/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7072294
Basically this.
Also, maybe unrelated to OP since this supposed guy that was grooming him talked about NES, but 1991/1992 is when Famiclones really took off and invaded all of Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
I'm talking about the OG famiclones that actually were clones of the Famicom hardware and looked like Famicom, not the NOAC bullshit with playstation shape that came in the late 90s.

>>6942258
A challenger appears!

>>6644869
Sure thing. Anything that doesn't fit your narrow view of the world based on your own subjective, limited experiences doesn't make sense, anon.

>>6588436
blessed Family

Modern famiclones are not realy clones, they're NOAC (NES on a chip), it's basically emulation of the real hardware.
Actual early 90s famiclones like pic related aren't that common anymore and there's collectors for them too.

Not sure about US TVs, but if you're gonna get a famiclone, avoid the modern NOAC ones, try to get ones from the (early) 90s, which are actual clones of the Famicom hardware.

>>6351290
Family SOUL

ColecoVision
Family Game (early 90s Famicom clone)
Super Nintendo
Sega Genesis
Game Gear
Game Boy
PC (my first was a 486 in 1995)
3DO
Playstation
Nintendo 64
Sega Saturn
GB Pocket
GB Color
Dreamcast
I think those are in the correct order I got/played them.
In non-retro times I got a Virtual Boy

>>5777436
>zoomers
The best Famiclones are from the early 90s though.

>>5084462
>>5083578
My dark colored skinned brothers

>>4708293
Is it? I dunno, I just call them multicarts. I owned a bunch of them as a kid.

Wasn't that just a measure in America (maybe Europe too)?
I assume in Japan they had some sort of exclusivity contract (although some games had versions on computers too), but I don't think there was a limit at how many games someone could do.
Anyway Famiclones (the good old clones from the 90s, not the modern 1chip shit) > Famicom > NES

Early 90s Famiclones are so comfy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcoqPzRt1OQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0V1Y-lKQNU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFHvcxBCeb4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbWleUwTihc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2wlBo4JaGg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBcnh47Wxxw

When did you go retro, /vr/?

I mean, at what point in your life did you decide to start playing old games again?

For me it was during 5th gen, around 1997 or so. I had N64, Saturn and PS1, as well as a PC, so I had mostly forgotten about the previous gen games and didn't use my SNES and Genesis anymore, I think the last time I used my SNES back then was in 1996 when DKC3 came out and then went back to play new stuff.
But sometime in 1997 I got the urge to play not 4th gen, but 3rd gen (well, just Famicom, or "Family Game" as it was known in my country). So I went ahead and bought myself a Famiclone with a multicart since my old famiclone was either lost or my mom gave it to charity.
I still remember the guy at the game stop (where I was regular) told me "dude, you really want one of these old consoles? you've got all the new systems, why the hell do you want to play old games?".
My friends told me the same thing.

Fuck it, I remember going back home, plugging that in and playing all my childhood favorites again, felt amazing, first time I felt nostalgia playing games I think.

I didn't go back to 4th gen until maybe 2002.

I never really stopped playing 5th gen I think, even when 6th gen was already stablished I still played my 5th gen systems occasionally alternating with the GC, DC and PS2.

So how about you? at what moment did you stopped caring only about the latest systems and went back to old stuff?