/vr/ - Retro Games

The very word "gamer" is absurd. It wasn't used on /vr/ times. Same with "casual" or "hardcore".

>>4160196

It must suck not having any friends.

>>4160196
Some of those dudes seem like they might be pretty cool. That guy's hat is a bit much but I have one of those red cube CRTs. It's not a very great CRT but it does look kind of neat, is fairly small and light and has a handle.

>>4160196

>>4160202
my thoughts

>>4160196
The fact that you would rant on an anonymous imageboard about it doesn't make you any better.

>>4160196
hey virgin, i like older games cause of their simplicity. that sound like im dumb? ask me if i give a fuck. the newest system i own is a saturn. i dont have a room full of games like you do, nor do i own a megaman tshirt but i can enjoy a game of pacman without feeling guilty or like its just to keep up my street cred. i dont look for accolades. im secure enough to do that.

>>4160237

>>4160196
>No thanks, I'll keep my dignity.
stopped reading here

>>4160196
t. 20 year old hipster who is pissed that the fat 35 year old manchildren won't accept him as one of their own

What a well adjusted and pleasant individual.

>>4160196
>I was at a game store perusing their stock
lmao loser

>>4160217
Seriously wtf is that hat

Sure are a lot of insecure, easily baited marks on this board tonight.

>>4160198
It absolutely was used.

>>4160198
All three of those terms were used extensively. What do you get out of trying to change a history you didn't even live?

>>4160306
I'm not easily baited, suck a dick virgin >>>/v/ faggot *tips fedora*

>>4160196
The other day me and a few of my friends were walking by some reseller scum shop and saw some shitstain numale with a manbun overpaying for shit. We walked in and started taking the piss out of everything. I picked up a copy of mario/duck hunt and pretended to be excited shouting to my friends "DUDE REMEMBER THIS GAME LOL" "NO WAY, THIS GAME WAS LIKE THE BEST FIGHTER ON GENESIS." Apparently the little faggot got massively triggered by being around games in a place that wasn't his moms basement and had other people in it. He dropped the pokemon plushy he was about to buy and bolted out the door. I'm pretty sure he shat himself because his mom was shouting at him as they drove away.

>>4160308
>>4160330
"Gamer" was more commonly used, but contrary to today, it wasn't a way to describe yourself, most of the times it was only a silly term that some game magazines used. Others used players (still used today, for example on PS4's slogan), and some other even sillier ones like "game maniacs" (which would be more similar to the word used in Japan, "mania" or "geemu mania", similar to Otaku), but "gamer" is the one that stuck and is used by today's newer generations as a way to describe yourself, that shit didn't exist back then.
As for "hardcore" and "casual", I remember hardcore being thrown around here and there in magazine reviews, sometimes, or stuff like "hardcore players" to refer to people who would get record high scores, but "casual" I honestly don't remember ever reading to refer to easier games, like it's done today.
What's more, "hardcore" was only used to refer to players, not games. Today, "hardcore" and "casual" is a way to define games.
Casual in particular is used by companies to sell mobile games and what not, and "hardcore" is used for advertising games.

>>4160196
this is my new favorite copypasta

>>4160196
Listen here, fucknugget. I don't give a SHIT about how you play your LE RETRO fucking games. Maybe you played an NES once when you were 10 because your hipster shit big brother brought one home from the epic flea market before he flipped it to buy a new scarf after watching an episode of Pawn Stars and now you think it is cool to like old shit because JonTron told you to do it, but you'll NEVER be accepted among those who actually played this shit YEARS ago and aren't fad-following YouTube kiddies just waiting for your next big find because let's face it, the seond you get your OMG LITTLE HAMPTON you'll be taking fucking pictures of your EPIC HAUL to plaster all over your Facebook group because you are so desperate to fit in. Your Alienware machine running ZSNES with that awful fucking smoothing filter doesn't have shit on anything, got that? Maybe it will hold you over, but don't pretend like you aren't desperate for the real deal so you can start your fucking YouTube collecting channel like Pete fucking Dorr.

I just don't fucking care.

>>4160379
Cool

>>4160330
>SWAGMAN
Today I learned this exists

>>4160196
Labeling yourself as a "retro gamer'" is silly. I don't exclusively play retro stuff, I play good games. I only come here to talk about hardware and games that can hardly be discussed on /v/.
Also,
Quit being a faggot. People express their interest in things differently, and even more so in more outcast and dorky hobbies like gaming.

>>4160217
>That hat

I believe it's some type of genital stimulator. That circular device on the front really activates my almonds