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Was 1990 a good year for retro gaming?

>> No.10075686

>>10075681
Ataris were pretty cheap then. I bet you could have gotten an Odyssey 2 pretty cheap as well.
So, was probably good for retro gaming.

>> No.10075694

>>10075681
that was the year I got my NES so yes

>> No.10075720

i'm still in 1989 in my Nintendo Power reading. I'll let you know when I get to 1990.

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>>10075681
Every year between 1985 and 2005 was a good year for retro gaming. I don't need to buy a new GPU for my PC because I have 20 years of amazing games to emulate (or simply play if it's a PC game)

>> No.10075757

>>10075681
Idk I was a 1 year old, then

>> No.10075760

>>10075726
This, I can’t wait to keep downsizing my computer over the years as I need less hardware to play the same shit

>> No.10075768

>>10075681
>US release of Mario 3
>Megaman 3
>Castlevania 3
>the debut of the super Famicom
I'd say yes

>> No.10075775

>Mario 3 in US, world in Japan
>King's Quest V
>Commander Keen
>Moonwalker
>Genesis getting lots of neat games
Yeah, I'm thinking pretty good.

>> No.10075778

>>10075681
Emulators didn't exist yet, so no.

>> No.10075924

>>10075681
1990 was a good year, but I don't see enough people praising 1988. It was the best year in the 80's for video games.

>> No.10075928

I was still playing Coleco Vision, having lots of fun with Donkey Kong, DK Jr and LadyBug.

>> No.10075989

>>10075924
If you're using Japanese release dates

>> No.10076014

>>10075681
If there is a machine elf genie in this thread send me back to 1992, thanks.

>> No.10076078

Retro games sucked in 1990, it was the modern games that were good then.

>> No.10076084

>>10075681
Smw released in Japan on my birthday, so... No

>> No.10076279

>>10075778
>Emulators didn't exist yet, so no.
they existed, but nobody could afford to own them. they're called "In Circuit Emulators". cost as much as a car but made development of anything for whatever cpu very fast with full featured debugger, code stepping, memory inspection etc.etc.

>> No.10076290

>>10076078
games that came out at the tail end of the 80s got very good as hardware evolved. from 1980 to 1990 it was tech evolution on steroids. when you look at the last 10 years, we've gone nowhere. kids have been born and played minecraft, grow up and still playing minecraft while experiencing no great evolution in technology. the stagnant generation.

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>>10075681
Not too bad really
>OutZone
>Raiden
>Gun Frontier
>JP release of SFC with SMW & F-Zero

>> No.10076937

>>10075681
It was a good year for the NES
Genesis would hit its stride in '91

>> No.10077015

>>10075686
This. Also, I don't understand all the illiterate tards in this thread talking about NES games that were new back then.

>> No.10077376

>>10077015
The question can be taken either way.

>> No.10077427

>>10075726
Besides 2003, this was the Golden Age of Gaming (I would also throw in 2006. 2007 was the beginning of the Dark Age)