/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4586504
>play on the TV my parents made me use in order to make video games as unpleasant as possible in the hopes I'd grow out of them

Fuck that. I want an expensive hi-tech nineties video editor's screen. The authentic experience is: I CALL THE SHOTS NOW, MOM AND DAD.

>>4586596
This. I have no fond memories of awful hardware.
Maybe the heavy clicks of the channel dials, but it's not worth it today.

>>4586504
Limiting yourself like this would legit make you appreciate stuff more. It's pretty much proven. It's when we become spoiled for choice that we lose our interest.
>Kids back then just played whatever their parents got for them
If they had shitty parents, sure. I requested plenty of games as gifts and usually got them, typically only at birthdays or Christmas.
>After 4-5 years, you can get a Genesis or SNES (not both) with 3 randomly picked games, and start the process all over.
Whenever I got a new system, I don't think I ever got more than one game to go with it at first, and it was usually bundled with the system. Any kid who gets 3 games on the day he also gets a system is probably pretty spoiled, especially with how expensive games could be back then, and would likely get way more games of his choice during the course of a year than you're proposing.

Authentic poorfag experience coming thru

>>4586504
>I already lived it

I can tell, you described exactly what it was like back in the day, except we were happy with this shit instead of feeling limited. It was all so new and exciting back then.

>TFW you can never really relive the past

>>4586596
10. If you yell "FUCK YOU, DAD", you get all your games taken away for a week. You also just raised your chances of getting a shitty edutainment product for Christmas by 200%.

>>4586605
>Whenever I got a new system, I don't think I ever got more than one game to go with it at first, and it was usually bundled with the system. Any kid who gets 3 games on the day he also gets a system is probably pretty spoiled, especially with how expensive games could be back then, and would likely get way more games of his choice during the course of a year than you're proposing.
Could do it your way (one game at launch and two or more later), but consider it front-loaded.

By the time I got an NES, I had SMB/Duck Hunt and TMNT 1. (At the time, 2 wasn't even out yet)

I was a spoiled brat who got ridiculous amounts of games. I'm talking over a dozen a year.
>>4586605
Also you should definitely disable secondary monitors when emulating if you have a secondary monitor. I also always get .pdf of a manual and read through that first. I don't play other games until I'm done with the one I'm playing.

>>4586504
>RF

Wholeheartedly the only thing here I approve of here. Composite is not shite enough: go big or go fuck yourself.

>>4586617
11. If you pick an NES or SNES and have decent social skills, once every few weeks you can play a mainstream Genesis title for a few minutes, preceded and followed by watching a few hours of gameplay when you go over to the "Sega kid's" house. Increased library if you live in a somewhat affluent area and they have Sega Channel.

>>4586629
>and have decent social skills
So basically, nobody on this site, then?

I actually did know someone who had a Genesis, and it was the only time I got to actually play Sonic. Thought it was pretty good.

>>4586640
>So basically, nobody on this site, then?

I wonder if this is just something the lonelier posters repeat to make themselves feel better?

I'm sorry you are less social but there is always hope, anon. I believe in you. <3

>>4586615
I'm pretty sure at one point I was completing Bionic Commando once a day for an entire month.

>>4586640
My mom left me at a babysitter' shouse and she had sonic 2. that is my earliest memory of sonic by far and I didn't see him again until Sonic Adventure 2 on Gamecube.

>>4586647
It was a joke.

>>4586640
My social skills were apparently far better as a child. Also one of my Sega friends was also a 3DO friend - a very rare breed indeed.

>>4586504
>authentic experience
What if your mom worked at Blockbuster from the early to mid 90’s and had the supernatural ability to consistently bring home good titles for you to keep as well as bad ones that you forced yourself to enjoy because you knew your lower-middle class ass was blessed enough as it was?

>>4586623
I had quite a few games because my brother was 4 years older than me, and the NES was bought for him, so by the time I was old enough to play, we were sitting on about 6 or 7 games, most of them pretty good. We also had a C64 before that, and quite a hefty collection of games for that, too. I had good friends within walking distance that I comfortably trusted to borrow/lend games with, and a decent video rental store barely a mile away. I rarely ever owned more than 10 games per system, but the ones I had, I loved, and I still got to try a ton.

>>4586626
I always kick myself a little bit because I played RF for YEARS on a TV that was composite-capable. The jacks were just on the other side of the TV in the back and I never really looked back there because it was up against a wall. Didn't realize it until I got an N64 in 1998 and moved the TV back from the wall to get a closer look.

>>4586681
You were lucky.
>>4586702
I did have an Apple //c, but it was more for the educational shit, and the games I had on it ranged from great (POP, Karateka, Lode Runner, Wings of Fury) to friggin' terrible (bad arcade ports, Ghostbusters, everything else)

>>4586596
I hooked up my genesis the 50" rear projection TV once and my dad fliiped out, because he was afraid of burn in
but man, other than that, we played it on a 12" sony trinitron TV

>>4586827
Yeah, my friend's dad had a big rear projection TV and he was really insistent that we NEVER play video games on it. One weekend he was away and I went over and we totally hooked up the N64 for Mario Tennis and Smash Bros. Shit was cash. Fuck the police.

>>4586504
>(No, you don't get to choose. Kids back then just played whatever their parents got for them)
This concept is alien to me. My two brothers and I each got a game for our birthday and Christmas, and we got whichever game we asked for.

>>4586827
I saw your dad's setup in another thread. It was extremely charming. Maximum coze.

>>4586987
>I asked for FFVII
>older bro got it instead
>he never even played it
>gave up video games years later
>says he won't let his daughter play video games
>my mission is clear

>>4586617
>say "fuck you, dad"
>worst that happens is you get your games taken away

You had a good dad, anon.

>>4586987

You're probably spoiled, no offense.

I had to wait until games went on sale at Hollywood Video and bought them for $20, which was a ton of spending cash for an eight year old.

The rest of my games were just whatever mom found at garage sales. I had an NES and some of my games were literally just games I found, including Double Dragon 2 in the McDonald's parking lot.

I got my Genesis because my neighbors were Nebraska Cornhusker players and they just gave it to me when they graduated, cause they were moving.

I owe them my memories of Road Rash, Mutant League Football, and Sonic 1, I started getting my own games after that

>>4587001
Srsly. I would have gotten a fucking backhand, for sure.

>>4586995
How old was your bro when he stopped playing video games? The only system I remember my brother playing a lot was our C64 and NES. He played a little Mario Kart on SNES, but by that time he was losing interest. Last time I saw him touch a video game was about 1999 when my friend was over and we were playing Buck Bumble on N64 and he thought it looked fun. He probably played Wii sports because his gf had it at one point, but that doesn't really count.

>>4587019
>You're probably spoiled, no offense.
Different anon. I don't think getting one game per birthday or Christmas counts as "spoiled". Especially if it's your only gift, or at least your biggest. Your parents just sound like they were very conscious about spending, or maybe just hardasses.

>>4587037

Three brothers getting whatever games they wanted is pretty spoiled, especially if it also includes multiple systems. That's already a large library for a kid to play through.

>>4586504
Ahh the good ol' days.

I was usually able to rent more than once per week though.

>>4587046
Yeah, I had brothers, but we all had to share the games we got. And it was usually just one or two.

>>4587046
>Three brothers getting whatever games they wanted
Why is this a problem? Maybe his parents realized they didn't know shit about games and let them choose something they'd actually like?

Official /vr/ authentic arcade experience

1. Get an entire basement arcade setup with at least 10 machines
2. Make sure each machine can handle actual tokens and is not set on free play
3. Disconnect random buttons on at least two machines. Don't tell them. The broken-ness is a "fun" surprise.
4. Discalibrate the colors on at least one of the machine's CRT monitors.
5. Invite some friends over. (yeah, I know)
6. Give them 8 tokens each, give yourself 8 tokens as well.
7. After all tokens are gone, that's it. Come back in two weeks!

>>4586504
>all of the disadvantages of being a kid without any of the advantages

why would you do that

>>4587082
It's a problem because he's mad jelly about it.

>>4586504
>1. Get kick-ass 80's Sony multi-system RGB TV
>2. Hook up original Mark III using RGB, others using RF or just use the built in vector monitor
>3. You are allowed to download as many games are you want (you get to choose because you're not an infant)
>4. On weekends, you just play whatever you want
>5. Same for your birthday
>6. And xmas
>7. You can play your old 2600 or other consoles if you want. You certainly play on your computers.
>8. One computer you're not using is always online downloading the latest wharez
>9. After 2 years, you can get a PCE. Naturally you get the CD-ROM addon before the console is even released in the US
Yeah, the 80's were fucking awesome if you were a gainfully employed teenager

>>4586604
This. I still love the old games but fuck the old hardware.

You mean the basement one? That was our new house setup, but at one time at the old old house all that was in the living room instead of the basement. I would not recommend playing games on a front projection TV though, the picture is pretty lousy

>>4587037
>How old was your bro when he stopped playing video games?

Late teens, I suppose. The last game I can remember him playing was Ocarina, when he would have been 18. Don't think he finished it.

>>4586504
I was a kid in the 80s and I didn't have a TV that looked like that. Every TV I saw looked a lot more like a "modern" CRT.

Also, I started with 2 games (Super Mario Bros and Solstice) and never rented a game in my life. Stop playing on easy mode.

>>4588695
Ultimate difficulty mode: You have a 2600 and a single copy of Kool-Aid Man for it. For your entire childhood. GLHF.