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>release date: 1983

What's the age range for people who were really "there" for the NES era?

imo it's a little higher than the perceived public image. Remember the SNES came out in 1990 so it was actually kind of a fleeting time.

>> No.4763345

1983 in Japan. It was released in 1985 in North America in a limited fashion and became more widespread in 1986. I was born in 1981 and was 4 when the console was released in North America. But my dad didn't buy one for the family until Christmas 1988 when I was 7 years old.

>> No.4763346

I was born in 88 and remember still seeing them in stores when my parents bought me a snes for my 5th birthday. At that point my exposure to the NES was just knowing it was the "really old" one.

>> No.4763364

I was one of those kids in the mid 90s who grew up on nes instead of snes because my family was of lower income and nes games were dirt cheap. Hell most people were giving them away at the time. I remember family members and friends would have old nes games they would give me because it was worthless really. Only time I played snes was at my aunt's or a cousin's house. My dad won a settlement though in 98 so he actually bought me a n64 for Christmas. Still kept the nes around and played it until I got the blinking red light.

>> No.4763368

>>4763324
I had snes and genesis as a kid and hung out at my older neighbors house and saw all the megaman games on old nintendo power magazines and really badly wanted to play an snes but couldn't until i was a teenager this was late 90s early 2000s

>> No.4763373

>>4763324
I had a NES until N64 released. My family was convinced SNES was a scam, basically an unnecessary upgrade. We weren't low income either.

>> No.4763376

>everyone got a SNES once it released
>no one touched the NES after 1990
Yay, another "underage who wasn't actually there tries to talk about how he knows what it was like back then" thread.

>> No.4763379

>>4763345
Wow, shit, are you me?

>> No.4763381

I don't even remember seeing the NES until 1987 in my area and I got it for Christmas that year. I think the crash of 1983 kept a lot of stores wary of stocking another game system.

Also SNES was late 1991 in the USA>

>> No.4763382

>>4763324
I was born in 83, got a NES in 89. Didn't get another console til around 94 when we got a Genesis. Only the kids with money were up to date with consoles, most people I knew including myself played consoles for years after the next gen replacements came out.

>> No.4763386

>>4763379
>Wow, shit, are you me?

Nah, I think 1987 - 1989 were just really good years for the Nintendo Entertainment System and I bet many people got one for Christmas between those years.

1990 was the peak for NES sales in North America. Super Mario Bros. 3 made it a must have system.

in 1990 I actually bought myself a Genesis by saving up my own money. Revenge of Shinobi and Super Monaco GP sold me on the system, though I was only 9 years old then. When the SNES came out in 1991, I really wasn't that impressed with the games outside of a few titles. My parents bought one for the family a couple years after.

>> No.4763397

>>4763376
brainlet

>> No.4763446
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>>4763373
>>4763364
I was born in 89 and for as long as I can remember there was an NES in my house. Plenty of neighbours and my babysitter had SNESs but playing them was kind of a rare treat because we never had one. In '98 I saved up and bought an N64 with the people controller and OoT at Costco, first thing I ever saved up to buy.

I didn't actually deep dive into the SNES library until middle school in the early 2000s after figuring out emulation.

>> No.4763454

I was born in '82 and started with Atari but my family eventually got an NES when the craze hit. It's important to remember that lots of people were still playing NES years after newer consoles had released.

>> No.4763718

>>4763324
I assume most people who were "there" are late gen X, early gen Y people: kids or late teens in the late 80s and early 90s. Also, why do you base your years on the japanese releases of the Famicom and Super Famicom? Most people weren't aware/didn't care about japanese stuff back then and it got released quite some time later with different hardware settings (1986 and 1987 and 1991 and 1992 were the release dates for the NES and the SNES in North America and Europe respectively). You're giving me the impression you're just some gen Z kid who looked around google and only took note of the earliest dates. Might as well looked up a little more like how the Famicom Disk System and the Satellaview stayed in Japan or posted that "DID YOU KNOW?" bit.

>> No.4763724

>>4763376
I was born in 1990 with an NEW in my house. I played it until 2002 when I got an N64. I abandoned Xbox 360 in 2008 for NES. Most of my gaming experience is with NES probably far moreso than people that actually were alive before it released.

>> No.4763729

just ask anyone over the age of 30, theres a high chance they were "around" when the nes was big.

what of it anyways? we didnt get tv shows about video games only the occasional ad, it wasnt until the snes was out that there were tv shows focused on video games.

tons of people bought the nes after 1990, because by then it had become cheap and affordable for most incomes. a lot of used games were available and the nes had an established library by that point.

>> No.4763731

>>4763729
I also forgot to mention, bootlegs. they were common back in the 90's. having 50 games in 1, etc.

>> No.4763741

>>4763731
Were pirate NES carts around back then? I never saw them for sale or rent at chains or local places but I've read they existed.

>> No.4763775

>>4763741
yes there were pirate carts of less common or rare games. mostly in black markets or flea markets. those were a common sight back then. Lots of stolen goods were sold there too.

>> No.4763790

>>4763324
Find someone one year older than you. Say "so it was actually kind of a fleeting time". Do the same with someone one year older. Repeat until the guy bursts out laughing. You will have found the tail end of range you're looking for.

>> No.4764018

>>4763790
No one is going to laugh since 7 years is nothing once you get past the age of 30.

>> No.4764019 [DELETED] 

Late gen x (Born mid 70s-early 80s)

>> No.4764023

>>4763718
You've been successfully baited

>> No.4764047

>>4763741
You just had to know some guy who sold pirated games. Or go to vacation somewhere where nobody gave a shit about laws about selling pirated stuff.

>> No.4764056

>>4763345
My family got an NES in 88 as well. And then I got an SNES in 1993. Just five years apart but it felt like forever as a kid. And then the N64 in 1996.

If anything the SNES era was the "fleeting" one if you were older than child or early teens. It would have been over before you knew it. The PlayStation 4 feels like it came out just yesterday but it was about the same amount of time ago. You can say "people didn't buy systems on day 1 / people kept playing their old systems" but in the case of the SNES to N64 a lot of people did buy it in the very first year. I only bought one new SNES game after I got my N64 (Street Fighter Alpha 2), and I got a PlayStation the next year.

>> No.4764057

Born ‘86, step dad had an NES so I was playing it from age 2 onward. But I wasn’t really present for that generation because I wasn’t observing media, unaware of upcoming releases, etc. I just had a bag full of flea market and yard sale games that I rotated over and over.

>> No.4764059

Born in 83. We got ours in the 80s but can't remember exactly when. Once snes came out we referred to the nes as "regular nintendo"

>> No.4764075
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>>4763345
I was also born in 81. My gramma bought my brother and I a NES in 87 with SMB 3 I think it was.

Toys R Us had entire isles dedicated to Nintendo games at that time. You had to grab a card and then take it up to the "game cage" because people would steal them so much.

>> No.4764079

>>4763741
I remember one guy who sold a bootlegged game and I had no idea they existed until that point. Now that I think back on it I think he just opened up one cart and exchanged guts with another.

>> No.4764169

>>4763741
i met someone who said he was going to "wipe excitebike" and put a different game on it.
i was disappointed because i liked excitebike

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I'm 30 and I remember growing up and playing a shit ton of new games a long with snes games.

I used birthday money to buy a ps1 that was the first system I bought myself .. got soul caliber with it and then crash and a whole bunch of other Shit for Christmas. Fuck I miss being a kid

>> No.4764184

>>4763741
first games that were bootlegged in the west were not pirate copies but were copies unofficial games. to get them to run, you needed to plug in an official NES cart into the bootleg cart so the bootleg game can be authenticated to run. this method did not change at all throughout the NES' lifetime.

the real piracy of NES started in japan in the mid 80s when the FDS was released. shit could be dumped to tape and copied easily. I don't recall we ever saw a proper backup system for NES until the SNES arrived. actual pirate NES carts with official software was very rare and uncommon because of the custom mappers nintendo would use in some carts.

>> No.4764404

>>4763324
Also grew up poor. My first console was a NES in 94', played it religiously for four years until we got an N64. We probably had about 30 games for it. Never even touched a Playstation until 99'. Never got a Super Nintendo until 02' and I played the shit out of that too.

>> No.4764409

>>4763324
I was 10 when the NES came out. After owning a 2600 and odyssey 2, the NES was like having my own arcade cabinet.

>> No.4764419

>>4763324
Born in '84, parents got an NES when I was 4 years old. I ended up with over 50 games. Of course I don't own a single one of my old games anymore

>> No.4764423

Born in 84, got a NES for christmas in 90. Like others I still got to experience the hype of new titles and it was an integral part of my childhood. My next console was a Genesis in 93 for my birthday.

>> No.4764434

Born in 92 and played nothing but this thing until the Playstation

>> No.4765262

>>4764018
You'd eventually reach a point where people laugh at the way millennials use words. Basically every generation before them.

>> No.4765270

>>4764059
>Once snes came out we referred to the nes as "regular nintendo"
lol this. Also '83, but mostly missed out on the NES. Got a Super in '92 though, so not a huge loss.

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4765303

Born 85, my first contact with video games was my family's Coleco Vision probably around 88 or 89 as far as memory goes. Then I got my first own console, a Famiclone, in 1990 or 91.

>> No.4767174

>>4763324
We didn't get it in Australia until 1987, and then it took a year or 2 for everyone to actually catch on and start playing it so i was around 8-10 in its prime in this country.

>> No.4767263

I was born in 1997. But I played on my parents' Nes. It was ether that or a Sega Saturn. We were not too wealthy back then so we could not afford the newest consoles. Hell we were actually using Dial-Up internet all the way until 2005!

>> No.4767330

As for the SNES. I did not get into that years later when I started collecting older games (After being disappointed in how shit the games were getting between 2014-2016)

>> No.4768046

>>4764023
>answering an answer is taking the bait
>>>/b/

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>>4763324
Console release dates don't matter, there is only "before emulators" and "after emulators".

>> No.4768083

Born: 1981
I got mine shortly before SMB2 came out. Had an Atari 2600 and a Vic=20 but I remember going over to a friend's house and his older brother had an NES. Saw him and his friend playing (what must have been) 1943 and it blew my mind seeing that on a home system.

I already had a GameBoy and a Game Gear by the time I finally got a Genesis. I was an Army brat though so in my culdesac there was a kid with a Turbo Grafix and another with a SNES
During the 32-bit days I was a Saturn owner while the same group of friends would give me access to a Playstation, a 3DO and the first 'gaming' PC I ever saw.


As a side note, one of the guys had a Master System and eventually a Nomad. They are the only specimens of those I've ever seen in person to this day.

>> No.4768089

Born in 89 here, grew up with a NES and atari 2600 and XEGS until I got a n64 and game boy color
The other day I asked my parents why they didn't buy me a snes and they told me because I didn't want it, which is bullshit I think
But in the end I was happy with my NES and ataris

>> No.4768259

>>4768089
>The other day I asked my parents why they didn't buy me a snes and they told me because I didn't want it, which is bullshit

Anon, you were 1. I doubt you wanted a SNES. Stop being autistic.

>> No.4769919

>>4763324
Well i was born in 1990 and i didn’t physically see one until i was a man. When i was very young there were Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Megadtive/genesis and, ocasionally, SNES about. I was really jelly of SNES i could see it was way better than Sega’s console.

>> No.4769940

>>4763324
88fag here. My grandmother babysat me a lot when I was young, and my uncle, who was in high school at the time, had an nes. I played it all the time a s was fortunate enough to inherit his collection. Even though I was born pretty late to n its lifespan, I still feel like I got to experience the console in its entirety.

>> No.4769986

>>4763345
>Christmas 1988

that's when I got mine too. most of my friends had one at that point.

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>>4763324
I was born in '86.
I remember seeing NES and Genesis in stores before the SNES came out. I played SMB2, SMB3, and Castlevania at my cousin's house. I played Sonic at my neighbor's house. I got a SNES in '92. The year before I had gotten all the Turtles with their van.

>> No.4770310

>>4768060
>Console release dates don't matter, there is only "before emulators" and "after emulators".

I was emulating NES games on my PC back in 1998.

>> No.4771548

>>4763324

I got the NES around 86/87 when I was youngun. Don't forget that back then arcades had already been a big thing for years so there already was an audience of older kids ready for home consoles like this and Atari along with the younger kids who hadn't played them.

>> No.4771586

Born in 86 and I remember playing NES forever before I got my SNES which was shortly after launch.

Then again as a kid time feels slower so maybe I only played NES for 2 years or so and it felt like so much longer.

>> No.4772905

Born in 79 I worked for 3 weeks in the summer doing cleanup for my dads construction company to buy my nes, was one of the proudest moments of my childhood going to toysrus and grabbing that ticket

>> No.4772925

>>4763345

Also born in 81, and got an NES in 88.

I know they were really tough to get for a while, and my parents ended up going across the border into Blaine WA to get ours.

>> No.4773639

Funny to see this thread now since I've just been thinking about this recently. I always thought of myself as an NES kid even though I was 4 years old when the SNES came out. I still of course had an NES and played it and loved it but I pretty much saw no real difference between the NES and the SNES since it's all I knew. So when I see older fags talk about how impressed they were then they saw NES graphics it kind of puts things into perspective for me since the NES has always been the base for all graphics.

I'm more curious about the general demographics of this board though. Is it just a bunch of crusty old fucks like me or are young people still getting into retro games? Well I guess it would be mostly guys in their 20s like any other board.

>> No.4773751

>>4773639
>I was 4 years old when the SNES came out
>crusty old fucks like me
lol. You're 10 years younger than the fake gramps. Just look how crusty and fucky you might become. Also, there are people here 10 years older than that faggot.

>> No.4773758

i had an NES when i was a young teen, around 2007-2010, when i sold it. i loved playing tiger heli, apparently my dad and older brother played it alot together back in the 80's/90's. im still trying to get him to play halo with me. too many buttons he says. damn.

>> No.4773917

>>4763324
Both of my older siblings were born in the early 80s and so are prime NES era kids, but because my parents were not thrifty we didn't get out first console until the N64 in '97. The NES was everywhere though, every office and wait room had a NES setup so I remember playing it a ton despite never owning one.