/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9469264

>>9469269
One of the genesis addons or its a saturn addon
>>9469264
CD-I
T. born in 97

>>9469273
One of the poorest kids I knew had a CD-I because his idiot dad would occasionally splurge on luxury items and bought his kids the most expensive console for Christmas to make up for being a drunken asshole the other 364 days of the year. They never had any games for it, just the same three movies they watched over and over because they didn't have a VCR or satellite dish.

>>9469273
https://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/pioneer/pioneer_cld-a100/pioneer_cld-a100.htm

What's the genuine "no one had one" cutoff?

>>9469306
Turbographx, but no one really had one
t. 1985

>>9469306
It's really far down the list. Like the Apple Pippin level.

>>9469269
I have one of these, it's complete shit aside from the fact that you can get S-Video from it. But the system packs are prone to leaky caps. I have the SEGA pack and it still works, so I'm not recapping it until it fails. Huge pain in the ass.

>>9469313
>Turbographx
Disregarding PC Engine sales, the Turbografx 16 still put a small dent in the NA market. About 1/10 the sales of the Genesis by 1995. Who bought them?
Probably teenagers and college students mostly. Sort of like the Dreamcast.

>>9469327
why is it shit

>>9469324
saw one of these in a retro store, is it worth buying one?

>>9469350
The LD games are shit, and while it does give you the only way to play NTSC games with S-Video output (that existed at that time) everything is just too expensive. But I'm hanging on to it for now because autists love it and the price keeps doubling every year.

>>9469332
I bet those sales numbers include the TurboExpress, which would have been more tempting than the base console imo.

>>9469313
I think I saw a turbo grafx in real life before I saw either a Saturn or a Dreamcast. Didn't actually play one for the first time until a decade later though.

>>9469357
No.

>>9469367
I'm a Gen X'er and I never saw this shit in stores nor did I know anybody with an NEC console except one kid who was half-Japanese and his dad would buy him all the Jap shit while in Japan on business. And even though we all knew Japanese, the games just weren't compelling. Had a kino Bomberman though.

>>9469324
I see these but never anything about what fucking games you could play on one

Neo Geo AES, but not in the sense of owning the system, but instead in the sense of zoomers thinking no one every played Neo Geo games because no one owned the home console.

They completely forget or misunderstand the notion that although AES systems were rare, the MVS arcade cabinets were ubiquitous. I would say more kids and teens overall played a Neo Geo game in the 90s, if only for a few minutes, than played any other gaming platform at all.
That includes the NES, SNES, Gameboy, and Genesis. Those would have been split among different groups, but the kids and teens in -all- those groups played a Neo arcade machine for at least one credit during that same time period.

>>9469380
>I never saw this shit in stores
You never went to a Toys R' Us? Circuit City?
I saw them in both in the early 90s.
Along with the CD-i, Jaguar, and 3do.

>>9469365
>the price keeps doubling every year.
dam

>>9469372
thx anon

I recall walking into Best Buy in the 90s during Christmas season and seeing a huge stand-up advertisement for the Atari Jaguar CD with a bunch of the boxed systems up for sale.
I also recall having zero interest in it and wanting to get a Sega Nomad. I suppose this must have been in December 1995.

My parents got me a red gameboy instead.

>>9469429
>wanting to get a Sega Nomad
>My parents got me a red gameboy instead

child cruelty

>>9469402
All we had was a fucking Zellers man.

>>9469461
>Canadian
not really for realz Gen X. Canadian Gen X is like Canadian football.

>>9469306
>What's the genuine "no one had one" cutoff?

You'd have to go into prototype territory there, and even that one is not full proof because there are people who actually own shit like a Commodore 65 or a Nintendo Play Station or a Sega Pluto.

>>9469264
Commodore 64.
Just an absolutely huge system by any measure but often lumped in with many other never-was pretenders by those who think Nintendo = video games in the 80s.

>>9469269
wanted one after seeing it in the april 93 gamepro. Thought the modular consoles were outside the system like in the picture. Thought pyramid patrol would be a 3d game based on the screenshot. Bought one about 10 years ago for the novelty and its shit. It does have digital out though I'm not sure if it works with the sega cd portion, did not try

I'm going to go with the boring answer and say the Saturn.
But the caveat here is a lot of people bought the system used from a place like Funcoland in the late 90s or early 2000s. So those wouldn't count towards overall system sales. But at least two people have owned the same console.
If you were interested in gaming in the late 90s how could you turn down a $30 Saturn with games for between $3 to $10 each?

I'd venture to say the majority of original Saturns in the USA were traded in and then later resold. So you probably safely can "double" the install base.
Just a gut feeling having been around at the time.

>>9469429
>Myst Demo

Now that's fucking cruel

One of my friends had an Atari Jaguar. He was Indian, and his parents bought it from XS Cargo (a Canadian liquidator) in 1998 for like $25 and were just like "there you go, Behram, this is the television game all your friends talk about". These things had probably been sitting as dead stock for years by this point. He would try so hard to hype this thing when we were playing it, and even though I only had a SNES at the time (N64 was still a year away at this point) I just remember thinking how sorry I felt for him. From what I remember, he didn't even have any of the very few good games for the Jaguar, like Tempest 2000 or Rayman.

Ironically, if he kept that piece of shit it would be worth about $500 now, which makes Atari Jaguars a better investment than the S&P 500.

>>9469429
Most of those took a shit and died just like the CDIs and their sucide batteries

>>9469651
>most of those took a shit
figures, given they look just like a toilet!

>>9469264
what do zoomers have to do with this? the sega CD sold only 2 million worldwide, NO ONE bought it.

Somewhere out there was a kid who got a 3do for his birthday/christmas and by happenstance managed to acquire the ten or so very best games for that system and has a fond memories of it just blowing them away and the PS1 being a let-down since they had already experienced 32-bit gaming by that point.

>>9469735
>two million people didn't exist

>>9469735
Silent Hill for PS1 only sold two million copies.
NO ONE bought Silent Hill.

>>9469513
the C64 was that machine your dad bought on impulse and maybe had a few crappy games for before eventually being shoved in the closet and forgotten about

at least in NA. that's why barely anyone remembers it even if they actually had one back then

>>9469752
>the C64 was that machine your dad bought on impulse and maybe had a few crappy games for before eventually being shoved in the closet and forgotten about
Completely wrong. You're the person I was talking about.

>>9469751
yeah SH has never been a particularly well selling franchise, it just has an extremely vocal fanbase of pseudointellectuals on the internet thanks to SH2

>>9469756
I am the person I was talking about. My dad had a C64 and only played wheel of fortune and flight simulators on it. I'm sorry but there's a reason commodore has been largely forgotten

>>9469761
"never been a particularly well selling" is a long way away from "no one ever owned".

>>9469765
google "hyperbole" you raging autist

>>9469429
>I also recall having zero interest in it and wanting to get a [insert console less popular console name here]...
This is mostly my experience with these other consoles. I know that when I really wanted an SNES my father was trying to get me to want some shifty looking black console that wasn't an SNES or SEGA. It could have been the Neo Geo or Turbo Grafx. No idea other than it was on display with some 2D platformer with a caveman. I haven't paid to much attention to the timeline for a lot of these. I've seen many of them, but they didn't make a particularly big impression on me as a kid.

>>9469264
The first console I ever played regularly was the Intellivision and it's sunk so far that I was shocked when there was an attempt at a revival for this brand. There's practically no awareness of this system in the zoomer generation and it's no surprise. It's kind of depressing though because I really enjoyed this as a kid.

>>9469773
*Forgot pic of one of my fave games on it.

>>9469741
My rich as shit friend in private school had one with need for speed and knew everything about every car. I'd like to imagine he owns some now

>>9469764
>My dad had a C64 and only played games he enjoyed on it, his experience is invalid because he's OLD EWWWW
Anyway, the system was prized in the 80s and for every story like yours there are people who had 50 games for it and put in thousands of hours. Not just talking about the UK either.

The C64 outsold the Saturn and the Dreamcast combined in NA. The reason it doesn't get as much attention as the NES is because the NES was just that huge, and had later successors that saw popularity.

>>9469769
Hyperbole is bad. Stop saying "no one" when you don't mean no one.

>>9469771
Sounds like Turbografx to me, and the game was probably Bonk's Adventure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z__Bky_cXwM

>>9469779
>>My dad had a C64 and only played games he enjoyed on it, his experience is invalid because he's OLD EWWWW
didn't say that

>The C64 outsold the Saturn and the Dreamcast combined in NA
no it didn't? the saturn and dreamcast sold 10mil each and the C64 only sold 17mil worldwide. and anyway I'm not sure what you think you're accomplishing evoking either of these consoles like they aren't also forgotten.

you post like a petulant (man)child, btw

>>9469764
>my Dad had a c64 and only....flight simulators on it.
Imagine having a son this pleb.

Phillips CD-i is probably the best answer. Basically no one knew about it, yet it managed to have games with mainstream IPs like Flintstones, Dragon's Lair, and 3 Zelda exclusives.

No one had Sega consoles where I grew up. I didn't even know Sega had consoles until like 2010. Thought they were just a publisher.

>>9469787
>the saturn and dreamcast sold 10mil each
They did not. Not in NA.

Saturn
>By the end of 1998, around 1.5 million to 3 million units were sold in the United States
Dreamcast
>As of 2007, the Dreamcast sold 10.6 million units worldwide, including 5,433,501 in the United States

source:vgsales.fandom.com

C64
>For a substantial period (1983–1986), the C64 had between 30% and 40% share of the US market and two million units sold per year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

That would be 8 million C64s total over those years. And it kept selling after. No one is really sure how many more were sold into the late 80s.

>>9469787
>either of these consoles like they aren't also forgotten.
t. 40 year old zoomer

>>9469797
>Basically no one knew about it,
Anyone who picked up a game magazine knew about it, they just didn't own one. Probably didn't even see one for sale unless they had a Circuit City, Best Buy, or similar big box electronics store nearby.

>>9469782
Or Legendary Axe.

>>9469773
It was the Genesis to the Atari 2600's SNES, no?

>>9469513
https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=78260

>>9469797
But Zoomers know about the cdi through YouTube poops, nobody has really heard about the turbografx

>>9469816
>nobody has really heard about the turbografx
hmmm
I don't think you're right about this anon.

>>9469804
They were forgotten within their own generations. Go find a grownup n64 kid and ask him if he knows what the Sega Saturn is.

>>9469824
>Go find a grownup n64 kid and ask him if he knows what the Sega Saturn is.
I'm confident they would know exactly what it is.

>>9469813
Commodore nerds really just can’t accept it can they. People in NA bought C64s (and VIC-20s) because they were CHEAP enough that people could buy them on impulse. The vast majority never used them for anything more than games and the fact is most commodore games are unremarkable and forgettable. That’s why within a few years they were all shoved in closets and fell out of pop culture (they were barely there to begin with)

>>9469830
You’re deluded. Best case scenario they’ve heard of it but don’t know anything at all about it. I love the Saturn but if you think it’s anything more than a total failure outside Japan you really need to wake up.

>>9469838
Even if they never even touched one an N64 kid would still have seen it in a magazine. They'd know it was a Sega game console.
>Best case scenario they’ve heard of it
Goalpost moving.

>>9469834
Being cheap and only using them for games doesn't invalidate them in any way. The same exact description applies to the NES compared to 8-bit computers of the same time frame.

>>9469838
>it’s anything more than a total failure
The Jaguar and 3do were failures but most anyone familiar with retro gaming (an "N64 kid" as you put it) has heard of those too.
You're really underestimating the coverage magazines had back then.

>>9469752
Our elementary school had a bunch and the fuckers didn't teach us anything about computers until high school. I remember begging a teacher to let me have some time to input my handwritten game in BASIC during recess. She was awesome and let me try, but there was no fucking help. Imagine me being a kid with zero idea how to input this thing. I taught myself to program, but had no idea how to interface with the operating system or give it commands. To this day it annoys me that I had so much interest in programming and had zero adult guidance and very little support. Even one teacher that knew what they were doing could have changed the entire course of my life.

>>9469847
No one I knew owned a Saturn. No one ever even talked about it. If your sales figures are correct then the Saturn sold less in America than the fucking Sega CD which was itself a huge flop. I get that you like the Saturn (I do too) but part of liking something is being realistic about it and practically no one gave a crap or even knew what the Saturn was.

>>9469264
Zoomers get into emulation and see all consoles as equals. They are just different programs to download or cores in retroarch. There are probably more zoomers who have played a Sega CD via emulation than Millennials who have ever played the system in any form due to the incredible growth in popularity of gaming and the size of the zoomer generation compared to millennials and Gen X.

>this is a shitpost

>>9469856
Very accurate post.

>>9469751
everyone knows silent hill is a cult classic tard, not helping your point

>>9469853
My best friend who's family was lower middle class begged his dad for a saturn because he was a huge fan of sonic on genesis and swore a sonic game would come out on saturn. We are like 35 and thats the last console he owned

>>9469853
>No one I knew owned a Saturn. No one ever even talked about it.
more of that "no one" stupidity

no one owned a game gear
no one owned a dreamcast
no one owned a neo geo pocket
no one owned a psp

How far you gonna take this? No one owned an original Xbox? No one owned an N64?

>>9469865
No one *I* knew. Christ I hate autists.

>>9469782
>>9469808
Yeah, it really strikes me that it might have been Bonk's Adventure. It was definitely cartoon. I wonder what childhood was like for those Turbografx kids? Any anons have any experience with it as kids?

>>9469860
It was the 43rd best selling game on a system with over 2000 games released in NA. Hardly cult.

>>9469856
>not being a chad look up which consoles sold the most in japan then starting from the nes play every game of significance from original overseas release order + significant western pc releases to see the evolution of every genre pilled

>>9469873
>Hardly cult.
Zoomer detected.

>>9469865
I knew a handful of people who had Dreamcasts and PSPs. One of my friends was crushed when they discontinued the Dreamcast.

meanwhile the Saturn I never even heard of until years after Sega had stopped making consoles.

>>9469867
>only MY anecdotes count for anything! If I didn't know anyone who had something then NO ONE had it in the whole wide world.
eat shit you hyperbolic self-centered faggot

>>9469876
>meanwhile the Saturn I never even heard of
Then you were not reading any game magazines aka you were a filthy casual.

>>9469880
Lol you are so an aspie

>>9469873
i was wrong i apologize anon sama

>>9469809
That's my understanding. I was born in early 80s, so for me it was a hand me down I played in my grandparents basement when we visited. I can't claim to know too much about it other than they had a really great collection of games. First time I played a Mario game was Donkey Kong on the Intellivision. Armor Battle, Horse Racing, Lock n' Chase, and maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but Pacman comes to mind. Armor Battle was a great two player dueling game. The system really had a great library. Must have cost my grandparents a ton back then.

I can't think of another phrase that triggers the screeching autist in me more than "no one".
Just a little while back I got hit with a "no one owned a cell phone in the 90s".

Yes they fucking did. The person backtracked and said they meant "only rich people" which isn't exactly true but I let it slide.

>>9469864
I wish that had happened to me. I wasted too much time and money on games in my life.

>>9469895
well that one isn't even valid hyperbole it's just wrong

>>9469895
I remember we would make fun of "snobs" that owned one in my town. Only people that were full of themselves had a portable phone. I still don't own one.

>>9469895
>I struggle with basic language
Yes we can tell

>>9469623
I saw Myst all box in now-closed goodwill

>>9469901
We have to guard the past so it doesn't get revised too hard. I've noticed a lot of millennials pushing 40 now trying to claim they grew up in an era without video games and internet. Trying to pretend they grew up in the boomer lifestyle in order to seem more mature or macho or something like that.
Even the oldest millennials were exposed to the internet by their late teens, and that's still quite a lot of growing up to do. And the video games part is just total horse shit. Even boomers are being cagey when they claim that. They played fucking Pac-man and Galaga. Those are video games. They had them.

>>9469904
Are you that person that goes around saying they "literally died" ?

>>9469751
>>9469761
Because Konami didn’t port Silent Hill over N64, SNES and GBA

>>9469821
We'll not nobody but Zoomers at least

T. Pcengine duo enjoyer

>>9469808
>>9469869
Or Shantae

>>9469916
>pushing 40... grew up without internet
well many of them probably did
anyway it's important to distinguish between social media and old internet

>>9469816
kanye fan zoomers know about it cause he was going to name a 2017 album turbografx-16 since he had one as a kid

>>9469930
ZASED...

>>9469916
>we have to guard the past
You’re talking about toys you pathetic loser. Kill yourself unironically.

>>9469928
The one's I've heard it from are full of shit.
They just want to seem "hard".
Meanwhile kids from the hood in reality tended to get more tech toys than upper middle class kids from all I have read and observed personally over the years.
As a side-note: communities of people who live amish-esque plain living lifestyles are full of developers.

>>9469937
I hope one day you realize it's all toys anon.

>>9469895
This comes up on /pw/ a lot.
>There was no IWC in 1997-99
Just absolutely unequivocally false. You'd only need to watch the shows to see that. They advertise the websites and chat rooms all the time while you're watching.
The whole pre-facebook web era is slowly being memory holed.

>>9469898
It was depressing as shit because he had the archie comics watched the cartoons
Had sonic cd and evem knuckles chaotic

>>9469963
God damn phone posting but his family said that was it

>>9469916
You've lived a really sheltered life in big cities if you honestly believe everybody 40 or younger grew up with fucking Internet. Holy shit anon. I had family members in North American that had trouble getting Internet ten years ago. Nevermind back in the 90s. You're like those anons that claim the only reason Doom was popular was Death Match. I bet you never had to wipe your ass with another other than paper either. Never had to use a handful of snow, a pine branch, or a corn cob. Real pampered fella you are.

>>9469981

>>9469264
People 6 in 2001 are milenials like most of this website. Also anything before the ps2 or gamecube at this point.

>>9469981
There's a big difference between being "exposed to the internet" and having it at home.

>>9469741
I unironically love my 3DO. Feels like a console somebody dreamed up and managed to physically manifest from a DMT trip.

>>9469892
Three words: Swords. And. Serpents.

>>9469367
It was. I didn’t know anyone with tg-16 but a bunch of kids had turbo express

>>9469380
They sold them at Toys r Us. Tons of games too. It was popular in California.

>>9469751
>>9469761
We all rented it you fucking zoomers

>>9469954
I distinctly remember my friend in high school telling me some website said that Brutus Beefcake was returning to join the nWo as The Disciple. I thought he was full of shit but this did indeed happen in early '98 so he must have told me this sometime in 1997.

>>9469764
Omegalulz

>>9469779
Chill out duuuuude, he didn’t say he didn’t like it. C64 was cool but it felt outdated pretty quick by late 80s

>>9469752
Welcome to 4chan reddit. Your larp-fu is not strong.

>>9469874
Absolutely based

>>9469769
Again with this shit, retard?
>>9470324

>>9469773
Anything other than the Atari 2600 is basically forgotten history to younger generations by this point. I doubt any of them know about other consoles of the era like the Collecovision, Vectrex or the Odyssey either. Atari at least had a few failed attempts with the 7800, Lynx and Jaguar to keep people aware of the brand after the the early 80's while all their competitors have faded into obscurity

>>9469306
I had a Colecovision, Intellivision, 2600, C64, and ZX Spectrum. Also had access to Apple IIe at school and its various predecessors.
Ironically I never had an Atari 800 and skipped right to the ST. This bugged me as a kid when I'd read game glitches and tricks in the print magazines that would only work on the 8-bit Ataris.

>>9469402
>You never went to a Toys R' Us? Circuit City?

Not that anon but my parents never took us anywhere like that because "Anon they got games/toys at Walmart and we can get groceries there too, there's no need to waste the gas driving all the way to the other side of town". My local Walmart only carried Nintendo stuff, couldn't even find a single Sega thing there at all, let alone any other brands.

>>9469851
I think there’s a big gap between any familiar with retro gaming and an N64 kid, right? My family owned all Nintendo consoles growing up, I played a lot, and I even used a few forums starting in the mid 2000’s. Didn’t know the Saturn existed until maybe 2011-12 or so. People would have called me and enthusiastic gamer but I was in my bubble. I think a lot of people were that way in that lower information time.

>>9469852
I doubt such a teacher existed in your school and I bet that teacher had no idea what the hell you were talking about, probably just went 'Oh anon wants to spend recess doing some work".

>>9469884
>ask mom and/or dad for gaming magazine
>"We're not wasting money on that trash, anon"

>>9469895
Well you are a screeching autisit, that much is clear. You likely also meltdown when people say “It’s raining cats and dogs”, “That was the best meal I ever had”, “These taxes are killer”, or “She’s gonna kill me for this!”

>>9469916
>Even boomers are being cagey when they claim that. They played fucking Pac-man and Galaga. Those are video games. They had them.

Yeah, but just those were just something they'd spend, at most, a quarter or two on as a curiosity before never thinking about it again as they head back to the bar to find someone to practice their pull out game with. But you wouldn't know anything about that.

>>9469937
Everyone is talking about toys on this whole god damn board. What the fuck are you doing here?

>>9469779
>The reason it doesn't get as much attention as the NES

The reason for that is that the kids who had NES grew up to be manchildren making youtube videos, while the kids who had a C64 learned programming and went to work as a programmer, sometimes in the gaming industry. Companies like DMA Design (Rockstar of GTA fame) and IO Interactive (Hitman games) were started by ex-demoscene coders, and those are just the most popular examples I can think of.

>>9469802
>No one is really sure how many more were sold into the late 80s.

I thought they already estimated ~15 million produced based on analysis of the serial numbers.

>>9469264
Zoomers weren't six years old in 2001 you buttfucking niggerfaggot.

>>9469429
If you already had a normal Genesis then the Game Boy was for the better, it had way longer battery life and a library of games you didn't already have.

Six years old in 2001 = born in 1994-5 = millennial

>>9469306
Sega Saturn.

>>9469747
2 million out of 6 billion is 0.0‾3%

>>9469429
Based. It'd be like you asking your dad for a Ken doll, him handing you Optimus Prime pr Stretch Armstrong and neither of you ever bring it up.

>>9469747
Sega CD owner is kill

>>9469735
>>the sega CD sold only 2 million worldwide, NO ONE bought it

So what piece of tech are you going to invent to get 2 million people to bu

>>9469623
People really want $500 for that old hunk of shit now? You can count the worthwhile games on one hand, and the build quality is abysmal (yet worse for the CD addon). I mean I get the collectibility thing, but I never thought the demand would ever really rise.

>>9469313
I did (as Turbo Express). I also had SMS, Saturn, Sega CD (as CDx), CD-I (no games, tho), Lynx, Game Gear and Neo Geo.
I did not have Turbo Duo, 3DO/3D0 (not sure which spelling is correct), Neo Geo CD or 32x and didn't know anyone who had any of those. I also lacked a Gameboy but knew dozens of kids with Gameboys and knew one kid with NGP/NGPC.

>>9469429
>>9469402
I forgot Jaguar existed. That's another one I've never actually known anyone to have. And I knew a guy who had a useless fucking PocketStation.

>>9469735
>2 million sales is literally nothing
Get raped.

>>9469439
The Nomad is cool until you realize it's only actually portable if you're willing to pay out the ass for batteries. It's more expensive than the Game Gear to play without the power cord.

>>9469651
>>9469681
The CD addon would virtually always brick itself because atrocious build quality meant the lid on it would hold the disc down when closed, making the motor strip its gears trying to spin. They can function, but very often because it was actually repaired and modified because it wasn't built properly to begin with.

The Jaguar itself is pretty cheaply put together, but they aren't prone to committing suicide from being powered on like the addon is.

>>9469513
We had an Atari ST.

>>9470626
That's the problem anon. You give the best technology to a bunch of retarded women and then wonder where all the tax dollars went. I have a few teachers in the family right now. I am not shitting you when I say that they give ipads to every kids, use digital chalkboards, and do virtual online lessons all the time, but still haven't got a fucking clue what they're doing.

>>9470971
We had IBM OS/2 computers in computer class and never did anything on them other than this program that showed you the body parts of a lobster.
I got fed up with that and started exploring the OS.

>>9469865
PSP was much more popular than xbox and n64

>>9469780
Hyperbole is the best thing in the universe

>>9469916
To be fair, a boomer spending like 15 minutes playing pacman once a week at the arcade (pretty much describing my father here) wouldn't qualify as a gamer by today's standards. Not even close. Everyone played an arcade game back then out of curiosity. Normal (non-gamer) boomers and gen x did not make it to the arcades in the 90s to experience button-mashing on street fighter 2

>>9471069
It was more popular than the n64, gamecube, and xbox combined. A solid decade of software support too.

>>9469847
My parents' would have had a stroke if I asked them for a magazine subscription

>>9469886
And not the cool Savant kind.

>>9470604
My parents' knew better than to even let us look at the toy aisle; all we'd get was disappointed.

>>9469923
Zoomers know about Richter Belmont and Rondo of Blood now that he's in Smash.

>>9469752
my wife's first home computer was a Commodore 64. Her Dad used it for work though.

>>9469869
I'm sure they grew up angry, shouting from the hilltops that the TurboDuo was fucking sweet, and that it would take 30 years for people to catch on. I only got a PCE and CD addon in 2019 and it's become one of my favorite consoles.

>>9469396
not to mention we got decent Neo Geo emulation pretty early on.

>>9471074
Gen X very much did play SF2.
It was a casual party game on consoles.

>>9471080
You read it for free at a news stand, silly.
Or a kid at school had one he let you browse through.

>>9471337
I guess the late gen x (1975-80) would have.
My folks are boomerish/early gen x (1965) and they bought street fighter in 1993 for us, not themselves. But they had kids early so they were forced to grow up early too. If they were child-free I could see a 20-something person spending time at the arcades in the early 90s but they would probably rather go party like all normies do.
Funny memory: I recall my mom complaining that games had gotten "too fast" when she tried to play Sonic and SFII with us on the genesis, kek. She never even tried with PS1 and later.

>>9471343
I read the "1000 best n64 codes!" books to get more out of the games I had instead of looking at magazines advertising stuff I didn't. (Also I was a fierce console warrior)

>>9471343
>You read it for free at a news stand, silly.
Those did not and still don't exist in the area I live.
>Or a kid at school had one he let you browse through.
Why would any store that carries magazines bother with some about a passing fad like video games when they could carry high sellers about such topics as guns, hunting, and guns?

>>9471402
My degenerate teen parents were born in 71 and 74. My dad apparently loved the arcade versions of Ghosts 'n' Goblins and Gauntlet (he bought the console games half for himself and half for us later on). My mom played Donkey Kong and Mouse trap on the family colecovision.

>>9471434
brainlet post

>>9470978
Our school had the computers, but zero class time on them other than once a year in the basement. That's why I had to beg to stay in at recess. I was only allowed once.

>>9469264
>zoomers didn't know anyone who had one when they were six years old in 2001
I’d argue that I’m barely not a zoomer, thanks!
I think you already posted a pretty solid choice. I wouldn’t see a Saturn or TG16 in real life until I was almost out of high school and never knew anyone with older siblings that played or owned them. I guess I could say the same for the Neo Geo AES.

>>9471402
Those are definitely on the faster end for games. Shoulda showed her some more modest paced stuff or even turn based ones.

>>9471434
Are you fucking retarded or did you just grow up in the most backwater of backwaters? I could go to the magazine stands of a store or supermarket even out in rural areas and still find rows of gun rags, gamer rags, driving rags, fashion rags, cooking rags, photo rags, history rags, etc, and that was along with comic books and some places actually having porno rags (usually placed taller and behind a cover).

They don't take up a lot of space, I could (and would) pick up one for guns and one for gaming at the same time. I bought comics more often, but there were more of those that I was interested in and they published a lot more often than other ones.

>>9469380
idk Blazin Lazers is my favorite shoot em up and Kieth Courage I feel had its moments at least.

>>9469773
This was my first console and I had that maze game and video blackjack

>>9469876
me too
It would be the equivalent for nintendo fans if they cancelled the next mario game so they could make a fortnight spinoff.
A system destroyed by ignorant normies and their sports games.

>>9469981
Had internet at school a couple of years before I got it at home. Certainly felt like growing up with it even if it was late teens, each year is like the equivalent of 4 when you are younger. A lot of zoomers don't even use computers properly, they just on clicks apps from their phone or the equivalent for website on pc and they only use about 3 websites.

>>9470859
technically the jag has much better graphics than expensive systems like the neogeo and fm townes.

>>9469357
>>9469372
>>9469418
Depends on the price. As something you'd want to use and play something? No. As a collectible? Yes, if the price is right. Everything made by Apple has its fans, and admittedly some of their old hardware are oozing with soul.

>>9469502
If it didn't make it to retail it doesn't count.

>>9470098
>Feels like a console somebody dreamed up and managed to physically manifest from a DMT trip.
This is a good way of putting it.

>>9473240
>Kieth Courage
Well now you've gone and done it. That game is universally hated by the weeb bandwagoners who get filtered by anything more difficult than a softcore VN. And that's 90% of the fan base.

>>9470971
>That's the problem anon. You give the best technology to a bunch of retarded women and then wonder where all the tax dollars went

You pay teachers like shit, don't actually teach them how to use these tools themselves, then get upset that nothing comes of a momentary surplus of money

>>9473494
>If it didn't make it to retail it doesn't count.

If it went into retail and sold at least 1 unit then by definition it cannot be something that "no one ever owned".

>>9469357
There are effectively no games for it, no it's really only something to be stuck on a shelf and collect dust.

So no.

>>9473448
The Jag was powerful as fuck for its time, but the way it achieved that power was very impractical and it was very difficult to tap all of it. This is why there's a couple of games/ports on there which are genuinely very fucking impressive, because some real top level programmers decided that they were gonna bother, while the rest of the library is mostly very SNES / Genesis tier, because most looked at it and thought to themselves "What the FUCK is this piece of shit?"