ITT:Pain that only older gamers have known

[Anonymous No.2459338]

ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...ping-pong...

[Anonymous No.2459352]

Having to write down lengthy passwords for games.

Having to decipher your own handwriting when attempting to use passwords.

>Is that a 1 or a l or an I? O or 0?

[Anonymous No.2459359]

>game doesn't have a save feature or password system

>have to leave your system on and hope and pray nothing touches it or your mom doesnt turn it off

[Anonymous No.2459361]

"I can't find this game in any stores or movie rental places!

Guess there's no way I'll ever get to play it. this sucks..."

Especially with how so many RPGs and Strategy games had such low print runs before the late 90s

[Anonymous No.2459406]

Renting RPGs, and then hoping your save file is still there next weekend.

[Anonymous No.2459416]

>"Anon, I just gave you some yesterday! Stop playing that thing so much!"

[Anonymous No.2459419]

>wireless psx controllers need a set every 3 days
>cd player requires 4 per day
>pokemon needs 4 every 2 days
>fucking remotes dead again

[Anonymous No.2459426]

>>2459416
>>2459419
Those are some nice, fully-charged batteries you have there...

[Anonymous No.2459458]

LOADING TIMES! Fuck tapes and bad sectors.

I wanted to do a picture with Osama Bin Laden on it and it says: That`s why I emulate, but then I didn`t so just imagine it.

[Anonymous No.2459463]

beep beep bop bop beep bop bop NMGNNME GNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN CHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.2459467]

N64 stick dust.

[Anonymous No.2459493]

>>2459426
Game Gear is where batteries go to die - within two hours.

[Anonymous No.2459501]

>>2459338
>where the fuck do I go next?
>I've tried everything
>I have no clue what the fuck I'm supposed to do now
>Oh, I'll just check online and see if there's a guide or an FAQ...

It is 1991

>Well, my weekend is ruined

[Anonymous No.2459505]

>>2459501
Speaking of shit weekends

>Friday after school
>Stop by the video store
>Gonna get some games for the weekend
>Wanna try something new
>A video game based on a movie I like!
>AWESOME
>Take it home
>Put it in
>This is a steaming pile
>Mom won't take it back to the store
>This is my weekend now

[Anonymous No.2459506]

>>2459338
>having to mess with autoexec.bat and config.sys to run specific games
>as a 7 years old
>b-but I need muh memory
PC gaming was suffering in the early 90s.

[Anonymous No.2459507]

>>2459493
>[Handel's "Messiah" playing triumphantly in the background]

[Anonymous No.2459509]

>>2459507
"Yay! Now I can finish Sonic 2 on Game Gear - the one where Tails dies if you don't get all of the Chaos Emeralds!"

[Anonymous No.2459514]

>>2459463
https://youtu.be/xFzUVkXi7uk

[Anonymous No.2459535]

>>2459426
>buy a battery back
>it stops holding a charge after two months
fucking hell there was no escape but at least the ac adapter worked

[Anonymous No.2459551]

>>2459535
>ac adapter knocks out power on the east coast

[Anonymous No.2459579]

>>2459352
Reverse engineering passwords to cheat

>>2459406
Backing up saves

>>2459416
>>2459419
>>2459426
Rechargeable batteries

>>2459506
Yes, that was actually annoying.

The only thing I remember being actually painful was load times. The 1541 in particular was just pure evil.

[Anonymous No.2459582]

>>2459579
>Backing up saves
How exactly were you supposed to back up saves on a cartridge?

[Anonymous No.2459602]

>>2459579
>Reverse engineering passwords to cheat
The fuck are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.2459603]

>>2459602
Not the guy you're quoting but I remember figuring out the formula of the genesis jurassic park by pure trial and error. You changed a couple letters and it would send you to any stage in the game.

[Anonymous No.2459604]

>>2459603
Oh I see.

[Anonymous No.2459606]

>>2459603
Or, ya know, pick up a copy of Tips & Tricks magazine...

Hell, I used to go with my mom to the grocery store and cop the cheats I needed from the magazine with a sheet of paper and a pen.

[Anonymous No.2459624]

>>2459606
>Little boy, this is a convenience store, not a lending library!

[Anonymous No.2459632]

>>2459579
>no kid knew how to reverse engineer passwords and most were absolutely frustrated with the ridiculous systems put in place
>you can't back up saves on a cartridge
>nobody had rechargeable batteries in the 80s/90s because they were ineffective and expensive

[Anonymous No.2459658]

>>2459582
There are many ways. Since this is a mario board now all you'd probably care to hear about is the game doctor.

>>2459602
Like >>2459603 already said, you figure out how the data is encoded int he password and you can create any "save" you want, ie 99 lives, all items, etc.

[Anonymous No.2459659]

>>2459632
>Projecting
>Ignorant
>Poorfag
Did I miss anything?

[Anonymous No.2459665]

>>2459659
>obvious ass-devastated elitist fag
Take that shit back to /v/

[Anonymous No.2459725]

>>2459416
>>2459419
>scavenging batteries from your bedroom TV's remote because there are no more batteries in the house and the TV can be operated from the buttons on the front

[Anonymous No.2459768]

>>2459665
>Called my bullshit
>Maybe if I tell him to fuck off back to /v/ no one will notice.

[Anonymous No.2459773]

>>2459632
Also, people weren't used to rechargeable batteries then, so charging them was considered sort of a pain in the ass to kids, especially since that charger stops when they're fully charged thing didn't exist at first and then wasn't widely spread, so you had to worry about fucking them up by leaving them in too long and be there at the time they were done.

[Anonymous No.2459775]

>>2459725
>And from your parents' bedroom clocks as well

No fucking remorse at all, it was worth it every second.

[Anonymous No.2459782]

>>2459426
The Nomad made that look like it had a skinny girl's diet.

>>2459579
>Reverse engineering passwords to cheat

Wow, how much of a no-life little dork were you?
>Implying that's a perfect system and that people never disliked spoilers from the blind stabs

>Backing up saves

>Mom, can we get a Game Doctor?
>No, Anon, we aren't rich enough to get every little thing you want for your toy
unlike some spoiled little elitist shits, apparently

>implying every child even knew what they were looking at when they say the ads for those things

>Rechargeable batteries
See
>>2459632
and
>>2459773

[Anonymous No.2459851]

>>2459782
You sound mad.
Are you upset they don't teach kids like you the basic math skills needed to do something as simple as reverse engineering 80's game passwords? Does it get your goat to know I wrote for gaming mags and got all the vidya I could play because as a 16 year old kid I could do some simple math you can't even do today as a 16 1/2 year old kid?
Mommy didn't buy my a Game Doctor. I got paid to fly to Hong Kong and check the shit out.
Pretty sure I used some of that money to buy some rechargeable batteries.
>implying like a /b/tard

[Anonymous No.2459871]

>>2459851
Did you also have the nintendo 640 which you couldn't show to anyone?

[Anonymous No.2459872]

>>2459851
>Anyone saying something insulting to me must just be mad
Okay, faggot.
>I wrote for gaming mags and got all the vidya I could play...
Not that I would have any reason to think someone would lie about something like that on a site like this, even to save face with something that takes a fair amount of no-life to do otherwise with it's initial guesswork and that much attention to passwords on a fucking game, but why the fuck would you compare something like that to everyone elses' situation? Holy shit is that stupid! I mean... WOW!

[Anonymous No.2459883]

>>2459359
I had to do that with every ps1 game I owned, because my parents only bought a genesis and a ps2 and never got ps1 memory cards

[Anonymous No.2459895]

>>2459406
>Even hoping anything you saved would be on it next time you rented it.

[Anonymous No.2459909]

>Internet not good or big enough for people to check things online

>Never knowing if some little shit was bull-shitting about a part of a game you weren't to yet or some hidden secrets in games.

>Time-and-effort-wasting rumors take hold with people at times

>Game magazines charging far more than a non-porn magazine is worth for a piddling amount of codes, tips and other info.

>Some magazine writers even outright lying about things in games

I'll never pity the staffs of game magazines for what the internet did to them.
Arrogant pieces of shit.

[Anonymous No.2459932]

>want to see video game character naked
>can't

[Anonymous No.2459946]

>>2459338
From the UK with love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbumzCdw4Ts

[Anonymous No.2459952]

>>2459895
>tfw you would not only delete one save to make room for your game, but all the other slots as well

[Anonymous No.2460068]

>>2459632
>>no kid knew how to reverse engineer passwords and most were absolutely frustrated with the ridiculous systems put in place

I'll grant I was like 17 at the time, so not quite a kid but I was totally stuck on the Asterite in Ecco the Dolphin and spent ages and ages trying to find a code for a later level, and it lead to one of my freakiest video gaming experienced.

I was able to find several working codes for earlier levels, but none for later ones. My brother was blaring Pink Floyd in the other room which really wasn't helping my mood either.

Finally in frustration I just mashed NNNNNNNNN for the code. The screen went black and at the exact moment that the one line in the song that was playing rung out, "Welcome my son, welcome to the machine" the name of the last level "the Machine" came on screen.

Then I was in this crazy spaceship attacked by Giger aliens and crushed by moving walls. Freaked me the fuck out at the time.

[Anonymous No.2460069]

>>2459872
Not him, but you do come across as a complete douche bag. Maybe you're not upset about something, but if you're in a good mood and still spewing that much vitriol I feel a little bad for you.

[Anonymous No.2460072]

>>2460069
How was it? Getting flight to Hong Kong as 16 year old kid just to see Game Doctor?

[Anonymous No.2460073]

Shady ass 1-900 tip lines trying to steal money from us kiddies. Though I guess that's on par with that in-app hustling that is somehow allowed. Tucking histling kids outta their parents money makes me angry.

[Anonymous No.2460078]

*fucking hustling

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.2460083]

>>2459782
>joking about anorexia

Wow, you're cool.

Also, maybe your parents didn't get you a Game Doctor because you were (and still are) a rude little shit. Just a thought.

[Anonymous No.2460089]

>>2459338
>dead cartridge batteries
It happened twice to me, first time in the original FF game and the second time in Sim City.

>>2460073
I always wondered why people actually used those.
Unless you were a kid with no friends who played video games, there was someone who knew how to do clear a stage or a boss fight or whatever.

[Anonymous No.2460110]

>>2459775
I never did that but holy shit you made me laugh.

[Anonymous No.2460118]

>>2460083
>joking about anorexia
Namedyke plz.

[Anonymous No.2460136]

>>2460072
I wouldn't know, I'm not that guy. I am kind of curious as to who he is though.

Nick?

[Anonymous No.2460148]

>>2460136
nope not me

[Totse Redux !!5+TqycLHDPW No.2460153]

>>2459658
>Since this is a mario board now all you'd probably blah blah blah

In other words you don't know.

>>2459632
>I didn't know how paswords worked
>I didn't know there actually were devices for backing up saves
>I was too poor to get rechargables.

>>2460083
Ayyyy Mable.

[Anonymous No.2460182]

>>2460148
Which mag were you with at least?

[Anonymous No.2461296]

Let's see what's going on in this thread

>>2460069
But someone either mocking people or arguing like a dick about things no one should actually expect the average person to do is perfectly okay, right? Yes, let's just pretend people saying that weren't acting like dicks for multiple posts in this thread. I have no respect for little hypocrites like you. You don't deserve any. All I was saying was I wasn't raging mad like trolls like that like to tell themselves about anyone who talks back to them and mocking the
>U JUST MAD
bull-shit that they either hide behind, are thick enough or pants-on-head retarded enough to believe means they win any argument. Yes, people feel some amount of emotion when you act like a shit. What do you win? It's not some big victory just because someone acts negatively toward you.

[Anonymous No.2461358]

>>2459463
>playing on dialup with mah m8 some epic warcraft 2 map
>about to conquer and beat the AI
>someone picks up the phone
>mfw

[Anonymous No.2461390]

I thought this thread was about PAIN.
>spin that stick as fast as you can!
>come on, if you wanna be cool you have to use your palm
>if you don't, you're a square. You don't want to be a square, right?

[Anonymous No.2461405]

NARPAS SWORD000000000

[Anonymous No.2461421]

>>2460083
Wow... that was really bad.

[Anonymous No.2461721]

>wanna play a game on my Master System
>put cart in
>power on
>Hang-On/Safari Hunt
>power off, pull cart out, put back in, power on again
>Hang-On/Safari Hunt
>repeat
>Hang-On/Safari Hunt
>repeat
>Hang-On/Safari Hunt
>end up saying fuck it and playing Hang-On then Safari Hunt.

[Anonymous No.2461762]

>>2459725
>>2459416
Beating the shit out of your batteries and then putting them in swapped around (where the battery you put on the left is now one the right, and vice versa; the leads go in the way they need to go) to get that extra 10 minutes out of your Gameboy.

[Anonymous No.2461787]

>>2459463
>Don't have phone splitter. Only one line in house
>Grandma is stuck at the airport for 12 hours trying to call your house because you downloaded 60 Snes roms and 20 30 second porn clips.

[Anonymous No.2461798]

Having to choose between playing Everquest or having fucking phone service

[Anonymous No.2462028]

>>2459514
MOOOOM! I WAS ON THE COMPUTER!

[Anonymous No.2462035]

>>2462028
I was a lucky shit and my parents got sick of me dominating the phone line, so they got me my own.

[Anonymous No.2462178]

>>2461762
Not vidya, but I got a whole extra day out of some batteries for an old digital camera on a school excursion by constantly taking them out, rubbing them between my hands, and putting them back in in reverse order. That stuff really works.

[Anonymous No.2462208]

>>2459359
This is the entire reason that I never finished Mega Man 1 back in the day.

[Anonymous No.2462574]

>>2460068
That's pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.2462583]

>>2459463

7 hours to download the Rise of the Triad demo (thank goodness no one picked up the phone).

Good times.

[Anonymous No.2463463]

>>2459872
Reverse engineering passwords was actually pretty easy and plenty of people did it. Others ITT have done it. You really do sound mad about your inadequacies.

>>2460072
Guy you were replying to. I was in my early 20's by then, '91.

>>2460153
>I'll change his answer to 'blah blah blah' and say he doesn't know.

[The Rabbit of Spades No.2463564]

Oh yes, there was one I remember fondly.

>9 year old me in the backseat
>Mom, little bro and I are going out of town and will be gone all day
>Don't worry, Gameboy's here to save the day!

15 minutes later

>Battery light starts to fade

uh oh

[Anonymous No.2463591]

>>2461390
>tfw friend showed up to school with the craziest blisters ive ever seen on his palm

[Anonymous No.2463624]

>>2459426
>friend plays this on way to campsite
>continues to play it in the van while on trip and into the night
>next morning his parents are mad he drained the cars battery and it wont start

[Anonymous No.2463650]

>>2459603
Anybody played Ecco Jr?
It's literally what it sounds like, Ecco ACTUALLY meant for childs.
I got pretty far into the game trying to input soe letters from my name.
>"CRS" for Chris
>It worked!
>Ehhh, this game has zero text but still I'll play like it's intended.
>When I got to that stage because of my own merits it tasted like glory.

[Anonymous No.2463661]

>>2460083
I tought we tolerated sevenleaf because "it" had learned to stop pushing "muh feels>your opinion"

[Anonymous No.2463714]

>>2459338
Go into a building.
Insert disk 2 side 1
Insert disk 2 side 2
Leave building.
Insert disk 1 side 2
etc

[Anonymous No.2463761]

>>2463714
Ah, so you played Knights of Legend too? Simply booting up the game involved disk swaps.

[Anonymous No.2463781]

>>2463761
Well I was thinking about Alternate Reality: The City on the Atari 8-bit where disk swaps happen every few minutes or so.

[Anonymous No.2463831]

>>2459632
I used to have some Game Boy cartridge called Mega Memory. You could back up hundreds of Pokemon saves on it. I still use it now after every few hours of playing just as precaution, you never know when the save battery on the cart will die.

[Anonymous No.2465639]

>>2463831
b-b-but that's impossibruuuu

[Anonymous No.2465654]

>>2463624
>he drained the cars battery

WOW!

[Anonymous No.2465665]

>>2461787
Did that actually happen? How old were you if it did?

[Anonymous No.2465984]

Nothing like inputting random stuff in the password screen. Always so satisfactory when one actually works. (Though, the one I found for Demon's Quest put me past a boss without the item I got from said boss so I couldn't proceed...)

By the way, does anyone else still have those old papers they wrote down passwords on lying around? I find one every now and then, and the only game I recognize the passwords for is Adventures of Lolo 3.

I also remember that to help the battery last a little longer on my gameboy, I would turn the sound off once battery was getting low.

[Anonymous No.2466489]

having to redraw your map because you started somewhere on the page from the entry staircase but then the map ended up stretching more in a different direction than you expected.

[Anonymous No.2466505]

Who thought these map segments in Fate Of Atlantis were a good idea?

>may have gone too far in a few places

[Anonymous No.2466557]

>>2460083
Go eat a sand which and get back to tmblr

[Anonymous No.2466559]

>>2463714
Hell on Earth

[Anonymous No.2466575]

- Having to hold the manual still in order to jerk it to Ayla, because rule 34 wasn't invented yet
- Not having instant gratification from a million roms at the fingertips.

[Anonymous No.2466605]

Having no idea if the port of your favorite arcade game for the system you own is worth playing or not.

[Anonymous No.2467448]

>>2460083
>>2460118
>>2460153
>>2461421
>>2463661
>>2466557
What's funny is I purposely avoided saying anorexic because I thought it was too inaccurate a comparison even for joking.

[Anonymous No.2467478]

>>2465665
Something similar. My grandma wasn't stuck for 12 hours. She was trying to call my parents, but they were out of town. Grandma was dropping by for a "surprise visit" but wasn't able to call the house. My friends were over going to pull a weekend of staying over, but nana ruined it when she arrived at my house and the weekend of boners/N64 wrestling games/007/Horror movies/porn was over.

This was 1998. We played the old "oops someone tripped over the cable" routine when she asked us why the phone was dead. I was in 10th grade. My grandma did take us to a family fun center though, also bowling, and ordered pizza for my friends who stuck around.

It sucks because I remember having 4 parts of 6 done on IRC of a Jenna Jameson movie. I remember because I still have napster folder and old porn clips/movies IRC folder.

[Anonymous No.2467517]

Having the console turn off while saving games and losing everything.

[Anonymous No.2467534]

>>2460068
spooky and awesome at the same time

[Anonymous No.2467665]

>>2467448
Says the top implier ITT

[Anonymous No.2467673]

>>2467478
>1998
>I still have napster folder and old porn clips/movies IRC folder

WOW!

[Anonymous No.2467678]

>>2467478
What Jenna Jameson movie?

[Anonymous No.2467703]

>>2467678
Big titty sluts hungry for retro games

[Anonymous No.2467704]

>>2459352
>tfw password saves in an rpg
>tfw your last password is illegible

[Anonymous No.2468872]

Back in the early 80's, we didn't have no computer game stores in my town. And anyway, all we had was a CP/M machine (Osborne 1). But there were books with BASIC programs you could type in (pic related) and also various magazines with program listings. Of course you had to type the program in and save it to disk first. There were the inevitable typo's to hunt down (sometimes frustrating!) And to make things more interesting, there were several dialects of BASIC, so you often had to translate the program listing to run on your machine, to some extent. That wasn't so hard for most text-based games, but it could be hard or not worth the trouble for graphical/arcade games littered with PEEK and POKE statements.

Well all that said, those were fantastic times, because using the computer seemed like a really magical experience to me in those days. It wasn't like today where you have a dozen in every home (at the very least in the form of microcontrollers in appliances). Yeah, computers were rare and mystical, and amazing. I wouldn't give up those two finger hunt 'n peck BASIC typing days for nothing. You kids can keep you Quakes and World of Warcrafts and all that. Just give me a CP/M machine and I'm happy. : -)

Oh, here's a link with some of those games translated for running in GWBASIC or QBASIC in DOS (or more likely dosbox these days):
http://www.moorecad.com/classicbasic/
And you don't even have to type them in! You'll never know the joys of debugging spaghetti BASIC programs, and learning enough that way to write your own games.

[Anonymous No.2469341]

>>2468872

[Anonymous No.2469402]

>>2468872
>Debugging Spaghetti
>Joy
I'd rather go back to working in raw x86, thanks. At least the people I was working with could structure and comment.

[Anonymous No.2469403]

>>2468872
I remember doing this on my dad's Atari. I was too young to understand things needed to be typed in exactly as they were written so I would spend two or three hours hunting and pecking then get pissed when the program didn't work. The ones that did run were all glitchy.

[Anonymous No.2469623]

taking notes for a game OUTSIDE OF THE GAME