/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.10082586]

How did you get into retro gaming? My first console was the Wii, so I was introduced to it with the VC. Playing the earliest Mario and Sonic games felt really special at the time.

[Anonymous No.10082591]

>>10082586
I got a PSP when I was in grade 3 and my older cousins put SNES emulators and games on it.

[Anonymous No.10082592]

I grew up in the 90s, kiddo

[Anonymous No.10082595]

>>10082586
Anon how young are you? I just had a nes lol

[Anonymous No.10082597]

Cringe thread

[Anonymous No.10082598]

>>10082586
My parents bought me a genesis. What got me into retro gaming was wondering why the fuck people stopped making side scrollers just because 3D became possible. i never disconnected my genesis because the games that were releasing on 3D systems were totally different

[Anonymous No.10082607]

>>10082586
That's cool anon, I really liked the VC (even if I mostly just played on emulators, having some old games on my Wii too was cool). Like >>10082592 and >>10082595, I just started with NES and never got rid of my old consoles like my friends did with theirs. So I've kept playing old games along with new ones since I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.10082610]

>>10082607
*My own emulators I should say, the VC is emulation too of course

[Anonymous No.10082614]

>>10082591
I got Sonic Classic Collection on my DS, never had a PSP
>>10082595
let's just say early 20s lol
>>10082607
based, I've lost a few due to them not working anymore or moving, but I've kept most of them too for posterity (including the Wii with my VC collection)

[Anonymous No.10082626]

>>10082586
Blog post incoming.

Elder millenial here, my early childhood revolved around the NES.
Spring 1996 my aunt gets an internet capable computer. I hop on a search engine and search "Nintendo" hoping to find N64 news. I end up at a site called NES Nation and I started at the site banner. WAVES of nostalgia came back to me. I was only a few years removed from playing mine but I couldn't believe how much I missed it.
Fast forward to Summer of 1998. I was getting into RPGs and I was trying to find some copies of the Final Fantasy Legend games which had been reprinted. I asked the guy at EB if they had a copy and he said they didn't and to try the Funcoland across the street.
Funco was jaw dropping. Shelves and shelves of old games. When school started that fall I started talking to one of my old buddies about the store I saw that sold tons of old games and we started reminescing about the NES. His beloved games from his childhood were completely different than mine and it made me realize there was an entire galaxy of NES games I had not played. I owned an N64 at this point and it's pitiful release schedule was not cutting it for me.
I scraped up some cash, bought an old NES and a couple games from Funco. I went nuts with collecting, every spare dollar I made went to buying old NES shit. I'd sell almost new N64 games so I could buy NES stuff. It really was a golden age of collecting - people were just giving that shit away.

[Anonymous No.10082638]

I played them when they were contemporary

[Anonymous No.10082640]

Get into it? You merely adopted the retro gaming. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see polygons until I was already in high school; by then, it was nothing to me but jank!

[Anonymous No.10082649]

Grew up with the SNES/N64 and was always interested in playing earlier games in the series I was playing.

[Anonymous No.10082652]

>>10082586
my hardware got old over time and turned retro. and now it's even less likely i get to play modern hardware thanks to sanctions. so all i have left is old memories and retro video games

[Anonymous No.10082680]

>>10082586
I was playing consoles that were older than me ever since I was old enough to pick up a controller. Then I found out about emulators which made them way more accessible to me. Then I went online trying to figure out how to make games, I discovered the Game Maker Community, which turned me on to making pixel art. My love of art and games combined into pixel art, and my love of retro games was forever established.

I used to go on loads of communities related to both pixel art and retro games. Pixeljoint, Pixelation, The Spriters Resource, Pixeltendo, etc. Even though I always liked games, new and old, of all types. The moment I realised that retro games in particular was a thing and that I loved them a lot. Was when I first found AVGN after he was shared on the pixeljoint forums.

[Anonymous No.10082685]

25 here, lol i know
>GBA with the mario advance games
>grandma bought me old B&W GB games
>eventually got a wii and got into all the other shit with the virtual console, especially the pc engine

[Anonymous No.10082705]

>got a wii new
>library fucking sucks
>ok I guess ill try xbox 360
>everything is brown and gray epic bro-tier shooterslop
>ok ill get a gaming PC
>nothing is moddable anymore, communities are over-moderated kindergartens, need a slop launcher for every game
>k I guess ill just keep playing n64 and maybe pick up a ps2 then
Fin

[Anonymous No.10082719]

35.
Had NES as kid.
Grew up middle lower class so buying video games was pretty rare. emulators were free, so even when n64 and gamecube were the newest stuff, i'd still mostly play old stuff just cause it was free. i dont know why i had a PC.
So nostalgia and cheap are my reasons

[Anonymous No.10082725]

>>10082705
can always kys

[Anonymous No.10082741]

>>10082586
>mom's snes
>aunt's game boy
>uncle's atari 2600
>arcades with my dad
>tiger handhelds
>friends genesis and game gear
>older cousin with the sega cd, saturn, ps1 and pc
my first real handheld was the gameboy pocket, remember going to the flea market to get a 4 in 1 multicart for it

[Anonymous No.10082753]

I try to forget it but threads like these remind me I’m arguing with, on a good day, college age tik tok niggers about what makes a game good. Unironic broccoli hair crocs with pins in them mutts frequent this board and “participate” in its discussion. Hopefully I can go a few more days forgetting before I’m reminded again.

[Anonymous No.10082769]

>>10082753
cope boomer

[Anonymous No.10082774]

Think most people grew up with it. For me my first console was a SNES, before that played my uncle's mega drive and NES. Kept everything aside from the odd shit game I traded back in and regrettably Mario Tennis on GBC. I do feel bad for zoomers and alphas that missed out on kino but luckily emulation exists. I'm not actually sure it's zoomers driving up prices, it's faggots around my age (mid-30s) who through all their stuff away, have disposable income, and want it back.

>>10082640
No one cared who I was, 'til I put on the shader.

[Anonymous No.10082775]

My first consoles were PS1 and Genesis. Family was always poor, so I was always stuck in the older generations and that became my preference. By the time I was able to afford modern vidya, I just couldn't get into it at all aside from some recent platformers and JRPGs, simple stuff.

[Anonymous No.10082776]

>>10082705
>2007
>get a ps3
>excited af
>first game is asscreed 1 and garbage
>ps3 literally collects dust until mw2 comes out.
>buy wii and return it
>dont even bother with 360 because RROD
>dont have a good enough PC to play anything better than runescape
>only left with emulating older games
my version of this

[Anonymous No.10082835]

>>10082586
I'm 30 and my oldest brother is 10 years older than me so I was playing atari, master system, mega drive, gameboy and snes from a very early age. One of my earliest memories is playing Sonic 1 with my mother and waiting for my brother to get home from school to beat the last boss for us. We were pretty poor so didn't have many games for each system, but played the hell out of the ones we did have. Wonder Boy III is probably my most nostalgic game, spent so many hours wandering the world loving the music.

[Anonymous No.10082839]

>>10082586
I grew up in the 80s, kiddo

[Anonymous No.10082850]

>>10082586
It was around 2014-2015 when I lost interest in new games. For a while I just assumed I was outgrowing video games and should move on to new interests, but then I plugged in my old Sega Genesis one day and had a blast, and realized it's just that modern games suck dick.

[Anonymous No.10082860]

>>10082586
>be 8yo or so
>be Russian
>had a Genesis but wasn't that huge of a fan
>friend somehow got SNES
>play SMW and Cybernator
>mind blown
>fast forward to around 14-15yo
>have a PC but a crappy graphics card that crashes when I try to run half of 3D games
>start reading mags
>find out about emulators
>holy shit, SNES and N64 on PC
>play MMX3, Kirby's DL3, Perfect Dark, Kirby 64, OoT
>trying out SM64 was mindblowing
>later get a DS and a flashcart
>beat SM64 DS, play GBA retro ports and the shitty SNES DS emulator
>realize I prefer retro games and get disillusioned with where modern games are heading (X360 era and all)
>gradually get into more niche stuff like NES, 2D fighters, retro PC games
eventually I caught up on most retro stuff. slowly burned out and took a break from gaming, then realized I miss handhelds. now waiting for my Retroid Pocket 3+ to arrive while playing Heroes 3

[Anonymous No.10082867]

I played the latest games up until 2012 when I just wasn't having fun anymore and I stopped for years. Then I randomly remembered an old game i couldn't afford when I was a kid and I tried it and had a blast playing it, that's when i realized i didn't stop liking games, it's just modern games are fucking terrible. So now I'm just playing retro games I haven't played before.

[Anonymous No.10082870]

>>10082586
I'm old enough that it wasn't retro back then. But as far as emulation goes the first time I emulated anything was Nesticle way back in the day.

[Anonymous No.10082889]

Buying an NES with Mario 2 at K-Mart in 1989.

[Anonymous No.10082892]

>>10082592
This. When I was growing up it was just gaming, not retro lol. Always had emulators on PC but got into clone consoles around 2010 and emulator handhelds a few years later. Wasn't until recently when I started playing some of the more obscure consoles like SEGA CD and TurboGrafx-CD.

[Anonymous No.10082905]

>>10082860
>Whilst playing heroes 3
It's one of my fave games too but what is it about HoMM3 that Russians fucking love? It's not the only toaster compatible game so it can't just be that

[Anonymous No.10082912]

>>10082586
Got a Commodore 64 in 1987, haven't really stopped since.

[Anonymous No.10082940]

>>10082860
Absolutely wholesome, comrade. Na Zdorovie!

[Anonymous No.10082941]

I'm 30, was born into a house with a super nintendo and genesis (older brother) and got new consoles as they came out, never stopped playing older games and never sold them, while the n64 and ps1 were new and dreamcast was around the corner I was playing genesis still. Never thought to get rid of anything, still played and rented new games often. PS2 stopped reading DVDs so it became a dedicated PS1 machine, replaced it by the end of the year and also got gamecube, xbox followed and eventually got into online discussion around this time. Would still throw on now old PS1, N64, SNES games just because I wanted to play them. Online became aware that retro gaming was a thing and it wasn't really the default.

Got into emulation a little while later and got to play and discover how shitty some of those games I never got to rent were back then (quest 64 is awful!) and made that my means of playing old games. At this point I was aware people just didn't play old games and only played new games which was unusual to me because in school I'd talk to friends about PS1 games while they're playing gears of war.

I remember being puzzled by people who got rid of old games. "what if you wanted to replay them?" So the cycle of selling games to get new ones never really clicked with me.

[Anonymous No.10082974]

>>10082905
This is frequently asked, I guess it's a combination of many factors. First off, the game is actually great, it's hugely underrated in the West. Second, it came out at the right time. Early 2000s was when PC prices finally started dropping, many Russian families were getting their first PCs, and as you said, Heroes 3 ran on toasters (unlike HL, Q3 and so on).
And third, the game set a bit of a precedent: with most other PC games, your best chance to play them was some crappy pirated copy with a shitty translation (or none at all). E.g., I've never seen a licensed StarCraft or Diablo CD in the wild (at least not a cheap one). But Heroes 3 unexpectedly received a very good official translation and was sold at about every PC store for like $3-5 or so for a licensed copy. So everyone and their mom played it.

[Anonymous No.10082980]

you have to be at least 35 years old to post here.

[Anonymous No.10083001]

>>10082586
Emulation. Finding free games to play was one of the first things kids did when internet became available in the late 90s and ROMs were small enough to download quickly on smallband internet. It honestly was pretty amazing discovering this whole vault of old games I never even heard of.

Forums were a big thing in the early 2000s as well, so obviously a lot of people recommended games like Chrono Trigger etc.

[Anonymous No.10083005]

>>10082586
I never did. The games just became retro over time.

[Anonymous No.10083060]

>>10082905
Its not just russkies, everyone in eastern yurop loves that game

[Anonymous No.10083059]

I’m in my mid 30s, so I spent a lot of time being raised by Sega and Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.10083119]

>>10082586
a man on youtube told me old games were cool

[Anonymous No.10083410]

>>10082586
I was a Gamecube/GBA era kid but we had a SNES and my brother started working part time and picmrd up basically all of the mainstream older consoles so I got to try them all out at some point.
Eventually he sold them all, but when I was in middle school (Wii/DS era) I discovered emulators and spent a lot of time playing retro games from my PC. When I became an adult and got a job I bought all of the consoles and handhelds and started collecting for them.

[Anonymous No.10083607]

>How did you get into retro gaming?
I'm old, anon.

[Anonymous No.10083674]

>>10082586
This is really good bait

[Anonymous No.10083756]

>>10083674
Why would you assume it's bait? The virtual console was how a lot of young people got into retro games. If you were 6 when the Wii came out, then you're 23 now.

Have you just not realised that you're getting old? Or do you assume that only people of your age group go on 4chan? What is it? Sad that zoomers found your secret club?

[Anonymous No.10083759]

>>10082753
Actually, the saddest part is you're usually arguing with other manchildren that never mentally progressed past highschool. Young people can be forgiven for being ignorant or obnoxious, old men can't.

[Anonymous No.10083761]

>>10082586
I grew up on PS1, GBA and N64. pretty much took off from there and noticed a decline in quality games around the time the ps4/xbone came out so I just stuck with 90’s - 2000’s games for the most part.

[Anonymous No.10083771]

>>10083756
I think a lot of older gaymers don't really know that a lot of younger gamers get into retro gaming organically. Old games get re-released all the time and younger gamers see it and are interested in it. A lot of younger gamers like Smash Bros and see all the characters and trophies and are curious to explore the history of those characters. There were the mini consoles a few years ago, and currently Switch Online. Back during the Wii era a lot of kids played those games for the first time.

A kid I knew randomly started talking about NES games one day and I asked him if his dad has an NES (which was surprising because his dad is young) and he said he plays NES games on his switch. The kid was 6 at the time.

Kids aren't stupid.

[Anonymous No.10083791]

>>10082586
Being broke as hell mainly. I did have a wii growing up but we didn’t get games too often so I just got into downloading emulators and roms for old nintendo consoles randomly. A couple games I learned of by playing those 1000 in 1 NES plug n plays we sometimes got. There was also the fact that for a lot of years my only portable was a GBA SP, which was pretty damn old by the time I got a 3DS.

[Anonymous No.10083821]

>>10082586
>grew up in the 90s
>first console in the house was an N64, followed by PS2
>but always preferred NES and SNES when I'd visit my cousins
>begged parents to get me old shit
>they told me to save up to get them myself (of course, I couldn't)
>would sneak onto the family computer to emulate old games, but didn't really make it far most of the time because the parents were always using it, also it pissed them off a lot
>eventually got a PSP in middle school
>hacked it
>loaded that bitch up with NES, SNES, GB, and other emulators
>finally got to enjoy all the games I thought looked cool when I was little
>they actually were every bit as cool as I thought they would be
My only wish is that I could have played those classic games when I was younger, but in the end I still had a great time with them.

[Anonymous No.10083953]

>>10082626
>I went nuts with collecting, every spare dollar I made went to buying old NES shit. I'd sell almost new N64 games so I could buy NES stuff. It really was a golden age of collecting - people were just giving that shit away.
Yup! Timing those gluts can be a hell of a lot of fun. I remember seeing stacks of PlayStations at thrift stores for ~$10 as a kid (t. elder zoomer). At that price, it wasn't exactly hard to convince my parents to get me one. As for the NES, a console, two controllers, zapper, and two games could be had for $40ish.

What I find weird is that each generation after the 4th or 5th has spent less time at the bottom of its depreciation curve. Wiis went from being used as doorstops to ~$50 in what? 5 years? It took the NES at least twice as long with around half as many units shipped ffs.

[Anonymous No.10083972]

I checked out a NES classic and an SNES classic from the library a year ago. Then I also found this board and the emulation general site as well ass the r/roms subreddit. I also have a raspberry pi with retro pie and retro games are all it can run. I’m 19 btw.

[Anonymous No.10083986]

>>10082586
By finding my dad's snes and n64 when I was 11 about 8 years ago.

[Anonymous No.10084013]

>brother gives me his Xbox, it's modded with some emulators and romsets on it
>grew up with NES and Genesis and the like, only just now getting to revisit all those games
>SNES, Genesis, and N64 only have a relatively small set of roms, but NES and PC Engine have fullsets
>spend a lot of rainy summer days sitting there enjoying the sound of the rain while looking through NES and PCE games
Very cozy and whenever it rains, I try to do it again.

[Anonymous No.10084016]

>>10082586
>How did you get into retro gaming?

...by not leaving it in the first place?

[Anonymous No.10084018]

>>10082586
My family were arcade heads during the 80's and 90's when it was cool so they bought me the 6 button arcade stick for the Genesis. Now they pretend they never liked it and see it as something you have to let go of or else you aren't growing as a person.

[Anonymous No.10084070]

>>10082586
my brothers are way older than me, so I got all their hand-me-down consoles. Grew up with SNES, N64, PS1 and PS2 all at the same time

[Anonymous No.10084071]

>>10082586
A copy of Sonic Mega Collection on Gamecube.

[Anonymous No.10084075]

SNES at 6 NES and Genesis/Sega CD at neighbors Atari 2600 with Circus and Combat and others at grandma's

[Anonymous No.10084079]

>>10083756
Cringe

[Anonymous No.10084097]

It was a year after 9/11. I was six. My older cousin gave me a Sega Genesis as a suprise present, hooked up to the 12" RF CRT in the basement upon the solid wood TV table. I walked down the stairwell and saw my cousin playing Sonic with my sister. She was at Marble Zone. One of my earliest memories.

[Anonymous No.10084116]

>>10084075
And DOS/windows 3.1 onward

[Anonymous No.10084125]

I never stopped playing SNES. But I got into other retro platforms such as Genesis and Arcade stuff around 2008-2009 because I was just sick of the garbage coming out at the time. Retro games just had better graphics, gameplay, and music than stuff coming out at the time.

[Anonymous No.10084189]

>>10084079
What's cringe about that? Being 46 and complaining on a mongolian basket weaving forum about the kids being here too is pretty cringe tbf.

[Anonymous No.10084235]

>>10082586
Mom gived me vhs with Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm with russian dub which sounds very professional and cool compare to original what means it doesn't sound like cringe. So on space what left on vhs someone recorded MK3 and MK2 Mega Drive gameplay. So after that all i can think about is Sega and Mortal Kombat.

[Anonymous No.10084513]

>>10082586
I actually played space invaders at the arcades when it was all the rage. I needed a little stool to reach the controllers though.
Back then arcades still had those pinball machines that were made of wood and mechanical parts.
I'm glad a lot of people see the beauty of old games but I'm not too fond of the moronic price bubble on games, but oh well, emulation is getting pretty good on various fronts (accuracy / filters)

>>10082753
>>10083759
The trick is to come here to enjoy retrogaming. Just move past all the bait threads, the bad faith arguments, pitting consoles against each other with the sole purpose of producing anger, if you've been on the internet long enough you've seem them enough to know it plays out.
People finding about cool old games, or gushing about something they didn't know, threads reminding you of some old game you had good times with, just focus on the good.

[Anonymous No.10084554]

I was lucky to have grown up in the late 90s and early 2000s when the first wave of 80s nostalgia was coming on. As my mom raised me on a lot of what she grew up with in her youth, so too did she turn me onto classic game compilations like Namco Museum, Activision Classics on PS1 and Intellivision Lives on PC, along with several PC clones of arcade games, and remakes like Frogger and Q*bert on PS1. It all just stuck with me since, but became even more accessible thanks to the internet and emulation.

[Anonymous No.10084610]

>>10084097
How poor were you to receive a Genesis in fucking 2002?

[Anonymous No.10084724]

I played Genesis a lot as a kid and had an Atari, Colecovision and Intellivision via my parents. As I got older I kept playing newer video games but by the Wii/Wii U eras I realized games weren't being made the same way anymore. I had a brief resurgence in interest when the Switch came out, but eventually got so jaded with the modern industry I thought "why don't I try playing some old games?" I realized they were way more fun and started playing more and more of them and now I almost exclusively play older games, mostly Genesis, SNES, Dreamcast, PS1 and recently PC-Engine.

[Anonymous No.10084770]

>>10083756
>go to board that is mostly 30 or 40 somethings
>make a post implying the norm here isn't to grow up with the games
>insist that many posters are actually zoomers despite most replies saying they just played the games when they were current
to be clear I am a zoomer and I think this is a funny thread because it's clearly baiting for millennial rage posts like this one >>10082753

[Anonymous No.10084783]

>>10084770
>he’s making threads in a board with no zoomers!
>to be clear I am a zoomer
No shit, you’re the biggest faggot in this thread. Consider going back to /v/.

[Anonymous No.10084784]

>>10084783
>a board with no zoomers
who are you quoting?

[Anonymous No.10084787]

>>10084770
>it’s so funny but I’m not like them haha I’m a good zoomer right guys

Fuck off and kys on the way out

[Anonymous No.10084790]

>>10084787
>laughing at angry boomers is somehow the same as wanting their approval

[Anonymous No.10084940]

>>10082753
>Unironic broccoli hair crocs with pins in them mutts

Let's be honest anon, if anyone is a mutt here, it's you. Muttiest of mutts.

[Anonymous No.10084951]

>>10082586
Are you ACTUALLY into classic gaming, or do you just play Super Mario and Sonic and go "I'm such a le retro-fag! XD"

Because there's a difference. People who enjoy classic gaming enjoy the auteur aesthetic of the era mixed with the uncompromising difficulty and focused design.

Tell me, what are 5 of your favorite retro games, not including anything directly developed by SEGA or Nintendo?

[Anonymous No.10084970]

>>10082586
I was born in 1988, my parents bought a NES some time before that. My Dad always bought us game systems near the end of their life time when they were cheap as fuck. He also always encouraged me and my siblings to use computers too.

[Anonymous No.10085315]

>>10084951
Please tell me this was posted ironically

[Anonymous No.10085340]

Can't believe this board is like 70% zoomer now.
Allowing Gen 6 was a mistake

[Anonymous No.10085483]

>>10084610
I'm so poor I think game consoles are status symbols. Oh wait, that's you.

[Anonymous No.10085576]

>Dad gives me a pirated copy of MK Deception for the PS2.
>I call my cousins to play with me.
>Instead of Deception, the classic MK1 loads. >"WTF!? Why would you play this old game? Can't you buy better games?"
>No, I can't.
>My cousins make fun of me for playing some old ass game. I seethe.
>When they leave, I lock myself in my room, cry for being poor, then actually start playing the game.
>Play it to death and then play it some more, I even find Reptile.
>Search for more old fighting games.
>Eventually stumble upon the MUGEN games and discover a whole bunch of them.
>Poorfag, so I can't buy the old consoles and games, much less an arcade cabinet.
>Eventually stumble upon emulators and discover a whole bunch of old games.
>Still a poorfag, so I can't buy a better computer to play modern, much less a modern console.

And here we are.

[Anonymous No.10085824]

>>10082586
>be bean nigger zoomer
>buy cheap famiclone
>enjoy retro games
simple as

[Anonymous No.10085835]

>>10084951
>I'm teh real legit retro gamer ur a poser!!1!1!1!!!
Kill yourself fucking pretentious homosexual retard, hope you asphyxiate from having your head so far up your asshole, you're as useless as coomlectors.

[Anonymous No.10085964]

>>10084770
Well this thread is at least half gen z. So you're clearly a fucking retard aren't you? It's not your fault, it seems pretty common among your generation to be afraid of reading. Though you should really do something about your reading comprehension. It will be a super power for you in about 10-20 years if you can learn how to actually read.

Also I didn't say that /vr/ was mostly gen Z. I said people shouldn't be surprised when they realise that there are a lot of zoomers here.

Also I don't hate zoomers. I don't hate anyone based on bullshit like age or any other identity politics bullshit. I hate individuals when they are individually retarded. Such as yourself.

[Anonymous No.10085967]

>>10085576
I don't buy that. Everyone was playing retro games when I was a teenager in the 2000s. That's either complete bullshit, or your cousins are just assholes.

[Anonymous No.10085979]

>>10085340
>Can't believe this board is like 70% zoomer now.
>Allowing Gen 6 was a mistake
The oldest zoomer is 27 and would've been around for 5th gen games as well. You never had your safe space old man.

[Anonymous No.10086132]

>>10082586
My older cousin gave me his Super Nintendo when I was 5, but it wasn't retro then so idk if that answers the OP.
I've always gone back and played older games when I felt like it, but I've taken it more seriously in the last year and bought some retro consoles I'm unfamiliar with.

[Anonymous No.10086157]

>>10085967
My friends had PS2s and GameCubes but would excitedly visit my place to play Golden Axe and Streets of Rage. His cousins were just dicks I suppose.

[Anonymous No.10086178]

>>10085979
They're probably a zoomer or a very young millennial, themselves. It's a popular trend on YouTube to bitch about the death of something you weren't even alive to experience. Video games are dead! Movies are dead! Music is dead! It's like an evolution of that "born in the wrong generation" phase some people go through during puberty.

[Anonymous No.10086179]

>>10082638
This explains alot. I expected more old fudds like my self. So many of the folks here are under 20.

[Anonymous No.10086190]

>>10086178
It kinda is though. It seems as if most of modern media is a cash out. Reboots, remixes, etc. Why do you think so many people show up here comparing the most recent reboot, anniversary edition or new hardware that is meant to simulate the experience of the past?

[Anonymous No.10086224]

>>10086178
maybe you should spend less time on youtube if it bothers you so much

[Anonymous No.10086226]

>>10086190
I don't think that's why everyone comes here. A lot of people simply want to discuss videogames and since /v/ is a cesspit they come here instead.
You can't expect the AAA industry to cater to you now they've found a bigger audience. If you look to middle market and indie titles there's some cool stuff coming out.

[Anonymous No.10086243]

>>10084940
100% butthurt zoomer who got called the fuck out, time to leave

[Anonymous No.10086248]

>>10086178
The economic system that surrounded the development of these is dying, it’s a symptom of a particular cause. Games aren’t dying because games are dying, games are dying because modern capitalism is getting increasingly and rapidly worse, we have order altering economic events every few years now

[Anonymous No.10086259]

>>10086224
>>10086248
I was only poking fun at zoomers, guys, chill out. Especially (You) lefty pol.

[Anonymous No.10086269]

>>10086259
I think it’s pretty apolitical that “something” is wrong right now, you won’t find a lot of people who disagree with that. The causes and remedies sure.

[Anonymous No.10086280]

>>10086259
>I was only pretending to be retarded!

[Anonymous No.10086298]

wtf why is a zoomer posting on this boomer board. I thought everyone here was in thier mid 30 to mid 40s.

[Anonymous No.10086318]

>>10082586
When I got into retro gaming, it was just gaming

[Anonymous No.10086323]

Ironic how this thread would be less of a shitshow if OP omitted the word "retro"

[Anonymous No.10086324]

I'm glad younger people like older games. Don't know why you guys get so mad about it since it justifies the fact that modern games are shit.

[Anonymous No.10086327]

>>10086324
Because they tend to shit up any discussion area they inhabit, look at any forum where zoomers took over it immediately went to dogshit.

[Anonymous No.10086340]

>>10086327
All I see are people getting anal at zoomers itt for having the wii as their first console.

[Anonymous No.10086342]

>>10086327
The most annoying thing on this board are retards who won't shut the fuck up about zoomers though.

[Anonymous No.10086360]

>>10082586
>How did you get into retro gaming?
I started playing video games in 1981 and was programming in Z80 assembler as a kid

[Anonymous No.10086369]

>>10086324
>I'm glad younger people like older games.
They hardly have any choice. Absolute shit pumped out for nearly a decade now and entire genres like RTS, city and theme managers, God games and strategy , simulation etc that live in the past. There is not a lot worth playing after about 2914 at best, Movies take the same nosedive as well and books......civilisation just flatlined when it was milennials turn to do stuff.

[Anonymous No.10086384]

>>10086369
>2194
terminator detected, nice try

[Anonymous No.10086392]

>>10086369
What are you talking about? Cities Skylines is genuinely better than Sim City 4 (besides the soundtrack) and that started off as a middle market title.

[Anonymous No.10086434]

>>10083953
>What I find weird is that each generation after the 4th or 5th has spent less time at the bottom of its depreciation curve
Gaming has become significantly more mainstream since those days, and the collector's boom came with it. People see older, rarer games becoming valuable and more expensive because they're old and rare, and they want in on that. Now resellers and prospective collectors are buying up anything even remotely older in the hopes they'll make a quick buck off it, so even some mediocre Wii shovelware from barely ten years ago, that sold millions, ends up inflating in demand and price. It's the same thing that happened in the 80's with coins, and in the 90's with comics, and the same assholes are responsible for driving it.

[Anonymous No.10086448]

>>10082586
grew up during the 5th gen of consoles
playing PS1 as a kid was probably the only time I remember feeling genuine enjoyment in my life, everything afterwards has been just trying to chase that high
today I still mostly only play PS1 games, and some Saturn ones thrown in the mix

[Anonymous No.10086456]

>>10086369
RTS is going through a bit of a renaissance, just so you know.
Age of Empires 4 is actually pretty good. And I say that as a aoe2 purist.

[Anonymous No.10086468]

>>10086456
I am playing of all things the PAL AOE2 on a PS2 occasionally and...its...good....if you wnat a cracking and free RTS that is also a real retro in its origin try warzone 2100. I first played it on a PS1 and loved it but it has been reborn as open source since. Enjoy. Always loved the soundtrack
This is the PS1 version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ELeSipwtg

[Anonymous No.10086487]

>>10086392
Its also nine years old.....

[Anonymous No.10086494]

>>10086384
John Connors located.

[Anonymous No.10086497]

if you're an oldfag like me, you didn't ever leave retro gaming . . .
... but if we're talking about going back to play the games you liked, on modern systems: for me, maybe 2006ish when I found out about DosBox and was suddenly able to get back into games I hadn't finished the first time. "Dark Forces" being one such.
... some of these games have, since, been remastered for modern systems without the need to dick around with DosBox, but afaik we still don't have (say) "Alien Legacy" so remastered (and we likely never will).

[Anonymous No.10086553]

>>10082586
>be me
>born 2002
>autistic (diagnosed!)
>brother & sister both 90s kids, brother roughly 10 years older than me
>own 3 gameboys
>most of the pokemon games at the time
>a few mega man games
>first game is pokemon gold
>don't really understand it but watching bro play was fun
>eventually get into super mario advance
>megaman zero 3 is kino, don't understand the story tho
>2009
>see brother playing video game on TV
>looks really fun
>sonic adventure 2: battle for gamecube
>really into sonic satam at the time
>brother lets me play
>makes me a new save file
>instantly enraptured
>play until the controller feels warm
>next day
>brother pulls out his case of different gamecube games
>hands me it
>hands me controller
>"I have work today anon, so play whatever you like, just be sure you don't delete any of my save files."
>play melee, SA2, and soul calibur 2 all day
>next few years
>brother shows me how to emulate old gameboy games
>"anon, tell me what games look good to you out of this list, and i'll download them for you to play while i'm at work"
>point out some sonic games and some mega man games i hadn't played
>he downloads them to the family computer and opens up an emulator
>he shows me pokemon emerald as an example
>next day, he's at work
>decide to boot up emerald to see what it's about
>end up playing until he got home
>sees i'm starting to like pokemon
>loans me his copy of pearl+his DS
>eventually get my own DS for my birthday
>few years later, BW come out
>he buys me white and buys black for himself
>play obsessively
>to this day he still buys both versions for each pokemon game, one for me, one for him

>be me now
>20
>gamecube broke a while ago, bought my own with money i earned
>still have old games
>still have old memory card
>collect old consoles+good games, have every nintendo console from the NES forward, have several old sega consoles
>still prefer gamecube
>SA2B still my favorite

Thank you, Drew.

[Anonymous No.10086561]

>>10086553
Wait, BW release date was 2010. I got the years mixed up, first time playing Gamecube must've been like 2008ish, which is bizarre to think about.

[Anonymous No.10086564]

>>10086553
I don't care what anybody says, you're brother should have suphocated you with a pillow... Jk, that was a nice comfy story and I hope you have fun with your new GameCube.

[Anonymous No.10086572]

>>10082586
> Grew up with the SNES and played Mario World when I was about 2.
> Play video games the majority of my life and bought whatever consoles I could get.
> Got disappointed with modern gen games since it feels like it hit the peak of what they can do and I don't really feel like getting another console.
> End up keeping to retro gaming because of the fact that I grew up with the 16 bit era despite being born right around the time PS1 and N64 came out and got into the NES and old gameboy and GBA games.

[Anonymous No.10086678]

>>10082586
My uncle gave me his transparent purple game boy color with f1 racing back in 2007, when I was 8 (sadly it was lost in a flood, so later I bought another one, this time a blue one). I also liked to play nes with him and my aunt at my grandma's house.

[Anonymous No.10086731]

>>10086298
Late 30s here, do you really think only those who grew up with old games are interested in old games? I grew up watching Disney, WB, and other cartoons from the 60s, well before my time, and I am sure many other 80s kids like me did the same, why do you think games are any different? I was at a flea market once looking at retro games when I ran into a girl who could not have been older than 8 that was obsessed with retro games.

[Anonymous No.10086767]

>>10086731
I'm 29 but had a similar experience with one of my nephews coming over to my house. He thought it was the coolest thing in the world to see and play older nintendo consoles and games.

[Anonymous No.10086780]

>>10082586
I had an NES with basically just the Mario games. I think we had a Genesis at some point before getting a SNES, not sure but the only games I played on it were Altered Beast, Splatterhouse, and something with a helicopter and I was too young to get into any of them much.
Mario 2 and 3 were really cool games. It was the SNES that was a big deal to me and got me a lot more into video games. Mario Paint and Mario World.

[Anonymous No.10086805]

>>10082586
That’s a cool way to get into it OP. People hate on digital but it can be an awesome gateway for people to check out classic gaming. I grew up on NES then Genesis. Went back to retro gaming around 99 even though I had a 64, because the seniors at school loaded up computers w nesticle zsnes (I think those were the ones) and a genesis one. Never touched word excel or anything else in comp class, we just played tons of roms in those emus. The most popular from memory being the spider-man genesis came if I recall which was rando!

[Anonymous No.10086820]

>>10086553
I’m a huge NES and N64 fag but it warms my heart you got a few of the sega consoles. I love the model 1 and 2 Genesis. Great story btw, what have you tried out of the Sega stuff?

[Anonymous No.10086832]

>>10086767
It wasn't just that she liked them, she knew practically everything about them as if she was there, as if I was talking to someone who grew up in the 80s. It was somewhat weird to be honest.

>>10086805
>because the seniors at school loaded up computers w nesticle zsnes (I think those were the ones) and a genesis one

If the other two were Nesticle and ZSNES then the Genesis was was almost for sure Genecyst. Do you remember if it had dripping blood menus and a severed hand for the mouse cursor?

[Anonymous No.10086842]

>>10086832
Lol that was it. Don’t know why the name doesn’t ring a bell tho, but yea. For some reason I was thinking nesticle was bloody hand. Good times, we played a lot of altered beast too. I was totally blown away because it was only like 5 years prior it was sonic 2 and a rental at a buddies every weekend and that was it. To suddenly have entire libraries at your fingertips, mind blowing.

[Anonymous No.10087254]

>>10085967 They weren't really assholes. They just had a huge fixation on a games graphics to the point they couldn't enjoy older games just because they were older.

[Anonymous No.10087270]

>>10087254
Maybe in like 2005-6 when ps3/360 dropped and graphics gagging became mainstream. Hell even I jumped on that bandwagon. I remember after playing oblivion for the first time I was hanging out with a friend playing sonic 1 or 2 I can't remember. Out of nowhere I just started attacking sonic saying things like
>This game is so rudimentary
>These graphics are basic, I can't play these baby games anymore
>Who would waste time looking at this when you could be play something with more depth and realism
I'm glad I jumped ship back to retro after realizing the retardation of my peers.
>Anon "Ohh this is such a cool bolt action Ruger with extended scope, etc..."
>Me "anon, have you ever actually fired a real gun?"
>Anon "no, but this gun is so rad blah blah blah"
I realized 90% of these faggots never even held a real gun but they were sperging out over details on them like naked snake did over that pistol in msg3. It took a while for me to break the brainwashing of graphic fagging, but by doing so it opened up a door in gaming I'd never experienced (80s computers).

[Anonymous No.10087276]

>>10082586
>My first console was the Wii
>people born in 2005 are now 18
>soon there will be adults who's first console was a PS4

[Anonymous No.10087324]

>>10082626
this was a fun time, I miss when the biggest and best NES games were at most 15 dollars.

>>10086179
we lost the real oldfags ever since >retrobtw started, median ages on this board used to trend toward 30 with some trending toward 40.

>>10086572
pretty much my story

>>10086731
same here, I grew up watching cartoons from the 30s through the 60s despite it being the 90s, thanks to cable TV being starved for something to shove into 168 continuous hours of programming.

[Anonymous No.10087401]

>>10085576
>>10085967
>>10087254
>>10087270 This. You've just described how my cousins.
They're cool but dear lord kids from that period were annoying.

[Anonymous No.10087407]

>>10085576 (YOU)
>>10085967
>>10087254 (YOU)
>>10087270
>>10087401
> This. You've just described how my cousins acted*.

[Anonymous No.10087416]

>>10087324
>this was a fun time, I miss when the biggest and best NES games were at most 15 dollars.

Yep, the most expensive game on the Funco price list was Dragon Warrior IV - presumably due to being a late release and the surging popularity of RPGs in general. I want to say it was 70 dollars during that time. It was followed up unlicensed stuff like Tengen Tetris. No one knew Stadium Events was THAT rare nor did anyone really care at the time. But yeah, your typical NES game would be like 5 to 6 dollars or maybe even less. SMB/Duck Hunt was a dime and TMNT 1 was a quarter.

[Anonymous No.10087921]

>>10086323
How? "Retro" is literally in the board's name

[Anonymous No.10088485]

>born in 1993
>first console was a Mega Drive
>also had one of those grey brick consoles with snake, breakout and tetris clones
>ton of pirated games bought from a plastic box on the floor of a small shop sold by an old man
>next was the GBC, Pokémon Red was the first game
>Agumon digivice at some point and a tamagotchi
>uncle gave me his modded PSX when he moved to another country, so friends drop by my place
>no money for a GBA, so play on emulators during IT school class from a floppy disk or a 256MB USB drive
>eventually get PC with XP to substitute the W98 one, so can emulate at home, play Habbo, Gaia Online, go on Gamewinners and talk to friends on MSN
>dad gives me a GBASP, I buy Pokémon Sapphire with pocket money I saved
>first one to get PS2, so friend always drop by my place, watch rented movies from the local videoclub with mom
>dad gives me a laptop in 2011
>can now play Counter Strike 1.6 and Unreal Tournament 99 in private server with friends, Cabal Online and Perfect World while chatting on Skype
Take me back.

[Anonymous No.10088498]

>>10082586
>My first console was the Wii
I'm going to shit in your ass and blame your mother. You zoomer fuck.

[Anonymous No.10088580]

>>10086820
I got a Genesis a few years back, with Sonic 1 & 2. Nicked a Saturn for like $20 from a yard sale like a year ago. Didn't have any games, but those go at my local pawn shop for like $70, so that's a steal.
Been looking to get a Dreamcast & Sonic Adventure 1 + 2 for a while, but haven't really had good justification to drop the money on it.

[Anonymous No.10088602]

>>10088580
>Dreamcast & Sonic Adventure 1
Hey... be careful. You need to see the dreamcast and Sonic Adventure playing before you pay for it. I'm pretty sure the rest of the system's library is fine, but that game is a clusterfuck to find working. I'm not 100% sure what's going on but it's a manufacture defect in the discs that's causing the problem. Not all of them have it. Not all systems respond to the defect in the same way.

[Anonymous No.10088606]

>>10082892
>Always had emulators on PC
Zoom Zoom

[Anonymous No.10088636]

>>10082592
didnt grow up in the 90s, probably as old as op >>10082614 but i still grew up playing snes and gameboy, mostly gameboy though.
eventually moved on to modern consoles, wii and DS, and eventually got my first self bought gaming device, the door stopper 2DS. played a bunch of old games on there until i started cramming out my old gameboys and snes, cleaning them up, modding them a little and playing on them again.

[Anonymous No.10088648]

I was born in late '84. I was typing code on a Commodore 64 playing games on a little turn knob color television being used as a monitor on an ArtMetal desk before I could read.
I'd get frustated with my fathers shitty Archer joysticks. I'd fucking slam them onto the metal pull out shelves. Never even hurt them.

[Anonymous No.10088670]

>>10082586
>My first console was the Wii

My first system was an Atari 2600 back in the early 80's

[Anonymous No.10088724]

>>10087921
My point was, if the question was framed simply as "how/what era did you get into games" people would've maybe been less offended by the implications.

[Anonymous No.10088732]

I grew up with geme boi and su-pa- nintendough.

[Anonymous No.10088782]

>>10088732
What are you South Korean?

[Anonymous No.10088786]

>>10088782
I'm West Krautean.

[Anonymous No.10088814]

>>10082586
>he just like me fr
also buying used GBA games and playing them through the bottom slot on my ds lite.

[Anonymous No.10088837]

>>10088814
Your ds lite is a filthy slut.

[Anonymous No.10088850]

>>10082586
I started on the ti99/4a when it was selling games on shelf. retro to me is the trs-80 and commodore pet and vic-20.

[Anonymous No.10088881]

>>10088850
I have no idea why but Vic-20's in my area are really rare. There were more Atari 8-bit Computers in this area than Vic-20's. And this is the sticks. Makes zero sense.

[Anonymous No.10089212]

>>10088724
Fair enough

[Anonymous No.10089226]

>>10082586
My uncle and I used to play Mario Kart 64 on Project64 when I was a kid. Then I started playing Smash Bros, Super Mario 64 and so on.
FF 10 years later, I got interested on playing Pokemon, so I downloaded the rom and the emulator for my shitty android 2.3 phone.

[Anonymous No.10089260]

>>10088881
I find I cant locate a commodore 64 here but I have picked up 2 vic-20s to play with. I'm waiting to find an amiga also so I can finally pick one of those up and play with it. I can always emulate which I also do but its fun having the OG hardware to go with it.

[Anonymous No.10089273]

>>10089260
More power to you, I prefer original hardware but when it comes to computers I would rather emulate because of the mess of setup and addo-ons they can be. Was a lot less of a mess for older systems that were closer to consoles and add-ons were rare and generally uncommon for games like a VIC-20 or Commodore 64, but once you get into ones where harddrives and upgrades and updates were standard it feels too much of a mess for me to keep up with. (Also, being able to basically skip loaddtimes from cassettes with an emulator is a nice bonus)

[Anonymous No.10089290]

>>10089260
I have several C64's. However not all of them have good SID chips. And I know the SID chip in the C64c that we have was killed by my hand, I thought the powersupply was good, and it was not.
Amigas I didn't even bother trying to find one around here. I just started ordering them from around the country about ten years ago. The one A1200 I got came with an accelerator card and a hardrive installed. When I got it, it still booted and I found an old porn site dialer and password manager on it.

[Anonymous No.10089308]

>>10089290
Sucks to hear that so many have bad SID chips these days, since one of the most memorable parts of a C64 these days was it's sound.

There are modern ARM and FPGA-based replacements for them these days though. Yeah I know it's not the same as having the original SID chip from the 70s, but it's better than having no sound.

[Anonymous No.10089328]

>>10089308
It's just occurred to me that I've been looking for an Atari Mega Keyboard for a decade unsuccessfully. I'm probably going to have to get some kind of kit to make something to work with that thing.

[Anonymous No.10089378]

>>10089328
Looking at photos of it, it's not too different from a modern keyboard, does nobody make adapters to use a modern PS/2 or USB keyboard?

[Anonymous No.10089497]

>>10088670
>I'm over halfway through my life

Why is this something people brag about on 4chan?

[Anonymous No.10090173]

>>10089273
I understand not wanting to deal with the OG hardware. I actually enjoy working with it and setting it up so it works for me. Emulation is still easiest and like you said dont gotta deal wit the tapes.

>>10089290
That's funny on the pr0n site dialer and passwords. I think im going to end up ordering from further away since nothing pops up at all for amiga around here. I mightly just mess with the music from amiga these days the games will be bonus

[Anonymous No.10090587]

>>10082586
I WAS FUCKING YOUR MOTHER AND SHE WAS PLAYING MARIO.
THE FUCK IS THIS PLACE REDDIT?

[Anonymous No.10090712]

>>10086178
>Movies are dead!
Movies are coming back (as soon as the strikes end)

[Anonymous No.10090730]

One of the interesting things about this thread is how people can point to a specific point in their lives where they made the decision to play older video games.
I never made a conscious decision like that, I simply played what I was interested in. Like, if I played a modern Mario game and enjoyed it I would want to try the older Mario games just out of curiosity.