/vr/ - Retro Games

When do you think it stopped being, OP?
For me it was when they started getting too round and toy-like.

>>9408489
I really liked the US NES and its attempt to look like high class VCR equipment. But I didn't like the SNES at all. Not sure what they were going for, it just seemed like some random grey and purple lump. The N64 was also pretty vague. The Gamecube was nice, though.

>>9408489
The Supergrafx has got to be the ugliest system I've ever seen. The American Turbografx and CD combo is a close second.

After that we're at the PS2 where I thought a system was ass ugly.

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>>9408510
It is hard to beat the supergrafix with cd. Does anyone have anything worse?

it still can be, IMO the DSi and DSi XL are some of the most beautiful game devices ever made. The red/black mario 25th anniversary DSi XL is particularly beautiful, it almost looks like a higher-end japanese lacquer lunchbox.

>>9408512
>Atari 2600, GameCube as top choices.
>Japanese famicom

Pfft.... Hahaha. Your aesthetic taste is awful.

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>>9408526
They look cool but they are just art pieces. The paint would get smudged and ruined just with normal play
Especially those N64 controllers.

>>9408585
>console paint getting ruined with play
Retarded nonsense.

These all have clear coats on them. They're using what looks like automotive paint, not latex

make way for an actual chad system

>>9408698
kino

but can still be beat

a thing of beauty

>>9408489
when we went from master system 1 to 2

>>9408707
>bally
more like baller

>>9408479
Indeed

>>9408657
Pretty sure you can even just use spray paint and coat it. I’m about to do this to some model 2 genesis’.

>>9408821
You'll want a two part epoxy clear coat after the primer/color stages for durability, regular spray clear coats are not that tough and some require high temps to cure correctly. 80% of painting is prep and very clean parts, also be aware some paints may attack plastic so be aware.
>t. used to paint motorcycles

>>9408585
>>9408657

>>9408489
5th gen onwards

>>9408479
Entirely debatable. I remember the cheap, tacky, grainy feel of that old school plastic.

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>>9408741
S O V L

Best aesthetics commodore Vic20. Runner up zx spectrum. Worst aesthetic us nes.

N64 with the DD looks pretty cool.

>>9410809
>le rainbow machine
zed ecks is the gayest looking piece of shit console

>>9408527
the space toilet

>>9410837
gay and ugly

>>9408512
>Xbox
>decent
What a terrible chart

>>9408514
Looks like shit.

it looks like it should be flying around in Star Wars, I love it.

>>9411151
pew pew

>>9408492
The colors were simply very popular at the time. It's really funny to me now that the colors are back in vogue now. People are buying stuff new at the shop that looks like crap you find in the back of a thrift shop.

As for the shape, I have heard rumor that a common problem in NA for Nintendo was getting NES consoles sent back that had had a beer can explode while sitting on top of the system. The SNES design, the rumors say, was chosen to ensure that no one would ever look at it and say "this is a good place to set a beer can". Can't confirm any of this however.

>>9408698
looks like an eastern european alarm clock

>>9408819
these things were and still are a pain. Admittedly it is worse trying now since digits are longer, 0s seem more common, and there's no operators.

>>9408858
this is interesting, i tried painting shit once and it stained and came off on my hands. whatever clear coat i used was wrong i suppose.

>>9411275
>he doesn't just tap numbers on the hook
Might as well emulate

>>9408483
This was the first gaming console I played on. Donkey Kong, Horse Racing, Armor Battle, and piles of others. I remember a lot of games only really being fun with family or friends and my sister was too young to play against. Dad was player 2 for me most of the time. The first time I met Mario was on this system.

>>9411275
Yeah, but nothing can beat fingering these phones. The tactile feeling is real. Compare that to today's rubbery buttons, or glass, or whatever weird design your phone happens to have. It just doesn't even come close.

>>9411013
xbox design is sovl

>>9408585
That's because they ARE art pieces, anon. These are bought/made by autists who are just going to put it on a shelf and never actually play it.

>>9411283
Epoxy paint hardens like plastic. Stinks like fuck though so you need good ventilation and have to do everything in one shot. Usually the can is activated and mixed which means you don't have the option of reusing it.

>>9408741
Consoles that are just big fat keyboards are not aesthetic.

>>9408743
Both are boring looking

>>9411013
Xbox is cooler than the other boring DVD and bluray consoles which are all just plain black rectangles to this day

>>9411061
Nah. You're boring.

>controller designed with no appreciation for the form of a human hand, just a soulless numpad remote

>>9410851
US NES kid detected.

Ive always wanted one since they first came out and I even make enough money to buy one at rhe meme prices but can't be assed to now

>>9408523
The N64 was the best looking console and I'm tired of pretending it's not. It had curves like a Porsche, baby!

>>9411272
This is the weirdest description, but it's also totally right.

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>>9414815

This nigger had a modem before the dreamcast

>>9412569
cool. If I try painting something again I'll try this methodology. I could leave it in the shed out back to dry, as long as I put it in something that was bug-proof I suppose.

>>9414817
Toilet seat aesthetic.

>>9408512
>2600
>Gamecube
Yikes

>>9414820
Ever heard of the saturn? you could browse the internet in the damn thing

>>9415975
I mean technically the genesis/mega drive had games you could download even before that but christ was it awful

>>9414820
>had a modem
you can't even look at a fucking jpeg lasagna bitch

>>9411265
>common problem in NA for Nintendo was getting NES consoles sent back that had had a beer can explode while sitting on top of the system
what a story the Japanese must have been swayed so strongly by this they designed the SNES with us in mind that is so thoughtful

>>9416335
Well, the Super Famicom looks totally different, so it had to be the Americans who designed the Super NES.

>>9416435
I know that one is branded the SNES, but the SFC looked like that on launch.
That's my bad for not looking at the labels before I downloaded the image.

>>9416435

Aesthetic.

>>9416440
This hits different with lead free...

>>9416578
I always thought this was a good looking computer but I went with an Amiga in the end.

>>9408479
the Sharp Twin Famicom is a strong contender for best looking console of all time in my opinion

>>9416606
i like anything with that thin type of font for the japanese text. it looks really tasteful somehow.

>>9416435
What the fuck was nintendo of america thinking giving us that lego and purple abomination istead of this?

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>>9416327
I think it did have an internal dial up port used mainly for email.

>>9416954
no shit. it's a glorified PDA.

>>9414981
It's all prep and a lot of sanding, dust is a killer so if you have the place tarps are your friend, make a shitty paint booth. When you decide to go for it take your time, my brother could make a rattle can job look fantastic but he was very careful with cure times, sanding and minimizing contamination. Nothing worse than a fish eye after 20 hours of work.

>>9416927
>What the fuck was nintendo of america thinking giving us that lego and purple abomination istead of this?
I'm glad they didn't give us the Japanese Version. That one looks like a cheap McDonald's toy. The American version is much better.

>>9416578
I wish there were more wedge shaped computers

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>>9414817
Macs are so fucking gay.

The hallmark of a noodle armed jewy looking homosexual is a loce for mac garbage

>>9416578
Nah. Keyboards are ugly.
>>9417707
Nah.

>>9418846

The consoles we never got

>>9408479
In person these things smell and creak when you slightly touch them.

>>9420339
mine smells like my gameroom
(sandalwood, vanilla, etc)

the unit is older than i am i expect to be somewhat creaky now

>>9408485

The 2600 always looked like a air conditioner to me

>>9418851
Those look like ugly overpriced CD players. Probably only expensive because its gold plated or something.

>>9420335
Looks pretty cool.
USA version is fucking retarded

>>9420536
>>9420536
You have shit taste. They're beautiful.
>muh black rectangle
>muh grey keyboard

>>9418851
Why do you keep trying to introduce "modern designs" into retro consoles? The bottom 2 CD players in your picture were made fairly recently. Like mid 2010s.

That shit isn't retro at all.

>>9416335
>>9416435
Read here, it covers the designer of the NA SNES explaining some of the stuff behind the process. It includes a bit alluding to that beer can problem.

https://archive.org/details/NintendoPowerVolume25/page/n43/mode/2up

>>9416578
>that speaker key chirp sound
muh childhood

>>9412056
same, except mine was the intellivision II. astrosmash, night stalker, snafu. shit was glorious. fuck the controllers though.

>>9421378
>Lance Barr
So that's the guy responsible for the concave button sin.

>>9421398
Oh god, they even talk about it in the article. "What a great idea!"

>>9421398
Stop obsessing of the weak ass looking Japanese SNES you weeb. The entire Japanese design just screams weakness

>>9421116
They use a dead retro medium, and they make for an interesting concept. There's nothing about them that COULDN'T have been done. It's just a luxury design.

So it is retro actually. Is a new vinyl player not retro you fucking idiot?

>>9421509
>They use a dead retro medium, and they make for an interesting concept. There's nothing about them that COULDN'T have been done.

You mean BESIDES material advancements in working with new plastics, miniaturization of electronics, new injection molding techbiques, advancements in paints fomulas, etc??

No. Absolutely not. Electronics and their designs are REFLECTIVE of the era they are made in. For example, the Atari 2600 had woodgrain because of the 1970s. You would even find woodgrain on almost all 1970s luxury electronics from that era.

There's a reason why a vintage Ferrari sports car doesn't look like a modern Ferrari car. You are trying to "force" a modern 2010s luxury design onto past designs from older eras. Stop being delusional. It doesn't work like that.

>It's just a luxury design.
No. It's specifically a mid 2010s modern luxury design.

>So it is retro actually.
No it is not. You like MODERN luxury designs. There's nothing retro about your bottom 2 pictures.

>>9421481
retard take
concave buttons were an absolute moron move and everyone knows it, it's why it's NEVER BEEN DONE AGAIN by anything above a madcatz tier piece of garbage

also sfc button colors were perfect because they exactly matched the color theme of Super Mario World
"purple and purple" was never cool and "adult"

>>9421724
There's no fancy space age materials here you autistic faggot. It just uses metals instead of fischer price plastic.

>advancement in chips
Yeah like every fucking clone console. Derp.

Your car analogy is absolutely fucking TERRIBLE btw. It's not even close to similar. The main reason they look different is safety standards.

>>9421724
Kill yourself you fucking faggot

>>9421794
>There's no fancy space age materials here you autistic faggot.

>The 1621A starts with a die-cast aluminum frame and 17-pound, spring-loaded sub-chassis made from brass, aluminum, and Terodem, a vibration-damping material.

>Terodem is a pressure sensitive sound deadening board based on bitumen/plastic with a
stabilizing effect by means of a fleece lamination (aluminium/silver) on the visible surface. The rela-
tively heavy bitumen material is effective against structure-borne noise and reduces both oscillations
and the resulting noise from metal and plastic components.
>The board is pressure sensitive and fitted with a solvent free assembly adhesive based on special
acrylate copolymers.

Yes anon. It's called modern technology. Learn to read.

>>9421806
>So how much, you ask? The 1621A retails for $26,600, while the 1611F is even more at $27,300. If you want the matched pair, that'll be $53,900, please. Can any CD playback system possibly be worth that much?

Source:
https://www.soundandvision.com/content/mbl-1621a-cd-transport-1611f-dac

2011 release date and it costs $53,900 to run properly. Next time learn to read you loser. It's not our job to police your LIES. Get your modern shit out of this thread.

>>9422731
Yes, cool expensive metals, all of which have existed since before 2000. Good job retard. You pointed out that it's a crazy luxury device and that it's not plastic.


Plastic is LITERALLY more of a space age material.

But i think it's hilarious that you're such a butthurt autistic faggot (troon no doubt) that you dug up the fucking marketing hype for 1 out of 3 cd players in a jpeg. Lmao what a fucking loser.

>>9422731
Nobody asked how much it cost in 1993 faggot. It existed in 1993. Seethe harder that you can't afford a cd player from 1993.

>>9423007
>>9423005
>"There's no fancy space age materials here you autistic faggot."
>Actually its made of some pretty advanced materials
>W-w-well you a retard! CopE aNd seEthe

Do you even listen to yourself? Take your meds before you lose more brain cells.

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>>9423005
being this butthurt because your overpriced CD player was called ugly. KEKEKEKE

>>9423005
> all of which have existed since before 2000.
Then prove that EXACT polymer material with that exact formulation existed in the 1980s and 1990s. Go ahead. I'm waiting.

The original 360 is still my champion. The PS2, Wii and PS3 also rank very high in my opinion

>>9423136
The DS Lite is also very beautiful. I'd say these are my favourite

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>>9423005
How embarrassing. Take the L bruv.

>>9418851
So much gold screams tacky, look at an actual premium hardware makers SNK in their prime for a beautiful luxury design. Plain black with a few very subtle color accents and voila.
>inb4 but its not cd based!
Your taste is shit regardless.

>>9418851
$25,000 dollars and it still looks gaudy and tacky. They look like they belong on an episode of "Pimp My Ride"

>>9408512
Don't @ me

>>9423130
Lmao. Pretty much this.

Oh you like retro hardware?

What's the exact chemical formula for the polymer used to make the buttons for a NES

>>9423406
Your taste is shit. That black plastic rectangle is incredibly fucking boring.

Man that troon really started same fagging once someone pointed out that he's just an autistic dude crossdressing lmao

>>9423465
>plastic huffer thinks he can judge other's taste when he decorates his place with stacks of games he doesn't play and comic book and pro wrestling toys

>>9423979
Cringe. Just stop.

>>9418851
>The consoles we never got
the fuck does this even mean?

>>9423984
It looks classy, you're a fucking clown that needs muh tacky ass goldies with a shitload of buttons on the plastic lmao why do you need a fucking number pad, who're you gonna call fag? the no taste police so they can arrest you? . You should kill yourself before posting your shitty compendium of "muh luxury item" again and getting dogpiled.

>>9424014
>plastic huffer
you're cumming over glorified discmans and then longing for a past where consoles look like a fucking golden pressure pot.
>That shit's is, is nice, slick, chrome *whistles*

>>9408479
That controller fucking SUCKS. It's so unnatural in the hand.

>>9408512
>Xbox decent
FAIL. It's ugly, especially with the first controller.

>>9424262
>you're cumming over glorified discmans and then longing for a past where consoles look like a fucking golden pressure pot.
Lmao. Good one anon.

>>9425546
>It's ugly, especially with the first controller.
Don't blame us because you had tiny hands. The original Duke Xbox controller was meant for actual adult men.

>>9424259
>classy
>black plastic rectangle
Are you a 3rd worlder or some shit?

>>9425546
Its not a ranking of controllers

>>9428734
How do you envision your metal based consoles to be played anon? since you deride plastic so much and game controllers are an essential part of the experience. For instance as >>9412986 and >>9425535 highlight the controller for these beautiful retro designs are just too outdated to be comfortable. As much as you fetishise the true classiness (R) of metal as material it is no wonder not a single console to date was made of muh shinies.

>>9429057
It would work just like those fucking cd players work you dumb ass.

Consoles are made out of plastic because they're made to be cheap toys for children, dumb ass. You're clearly 3rd world of that isn't obvious.

And yet with that said, there exists special editions that have been metal, and there exists metal mods.

As for your blabbering about controllers, you're retarded because you can just use a different fucking controller. This is a conversation about the aesthetics of a console, not the controller. You're grasping at straws.


And a plastic console can still look cool, like the sega genesis. What isn't cool, is a boring fucking rectangle. You only think that's cool because you're a 3rd worlder.

Its also obvious you're too autistic to separate your opinion about the game library and other factors from a conversation that is about aesthetics and aesthetics alone.

>>9429067
The cd players you posted make little sense as da superior design you're playing them up as.Simple as, they have features that are ad hoc for a cd player like a lcd display because you use them with the assumption of no visual medium. I don't know why you're playing the third world angle when it's just basic design "less if more" philosophy i've not seen a coherent argument from you other than "LMAO IT'S FUCKING BORING" Whenever i think of the saturn or the playstation of course i think about how their controllers complement the design of the console itself. Are you a brainlet or what?

>>9429079
The prototype saturn was even going to be silver with a matching controller. I guess sega went agains it because as the gamecube shows, silver paint wears out really fast

>>9429067
>This is a conversation about the aesthetics of a console, not the controller.
Last I checked, the controller was part of the console.

>>9429079
Use your imagination retard. You'd obviously change them slightly but they could be used as the basis for a great looking console.

Fucking brainlet. YOU'RE the one who shit your pants bitching and whining about 3 different cd players with 3 totally different styles because they're not black plastic rectangles. You're the one sperging out like an autistic faggot. You're THAT KID.

>>9429141
It's not. Fucking retard. That's why multiple controller options exist, including 3rd parties. Just take the fucking L faggot stop grasping at straws.

>>9429319
>>>9429067
Wow, most console take on geometry motifs and are made of plastic? gross and boring you go girl!
maybe if you write plastic rectangle again, for the 6th time you'll prove your non-existent point.
>>9429323
How are they not? famicom ones pretty much came imbued in the console same as >>9408479 they're a huge component. But what do i know, since you have a hard on for number pads.

>every single console ITT is just various forms of generic plastic brick with surface decals to make it look like shit it's not
OP's picture is the worst. Gaming consoomer hardware came in just as consoomer hardware at large began to be carved out of shitty petroleum byproducts stamped out of a factory in Kentucky. It's all ugly and shit and made with materials faker than your mother's whore tits.

And you all pretend it has some sort of aesthetic quality. The boomers were unironically right about this point. By the late 70s it was all ass, and it only continued to look like ass to the present day.

>>9429362
>b-b-but that's an expensive car back in the day made for rich people, you say, trying to cope with the fact your ugly plastic brick looks like an ugly plastic brick

>>9429367
Gaming hardware came too late to have any soul.

>>9429369
port washing machines, they had true soul also

>>9410896
I kind of want to fuck this

>>9429404
Your dirty kinks have no place in this thread.

>>9429367
The other day i was at my friend's house and he asked me if i wanted to hear some tunes. I said yes, so he went ahead and put on a vinyl on his record player, i immediately became disgusted.
>i hope you're aware of the superiority of the wax cylinder the original and still the best

>>9429367
Stop seething you fucking autist

>>9429514
>>9429509
Both are good. Consoomer hardware really started to cheap out on materials quality after the mid-late 1970s. Everything became grotesque cut price plastic after that point. Gaming hardware universally looks ugly as fuck as a result. It's clear you're speaking from pure nostalgia.

>>9429509
^this butthurt shitskin thinks that plastic rectangles are "classy" because they're exotic where he comes from. He doesn't understand that in America every single household has 500 different black rectangles scattered about the house, in the attick, on the basement, and in the garage.

A black plastic rectangle is the single most generic, uninspired, boring, common, mundane, cheap, lazy, soulless design in existence. Every fucking dvd player. Every fucking bluray player. Every fucking VCR. Every fucking surround receiver. Every pre-built PC after 2000. Most custom PCs. The Xbox one. The ps4. Black plastic rectangles. Black plastic rectangles. Black plastic rectangles. Everywhere you fucking look its the same soulless garbage over and over and over.

So I repeat, the only possible way in hell there is someone enamored by this ewaste, is if you are a 3rd world shitskin who isn't already drowning in this fucking garbage (YET).

So give it a rest already you fucking homo.

>>9429526
Anon do you have a friend in real life? do you even lift?

>>9429526
>those pics
Confirmed for a steampunk autist. I guess as a proud amerilard you took design classes in tackiness

>>9429536
I'll take literally anything that isn't the 70000000th black fucking rectangle.

Also, Art Deco isn't steampunk. Retard

>>9418851
Show me matching controllers or your choice is invalid

>>9429548
Do you even like video games ? i don't think you're in the right hobby. I don't care about your fetishitic "true luxury " tendencies on consoles. This conversation is better suited to /wg/ or something, i fond funny that you flaunt your americunt status when they're the most overweight and plain looking people style-wise i've seen.

>>9429554
>NOOOO, YOU NEED TO ENJOY THE A E S T H E T I C of [black plastic rectangle] OR ELSE YOU'RE NOT A TRUE GAYMER LIKE ME
I play video games, faggot, not fondle the boxes that do their calculations. NTA.

>>9429548
Those are just overdesigned barroque wannabe gargabe, and you're the one talking about class and luxury spamming your "akshually" knowledge. Talk about boring.

>>9429548
>>9429526
These look like shit too. Actual consoomer hardware from 50-60 years ago was far more restrained because it needed utilitarian function and durability to sell itself to consoomers. Half that shit looks like it'd break apart the moment you breathed upon it.

>>9429557
I just found this line of thought incredibly bizarre. It would be like me shitting all over the cover art of my favorite band/artist, foaming at the mouth about how cover art has "shit to do with music" and had "lost the path even before they knew it" or some hyperbolic-manic shit like that. Hell, your earlier line about being in it just for nostalgia doesn't cut it, i would still rate the 3do and neo geo higher than some random ass overdesigned "art deco" bullshit you try to pull.

>>9429560
Bitch you're the fucking retard who claimed black plastic rectangles are classy. I never envoked the word. I pointed out your black rectangles are the single most generic design in existence, period.
>>9429554
Retarded jibberish. I don't need to pretend that a black plastic rectangle is beautiful and interesting in order to like video games. I neve flaunted being American, I simply pointed out the reality that you HAVE to be a 3rd worlder to be enamored with something the rest of us are fucking sick and tired of.

Also, there's no such thing as american style. We're an entire continent and every style in existence exists here. Derp.

>>9429635
Your hyperbole levels just reveal your butthurt i'm not really overly invested in the aesthetics of the neo geo. I just like how understated it is, design wise. Unlike you who can't let go of a single comment and have to hyperfixate like an autist and post a shitload of images highlighting your "refined" taste lmao, get a grip.

>>9429591
That's a different poster you dumb ass. There's at least 3 people responding to you.

You just proved one of my previous comments. You are incapable of separating your opinion about the console library from your opinion about the design of the exterior itself. Your opinion on which black rectangle looks good and which doesn't is nothing more than you fanboying over the library.


And yes, sometimes great bands have GARBAGE album art and you very easily be a fan and still call ugly art out. You don't have to be a slobbering cock gobbler for everything you like.

>>9429647
Nobody ever said refined. I just said your black rectangles are soulless trash. Every single post out of you is another fucking straw man.

I never used any hyperbole. Wheres the hyperbole? The black rectangle literally is the most generic design in existence. Every American home has a bunch of these stupid fucking things. VRCs, DVD players, blurays players. Black rectangle after black rectangle. It's not hyperbole you fucking faggot.

>>9429649
yes, some bands have ass covers but you seem overly invested in calling everything shit reactively. Nostalgia didn't play a part in my relationship with these consoles asthetically as i didn't really knew them growing up at all.
>>9429635
there's no such thing as american style. We're an entire continent and every style in existence exists here. Derp.
Don't be an idiot anon, when talking about "Americans" you're most likely talking about what group? I know that america is the whole continent you're just desperate to "own"

>>9429657
It's just a little disingenuous to call them black rectangles, isn't that just A BIT hyperbolical ?. Based on the boring comments i just don't buy that a console has to have a gold paint job to be remarkable.

>>9429659
>YOU CALL EVERYTHING SHIT!!!!!
I call black rectangles shit. Cope you whiny faggot.

>Don't be an idiot anon, when talking about "Americans" you're most likely talking about what group? I know that america is the whole continent you're just desperate to "own"

What is jibberish? The USA is a bunch of random ass people who all hate eachother spread across a massive continent.

We don't all dress the same. There's no such thing as American style. I don't even dress like my own friends, let alone other races, or let alone people from other states. You're a fucking retard and have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

>>9429668
It's not disingenuous to call most of these black rectangles when they only have the teeny tiniest deviation. Oh wow this one has a slight curve in the top. Whoopdie fucking doo. Oh wow this one has rounded edges. Whoopdie fucking doo.

These are the kinds of designs you can make in blender in MINUTES. It's so lazy.

The sega genesis is an example of a console that actually changed it up enough to qualify as more than just a black box.

And then the model 2 went and made it less interesting.

>>9429675
That's true for most of the world all people are individuals. But as a group, when americans go out to the world they are definitely definitely easy as hell to spot as the vast majority dress in shorts, have cargo pants or is fat as fuck.
If you saw a mexican walking down the street wouldn't you be able to tell based on his clothes alone?

>>9429683
What you've described, is the boomer tourist.

Boomer tourists don't represent Americans. Younger people never even wear cargo shorts FFS.

This is also total confirmation bias. If they don't look like a boomer tourist, you don't notice.

All you have to do is go to portland and every random person is dressed like a fucking circus clown

>>9429690
>This is also total confirmation bias. If they don't look like a boomer tourist, you don't notice.
True enough, the tourist i've seen are just a sample of people that go out and represent your country. But i would probably would be able to tell if i heard you speak, or where dressed somewhat casual way or where i'll prepared for the weather (like those gross cali kids that don't wear shoes indoors)

>>9429681
Welp i guess i just like boring designs, for me the little differences and subtleties in the plastic of that goddamn square box are all that matter. This is just personal preference at this point.

Behold-

>>9429710
>it's fucking huge
>silver shinnies

At least it ain't another boring dev box amirite?

>>9429715
>>9429710
Based literal X box. Worthy of a 1st worlder.

>>9429710
I just wonder how much it weights

>>9429718
Based. The only console worthy of the truly diverse melting pot american that is beyond bored of dvd players and plastic.

>>9429067
>>This is a conversation about the aesthetics of a console, not the controller.
The controller IS part of the design. Controllers must match the console. It isn't some separate thing. Every controller must match. You couldn't even disconnect the controller from the Famicom. There were several other game consoles that came with non-removable controllers.

>>9429697
>But i would probably would be able to tell if i heard you speak,
Ummm... Fucking duh? This is true for everyone on earth. Derp.

>or where dressed somewhat casual way
OH NO CASUAL DRESS!?!?!?!?
Are you telling me retards where you live put on a 3 piece suit to go the grocery store? Boomer tourists dress that way when they're abroad because they want to relax and they're not trying to impress anyone. They don't dress up because they don't care what you think. They dress up nice when they go somewhere they actually value people's opinions, like their jobs, business meetings, or even church.

>(like those gross cali kids that don't wear shoes indoors)

People take their shoes off inside in every developed country. The Japanese don't wear shoes inside. The inside of our houses are clean.

>>9429681
Black is sexy and your taste is utter shite.

>>9429731
Shut up plastic fume huffing nigger.

>>9429728
No no, you're just desperate to own, i'm not talking about le ebin japanese and their customs, i've seen literal americans not wearing shoes while in ill fitting situations, like walking on the public, dirty flood.
It's not about me trowing a fit about casual dress, idiot, it's about when it's appropriate. Again, a surefire way to identify a gringo is by the clothes and 9/10 times you'll be right

>>9429727
The controller doesn't matter cuz i say so, they look sleek my man, that's it.

>>9429738
You sound like you're just talking about homeless people.

Also Mexicans don't get to talk shit about the way people dress lmao.

California isn't America btw.

>>9429743
We call gringos starting from mexico call the way down to argentina, it's only a mexican thing, but it's funny you post literal cholos and then go on about how everyone is an individual and you could pass stealth. Lmao, never.

>walks in gaming meetup
>"black rectangles are fucking gay"
>leaves

>>9429747
Based Chad. Truly the retro voice we need.

>>9429747
I left the thread more entitled than ever, know that
>plastic is shit
>console design was never good to begin with
>controllers don't even matter

>>9429746
Yeah i wouldn't be able to pass off as a fucking beaner. Just like you wouldn't be able to pass off in Norway.

I could pass in a European country. Even places like Greece and Italy. Literally just wear clothes that actually fit, which all young FIT white people do.

Also, Mexico is fatter than america now, and other latin american countries are fat too. No ground to stand on in that regard. Same goes for any lurking britfags and cucknadians. Not gonna listen up amerilard shitposts from countries that also fat as fuck.

>>9408512
Why do so many people shit on Master System? I really dig the 80s FM synth style it went for

>>9429812
>I really dig the 70's PSG

>>9408514
The one in the middle is so ugly. I wonder what that dreamcast did to deserve getting such a horrible colour scheme.

>>9418851
This looks like some kitchen gadget my grandma would own in the 1960s. Old fashioned. Like a kitchenaid mixer or chrome toaster something.

>>9430856
Each of them look completely different

>>9429548
Upper right is really cool.

>>9429690
>everyone I don't like is a boomer
Why are people this retarded?

you know nothin john snow

>>9432119
CHANNEL FUN
wood panelling (fake)
Those were the days.

>>9432075
Nobody said this retard.

He literally described the stereotypical way boomer tourists dress. Different demos dress different, fucking retard.

>>9429548
These are awful and too showy. Terrible taste

>>9432319
Nah

>>9408698
>>9408707
>>9420335
>>9429747
>>9432119
b a s e d

>>9412056
playing with parents was something of an atari experience for sure. it was fun playing pong or other vs games and video games werent seen as something only nerds did.

>>9412056
playing with parents was something of an atari experience for sure. it was fun playing pong or other vs games, back when video games were still young and werent seen as something only nerds did.

>>9432406
Looks like generic 1950s kitchen appliances

>>9421378
And yet my sister still managed to set a pudding cup on top of it and spill it all over my Turtles in Time cart.

which video game console from 1980's would be ideal for me?
>i hate Nintendo
>i hate sega
> anti-nintendo console
>i hate mario bros
>console without nintendo games

This nigger should have been the first thing posted

>>9434171
PC Engine

>>9434198
Reasons why pc engine/TG16 is my ideal 1980's console

>>9434171
Guess you're stuck with Atari 5200 and 7800

>>9434202
>cool small spaceship console
>bomberman
>anti-nintendo and doesn't even think about sega
>hudson soft had a cute bee logo and a train that ran around their hq building

Wherever you think console aesthetics started to go awry, surely you agree that almost all vr consoles are Michaelangelos next to current gen garbage.

>>9434192
As an owner of this (I bought the 32x on clearance from Toys R US for $20 dollars), my issue isn't the add ons. It's the fact that all of them require 3 separate power adapters and plugs. Sega should have just released 1 power adapter for all of them.

Absolute perfection

>>9434993
Close

>>9433831
>looks like a totally different thing from a different era that you don't see anymore
That's not generic. Learn English.

>>9434830
The black rectangles.

>>9434881
You don't have to plug the 32x in. It works fine without it.