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4926785 No.4926785 [Reply] [Original]

Why does Blockbuster get so much retro gaming nostalgia? I didn't know visiting a chain rental store caused such euphoria.

>> No.4926795

Zoomers will never get it. Stop trying.

>> No.4926798

>>4926795
It's not hard to get though?

>> No.4926803

>>4926785
I don't think you know the meaning of any of the words you used in that sentence

>> No.4926804

because the rental system was excellent, didn't like a game? just return it the next day

>> No.4926876

>>4926804
You can do that with Steam within fourteen days if you've played it less than two hours :-)

>> No.4926893

>>4926876
Gee anon you make a really good point. Paying my hard earned adult money for a shitty game I don't like, full price, then going through a return process and waiting for it to go back on my card totally sounds like my awesome childhood gaming experiences. It's just like begging your dad for $3 so you can play a game for a couple nights, then on the trip to return it doing the same thing over again.

I lived in a small town so there was no Blockbuster but I was constantly renting games from the tiny mom and pop stores. When we got up to the later gens and soft modding became a thing but torrents hadn't really made it that far yet I would rent DVD games and copy them which was awesome too. But the true greatness was Sega Channel...

>> No.4926969

>>4926876
Wait, couldnt you play it in offline mode? Ive been told that doesnt add to your hours

>> No.4926980

>>4926969
idk. Some games can be run without Steam. I have zero hours on some of those because I keep a copy on my desktop.

>> No.4926991

>>4926785

renting games was awesome

>> No.4926993

>>4926785
>Why does something a lot of people did as a kid that brought them enjoyment get so much nostalgia
Gee I don't know

>> No.4927001

>>4926893
>I lived in a small town so there was no Blockbuster but I was constantly renting games from the tiny mom and pop stores
Same with me. Yeah I've rented from a Blockbuster before but it was far enough away that I could count on one hand how many times we used them. My rentals usually came from the local grocery store or a party store we had a couple miles away.

>> No.4927016

I honestly have no idea how blockbuster was able to stay in business for as long as they did. They had the most expensive rentals and the worst punishment for late fees of all the rental chains. Only retards rented there.

>> No.4927028

>>4926785
Short answer was the started a long decline right around the time 6th gen was ending.

>> No.4927031

>>4927016
I think a lot had to do with availability. When a new movie came out they would have a couple walls full of copies so you would have a better chance of being able to snag one before they run out. Maybe I'm remembering wrong but didn't they also receive new releases earlier then everyone else?

>> No.4927038

>>4927016
compared to mom and pop shops they had a ton of copies of new releases, and a pretty decent selection of older movies. the other chains could match their selection, but blockbuster had the bomb ass marketing campaign.

mom and pop shops jammed into decrepit strip malls were always more comfy, tho.

>> No.4927042

>>4926785
I literally never entered a Blockbuster in my entire life. Never rented a video game, either. Had to do it the old fashioned way - borrowing games from friends and then "forgetting" to return them.

>> No.4927049

We had a local place called box office video. They were pretty huge, with gigantic NES and SNES sections. I would always rent Super Bomberman, which came in a backpack with a multitap and three extra controllers

Those were the days

>> No.4927076

>>4927049
ya but now u can buy ur game on steam and play with some korean and brazilian guys hundreds of miles away

>> No.4927119

>>4927028
Early 3D wasn't great, but there's just as many good games now, many 2D, as during the 16-bit era. Your perception of past games is survivorship biased.

>> No.4927127

>>4927076
Can also do multi-monitor splitscreen right here with the bf. But I usually don't waste his time like that.

>> No.4927145 [DELETED] 

>>4926785
when my gen were children games were 40 quid a pop and typically only a birthday or xmas gift then came alone blockbuster and sudden'y renting a game for a weekend became a thing and parents were much warmer to it because they could get a movie etc, it was a source of great excitement.

What's the fucking mystery cunt?

>> No.4927165

>>4927042
I bought my friend a genesis (recently) just to get him into old school gaming so we can borrow games from each other

>> No.4927184

>>4926785
It smelled really good.

>> No.4927195

>>4926785

Nigger I used to rent my SNES games and Captain Planet tapes from a Hollywood Video built into the HEB on Rundberg.

Blockbuster was fancy people shit.

>> No.4927223

This thread pretty nicely illustrates the reason. Mom and pop stores and even Hollywood or Family Videos were less homogenized. Blockbuster was ubiquitous. Post a picture from most any Blockbuster and it will press the nostalgia button for EVERY Blockbuster and then everyone can reminisce together.

>> No.4927252

Did Blockbuster ever carry VCR head cleaner?

>> No.4927305

>>4927252
They would sell them up front near the candy and whatever other shit.

>> No.4927310

>>4927305
The amyl nitrite kind?

>> No.4927319

>>4927145
>40 quid a pop
try more like $60-$80

>> No.4927329

>>4927319
quid is pounds, worth more than a dollar

>> No.4927390

>>4926785
>>4926876
Why are younger people so jealous of people who lived in a different world?

>> No.4927406

>>4927390
Because their world is soulless shit.

>> No.4927419

>>4927390
I was born in 1989 and I often prefer doing things inefficiently. Just saying we haven't lost the ability to return something that turns out to be trash.

>> No.4927427

I was born in 88 myself but I spent the 90s enjoying this shit. Fuck Steam. I'm not going to spend a bunch of money for a game with Denuvo on it and not even get a physical item I can hold in my hand. The person shilling it in this thread needs to slit his own throat.

>> No.4927448

Dunno about blockbuster since in my country it didn't even exist at the time but rental stores were widely spread. It was cool. Get home from school on a friday night, get there with your parents, choose games you wanted to play and a VHS cartoon to watch while mom made some popcorn. You'll feel nostalgia too for something in the future, don't worry about it.

>> No.4927463

It was from an era of actually feeling something.

>> No.4927468

>>4927463
That's vanity. Not everyone became mentally unwell just because you did.

>> No.4927496

>>4927468
I feel like the future is pretty shit. The technology is better but the greed of the game publishers with DRM and other bullshit holds it back. If you have something from a digital service there's no guarantee it's always going to be there, and backing it up is a bitch. Things are more convenient but you never truly own something anymore. The whole gaming experience is trash now. Besides all that fuckery of corporations releasing gimped games (Sonic Mania Plus, something I would buy on PC in a heartbeat but won't touch because they raped it with DRM) that get pirated anyway you have the online multiplayer experience. What a crock of shit. Friendless losers yelling curse words and racial slurs at each other all day long isn't nearly as good as riding your bike to your friend's house to play games together, groups of kids your age gathering and socializing over games... If you like this pathetic consumerist bullshit, forking over your money to get fucked, great for you. There are plenty of boards where you would find yourself at home. This isn't it.

>> No.4927509

>>4927496
I just like to talk about old games, not be pissy about new ones. Negativity doesn't get you anywhere in life.

>> No.4927523

>>4927509
If something is in your opinion a negative experience being positive about it only makes you a sucker. I don't hate all modern gaming, I just think the culture surrounding it is shit. I think people who consider buying a bunch of games on steam a worthy investment are completely delusional. I also feel like there's little incentive for me to choose buying new content instead of pirating it.

>> No.4927531

>>4927031
>When a new movie came out they would have a couple walls full of copies so you would have a better chance of being able to snag one before they run out.
this. desu this is the only reason I remember us going to blockbuster. to make sure we got the new release.

I didn't rent games there. I didn't rent games at all. My dad usually bought games used from two different stores in my area.

>> No.4927536

>>4927523
Uggh, I steal games, but I don't try to justify it. Stop being a wanker.

>> No.4927540

>>4927523
If every single person in the world posted on the internet in 1980, the culture surrounding it would have been mostly shit then, too. Keep your circles small enough for you to influence their microculture

>> No.4927548

>>4927540
Internet forums are full of toxicity because the activity is disproportionately from maladjusted individuals without better things to do. Doing better things now, ttyl.

>> No.4927551

There's a blockbuster in the dreamscape, it's a good place to get really distracted if you're having a bad time in meatspace.

>> No.4927554

>>4927536
I buy content and pirate it. It's not really a "justification" as much as it is admitting my frustration with the way things are distributed. When I buy an album off bandcamp I get the flac files and I can do with them whatever I want, copy to whatever device. Same with a game cartridge. If I bought a game for SNES or Genesis I could take it to my friend's house and play it on his console. No need to sign in, no petty bullshit to make sure I don't "steal" something. That's the kind of experience I'm willing to pay for. I don't feel bad at all about getting a superior experience from piracy. If they want to treat me like a criminal I'll just be a criminal, fuck em.

>> No.4927557

>>4927468
Individual lives vary wildly, but I also think history has objective ups and downs (although again this can depend on your social group and class). If someone being oppressed under Mao or Stalin said "boy I sure miss the good old days before everything went to shit", you wouldn't tell him to stop being delusional. Things really did get worse for him and lots of other people.
There are ways in which the technology explosion of the past few decades has made life objectively worse for many people - the negative effects of social media and technology addiction, increased government surveillance, unemployment caused by automation, etc. Things really can get better or worse, it's not 100% relative.

>> No.4927564

>>4926876
My experience with PC gaming:

>Buy on console, actually play and finish games
>Buy PC games from Steam sales, play them for 15 minutes and never touch them again

>> No.4928192
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>>4927127
>multi-monitor splitscreen

>> No.4928207

>>4928192
The driver makes the game sees them as a single monitor.

>> No.4928251

>>4926785
It's not Blockbuster specifically, it's the experience of renting games as a kid. Something kids today don't really get to do. Honestly, my town didn't get a Blockbuster until like 3 years before they went under. We always used Current World Video, and Mr Movies.

>> No.4928253

>>4927564
Sounds like a (You) thing

>> No.4928365

>>4928253
I’d bet with a very high degree of certainty that most PC gamers on 4chan spend way more time posting about video games than they do playing them.

>> No.4928393
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4928393

>>4926876
>You can do that with Steam within fourteen days if you've played it less than two hours :-)
Zoomer, you are missing a very important fact.

Most of us didn't have internet in the mid 90s and prior. Also, there was no Steam/gog or any other internet distribution method.

If you wanted a game you had to possess a physical copy, and it needed to interface with real hardware.

It was great to be able to try many titles...some you could beat in a weekend and you know you didn't need to buy, others were so good you bought or TRADED games with others to obtain it.

If you missed out on vidya rentals, you missed out on a great experience from when games were in the beginning of popularity.

>> No.4928401

>>4928393
I experienced rentals, it was shit. Video games were always popular. Now I can just torrent almost anything I want.

>> No.4928409

>>4928393
Haven't video games always been popular?

>> No.4928427

>>4926785
Heres a preamble.
It was a simpler time when the internet was just starting to gain some locomotion. You couldnt use the phone while online (mostly) and people were just sarting to get hip to computers and stuff. There were no cellphones, well at least not like anything we have today and kids didnt have any social media to worry about.

As a young kid in the 80s or 90s....possibly even early 2000s. Going to the video store was like nothing anymore now that toys r us is closed, but it was a decisive time that helped us find which games we liked and which we didnt. Besides going to a friends how or reading a magazine/watching commercials, there wasnt really a way to find out what games were like, just what you heard from other people. The atmosphere of the video stores were great with movies playing on the tv and it was a little overwhelming at first, but you browse through some aisles of who knows what looking for the video games. Once you found them, your mind exploded. Them yoy look at all the games (if you have time) and anxiously wait til your parents were done. This experience slowly became more streamlined as you got older but the rush of endorphins from looking through the games was awesome, not to mention the ride home with your face glued to the box waiting to be able to play it.

>> No.4928431

Who is it nostalgic for? I never rented a video game in my life.

>> No.4928438
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4928438

>>4926876
>paying for software
>paying for software and not even legally owning what you paid for
>2018

>> No.4928440

>>4928401
>I experienced rentals, it was shit.
At the time, it was a simple option to enjoy a game that you didn't have to shell out $40-60 to find out it was total garbage. Sure times have changed. Some for better and some for worse.
>>4928409
>Haven't video games always been popular?

Popular yes. Arcades were at thing. It would require you to exert physical effort and go stand in line and spend real cash money in a machine. But broad appeal that many people spent money on for home entertainment? No. It was cost prohibitive to most, and it was newfangled. In the USA we had the video game crash(1983-4), and if not for Nintendo, I don't think it would have rebounded as fast.

Keep in mind that there was a time in the early 80s when most had wrote off games as an overpriced gimmick.

>> No.4928445

>>4928440
>Nintendo saved the video game industry

This invalidates everything you say about anything.

>> No.4928459

>>4928365
Don't forget mods, they spend way more time dicking around with mods and settings than actually playing the game

>> No.4928463

>>4928438
>paying for hardware/software over snd over again and never actually owning it.

Thats what renting is.

>> No.4928468

>>4928365

Then you'd be wrong. It's much more likely you're a fox who wishes he had some grapes.

>> No.4928485

>>4928445
>This invalidates everything you say about anything.
Nintendo created a system of public trust that no longer existed due to Atarii's greed. The home video game industry in the USA was Dead.

Who do you think would have restored confidence? Sony? Panasonic? Sega?

Like it or not, Nintendo certainly "fixed" the financial mess that was console games. There was no other company that stepped up to create standards of quality. Like it or not.

>> No.4928487

I don't get it.
Why is Gen Z so easily offended? I mean, you guys are getting offended over people remembering about old stores. There's far worse thing in the world to get offended about.

>> No.4928502

>>4928487
>Why is Gen Z so easily offended?
It is their defense to hearing things that they may not like. God forbid that someone have nostalgia that doesn't involve them or their opinion.

>> No.4928575

>>4928459
Yep right here. Did that with Skyrim and then logged maybe 10 hours of actual gameplay. Haven’t touched it in well over a year now.

>> No.4928824

I have ADHD which is part of the reason I think console gaming is better for me. If I have a game running on my PC, no matter what it is, retro games in emulators, modern games, whatever, I'll end up browsing Twitter for hours, arguing with people on 4chan, porn... If I play on a console I don't have those distractions. I like to keep gaming and computing separate

>> No.4928863

>>4927184
So do you

>> No.4928865

>>4928575
Just think about all those identical looking caves you haven't explored

>> No.4928879

>>4928463
People rented games because they didn't have much options at the time. Hence the >2018.

>> No.4928890

Hollywood Video>Blockbuster fite me.

>> No.4928891

>>4928879
Yeah I'm sure if I was old enough and informed enough I would have owned console game copiers and downloaded games off BBSes. But I was below the age of 10. Renting games, playing games on Sega Channel, playing games at friends houses, and reading magazines was how I discovered new things. The internet only became a viable option slowly. Downloading roms on a 56k or even 28.8k connection was acceptable, not too painful. I had quite a collection. Then as the internet was measured in megabits instead I moved up to downloading DVD based console games and playing on the actual hardware instead of emulators. Not much has changed since then but I still get nostalgic for the times before I could just download any game I ever wanted quickly. Also the legal options of today don't provide as good of an experience as we had back then.

>> No.4928894

>>4928890
Those fuckers gave me a disc that was cracked and had dried peanut butter on it once.

>> No.4928907

>>4928894
Was the peanut butter an attempt to fix the crack?

>> No.4928939

>>4926785
People like to remember their childhooods

>> No.4929095

>>4927038
>mom and pop shop here had a slot machine modified to run on tokens. You got tokens to play for returning videos early. You could win popcorn, snacks, and free rentals.

...
We never did that because we only ever rented for 1 night.

...
And my mom went mental at the manager over some stupid shit so we were banned/never went there again


... they were the only store that rented games for my sega master system

Ffffff

>> No.4929104

I loved going to my local blockbuster because there was a cute chubby nerdy girl who worked there enough to become a manager. Had such a crush on her, especially with her wearing those tight khakis around her fat butt, always showing deep vpl. Unfortunately she wasn't into gaming and didn't really give me good recommendations, but it gave me an excuse to talk to her at least. And then before I knew it, the blockbuster was closed.

>> No.4929183

>>4926785
Because you remember spending fun times with your parents as a kid, it's part of your childhood, getting excited about what movie/game you're going to get and how the weekend will be awesome. It's the same as remembering when you went to an amusement park or whatever

There's nothing weird about it

>> No.4929195

>>4929183
I mean I still remember fondly when I got good grades and my dad/mom would buy some ice cream, go out for dinner or rent movies for friday and saturday nights. I'm sorry your parents didn't love you as a kid OP

>b-but you can torrent anything now
I know and I do that if I feel like it but I actually almost never play the stuff I torrent, there's just so much that I lose interest while a single game could keep me occupied for ages

>> No.4929216

>>4928894
They rented me a Game Genie once without the instruction/code manual. Internet wasn't really a thing then so I was shit out of luck on that rental. Got a free additional, actually useful rental out of it though.

>> No.4929256

>>4926969
Yes, but be super Dooper careful not to connect that steam client to the internet.

Also, they revoke your return rights if you use it too much. It may be possible for them to notice that you'd clocked 72 hours in the game after you refund and go back online.
Unless you reinstall Steam.

>> No.4929334

>>4929195
I don't torrent lots, but I play most the stuff I torrent. Unless we're talking about full rom sets and stuff like that. Finding the time to play is the hardest part though. When I come home from work dead tired usually I want to eat some shitty $5 pizza, plop my ass in my chair, and watch a hockey game. Spending an entire day beating a game on one of my days off isn't uncommon though.

>> No.4929671

>>4928824
>I have ADHD
Literally an excuse for being a dipshit with no discipline who refuses willpower or taking personal responsibility, keep blaming some bullshit for being a dumb cunt.

>> No.4929681

>>4929671
Just because you have a shit attention span doesn't mean you're "dumb" anon. Despite the ADHD I'm also an autist who is able to maintain an intense focus on one specific thing and I can grasp a lot of shit that more normal people struggle with. I just don't deal well with distractions. I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with having your own ways to cope with your shortcomings. For me that means doing things that require focus away from the internet, the source of one billion distractions. If you don't need to do that great, more power to you.

>> No.4929726

I thought /vr/ would be the last place on this site that i'd see the boomer meme, guess good things can't last for that long.

>> No.4929796

Because you'd go there with your friend on friday after school and you'd rent a few games and that was what you'd be playing all weekend.
Even the shittiest games were fun for the price of a rental with a friend, because no matter how much they sucked, you could sit there talking shit about it.
It was guaranteed entertainment, no matter what you picked up.
Once home internet speeds started getting into the megabits, it was pretty much pointless there was no need for it, really.

The only thing we lost was another reason to hang out in person with our buddies, walk around town, sit down with the game together and eat junk food.

And that's what hurts.

Gaming a voice call can't replicate it.

>> No.4929836

>>4929796
Nothing's stopping you going on man dates now. I still do regularly.

>> No.4930603

>>4929726
All the outside memes leak into /vr/ it's usually best to just ignore the really dumb ones until a new dumb one appears.

>> No.4930860

>>4929095
as if getting the sega master system instead of the NES wasn't punishment enough, you couldn't even rent games for it? I'm sorry for your traumatic childhood anon

>> No.4930864

>>4929726
the boomer meme will last a long time here too because /vr/s content fits the meme definition (not the actual definition) of the term

>> No.4930876

>>4926785
I fucking hope the economy we destroyed finally implodes and kills all the zoomers. It's worth to live through it just to watch the zoomers die like ants, goddamnit.

>> No.4930893
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4930893

>>4927042
>>>4926785 (OP)
>and then "forgetting" to return them.

>> No.4930904

>>4927406
based.

>> No.4930936

>>4930864
What do either version mean? If we're referring to baby boomers aren't they all senior citizens now?

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>>4930864
>boomers
>zoomers

Man this place sucks now. Maybe it always did.

>> No.4931441

>>4926893
Based

>> No.4931449

>>4930936
>If we're referring to baby boomers aren't they all senior citizens now?
Yes, that's the actual meaning.
The meme meaning is targeted at like 25-45

>> No.4931457

>>4926785
>blockbuster
>not movie scene
pleeb

>> No.4931467

>>4931457
What the fuck is a "movie scene"

>> No.4931472

>>4928463
I'm not sure you understand the words you are using

>> No.4931474

>>4931457
movie scene? never heard of it. there was only two, hollywood video and blockbuster.

>> No.4931478

>>4931467
>>4931474
It's some /vr/ meme. There never was something called Movie Scene. It's like our version of Candle Cove.

>> No.4931489

I'm more interested in why people are so triggered by nostalgia that they personally do not share. It's like some kind of reverse schadenfreude where people are mad about someone else's good memory.

>> No.4931528

When will we get blockbuster back,Never.
I miss it.

There use to be a chain i went to for games
"gamecrazy" it was great. don't rember much sadly.

>> No.4931537

>>4931478
No, you're wrong. MovieScene was a real thing.

>> No.4931540

>>4931537
Suuuuuuuuuuure it was. Why has no one else heard of it then?

>> No.4931586

Hollywood Video and attached GAME KRAZY's were the true kool kids klub.
>Those demo kiosks.
>Playing Resi Evil 4 and Mario Sunshine demos while waiting for Mom and Dad to pick a movie.

>> No.4931664

>>4931586
Excellent taste. Game Crazy was the last good vidya selling chain.

>> No.4931669

>>4931489
Because they desperately want to believe that what they are able to experience now is way better than what anyone experienced before. While that's not wrong when applied to media consumption it disregards the reasons why nostalgia is even a thing. Any game I ever rented, bought, played at a friend's house, whatever I can just download for free right now. But it will never feel the same as it did back then, the only thing that comes close is the memory of how it felt to experience it before. Downloading a game won't take me back to a time before I had real responsibilities, the best it can do is bring back the memories of it.

>> No.4931704
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4931704

>Boomer
>Zoomer

/vr/ has fallen from grace so hard. It's basically /v/2.0

>> No.4931721

>rent game
>the disc is scratched to hell and back
>doesn't work
>no refundslol
It was shit

>> No.4931723

>>4931489
No one here is mad about it

>> No.4931725

>>4930860
I got an nes later. I specifically demanded SMS because it was better. (And it was) but yeah, the game selection is pretty rough

I never had a chance to get tired of Ys, Phantasy star, or Alex kid in miracle world, or zillion because I only got to rent all those once.

>> No.4931739

>>4926785
It's more a meme than it is a real thing.

>> No.4932036

>>4931540
Not really my fault you never heard of it, but it was a thing that exists. I remember always renting Kirby Super Star there. On Wendsdays they had a 2-1 rental deal.

>> No.4932058

>>4928863
Th-thank you, Anon...

>> No.4932061

Did anyone get that blue sugar gel in a toothpaste tube?

>> No.4932065

>>4932036
show me proof of this so called "movie scene" I know full aware you can't as it's /vr/'s candle cove

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>>4932065
You can web search "movie scene video store"

>> No.4932079

Used to rent N64 and PS1 games all the time from a local grocery store which sadly is closing down next month. The video store is surprisingly still open and they have all sorts of Genesis, SNES, and N64 games still newly wrapped in boxes just gathering dust and I'm probably gonna pick a couple up now that they're having an OOB sale on everything.

>> No.4932090

>>4932072
Nice try, it's a photoshop. We all know MovieScene is a creepypasta.

>> No.4932213

>>4926893
Can you or anyone describe a typical day using Sega Channel or something similar back in the day. Would it hog the house phone ? Or would it run through a cable line ? I just never had the opportunity as a child to experience it. Please.

>> No.4932225

>>4932213
It was run on cable. In fact it paved the way for cable internet services. They had to clean up the signal path in order to make it work. When cable internet first launched where I lived it was only in the areas where Sega Channel was available. Sadly my childhood home (which I now own) wasn't included, but I always went to my cousin's house and I would spend entire days playing it.

There were many games available at any given time, they cycled them out weekly, monthly, it was changing quite often. You would have menus with games sorted by genre and theme with cool backgrounds. Many games were Sega Channel exclusives and never launched on cartridge in the US, like Mega Man The Wily Wars. I was fucking stoked to play that one. Also they would bring out some games before the retail release, I remember playing Vectorman 2 that way. They also had text info sections with news, cheat codes, stuff like that. My cousin also had a SNES with a huge library of games but I didn't even want to touch it because of the Sega Channel. That's part of the reason I got into SNES more as an adult.

>> No.4932232

>>4932225
Do you remember how much the service was every month? Or if they had a yearly subscription? Would they send you a box of hardware to set up or would they send someone out to set it up?

>> No.4932246

>>4932232
It was somewhere between $10-15, I think maybe $13 or so. I didn't get to see it installed but I remember it coming in a generic looking box. Also they had two different designs for the cartridge/modem thing.

>> No.4932252

>>4932246
I just want to go back...video games are pure trash now . Some look amazing and are fun, but you have to dig through mountains of shit and shit people shoving shit down your throat.

>> No.4932258

>>4932252
You want daddy to forcibly curate them for you and not allow any devils or crosses in them?

>> No.4932259

>>4932258
Don't forget paying $90 for a couple hours of content.

>> No.4932260
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>>4932252
Sadly we can't go back. My childhood was pretty terrible except for some great memories like the games, hanging out with my friends, and experiencing new technology for the first time. Everyone just takes all this shit for granted now but I remember how amazed I was to use an emulator for the first time or download an mp3. The things I'm experiencing now fail to amaze me. It's just the same shit marginally improved each year.

>> No.4932261

>>4932258
>Sega
>Caring about crosses or devils

You know how I know you're not old enough to be on this board?

>> No.4932268

>>4932260
This.
When I got super Mario world to run for the first time on my windows 98 compaq presario I felt like I opened a fucking portal to another world.

>> No.4932273

>>4932268
Yeah that's how I felt when I got Mario games running on a fucking Sega Dreamcast. It was like I pulled off the most impossible of impossible things.

>> No.4933324

>>4931540
nobody's heard of family video or super video either but they exist

>> No.4933649

>>4932259
>$90
What game cost $90 (USD, not CAD)?
Most expensive game I remember was Nobunaga's Ambition for NES, $79 at Toys R Us

I remember paying $50-$60 for some hit popular games (NES, SNES, Genny, Playstation) but never more than that.

>> No.4933667

>>4926785
you'd go to the store and you got to play games that your parents weren't going to buy you because they were $70 a pop
and you'd probably get some candy and movies too

>>4928485
>Sega?
In that vacuum? Sure.

>>4933649
IIRC, Phantasy Star 4 was $90 on release. Big-ass ROM, and it had save RAM.

>> No.4933756

>>4932252
>video games are pure trash now
Sad but true. Games now are soulless fucking garbage designed solely to push dlc and microtransactions.

>> No.4933767

>>4930893
It's not stealing if you just "forgot".

>> No.4934479

>>4933649
Final Fantasy IV was pretty expensive. I think it was more than $60 but less than $70. When I saw it in a used bin for $15 I didn't hesitate.

>> No.4934493

>>4933649
Inflation, dear.

>> No.4934505

>>4926785
I never (rarely) rented games but always just bought bargain bin Super Nintendo or PlayStation games for $5-$20
not $70 dollar ones tho
Was I a RICH KID??

>> No.4934506

One of my favorite memories of blockbuster (other than renting games) was when they had a Pokémon Snap setup which printed out little stickers of the photos you snapped. Completely pointless, but it was nice as a kid.

>> No.4934517

>>4934505
You were a smart kid. I probably would have never rented if my mom just gave me the money.

>> No.4934552

I have a local used movie, music, and game store that lets you rent, do you guys have anything like that? It’s pretty great. It’s still fun to go down and rent a bunch of movies and games on Friday, you can buy them if you want but the option to rent is nice because I don’t have much room to store mediocre titles that I’ll only play once or twice.

>> No.4934558

>>4934552
I noticed the public libraries here have last gen console games. Rarely do I bother with physical copies of anything anymore.

>> No.4934987

>>4926798
if its 'not hard to get' then why did you start this thread? dumb faggot

>> No.4935104

>>4926785
Is 4chan a majority under 25 or is all of this shit just trolling?

>> No.4935110

>>4935104
>is all of this shit just trolling?
boomer is a popular meme right now that gets reactions, so it's going to be used as much as possible for a while.

>> No.4935112

>>4935104
With most being thoroughly incapable of using any desktop software that doesn't run in a web browser, I assume so.