/vr/ - Retro Games

The 80s and 90s were better. You just explained why.

So you failed as a parent?

Hey dad, stop using my secret chinese cartoon board! Back to Facebook!

>>2861335
Why is it always the 90's? I'm getting sick of this shit I honestly would be more interested in people's views and experience from before that.

1993 here.

>>2861351
93 is pretty damn late to be "90s kid".

>>2861351
I don't know, personally I found the early 00's to be funner, more technology options and my kids were older and funner to play games with

>>2861335
no now you go online and pray to god you dont get paired with 4 other retards and hope that you can land your awp shots or whatever gay league of legends skill technique if you're playing that faggot shit cause nobody plays single player anymore.

>>2861356
No it isn't, by the time he/she was 5 it was 1998 and the peak of 90's gaming had happened

>>2861335
I can't go back to the 90s after exhentai. All that smut at my fingertips has spoiled me.

>>2861364
Don't even know what a league of legends is besides from the name, I don't play video games much anymore, just the new Battlefront and the occasional Counter Strike match, I read graphic novels more then anything, hence the watchmen logo

>>2861369
Same, it makes me sad because I miss when my children weren't fat neckbeards who argue about Shin Chan or whatever the fuck kids are watching these days

>>2861365
The 90s kid thing isn't just about games. You had the peak of Nickelodeon, the extreme sports becoming big especially with skateboarding, the start of Jackass, South Park, etc.

>>2861335
Can you adopt me please? My parents hate me :(

>>2861380
South park I adore, Nickelodeon was ok, I enjoyed sitting down eating Grilled cheese with my kids watching Spongebob when it was new, but the games (buying your kid a new set of pokemon cards etc) were really what make the 90's stand out to me

>>2861390
If you want a 57 year old man screaming at children on Counter-Strike as a father then sure

>>2861335
>Nothing was more magical then watching your kid work his way through the wrapping paper of a SNES console you wrapped..

I'm going to be unwrapping a SNES this Christmas lol, assuming my mom took my advice and picked up the SNES at our local game shop.

>>2861392
What's wrong with Pokemon? Sure I'll give it was a bit overrated but the storm it created will never be matched.

You take the internet from the 2000s and it was pretty much trash. 2010s more so.

>>2861398
O-ok. When can I move in? I'm dead serious

>>2861343
Yes, I wasn't joking, my 2 kids are very awful now, the first one (the who was 6) is 25 now and into hard drugs, hes stolen from me and the family, He also is a pedophile.. .

The other one is 31 and is extremely nice, hes never in trouble with the law, the problem is hes a fat neckbeard and lives in my uncles attic, he's never had a job and i'm pretty sure hes a serial killer

>>2861356
I was born January 1992 and my most nostalgic childhood memories are from like 1998 to 2002. I started gaming on the Genesis and Game Boy, but the early Gamecube was also really important to me. So I consider myself a 90s kid with some spillover into the 00s.

>>2861403
I love pokemon, never said I hated it, I have fond memories of my kids teaching me how to play it and wanting all the new Gameboy games

>>2861403
Games in the early '00s were still really good. The '10s have been an exercise in pain and depression, in all aspects of culture. Except we're having a bit of a renaissance in cartoons right now.

>>2861419
Believe me I know, awful adhd childrens cartoons like We Bare Bears, Amazing World of gumball, etc etc, all garbage, the 09's were pretty good though, Chowder and such

>>2861414
I misunderstood then.
>>2861419
Console games were dead mid generation. Some good stuff though.

>>2861421
But... I like Gumball...

>>2861423

I have a list of console games in the later 2000's (2000-2005) that were pretty good and non nintendo:

The Punisher
Battlefront II
Mortal Kombat Armageddon
Soldier of Fortune II

Theres tons of goodies

>>2861427
I could see why some people could like it but when you've lived through 57 years of television you start to get really picky with TV

>>2861430
I couldn't even play most of PS2 games with how bad the games look with them being interlaced and the filters. It was a major factor in me going to primarily PC games.

when do you think people should be able to play M rated games?

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>>2861398
sounds magical mate, you're older than my dad by 2 years, I'd love to watch him doing that

I can agree with you, these gens went to shit, I'm from 88, most ppl are doing drugs, the worlds going to shit, and those that are into games accept worse shit every year, new buggy games every month with shit replayability and all they care about is buying new skins for either fucking lol, cs or new hats, fuck man I know "gamers" that never fucking played UT or HL and their top tier games include fucking Fallout 3, DmC, minecraft.

>>2861442

I know what you mean but I was talking about Original XBOX games, trust me there is a big difference, of course XBOX sucks now and has since the 360, but the original was nice, the games that were ported from PS2 didn't have those awful grainy filters and usually were in HD compared to there PS2 siblings

>>2861445
Ahhh The memories, when my kid (younger one) was 15 he turned into an extremely edgy "goth" kid and was obsessed with UT, I'd open the door to ask him if he wanted dinner and he'd scream at me to get out because he was playing UT, then I'd just go upstairs and laugh hysterically at what a faggot I raised

>>2861447
The XBOX is actually the only 6th gen console I keep around. Love that thing and it has some great SEGA games. It's such a bitch to take proper care off. It has the most mods of any console I own just for preservation.

Never owned anything after 6th outside of Nintendo,.

>>2861407
What went wrong? What did you do wrong?

>>2861450
Oh my god I know what you mean, if you didn't play for like a month and it collected dust it wouldn't read discs, so glad I learned how to use a PC in the early 2000's, I used to get my CS fix with the Xbox original version *shutters*

>>2861449

thanks, made me laugh mate, back then I was an edgelord too

>>2861452
the younger one went through a hard goth phase in his mid teen years and became friends with junkies whom influenced him to do hard drugs (Heroin) a short year later, he was hated by the whole family, he had stolen 400 dollars out of my wallet, after I realized I kicked him out and cried hard, 2 years later he came back to live with his uncle along with his brother and they found him molesting my uncles 8 year old niece...

the other ones just fat and lazy, love him to death, but he isn't the hardest worker

>>2861462
What about him being a serial killer? What makes you think he's one?

And what happened with the niece incident.. That's ducked

>>2861471
He is a loner, and sometimes says some really fucked up things to me, He also has a weapon collection that isn't your standard weaboo collection, a collection with intent to use if that makes sense..

As for the niece incident, he had snuck into her room and slept in her bed, according to her he held her close and rubbed her vagina and covered her mouth so she screamed and the mother ran to the room to see him doing that...

>>2861479
Damn dude I'm sorry but did he get jail time or anything? What did the family do?

>>2861471
To elaborate on the "Intent to use" statement, He has knife holsters and concealed weapons, he also has illegal cookbooks for things like bombs, though I don't think hes smart enough to do something like that

>>2861481
Nope, just kicked him out of the house and haven't seen him since, He could be dead for all we know
Though its not like there isn't any hope left, my weaboo son is very nice and all, hes just like I said, scary with some problems.. If I could get him some help maybe i'd be able to act like things were good again like in the 90's

>>2861486
What the fuck anon. You gotta get your son some help fast

You guys see people think the video games or the shows or foods made the 90's, no, it didn't, the reason you all have these strong memories like me is the people you hung out with while you played those games, there are teens right now having this conversation about how amazing the.. uhh.. I don't know 2007 times were... Its all in the eye of the beholder

>>2861494
Yeah well obvious one but get that dude a job already obviously. Gotta get him out of the attic any idea why he's so reclusive?

>>2861504
I'm pretty sure its his brother being such a horrible person, he loved his brother yet his brother stole money from him sometimes, its like having a family member die, he just can't move on from it. the aquatic ambiance thing from DK Country still makes me cry to this day because it was his favorite when he was a child..

>>2861498
Right retard. Because I just stopped playing games and watching movies from any time pre or post 90-99.

>>2861507
Well of course the games are nostalgic and important to, if you were old enough to make your own decisions in the 90's and know what was going on, the 90's would be like what the 2000's are for you now minus the technology i was talking about the very young kids

>>2861513
No. The 90s were great. 2000s were largely shit.

Nothing now is like the 90s.

>>2861517
I'll agree about the 2000 part, the movies were shit and games were transitioning into 3d and sucked, with some exceptions (majoras mask)

>>2861506
Man sorry to hit with same old rhetoric but you can't be stranded in the past gotta move past it. I hope you get the strength to help your son out of this rut. Im sure you can take baby steps if you need them just build on positive things little by little and be persistent. Wish you the best anon

>>2861527
thanks :)

>>2861335

this thread is strange and i'm not even really sure if it's real

>>2861538
I wish it wasn't, That'd be the tits, to have my 2 normal boys playing games together in the living room, for this shit they've done as adults to just be dreams, but sadly, its real, and I'm actually going to stop responding now because I'm tired and hungry, goodday anons

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>>2861335


You sound like a faggot tbqh

>>2861524
Majoras mask was gay tho. Oot has and always will be the superior game

>>2861407

god damn you fucked up big time. that's pretty funny though

/vr/ isn't your fucking blog grandpa.

>>2861486
>He has knife holsters and concealed weapons
what's wrong with that?

fuck you niggers, have some respect for your elders. He's trying to share some insight and some experiences he had, you're a fucking retard if you think that's not valuable in some way.

>>2861351
I wasn't alive in them, but I always thought the 80's seemed more interesting than the 90's.

>>2861335
The 90s were better OP. Look at the shit that's happening in Europe now. This world is nearly fucked. I wish I had a time machine, I'd go back and re-live the 80s and 90s over and over until I die.

>>2861643
>Look at the shit that's happening in Europe now
you shitlord! Don't you know that if you don't want sub-human moslems to displace you, rape your wife and daughters, and turn Europe into a caliphate that makes you EVIL HITLER

/b/ me
/b/orn 1990
i remember those magical years the thing was i had a fucked up childhood being my parents where drug addicts and alcoholics. but i had an old brother that gave me a handy down Snes and i escaped the harsh reality of my fucked up environment by playing awesome games like Link to the past and FF other than that i truly feel Tv shows (atleast Cartoons) where better like Batman TAS and others these shows still hold up to this day and isnt this watered down kid shit we get now and like other says the rise of nickoldeon this PC bullshit wasnt a problem like it is now i do feel strong about the 90's but mainly on a nostalgic sense i hate these hipsters that shove down everyones throat

>>2861356
>>2861410
ok so your toddler amnesia kill all but 1 or 2 year of the 90s, YEAH youre a 90s kid with *some* spill on ths 00s

fraking shit, its you two who are one of those annoying "the 90's were better" people, not because the 90s were bad, but because you barely lived it, just infant flashes from the last few bits.

>>2861369
>exhentai
whats that? exhentai.org?
doesnt load, is it gone?

>1981
The 90's were pretty fucking boss. I remember my mom sending me to the store for cigs($2!! a pack) the dude at the store did not give 2 shits that I was a kid. We were very active. Riding bikes to explore neigboring towns. Football or baseball every day. We'd come home and play some random game we rented because the box art was cool. You had to sit right next to the motherfucker you were playing against. The rest of your friends would ooh, and ahh whilst talking shit on whomever fucked up. Im an old fag now, I have some new games. But Im pretty much a retrofag all the way.
>90s wrestling
fucking beastly

>>2861345
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Late 94 baby i vaguely remember the 90s the earliest is probably 98 or 99 but 99-06 were my vague childhood experiences. I remember playing the n64 back in 99 and puking due to monition sickness , playing pokemon blue and peeing my pants because i was really into it (this was back in 98), and when my cousin got his ps1 that xmas. Though i got a 64 back in 98? I never used it till 05. Parents hated video games. I remember stealing money from my parents in 05-07 to play arcade games and it was worth it. Also my mall had famiclones and i was introduced to the NES and Sega's PC collections. I have more but maybe another time. Sorry for tldr

well that settles it... DKC will turn you into a pedo junkie. makes sense.

>>2863683
That four player local n64 multiplayer feel.

Damn son that rocked when you were 12. Wcw/nwo revenge created way too many fights though

Daily reminder that you're only a '90s kid's if you were born in the 80s. If you were born in the 90s you're essentially a 90s babby and a noughties kid... That's a euphemism for cancer I'm afraid. Sorry but you're too late to be in the club and you'll never understand so stop trying. 89 is the final cut off year and even that's iffy.

>>2864598
Moreover, nobody born in the '90s and beyond has any place on this board. Go to /v/ where you belong.

>>2864598
Thank God for that shit. Imagine being grouped in with the failures of early Gen Y and late Gen X? What a disgusting age group. They deal with their struggles by blaming generations before and after them.

>>2864602
>>2864598
This is the kind of juvenoia that is killing this board. Listen gramps, those born in the late 90's played N64, Dreamcast, and PS1. At least go after the younglings that started out with 7th gen consoles.
You're getting older so take it like a man. Your post is akin to some old faggot saying Intellivision and Atari is where it's at so SNES babby's should go home. I do feel sorry for your cultural irrelevance but I'll learn not to act like a bitch when I get to your age, and instead encourage younger crowds to play retro.

>>2864605
Yup. It's the participation trophy generation friend. Literally the most spoilt and entitled shitters to ever exist. They're part of the reason modern video games don't really try to kill you anymore. God forbid one actually does... It will be dismissed as a game flaw memed as 'artificial difficulty'.

>>2864613
At a certain point you realize that bringing attention to your interests is a bad thing. I live in a very nice city but as it grows more popular they are just building shit everywhere and destroying any natural beauty. Roads will get more clogged, more homeless people, more unrented retail space, more people, more shit. 25 years and it will be a complete shithole.

Also this thread is BS. Just skimming and seeing a "31 year old wapanese son" was reason enough.

>>2864628
Gentrification is completely different from hobbies that circulate with new age groups. This is simply the natural progression of a hobby as time goes on, where newer groups come in to reflect up on their first consoles as they get older to feel nostalgia.
By no means is this a degrading element to retro games as an invasion to the hobby. Eventually, by the time 7th gen fetuses are old enough to refer to their games as classics, we'll be in hospital beds. Just accept it. I like to expose my Gen Z nephew about the N64 and all that polygon goodness instead of getting jaded and bitter.

>>2864613
Honestly... I think on some intrinsic innate level you guys know that youre complete and utter shitters. Like a rat knows that its vermin, sewer living scum while a lion knows that its a majestic, beautiful and proud animal. This same concept applies respectively to those born in the 90's vs those born in the 80's. You know it anon. You feel it in your bones and the air you breathe. Don't even try to deny it.

>>2864628
gentrification just sucks in general.
>>2864605
>early Gen Y and late Gen X
whats your cutoff date for these groups? just curious
>>2864659
fedora.jpg

>>2864613
> Born in the late 90s...

If you were born in the late 90s, you were 4 years old in the year 2000. The only reason you would be playing a console released in the 90s is if your parents were too poor to afford a PS2 and gave you a hand-me-down that was released when you were in diapers (or in the case of the PSX, when your parents still thought the idea of having children was repulsive).

>>2864652
On the one hand I do agree that it can be fun to share your interests with others, I will argue that depends on who is brought in. If they are just playing old games and discussing them as normal people, great, but if it is attracting meme-spouting "FUCK OFF GRAMPS" teenagers and profiteers who view games primarily as an investment that isn't a good thing.

>>2864659
Don't worry, I'll give you some time to refute my points instead of throwing a tantrum. Your post further indicates how a typical Gen X fag argues.
>>2864621 is right, seems like the Baby Boomer "everyone is a winner" indoctrination fucked you guys up to the point where you can't hold a proper discussion without resorting to insults. I'll give you a second try, take your time.

>>2864667
I'd say early 30's to mid 40's. Then again some late 20 somethings as of right now may fall in due to certain exceptions.

>>2864673
No, I had the PS2 and GC when it was first released but they weren't out yet when I started. I got on the PSX right when it received analog sticks to give you a point of reference. The N64 was a hand me down from an older cousin, and I remember getting the Dreamcast at launch day when I was 4.

>>2864685
I can see that but idk to me Gen X is 1970-1984 and Gen Y is 1985-1999 and 2000-2015 is iGen or whatever they call it.

>Gen Y is the "everyone is a winner" gen

yeah we were but it was honestly our parents fault. Even as a kid i hated it. I never wanted those trophies felt so shitty getting them. Helicopter parenting in my gen and seeing the outcome of these kids is awful. College aged kids who have no direction in life without mummy and daddy to guide them and making sure they guide them. But its not that bad with other stuff. I mean I dont feel entitled to everything i feel consciously but idk im not the voice of everyone, just myself.

>>2864685
And now you have the PC generation with their trigger warnings and bleeding heart bullshit.

>>2864698
Well I meant "late" Gen X, right when it borders with early Gen Y, the college grads right now, that I'm assuming is the prime demographic of /vr/. You know the type of nu-male pansies that treat Star Wars as a religious experience, promote "le trendy geek culture" and primarily contributed to the shir tier genre of Grunge and social justice/MGTOW movements.
I'll admit while my group as late Gen Y/early Gen Z have serious shortcomings, nothing compares to those cunts. But you seem alright, anon.

>>2861335
>"the 90's were better" people..

I feel bad for you. I was a teenager in the 90's and though there were some neat things about the decade, anyone who doesn't think the world is getting markedly better every year are either fools or bigots upset that they can't be as racist and sexist as they used to be.

>>2864705
>And now you have the PC generation with their trigger warnings and bleeding heart bullshit

At least that's what /pol/ would have you believe. Those people aren't even a sizable minority, and at worst, they just sit online all day and whine about shit that no one actually cares about. All you have to do is steer clear of sites like tumblr, and you'd never even know these people existed.

Meanwhile, U.S. voters are comprised primarily of conservative Christians, and lawmakers and politicians are exploiting the population's prejudices by scapegoating minority rights and immigration laws. This keeps everybody pacified so they won't notice when their tax dollars are being laundered away. Can't afford better public education? That's too bad. Jeb Bush's private charity needs to make a boat payment. Blame it on the Mexicans or the gay agenda, of course.

>>2861371
>and the occasional Counter Strike match
it's really the only game worth playing anymore desu

>>286467
Yeah I get that but what I'm saying is that most of the time it appears that older groups are putting down the younger newcomers with that old age cynicism, which is understandable to an extent. The fact that even GBA discussion is frowned upon here, is a testament to that. So the teens like myself who shit on the oldfucks is nothing more than a childish retort at equally childish behavior. I get everyone wants to keep their hobby from going cancerous, but we aren't all that bad.

>>2864712
I'm a late 94 baby
>nu-male pansies that treat Star Wars as a religious experience, promote "le trendy geek culture" and primarily contributed to the shir tier genre of Grunge and social justice/MGTOW movements.
I think you describe some white guys I know lol but t b h f a m geek culture became cool probably since the 90s or 00s when super hero movies, video games, and other "geeky" things were now cool.
>prime demographic of /vr/
idk most people here seem to be within their late 20s to mid 30s but i have seen 50 year olds here but I have seen a raise of mid teens to early 20s but those are usually /v/ posters too. This is probably and for now my favorite board and nicest since we can have decent discussions.

>>2864721
GBA being excluded is just part of the rules. The console is outside of the range of discussion. If you'd like it changed, your best bet is to complain to admin-sama. Until then it should be assumed that people who post here want to discuss what the board is meant to discuss (pre-2000 systems).

>>2864717
/pol are dinosaurs. Furious that people take bigotry seriously these days and have shitfests over how they think calling black people niggers is a free speech issue.

>>2864732
Chill out, kid.

>>2864716
Lol loner detected. Bet you listened to a lot of Marilyn manson. You probably still do lmao

>>2864735
Ohh I'm totally chill. Very happy with how things are going, just agreeing with how ridiculous those people look these days

>kid
lol

>>2864737
>>2864737
lol Marilyun Manson is super lame. Though I was/am a bit of a loner. It was mostly video game soundtracks I listened to back then. Found a similar loner girl though so all's well.

>>2861407
So you are a father to a 87% of 4chan adult population?

tfw 94 and have nostalgia for downloading emulators

bet you feel old now

>>2864770
>tfw 96
>earliest memories were demo discs, Glover, Spyro, and Crash on PSX, and a good chunk of Dreamcast games which I still have.

At least I can vividly remember seeing the death of as well as using floppy discs, VHS, cassette tapes, dialup internet, and beeper/pay phone combos.

>like anyone actually believes OP is 75 years old

Shame, /vr/. You didn't used to fall for these low quality b8 threads.

>>2864792
Lol you kidding? Vr is the easiest board to bait that I've ever seen. The janitors here have to protect these posters from themselves I swear to God. Vr is autistic as fuck

>>2864794
I'm not kidding.

>like anyone in their 50s would waste their time on this dump

>>2864792
Oh, I can believe that a 4chan poster is 57. I totally doubt that this guy is one, though. Nerdy types have been around for ages, so it isn't that hard to believe.

>>2861445
>can agree with you, these gens went to shit, I'm from 88, most ppl are doing drugs, the worlds going to shit

>people didn't do drugs in 1988
Uh...

>>2863668
English.... Learn it

>>2864740
Do you protest statues of Confederate generals?

>>2864812
Not him but why not?

>symbols of racism and treason against the nation

>>2864717
I love how you leftist continue to pretend the problem is "conservative christians" (yeah, because gun control, video game bans, progressivism, far left control of the universities, mass immigration, all the fault of conservative christians) because you need to keep pretending white people are the problem. I'm sorry, you are living on a fucking rock if you think conservative Christians are a problem.

Oh, but wait, you think legitimate concerns regarding multiculturalism is a "problem", and that people are just "scapegoating". Yeah, you want to know something? Fuck you, love how you pretend your "intelligent" yet you're the one blantly ignoring the fact that there is no proof that multiculturalism and mass immigration is a good enough.

Bet you gonna run away to /qa/, bitching about /pol/ just because you can't keep your fucking political mouth shut.

>>2861356
I was born in 1989, the old part of the 90's that I'm remotely interested in are the "Neo 80's" (1990-1994)

>>2864819
lol christianity is one of the worst forces on the face of the earth. Americas love for guns is part of the reason that country is such a shithole. Being built on the back of slavery is another. You and your ilk are marginalized more and more each day and I love it.

>>2864732
>/pol/ are dinosaur
>Believing in equality when nothing in the universe is equal
>Think humans are super special that genes and evolutionary influences had no influence on human beings every time you deny race and its impact on human society
>Out-of-Africa has been proven to be wrong in its assumption that modern humans didn't mix with archaic humans.
>Genetic evidence that races are not equal
>IQ studies that show races consistently have different IQ scores
>Ignoring the hundreds of other genetic differences
>Ignoring how eugenics will be making a come back thanks to CISPAR
>Ignoring the fast growing field of "genetic prediction" that is taking place in sociobiology and behavioral genetics
>Seriously ignoring the upcoming genetic revolution
>Giving a shit about "racism" instead of the facts

Yeah, hey buddy. Mind going back to reddit so you can spout your inane passive aggressive bullshit? because in my eyes, you are the equivalent of a creationist.

>>2861356
I was born in 1989, the only part of the 90's that I'm remotely nostalgic in regards to are the "Neo 80's" (1990-1994)

>>2861576

If he's incompetent, physically unfit, and socially isolated, then he doesn't need weapons for anything good. He's probably focusing on them as a hobby that won't ever go anywhere, at best, or drifting toward some sort of pathetic villainy at worst. In an average person, weapon ownership could be good or bad. In this guy as he is described, it's a bad sign.

>>2863673

google "exhentai sad panda" if that's what you're seeing, it's some weird thing that site has been using for a long time to prevent somebody from accessing it in some way they don't like or something, but I guess you can get around it I dunno (I've never bothered myself)

>>2864835
>/pol/ are dinosaur
Yup
>Believing in equality when nothing in the universe is equal
Never said anything about that. I'm objectively better than you are.

>Think humans are super special that genes and evolutionary influences had no influence on human beings every time you deny race and its impact on human society
Nope to most of that

>Out-of-Africa has been proven to be wrong in its assumption that modern humans didn't mix with archaic humans.
Modern humans actually originated in South America, but I don't have time to get into that with you today.

>Genetic evidence that races are not equal
Humans are one of the most genetically similar species on earth because of the bottleneck. There's more variation in two given chimps of different tribes than there is in all humans. That said, I didn't say anything about equality.

>IQ studies that show races consistently have different IQ scores
For one, IQ has been seen as bullshit since the 80s' For another there are many factors other than ethnicity. Blacks from the US for example tend to be markedly different from blacks in other countries, because institutional racism can affect many factors.

>Ignoring the hundreds of other genetic differences
Again, despite visual differences, humans are all shockingly similar. Come to a country that's not fucked up and you'll see that our black people don't act like typical bottom rung people, they're just normal people.

>Ignoring how eugenics will be making a come back thanks to CISPAR
lol

>Ignoring the fast growing field of "genetic prediction" that is taking place in sociobiology and behavioral genetics
Not ignoring that at all
>Seriously ignoring the upcoming genetic revolution
You're the one ignorning it lol
>Giving a shit about "racism" instead of the facts

more lols,

wow this thread really turned bad once the old guy left

come back and save your thread, old guy

>>2864858
>wow this thread really turned bad once the old guy left
You mean the 20-something psych student conducting a Pavlovian experiment on us?

>>2864836
>1994
>80s
Wut.

>>2864828
>lol christianity is one of the worst forces on the face of the earth

So what's the alternative? Islam where women wear trash bags and get clitorectomies?

>>2864864
After a decade ends, it takes around four years or so for a new decade to "find itself". Why do you think people still had mullets until 1994?

>>2864864
I'm not kidding. The 80s was totally and completely over in every sense by the time Clinton was president.

>>2864869
>After a decade ends, it takes around four years or so for a new decade to "find itself"

Really it's about two.

>>2864867
We need to abandon religion entirely and move towards a scientific enlightenment.

>>2864836
>>2864870
The real 90s was 1991-96. 97-99 were some parallel universe of shit.

>>2864874
This.

>>2864874
>97-99 were parallel universe.

Spot on, and I think partly due to the fact that it was years away from the new millenium.

Well...it's more accurate to say 90-92 still had leftover 80s fumes especially the fashions which were still bright and exaggerated-looking until turning more muted in the Clinton years.

But it's safe to say that most of the 90s pop culture cliches were all in place by 1992.

>>2864872
What does that even mean though? It's just empty fedora gobbledygook.

>>2864907
That we need a society based on enlightened scientific reason, not archaic storybooks designed to oppress free thought, women, and homosexuals.

>>2864856
I don't know if it's race so much as it is culture. Like, why were China and the Islamic world so advanced in the Dark Ages compared with Europe, but then they just completely lost it to the point where European civilization took over the world.

The medieval Arabs took in Greek and Indian learning, they gave us the zero and a lot of astronomical names...but now nothing of any importance has been written in Arabic in 500 or more years and they're only known now for suicide bombings and burkas.

>>2864903
Am I the only one that divides decades at the halfway mark? Culturally speaking, late 80's go with early 90's, as late 90's go with early 2000's and so and so forth.

>>2864923
That's easy. The Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1258 and killed all the smart Arabs, leaving only bydlo behind.

>>2864924
I wouldn't quite go that way. Keeping with the subject matter of this board, we could use video games as an example.

The NES era (86-90) was different and distinct from the Atari era, however in other regards it was still very similar. Arcade games were still dominant, there were a lot of platforms, and games got tons of cross ports. Say in 1982 you'd get cross ports on the 2600, Colecovision, Apple II, Atari 800. This was still essentially the same situation in 88 but shifted to PC compatibles, Amigas, Commodore 64, NES. Because it was all still the same decade.

By the early 90s you didn't see that anymore. Things were moving to a PC compatible monoculture and arcade ports were less important outside of Sega consoles. You no longer saw the 80s predilection for porting arcade games onto 25 different systems.

So it's more like...yeah things do change a bit over the course of a decade, however some other trends remain constant.

For example, the 70s is well-remembered for economic stagnation and everything being in shades of brown and orange. This was true from beginning to end even though in many regards, 1979 was a lot unlike 1971 when the fumes of the 60s were still very much present.

>>2864667
>whats your cutoff date for these groups? just curious

Gen X transitions into Millenials sometime in the late 70s or so.

>>2864828
just an fyi, friend, fitting as many progressive canards as possible into a single post does not make you sound intelligent, nor profound

>>2864942
Pardon for the long post ahead, but personally I think the mid to late 90's were the defining years of a video game renaissance that had never been seen before. This is a fairly young creative medium so hear me out why I think it's those years. We look at the majority of the well established gaming franchises of the time (that are still highly regarded classics today) and they were merely side scrolling games to pass time. They were just games. Then out of nowhere, those franchises completely reinvented themselves into something more than being games as entertainment, they became stories with depth. Games like Ocarina of Time, Paper Mario, Megaman Legends, Sonic Adventure, Final Fantasy VII, all introduced a new perspective at to what games are capable of being by reinventing themselves and video game standards. If we look at literature, Ulysses was the defining novel of the 20th century, because it introduced a universal paradigm shift in perspective as to what literature could be. Books before then were merely plot driven and one dimensional, but Joyce showed a stream of consciousness never before seen, with a twist on a story that was character driven. It set a new standard and made the structure of Modernist literature what it was. Films in the late 60's and early 70's showed the same breakthrough by being experimental, thus lifting not only the genres and the directors who made the films, but also the entire craft itself to a new level. Time again we get stuck in these grace periods where all the games, music, or films we take in have a repetitive tone and rehash feel because they all mirror each other. 1/2

>>2865031
That is until a new piece of art comes out that changes everyone's perspective by setting a new standard, where the avant-garde becomes the accepted norm. Going back to games, this is why anything 6th Gen and beyond feels different because we have elevated ourselves to a new level. It is beautiful to see this in art, as well as science with new discoveries, and sports with athletes that raise the bar with unmatched performance. Then again, I'm a 96 fag so take everything I just said with a grain of salt. 2/2
TL;DR mid to late 90's games blow everything out of the water

>>2861358
>I found the early 00's to be funner
And there ya have it

>>2861543
This namefag is reaching hard, but you're on the wrong board son.

>>2861335
Christ, I'm as old as your oldest son and I thought I was old :/

>>2861597
>80's

You're right, I was a child in the 80's and a teenager/young adult in the 90's, and the latter sucked.

This of course is so, because as a child everything's magical.

>>2864967
idk to me that too early I have alot of cousins in their 40s and I really can't relate to them unlike my cousins who are in their early to mid 30s and I'm 20 just like I can't relate to 15 year olds either.

>>2864592
Madden 96 caused fucking wars

>ctrl f
>arcades
When I was a kid I was really cute, and kind of girl looking. Most of my friends were girls. They would dress me up like a girl. We would go to the arcade and flirt with the creepers for quarters and pizza.
>tfw now fat and ugly

>>2864694
If you can remember the year psx got analog sticks then you weren't born in the 'late 90s.' You would've been at most 1 year old.

>>2865031
Except the mid to late 90s (or to say the 5th gen) weren't that good because hardware limitations of the early 3D consoles resulted in most games degenerating into mindless collectathons. The 5th gen I personally am not a huge enthusiast of.

>>2865290
You can smell nostalgiafagging a mile away when the idiot writes an entire essay on the glories of a certain period of video gaming, generally the one that happened when he was 10 years old.

>>2865031
>2015
>still repeating the video games are art meme
I thought Roger Ebert already dismantled this notion.

>>2861335
I only had a gril in the 90's so nothing to talk about. She was totally uninterested. Didn't get a boy until the 00's and now everything's fine on the vidya front.

>>2864874
Correct. Late 90s felt like early to mid 2000s. The fashion changed, mainstream rap happened and nu-metal exploded. Was a weird time... Wouldn't say it was bad though. Oh yeah was also the rise of the Internet too.

>>2865302
Your reading comprehension is shit, friendo. I said how old I was towards the end.

>>2865317
Except art is anything created. Calling something "artistic" is not to be taken as a compliment. Where the fuck did this misconception arise? If you want to go by terms that denote quality, use low-brow and high-brow. And if you really want to go that route
>Tetris, it is a self contained proponent of the media without needlessly assuming other aspects of art to supplement it's own shortcomings in this regards

As with all art, tetris is a reflection. It's a reflection of the struggles with conformity people face, once you finally do fit in with a certain crowd as an individual you disappear. It's a reflection of society, if too many people refuse to comply to the norms of society it has a negative impact on society. It's a reflection on certain underlying principles of life. Just like how each piece is made of 4 squares just rearranged differently, so too are all humans composed of the same material, just in a different configuration. Just as how certain pieces are suited better to certain tasks, so too are humans suited to better niches in life. It highlights the futility of existence, how such methodical planing and preparation gets undone and forgotten, how no matter how good you are it keeps going until eventually you can no longer catch up

>It does this without some plot not fit for a book, or cinematography that would be at best considered poor for film standards. The music it has, a catchy short tune, is perfectly unassuming, not trying to over shadow the game

>>2865317

Roger Ebert was a blathering ignoramus on video games. He didn't know them at all and he mainly said stupid, shallow things about them.

>>2864598

1988 masterrace reporting

>>2865357
>Late 90s felt like early to mid 2000s

96-99 still a quite distinct period from 01-04.

>>2865359
I dunno what allergy medications this guy is on, but he should cut the dosage.

i can't explain why but all the posts in this thread are really surreal and "off" to me

>>2865578

berenstain bears

>>2864731
>GBA
Personally I don't think anything but 8 and 16 bit systems and games ought to be discussed. The Sega CD and Turbo CD, GBC and NGPC are, imo, the last retro consoles. What did Playstation give us? Metal Gear Solid. The paradigm shift. The narrative blockbuster. Rondo of Blood was better than SotN, and Robo Aleste was better than Zanac Neo. Sony brought gaming into the mainstream -- for better or worse. I can barely tolerate the PS1/N64 console war bullshit. You really think I want to hear people drone on about Nintendo's SNES port machine, with its forgettable mediocre exclusives like Sword of Mana. Or Fire Emblem, which had been done better before. No thanks.

>>2865621
>Personally I don't think anything but 8 and 16 bit systems and games ought to be discussed

Opinions are like assholes. We all have one.

>>2865634
Except for those amputees who have their butts removed.

the only thing good about the 80's/90's was it's media. everything else sucked and i'd probably try to an hero if i got sent back in time to 85.

>>2865634

C-can I put my penis in yours?

>>2865578
Jamais Vu. Probably caused by the posts that talk about childhood memories, that are not completely accurate with your memories.

>>2864816
Because removing historical artifacts and monuments is pointless cleaning of history for the sake of feelings. It is hollow bullshit pursued by people with too few real problems. One of the core sentiments of old 4chan was not taking shit too seriously and demanding people to take action based on your feelings and whims is the epitome of taking pointless shit too seriously.

>>2865697
anyone got any stories about pre 2008 4chan last time i talked to older users they told once anonymoose blew up in 08 things got worse.

>>2865701
I'm not among the earliest users, but I first visited here in mid to late '04 for /h if my memory is correct. I don't think I became a more regular user until late that year or thereabouts. I recall sensing a change in the /b userbase beginning in the later part of 2006 into 2007. As far as the 2008-2009 thing, I honestly don't know or recall clearly enough to say. By that time I think I had mostly started to migrate to various specific topic 4chan boards and 7chan where it was a bit harder for me to discern culture changes.

I'd stopped frequenting 4chan itself for some time until I discovered this board like a year or year+ ago.

Floating caramel cream radishes slowly drifting and drinking through turnstiles full of blue garnished provocations, lies, misdemeanors, smothered in whipped tomato paste, baked at 350 for 4 hours, rubbed in pools of talcum powder, running at the foam of the night, smacked once more into reality, beaten, chopped, pissed on, hosed, nailed, fried, until metal fires of the sun did remain. But who are we to judge? We're only men and purple grass-sized men at that.

Hey Oldfuck, what's your opinion on The Simpsons?

I remember it as this decade-defining cartoon which had dead-on satire of every political or pop-culture happening of the time, but my parents (now 60+) look on it as a tired kids' show.
I have a similar feeling about Pokemon (wait, it's just Earthbound without all the charm, why are you guys still playing it) so maybe it's generational.

>>2865759

I wasn't aware you catch and battle with monsters in Earthbound

WHAT DOES THIS THREAD HAVE TO DO WITH VIDEO GAMES!?

>>2865778

what are video games

>>2865513
Reporting in.

>>2865759

I enjoyed watching it in the 90's for the reasons you mentioned. One of the nice things in that era. The other thing that was killed since 90's include Mtv and pop music (finally, being struggled from the master 80's)

>>2864598
This is how I know that you are underage.

>>2861335
I should admit that's a nice thread.

>>2861542
Thank you for taking the time and making this thread and opening up. I wish there were more people like you here, we hardly ever get this sort of perspective from a person your age.
I just hope you're not rusing everyone

>>2865715
4chan been around since like 03 right? someone on /vr/ mentioned that /gif/ is very similar to the old 4chan. It would of been nice to have seen 4chan back in 05 but i was a wee lad back then and still a normie lurking myspace and newgrounds,

>tfw born in 95 and first vidya was a SNES
Fuck yeah, third world country

>>2866856
> /gif/ is very similar to the old 4chan.
the entire page is requests for gifs of dicks
it's a funny joke, but this is not what old 4chan was like

>>2866856
Late 2003. It would die from time to time and come back. I don't know how to describe what it was like when I frequented /b back in the day, but it was mostly perverts joking around. I'd guess that the population was comprised of people from places like SA (obviously, though I've never been a member), anime groups, and porn addicts. It was also fairly slow so it was usable. I recall something getting posted and people joking about how long it took moderation to delete it. Last time I checked /b a few years back I recall that it seemed so fucking fast that it was bordering on unusable. I can say that it shocks the shit out of me to see 4chan references spouted on mainstream sites like YouTube, EPIC becoming a marketing buzzword, and seeing 4chan referenced pretty much anywhere outside of the darker corners of the internet.

I guess it felt more like a community of sorts, comprised of generally like-minded people.

>>2866890
ahh ok
>>2866932
Thats interesting because i started coming here around 2011 and /b/ was just a cluster fuck and then it got boring very easily. Seeing nothing but teens acting very edgy and shit posting.

>I guess it felt more like a community of sorts, comprised of generally like-minded people.
Thats one thing i remember hearing

>I can say that it shocks the shit out of me to see 4chan references spouted on mainstream sites like YouTube, EPIC becoming a marketing buzzword, and seeing 4chan referenced pretty much anywhere outside of the darker corners of the internet.

the way i see it, the internet culture has been far more accepting than it was maybe 20-15 ish years ago where i guess it was still considered super nerdy or you were a basement dweller with nothing better to do. tho i never had true internet experience till 2005. People accept memes and other things that have possibly originated from here and migrated it into mainstream society.

>>2866856
/f/ is like old 4chan. weird and boring with no context. i've been here since 06 and things have changed a lot. I got on 4chan when it was getting edgier. you could tell there was a mix of idiots with confused orignal users. 4chan was a way to mimic japanese culture a la 2ch but it was growing and people just spammed nigger,fagggot jokes, and porn over and over on /b/. most of the other boards were so slow, it wasn't worth posting. no one would reply for days.

>>2867109
4chan is essentially the western version of the 2chan.
>/f/
I had no idea we had that until now, I might check it out to bring back some old memories of mid 00s internet nostalgia. Thanks ! The only board that seem to generate alot of traffic are /b/, /fit/, /v/, /pol/, and /sp/ imo but /b/ usually takes the credit for just being "4chan" to everyone else. Do you think /b/ has evolved within the years?

>>2861335
Watchmen came out in the 80's.

>>2867132
>4chan is essentially the western version of the 2chan.
lots of things wrong with that sentence, but I can't bother mansplaining

>>2870218
He used the word essentially instead of literally. There it took one sentence.

>>2870246
still think world4ch was closer to 2chan and old 4chan was closer to the anime board I can't bother recall the name from something awful

where my 85 niggas at?

Eh, I was born in 86 and I remember the 90s just being the time before the lockdown of American airports and before the entire nation freaked out over their kids losing in sports or activities. It was nothing special. It was just a different time.

>>2861646
faggot cuck detected

>>2864828
>>2864867
>>2864872
*tips fedora*

>>2863668
The way you type makes you seem like you were born after 2000.

>>2870301

1985 here.

Got to experience the late 80s as a little toddler and the whole 90s decade fully. Not bad at all. The only thing that sucks is that I'm already 30, I don't know what happened the past 10 or 15 years, it's like a blur in my memory as far as entertainment and pop culture events go.

>>2861498
18 year old here.
>2007
2006 and 2005 was better. Anything afterwards I don't have fond memories with. I'm also sure I just proved your point

this thread is meta garbage that has NOTHING to do with RETRO VIDEO GAMES

>>2861407
>i'm pretty sure hes a serial killer
How and why?

>>2861479
How does your brother feel about you being a manchild and raising two absolute wastes of life who might just be evil incarnate?

>>2873583
Because people like to harbor malevolent delusions about their fellow man in order to make themselves feel better.

>>2861524
>movies were shit
At the top of my head, we had;
>Before Sunset
>Waking Life
>School of Rock
>A Scanner Darkly
>Match Point
>Funny Ha Ha
>Lost In Translation
>Adaptation
>Punch Drunk Love
>There Will Be Blood
>4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
>O Brother, Where Art Thou?
>Coffee and Cigarettes
>Broken Flowers
>Kill Bill
>Pan's Labyrinth
>The New World
>Superbad
>Knocked Up
>Walk Hard
>The Assassination of Jessie James By The Coward Robert Ford
>In The Mood For Love
>Amelie
>Mulholland Drive
>Spirited Away
>Persepolis
>Gommorah
>The Dreamers
>Dogtooth
>Napoleon Dynamite
>Zodiac
There are absolutely hundreds more that are missing since I barely put any time into this as well.

>>2865701
93 here, started coming to 4chan when I was 12.
I haven't gone to /b/ since I was probably 17 years old (and am deeply embarrassed by it, and will outright cut off friendships with people if I find out they use modern /b/).
/b/ was always awful, but back when I was on there (late 2005 up until 2010) it always seemed a lot more sinister.
4chan wasn't this big huge thing yet like it is now, and it seemed like the type of people that used 4chan were genuinely on the fringe of society whether it be the fringes of adolescence or adulthood. Rather than now where everybody and their dog know what 4chan is and has probably poked around a few times.
It made for a much more interesting experience and I truly felt like a rebel, being a part of something that would "change the world" which was helpful because at the time I was an overweight depressed NEET who was desperate for a purpose.
It's pretty fun (but terribly edgy and embarrassing) to mention with people familiar to the site and its history that you were around during some of the Cracky stuff, the Mitch Henderson stuff, the Tom Green stuff, fucking Haboo Hotel, Hal Turner,or the Boxxy war (I actually went to high school with her which made the whole situation that much more interesting, that situation is what led to me qutting /b/ though), or when actually fucked up illegal shit would be posted on the board.

4chan in general is pretty terrible now. I only really come to occasionally lurk on /vr/ or /mu/ when I have free time and am by myself.

>>2873664
I been here since 06. Back then I shitposted on a and lurked a bit and I was scared of b. I still am. For the most part I didn't like it here because of the immaturity. In 11 or 12 it was noticeably more civilized and I started posting more.

I used to post on the text boards too.

>>2873664
>went to school with boxxy
how was that? what was the reaction or were you younger/older than her or what was the reaction at your school?
>>2870218
I was trying to grasp like if there was any similarities between the two but idk i usually mess something up.

the new board /wsr/ had some old stuff from mid 00 4chan not sure if the thread is there still

I'm the annoying "the 70's-80's were better guy"

>>2873758
thats just the le wrong generation crowd unless you were born around that time then its called nostalgia, grandpa and its normal to feel that way

>>2873753
I was a year younger than her, and it was pretty bad honestly.
People would make fun of her for it, creeps would drive from out of state to come watch her high school plays, and it was just all weird. Her parents got divorced over the whole thing and they had law enforcement watching the family for a while during the peak of it.
I don't think most of the school actually knew how crazy it actually was online though.

>>2873796
>Her parents got divorced over the whole thing
That's a bold assumption to make.
I'm sure her parents got divorced because the internet was drooling over their daughter. Idiot.

>>2865317
Who cares what some dead jawless guy has to say?

>>2873801
You might be autistic or something and thus incapable of putting yourselves in somebody else's shoes, but try and put yourself in their position.
The internet wasn't stalking, harrassing, and threatening just Catie. They were doing the same to her family as well. They weren't just worried about her (which obviously probably put a huge strain on their lives, and their inability to really do anything to stop it) but also themselves.
Stress like that can fuck up a marriage.

>>2861335
Parent from '91. My kid only likes playing games over LAN and scolds his friends for playing online since we sacrificed the garage for that purpose. Since my daddy and I used to be hobbyist, I'm passing this on to my son. We have taken up quite a ton of projects mostly refurbishing old school computers.

>>2873796
Damn dude that's ducked up. Guess it's important not to become a literal meme huh

>>2873664
>the Cracky stuff, the Mitch Henderson stuff, the Tom Green stuff, fucking Haboo Hotel, Hal Turner,or the Boxxy war

These memories are completely priceless. No other time in history has something like this happened nor will it ever happen again.

My friend STILL has a recording of me prank calling Hal Turner years back and I still get a chuckle out of it, even though now it's just teenage stupidity. Still remember my dad asking me later why the fuck was there 15+ attempted calls to New Jersey or wherever the fuck he was from. Tom Green raids and GirlTalk were still the pinnacle of hilarity back then - still trying the find the one where he had Tony Hawk on and a /b/ caller told Tom he "sucks eggs and is a faggot", and Tony starts laughing. Or the time they ordered like $150 worth of sushi to him.

But Subeta rules all, 40 fucking PS3s ordered that admin over a fucking longcat item along with 10+ copies each of every season of The Fresh Prince, using his own stolen credit card. I still die thinking about it.

>>2873664
>It made for a much more interesting experience and I truly felt like a rebel, being a part of something that would "change the world"
Eh, I found 4chan in 2009 and like most I started on /b/. Every single faggot feels like he's the final boss of the Internet when he discovers b. I lasted there about a year before moving on. I think of b as a chantards puberty. I can't believe you lasted there 5 years though. Maybe it was different in the past but still its such a shithole. I was 23 when I found 4chan. I guess you enjoyed b for that long since it really is filled with children.

>>2873870
The Tom green raids really were hilarious. There were so many more videos up on YouTube too but they've all been taken down it fucking sucks.

I think Tom green still has a show they need to get that stuff started again.

>>2861335
cool MidiMaze image OP

>>2873235

also 85 here. I know what you mean, the past decade went by too fast.

imo nostalgia and selective memory can really distort judgment. I've browsed 4chan since 2008 and while it's changed over time, it's always been a retard sandbox, especially b.

the 90s were better in some ways and worse in others, same for 00s.

>>2873796

I knew about the online cult, I didn't know that she was getting stalked and harassed irl, though that doesnt surprise me at all.

>>2864673
>born in the late 90s
>4 in 2000
96 is mid 90s though. 97 might be mid 90s, 98-99 is definitely late 90s

>>2874005
They stopped teaching how to do arithmetic in the early 00s

>>2873981
Thanks for your sharing your useless fucking drivel asshole.

Btw I baked a cake once.

The day /vr/ turned to /pol/

>>2861351
Gross.

>>2863691
so gross, plz leave.

i was born in 91 and my childhood was gameboy, n64, snes, ps1 and gameboy color.
ps2 were my teen years and the golden age of my video gaming experience.

>>2864698
You forgot about Generation Jones. The age group between Boomers and Gen X.