Retro video game forums (1990s and early 2000s)

[Anonymous No.10293438]

Anybody got any more screencaps from vidya forums from the 90s/00s? I love reading shit like this. It's fascinating how similar the style of speech is to arguments on places like /v/ or Plebbit today.

[Anonymous No.10293448]

I'll dump what I can find

[Anonymous No.10293454]

Funny, even in the N64 era there were complaints about nintendo being for kids. People always just point at the gamecube as the nintendo console that was too kiddy.

[Anonymous No.10293463]

>>10293454
>People always just point at the gamecube as the nintendo console that was too kiddy.
I always thought that the "Nintendo is for kids" thing came from the N64 era and that the GameCube was actually intended to be a response to it, which is why Nintendo started commissioning games like Metroid Prime and F-Zero GX that gave a more "mature" feel to some of their franchises.

[Anonymous No.10293470]

[Anonymous No.10293493]

Todd Howard shilling his own games in 1997.

[Anonymous No.10293513]

This guy apparently thought the N64 would have movie CGI level graphics...

[Anonymous No.10293531]

>>10293438
Big guy?

[Anonymous No.10293556]

[Anonymous No.10293563]

>>10293513
Kek, this is priceless. This whole thread is fucking hilarious. I can’t tell the difference between them and /vr/ right now, we’ll the language is obviously different but the sentiment is the same. Just remember anons, humans haven’t evolved sociologically for over 10,000 years.

[Anonymous No.10293567]

>>10293556
>Yet-Another-Beat-Up-The-Ethnic-Minority
Holy kek

[Anonymous No.10293570]

>>10293563

[Anonymous No.10293573]

>>10293570
Same guy

[Anonymous No.10293614]

[Anonymous No.10293632]

>>10293570
>PSX
Somebody should tell him that nobody actually used that term to refer to the original PlayStation and that the PSX is actually a PS2 multimedia system with a DVR.

[Anonymous No.10293634]

>Nintendo and Sega will be dead by the end of 1992.

[Anonymous No.10293638]

>>10293634
What was this guy on?

[Anonymous No.10293643]

[Anonymous No.10293674]

>>10293573
>Nude Lara code
Man, that takes me back.

[Anonymous No.10293684]

>Ultra 64

[Anonymous No.10293689]

>>10293684
I sometimes wonder what became of obvious autists like this guy.

[Anonymous No.10293691]

>>10293438
>I'M A BIG BOY!!!!!!!!! I PLAY MANLY GAMES!!!!!
And here we are, most of your "manly" and "realistic" games that came out in 90s on PS look either shit or are not played anymore while Mario 64 is still playable.

[Anonymous No.10293692]

>>10293632
Just wait till you hear about the PSX2...

[Anonymous No.10293704]

>>10293691
At least you can assume that in 1996 those posters were probably like 12 years old. Now everyone on /vr/ saying stupid shit is early 30s at the youngest...

[Anonymous No.10293729]

>>10293704
> At least you can assume that in 1996 those posters were probably like 12 years old

nope. in 1996, most of these posters were college students, i imagine they would be 15 at the absolute youngest.

they used their real names/email addresses a lot, you can look some of these people up and confirm they were adults when posting this garbage

[Anonymous No.10293732]

>>10293438
Love that the first reply is tendie damage control. Some things will never change.

[Anonymous No.10293753]

>>10293454
>>10293463
Nintendo for kids vs. other consoles was around even with the Sega Genesis. Stuff like Nintendo having more censorship (like no blood code in Mortal Kombat SNES) helped contribute to that perception.

[Anonymous No.10293759]

>>10293704
>everyone
Nah, this board skews younger now than it did 5 years ago.

[Anonymous No.10293760]

>Pocket Monsters

[Anonymous No.10293779]

>>10293760
yes zoomanon, this is what "pokemon" stands for, and the game's wouldn't see western release until 2 years after that post was made

[Anonymous No.10293797]

[Anonymous No.10293802]

>>10293797

[Anonymous No.10293818]

>>10293573
>>10293674
>People actually think there was a secret nude code in a T-rated game.

Did boomers really?

[Anonymous No.10293827]

>Anime is dead (1996)

[Anonymous No.10293841]

Here's a really old one. 1981

[Anonymous No.10293913]

>>10293818
There are some games contemporary to the time that had naked ladies show up if you entered in a code. Really that kind of hidden shit didn't get checked for by the ESRB until Hot Coffee happened and there was a media frenzy.

It was still the days you had playground rumors and I even remember hearing something about Tomb Raider 3 having Lara croft topless. No different than people saying you could catch Mew or visit Bill's Secret Garden after beating the Elite 4 100 times without healing.

[Anonymous No.10293958]

>>10293634
How fhe fuck were these people even talking in fucking 89

[Anonymous No.10293961]

>>10293913
The games that did were virtually unknown back then. Literally no one was talking about Rings of Power, etc

[Anonymous No.10293964]

>>10293827
He was completely right.

[Anonymous No.10293971]

>>10293841
this isn't even real

you retards believe in anything

there wasn't even internet back then

[Anonymous No.10293978]

>>10293841
>August 81
>There wasn't even a way for people to communicate in the internet until 1983
>what did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.10293985]

>>10293570
>>10293573
I will always appreciate an old fashioned usenet
>unrelated discussion
>horny bastard walks in
>"GOD I AM SO HORNY OK BYE"

[Anonymous No.10294113]

>>10293438
before my time

[Anonymous No.10294118]

>>10293463
It came from Sega of America's marketing campaigns. They made the portrayal that Nintendo is for kids and that cool teenagers and adults play Sega. That image stuck in the years after because successful ad campaigns tend to stick in the public subconscious.

Nintendo's response was the Play It Loud ad campaign.

[Anonymous No.10294124]

>>10293759
Can confirm, I'm 27.

[Anonymous No.10294129]

>>10293454
>>10293463
>>10293753
>>10294118
It originated with the original NES. The game crash of 83 hurt video games so bad that when Nintendo first brought the NES to the US they marketed it as a toy instead of a video game console and sold it in the toy aisle so that buyers wouldn't associate it with shit like ET. It worked, but it also meant you had to go to Toys R Us or walk down the aisle with the dollies and Transformers figured to get one which put a lot of older kids off. Older kids went to the arcades, which is part of why the Genesis was such a big deal; more accurate arcade ports, so it was seen as the 'teenager' console. Then the PlayStation took that role. then Xbox.

[Anonymous No.10294130]

>>10293570
>John Holmes
It can't be the real guy...

[Anonymous No.10294136]

>>10293818
The ESRB had only been around for like two years, and they were a lot looser with the enforcement of stuff until the mid 00s.

[Anonymous No.10294140]

[Anonymous No.10294142]

>>10293958
The internet has been a thing since 1982-1983. It was something colleges had so that their science teams could chat with each other about their findings. General public access became a thing in 1988 or 1989. Guarantee these posts are college compsci geeks chatting after-hours

>>10293978
ARPANET. First went live in the 70s.

[Anonymous No.10294148]

>>10293438
Why does everyone keep talking about some digital video recorder with a buildin PS2? in 1996 even?

According to this place PSX was not used before 2000

[Anonymous No.10294160]

>>10293684
not commenting on the guy's post, but it was going to be the ultra 64 at one point, or at least, that was a mainstream belief presented by game mags that i had

[Anonymous No.10294968]

>>10293638
He wasn't wrong. The PC Engine spooked the absolute shit out of both Nintendo and Sega back then.

[Anonymous No.10294987]

Sort of on topic but did anyone used to read Old Man Murray? The shit they said about early 3D games used to crack me up. And how they took revenge for 9/11 by beating Afghanistan in Wayne Gretzky's Hockey 200 times in a row

[Anonymous No.10295008]

>>10294142
right, and then eternal September is when non-college normals could access the net en masse and flooded usenet with so many people that the usenet cultural standards and practices just fell apart.

I wonder, are there any good books chronicling the history of the Internet? Less the technical side and more the cultural side. I assume nobody has bothered because of how difficult the research would be. You'd be searching for people based on ancient handles and deactivated email accounts, and taking firsthand reports of what people like us thought of the net in X year period, which would probably just be a repeated refrain of "it was cool until X changed" (and always someone else changed; Surely they didn't just get old or move on or something). Can't imagine it's that interesting. I would just like to know some of the weird stories that probably propagated in the billion corners of the net.

[Anonymous No.10295034]

Thanks for sharing, OP. I love these little glimpses of old internet history.

[Anonymous No.10295392]

>>10293438
Just search the old usenet posts on Google groups.

[Anonymous No.10295461]

>>10295392
Even if you don't want to search them you'll probably find you didn't opt out of allowing people to add you to their groups and are subscribed to at least one spam group.

[Anonymous No.10296872]

>>10294142
And now small niche interest board like this are one of the few places in the internet where you can talk to other real humans not soulless Russian propaganda bots. How far we have fallen as a species.

[Anonymous No.10296880]

>>10293978
BBS existed way before the traditional internet too retard

[Anonymous No.10296883]

>>10293985
>posted exactly at 2:00:00 AM

[Anonymous No.10296891]

what a Chad, lmao