3186165
A picture of two dead American classics
>>3197472
mirin' dem shit-tier reading comprehension skills, bro
>>3197418
It's really only the stuff in the very very back that's real fucked up. I think they just don't have anybody that can do electro-mechanical maintenance on them. I always play Ghost House. So neat.
