/vr/ - Retro Games

Well people can't control when they were born. Just so you know since you seem like a brainlet

>>4661012
Make sure you buy up any nice CRTs you find even though you already have ten of them.

>>4661013
Pretty sure he's actually some butthurt kid.

>>4661012
>Not original image.
If you're honest, Anon, then you should at least show us a pic for your cabs. And you are serious, then why not restore them?

>>4661012
> I've decided to start buying old arcade cabinets
> doesn't post original picture
> Emulation is for hipsters

i'm certain the only thing you collect are fedoras, hentai and cheetos in your neckbeard.

>>4661012
If you're gonna bait, you need better fake proof than that.

Fight the good fight, OP. I collect undumped games and smash them.

>>4661012
>buying old arcade cabinets and just watch them rot away in a damp garage
Well that's silly. Sell your original dedicated arcades to me so I can replace the original crt with lcd screens and make it a 60 in 1 monstrosity. You can find me on craigslist under "Ultimate Mancave 60 in 1 Ultra R@re Only 2k!!!"

>>4663045
>>4663016
I know right? Next time he should use this pic from my damp garage. Though I've owned my cabs for 20 years and I'm sure they've fared better in that time than most of the others at those AAMA auctions

>>4663828
Jesus.

Is there a solitary square inch of your property which doesn't look like a festering shithole?

I just murder and rape hookers, in that order. Takes all kinds I guess.

>>4663841
Sure!

>>4663849
Sorry, not seeing much improvement there

>>4663852
k

>>4661012
Your dad is totally going to let you spend your allowance on old cabs and keep them in his garage.

>>4661012
I agree. People who weren't alive when it existed will never be able to truly experience the game. They can buy tube tv, actual hardware, yadda yadda yadda.
It isn't just about the software and hardware themselves but the whole context at which it existed. Their minds are infected with current day ideas to a point where they'll never understand.

>>4665924
>Their minds are infected with current day ideas to a point where they'll never understand.
This is a huge problem, and I don't see many solutions that aren't messy.

>>4663849
dude youre stuck in 1988 or something

>>4663849

>Wood laminate walls

Lol

>>4663828
I'm gonna get tetanus and black mold just from looking at this

>>4665924
>DownfallHitlerSlowlyTakingOffGlasses.gif

What kind of fucked up backwards logic do you people run on?

>>4661012
cute pasta

>>4667564
He's actually kind of right in some perverse way. Someone born in the 2010s may never be able to experience and appreciate the SNES in the same way that we who were born in the 80s and before were. Personally I have trouble appreciating the Atari in the same way as those who were teens or above in the 80s likely did.

>>4668753

It's like expecting those who have already seen a professional fireworks show to be impressed by laundry static. As someone born in the late '70s, Nintendo was basically NEO GEO and SEGA Genesis combined-coming from the Atari 2600 and the like. Super Mario Bros. was probably as popular as Star Wars at one time in the arcades and at homes around the world. Words fail to describe the impressive feeling when comparing Super Mario to Pitfall Harry back in the early days. Calling SMB "cartoony" was a supreme compliment and today's younger players will never understand it.

Just try to match that mind-blowing wonder now, you can't unless you've sequestered an individual from all current technology and raise him or her up in an artificial 1970s/80s environment, but good luck.

>>4668753
Was born in 96. Did not hinder my enjoyment of games made years before I was born. Nephew born in 06, plays old Sonic and has finished old Nintendo games. Again this logic is just stupid.

>>4668829
Not to mention plenty of kids enjoy music and movies made decades before their birth.

>>4668829
Exceptions, man. Generally most people are into and have knowledge of the new stuff exclusively, such is life. Music is no different. It's great that you and your nephew have good taste in games, but do you really think your nephew is as rocked by Super Mario as I was as a kid? Would he have wanted to risk real fights in an arcade because some jackass lined up a line of quarters and was breaking the unwritten rules and hogging the Playchoice 10 machine, and to be utterly amazed at how games now looked "real" as in a "real cartoon" and didn't look like blocky garbage?

>>4667521
Playing retro games in a retro looking room is kino

>>4668829
That's not what I meant at all. To someone raised on PS3-era graphics, for example, to go back and play Quake from an era where 3D graphics cards were a luxury and not a requirement...would that person have the same awe for Quake's graphics as someone who was alive in those times would have, when the bar was set considerably lower?

It doesn't mean you can't enjoy the old stuff, but it does mean you won't be able to appreciate them as someone who lived through the era can. Perhaps appreciate is the incorrect word to use, maybe perceive?

>>4661012
>DELETHIS in 8 bits