/vr/ - Retro Games

I remember playing it at a blockbuster kiosk, but it was after the game was released.
I had the game at home so I just impressed other kids by playing well and pulling off a few hard to find stars really quickly.

>>6581467
interetsing, I'd like to see that if it's true

>>6581467
Cool blogstory brolet

>>6581467
>"oh neat a thread about McDonald's kiosks--"
>it's just an excuse to do another creepypasta Super Mario 64 sure is spooky and mysterious thread
Come on man

>>6581467
I remember those lasting in some McDonald's till like 2009 or something(maybe even longer in some locations really out in the boonies), of course by that point a lot of them barely worked anymore since they probably hadn't seen any real maintenance in like 15 years if ever

they disappeared around the time that they started rolling out that chain wide makeover to try and make McDonald's look like Starbucks, which in turn made any McDonald's that got applied to become completely bland(the one by my childhood home used to have a bitching Sherlock Holmes theme to it, and the one by my dad's current house used to have a neat cartoon theme, even had autographs by a bunch of famous animators)

uh.. where are the thumbsticks?

>>6582108
>they disappeared around the time that they started rolling out that chain wide makeover to try and make McDonald's look like Starbucks, which in turn made any McDonald's that got applied to become completely bland(the one by my childhood home used to have a bitching Sherlock Holmes theme to it, and the one by my dad's current house used to have a neat cartoon theme, even had autographs by a bunch of famous animators)
Ah yes the famed de-soulification of every single business throughout the 2000s-2010s

I remember playing Mario Tennis and the Rareware Mickey Mouse Kart game on these things. I think there's still a Wii/GameCube/? one in the town next to me but maybe they've gotten rid of it since then.
My biggest memories of McDonald's playplaces was that I used to exclusively wear sandals most of the time so half the time when I wanted to get into the playplace my mom had to buy me socks from McDonald's so I could do so.

>>6582127
Your McDonald’s sold socks? I was lucky if mine cleaned the feces out of the ball pit

>>6582131
Apparently they did because we had to buy socks from them. Gotta admit I've never heard of a McDonald's selling children's socks from anywhere else.

>>6582108
>the one by my childhood home used to have a bitching Sherlock Holmes theme to it, and the one by my dad's current house used to have a neat cartoon theme, even had autographs by a bunch of famous animators)

Ours had starfighter models hung from fishing line shooting red string lasers at each other. We have truly lost much fren.

>>6582113
Broken off by dumbshit children.

>>6581467
Those kiosks are disgusting covered in burger grease and vomit.

>>6581467
if he real

>>6581467
>but there was apparently a bug which turned Mario invisible if he put on the metal and wing caps at the same time
There aren't any places in the game where you can get both the Metal and Wing Caps, dumbass.

>>6582113
Some kid with downs probably chewed them off.

>>6582108
>>6582191
The one near me used to have a movie/TV theme, with movie posters and photos of actors and shit. I think there was a signed photo of an actress from Boy Meets World? Now the place is just the standard, bland, corporate-cozy style.

I remember going nuts for these before the N64 release. The first time I played it some black kid was hogging the machine, so I told the employees and he got kicked out. Probably couldn't do that now.

>>6581467
But the nimtendo came out in September

>>6582108
Yeah, 2009 was around the last time I remember seeing them although it was at a dentist's office.

>>6581467
I wonder, does a McDonalds even NEED a kiosk like that? I've worked in fast food and I can tell you we didn't have to do anything to get people in the door, fuck, not even bad weather could keep them away in fact it brought more people IN. It seems like a massive unnecessary expense on three N64s, 6 controllers, the CRTs, and the kiosk's building materials.

>>6583365
Those weren't to bring in customers. They were to demo N64s to customers.

>>6583890
They existed even before the N64. I remember when I was a kid, my local play place had a bunch of Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis set up (most of which never worked). The only game I remember was Genesis Jurassic Park.

>>6581467
Yup.
In 50 years this will be frowned upon so hard.
You think it's nothing now, but just wait until Millennials continue to fail to group up and Zoomers start failing too soon.

They're coming for your games within the next 13 years.

>You think it's nothing now, but just wait until Millennials continue to fail to group up and Zoomers start failing too soon.
Grow* up, not group up.

kino

>>6583968
that is a genuinely comforting image, homie.

i remember playing one of these bad boys at the ol' montgomery ward. *cracks an ice cold can of sip* yep they don't make vidya kiosks like they used to.

>>6584753
>gamecube
>please let me talk about melee
Not retro.

>>6582597
Dire Dire Docks

>now understanding why my parents didn't let me play on these things, or ever go into ball pits

>>6581467
My mdconalds only had Pokemon snap, Kirby Crystal Shards, Tigger's Honey Hunt, and I think Tony Hawk

>>6582113
kids eat 'em.

this is america.

>>6583968
>bright brown wood
>a nice medium tone of jade or blue on walls to match the brown
>black HP or gateway computer
>640x480 or 1024x768
>syslink broadband router
>standing up the little prong in the back believing it'll help 'just that tiny bit'
>mouse ball
>tall keys, non-ergo.
>XP
take me back

>>6586026
Get a grip retard

>>6586026
>black HP or gateway computer
it's a DELL, not only does it have that extremely distinct early 2000's dimention look, the keyboard literally has DELL written on it (as a side note, i'm typing on that exact keyboard right now)
>640x480 or 1024x768
640x480 is more likely judging by how large the login screen elements are, i used to set my machine to 640x480 for free "fullscreen" as well
>syslink
linksys
>standing up the little prong in the back believing it'll help 'just that tiny bit'
it does

Why do McKids treat their controllers so poorly? And I thought my N64 sticks were bad...

>>6586026
>>6586134
fucking rectum

>>6581467
Never saw this in McShit, but my local Blockbuster had two setup in the gaming section.
Mario-64 was never setup on it, instead both kiosk had a fighter running. One being the the Blockbuster exclusive ClayFighter and the other being Smash. These kiosk stayed active till the eventual closing of the store.

>>6584832
This looks and feels so Cyberpunk.

>>6586154
Did you really thought little shits from McD would have the IQ to handle any controller?

>>6583365
>dentist's office.
This reminds me, whilst taking my niece in for her annual teeth cleaning, I spotted a child-proof gaming PC kiosk setup in the waiting lobby. Everything was bolted to the desk and the screen was running Steam in big picture mode.

>>6582086
Hahahaha what the fuck about this scares you

>>6586026
see: >>6586134

Plus,

>mouse ball
?
And the big UI elements were probably done to make the GIF more readable, nobody was using 640x480 by those grey Dell boxes were released.

>>6589004
>by those
by the time*

>>6589004
>nobody was using 640x480 by those grey Dell boxes were released.
i might be wrong here, but i seem to recall the free version of runescape to only allow you to use the in-browser java version, and didn't let you set the game fullscreen, so a common workaround was to set windows to 640x480 so it more or less filled the screen

>>6583968
Unironically what the fuck did he fucking mean by this?

>>6589719
He's never had sex before

>>6589719
I think he's trying to say that video game addiction is about to be looked at in a far more seriously light, according to him, over the next 13 years.

Millennial's were the first generation to get hit hard with video games being playable at home.
Generation Z was born into the environment of being able to play games at home.
Early Gen. Z are starting to fall into the same category as the average Millennial.

They're not leaving home and continue to live with mommy and daddy.
They're not getting jobs.
They're not graduating college.
They're just playing video games, eating fast food and jacking off to unlimited internet porn.

They have been thoroughly subjugated by technology.
If you told them video games are your enemy, they would not believe it.
I wouldn't be surprised if video games and pornography get hit the hardest in terms of societal well being soon.

>>6590869
We'll just start seeing video games that have more "social conscience" and I don't mean social justice, I mean actually being aware of the effect they have on people's behaviors and actively attempting to improve the societal contributions of their players. Pokémon Go was kind of a shot in the dark precursor to it.

It's generally considered undesirable for online games to bring local people together but it shouldn't be. Communities should be strengthening through playing video games together and it should be easier for those people to also work together, be it online or offline.

>>6590869
This entire post reads like something a boomer who has never seen the real world outside of CNN would type.

>>6589719
>Anno Domini MMXX
>Zoomerus non understandus
There's hope for you yet

>>6590869
How is this the fault of video games and not the fault of a sick economy? There are no jobs for us to do. Everyone my age is only now getting their shit together as they hit 30. And they got immediately fucked over by covid. Also all the zoomers who iust graduated school now have to sit at home through this shit and the same economic depression but worse that millenials had to sit through.
You're delusional to blame video games

>>6591016
>no jobs to do
Great excuse retard

>>6591024
what?

>>6581467
What would an intact, working one of these sell for?

>>6586029
>>6586134
>>6587092
>>6589004

>>6590869
ok

le reddit

>>6586134
>>6589004
Hahahaha I feel so sorry for all of you GAYway owning losers


DELL is HERE and is KICKING EVERY OTHER CONSOLE IN THE ASS!!!!

And if you don't believe me, you're either a retard or a NIGGER

THE GAYWAY NATION IS NO MORE!!!! DELL WINS AGAIN!!!