/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4220718]

Why do millennials fetishize the NES/SNES?

There are of course good games for the system, but ask any millennial "nerd", and they treat them like divine idols.

[Anonymous No.4220728]

>>4220718
Probably going to get a lot more cycnical answers, so I'll try to start with a positive.

First and foremost, there are some great games for the system. Plan and simple. Games that were fun in the past are still certainly fun today.

Secondly, the NES/SNES eras each had their own uniform style. Most first party/second party games didn't look that different stylistically, because hardware limitations dictated they really couldn't be. You did of course get some developers who thought outside of the box and created some greatly unique looking games, but for the most part, they all looked the same. Because of this, it's easier to see the entire system eras as one enitiy rather than each game individually. If a bunch of good games came out for the PS4, you wouldn't think it's because the PS4 is a great system, I'll leave that up to you, but because they are good games.

Third, and this is important, we concentrated the system. We played through all the horrible, broken games. We all agreed which games should be forgotten. Which birthday present movie tie-in games left us disappointed. The good games stayed with the public concious. The bad games got buried. When you only see the good games, you'd think the entire era was godlike.

[Anonymous No.4220734]

>>4220718
Easy to play on cellphones.

I rage internally seeing them using on-screen controls, but whatever works for them.

Nintendo could make a killing by making an NES iPhone/Android controller attachment and selling old games at $1.99 a pop, but they hate money.

[Anonymous No.4220740]

>>4220718
Sega and Nec aren't around anymore so the old Nintendo ips give them a sense of familiarity. Plus e-celebs consistently hype those systems while shitting on literally everything else (remember Sonic was never good) so that reinforces the echo chamber.

[Anonymous No.4220743]

>>4220718
>Why do millennials fetishize the NES/SNES?
Here we go.

[Anonymous No.4220765]

>>4220743
STOP LIKING THINGS I LIKE: The Thread

[Anonymous No.4220769]

>>4220740
>Sonic was never good

Either that, or "Sonic 2 was the only good one and now you can like Sonic Mania".

[Anonymous No.4220781]

saw an antifa hardcore punk type person on the buss today who was wearing an SMB t-shirt. i vomited a little on the inside. just thought id share

[Anonymous No.4220794]

>>4220769
They're also used to have everything in a single, unified place. They game on Steam, socialize on whatever social media is currently in, watch shows on netflix and so on. So it makes sense for them to identify 3rd and 4th gen, and by extension /vr/ in general, with a handful of systems.

[Anonymous No.4220815]

Unless you're being a contrarian jackass, of course SMS, Atari 7800, TG 16, Genesis and even Jaguar had great games but NES/SNES were no slouches and provided some of the best experiences for the generations... not sure what you're getting at?

Are you still holding retarded console grudges that you had when you were a little kid and you only had enough money for mommy to buy you one console and not the other? On a machine that's almost 35 years old?

[Anonymous No.4220819]

>>4220740
Like or not (I certainly don't) the retro game craze was started by the Angry Video Game Cuck, and he was a Nintendo kid and it showed. He hardly ever gives any positive attention to anything outside of those two.

[Anonymous No.4220827]

>people saying "they" like they aren't one themselves

Either you're 15 or in your late 30's

[Anonymous No.4220835]

>>4220734
>they hate money
They love it, they just have a very old school Japanese company structure still. I forgot which CEO didn't like that they whored out Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. to almost every console imaginable... and they're respecting his wishes still.

[Anonymous No.4220845]

>>4220827
OP is clearly using 'millennials' as in GenZ. People that didn't grow up with neither NES nor SNES.

[Anonymous No.4220859]

>>4220819
>he was a Nintendo kid

Gee, the guy who posted videos as the Angry Nintendo Nerd until he got C&D'd was a Nintendo kid?

[Anonymous No.4220869]

>>4220859
He wasn't C&Ded, he wanted to sell T-shirts (this was back when artists made stuff on youtube just to create and not just make clickbait) don't be pompous if you don't know what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.4220870]

>>4220845
This. I'm a millenial (30) and by the time I was old enough to game the NES was a last gen console. I honestly have no idea why genZ has such a boner for the NES or Nintendo in general. My nephew last month was talking to me about buying a 64 with his birthday money. He's ten ¯\_(ツ)_/ ¯

[Anonymous No.4220873]

>>4220870
They're nostalgic by proxy of youtube.

[Anonymous No.4220875]

>>4220869
You can leave now.

[Anonymous No.4220878]

>>4220869
Playing NES and saying shit and poop every 3 seconds sure is high art.

[Anonymous No.4220883]

>>4220870
lol i'm 29 and still consider 30 year olds oldfags

[Anonymous No.4220889]

>>4220845
I grew up with an NES and was my only console for years. Born in 88 and a poor fag. SNES is still my favorite system.

[Anonymous No.4220894]

>>4220718
Because retro games are good for nerd cred and status, often times even among collectors and people here. Your average teen now only knows the consoles featured by his or her favorite e-celeb, and surprise! they always seem to be... the popular ones... ?

[Anonymous No.4220898]

>>4220718
brand name, great libraries, winners of their respective generations, and a lot of famous franchises got their start on them
same thing goes for the playstation

[Anonymous No.4220907]

>>4220878
Even shitty art is still art. Better than top ten lists, react and lets plays of nowadays.

[Anonymous No.4220909]

>>4220883
I'm 33 and I consider 30 year olds, oldfags.

[Anonymous No.4220914]

>>4220870
>by the time I was old enough to game the NES was a last gen console.
I'm 31, and only had an NES because it was bought for my older brother in 1987 while it was still fresh, but "last gen" didn't really mean the same thing back then. NES still saw tons of support and some of the best games of its lifespan during '91 to '95. It's not like nowadays where as soon as a new system comes out, last gen gets dropped like a rock. It was still completely relevant.

[Anonymous No.4220916]

>>4220907
>better
Same shit, he was just the first guy to do an extremely cancerous thing so at least he felt a bit fresh. But the AVGN was always terrible.

[Anonymous No.4220935]

>>4220718
Because people grew up playing these.

[Anonymous No.4220970]

>>4220718
give these spastics 5 minutes with any of the decent games from that era and they would stop faking it up

[Anonymous No.4221243]

Here is a better question: Why are millennials so fascinated about e-celebrities?

[Anonymous No.4221435]

>>4220718
I'm 28 and I grew up with the SNES. My cousins and my uncle had an NES and it was fun, but the SNES was just the best

[Anonymous No.4221470]

>>4220718
Nintendrones always fetishes ugly consoles.

[Anonymous No.4221491]

Sega Genesis has a lot of cocksuckers too.

[Anonymous No.4221497]

>>4220718
The same reason nu male cucks do.

[Anonymous No.4221498]

>>4221491
>Nintendo cocksucker detected

[Anonymous No.4221502]

>>4221243
Because they don't see the difference between "real celebrity" anymore.

[Anonymous No.4221512]

>>4220718
Obviously you're just baiting for cynical answers here. I'm sure some people praise them because it's the "correct" answer, and some people just genuinely really love them.

Personally, I was born in 1992 and 5th gen is my favorite era of gaming.

[Anonymous No.4221518]

>>4221498
>Everyone that talks something about muh Genesis is a Nintendo cocksucker
Thanks for proving my point. I'm not even a Nintendrone.

[Anonymous No.4221521]

>>4220781
I would have vomited too. I'm glad that we're so similar, Anon. You're not alone.

[Anonymous No.4221547]

>>4220718
because after atari's failure, nintendo had the dominant marketshare in the US at the time, this is why sega literally had to make their whole marketing strategy about how nintendo sucks

there is no other reason, it's all a popularity contest

[Anonymous No.4221553]

>>4220870
Even kids who didn't experience '80s and '90s gaming realise that modern gaming has been ruined by (((them))) and want something better.

Sad times we're in right now, lads, but we can still save the future.

[Anonymous No.4221578]

>>4221243
Because in certain age groups internet is the major source of entertainment. I'm willing to bet PewDiePie is a much larger celebrity in the under-12 demographic than Tom Cruise or some shit.

Soon they'll be known as "TV celebrities" (that only old watch) and nobody will care about them.

[Anonymous No.4221583]

>>4220718
This is especially annoying if you're a Britbong like me. When I was growing up in the 80s the NES was almost unheard of, literally no one I knew had one or even talked about it. We all had ZX Spectrums, Amstrad CPCs and later on Amigas and Sega Master Systems. I don't think I ever even saw an NES for sale

And now kids in Britain are growing up thinking the NES was a big thing in this country because all the e-celebs they watch a yanks. Literally imported nostalgia.

[Anonymous No.4221708]

>>4220870
Even kids who didn't experience '80s and '90s gaming realise that modern gaming has been ruined by (((them))) and want something better, so they look to the past where games weren't so shit.

[Anonymous No.4221717]

>>4221708
>le all new games are bad maymay
never change /vr/

[Anonymous No.4221721]

>>4220781
Relevant

[Anonymous No.4221728]

>>4221583
>We all had ZX Spectrums, Amstrad CPCs and later on Amigas and Sega Master Systems.

behave m8 i had a c64.

[Anonymous No.4221760]

>>4220718
On the flipside, say anything bad about the NES or its games and you'll have an army of 30 somethings calling you a spoiled millennial who doesn't know shit about good games.

[Anonymous No.4221790]

>Millennials

First of all, there's a good chance you are one. If you're using 4chan you're probably in that age bracket.

To answer your question, people, not just millennials, like the NES/SNES because they are arguably the two most iconic video game consoles in existence. Yes, even more so than the PS1, despite it selling more.

That's literally it. Unless you're 12 years old, chances are, you've heard of these two consoles and have tried out a couple of their games.

[Anonymous No.4221859]

>le millennials meme
Either you're underage and b& or pushing 40 and shouldn't be shitposting on 4chan (even /vr/ is a bit much).

[Anonymous No.4221891]

>>4221243
I don't understand the concept and I'm the target demographic.
They're just people who make Youtube shit. Why do you care about them beyond the content?

[Anonymous No.4221913]

>>4221717
They are, especially compared to the greats from the old days, and if you disagree you need to fuck off back to >>>/v/

[Anonymous No.4221927]

>>4221583
And I watch Britbong e-celebs and now have an interest in Britbong computers.

[Anonymous No.4221946]

>>4221790
If you're not at least 38 you don't belong on /vr/, because you missed out on the best gaming period, millennial scum. Adults who could buy and program their own games during the '80s are the master race, not a bunch of snotty kids who would just play baby shit they could only get on their parent's dime. You are the reason this board is such fucking garbage and are no better than Gen Z, possibly even worse because young kids have shit taste and are easily tricked into wanting the worst garbage, giving shekels to terrible businesses like Nintendo. Do millennials even remember what it was like to be alive in the '80s? I doubt it, they probably were still shitting in diapers, if not semen in their dad's ballsac still. FUCK millennials.

[Anonymous No.4221959]

>>4221946
Who hurt you? I am here for you friend.

[Anonymous No.4221986]

Probably a number of reasons. Mario is a household name in North America, you don't even need to play video games to know what it is thanks to advertisements, news broadcasts, cartoons and movies.
>>4221946
Anon, I'm here because older games are fun and absolutely better than newer ones.

[Anonymous No.4222005]

>>4220718
Millennials are too young to have grown up with it so they're trying to fit in

[Anonymous No.4222025]

Why do millennials complain about other millennials and pretend to be above them?

If you're posting on this board, you're either a millennial or an underage who doesn't belong here.

[Anonymous No.4222079]

>>4221470
>this meme
>fucking Comic Sans

You need to be shot back to Plebbit through a cannon.

[Anonymous No.4222085]

>it's another australia-kun thread where he rants about how angry he is about Nintendo being popular and how his childhood isn't relevant to today's youth

yawn.

[Anonymous No.4222215]

What a dumb question. NES has awesome games, what more is there to say? LoZ, LoZ 2, SMB 1, SMB 3, TMNT 2, TMNT 3, Bucky O Hare, Battletoads, the FF games, the Mega Man games, Punch Out... That right there is more quality games that I enjoy than most other systems.

[Anonymous No.4222225]

>>4222215
But Zelda II is bad because it's different compared to all the other 2D Zeldas! I know because the internet tells me so. Also it's the Dark Souls of NES games!

[Anonymous No.4222229]

>>4222025
>If you're posting on this board, you're either a millennial or an underage who doesn't belong here.
40-year-old virgins aren't millennials though, they are Gen X.

[Anonymous No.4222401]

>>4222229
>DURRR JUDD APATOW'S HIT MOVIE
Get the fuck out of here, you cancer cell.

[Anonymous No.4222403]

>>4222225
But Zelda II is great because I'm a special snowflake! It can't be that practically every other Zelda fan is wrong for being lukewarm about this game!!

[Anonymous No.4222404]

>>4220718
>Why do millennials fetishize the NES/SNES?
Because their parents talk fondly about enjoying their NES growin up.

[Sage No.4222409]

>>4222404
'Millenials' grew up with these systems, you stupid piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.4222465]

>>4222409
I'm pretty sure OP confused millennials with Gen Z

[Sage No.4222475]

>>4222465
>i'm not an idiot, because the OP also is

[Anonymous No.4222478]

>>4222465
I'm not the guy you were replying to

[Anonymous No.4222537]

>>4222409
>grew up with
No wonder this place is such a console warring shithole then, kids couldn't afford more than one system unless you were rich. If people who held jobs in the '80s were only allowed to post here, this place would be much better. Sadly millennial scum ruin it for the rest of us.

[Anonymous No.4222550]

>>4222537
But then /vr/ wouldn't be as fun to falseflag with console war shitposts.

[Anonymous No.4222563]

>>4222475
Did you honestly think the other guy was the one you replied to because he's also posting anonymously? Maybe leddit is more your speed tripfag.

[Anonymous No.4222567]

>>4222475

Announcing sage is a global rule violation, and it is regularly enforced

[Anonymous No.4222568]

>>4221891
Why does anyone care about celebrity?
Either:
>they're interested in that kind of drama because some people are just that way
or
>they're interested in the people who make the things they like
It really isn't that hard to grasp. It's a bit of culture shock, sure, but times change.
You can quibble all you want about whether or not it's deserved, or whether or not one form of celebrity is more legitimate than another, but at the end of the day, these people expose themselves to a large audience. It's no wonder they're treated like celebrities by their fans.

Also, the news rarely writes about e-celebs. Only people like PewDiePie get MSM attention, and that's for obvious reasons.

[Anonymous No.4222578]

>>4222403
They're not looking at it correctly, they yell "it's different than the other 2-D Zelda games!" and declare it bad. It was a huge success when it came out because it was a great game.

And yes, LA is too hard for the average Zeldafan normalfag.

[Anonymous No.4222582]

>>4220718
Well, it kinda invented the cross dpad, it was the bestest console at it's time and it paved the way for so many genres. Maybe it's the most trend-setting console of all times, so get used to people giving it it's right importance.

[Anonymous No.4222671]

>>4220718
Why does it matter to you so much?

[Anonymous No.4222729]

>>4220870
I can assure you I don't care for the NES at all. Genesis on the other hand...

[Anonymous No.4223347]

>>4220878
>child detected
He was innovative as being the first person on youtube to actually care about putting effects and editing into videos in those early wild west days. He also kicked off the retro gaming culture in the West. He's cringey now but you have to remember the era:

https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw

[Anonymous No.4223368]

>>4223347
>He also kicked off the retro gaming culture in the West
Not a good thing.

>he's cringey now
>now
Man, sorry to bust you out of your bubble but he was poop shit crap piss what were they thinkiiiing pretty much from the fucking start. You had to be a kid yourself or an extremely immature manchild for it to appeal to you.

[Anonymous No.4223382]

because there are millenials that like old shit like that kek

[Anonymous No.4223383]

>>4220718
>muhllennials
Reminder that if you're not a "millennial" you're either max 18 years old at this point or as old as pic related.

[Anonymous No.4223395]

>>4220734
Good controller in the mobile marked?
If it was that simple, somebody would have cornered the marked already.

The reality is that buttons on the back of cases/covers/shells is non existing, and that all the external controller configurations are stupidly ugly.
Even the clip on version tends to be quite bulky, and might be the ideal existing controller.
And the side attachments is stupidly ugly.
Keychain wireless looks a good idea, until you remember the screen isn't big, so it can't be placed far from you, so its awkward.

[Anonymous No.4223495]

>>4222215
>intentionally snubs SMB2
gtfo faggot

[Anonymous No.4223770]

>>4223383
You know CWC is a millennial, right?

All the more reason that age group is such cancer.

[Anonymous No.4223782]

>>4220718
SNES is literally the pinnacle of 2D platformers
kys OP dumb unerageb&

[Anonymous No.4223808]

>>4223782
umm excuse me?

[Anonymous No.4223819]

>>4223395
woah what are those slide ones called?

[Anonymous No.4223837]

>>4223819
nvm it's just some shitty crowdfund
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/game-cover-the-thinnest-android-portable-gamepad#/

[Anonymous No.4224536]

Do they? I see posts all the time on millenial sites such as NeoGAF saying that the NES is "too old" for them to get into for the last couple years.

[Anonymous No.4224709]

>>4220859
AVGN is that damn dumb to stay loyal to Nintendo after the C&D order.

[Anonymous No.4224742]

>>4224536
>I see posts all the time on millenial sites

This is a millennial site. You didn't even spell millennial right, you fucking underage.

[Anonymous No.4224751]

>millennials
Who even counts as millennials? What happened to Generation X?

I increasingly get the feeling that it's just a buzz word that doesn't have a real meaning other than "those young kids who aren't me".

[Anonymous No.4224809]

>>4224751
Anyone born between 1980 and 1999.

[Anonymous No.4224819]

>>4224751
Generation X are grandparents now, or at least they're about to be. They most likely don't have time for video games. A lot of them were degenerates, as a result their kids became immature man-children(IE; Millenials)

Hell I had sex with my ex-girlfriend's mother and she's definitely Generation X(she was born in 1962, we dated in 2007, I was 25 at the time).

[Anonymous No.4224843]

http://poal.me/m95vnn

VOTE, NOW

[Anonymous No.4224853]

>>4224809
Isn't that... like most adults now? The media keeps portraying them all like 13 year olds, but that would make the youngest millennial 18 and the oldest 37...

[Anonymous No.4224860]

>>4224819
Which basically means that Half of Millennials would have played the NES/SNES as their childhood first console...

Or are millennials Gen Z and not Gen Y?

[Anonymous No.4224869]

>>4221721
>virgin autistic weeb
>antifa

Checks out.

[Anonymous No.4224875]

Pure, unmitigated cancer. I can't believe how much damage these summer fags are capable of.

[Anonymous No.4224883]

I grew up in the early 90's but since i was poor at the time i started at Atari, and then i skipped right away to the PS1. I played most of Nintendo games on emulators, and i find them pretty good, but not as the second coming of christ.

[Anonymous No.4224910]

>>4220718

30 years later and Sega shits still mad they lost. Sad!

[Anonymous No.4224921]

>>4220870
Because contrary to the attitudes of people back when the consoles were new, (and the attitudes of too many people today even,) games are art, not toys.
When kids grow up they start to appreciate art from before their time. Youngsters will start enjoying classic music, old movies, literature, and yes, even games.

It's not some ironic fad or hipster millenial boogeyman, it's just people growing up to realize that something can be amazing even if it's old.

[Anonymous No.4224930]

>>4224860
>Which basically means that Half of Millennials would have played the NES/SNES as their childhood first console...
And the other half grew up on Shovelware Station and shitpost the board because they demand PS2 be added.

Fuck. Millennials.

[Anonymous No.4224936]

>>4224930
You're retarded.

[Anonymous No.4224940]

>>4224930
No...
The other half would have grown up with ALL the late 90s consoles, which would have included the mainstream PC boom of 1997, N64, and Saturn.

Your vitrol against Millennials makes it seem like you honestly believe that your whole generation really are 13 year olds, or you're a bitter Gen Xer who thought that no one but your generation should have been allowed to play video games.

As time marches on, PS2 WILL become a retro console. In 4 years, the PS2 will be 30 years old; there's nothing that can be done about it unless we come up with some hackneyed term like "Neo Retro" to describe everything that we didn't grow up with. Hell, it's been a fucking uphill battle to get people to consider N64/PS1/Saturn as retro.

[Anonymous No.4224967]

>>4224940
Post 2000 games will never be discussed on /vr/ no matter how hard you cry.

[Anonymous No.4224972]

>>4224967
I'm not crying; I'm just saying that it's going to get harder and harder to gatekeep the "pre-2000" rule as time goes on. Again, I remember when it was suggested that the cut-off for /vr/ should have been 1995 back when moot was figuring out how to make the board's rules.

Honestly, you're most likely right, because I doubt 4chan will be around in 2021.

[Anonymous No.4224976]

So if someone is born in 1983 does that make him a part of generation X or millennials?

[Anonymous No.4224982]

>>4224967
Dreamcast and 2000-2001 PC games got allowed; PS2 will eventually as well.

[Anonymous No.4224983]

>>4224976
Factual Millennial.

Buzzword Millennial is a sliding scale of whoever's between 13-23 the exact moment a particular article blasting them.

[Anonymous No.4225002]

>>4224976
No-one knows, because Generational Cohorts are fucking stupid because they're trying to make a pattern off of "Baby Boomers", which were a statistical consequence of droves of men coming home from WWII and the Western world entering into the wealth and growth of the latter 20th Century. Boomers born in 1946 have NOTHING in common with Boomers born in 1966.

[Anonymous No.4225006]

>>4225002
You sound pretty smart. Where do you stand on the Jews?

[Anonymous No.4225014]

>>4224809
*1980 to 95.

>>4224819
You're thinking of Generation Jones (between X and Boomers)

[Anonymous No.4225016]

>>4225014
>Generation Jones
Where do you old fucks get this terminology? I've only ever heard of XYZ.

[Anonymous No.4225018]

>>4225002
Same thing with a "millennial" born in 1995 having nothing in common with a millennial born in 1980.

[Anonymous No.4225020]

>>4225016
Look it up, and I'm not an old fuck. I didn't invent the term.

[Anonymous No.4225024]

>>4225020
I did look it up. It's just so incredibly rare in normal parlance that I wonder what you're all about.

[Anonymous No.4225026]

>>4225024
>wonder what you're all about.
Well, you sound like a faggot. Not sure what you want to add from here on out.

[Anonymous No.4225030]

>>4225026
>Well, you sound like a faggot
Reddit detected. You fucks always love slinging insults over autism and weirdo-ism. I sincerely hope you get hung.

[Anonymous No.4225031]

>>4225018
My point exactly; The only people you're "generational cohorts" with are the people who where in the same grade as you growing up, and even that's iffy. My best friend was poor as shit as a kid, so while I was playing a Genesis while watching Saturday Morning cartoons and early Cartoon Network, he was playing a fucking Atari 2600 until the PS2 came out and didn't get cable until a year after that. Our childhood experiences are crazy different and we were born two weeks apart in 1987.

[Anonymous No.4225035]

>>4224853
The media isn't wrong though, I'm ashamed to be a part of the millenials(Generation Y), because a lot of people my age act like immature man-children. It's horrifying to think about. Even Trump acts like a millenial and he has access to nuclear launch codes. Scary times we live in.

>>4224860
Exactly. As for your question, Generation Y are Millenials.

>>4224976
Millenials(Generation Y)

>>4225014
Nope. Generation X started in 1961 & ended in 1979.

[Anonymous No.4225037]

>>4225030
>reddit
Never heard of her. And don't worry, I hope your mother drops dead tomorrow. The hatred is mutual.

[Anonymous No.4225038]

>>4225035
Gen X: 65-80
Gen Y: 80-95
Gen Z: 95-10

[Anonymous No.4225043]

>>4225035
To be fair, EVERY Generation was full of goofy man-children. X insisted that Grunge, Punk, and Goth would last forever, Boomers had hippies, and even Greatest Generation had the Beat Generation. Trumpster's acting like a regular Boomer: believes that his success is proof that he's only ever done the right thing and has no self-doubt about his actions.

[Anonymous No.4225067]

They like them because, statistically, those games where the first ones they played and form the baseline of their earliest Vidya Nostalgia.

[Anonymous No.4225081]

>>4225037
Get fucked you admitted Reddit cancer cell. You only exist to make 4chan less enjoyable for people that actually belong here.

[Anonymous No.4225085]

>>4224972
>PS2

Yes let's all discuss this classic retro gem game.

[Anonymous No.4225098]

>>4225081
>people that actually belong here.

[Anonymous No.4225103]

>>4225085
Why don't you nerds just base the rule on the age of the game instead of the age of the system?

[Anonymous No.4225107]

>>4225103
So we can talk about new games for old systems. People still write C64 games all the time.

[Anonymous No.4225112]

>>4225107
Okay then make an exception.

Sometimes I feel like /vr/ puts more effort into arguing about the broad/simplistic rules than it would take to just make the rules a bit more detailed.

[Anonymous No.4225116]

>>4225098
I know you love to minimalize true imageboarders, but you're a faggot. You have nothing but memes.

[Anonymous No.4225123]

>>4225112
But why change it? There's no problems. The y2k system rule works fine.

[Anonymous No.4225162]

27 year old here.

I think the NES is unquestionably the greatest console of all time. I grew up with it while all the other fags were playing N64. Once I got an N64, I realized how fucking shitty it was and moved back to NES until around 2002 when I got a PS1. Then the same exact thing happened with the Xbox 360 when I realized it was a piece of shit, so I started buying and playing NES games again.

[Anonymous No.4225164]

>>4225116
>I'm a TRUE imageboarder not your personal army we are legion xD

[Anonymous No.4225165]

>>4225162
let me also make clear that I own basically every console that ever mattered at this point, and I still believe this to be true.

[Anonymous No.4225168]

>>4225162
Good lord I knew this board was full of hipsters but this is actually hilarious.

[Anonymous No.4225172]

>>4223770
How old are you then?

[Anonymous No.4225216]

>>4223368
>Man, sorry to bust you out of your bubble but he was poop shit crap piss what were they thinkiiiing pretty much from the fucking start. You had to be a kid yourself or an extremely immature manchild for it to appeal to you.

If you look past his catchphrases and random swearing, he actually does a pretty great job covering the games. I always thought that was the AVGN's strength: just showing how poorly designed some of those old games were. That part of his reviews is the content for me, not the "fuck farts shit pickle". It's especially interesting if you never experienced that era of gaming

[Anonymous No.4225308]

>>4224940
>In 4 years, the PS2 will be 30 years old

[Anonymous No.4225312]

>>4220718
Idk its just fun. I dont fetishize them but its just fun to have to blow on the cart and pop it in, bang on the side of the NES and use the old school controller.

[Anonymous No.4225383]

>>4224982
You mean 3 months after /vr/ opened while we still had mods on this board?

[Anonymous No.4225389]

>>4220819
>Angry Video Game Cuck
This meme is cringier than James will ever be.

[Anonymous No.4225390]

>>4225024
Meh, you need to watch old school political shows like Meet The Press. You'll hear it pretty often.

[Anonymous No.4225394]

>>4225112
1. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
2. We can't change the rules even if we wanted to.

[Anonymous No.4225401]

>>4220718
>Best consoles of all time
>"Why do millennials have a fetish for them?"

Gee, I wonder

[Anonymous No.4225409]

>>4224982

God I hope not, /v/ is the place to go to discuss 6th gen consoles, but the Dreamcast discussion was always phased out or never talked about and everyone had a loveboner for the PS2 and Gamecube that it was talked about and argued to death over there.

Having the rest of the 6th gen consoles here would just create more shitposting and console wars, at least with the Dreamcast by itself, you sometimes allude to the PS2 and leave it at that.

[Anonymous No.4225419]

>>4220870
I'm 28 and had a dad that was really into games (until he became a broken salaryman and quit playing), so I had every console he'd ever owned, which makes me nostalgic for things like Frogs n' Flies and Pitfall on Atari and Dragon Warrior and Mega Man 2 on NES even though I'm too young to appreciate their release and the culture surrounding them at the time.

[Anonymous No.4225476]

>>4220718
Literally for attention, as a self aware millennial, trust me it's for attention
AMA

[Anonymous No.4225559]

>>4225038
Nope. Look it up. Generation X started in 1961 and ended in 1979. Generation Y started in 1980 and ended in 1995.

>>4225043
Actually Grunge, Punk and Goth would have lasted had it not been for MTV going full retard and drowning out rock/punk/metal bands from their channel, they got rid of MTVX and replaced it with MTV Jams.

Basically trying to push pop, rap & r&b. Effectively brainwashing kids to embrace pop/rap/r&b more and this was before the invention of youtube, which would effectively make MTV useless for viewing music videos with.

There was also a rise in emo faggots after the goths/punks/grunge fad started to die out, but the emo fad died off pretty quickly.

Same thing with the Juggalo faggots, the Juggalo fad started in 1997 and started to die out quickly in 2000 because of ICP's feud with Eminem.

These faggots were beginning to be more like cockroaches, sticking around when they're not wanted, at least until the gang label in 2011 and by then the Juggalos became less & less, then completely died in 2017.

Unfortunately now we have stupid fucking hipsters with their Skrillex/Miley Cyrus haircuts.

[Anonymous No.4225560]

>>4225389
James is truly a cuck though. He cucked for Nintendo when he was forced to change his name from Angry Nintendo Nerd to Angry Video Game Nerd.

[Anonymous No.4225576]

>>4225560
>Not wanting to be sued is like being cheated on during marriage

what

[Anonymous No.4225583]

NES is the first Nintendo, and the company has a strong history with people. If Sega or Atari had maintained relevancy (in both IPs and hardware) the way Nintendo did, then they would be on the same pedestal.

Sony comes close but they lack consistency in image, always shifting major series to push and not having a consistent identity. By contrast, Nintendo has a very strong identity in the public eye. Their dedication to certain series and characters and their success at keeping them alive and relevant, as well as their carefully manicured image, has allowed them to maintain a consistent brand identity. Sony was more about being the console for the industry over having their own identity; as such, their product is a mismatched assortment of whatever 3rd party software is popular at the time, and people recognize more those individual companies and products than they do the console maker themselves.

tl;dr Nintendo maintained consistent brand image for decades and has a known reputation through both consoles and characters as a result, which others have failed to mimic despite also being successful.

[Anonymous No.4225586]

>>4225576
He still loves and defends Nintendo, even when they send a cease and desist order on him. That's what makes him a cuck for Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.4225595]

>>4225583
Actually Nintendo acted more like Disney, hence why they've been in the video game business for so long with their shady business practices and suing anyone who may make money off of their brand in some way.

Disney did this by sending a C&D to a daycare center about using Disney wallpapers, the daycare center decided to use Flintstone characters instead. Nintendo did this by suing Galoob over the Game Genie, they also forced Nintendo fans to join their Youtube partnership program. They also forced developers to develop for them exclusively during the 8 bit era, until Sega released the Sega Genesis, by then it was a level playing field and now Sony has taken over where Sega left off and is the number 1 console maker.

[Anonymous No.4225605]

>>4225586
But he's not married to Nintendo you retard.

[Anonymous No.4225608]

>>4225559
I did look it up. It said mid 60's to early 80's.

[Anonymous No.4225610]

>>4225085
>sports game cherrypicking
I see you.

[Anonymous No.4225612]

>>4225559
But all three of those are youth counterculture groups that faded because their members grew up or evolved into a form that "didn't stay true" to original culture enough. There are plenty of Gen X man-children who act like they're holding the torch for this by-gone culture for the day it comes back and gets rid of all the "fake" music.

Trust me; the stupid hipsters with Skrillex/Miley Cyrus haircuts would have been wearing Billy Rae Cyrus mullets, Poison hair metal dos, Michael Jackson jerri-curls, and any other hair-do of who ever would be popular at the time. Pop Culture is NOW Culture. They'll be ranting about whatever's popular in 20 years as though they never did dumb shit.

[Anonymous No.4225613]

>>4224940
>In 4 years, the PS2 will be 30 years old;

[Anonymous No.4225614]

Because some of the best games ever made are on the NES and SNES. When you were born doesn't matter. It's not even part of the equation.

This thread is fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.4225615]

>>4225605
"Cuck" doesn't mean anything other than "word I use to belittle people I disagree with".

James would still be a "cuck" to that anon if he still called himself the Angry Nintendo Nerd because "he sucked their dick so hard, he didn't even mind getting sued out of all his money by them".

[Anonymous No.4225621]

>>4225615
Yes thanks for explaining my stance to me. Much appreciated.

[Anonymous No.4225629]

>>4220718
they don't know about that motha fuckin genesis boi

[Anonymous No.4225640]

>>4225629
21, had a Genesis given to me by my cousin at 6, basically missed the sixth gen because parents didn't want to buy a new system.

In hindsight, it's nice having access to a system's entire library right away. Too bad childhood naivite makes you do dumb shit like sell Toejam and Earl 2 to fund a copy of Awesome Possum regardless

[Anonymous No.4225675]

>>4225605
>married to Nintendo
No one can marry a console, idiot.

>>4225615
Wrong. James is a cuck because he's a weak man, he doesn't take a stand against what's happening to him, instead he just sits there and let's it happen, just like any other cuck does. A real man wouldn't take that shit lying down, instead he would have put up a fight, even if he didn't stand a chance of winning, at least he wouldn't be bending over and taking it up the ass for a company that wants to screw him over. That's the difference between someone like me and a cuck like James, I don't put up with bullshit. Look at Angry Joe, he tells Nintendo to fuck off with that Youtube partnership program they tried to force onto him. Angry Joe is an alpha male, while James is a beta male. Beta males always get cucked.

[Anonymous No.4225681]

>>4225595
>nintendo's bad for literally using copyright law the way Disney wrote it to be used
>bringing up the Galoob case, which Nintendo LOST
>not bringing up that SEGA literally sued Accolade for basically the same thing and lost, too
>Thinking that SEGA leveled any playing field
>Not knowing that most of Nintendo's old buddies from the 8-bit and early 16-bit era didn't jump ship until Yamauchi pissed them off during the development of the N64

Look, I'm an old SEGA fan, too, but this whole "Nintendo is the most evil video game company that ever existed" shit is getting really old and stupid. SEGA wasn't even that strong of a company in Japan. If people were jumping ship to anyone en masse, it was the PC-Engine. Even early "third-party" games on the Genesis were programmed by SEGA themselves.

[Anonymous No.4225682]

>>4225608
It's not mid 60's/early 80's. Gen-X started in 1961 and ended in 1979. I've looked it up myself.

>>4225612
True. They're not wrong about pop/rap/r&b/dubstep being fake music, it's computer generated shit. Real music is made with real musical instruments. It's harder to play with instruments live in concert than it is to lip sing at concert.

[Anonymous No.4225687]

>>4225675
>defending Angry Joe
If I remember correctly, didn't he LITERALLY CRY ON CAMERA when he was mad at only his Nintendo videos getting struck?

[Anonymous No.4225690]

>>4225675
That's my point, retard. Nice reading comprehension.

Unless James got married to Nintendo, and Nintendo went and fucked whomever, then he'd be a cuck. Anything else is shoehorning sexually demeaning abuse because you're sexually insecure and it's plastic as fuck

[Anonymous No.4225693]

>>4225690
...
you're dumb

[Anonymous No.4225697]

>>4225693
Nice rebuttal. Cry harder.

[Anonymous No.4225706]

>>4225681
>not bringing up that SEGA literally sued Accolade for basically the same thing and lost, too
Why would I bring up Sega? I was talking about how Nintendo survived in the console making business. Sega stopped making consoles in 2001. So this has nothing to do with Sega's success in the console market.

Point being that Nintendo acting like Disney is exactly how Nintendo stayed in business because apparently the sheep flocks to a company that is prejudice against their own consumers, when they could have vision this as a free advertisement opportunity. Instead Disney opted to sue a daycare center, while Nintendo opted to sue their fans on youtube or threaten to get their videos demonetized with a copyright strike. No other game company including Sega did this to their fans on youtube.

And yes Sega did level the playing field, which is why the Sega Genesis was a success. Their add ons however was their downfall.

Also if you don't recognize Nintendo is as evil as Disney, you're as blind as the rest of the sheep who defend these companies. At least I'm not defending Sega's bad decisions.

[Anonymous No.4225719]

>>4225687
Probably, I don't recall. But who wouldn't cry after losing? At least he put up a fight with Nintendo.

>>4225690
You've obviously never used "cuck" as an insult or a slang. James is a cuck and it shows when he bend over for Nintendo on the C&D order. Calling someone a cuck doesn't make anyone sexually insecure. It means you recognize a beta male from a mile away.

[Anonymous No.4225728]

>>4225706
Sega was never successful in Japan. They would have gone out of business if it hadn't been for the American market, which is what ultimately lead to it's demise, because the Japan home office was infuriated that the American office was doing way better than them at getting the company money.

Also, you're not getting the point of copyright law. Disney keeps rewritting it to keep Mickey Mouse and their old stuff from going into public domain. And the main way they did that is coming up with Trademarks. The thing about Trademark is that, if the company doesn't enforce it CONSTANTLY, they don't have a legal right to defend it later. That's why Disney sued the shit out of a daycare; they didn't get the legal right to use Disney characters to bolster their business. Sure, it's morally evil, but capitalism doesn't give a shit.

And as far as "critics" on YouTube, you'd better believe that if you monetized a video with chunks of their reviews in it, they'd get pissed and sue.

[Anonymous No.4225734]

>>4225719
He cried BEFORE he "fought back". It was a video he made the day it happened. Also, aren't alpha's incapable of crying, as only beta cucks cry?

[Anonymous No.4225735]

>>4225697
Im not even that anon
>>4225719
Hes cucky but he made videogame youtubing a thing... which is pretty cucky
>ecelebs

[Anonymous No.4225738]

ITT - Millennials not realizing that they're actually Millennials and people crying over "in my day" shit.

[Anonymous No.4225739]

>>4225728
>Sega was never successful in Japan
Uh excuse me sweetie

[Anonymous No.4225740]

>>4225719
That's exactly it. You actively choose to identify other people worse than you, with sexually demeaning language, because you're sexually insecure. If you used any other insult it wouldn't be sexual. But it's so fuckin' common because damn near everyone on 4chan is sexually frustrated and definitely insecure. Debates about traps being gay or not, literal dick measuring contests, get real dude.

And no, I don't use informal mannerisms with random people, because that's how miscommunication happens. Not that you care, obviously.

>>4225735
And you still didn't rebut it? You must also be pretty insecure, huh?

[Anonymous No.4225747]

>>4225734
>woman detected
It's not that men fight the urge to cry, it just is very difficult for us to get to that emotional level as an adult. I cried when my mom passed away... but only a little for one day.

My gf's cat died and she cried for a week.

[Anonymous No.4225749]

>>4225739
And yet they still sold less than Sony and Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.4225753]

>>4225747
So you're still saying that Angry Joe's a pussy little beta for crying about video games?

Also, all that means is that you didn't really have any emotional bond with your mom. Probably saw her as a lesser being. I bet you'd cry harder for you dog dying that you ever would your mother. Most men do.

[Anonymous No.4225763]

>>4225739
>successful
>N64: 32.93 million
>PS1: 102.49 million
>Saturn: 9.26 million

[Anonymous No.4225780]

>>4225749
It had the best selling game in Japan (Sakura Wars).

Sonylets and Nintenkiddos btfo.

[Anonymous No.4225790]

>>4225780
>Sakura Wars
>1 game sold well

[Anonymous No.4225795]

>>4225790
2 games, it had a sequel

[Anonymous No.4225818]

>>4220718
Chad grew up with the NES/SNES/PSX/N64. Those systems all have some really great games and back when Chad was younger and had much less to do. Younger Chad had time to see games mentioned all over the place, on TV, in school, etc. Chad trades games with his friends and cousins and gets exposed to a lot of games he'll never forget. Chad was just more intuned to his gaming hobby back then, however casual it might have been.

Years pass and Chad grows up and he might get a PS2/PS3/360 but for Chad and most people around his age, video games take a backburner to other interests, hobbies and even completely new inventions.

With video games being much less frequent in Chad's life yet still having a presence, he rarely makes a "risky purchase", mostly picking up sequels, remakes, remasters and reboots to games he played in his childhood and whatever AAA meme game that's currently popular, i.e Skyrim and Fallout.

Chad still declares himself a """massive nerd""" even though he is completely out of touch with modern gaming. When Chad is asked about his favorite system he looks back to the consoles he grew up with, thinking that it was the best thing ever when in actuality, he just had more time to discover more games and that upped the odds of him finding more good games than bad.

Even if you tell Chad this, he doesn't care, because he really is just a casual gamer underneath it all.

[Anonymous No.4225835]

>>4220718
Because millennials have no real culture. Rather than create their own they have gone and picked bits and pieces of pop culture from the 60's 70's and 80's to cobble together their own.The nes was a big thing, so they took that as their own. Most of them get bored of it after a little while, but will never admit it.

[Anonymous No.4225849]

>>4225728
>Sega was never successful in Japan
Bullshit
Their arcades were always full

[Anonymous No.4225890]

>>4220718

because they are the middle children of gaming

[Anonymous No.4226078]

>>4225835
Americans have no real culture. Rather than create their own they have gone and picked bits and pieces of historic culture from Italy, Britain, Germany and France to cobble together their own. Europe was a big thing, so they took that as their own. Most of them get bored of being tools for israel after a little while, but will never admit it.

[Anonymous No.4226101]

>>4226078
>americans have no culture
Umm try again sweetie

[Anonymous No.4226298]

>>4225818
>read my frog blog
no

[Anonymous No.4226353]

>>4225728
You must be living in an alt reality, because in this reality, Sega was successful in Japan, but was doing shit in America.

Suing the shit out of a daycare who wasn't even infringing on their rights, just using wallpaper decorations is just pure paranoia on Disney's part. The daycare wasn't claiming Disney's copyrighted characters. That's like if Slipknot were to sue me for using their posters in the background of my room for youtube videos. What would be the point? I'm not making money off their music. It's simply free advertisement to them.

And no one should get sued for criticizing video games on youtube. It's just a fucking review, even if I disagree with them. They have what we in America call "FREEDOM OF SPEECH".

>>4225734
Depends on the situation. Like if a man gets cut or tattooed, they don't cry in those situations because they can take it. A beta male would not be able to endure such pain. But if a man's son passes away, there's definitely going to be some tears to be shed, alpha or not. Unless you're a fucking robot.

>>4225735
No. He's a cuck because he never fought back at Nintendo for betraying him the way that they did.

>>4225740
False. I call people cucks who act and think like a beta male. You must be a beta male yourself because you certainly hate it when someone like me points out the truth. You absolutely hate it when someone is brutally honest. Has nothing to do with being sexually frustrated or insecure. It means I'm not a coward, it means I'm not a pansie, it means I stand up for myself. Unlike your pathetic ass who probably enjoys taking a beating or getting his head dunked into a toilet by bullies in school. That's what separates alphas like me from betas like you, alphas don't take that shit lying down, alphas fight.

[Anonymous No.4226402]

>>4225818
>chad chad chad
At least in the states, Chads had an NES like damn near anyone else with a then current console, the Genesis because EXTREEEME "SEH GUH!" and Nintendon't, then Chad got a PS1 because he was above "baby systems" like the 64 and he "graduated" from SEGA, MAYBE a Dreamcast because Chad needed the newest shit even though he was solidly in the Sony camp by that point, then after the PS2/XBOX the rest is (recent) history.

But staying on OP's topic, the NES is "fetishized" thanks to it's dominance in multiple markets before true console wars began again in the next generation.

Atari 2600/7800 was/kind of is in a similarly fetishized position, but Atari isn't all that relevant of a company anymore while Nintendo is still very much in the console market and still martketing towards people's nostalgia regularly.

[Anonymous No.4226403]

>>4226353
Anyone that uses cuck as their go-to insult must feel like it's the worst thing to call someone because they've been in that position before.

Who hurt you?

[Anonymous No.4226436]

NES and SNES are the only good consoles made by Nintendo, they are shit now
Special mention for n64 and GC
Their handhelds have always been good except the Virtual Boy and 3DS or whatever is called

[Anonymous No.4226446]

>>4226403
And that's where you're wrong. I've never been in that position. When I think of "cucks", I think of beta-male SJW's who live in their mother's basement, trolling on twitter calling everything & everyone racist/sexist/homophobic. SJW's never stand up for themselves, they're constantly getting picked on. Which is why they run to the principal or a teacher for help.

[Anonymous No.4226460]

>>4220827
im in my late 30s but i dont understand why you guys are mad that a group of people like nes/snes. fuckin get over it. bumch a p.c. butthurt queers. drop some of your needs if they aint being met

[Anonymous No.4226509]

>>4226403
Shut up cuck.

[Anonymous No.4226861]

>>4221721

what a faggot

[Anonymous No.4226882]

I'm 24, the NES was the first console I had. Granted, I only had Mario, Duck Hunt, Paperboy and something else, but the NES is the first console I ever played. Now that I've gotten into emulation, I enjoy the games today even more.

[Anonymous No.4226898]

>>4226446
Take out SJW and you basically described most kiddy frog posters that obsessively use and popularized the term cuck here. Hell, change "never stands up for themselves" to "makes up stories about being tough" and you have them described to a T.
>>4226509
Hey kid, summer's over.

[Anonymous No.4227061]

>>4226353
So you're admitting to using sexually degrading slurs improperly for no applicable reason. You realise you're the one getting your panties in a knot over my calling you sexually insecure right? You know, cos you want to be SEEN as alpha because you don't FEEL that way? You're not even trying to hide it. "You liked being bullied" this and "alphas like me" that. Come on, dude. You're not even making a point. Just a wall of insecure defensiveness.

You're using cuck to dismiss people. That is the tactic of a coward. Only the sexually insecure would hold so much merit to such a trite and arbitrary insult.

>>4226446
That's just an SJW. It's quite apparent you have a specific sexual slur on standby because you want to emasculate strangers to make yourself feel better. You understand where the "sexually insecure" angle works in there, yet?

>>4226509
Stay mad lol

[Anonymous No.4227139]

>SJW cuck queers millennials e-celeb garbage
>+195 posts and 28 image replies omitted

[Anonymous No.4227157]

>>4226898
Kiddy frog posters?

>>4227061
Nope. You seem to want to twist my words a lot, just like any offended SJW on twitter. Thing about twisting words around and try to put your own spin on it is that it doesn't work.

Hence why Trump won in 2016. But you SJW's hated that so much, that you still constantly attack the alpha males who belittle you whenever they call you a cuck.

At the end of the day, it's just words. If you get offended by words, you're a beta male. There's no way around it.

[Anonymous No.4227176]

It does little good for the janny to delete only the occasional scrap post while ignoring the fact that this entire thread is an abortive slaughter heap of off-topic replies.

Is there any chance of this thread getting nuked before it hits 500, or do we just have to tolerate this festering shitpost fest stinking up our slow ass board for the next several weeks?

[Anonymous No.4227224]

>>4227139
/vr/ truly is dead. Where should we move to next?

[Anonymous No.4227434]

>>4225168
How the fuck does my opinion make me a hipster?

[Anonymous No.4227453]

>>4220718
Possibly for the same reason as generation Z fetishize the PS1/N64?

There are of course good games for the systems, but ask any zillennial "nerd", and they treat them like divine idols (I'm looking at you FF7 and OoTfags).

[Anonymous No.4227542]

>>4225595
>C&D to a daycare center about using Disney wallpapers
um what? does disney have undercover copyright agents or something?

[Anonymous No.4227953]

>>4220718
The simple fact of the matter is that NES is culturally seen by such people as the "go-to retro" system, and they don't know shit about the 2600, Magnavox, or other shit that came before it/was out around the same time.

I will say that it kicks the Master System's ass any day of the week. Of course, that's why Sega released the Genesis.

>>4220734
>easy to play on cell phones
Fucking is not, at least without a controller attachment, but I'm not carrying that shit around all day like some kind of turbonigger