/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10339443
Which is the one who killed his wife and kid with a hammer?

>>10339435
What happend to developers? Back then they seemed normal, maybe a little bit nerdy. Why are developers today dirty, don't shower and feel so fucking special.

>>10339526
1. They always were nerds, there was just a concept of shame back then so they made an attempt at a facade
2. Diversity hires

>>10339526
Oldfags actually had to be computer literate programmer types that knew the systems they were working with inside out, old gamedev would filter the majority of the industry today. Nowadays it's a standardized corporate job.

Video games shouldn't be developed by more than 20 crew members.

>>10339563
I agree, but modern expectations dictate games have to be bigger and bolder.

>>10339478
QRD?

>>10339543
It wasn't shame. Being a nerd was PART of who you were not the WHOLE of who you were. Despite like movies, comics, games or whatever else they were still expected to be adult.

>>10339543
>diversity hires
They're a good thing and video games are making record profits proving they're better than ever.

>>10339435
>>10339439
>>10339443
>>10339526
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>>10339563
>>10339812
>10339828

The man himself at work.

>>10339848
>that mario chair pad that has absorbed all of his sushi and spicy ramen infused braps

>>10339868
Honestly it probably smells like cigarettes like everything else in the room

>>10339526
Let's be honest, most of them weren't interested in video games and got the job because they were talented but they couldn't find anything else.That job market was less saturated back then.

>>10339826
Yeah, basically "act normal or you're fired, and can't afford living" turned to "accept me or I'll sue your company into bankruptcy"

>>10339890
>most of them weren't into video games
Nah, many were into games in general or at least multimedia.
>they couldn't find anything else
Knowing how to code came in handy in just about any office that had computer systems back then, even if you didn't get a job at a silicon valley company or Microsoft, you could always do database shit and random application programming at a few businesses.

>>10339874
Based.

>>10339846
Is that a flat screen behind them?

>>10339443

A window into a time when it was actually somewhat normal to be quite thin. Haunting.

>>10339846
Where tf is Miyamoto?

>>10339435

>>10339841
Yes, your picture is exactly what I just said. Try to read between the lines.

>>10339828
>They're a good thing and video games are making record profits
>proving they're better
So you know how they make shit marketable to women and in almost every single case makes the product version "for women" worse, but charge them more money? Think of that, but with gamergate, videogames and consumers praising them for doing it.

>>10339443
Looks like they're about to drop the most brutal, bleak industrial album ever.

>>10339841
gaming industry being ruined isn't retro

>>10339526
Because back then, even if you were a shut-in nerd, you still had to go outside and socialize with other people if you wanted to get any kind of work done or play games with other people. They certainly used the internet but not as much as the nerds of today because it was very limited in what you could do back then. You still had to drive to the office and make yourself somewhat presentable and develop decent social skills.
Now though, with the advent of high-speed internet, your average shut-in nerd doesn't even have to see another face for literal months if they don't want to. This is obviously a detriment to your social skills and mental/physical health hence why modern nerds are some of the most bottom of the barrel, disgusting, fat degenerates you'll see. Social media also fuels narcissism, which is why these nerds over-inflate their self-importance despite their situation.

>>10339848
>the pcb inserted into the console
Cool

>>10339849
My hero

>>10339959
he could have actually strangled him and saved us

>>10339435
GSC on a trip to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone during development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Oblivion Lost/Shadow of Chernobyl. 1/3

>>10341402
2/3

>>10341404
3/3

>>10341402
Makes me a bit sad thinking about how many of those people are either dead or are using drones to correct artillery.

>>10341247
KEK

>>10341247
Which one's Genny?

>>10339849
>gaben with a massive gut
by god

Found it ineterest that ther'es always 1 girl per team. They didn't do tken hires back then - tomboy trying to prove herself or career vixen looking for a new marklet

the programmer, the music composer and a special guest !

>>10341459
Shared communal cum dumpster.

>>10341459
Women worked in vidya back then and did actual jobs, not just diversity hire as "chick who runs the twitter page"

>>10339848
never knew shiggy smoked

>>10341570
he's a Japanese businessman. they're all chain smokers

>>10341382
Saved from what? Dungeon Keeper, Black and White and the legendary Syndicate games? C'mon anon, the dude is a developer legend, show some respect.

>>10341532
She was so cute and I hope she's well.

>>10341494
Hi projecting.

>>10339550
Old gamedev was simple. Modern gamedev is a nightmare, it's why even contemporary talented programmers can barely get a game out of their home-made 3D engines. There's just so much to catch up to meet modern standards.

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>>10341683
Sure he made good games, but he's still a big fat liar!

People in these photos look cool and happy but at the same time it makes me sad that (at least in the PC video game industry) most of those devs sold their IPs to big publishing companies as soon as they could and then semi-/retired, i.e. for most of them games were just a way to make living (or, sometimes, make a luxurious living).

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>>10341639
He quit smoking during development of Mario 64

Lookit Iwata's swag here

>>10342027
jfc you can heart the coke being snorted here

there's a direct correlation between a studio's fashion sense and the kinds of games they make

>>10341453
>woman in a porn game studio
imagine the harassment

>>10340145
That's a rear projection TV. They were the biggest TVs back in the day, but their image quality could be rough.

Tom Hall submitting ideas for Doom

Drew Markham playing Redneck Rampage keyboards only in a news segment about violence in video games

R.I.P

>>10343754
I think this is from the mid-early 2000s. I have a pic of kid me playing doom in the 90s

Resident Evil development

Duke Nukem 3D credits

>>10343770
Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition, erasing Levelord from the credits

>>10341404
>construction project information board in Chornobyl is only in Russian
STALKER 1 and STALKER 2 are going to be like from two completely different cultural worlds, despite being separated by only one and a half decade.

>>10343760
you know what to do

>>10339841
lol at the tranny having a bigger package than the nig

>>10339435
bloody shame what's happening to Ubisoft mascots now

Alexey Pajitnov and Vadim Gerasimov, a teenager who ported Tetris from a minicomputer to IBM PC.

>>10343817
More Konami

Matthew Smith about to drop Jet Set Willy on your bum

>>10340508
Outside, having a smoke break.

>>10343770
Greg with the big dick, daddy energy. I bet the rest of the team hated him.

>>10339526
Those are just frenchmen, anon.

>>10344507
Who, the clean ones?

>>10343737
Probably none, I think everyone is aware of what they're employed to produce at that point.

>>10345215
>Probably none
fuck no it ain't none. it's japan aka the sleazebag capital working and they are japanese computer nerds AND anime nerds who are both considered sleazebags even by japanese standards

every drink after work would come up with a different proposition from every male in the company. getting roofied is a real possibility and in 90s japan if it happens and you call it out you'll not only get fired but the law will literally laugh you out of the building

like shit look at the hot one's face. She knows that if she doesn't bitch them into submission they'll eat her alive.

>>10345241
>anime nerds
*oldschool anime nerds

>>10345241
>the sleazebag capital
Sorry but we're not talking about India.

>>10340516
The studio I used to work in was like this. Casual dress is fun when your lady buchou comes to work wearing leather pants.

>>10339439
>okay Toby, look as normal as possible for the group photo

Can't find any bigger versions for either game, but this is the Oddworld Inhabitants photo from Exoddus

>>10345346
indians are just dirty, not sleazy. they don't try to pretend sexual harassment is completely normal.

>>10345417
Don't make me laugh.

>>10345417
I guess you're kinds correct in a massively ignorant way. They don't pretend it's completely normal. It is completely normal.

>>10345394
This one is from Munch's Oddysee.

>>10341453
japan was a nice place in the 90s.

>>10341639
why do smart men marry Asian women.

>>10345607
>smart men

The guy looks like a complete retard

>>10339608
No one in this picture. just some woman (Melissa Brooks Batten) who worked for the zombified corpse of Rare after it was became XBox exclusive. She cheated on her husband and he killed her. Based as can be, right?

>>10339443
i dont remember this throbing gristle album

>>10341493
the fuck is robin williams doing there?

>>10345823
Robin Williams just used to like people. Everyone "knew" him.

>>10345829
oh thats nice

>>10345829
i never thought i'd see trent reznor next to robin williams

>>10345842
I wouldn't get surprised to find out that Reznor was a huge fan of some Take That (in secret).
Seriously, everything about that guy always smelled like "an act".

Speaking of Williams, pretty sure it was him who suggested adding "Sid Meier's" to Microprose games.

>>10345567
>dat fox in the front-left
Lord, help me be strong...

>>10345567
looks funny

certainly not a development picture but it’s a developer picture so it counts

>>10346263
Fuck this hack. Yeah I'm still salty about Shroud of the Avatar.

>>10346270
money fucks people up

>>10345823
don't know much about that picture, the only thing is that it is supposed to be taken during an E3, it's not a surprise that robin williams was a gamer

>>10346901
trent was also supposed to be the composer of doom 3 so it was maybe during the game presentation at that time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfo6CVbHQM

>>10346270
Whatt happened to it?

>>10339828
>actually goy, institutional capture putting out shit products while shutting out anyone who doesn't toe the line is good
gr8 b8

>>10342024
Probably the most /fa/ group of people I’ve ever witnessed. I wish I was there.

>>10345823
He was a gamer before he killed himself and some of his late standup routine material was real life depression posting about playing video games and jerking off. He named his daughter Zelda.

>>10346263
Here's a picture of Lord British and his companions

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>>10347110
Its an entire rabbit hole that would take all day to explain. check the shroudoftheavatar subreddit.

>hey guys im lord british here on kickstarter to make an ultima successor!
>hey thanks for the money btw we are now hiring starr long and its now an mmo!
>land will be super rare to own, buy your 10,000 dollar house today! and while youre at it buy your own town to put it in!
>yeah the core game mechanics are literal unity tutorial tier but now you can buy a statue of one of the developers dogs to put in your house and generic unity assets on the store! :)
>btw sorry but those extra things you paid for during the kickstarter like custom faces, VIALS OF MY OWN BLOOD, books, handmade silver rings and others just cant be sent :( here is some useless in game cash shop money and a 3d model of the book we wont be sending you
>OK guys I've milked you the best I could time to bounce. GL with your half finished game!
>Starr long here I gotta bounce too I gotta appear in a commercial for a surfboard with a single wheel that you ride down the road like a doofus on. here is this no name faggot that will never complete the game!
>fug portalarium is going under! we owe investors money and players kickstarter rewards! time to sell the company to that no name fuck for a dollar and dodge responsibility!
>no name shithead does nothing but sits around with his thumb up his ass for years
>even he has checked out and has some barely paid intern who has no clue how to use a computer, forget about a game engine.

>>10342027
always wondered who the black guy was

Heaven is an early 80's office building with no exit. Tons of lounges, personalized cubicles, full vending machines, ethernet lying everywhere, everyone sleeps in the break room with the AC on full blast, gets up, works for 12 minutes, goes to lunch at the McDonalds on the first floor, then spends 17 hours playing Doom2 with the gods.

>>10347952
>this is your brain on capitalism

>>10347956
I have lived through a very specific time where all social agencies have failed me. It doesn't matter if I have to dance for the king, suck off the khan, or light a Rothschild's cigar, I would give anything to live in a world where I could afford the wonderful things this world produces. If Capitalism were so flawed, someone would have saved me from it already.

>>10339435
I can't imagine being Japanese game developer in the late 80s. It had to have been a brutal life

old uematsu w/o mustache

>>10348028
I really like looking at these pictures of very generic sararimen, and knowing that their job was crafting fantastical fun adventures with outlandish character designs, cute animal sidekicks, and passionate music, all from within these soulless corporate offices. It's exactly the sort of inexplicable dichotomy that Japan often manifests.
Team Silent (>>10342467) is a good example. They were supposedly a "loser" team, within a shitty company like Konami, and the guy who made the videos had to spend many nights living at the office so he could use the computers to render. I don't know how people can produce something so heartfelt and timeless as Silent Hill under such conditions. I would probably be a bitter, alienated prick drained of all enthusiasm within weeks.

>>10348349
I mean, if I had the skills and was in a team/working under a team who were all motivated to make a game that was "ours" I would try my hardest to want to get it out even if I was being punished by being put on that specific team. I'd want to try harder if my input was being asked for and put into the game as it'd start feeling like it was becoming something that needed me there and was *my* game to an extent.

>>10348349
I've always felt it really only comes down to how creative and passionate those devs really are. It might seem a bit silly to boil it down in such a simple and innocent manner, but playing the amount of mid-80s Famicom games I have has truly shown me the joyless husks of shit that kind of corporate environment can bring out of the average programmer who doesn't really give a flying fuck about the creative vision of a product. It has also made me way more appreciative of the few devs who not only make something, but something so thoughtful and inspiring.

>>10348372
>>10348396
These are good points. Team Silent were all on the same page creatively and definitely shared a vision and goal for their project, so it isn't really an emblematic example of the kind of stifling committee-based approach that some of these office layouts call to my mind. My bad.

>>10345842
I never thought I'd see trent reznor on /vr/ again

>>10339828
>niche market vs global market 20 year later
>number now is bigger!!!!!

Ywnbaw

>>10345606
Japan is a nice place now

>>10347727
wtf was Dinho doing at id?

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>>10339828
Video games only make "record profits" because of literally illegal gambling ("surprise mechanics").

>>10347727
Surprised it took this long.

>>10348349
Those are the ONLY circumstances where anything of value has ever been made.

>>10348909

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>>10348912
There's a 3rd photo of them. I'm certain I used to have it, but now I'm finding nothing.

>>10342024
It’s hard to believe these people were top tier samurai warriors 300yrs prior.

>>10349304
They seem to be doing alright while the West crumbles. Maybe you're the loser.

>>10349304
They were mostly peasant rice farmers. Most of every country were peasants. Either way, that looks like a pretty sick party to me. Lot of obviously cool people.

>>10349379
Anon is clearly talking about IRL, not your self loathing weeb imagination.

>>10349304
It's hard to believe your people were knights and now you're shitposting about old games

>>10350879
I am in that picture.

>>10343805
>>10343807
I never knew FF2 was developed out of a fucking California hotel

>>10348782
man she was good looking once upon a time

>>10350940
Nasir's work visa expired, so instead of hiring another programmer, they delocalized the production to California. This is how important he was to them >>10343803
even though the trendy sheep narrative these days is to claim he was a shit programmer, the reality is that all of Square's successes that saved them from bankruptcy and put Square as one of the biggest publishers on Famicom were due to the games this man worked on (FF1/2, 3D World Runner, Rad Racer)

>>10350879
This is already a big dev.

>>10351201
>trendy sheep narrative these days is to claim he was a shit programmer
Literally who says that? The old Japanese ads all call him "A genius programmer".

>>10350879
>tfw when I’ll never be included in a group of friends like that
>>10350894
Yeah ok

>>10348909
>>10348912
Is that Ken Williams?

>>10351432
Yeah that's him alright.
He was also with his wife and other co-workers.

>>10350879
It's said that Halo 2 was the last game made exclusively for white people

>>10351432
>>10351438
No, it's some waiter they pulled from a restaurant

>>10348937
Robin Williams worked on doom?

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>>10339890
Game development requires decent knowledge in game theory (especially back then where you had to do everything), game dev wasn't the same thing as application dev, therefore wasn't the case of "I want to make applications, but IBM won't hire, guess I'll join a small game studio."

https://youtu.be/FFHKEATnmB4?si=AUvNPUu1_2I5s5zq
looks comfy as fuck

>>10339849
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>>10341445
how fat are they now?

>>10348782
>Asia
that thot who cucked the food critic to death? top kek, my brah!

>>10339550
>Nowadays it's a standardized corporate job.
that's nippon game devs.

AAA USA game devs now are a bunch of bill cosby-worshiping retards messing around with Unity and randomly inserting 256GB bitmaps for textures. Compare that with an indie nobody making yet another "retro"/pixel game with realtime raytracing because they can.

>>10341432
most of them probably ran to polandball already. ex-soviet cunts and slav armies aren't known for loyalty ya noes.

>>10343737
>>10345215
watch 16bit Sensation, anons!

>>10352214
More like read it. You get way more actual insight that way.

>>10339841
Ching chong studios aren't diverse and they're still ruined by monetization tho

>>10342637
RIP Iwata. ;_;

>>10339961
why are all the wamen circled?

>>10354286
This is a thread for dev pictures, not hackers and scammers

>>10354286
Didn't know they existed in 1994.

>>10350894
I miss you Marty

>>10341639
jesus christ that is the most british face I've ever seen lmao

>>10353501
https://odysee.com/@thisworldworks:1/How-Jews-Destroyed-China.ia:4

>>10354567
>starcraft
This wouldn't be 1994

>>10354783
Starcraft was still around in 1994

>>10354817
Yes but not the Blizzard game Starcraft which they are wearing t-shirts of.

>>10342467
>>10348349
Passion helps a lot. When you really care about something you're creating the exhaustion wears on you, but doesn't break you. I've made a few things in my life with bare minimum equipment, comforts, and it consumed tons of time, but kept going until it was done because I really liked what I was constructing. Now I have all the time in the world and much more comfortable circumstances to create yet I don't because I have no ideas or motivation. The few ideas I get aren't good enough to make me want to see it through.

Also, I think that particular team were trying to prove themselves so that would be another good motivator. Passion still helps a whole lot though.

https://youtu.be/tF-gQxcdfyo?si=Om8sRzCh5UiVlcIM

>>10358420
Cool!

fuck all these gooks and faggots born into aristocracy playing life on easy mode making fucking video games for a "job" i hope they all burn in hell for eternity

>>10359736
Indian children teach themselves calculus with books they find in garbage dumps they work in. Then they get jobs in the tech field including making videogames. What's your excuse?

>>10359736
How is game development easy and why does it require noble blood?

>>10359736
They're just smarter than you.

>>10359736
>T. Seething retard who is jealous that he can't make games for a living and make people happy, and proudly point to a game some dude's having fun with and say "I worked on that!"

>>10351398
cool ones

>>10343752
Didn't they have trouble with some video games?