/vr/ - Retro Games

Video Games were made for children.

>>4044605
>Why people like to talk shit about casuals when Video Games were literally made for them and not for autistic neckbeards?
K, kid

>>4044613
And their families.

>>4044625
Stay mad.

>>4044639
>And their families.
Nah, really you can't possibly seriously believe in these ads that the whole family play games with their kids.

>>4044605
>Why people like to talk shit about casuals
that's just leftover piss and vinegar that's been lingering.

hearing people complain about casuals annoys me about as much people complaining about normies. We're all really nothing special, nerds in particular have huge chips on their shoulders about everything. If this sounds like you then take the necessary steps and change your attitude.

inb4 angry replies

>>4044646
I think you mean tweens/teens and not actual nerds.

>>4044642
Did your family hate you or something? You never played games with someone?

>>4044649
How am I wrong? There are grown men here

>>4044651
To be honest, nah, only when the consoles were new IF THAT. Most kids I knew played by themselves.

Early video games were definitely marketed towards "nerds". Even in the Atari era, it was kind of like "I'm so nerdy, I own an Atari". And then there's early PC gaming which was entirely made for and by computer enthusiasts.

It wasn't until like NES era that video games were truly marketed at casuals specifically.

>>4044656
The whole nerd cred thing is pretty hot right now. Meanwhile DnD hasn't really grown since it sticks to its origins. While something like Magic is growing like crazy but hasn't had a card with original fantasy art correct to the period since the early 2000s. Instead you got a bunch of brown women with no tits. It's easy to spot what is really keeping to its nerd routes and what is cashing in on "normies" for lack of better word.

I do agree that "normies" is a shit word and is used incorrectly and by non nerds all the time. Kinda like weeab these days.

>>4044670
>Instead you got a bunch of brown women with no tits
Racist.

>>4044671
Throw a brown goddess in your fantasy setting if you want. She better either be a slave girl or someone to rescue for a bounty. Also must have tits.

Because nowdays casuals want free phone games anyway, so they should stop making games for the fickle casuals and make something for the loyal core audience.

>>4044690
If you've bought a console game in the last 17 years then you are "the fickle casual" audience

>>4044605
Actually video games were originally made by geeks for geeks. They went through various phases of being played by the average joe but only relatively recently became a casual thing. If your first game was pong or combat instead of angry birds you might understand.

>>4044791
Yeah this
Now computer shit is OMG SO COOL and bitches want your dick if you know how to make apps and websites

>>4044642

Mine played with me. Jeez anon.

>>4044671
>>4044671

Nope. Hes right.

>>4044642
My family all played pic related with me. The simplest first gen style games were easier for anyone to understand and a lot of the fun potential came from the live interaction.

>>4044670
>DnD hasn't really grown since it sticks to its origins
Guess you didn't play 4e

>>4045239
>RCA Studio II
My whole trailer park played that with me

>>4045239

>Guess you didn't play 4e

Fucking nobody played 4e.

>>4045801
Even when we got a VCS it was only my dad who played it with me but maybe because it got hooked to the only color TV which was in my parents' bedroom and Pac-Man gave my mom an anxiety attack so she didn't play video games again for like 30+ years until my son got her to play Infinity with her this year.

>>4045964
I played it a few times, long enough to know it was horrible and I should just go to Pathfinder. I've been told 5e is good but I haven't played it yet.

>>4044605
"casual" and "hardcore" are terms that weren't really used back in /vr/ times.
Maybe "Hardcore" was thrown around here and there sometimes, but I'm pretty sure the usage of "casual" when referring to video game, or video game players only started during the 6th gen.
It's mostly a marketing term, it doesn't mean anything.

>>4046054
5th gen opened up the market to "normal" people who wouldn't have played 2D games but it wasn't very big because low poly but it existed. You're right though it wasn't until the 6th gen that it was named and marketed to directly.

>>4046054
5th gen opened up the market to "normal" people who wouldn't have played 2D games but it wasn't very big because low poly but it existed. You're right though it wasn't until the 6th gen that it was named and marketed to directly

>>4044613
>Video Games were made for children.
I don't think you saw many children in bars where the Pong machines were.

>>4048546
Not him but video games weren't made for bars dingus

>>4048580
You're right, they were made for blue-collar workers who spend time in bars.

>>4048637
Sure they were sport. Is that what your gramps told you? kek

>>4046003
>Pac-Man gave my mom an anxiety attack
what?

>>4044642
My family played videogames together plenty. My mom loved the shit out of Donkey Kong.

why didn't your family want to spend time with you?

>>4048917
She couldn't handle being chased by the ghosts

>>4048850
No, he's serious. Pong was typically found in bars as a novelty to attract customers.

>>4044642

I remember going through Link to the Past with my brother and mother. We'd all play a couple of hours before going to bed.

>>4044670

To be fair, Kaladesh was based on an indian esthetic, so it makes sense to have brown women with no tiddies. Innistrad was the plane of the whities.

If you think playing games makes you a nerd, you're a fucking idiot. Vidya is one of the most normie hobbies there is. Nerds are people who read a bunch of literature and comics.

>>4044625
>Quake 3 is released
>Put toiletries in room to prepare to never leave
>Take a shit while installing Q3
>Play the intro map
>Get bored after 10 minutes and go back to playing Unreal Tournament's assault mode

>>4044642
I had a normal family as well. If we played anything together, it was ball outside. Video games were nerd shit. "You know you'll never talk to a girl playing that, right?" If only I had listened.

>>4049470
No you're not serious. Pong was typically found everyplace there were arcade games. You do know your parents weren't old enough to drink when pong came out, right?

>>4048546
>Children weren't allowed in bars back then

Try again.

>>4048546
>I don't think you saw many children in bars where the Pong machines were.
There were very little restrictions back then when it came to drinking and bars as kids could go to bars and drink alot easier then today (then the we card scanning bullshit).

Even if a kid was not trying to buy liquor he could still enter the bar and buy cigarettes or play the machines without many people giving a shit unless it is a real minor.

>>4052634
Until 90 the area I grew up in all you needed was facial hair and no matter your age,you got booze.

>>4054056
I was 21 in 90 so I don't know if things really changed then. But I do know I've never been carded. I got dragged to many bars in the 70's and 80s'. Usually by the crazy aunt/uncle/grandma/etc. No one gave a fuck. And they were fucking dives. There were way more people drinking at other places that had a bar or were largely a bar but catered to people who weren't truckers/bikers.