/vr/ - Retro Games

those days are gone forever

>>4667843
You can still do all that stuff as adults. I'm nearly 30 years old and a while back, I went roller skating with friends, followed by dinner, followed by N64 games at my place.

>we're going to play games all night!
>bitches fall asleep by 2am
Was it just my friends who did this?

>>4667838
I wasn't allowed to have friends over, nor could I stay at a friend's house for any length of time.

>when your cousins drinks all the Pepsi and wets the bed

>>4667857
What was your parents' deal?

>>4667902
Hey, I saw Home Alone too

>>4667843
I got together with three of my friends and played super monkey ball 2 for like 4 hours a couple weeeks ago, fruck off fraggot

>>4667903
My stepmother was always very strict about certain things, and put my studies ahead of everything else. Ever get grounded for six months because you made a B? It's not fun. As a bonus, my dad was working all the time, and couldn't really do anything to offset this.

>>4667916
>Ever get grounded for six months because you made a B?
No, I only got A's

>>4667853
That shit was depressing as fuck

The dream

>>4667838
We had a bday party for a friend of mine a few months ago and all we did was hang out in the basement eating pizza and playing Mario kart 64 goldeneye and original contra

I did that with Doom 64. Good times anon.

>>4667838
Never even happened once at my place. But I spent plenty of time at other kids houses where the parents weren't ridiculous cunts.

>>4667838
funny, I can only remember the infighting

>>4667838
My brother brought over his buddy to sleep over for the night. All we did was watch wrestling, then the jackass movie and play gauntlet on the n64 all night. Then he stayed for a week. I found out he was trying to escape a bad situation at home. Made me realize how shit life can get real quick.

>>4667853
>that one faggot that would always drop by 1 am

>>4667843
you get to get laid now though, it's way better desu. not that you'd know lmao

>>4668251
I did N64 all-nighters until I was around 17, and lost my v-card at 14. Step it up brah.

>>4668129
WWF or WCW, this matters.

>>4668260
Like anyone watched anything but WWF in the 90's

>>4668286
WCW was the king from 1996 to 1998 and you know that.

I wish it was that fun back then. On the odd occasion I had a friend sleep over there was a very strict "no fun" policy in place. We got to sit quietly in my room until we fell asleep, any noise and my ass was grounded for a few months.

Once I found freedom I didn't have any friends who were into gaming, and I still only know like 2 people who will play video games, but it has to be the newest CoD or they aren't interested.

>>4668286
You know WCW was kicking WWFs ass in ratings through much of the 90s, don't you?

>>4668310
Your mom was trying to save you from turning into exactly the human garbage you have become now

>>4668330
Projecting, anon?

>>4668330
No my mom actually enjoyed things. It was my bipolar stepdad who hated to see us happy. Thankfully I only had to deal with him from 6 to 15, then I moved out and never spoke to him again.

>>4667849

>>4667849
Kek

>>4667849
I don't know whether that sounds awesome or gay. I picture a bunch of slightly overweight grown men on skates and scarfing down pizza afterward.

>>4668247
God, I was that faggot. I still am.

>>4668260
It was attitude era wwf, that short golden era where wrestling was fun to watch.

>>4668251
jokes on you, Im fucking your whore mom as I speak lmao

>>4668356
>picture a bunch of slightly overweight grown men on skates and scarfing down pizza afterward.
It was two men and two women. And I am a little chubby, yeah, but the only one.

Shit's fun.

>>4668361
>that short golden era when I was 12 years old and easily impressionable

>>4668851
In comparison to what wrestling is now it was a golden era. Nowadays, pseudo gay man wrangling is just terrible.

>>4668851
do 12 year olds still love wwe today? I don't think it's nearly as culturally relevant now as it was then, is it? There aren't any new icons really that have been passed the mantle, still beating the same old heroes as they were back then.

>>4667838
>Extremely Religious Parents
>No sleepovers allowed, ever
I'm nearly 30 and still mad about missing out on so much childhood fun, ahaha..ha

I'm glad you guys got to experience that feel, I bet it was awesome

>>4668247

>me

I have narcolepsy, fuck off

>>4668361

Hacksaw jim dugggggan
Wild thing
Million Teb debiasse (sp)
ric flair
hulk hogan
brett hart
macho man randy savage
original undertaker
iron sheik

cant fuck with that era of wwf. it seems like wrestling went from goofy down home fun for everyone to some kind of homoerotic redneck family bonding experience afterwards.

>>4668356
gay is awesome tho

>>4668843
>both the girls are lesbians
>the guys is gay
>but he thinks he's too good for you because you're fat
>they all think you'll meet somebody who sees how great you are some day

>>4668886

seems like wwe mostly appeals to little kids and SJWs nowadays

>>4667838
Good times.

It's bizarre that most modern games don't try to encourage this anymore. I mean, yeah, online is the future, but couch multiplayer is great, too. But you only see it in fighting games anymore, which most casual people don't even like.

Like, fuck, I remember buying Burnout Paradise and firing it up when I had some friends over, assuming it'd have split-screen multiplayer only to find out it did not. There used to be a time where racing games without split-screen multiplayer just weren't made.

>>4669471
am an sjw, can confirm, love wrestling

>>4667838
I didn’t have any friends as a kid. Come to think about it, I don’t have any friends as an adult either

>>4669478

most modern games don't even have couch multiplayer. Nintendo is pretty much the only company that still does it now

>>4668886
Outside of John Cena I don't even know the names of any wrasslers these days.

I never liked it but somehow was able to name a great deal of them back in the day

>>4669310
Don't blame that shit on them being religious. My dad was a SSG in the Army AND a Baptist pastor and I had sleep overs all the time.
Our favorite thing was to set up a tent in the back yard and use a bunch of extension cords to play Genesis and Snes outside all night

>>4669497

Everyone knows that it's fake nowadays. Back in the 90s the dumb kids still thought it was real

I've been lugging a small crt and a box of classic consoles to friends' houses for nights of retro gaming, we're all in our 30s and still have a blast. It's never too late (except for sleepovers, that ship has sailed)

For me, LAN parties took the place of splitscreen multiplayer games, we gather at a friends crib, everyone brings his own laptop and we play mostly stuff like age of empires, rise of nations, cs 1.6 etc

>>4669774
Counter-Strike is what killed my group of friends.
We'd usually play a lot of different vidya on weekends, N64, PS1, Dreamcast, lots of great games from fighting to racing, to co-op stuff.
Then the C-S craze took over and every weekend they'd just go to a cyber (basically a LAN place where you'd pay like $1 per hour to play), and just waste the entire weekend there playing the same game. I remember going with them once, and the smell of that place, oh god.

Our house LAN parties are the same as they always were, except we drink less now because we don't have to prove anything anymore and shits fun even without getting hammered, and we don't exchange porn anymore because broadband is a thing now so everyone already has the stuff they like. Good times.
>playing CS1.6
>eating pizza and chips all night
>staying up until you literally fall asleep in your chair
>sleeping on the floor with the PC fan blowing comfy warm air over your face
And thanks to not shit hardware and better knowledge of networks, we get to play within an hour of finishing the grocery trip at the start of each party instead of waiting for hours and then only getting half the PCs to communicate.

>>4668843
no anon, be miserable like us!

i remember all my buddies coming over to play TimeSplitters 2 in split screen. I remember going over to a friends place to play mario party all night and watching the sun come up. I remember college and the 8 hour D&D fests we would have. all my friends moved and i eventually did too. i miss it.

>the parents jew out and order 1 pizza to split between 4 boys, and top it off with a half-empty bottle of 2 day old diet coke from the fridge

>>4667838
I honestly miss these days more than anything, but also feel good enough that I can always cherish the memories. As a kid in the 90's felt so simple and liberating. I'm glad my parents (and my friends parents) allowed me to experience these moments as I don't think they are aware of how much an impact they had on my life. Nothing is ever going to bring those days back, you can still create them now and again, but the feeling of innocence is gone unfortunately and I think that's what made those nights so damn special.

>>4667843

I'm 32 and I still do it because I have a kid

My family was too poor to own a console proper, so my first experience with gaming overnight was when my uncle from Taiwan brought over his "old" 486 computer for use by the family, which ended up going to me.

I would go to the library just to grab ROMs to play on that machine with NESticle late into the night.

>>4667853
>one said his parents told him he can't stay up past 10pm
>we don't want to sleep. he can't sleep while we're awake
>he just walks the fuck home.

His parents were faggots, too.

>>4667853
my one friend would always fall asleep early but my other friend would normally stay up with me, usually playing non retro games or watching some movie.
>>4667902
happened to me at my cousins house :/
>wake up at like 6am
>have to piss
>go to their only bathroom but someones showering
>walk around a little
>still have to piss
>think about going into the backyard to piss but giant german shepherd is out there and will come in
>go back to cousins bedroom
>get in sleeping bag
>tell myself im sleeping
>feel the warmth fill my undies
>wake up later
>not soaked
>get up and kind of pretend like nothings happened
>later in the day we're doing something
>cousin tells me 'wait you can't do that'
>why not?
>'cause you peed yourself'
>...
>'haha just kidding man'


they totally knew and i'll forever be that cousin that pissed in their sleepingbag/carpet

change
>your parents are ordering pizza
to
>you and your friends are driving out to pick up pizza
and you can do it at any age

>that time you got naked with your friend and rubbed your dicks against each other

n-no homo

>>4667838
This was a lot of fun. Here are some highlights.
>Playing multiplayer Sonic on Genesis
>Friend 1 waits until parents are asleep, breaks out Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.
>First blood and gore game I ever played, shit was awesome.

>3:00 am
>At Friend 2's house, playing WWF Warzone
He shuts off the N64 because Saved By The Bell is on and that's his favorite show.
>I'm all WTF? But it's his house, so I watch it with him anyway.
>To this day, he denies it happened.

>At Friend 1's house, playing Gauntlet on some Midway museum collection.
>Been playing for like, 5 straight hours.
>We get to The Final Boss (a dragon)
>I had no idea Gauntlet even had a final boss.
>Talk about it afterwards, wondering if anyone else has ever seen that dragon, because it was so far into the game and we wasted so many virtual quarters getting there.

>Friend 2's house again.
>Playing a bunch of shitty Newgrounds flash games
>He tells me to close my eyes
>Stays silent for a while, at least 5 whole minutes
>Wonder what the hell he's doing
>Peek between my fingers.
>He's rubbing his hand over the crotch region of his pants
>While looking at pics of Sarah Michelle Gellar
>Has this disturbing look on his face that is burnt into my mind to this day
>It was this exact pic

>>4667838
>have sleepover with best friend
>best friend happens to be a girl
>we play games all night until we get tired
>allows me to sleep in her bed too so i dont get cold
>we sleep together

Man she was sweet
But this was a bit akward as a young teen since i had a crush on her but was too shy to tell her at the time

>>4672896
>teenager
>sleeping in bed with a girl
>doesn't make a move
Either you're retarded or she thought you were gay.

>>4672897
Oh i made the move a few years later
I was just a bit socially akward at that age

were still together

I'm not white so I didn't have this experience and can't relate

>>4672912
>Oh i made the move a few years later
>were still together
>things that never happened
You already fucked up the possibility of anyone believing that tall tale by calling her "best friend" and never mentioning future gf/wife. Also, you literally said she "was" sweet. Cute story but no.

>>4672914
But Tyrone, wasn't every night a sleepover when you have 6 siblings?

>>4672914
Nigga my best friend is black and we did this every day after school what you talmbout? Even the poorest niggas from round here have a beaten up 64 to cruise in

>>4668370
btfo'd

Back when I was in school I used to go to my friends house with some other friends supposedly to study and do group projects.

Each time we ended up playing Super Smash Bros. all night.

>>4672914
black sleepover is just that it begins after mom gets off work, the guest better eat before they come over, and all night long you have to be quieter than a church fart

>>4667838
>tfw 10 year old me, and friends would stay up late grinding Killer Instinct.
>tfw that was over 20 years ago

>>4672859
Y-YOU TOO?

>>4667838
>friends

>>4667838
I literally never did this

>>4673141
Such a killer
Such a killer
Such a killer
Killer feeling

>>4669789
>And thanks to not shit hardware and better knowledge of networks, we get to play within an hour of finishing the grocery trip at the start of each party instead of waiting for hours and then only getting half the PCs to communicate.

This was also my retro lan experience.
Or they only wanted to play Diablo 2 or StarCraft and I was the only one that wanted to play FPS.

And then when I went to sleep it was awful to not be in my bed holy dang. And then I'd wake up like two hours before anyone else and have to stare at the ceiling while every part of me ached from sleeping shitty all night.

>>4667838
Underage detected
/mods

>>4667838
This board is pretty much /r9k/ with videogames.

I wish I had better friends when I was kid, my neighbors were all right, but my classmates were pretty fucking dumb, loud as fuck and always farting, I never liked doing stuff with them.

>>4672915
What was the tall tale?

I can believe that two people who would be in a sexual relationship later could play vidya all night as teenagers without sex occurring.

It happened to me in college with a girl who didn't have a partner and her apartment mate openly questioned how in the hell we could just be playing vidya for hours, but we were both socially retarded. And we were both yurifags.

>>4672859
I did this too and we never spoke about it

>>4673498
Almost all boards share some feel that board simply because of demographic similarity.

sage for offtopic

>>4667853
It's a sleepover because you sleep when it's over.

>>4667843
me and the boys have two game nights a week it's top priority

>>4673518
>elderly virgin believes two teenagers could sleep in a bed together without sex occurring
>it happened to me

>>4673518
thats pretty much what happened

>>4667849
You're one of the lucky few, most people "grow out" of vidya and doing fun stuff because of work, nagging wife, kids, etc. And even when they really want ro have fun, they don't, because it's no longer socially acceptable to play with children's toys

>>4674156
There's a fairly demographics of people in a narrow age bracket with cluster c personality disorders who have problems playing with children's toys. Everyone else seems to be fine with it as long as it's not taken to ridiculous extremes.

>>4667838
I didn't have friends as a kid so I played a lot of Final Fantasy. Edgar and Setzer were my friends

>>4673715
I had sleepovers until I was 15. Didn't lose my v-card until my mid 20s

>>4669529
My friends and I knew it was fake but we still loved it.

>>4667838
check your first world privileges

>>4667838
>Friday Afternoon
>Time to do fuckall, maybe kill time on the internet for hours
>Check rom site out of habit
>Wait, GAME X's rom is out early?
>Holyshitsholyshit
>Pop on to IRC and shamelessly download from 6 servers, to see whichever finishes first
>While waiting the 30 minutes for it to finish, pop onto GameFaqs
>holy shit it's for real, people are talking about the first dungeon and shit
>Don't even want to look at screen shots anymore
>Stare at download bar, this will totally make it download faster
>SUDDENLY DONE
>pop open emulator
>wait...
>wait...
>That familiar GBA jingle plays,
and so the rest of your day is gone

>>4669858
>being this spoiled and not appreciating the generosity of others

>>4676230
There is nothing generous about an old bottle of half-empty $1.50 diet coke you fucking faggot.

>>4676236
>bottle of soda from 2 days ago is "old"
If it's such a big deal to you why didn't you bring your own soda? Face it, you grew up as an entitled brat which is probably why you're a friendless neckbear stuck in his childhood today. If you knew anything about being thankful, you'd appreciate your friend's parents for being kind enough to host you, order a pizza for you to eat, and letting you have anything to drink besides tap water.

>>4676241
>If it's such a big deal to you why didn't you bring your own soda?
Why the fuck would a 10 year old bring their own soda?
>? Face it, you grew up as an entitled brat
No actually I grew up being taught to always provide your guests with more than they could possibly eat, because that's proper hospitality. Also, there's a difference between showing gratitude/being respectful to someone, and deep down thinking they're a jew. Sorry you grew up eating wonderbread.

>>4669781
where are you from? sounds like it's argentina or some other shithole like that

>>4667838
I dont have any friends... they are all assholes and I hate them

>>4676373

>No actually I grew up being taught to always provide your guests with more than they could possibly eat, because that's proper hospitality

Nigerian detected. You realise that in first world countries, we don't measure social status by how much food we can heap on our plates, right?

>>4677030
>provide your guests with as much food as possible
>any African nation
You just went full retard my dude. Also, it's not about measuring "social status", it's about hospitality. You don't want your guests to feel like they have to worry if they're getting more than someone else or not having enough to eat. I mean, this is common sense shit. What kind of fucked up, dirt poor childhood did you have that offering your guests adequate food makes you a "nigerian" but you are required to show immense gratitude for old diet soda? Get your head checked autismoid.

>>4667849
I've lost all my friends, and they've probably grown out of this shit a long time ago too.
Friendship is one of the strongest things between people and I can't fucking do it.

>>4677720
>Friendship is one of the strongest things between people
Lmao, no it's not. The only thing that matters is family. Friends are more fickle than the weather. If you're one of those people who's had certain friends since you were like 5 years old, then maybe, sure, but the kind of friends you dorm with in college for a few years, or meet in highschool math class, those people don't give a single fuck about you.