/vr/ - Retro Games

I was a EU gamer, I never had a snes, but from the sounds of it I lucked out since we missed a fucking shitton of games.

>>1094338
Never owned a SNES either. Jumped straight from the NES to N64 due to getting a late start on video games.

I missed a lot of dos games and point and clicks in their heyday. I know what a good chunk of them are, but I don't really have any desire to play them. Our family was somewhat poor, so we never owned a computer until one "broke" at work and was taken home by me. I got a lot of use out of that "broken" computer and got really attached to Windows 2000.

>>1094312
I get nostalgic about the stuff I grew up with. I'm 19 so that means SNES and Genesis. And PC.

I explored older consoles as well. I love them all the way back to the NES and SMS, but any earlier is pushing it.

I never played Banjo Kazooie as a kid

I had friends who had Megaman, and my brother had megaman for a while (they used to trade games all the time), And we even rented Megaman X 3 once

But I never got into Megaman as a kid. Mainly cause I hated the cartoon.

I never had Pokemon as a kid.

I didn't played DKC1 when it was first played it and everyone was talking about it. Only when DKC2 came out I finally persuaded my parents to buy me a SNES along with DKC2 as a Christmas present, my first own home console. After finishing DKC2 I asked a birthday present (at 2 April) the first DKC1. Of course after DKC2, DKC1 seemed much easier, shorter and inferior than DKC2. Still I enjoyed it since it was an awesome game and I could finally play as Donkey Kong. DKC1 is my No1 favourite video game.

Ocarina of Time all day erry day when talking to online people.
Not in my real life, friends I used to have all had psx because you could pirate on it.

Also "early"(using this word in a free way here) multiplayer FPS like Quake III and Counterstrìke talk, but isn't retro.

I first heard of Bubsy on 4chan.

most of the ps1 shit.

i never played tomb raider, crash bandicoot, spyro, croc, resident evil, final fantasy 7-9 etc. unless someone else had them, but i always just go sort of blank whenever friends are nostalgiafagging about these games.

>>1094457
Oh, and mostly not retro, but I also first heard of SMT on 4chan, as well.

pretty much everything that came out for the PC except rollercoaster tycoon and worms.

>>1094451
Out of our group of four, two other guys had a 64 and me and another guy had a PSX, but he didn't really play that many games on it. The 64 guys would talk about OoT all the time and I always wanted to join in, but I didn't know about anything past the Deku Tree. I grew up with Zelda on the NES and SNES, but when the Playstation came out, I had to make a choice between Final Fantasy or Zelda, and Final Fantasy won out.

>>1094470
That's not really surprising, SMT wasn't something you'd see in the States, or Europe I'm willing to bet. I didn't play anything in the series until this year.

never played banjo and i feel like i really missed out.

>>1094487
Even in Japan it's fairly niche.

I never played a zelda game until recently.

>>1094312 loved secrets of mana..secretly prefered it to ff, loved the tales of series still gutted there are alot of them that never got brought out here

90% of /vr/ missed out on all retro trends due to being born around 1995.

Honestly, when calling the original Playstation by the acronym PSX is a large controversy on this board you know you aren't dealing with real retro gamers.

I missed out on all the point-and-click adventure games because my family was too poor to afford a computer (those fuckers were like six grand). I tried playing Loom recently, and it just felt way too dated and slow. Dude takes like a minute to walk across the screen, and you do a LOT of backtracking when you're trying to figure everything out. It felt like waiting for water to boil. But if I'd played it as a kid, I'd have probably loved it.

Pokemon.

When I was a kid there was Knight Rider, He-Man and Turtles which I loved and later Power Rangers which I thought were too cheesy even back then. But when Pokemon hit I was already a teenager and not into anything I perceived as kids stuff.

I still find people who got into Pokemon when they were older weird. So all you pokefags are either babies or weirdos to me. I really don't get what people like about. The TV show is shit and I've never touched the games because I hate handheld gaming with a passion.

Fuck Pokemon.

>>1094830
So you're saying that you hate Pokemon but you've never played it?

Sonic.

As a nintendokid those games always seemed confusing to me and still do. The scary insane fandom doesn't help either.

>>1094835
Yes.

I've seen bits and pieces of the TV show though, which I also hate.

>>1094839
Judging Pokemon by its cartoon is like judging Star Wars by its breakfast cereal. The first handful of games were the shit.

>>1094847
R/B are the worst Pokemon games though

>>1094854
Objectively, yes. But they were great for the time, whereas the later games in the franchise haven't been particularly good for their respective times. It's all about context.

I was basically a hard core console gamer. My philosophy was always that new computers cost five times as much as consoles and required updating five times as often, with a cost equal to buying a console. That's also why I balked at the Genesis add-ons because they seemed like PC style upgrades.

I did go back and collect the CD add-ons for consoles but I only more or less recently got into PC retro gaming and through /vr/ I've gotten interested in MSX and PC98 as well.

All of my "friends" are like 5 or 6 years younger than me. My age group has all but abandoned old game for call of duty or something similar.

I come here for my retro gaming discussions. As for what I missed out on? Genesis. I had NES, SNES, and don't get me wrong I loved them. However, my friend had a Genesis and I only got to play it a few times. So I don't know the feels people had for Genesis games back in the day, but I've played a lot nowadays. Still it's not the same.

Same with being an American who never had an amiga. Emulator helps with that but wow, Cannon Fodder and Flashback back then would have been amazing for me.

>>1094854
gb2 /vp/, where you can hate on them as much as you like and whine about people enjoying them and how no one in your college likes you.

>>1094810
>90% of /vr/ missed out on all retro trends due to being born around 1995.
>PSX is a large controversy
>real retro gamers

Keep this nonsense to yourself jackass.

I taught a class last week at AAU on the history of videogames. I showed a picture of an Atari 2600 and asked a classroom of 24 sophmore/juniors if they'd seen it before.

Not one hand.

>MFW

>>1094932

He just wanted to get his fire engine.

I never played most of the old PC games.
My PC experience back in the day was limited to old FPS games, Duke Nukem (the platforming games) and Jazz Jack Rabbit.
I missed out on Civ, Myst, the Tycoon games and all that.

>>1094861
This and even then r/b/y are so full of glitches they are still the best.
>>1094854
tourneyfag pls go

>>1094810
>a large controversy

It's not.

There is one single fucking autist with too much free time on his hands that always starts shit over it.

It's always the same guy.

I was a Genesis kid, and only just started catching up on SNES recently. Really wish I played stuff like Mega Man and Metroid as a kid.

>>1094810

>>1094391

This.

I also missed out on the golden age PC titles.

>>1094312
>Final Fantasy, isn't that some cheesy JRPG???
No, Final Fantasy is THE RPG, or it was... In my day we called JRPGs RPGs because most games came from Japan.

>>1094971
>I was a Genesis kid

Same. So were all of my friends, oddly enough.

I never even played a Metroid or Zelda game until the early 2000s on an emulator. No regrets though.

I still love my Genesis more than my SNES.

>>1094830
Pokemon started out as a game, and it was a great game. Then they milked that shit it for all it's worth, TV shows, trading cards, books, toys ect. It was and out of control megafad, but it eventually died out. Years later it left a bunch of super autistic fanatics (like sanic). There are still normal people who play the games though, but it's not as popular as it used to be.

It's seams like you were at that angsty age, where hating baby stuff was cool when Pokemon first came out. You just never grew out of your mindless hate and you reinforced it with the fanatic pokefreaks from that weird part of the internet.

I'd say at lest give red or blue a try and make your judgement then. Forget sicko fans. Forget the TV show. Forget the fad shit from the 90's. Just give the game a fair shot, it's classic /vr/.

>>1095114
>I'd say at lest give red or blue a try and make your judgement then.


If he hates handheld gaming he probably won't like it, anyway. They're the games most clearly designed for a handheld system.

>>1095080
Nah, there were western RPGs, it's just that they were mostly relegated to hypernerds back then. Console RPG people would be well adjusted in comparison.

>>1095114
The TCG wasn't so bad, but I stopped playing after the edition that introduced dark pokemon. It was a nice alternative to magic: the gathering, even if some things were fairly imbalanced.

>>1095118
Not really, it plays like any other RPG. The only reason it's handheld is for the VS and trading (which aren't essential to enjoy the game in my opinion, I love the game and I never traded or played against anyone). If he doesn't like handhelds then he can just play it on an emulator.

>>1095132
I think it did so well because the game encouraged a community to form through some rudimentary ways. You could play it alone like any other RPG, but you could also seek out others who had the game and play against them or trade with them. It was certainly novel for the time.

>>1095131
As far as a TCG goes it was good. I got in them as a kid because of Pokemon, but then I outgrew them when I became a teen because they're a waste of money, You end up spending more time collecting then you do playing the actual game. I never liked pay to win games, so fuck miniatures games and half of MMOs out there.

>>1095138
Yeah, pretty much all that tabletop stuff gets pricey. I built a warhammer army way back when, it's mostly useless now with the changes to how the units work across editions. Does make a nice decoration, if you don't mind scaring off a few people who come to visit.

We actually played quite a bit on pokemon, but as time went on, fewer and fewer strategies were viable, and decks became rock-paper-scissors.

>>1095132
I really mean it more in a graphic sense. Gen 3 onwards could fit in with most games from the SNES gen onward,but RBY and to an extent GSC are definitely game boy games.

>>1094338
If you owned a Mega Drive, you really weren't missing out on much with the SNES

>>1094810
>90% of /vr/ missed out on all retro trends due to being born around 1995

Most of this board consists of people who're in their late twenties (myself included) to early thirties and sometimes even older.

The only Megaman game i played when it was new was Megaman X.

>>1095426
26 Here. Got NES in 89 when I was three. Older people still do exist around here.

>>1095423
Bahahahaha, bullshit.

You missed everything worth playing and then some.

>>1095456
If you didn't like RPGs then there was nothing you would have missed having a Sega instead of a SNES.

>>1095464
Well that's not really being totally fair, the SNES did have a lot of great games and gems. I've played both the SNES & Genesis, but I'll still always prefer Genesis because it has a lot of things that I enjoy like Shooters and Arcade stle action games

I never played San Andreas because my mum wouldn't let me play GTA games.

My friends talk about it a lot and I have nothing to add to the conversation, shit sucks.

I am playing GTA V now, loving it.

>>1095482
Damn, you 16?

I was a PC kid, only played a bit of NES & Mega Drive at my family. SNES games are still new to me, I don't know a single person who owned a N64 (I don't think they were available here), Gamecube what's that even?
Nintendo really didn't have a presence here. Mega Drive >PS1 > PS2, that's all it was.

>>1094312

I missed out on the golden age of LucasArts adventure games. I didn't really play PC games at all until around the late 90s.

I was always a PC kid (first console was a PS2 I got in '02), so to me SNES and N64 were these wonderful, mystical devices. It's kind of cool though, because I get to go back now and beat a lot of the games that I played for only an hour or two at friends' houses.

>>1095496
>I don't know a single person who owned a N64 (I don't think they were available here), Gamecube what's that even?
wat? were are you from?

Everything Sega, and Adventure games.

Ive been working through the best of the Master System ATM. Alex Kidd was actually pretty nice, and at least equal to Super Mario 1+2.

I dont really enjoy most adventure games, so I watched Grim Fandago and Monkey Island on youtube and drank some rum to cope with the shame.

>>1094312
I was born in 93, so i missed the NES.

I also missed Sega consoles. Never knew about them until a long time after they passed on.

my experience was similar to >>1094385 with the exception of sega obviously.

I remember smashing Quake, Duke Nukem 3d, Doom, Mario kart etc

For years I'd read video game magazines and read the writers obsess over games like Monkey Island and all these other greats I was missing out on, especially ones on the PC. Coming from a family that weren't exactly rolling in it (I was always a generation late with consoles) so I missed out on a lot of them.

Games like
Day Of The Tentacle
Black And White
and the one I still really wanna play Grim fucking Fandango

>>1095509

What the hell is the deal with Grim Fandango anyway? Has there been a confirmed reason that it hasn't gotten a re-release?

>>1095510
God knows. All I remember is te magazines I read banged on about it a lot. Which, in turn, made me wanna play it.

>>1095510
Grim Fandango, despite being awesome, sold like shit. It was credited to the downfall of the adventure game genre.

>>1095510
>Has there been a confirmed reason that it hasn't gotten a re-release?
It's owned by Disney.

Don't worry, they'll haul it out of "the vault" along with the diseased Nazi brain of their leader in a couple decades.

>>1095423
I did have a Mega Drive, and it was fucking awesome, and as a kid, I would NEVER have traded it for a snes. Sonics, Kid Chameleon, Comix Zone, to name a few.

I went, NES/Mega Drive/N64 though. Thanks to knowing a ton of kids with well to do parents I played pretty much every system though, Virtual boys and Jaguars even. I know, who the fuck owned a Jaguar in the UK at 9?!

>>1095478

Not arguing that it didn't have a lot of great games, arguing that it was hardly

>everything worth playing and then some.

Can anyone tell me if Final Fantasy series is worth playing? I never got into it but I am trying to play older games.

>>1095503
Croatia.

>>1095541

it has never been worth it

>>1094391
You didnt miss a thing. DK64 is far better.

>>1094312
My family was poor as fuck until my Dad finally got the job he was looking for when I was about 12. The N64 was my first console, and when I mention that I haven't played the NES or SNES, people call me underaged.

>>1095541
Tactics is great if you're a fan of Tactics Ogre and Front Mission

But that's about it. Never really been able to get into the franchise

>>1095541
Try 4(II in the US), 6 (III in the US), 7 and Tactics. Those are usually the favorites of the series.

Final Fantasy was my introduction to gaming, blew my mind back in the day that a game could even have something resembling a "story" and "characters".

Other Squaresoft titles include Chrono Trigger (fantastic), Xenogears (pretty good), Parasite Eve (great), etc.

I miss the mystery and magic that surrounds the release of a new video game as well as the gestaltic reviews.

Nowadays you know everything about a game a year or so before release and the reviews are hyper-reductive to the point of absurdity. No one really likes video games anymore, they just play them to support their social agenda.

Gameboy, I missed out on most good GB titles because I was a sucker for those shovelware games. I'm currently experiencing my first time playing Mario Land 2.

>>1095541
You gotta at least play the first few games, even if it is the remakes. Some other people on this board might say you're wasting your time with it, but you really haven't played the series without playing the first few games.

None of that annoying sentimental, anime crap, just a big world to explore and save. The newer ones are still good, but it's just not the same.

>>1095478
>>1095456
>>1095539
Europe missed a lot of great games back then on the SNES, particularly the ones from Nintendo themselves. Sega was much better in Europe with localizing games for the Mega Drive than Nintendo was for the SNES.

I think you missed the point.

>>1095635
>No one really likes video games anymore, they just play them to support their social agenda.

Don't let /v/ cynism influence you, there are still plenty of videogame lovers, just not on huge aggregate sites.
As per the information thing, that's internet fault, it's the same with movies and everything else these days.

I missed the entire N64/PS1/SS buzz.

Sure, I WANTED an N64, but my parents were smart, and opted for the SNES. If I had gotten the N64, I'm sure my gaming tastes would be much different. Or I would've flat out abandoned gaming. I really can't believe how expensive those games were going for, and honestly, the N64 was a pretty barren playground outside of the non-Nintendo titles.

Instead, I grew up playing games that most of you already had and beaten. And it was sweet as hell.

I never had nor saw the Sega CD, and until /vr/ thought that most of the library was shitty games like Night Trap.

Why didn't anyone tell me about Lunar/Lunar 2/Popful Mail/Snatcher/etc back in the day??

>>1095591

It's funny, it's the exact opposite for me.
I had a SNES and megadrive and pretty good PC, then my dad died and we became poor, could only afford a psx in 2000 because of the piracy.

>>1095657
>It's funny
>then my dad died

>>1095702

I meant the irony of the inverted situations.
I didn't want to imply a parent dying is a funny thing.

>>1095509

Same here. I always heard fantastic things about from fandango but never got around to playing it since I didn't have a PC good enough to play it when it came out and Mondays my backlog is huge and my time to play is minimal.

I never owned an SNES, I was a Genesis kid.
Also I never played quite a few big games on even that because I was poor. But that was then, now I have emulation to catch up.

I did get all the Pokemon games for GBC though.

>>1095541
People are going to kick me in the ass for this, but to someone who missed the boat the GBA versions are probably the best versions, keeping close to the SNES games but providing the best translations. Apply patches when you can get them though, there are plenty out there.

>>1095717

Hey, if you can laugh at your own father's death, that's alright with me!

All consoles other than the NES- my parents saw them as toys and refused to buy them. Fortunately the PC was a work tool, so the occasional game was okay on it.

The only reason we had a NES was that my sister decided to get one, near the end of its life and when it was cheaper. I did play the occasional Genesis game at friends/kids my sister babysat houses.

Late 90s I got into emulation and finally got to play at least some of the SNES games mentioned. Still haven't got around to the GB or PS games (including Pokemon).

>>1095871
Edit- also, we only owned one game for the NES (packed in with SMB3). I had to rent to play other games. Fortunately the local Blockbuster had a good selection, and as the NES was on its way out the prices were decent.

>>1095541
Play 7, since its the all round classic.

>>1094810
>implying I wasn't born in 1991

>>1095880
>implying that is not still young as fuck.

>>1095885
I didn't miss out on any game trends except for the SNES era, bitch nigga

>>1094810
>you arent a true 90s kid xD

>>1095885
>24 year old telling a 22 year old how young he is

>>1095907
Somehow I wish we could all get along. Both sides have issues sound elite and snobby.

I'm a youngfag but I had an NES and SNES as a kid so I feel like I did fine on that front. But I was a Nintendo kid so my only experiences with Sega consoles are from friends' houses. I'm still catching up.

>>1095892
Apart from the games and the early internet fun, did they really miss anything from the 90s? I remember most of it being pretty shit. It was a valley in-between the peaks of the 80s and 2000s. I could be biased, however.

>>1095891
>missing out on the SNES era

Well, at least you can buy a drink in the US. Better get on that, because you missed the most glorious era of all.

My youngest sister is older than you
I aint really that old (27)
Pick me up a beer too?

>>1095919
some pretty great music, films, and general culture.

It was no better or worse than the 80s or 00s

>>1095926
Well, I did say I was biased. Something didn't "click" with me in the 90s, culture-wise.

>>1095919
Heh. I just realized I have been hanging out in IRC since the 90s and still am today. Not much has changed on that front.

>>1095654
because all the good games on the sega cd were niche as HELL. anyone who did have the system usually had FMV shit. last time i saw a copy of snatcher was at a KB Toys in 1996, it was 9.99. i always wanted to get a SCD, but i already was balls deep in N64 and SNES.

not like i can say i regret not buying it, i didn't have the system so why get a game for something you don't have...

>>1095650
I wasn't sure if I was talking to a Eurobro or an Amerfriend, so excuse me. But yes, I've been aware of Nintendo's lack of interest in Europe. They've even gone out of their way to block import games all together

I like how in this thread we can really categorize ourselves by our system progression, as well as age-categorize ourselves.

e.g. I'm a VCS-NES-GEN-PSX

Yeah I know we all had multiple consoles during at LEAST one generation but we can still put ourselves in terms like these, even if one gen or more might be PC for a lot of us. Even I myself was a bit of a 99/4A during the crash years.

I feel like I missed out on the N64. At the time it came out all of my friends and I were PC gamers. Those that eventually got into consoles went with PSX. I didn't play a single N64 game until PJ64 was relatively stable. I've since played every game for the system and really liked a couple of them, though I can't help but think I might actually like the more popular games (golden eye, mario, conker, etc.) if I were able to experience them when I were younger.

>>1095996
NES-SNES-N64-PC

26 now.

I feel ancient

I never owned a single console. PC only until having played emulators recently.

Honestly I missed on a SHITTON of games.

Being an EU games I didn't even know Nintendo existed as a company to me video games = Sega Genesis so I played that a lot.

After that switched to PS1 because Nintendo 64 had cartridges and PS1 had CD so to my kids mind I thought that N64 was some sort of old console while PS1 was some new futuristic shit so I went with that.

I have only in the last couple of year discovered emulators and shit because I grew more and more uninterested in the modern gaming scene and turned to the old-school because why not. And I'm having more fun now than I ever did.

I was born in 92 but I did not get a PC or consoles until the late 90's, only ever owned playstations so I imagine I missed a hell of a lot.

>>1096005
>if I were able to experience them when I were younger.

You know every time I try out a new (to me) retro game I wonder to myself "how would 8 year old me like this game?"

>>1095910
How exactly are the people born in the 90's who still want to enjoy old games 'elitist and snobby',

>>1094810
>real retro gamers

Yeah, just fuck off you condescending elitist fuck.

my first console was a gameboy, because i was obsessed with portability when i was five (who fucking knows why). from there it's been a colored history starting at SNES, because i bought the gb in lieu of a regular NES. it includes every handheld and console nintendo has produced, several playstations, and a few xboxs and a dreamcast. i missed basically every retro 'trend', because i wasn't really a gamer. i just had things i thought were neat. the first game i ever beat was metal gear solid. it's pretty stupid, i was around in the blossoming age of home gaming and i totally didn't capitalize on it. i don't have any fond memories of beating earthbound or final fantasy at three in the morning, or banning pikachu in smash bros with friends.

tl;dr: i'm stupid and most of them

Since I was born in 1983 I missed the Space Invaders craze era. Yeah, I know that they were still making new games later (my favourite /vr/ Space Invaders is Space Invaders '95: Attack of the Lunar Loonies but still I didn't knew about it until I first played it few years ago on MAME) and they were re-re-release the original Space Invaders again and again in almost any console and computer that existed but it looked kinda old-fashioned back then even to me that was playing almost anything I got in my hands.

I also never had the opportunity to play shmup classics like Galaga and Xevious on arcades (only on cabinets with many games in them that made their appearance in late '90s).

>>1096238
Speaking as an older gamer who just happened upon this thread, I think it's wonderful that younger people show interest in older games and my generation should encourage that interest rather than feel superior to them for having beaten them to the punch in discovering such games.

Also it's worth mentioning that most of us old timers have missed out on some great games too - unless we were independently wealthy or had way too much free time on our hands for most of our lives, there's no way we could have played every game from the 80s and 90s that was worth playing.

Everything Pokemon

I never seen the cartoon, never played a game and don't know a damn thing about it. My only reference point is the South Park episode and rule 34 threads

Friends? Not really. Strangers on the internet? Yeah.

Despite being born in the 80s, most of my IRL peers aren't really into games past what's popular right now. I know a couple dudes who play League of Legends, and that's it. I know a SHITLOAD of 20-somethings who buy one game a year (and don't know how to piracy), and it's Call of Duty. It seems crazy to me, but I regularly meet 20-somethings who tell me they didn't really play games until the PS2/Xbox era, and when I try to play old 2D games with them, they're like "Street Fighter? This is dumb, it's just a race to see who can mash buttons faster. Put in Fight Night or UFC." "Why are you playing fucking Doom again? Can't we play Call of Duty? Call of Duty is what we WISHED SHOOTING GAMES COULD BE when we were kids, man." The League of Legends guys will occasionally wax nostalgic about PS1 Final Fantasy games.

I'm 20 and my mom was a gamer and a Nintendo fangirl so it was just Nintendo growing up (not at all a bad thing), however I never had a non-Nintendo system until I got an Xbox 360.

>>1095541
The only ones worth playing are Final Fantasy 4, 6, and the Tactics games.

>>1095919
Early Tarantino, Refn, and Paul Thomas Anderson.

>>1095919
I think most of the derided things from the 90s are actually what gave the decade its charm and character, in retrospect, and I think that in a few years when there aren't any young people who remember the 90s you'll see less people hating on how dumb and violent and snarky everything was. All the EXTREME, super edgy shit is all in good fun in my eyes. Spawn is one of my favorite super(anti)heroes.The 90s were the best decade for rap music, hands down.

I remember everybody saying how ridiculous and cheesy the 80s were in the late 90s and early 00s, and now all the cool kids are playing 80s video games and listening to 80s throwback music and going to see remakes of 80s slashers.

I usually stuck to series I knew and liked, so a lot of games I had no idea about and just guessed at what they were about.
>metal gear solid? sounds like a horror shooter

That and no shooting games (Bioshock was the exception but not retro). Game console progression was as such:
>Sega Master System (playing Sonic the Hedgehog on this is the first memory I have, was probably around 2. SNES was pretty much just Mario, but Tetris Attack got my reflexes damn fast)
>SNES, Sega Mega Drive (complete with being terrified of Dr Robotnik and resetting/turning off the console or going out of the room when the boss or underwater drowning music started. I still have vivid memories of a nightmare I had with that music in the background)
>Game Boy complete with pirate cart named something like "32-in-1 M"
>Sister got a PS1
(>Game Boy Advance, but up until Pokemon Gold I only had original GB games to play)

I've only tried Super Metroid recently thanks to the 30p offer on Wii U VC, and I absolutely love it.
Also somewhere in there: I played Toonstruck and Atomic Bomberman on PC, both are permanently engraved in my head especially Toonstruck because it's beautifully /co/..

>>1095541

I know it isn't /vr/, and quite frankly I think FF fans would tear into my asshole for thinking this, but the DS versions of 3 and 4 are my favorite.

My first was 10 (although I have been alive for all of the FF releases), which I got bored of. 12 was better, but I still got bored. Same for 9.

Tactics games are S+ though.

>>1096743 here again
Would also like to add, after reading on some Japan-only releases, I'd have loved (or at least feel privileged now that I'm older) to have been able to try some things, like that Satellaview(?) version of Super Mario Bros. 2 synchronised with playing radio and narration. The closest thing I can relate it to off the top of my head is something like an MMO server-wide event.

Most things are probably not actually very interesting other than being different or technical matters, however, and I've often wondered to myself whether (if I were actually my current age at the time) I'd have paid to get things like the above SMB2 "episodes". I'd probably not have cared nearly as much on the whole game ownership concept as I do now.

Snes kid, never knew what i missed on sega, snes + sega md are the best of both 16 bit worlds, they compliment each other nicely

>>1096775

>>1095996
I'm a NES-N64-PC. My family didn't have much money, but at least that forced me to master my whooping three games per system (SMB, SMB3, MM4 / SSB, Pokemon Stadium 2, and OoT).

I currently have a wii but it's more of an emulation machine, I play modern games on my computer.

>>1097126
TurboGrafx-16 was also great.

>>1096775
I like the DS remake of 3. 4, not so much. Preferred way to play that game, but I don't really care for 4 that much. 2 is my favorite in the whole series though.

>>1097220
Completely skipped gen 4 huh? Man that sucks it's practically the best one.

Pretty much the entirety of the 5th generation.

I hated the push for 3D everywhere so I stuck with my Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Color, and PC that generation. Didn't play a bunch of stuff on PC during that time either. Just a shitload of Rainbow Six, Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Heroes of Might and Magic II, Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, and The Sims.

Being born in the 90s I started with the SNES, missing out on a bunch of NES classics.

Since /vr/'s inclusion I've been making up for it, though. I've played through almost the entire classic Megaman series, and I started playing Final Fantasy I a couple days ago and I'm awful at it because I can't into RPG stats to save my life, I probably won't be able to get past this game because it seems my characters' stats don't affect shit, but that's probably because I don't know shit about how RPG stats work. I'm working at my immense backlog one game at a time.

I never got into PC games so it was all consoles/handhelds.

All you people born in the 90's who got a SNES must have started on games very early, I did not even know what a SNES was until the 2000's because I was bought a playstation as my first console.

>>1097585
Or they were a gen behind. That's pretty common.

I was mostly a PC one because I don't owned consoles (Just a gameboy with mario land 2) so I was really late on consoles. Besides back then mid 90's there were not much girl games here so it was hard to know about good games and so. I still followed pokemon craze with emulator somehow even if it meant I had to play pokemon Yellow in English with 10 years. But it was cool somehow to play pokermon golden before it was released in English + Gliberish.

A few years latter fist 00's I got a SNES emulator with most of the era classic and I fell in love.

I don't own any console actually and I don't have much free time like before so I still need to complete some classics.

>>1098278
Swiss Miss?

I never got to enjoy the early days of online multiplayer, with Quake and Doom. I had the games, but no friends and no connections to others who would want to play it.
It sucks when you get a good game like Startopia and the internet client it uses to set up multiplayer sessions is gone forever.

>>1098142
That's true, i was born in 91 and I started my gaming adventure with sinclair zx spectrum

>>1097585
I was born in 90 and grew up my first game machines were NES and a 286 dos pc. I started at a very young age, my NES was a hand me down from my older cousins. I played TG16, Sega Genesis then eventually PS1 at my neighbours house who was a bit older. I had a SNES by then. I was behind on a lot of games but I got to play a lot of stuff nobody ever heard of back then so it was nice.

I never had a quality gaming PC. Not even now, so I missed all that stuff.

Missed out on 90s era computer games.

A god damn shame.