/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8819358
you could get budget dvd players for less than a brand new ps2 at the time, but for a little bit more money, you could get something with all the features of a dvd player + the ability to play ps1 and ps2 games

RIP in PS2 DVD Player, Shircuit Shitty
May you sleep soundly in hellven.

>>8819363
This is basically it. Everyone wanted a DVD player and the PS2 was the obvious choice because it also played games. It was better value even if it wasn't cheaper.

>>8819363
This. The problem was that people weren't willing to pay 150-300 bucks for a DVD player when their VHS player worked just fine. On the other hand, 300 for a next-gen video game console that doubled as a DVD player, that was a much easier purchase to justify.

I remember my PS2 was the only way to play the Cowboy Bebop DVDs I had.

>>8819358
Take me back...

>>8819484
I have the power to take you back.
AND I REFUSE.
And it's not because of anything you've done.
It's because I'm a bad person.

>>8819358
Pionneers cheaper then aiwas ok

>>8819358
Nobody ever claimed the PS2 was the cheapest DVD player, you retard. It was the cheapest way to simultaneously own a DVD player and a 6th gen console.

>>8819484
>paying 18 dollars to watch American Psycho
Nah I’m fine

>>8819358
i took the $600 PC mustard race and played none of those things properly thankyouverymuch

>>8819537
Yes, nobody.

You could buy the insanely hyped PS2 that also includes the DVD player you wanted, for a slightly higher price than some standalone players, and a much lower price than most others

>$80 for one season of a show
I forgot how fucked prices were on those sets. Still pales in comparison to the ludicrous prices for japanese dvds.

>>8819881
DVD prices are still fucked. I was looking in the last FYE near me a few months ago and found a Flintstones set for about that price

OP is talking about the wrong way.

Nowadays we can just go online and see what the cheapest option for something is. That's not how it worked in the past. You had access to whatever store you were willing to drive through. If you wanted to know what stores existed you had to read an out of date yellow pages or just ask people. You didn't know what was inside the store without going in, advertisements like OPs were not common or informative enough to fully relay on.

>>8819921
The internet was not so primitive in the year of 2000

>>8819884
>DVD prices are still fucked
I'm not surprised I found a person who still buys DVDs on /vr/

>>8819925
I lived through 2000.

You did not buy your fucking DVD players through the internet or use it to research what local stores had what for sale. You're either underage or have a serious fucking reading comprehension issue.

>>8819951
Zoom zoom. Bet you love that monster energy.

>>8819358
its not a myth
tons of kids were able to twist their parents arms to get a PS2 literally because of the DVD-player
thats literally what i did
>but mooooooommmm you guys can use it toooooo
and i know a couple other kids on my street who did the same cuz we all wanted to play GTA3

>>8819474
same with my eva dvds

>>8820015
You could research what local chains had or at the very last find a contact page where you could call them and ask what they have in stock. Stop acting like the year 2000 the dark ages or something LARPer

>>8819951
Are you unaware of the amount of media only available on DVD or VHS? I have no interest in new releases.

>>8819558
Let’s see Paul Allen’s PS2

>>8820063
if only anyone ripped DVDs and uploaded them online

>>8820057
Not him but we used paper catalogs like real men

>>8819513
This is why the village hates you, wizard.

>>8819358
>$799 for portable DVD player
>equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,335.67 today
>5 inch screen
maybe I'm glad it's not year 2000 anymore

>>8820124
Why would you want to go back to any year starting with the number 2?

>>8820107
are you retarded?
do you think people have uploaded anywhere near everything from the VHS and DVD era?
do you think thats even possible with how both media tend to wear down?

>>8820124
the only people i ever knew who had those were yuppies who played travel hockey

>>8819358
>Road to El Dorado is the most expensive DVD in that catalog

>>8820131
well of course you won't find true rarities like Flintstone sets on the internet

>>8819363
Fpbp. 2000s babies can't wrap their heads around this for some reason.

>>8820063
>>8820131
If I can't get it for free then I don't care. I apply the same principle to /vr/.

>>8820147
shockingly shit taste then
congratulations

>>8820149
Guess I should keep holding onto my childhood VHS/DVDs in hopes that some dweeb like you will pay $1000 for them.

>>8820160
You have never owned and never will own anything of value

>>8820160
no youll sell them to me at a garage sale for $15 for a whole box of them like every other retard ive ever met

>>8819363
This. The PS2 being able to play DVD movies was a real cool bonus at the time, but I remember being the most excited about the actual games. It was also a much higher quality DVD player than many of the cheap ones available at the time.

>>8819584
>some retard once said something stupid so I'm going to seethe about it for months and months to then make a thread addressing what he said as a "myth"

>>8820170
>buys boxes of generic VHS/DVDs in 2022
>calls others retard
Top kek.

>>8820168
Analog media I can understand. The content of digital media (like CDs and DVDs) is accessible for free. You're paying for a flimsy disc and a booklet.

>>8820195
Most DVD rips available online especially for old TV shows and cartoons look very very bad.

>>8820195
people throwing away old media that may or may not exist anymore within a few years ARE retards m8
why are you on /vr/?

>>8820208
>people throwing away old media that may or may not exist anymore within a few years ARE retards m8
That really fucking depends. Is anyone going to miss a VHS tape that's just a compilation of a couple of The Simpson's episodes?
Those exist in many other places and in better quality.

>>8820149
>>8820131
>>8820063
the actual sophisticate adult teaching today's mixed-up teens a lesson

>>8820215
do you honestly think this is the only thing you find in peoples entire tape collections?
holy fuck youre a retard

>>8820226
No, but there's a lot of old shit which there's just no reason to keep, old inferior home video releases are among those.

>>8820232
then dump the useless shit back to goodwill. or better yet, use the tapes again for your own shit. theyre fucking tapes. thats the point

ive found tons of cool bootlegs/shows from the 80s/90s. weird schizos who taped all the local news about certain subjects, hilariously awkward personal gatherings, 8hrs of random raw vinyl rips cuz why the fuck not, documentaries about canadians trying to jump the st lawrence in a car with a rocket strapped to it
the coolest part about tapes is the random shit people taped over it with imo

idk i think its a very cool medium and it certainly wont be around forever

>>8820124
Some of the shit people bought back then blows my mind, don't think I ever saw a portable DVD player in the wild but I always wanted one of these

>>8819358
>If people bought a PS2, it's to play games.
True

But the whole
>it's a DVD player too
angle helped convincing our parental unit back then that it was a value not just a gaming system.

>>8820286
wait, is this thing for playing Xbox on the go? Xb weighed 8.8 lb for crying out loud

>>8819884
FYE is, and always has been ludicrously overpriced compared to everyone else
It's honestly insane how they are still in business.

Pour one out for Suncoast and Tower Records

>>8819358
I thought the thing was that the PS3 was the cheapest bluray player. The PS2 was for most who got it a "free" DVD player - they bought it for gaming, and then oh look, a free DVD player, guess I'll try switching over to DVDs.

>>8820363
both of those things did happen
opie is just faggot

>>8820363
Zoomers retroactively ascribed "cheapest disc player" to the PS2 because they grew up with the PS3 being the cheapest Bluray player.

>>8820387
>>8820363
I've even seen some faggot say that PS was just a cheap audio CD player
I guess some people are really butthurt that Sony outsold their favorite console

>>8820015
I remember the typical way was to see the local Sunday ads and compare what was on sale. Dad would call the store and ask if it’s in stock and if it was they might put it on hold and we’d go get it. The internet was around but nobody was doing deep analysis or reviews of consumer electronics like they do now.

I remember that’s how we got this Apex DVD player back in 2000 on sale.

>>8820107
If you care for pristine quality, you usually won't get it from rips, good quality maybe but not the best

>>8820363
That's how it went, yes, OP is just really dumb.

>>8820501
>Ooh, Playstation games. Oh, it can play music CDs too? I guess that's kind of nice but I already have a stereo.
>OMG, Playstation 2 games, and it can play DVD movies too, that's so awesome!
>Well, not a lot of games for the Playstation 3, yet, but it can play Blu-Ray movies while being cheaper than any other Blu-Ray player, which is sweet as fuck. [games came eventually]
That's how I remember each of them.

>>8820107
>emulating your movies
If you didn't watch it on original hardware, you didn't see it. Simple as.

>>8820218
can someone post the steam games edit of this?

>>8819537
>>8820194
*Cough*

I just need a new damn vcr, mine randomly eats tapes, tapes i want to keep. But thrift stores dont sell vcrs or crts now and everyone has lpng thrown theirs out. Vhs becoming botique is lame.

>>8819358
>movies from 2008
>console came out in 2005

>>8819881
> $80 for a whole season of an hour long episode show
> fucked

Didn't buy anime dvds back in those days I see

>>8819358
It's so you don't have to buy a console AND a DVD player. Nobody is arguing they were cheaper than a DVD player.

>>8819884
Used DVDs cost pennies.

>>8819951
I have never owned a Blu Ray player. DVDs are good enough and they're cheap as fuck.

>>8820785
The PS2 released in the year 2000.

>>8819951
>I'm not surprised I found a person who still buys DVDs on /vr/
Physical media and pirating are the way to go. (((They))) are already censoring or erasing digital media from days past. Trusting any giant corporation with digital is a fools gamble.

>>8820218
>Sophisticated Adults
Do collectorfags /REALLY/?

>>8820218
How can an old fat balding man be so based?

>>8821014
There's a reason they feature in so many doujins.

>>8820015
Yeah getting information off the internet wasn't as common for such things since a lot of people didn't transition from 56k to DSL yet.

>>8820970
>(((they))) release it in the first place
>then (((they))) censor it because...?
huh??

>>8819358
I'm impressed they're selling a multidisc DVD player and DVD players with MP3 compatibility on the same ad. Remember this was when Napster was at it peak too

>>8821004
>he doesn't know kelly

>>8820124
Did they sell laptops with DVD drives for $800 back then?

>>8819358
I want to go back...

>>8820208
>why are you on /vr/?
Every game I play was made before 2005 so there's no point in going to /v/. I have physical games and roms/isos, depending on the system.

>people throwing away old media that may or may not exist anymore within a few years ARE retards m8
Having a physical music CD or movie DVD means nothing to me and 99% of people with Internet access. It's cool that you're in the 1% but don't act like it's justifiable outside of your personal interest.

>games
It was to play GTA 3.
Ps2 was a GTA 3 machine, AND a dvd player.
>nooo but muh final fantasy, muh metal gear
the list goes on, right?

>>8820218
>>8820745

>>8821816
He doesn't want to outwardly say "Duh Jews" lest he get his rightful vacation slip from the Mods.

>>8820114

>>8819484
>>8821857
don't worry bros, when you die you get reincarnated into yourself as a child but with all your memories intact

>>8821930
I was born in 2004...

>>8821816
>>(((they))) release it in the first place
Let's make some shekels off these goys!
>>then (((they))) censor it because...?
Oy vey! This doesn't conform to current year! Not that we really care but we already changed our fb Pic with to the rainbow flag so we better censor it lest we look bad!

It's. That. Simple.

>>8821897
>he get his rightful vacation slip
I forget. Who owns all the media? Can't complain about the people in charge because reasons? Lick boots much?

>>8821949
I'm so sorry bro, you have to spend eternity reliving hell over and over

>>8820669
though harder to find than reencodes, there's a fair amount of untouched disc images and remuxed videos on the net.

>>8821971
2004 isn't too late. You use your foreknowledge to buy all the bitcoin then use your crypto money to build a giant EMP device that will reset the world back to the 80s.

>>8821853
That’s not a laptop kiddo, its a portable dvd player.

>>8820124
I mean, the people who dump thousands of dollars yearly on apple products always existed, they just wasted money on other garbage like portable DVD players they used once and then forgot about.

>>8820107
I'd love for there to be a website where people uploaded ISO rips of the DVDs they had. There's a little bit of that in MySpleen and Archive.org, but not a lot.

>>8821954
Hey anon: Take it to /pol/.

>>8822403
No, you just have to deal with the truth.

>>8820527
>The internet was around but nobody was doing deep analysis or reviews of consumer electronics like they do now.
Well, they weren't doing it on the internet, they were doing it in magazines. There were electronics magazines, video game magazines, videophile magazines, audophile magazines, or just Consumer Reports, which reviewed everything.

>>8822231
no not really
in the 90s, that money went to all-in-one home gym elliptical bullshit workout things that people never used at all and just kept in their garage
or infomercial tier autistically-specific-use kitchen appliances and the like
maybe some bullshit from qvc

normalfags being interested in gizmos and gadgets like vidya and fuckboiphones is actually a rather recent phenomena

>>8822407
>normalfags being interested in gizmos and gadgets like vidya and fuckboiphones is actually a rather recent phenomena
lol no upper middle class types have been wasting money on tech gadgets since the 80s, probably earlier

>>8819358
>Bad shitty shops dont exist.

Nice revisionism mate, not our fault you got ripped off.

>>8819513
The $/0/y destroys human souls.

>>8819884
lol just go to flea markets retard that shit is like a dollar

>>8821930
This is true but you only get 3 attempts.

>>8820817
>I have never owned a Blu Ray player. DVDs are good enough and they're cheap as fuck.

Mate are you high? DvDs looked like shit on Modern TVs unless they are high quality masters and upscaled via a bluray player.

>>8822410
you prolly just grew up around way more yuppies desu
the only family i know that had a portable dvd player were this one super rich family i used to play travel hockey with

this desire to be on the bleeding edge of brand new tech like dvds wasnt nearly as big back then. whereas now its almost ubiquitous throughout society.
no that money got wasted elsewhere amidst the consumerism of the day, probably somewhere at the mall
and seriously like half of it went to stupid elliptical/stairmaster things and automatic orange peelers and assorted meme-ery
it was a fucking conspiracy mannnn i dont know how they sold all that shit like its honestly impressive

>>8822392
>MySpleen
>another shitty hush hush dont talk dont ask for an invite, pray you had a friend who maybe, in a gijillion stellar years, might consider.

Whats the point? Why not just make discord groups.

>>8821930
>>8822456
>Hebrews 9:27
>it is appointed unto men ONCE to die, but after this the judgment

>>8821891
>PS3 games
kek

>>8819584
>taking a statement from somebody posting with an animuu-girl-pic serious at all
>ever
sounds like a you-problem.

>>8822790
Might was well sight the original source, Zarathustra.

hold the press, this was the real reason everybody bought a ps2:

FIFA

>>8819358
>Circuit City shatters the "cheapest DVD player" myth once and for all
The odds of OP having a Gamecube are high

>>8826339
I don't.

>>8826339
it's the opposite way, Nintendo fans like to spread the myth that PS2 only outsold GC 7:1 because it was a DVD player.

>>8821857
First of all, you don't have the right

>>8819443
>vhs player
This is how you can identify a zoomer (or maybe just a sign of an aging brain) Nobody called them vhs players, we called them VCRs.

>>8826376
It depends on when you're talking about it. In the early 00s while they were being phased out for DVD players, it was common to call them VHS players.

>>8826381
No it wasn’t lol. Why would you try to bullshit this? During the phaseout they literally sold “DVD/VCR combo players, not DVD/VHS players.
Never, and I mean never, did people call VCRs “vhs players”.

>>8826389
common vernacular != what they printed on the boxes

>>8826392
I was alive at the height of VCR and DVD.
Nobody called them VHS players. Nobody.
If you called it a VHS player people would think you were retarded. I’ve heard people use this term used sparingly starting around the late 2000’s when everyone got used to saying DVD player, and now you see “VHS player” constantly, especially from younger generations.
They are VCRs and nobody called them VHS players until long after their phasing out.

>>8826397
>I’ve heard people use this term used sparingly starting around the late 2000’s when everyone got used to saying DVD player
That's what I just said. People started calling them VHS players at the same time as DVD players were getting big. It was the early 00s rather than the late 00s though.

>>8826406
No it wasn’t. Nobody called them VHS players until quite a while after. People spent 20 years getting used to saying “VCR” and this didn’t magically go away until DVD player’s permanence altered the lexicon, and even then only retards called them VHS players.

>>8826416
You can easily find forum posts and web articles from about 2001-2004 calling them VHS players interchangeably with VCRs. It might irk you but that's just what people were saying.

>>8826423
Then they were retards. Even your most normie normalfaggot boneheads called them VCRs.
Would another anon like to chime in here? I’m confident almost nobody called them VHS players even in the 2000’s.

>>8826430
My question to you is, would you refer to a beta deck as a VCR?

>>8826397
I'll back you up on this. I used to fix VCRs into the mid-2000s and never once heard the term VHS Player until I entered this thread.

>>8826447
No, would you? Not nearly as many people bought into Beta. VCRs though? They were constantly marketed as and referred to as “VCRs” and never “VHS players” which is why you almost never heard that used.

>>8826449
That’s one.
The first person I heard call it a “VHS player” was my friends GF Ellen around 2007-2008 and it was a slip of the tongue if anything. This memory for some reason kept permanence because it was then I realized I’d probably be hearing that again as time moved forward.