/vr/ - Retro Games

Daily reminder that Zniggy threads are more relevant to /vr/ than anything 6th gen, with the exception the Dreamcast.

>>9190123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOsYykqvghY [Embed]
It's the end of the working week
And I'm rushing back home quick
I'm bored lad
Me computer you know
Has less memory than a brick
I need simple games without the fuss
Played on a chicklet keyboard that just bloody sucks
I said I'm sorry love, I want ZX Speccy

Me Speccy, me Speccy
Sinclair ZX Speccy
But you keep giving me consoles
They don't agree with me
I don't want Super Mario
or Final Fantasy
I'm a gaming man from Lancashire
And I play ZX Speccy

It's dark when I run the loading screen
It's dark when I can the start the game
And I all I want is simple fun
Not controls that are insane

The manual is longer than a book
Am I playing it?
Am I f...
It's friday night
And i want a ZX Speccy

Me Speccy, me Speccy
Sinclair ZX Speccy
But you keep giving me consoles
They don't agree with me
I don't want posh Amiger
or Amstrad CPC
It's friday night, I'm within me rights
And I want ZX Speccy

>And in the Yank game room William just bought proprietary cartridge with a bunch of Wog plumbers jumping on top of turtles or some nonce shite like that for twenty five dollars
>And in the Lancashire game room Bernard's brought back from the corner shop Manic Miner, Horace, and a bunch of other games on cassettes programmed by me mates in their bedrooms all for four quid haha

Me Speccy, me Speccy
Sinclair ZX Speccy
But you keep giving me consoles
They don't agree with me
I don't want Sonic the Hedgehog
No Street Fighter for me
I'm a gaming man from Lancashire
And I wants ZX Speccy

In Monty you drive a C5
In Manic Miner you fall in pits
You keep giving me games in 3D
And I just want eight bits!

I don't care if it's one of Kojima's
I think that's a funny name for a geeza
I'M NOT PLAYING IT
I want ZX Speccy
One last time
Me Speccy, me Speccy
Sinclair ZX Speccy
But you keep giving me consoles
They don't agree with me
You can keep your Super Mario
And Final Fantasy
I'm a gaming man from Lancashire
And I wants ZX Speccy

>>8994724
Of course (((Churchill))) would have a BBC Micro or an C64, he's a posh poof like his jew buddies. Now /Mosley/ is a ZX Spectrum man through a through, a true man of the people.

>>8990291
Maybe it isn't a "moment", but I think that it would be the shift away from endlessly repeating arcade style games to linear games during the mid 80s.

>>8338791
*blocks your path*

>>8296238
That's awesome, I'm a bit of a /k/ommando myself. To continue the gun analogy, even though it's great that people will still enjoy classic games and antique rifles, nobody will every proudly carry a newly issued Snider-Enfield and use it to pacify the colonies ever again, just as no one will ever get to experience an early 80s arcade (at best you can have a purposefully curated experience) again. Of course the games themselves are the most important part - I'd rather have a restaurant with good food and crappy ambience than the other way around, but when the ambience is a good as the food it certainly helps.

>>8296750
No U

>>8296241
>the same wow factor of actually playing these games for the first time as a kid will never go anywhere and is the most important aspect.
That's a very bloomer take on things. I guess that is the important part.

>>8297183
Based.

>>8258145
Ay up lads

ITT: We discuss the culture and context surrounding retro games.

>What is retro? Is "retro" a solid set of dates, or does "retro gaming" change in regards to the current year? Why?
>Was letting 6th gen on /vr/ a mistake?
>Regional/generational differences in retro gaming culture
>Changes in gaming that you liked and ones that you didn't like
>What you miss the most about retro gaming
>Major changes in game design and gaming in general
I personally believe that the biggest turning point in gaming was in the early-mid 80s, with the introduction of "linear" games that had a beginning, middle, and end, as opposed to "arcade style" games that would endlessly loop until you ran out of lives. Super Mario Bros in 1985 wasn't the first of course (Pitfall and Manic Miner come to mind), but for many Americans it was the introduction to that style of gaming, which would become standard from the 3rd generation of consoles onward.
>Beloved /vr/ memories
Here's one of mine:
>Be me
>Playing Earthbound as a boy with my cousin
>Reach Belch's factory
>Fight some fobbies
>Cousin walks in, he refers to them as "fava beans"
>We laugh
>I call them fava beans from then on
>He dies shortly afterward

>/vr/ used to actually be a genuinely good board
>The console wars are over, getting butthurt over blast processing, the Amiga, and the N64 in 2021 is fucking stupid
>Trinitron+original hardware is objectively the best way to enjoy retro gaming, but there's nothing wrong with emulators or otherwise lesser setups
>It's a good thing that zoomers are discovering classic video games
>The most important thing about /vr/, and gaming in general is having fun
>Save states are either perfectly fine or zoomlet cheating that ruins the game, there is a convoluted set of circumstances that determine whether they are or not
>6th gen is not retro, will never be retro, and /v2k/ needs to be a thing

>>8144197
F.

Memes aside the ZX spectrum did have a great impact on gaming history both in England and abroad, let alone the ripple effect of teaching millions of Bongs about programming. Clive Sinclair was truly a visionary.