The shit that today's games don't have and experiences only retro gaming can provide.
>>3221893
>PS1
Literally the point in retro gaming, where modern gaming does it better.
Good games.
>>3221893
Kids today will never know the joy of blowing into cartridges :'^(
>>3221893
Discs.
Fuck discs.
>>3221893
>Things only retro gamers get
Why PS1 is any different, functionally, than the PS2. Or the Nintendo 64 is any different than the Gamecube.
Can some retro gamer explain this?
Shitty 3rd party memory cards that don't fucking work
>>3221934
Completely different resolutions for one.
>>3221902
>calling it PS1 and not PSX
spotted the underage
>>3221934
>Why PS1 is any different, functionally, than the PS2.
It honestly isn't. If you have a PS2 you can run like 99% of the PS1 library and most of what you can't run isn't very good anyways.
>>3221919
Came in here to post this.
>Turning a console on to have it take you straight to the game
Game consoles being dedicated pieces of hardware instead of multimedia devices is something I truly miss.
Renting video games from the tape store.
Your mom/dad losing their patience as you can't decide on which game to rent.
Super Mario 3 is still checked out.
Do you settle for the copy of Super Mario 2? Or gamble on the latest game to hit the shelves?
Choose wisely. Your whole weekend depends on it.
>>3221893
A feeling of satisfaction when beating a game.
>>3222013
>Not owning your own Mario 3 copy
Literally every kid with a NES I knew growing up also had Mario 3.
>>3222013
Family Video still rents.
Mom and dads still lose patience.
Super Mario 3 is just Super Mario Galaxy or whatever now.
Everything you just said is literally
>THAT 90S, RIGHT?
Just because you don't do it now doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
>>3222026
Not him. The whole it exists so it was a thing cracks me. Such a liberal argument.
>>3222013
>DVD'S
Triggered
>>3221925
>not liking discs so you can listen to the music when you're not gaming.
>knowing about today's games
>>3221893
Getting your ass handed to you in an arcade game fairly quickly if you were a noob.
>>3222032
>calling anyone you don't agree with liberal
Why don't you just fuck off to /pol/, you'll be happy there.
>>3221893
>playing that hard as fuck NES game that actually sucks shit and managing to beat it.
>>3222372
Regressive left refuses to see change when it eventually happens :-/
>>3221893
Many old 3D games have this great sense of loneliness that nearly all modern games don't want to replicate.
>>3221919
>>3223685
No, but, really
>kids will never know the joy of blowing into cartridges
>what's a 3DS cartridge
>>3223587
That early 3D look was perfect for games in my opinion, there was something magical about the ways they used to get around limitations.
Things only certain europeans will understand
>Going to your local shop/newsstand and buy one of those C64 tapes with 20 games in it for few money, hoping they will all work, wondering how the same two persons (since they renamed all the games and put their names in the credit screen) made all these games, they must be geniuses, also hoping that game with a promising title will not be another renamed Arkanoid clone or a direct ZX Spectrum port, cause they look like ass (even if my favourite game on C64 was a port from ZX)
>>3221893
Huge nigger dicks
>>3223685
>IYKWIM
I had to google what that meant.
Ugh.
>>3223689
>3DS
>cartridge
They're as much "cartridges" in the same way the hucards are. The contacts are completely exposed, so it's literally impossible to blow into them.
>>3222382
You really are retarded aren't you.
Liberalism is generally interested in progressivism, while Conservatism is generally interested in maintaining the status quo.
tl;dr you're a fucking idiot amongst idiots, kill yourself.
>>3223779
What the fuck are you even complaining about? Calm down.
He was just poking you for not accepting the FACT that video rental stores are ultimately dead.
Name ten still in operation.
>>3221893
At some point all of us have to come to terms with the fact that we had bad taste when we were kids, as kids do, and remember certain things fondly for this reason alone.
I think that your time has come, OP.
The shit that today's games don't have is you as a wide-eyed kid experiencing them. It's called nostalgia, bub.
When big ass games came on multiple discs
buying a game with a bug that makes it imposible to 100% and disparing that it will never, ever be fixed. Love you anyway Space Station Silicon Valley. I'll find another copy of you some day you broken piece of shit.
>>3223947
Speak for yourself, fuckface.
>>3221943
Never bought a third party card but knowing you have 2 open spots left and playing a new game and finding out it takes 3 or 4 spots for one save.
>playing demo CDs that came with different magazines because getting proper full games was too expensive
>asking your dad's permission to install a game demo which meant you had to delete some older demo first (that's why games that ran straight from CD without installing were a bless)
>>3221919
Don't blow into your cartridges or pins. You are blowing moisture into electronics and it corrodes. Dumb shits are making it worse are the same people with this blowing into carts meme. You know what was way worse? Trying to get a VCR unstuck with a butter knife.
>>3221919
>joy in fucking up electronics
Hello hyperkin.
>>3223947
theres too much manchildren in the world for nostalgia to be replaced with actual good taste anytime soon
>>3221893
That dirty sense of atmosphere modern polishing destroyed
Uh, wow what the hell are cartridges?
Are they like 8-track video games?
>>3226856
>>3221893
>Things only retro gamers get
gud
>>3227080
Oh they were like thumb drives, gotcha.
>>3221893
scores
>>3223710
I agree. It would be interesting if a big budget game was made in low detail, flat shaded, and the budget is devoted to more content. A large team could model the whole planet like that for a few million, I reckon. Maybe I should start playing Roblox.
>>3221893
>calling the Sega Hotline asking for Sonic cheat codes
>Be given the sound test menu code
>give them the exploit where you reset the console after getting an emerald so you keep it eventually letting you be super sonic in emerald hill zone without using debug mode
Not sure if that works in emulator though, but it definitely works on Sonic 1 and 2 carts.
>>3221893
It wasn't until I was a bit older that I realized the backdrops in the farm level in Conker's were actually the other levels.
>>3221893
Being able to pop in the game and go with out day 1 updates
>>3227678
Ask the elders of your African village to sacrifice a virgin goat to the intarwebz god for faster downloads.
Games have lost their mystique. A new release will be pretty thoroughly picked apart within a week or so nowadays, whereas old games had plenty of rumors floating around about what you could or couldn't do, like playing as Luigi in SM64, finding the unicorn fountain in OoT, and unlocking all the various "secret" Mortal Kombat characters that may or may not exist. The last big game rumor I remember was shooting all the names at the end of Melee to unlock Toad; after that pretty much everything was disproven by a quick Google search.
I know GameTrailers had a series called Pop Fiction where they took a look back at the origin of some of these mysteries and figured out if there was any truth to them. It was pretty interesting, even if you know how most of them would end already.
>>3224235
>believing it would work.
It does work, I won't believe for a second that all I need to do is keep reinserting the cart into the slot over and over until it works.
>>3228017
>don't blow into your carts. the electricity conducting moisture will damage them but do nothing that reinserting them wouldn't. i mean aside from damaging them.
>>3228102
Not really but ok.
>>3228004
For some reason only the Mario games do this "mystery" shit anymore
Galaxy and 3D Land had some creepy shit that sounded like rumors, like the "hellvalley" people in Galaxy 2, and the ghost that appears at the end of 4-4 in 3D Land
>>3221975
>being this much of a hipster
>>3221975
found the retard
>>3221975
Never even heard "PSX" until after I owned a PS2 for a couple years...
>>3228226
You must not have read many magazines in the 90s then.
>>3228228
>implying everyone is an Amerifat
>>3228242
But I'm not amerifat and I saw it on mags?
>>3228248
That's not a question.
I'm shocked we made it this far without bringing up one of the finest sagas on the NES.
PSX was pretty common to me, but that's probably because I had the old copies of PSX magazine with me through the 90s and kept them until 2009.
>>3221893
Getting stuck with no internet to look up a guide
>>3227607
You meant the skybox? I just tried to take a look but since the game doesn't have first person camera it was impossible to get a good look.
Massive game boxes and full colour manuals.
They now charge lots of money to pack your game in a big box and call it a "special edition".
"PSX" was certainly common to say, but I thought it was dumb at the time and always used "PS" myself.
>>3228440
Special editions pretty much always include special, non-manual stuff.
Certainly, "special editions" at normal price have existed before special editions, though.
>>3228442
Agreed.
Cheat codes
>>3221893
Graphical limitations to such degree, developers had to improvise and cut to fit their ideas in an actual game that would run on that hardware.
I think I got one more.Password based saving.
>>3230234
>mom threw away your password list while cleaning.
>you now start all the over again
>>3221975
hipster's suck.
>>3230284
>started vidyagaming late in life and that could not have happened to me
Using RF connections.
Maintaining cartridges and sometimes taking the extra effort to clean them properly to get them to work
Going up to a counter and getting your game from some guy in a booth like in Toys R Us back in the 80s/early 90s
Having no fucking clue what games were good.. mostly going by word of mouth or hype in game mags. You had to rent the game in nost cases. Everyone knew, even most kids that most game reviews were awful payola trash and not to be trusted.
The allure of arcades back then was exciting. I remember always going to seaside heights NJ on the boardwalk and they had tons of arcades there. I'd always come across some new high tech arcade game and come home bewildered. Now, everything can be found with a google search so it doesn't really matter.
The disappointment you got duped into buying or renting an awful game you had no info beforehand about
>>3223947
You sound like such a pretentious man child
>>3230495
Oh yeah and keeping track of ac adapters
>>3221893
100% complete games with no subscriptions and no DLC
Don't get a lot of that any more.
>>3230495
Only one of those are a good thing.
>>3230284
>Had a notebook with PASSWORDS written on the cover
>My whole family accepted it as a "thing" and would ask how my password book is coming along.
>>3231714
Stop playing shitty games, anon.
>>3231767
But didn't you know anon? ALL modern games are filled with DLC, micro-transactions and children yelling on microphones.
(Just to clarify, I don't follow the modern gaming news) but I heard that's what call of duty is like and now I hate new games.
>>3231780
COD really isn't worse than most other games with mics. Hell, the series isn't even bad, it's just repetitive.
>>3231780
100% true
>>3221893
Running out of space/slots for savefiles.
Game magazines where you could find out codes and guides and read news.
Jewel Cases.
AAA batteries.
The inexplicable and lethal attraction between magnets and floppy disks.
Demo discs.
Changing 10 bucks into a shitload of jingling quarters/coins when you wanted to go to the Arcade.Making your first rope coin when you realize you've been going to the Arcade a little too much.
C64 Bootlegs.
The CRRRRRRRRRRRSHHHHHHSSSSSSWEOOWBEEBOOOBEEP of your modem when you wanted to play online.
Cleaning your mice's balls.
Do you know what you really don't get enough of these days?
Non online multiplayer
>tfw no splitscreen
>tfw a lot of the time games that could easily have a single machine multiplayer require you to play via the internet
>racing game
>online racing only!!
>w-what
What's the point in a console if it's just going to work the same way as a computer? I don't think I'll ever buy a post ps3 console now. Computers price/performance and game releases have caught up. The lack of single console multiplayer has destroyed the point for me.
Online multiplayer just isn't comfy compared to being in the same room as someone and playing it with them.
Also since going wireless and adding a bunch of unnecessary shit they've really cut down on third party controllers. That's both a blessing and a curse. Some third party controllers were top of the line.
>You now remember mad cats released a light gun 1000000000% better than the official Sega one for the Dreamcast
>>3223947
>tfw 90% the games you chose to buy as a child were classics
>tfw you still have really good intuition
Not all of us had shit taste bud.
You probably enjoy cape shit movies too.
>>3232428
>Making your first rope coin when you realize you've been going to the Arcade a little too much.Does this actually work? Arcades weren't popular in Germany and I've always wondered that since I saw Bart Simpson do that.
>>3223947
I picture you as one of those cuck bearded faggots that preorder things and spend money before a game even comes out.like an idiot
>>3234004
Nope.
>>3223794
>He was just poking you for not accepting the FACT that video rental stores are ultimately dead.
>Name ten still in operation.
In the fucking 90s there weren't even fucking 10 chains you moron. There was primarily Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.
Family Video is huge, it's not fucking dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Video
In 2013, following the continued decline of competing video rental stores, Family Video formed a partnership with Marco's Pizza providing space for the franchise in many of its stores. The company is using the partnership as a way to deliver video rentals with pizza orders. Family Video also leases space to other retailers such as hair salons and fitness centers.[9][10] Unlike much of its competition, Family Video owns the real estate housing their stores, helping them to avoid unsuccessful lease negotiations that led to the demise of Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.[11] In addition, it owns a fiber-optic network in the Central Illinois region, called iTV-3,[12] as well as a small chain of fitness centers named StayFit-24.
deciding where to go in a shooter
>>3234763
Ah the "where the fuck do I go" sort of games, mainly on the NES
>>3234769
I think he's talking about FPS games like Doom and Duke Nukem 3D not cryptic NES games like Simon's Quest or Super Pitfall.
>>3221975
The PSX is a different console, you moron
>>3222372
quelle surprise
>>3223983
>ass games
2016, still playing ass games
>>3223983
Lost Oddyssey for Xbox 360 was released on 4 DVDs.
That was around 2008.
>>3234820
I swear to god, if you're referring to that dvd/playstation hybrid, you're the moron.
>>3236743
>That was around 2008.
>mfw 2008 was 18 years ago
>>3236754
Check your math son
>>3236750
I will fuck you with both of these
>>3222026
cynicism ~= thoughtul argument
get out, /v/
>>3236819
underage detected
>>3234753
There's a Family Video a mile away from my house, pic related. My sister goes there, shrug.
>>3221893
Playing old games fresh out the box, unmodded with no "necessary" graphics updates.
>>3221975
psx is a ps2-dvr system. not retro.
>>3221975
>not calling it just PS
Put ur psx upside down bro it'll make it read discs better
>>3230234
Came here to post this.
>>3237314
More like PoS, right?
>>3221893
Throwing the smoke bomb under the dragon's nose.....
Memories....
>>3234004
Once the coin passes the little scale/lever thing in the slot, it's past pulling out.
>>3238312
Agreed, it is quite the piece of sweetness.
>>3238379
Praystations are great ;^)
Having to unplug the VCR, Stereo, and VHS rewinder to plug in the power brick.
beating people in an arcade game
>>3222370
I remember once I was playing SF2 arcade (in Butlin's Minehead I believe) against the CPU and some random kid just comes up, puts money in and turns it into a vs game. I beat him and he just fucked off again. I don't think we even really acknowledged each other's existence, but I felt kind of affronted that this stranger would do this.
Was I right to be? Or is this part of the "culture" of arcade gaming?
