/vr/ - Retro Games

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>>8240521
>The rom is the same for the entire world

>>7023939
>At what point did this zoomer/boomer shit start?
Right about the time zoomers decided they wanted to be the video game equivalent of those kiddos who leave "My music sucks! I was born in the wrong generation!" comments on every music video made before 1986. If this wasn't bad enough, they started coming here to larp because it's an anonymous environment. And, like every lie told repeatedly, a lot of them started to actually believe that they were born in the seventies and grew up around this stuff when it was new. They didn't, and their interest isn't actually in old video games, it's in retrofetishism and collecting plastic in the hopes of fitting in and impressing their parents and/or peers with how mature and sophisticated they are for liking old crap. My generation had these, too. Kids obsessed with either the "Rat Pack" or "Sha Na Na", fetishizing some version of the 1950s that only existed in their minds.

Their "hot takes" on the eighties, whether vidya or culture, are often comically wrong and the obvious result of someone who had the benefit of growing up after the time in question and being able to look at it from the outside of the bubble. Comically wrong becomes absolutely fucking hilarious when they're parroting something they saw on Youtube, or trying to defend it when it inevitably gets called out as horseshit.

Really, throwing around the term "zoomer" is nothing more than a gentle reminder that they're larping when they get too carried away.

>>6775070
>Zoomers live rent free in your head.
No, they live rent free on /vr/ because we have zero moderation. Whatever hot youtube opinion they've heard this week or whatever the latest "bait" thread topic is, rest assured they're going to spam it endlessly. Because, you know, it's "le ebip 4chan culture" or something.

>>6716197
>history of pc gaming
>starts in 1988

The funniest part of this thread, at least so far, has been the zoomer kid who misused the term "vector" and got his asshole blown the fuck out for it by another autist while he desperately tried to backpedal and run damage control.

Second place goes to the kiddo who thought making a reference to the Flintstones theme was clever and made him seem old. Bonus points when he used "bucko" in the same post, thinking this is something "boomers" say. This thread really is a gay old time, though. I'll give him that.

ITT: the zoomer OP has recently discovered PICO-8 and/or TIC-80 and thinks no one else has any clue about their existence.

>>6532127
>an obscure brand of US machines called hewlett packard
>obscure

>>5168851
Your mom is your mom.