/vr/ - Retro Games

>"This is an Alienware laptop, it is very powerful. I have been trying to hack Apple the past two weeks but I haven't quite cracked the code."
Fucking comedy gold.

I have a couple real life friends who are into retro and one online friend. I actually met him on /vr/, he's actually legit cool

I have a friend I met on a smaller chan who's into retro games. It's nice to talk to him.

I've been trying to get my brothers into retro games since they were old enough to play games.

It seems impossible: they hate any sort of challenge or complexity and are easily seduced by gimmicks and skinner box techniques.

I remember they were watching me play mega man. I let them play, explaining the basic controls. They gave up on it once they got to particularly agile enemy (cant remember which one) they didn't die they just stopped playing right there.

When f-zero gx came out I tried to get them into it. They went off-course on the first map and decided they didn't like it (until than I didn't even know it was possible to go off course on the map, appearently theres a very small gap in the railings during one of the turns I never knew about)

If they can't master a concept in a few seconds they stop playing.

Maybe I should get them into jrpgs or something.

>>1077838
>Where in the hell do I find retro friends without them being humongous faggots?

I feel you OP, I ask the same question. I'd like a friend to play games with irl.

I have four friends who play NES/SNES/64 with me.

I plugged in my SNES at my college, and started playing Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, and no one wanted to play with me except this one black guy who later told me he never really plays vidya and was just killing time until his next class.

I feel lucky, though, to have friends that appreciate retro games.

Just make it seem so damn cool and fun and awesome that your friends can't help but be interested.

You don't need your friends approval to be validated.

>>1077998
No, you don't, but it's nice to be able to play some Contra with someone without them bitching about the graphics for example

I have a retro friend, but he's a coworker that lives far away.

Other than that, it's just me. I don't expect to find anybody else IRL that appreciates classic games.

>>1077838
>This is an Alienware laptop, it is very powerful. I have been trying to hack Apple the past two weeks but I haven't quite cracked the code
Is this person 14 years old and autistic?

Anyone else bothered by "gaming" being used as a verb like "All of my friends who have been gaming since 1992 or earlier." I'm not sure why but it's always bothered me when people do that or call themselves "gamers".

I have a friend who plays vidya on a CRT.
But not by choice, he's just on a really tight budget.

I guess that doesn't, count does it.

Sadly, not really. All my friends ever want to play is Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart. They're not too into older games (Most of them like shit like Final Fantasy etc but that's the extent of it). I'd kill for a bro to play Contra or Battletoads with.

>>1078027
I like playing games on CRT. Even for newer games. Most new games look better on a CRT because of the real black and many console games still don't natively render at higher resolutions.

My girlfriend and an online friend of mine are both semi-into retro games. We all tend to be bargain hunters and since we're all into games we'll pick up older systems and titles when the opportunity presents itself.

>>1078035
I mean, if it's on the 64, I'd say that's valid.

I have a friend who appreciate /vr/ games, but he don't play it, he just respect it.

in the other hand, I have another friend who plays /vr/ with me, like North 'n' South, but I don't like him so much XD

>>1078073
>XD
Stop that.

>XD
fuck off

>>1077838
I have found that playing on real hardware and real cards tends to catch the attention of young gamers these days.

They've all experimented with emulation, so playing on your laptop or Wii isn't really exciting to them. But playing on the real thing is a novelty.

>>1078090
>>1078091

Come on guys...

I have one friend who is still even into video games and he spends his days playing Kerbal Space Program.

Everyone else pretty much quit playing video games after grade school.

>>1078150
If you are going to talk like you're from /b/ then you should go fuck off back to there.

>>1078027
I feel that anything that wasn't made for a wide screen should be played on a CRT. Plus stuff like the Genesis just looks a lot better on a CRT anyways.

>>1078024

When I hear "gaming" I think of /tg/ stuff.

I have no idea why.

>>1077838
talk to a bunch of people about it and some will pick up on it.
Yeah I have a friend similar to that who also owns an alienware...
Or i started playing my some games on my gameboy in the library and people ask what I am playing
I am lucky finding people because I go to an all guys Academy that is boring as hell

I have a childhood friend who got the SNES around the same time as me. We played together all the time on his tiny black & white CRT that eventually was retired for a color one (seeing SMW in color for the first time was an amazing experience).

Recently I get a text every Saturday asking "will there be games?", followed by him coming over for a play session spanning everything RetroArch offers and lasting until the middle of the night. Sometimes we play contemporary titles too, but even then we usually end up going back to RetroArch after a while. I prefer the simpler mechanics and "pure" gameplay of 90s games.

Occasionally we choose a real shit game and try our best to beat it, no matter how broken and awful it is, alternating between who's playing when the anal frustration gets too strong. There is much fun to be had in discussing the horrible design decisions taken in some of these stinkers.

It's sad to see so many of you guys have no one to play with. I'd invite you over to my house as long as you shower regularly.

Yeah, all my friends are retro gamers

I don't have any friends

>>1078161

No one cares what a tripfriend thinks

>>1078228
What a great, intelligent, and incredibly well thought out response. You sure told me man.

>>1078090
>>1078091
>>1078150
>>1078161
>>1078228
>>1078238
C'mon, it's just an emoticon. It's okay to not like them but no need to ream someone over it.

>>1078212

I know that feel.

Outside of my girlfriend's circle of lame-ass friends, I'm not sure how to go about finding bros at the ripe old age of 24.

I have a couple friends who play Final Fantasy, they seem to especially like the first 7 or 8.

Unfortunately for me I have never played Final Fantasy, though I plan to when I finish my complete Megaman binge (nowhere near the end; I've played almost all of the canon classic series but there are still romhacks and fangames to play).

>>1078247
Emoticons are rather pointless since this is an imageboard and are generally looked down upon. Personally I can tolerate some of them, but XD just seems like something only an underage idiot would use.

>>1078265
It's true that they don't really have a point to them and are looked down upon, but they shouldn't be looked down upon to the point that you derail the whole thread because someone uses one. That is several magnitudes more shitposting than any number of emoticons could do.

Emoticons might appear on /b/. I wouldn't know as I stay away from there. But, meaningless fighting for the sake of fighting is something I commonly hear /v/ do, so shouldn't we work to avoid it here?

>>1078278

I've only ever seen ``XD" used on 4chan ironically.

>>1078280
Well then it would be shitposting, but not to the extent that stopping a thread dead cold is.

Some online friends. I really don't know many people. I'm extremely introverted. Most of the games I play are retro. I tend to keep my interests to myself offline though.

>>1078016
Sounds like he's trying to impress OP with how 1337 hacker he is. You should keep humoring him for more luls

>>1078257
Same here to an extent. My asian girlfriend has typical asian friends and we live a few towns away from where my highschool friends are and I rarely see them. We are both quite lonely over here and don't have much in common as far as games go. So most of my gaming is done alone and maybe once a month I can hang with my friends at one friend's house and play nes and snes all night, which is pretty awesome but I wish it was like it was when we were younger ;( (that's a sad face emoticon please don't lose your shit gals)

>>1078310
>>>/reddit/

>>1078310
I thought this board was made to separate us from the /v/ cancer who use emoticons?

>>1078310

Shit, I don't even keep in contact with any one my high school friends.

But eh, they were a bunch of druggies anyway.

>>1078314

I think you mean >>>/r9k/.

>>1078316
I thought it was made for people who want to discuss games? Can you really not understand that emoticons are part of internet culture? I know we have a higher standard but it's not like anybody is going "OMG GUIEZ T_T I FOUND AN EN EE ESS ZERO ZERO 1 Frst n1nt3ndo ever made but my brother ( >:() ) broke it!?!?!? He's such a n3wb because he was born in 2003 (omg so stupid) instead of 1999 like me (90's boy here, teenage mutant ninja turtles)


^^^^We are not having any of that, XD is pushing it but no need to fly off the handle and start shouting how you are better than him/her, just say something related to the thread and then quote them and say something like please don't be immature.

>>1078327
All I know is that we don't tolerate that kind of shit on /tv/ or /a/ and they are some of the best boards on the site, complain about how elitist they are if you'd like but at least we have actual discussions with out self moderation and won't dissolve into pure cancer.

>>1078321
Getting older sucks. We never knew how awesome we had it as children and even as teenagers. Now I work 8 to 6 every weekday and my friends have different schedules because of school as well as part time jobs and the fact that I have to take a toll bridge to see any of them makes it a little worse, AND the fact that I'm the only one with good income so I can spend 10$ on gas to go there and back for a meet up. I just want to have a sleep over and play games or meet somebody in my town who plays games. I bought a boxed famicom game off a guy who seemed cool but he was wearing a hockey jersey and sort of had that "I'm such a nerd" vibe but I think I could have been friendlier to him and asked if he wanted to play with me (would it be weird if somebody asked you that after buying a game from you off craigslist?)

>>1078331
>/tv/ or /a/ and they are some of the best boards on the site

>>1078331
I know what you mean but just because somebody makes a good post and then ends it with XD doesn't mean we need like 4 or 5 posts telling them to go back to /b/ , just ignore it and contribute to the thread, it would be great if people could just ignore things

>>1078336
But you see, ignoring shitposting just invites more shitposting. It is was killed /v/ and what will kill /vr/ unless we stamp it out right away like we do on /tv/ and /a/.

No.

I don't even leave the house, how am I supposed to find any of those?

All I have are a few online friends that aren't into retro games and you faceless strangers.

>>1078331
>/a/ one of the best boards.

ahahahaha, you have got to be a troll. What an undeniably ridiculous thing you said.

Yup, but I'm probably the one that's more into retro games. Not thay dislike them, but it's my "niche" so to speak.

Me and my friends started to hang out in highschool because of our love for emulated snes games, and the rest is history.

(Which coincidentally is one of the reasons why I always chuckle at MUH ACURACY purists, because I remember a time when running snes games AT ALL with a poorly coded speedhacked emulator and poor sound on our terrible computers was a moment of triumph)

>>1077926
Jesus, it's like meeting a TV crime drama writer.

>>1077982
I find that dorm living exposes me to many folks, what I do with the N64 is draw people in with a game they know and remember, and then introduce a game they've never heard of, like Blast Corps or WCW vs. NWO World Tour. It's a good time, though I rarely get repeat customers.

I wish I knew /vr/ in real life sometimes, it might be cool to chill and share the old vidya. At least I have my gf to play PC games with, we're doing Alone in the Dark right now.

>>1078247
Using emoticons indicates that you aren't literate or mature enough to properly articulate yourself through words. Sorry that we have some degree of standards. XDD

>>1077926
I know this. It's a Unix system.

I wish had some retro gaming friends to play with. Most of my friends aren't too into retro games. They all respect them and enjoyed playing them back in the day but aren't too into retro gaming sessions now.

I have one, exactly one friend who fucking loves retro and totally would sit and play NES and SNES with me all night long. But he's a music major and one of the busiest mother fuckers I know. He's either practicing or playing a show with his band or any number of things that keep him from enjoying some video games. I rarely get to see him, and when we do meet up it's not for very long.

Yes who do you think I go hunting with? I actually have a few friends that collect

>>1080289
Damn, are you me?

No one who lives close by anymore, but we keep in touch online, and can still play together due to emulators with netplay.
With the magic of TeamSpeak and netplay, I could be your retro gaming friend, OP.

>>1080443
>implying we want to hear your grizzly neckbear voice

>>1078210
THIS. I have two or three friends who regularly visit for some retro goodness. Titles we grew up with, and those that are dear to one, yet another never experienced. I would love to invite you brothers for some chill time, showers permitting. Any /vr/o's in the Northern Michigan area?

>>1078210
>as long as you shower regularly

>>1081130
Seriously, I don't understand why most 'gamers' smell so damn bad. Is a taking a shower so difficult that you'd shun friends?

>>1081196
I personally shower every day. I can't stand going out in public if I haven't had my morning shower. But here recently I haven't had the motivation to shave.

>>1078024
Honestly, I don't mind calling myself a "retro gamer" because at least that term means older games. The term "gamer" wouldn't bother me so much either if it didn't represent people who also play phone games, or people who consider themselves gamers because they've play that one game and got good at it.
The term is just too broad now.

>>1081926
"Gamer" represents people who play phone games?

Fuck, I've lived too long

Last Friday till Saturday I played a drinking game with 2 friends, we played Secret of Mana. Everytime you have to be healed, 1 shot. Everytime you die, 1 shots+ 1 shot for healing again. Everytime MANA gets mentioned, you have to drink one. Needless to say, we got pretty smashed and halfway through one guy bailed and slept in the corner.

>>1081935
Now THAT sounds like a great time. My girlfriend and I just started a co-op game of Seiken Densetsu 3, too bad she doesn't drink. Haha

>>1078073
>XD

Weeaboo/autist/underage detected.

Whatever the case, you need to leave. Now.