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Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:37:55 2019 No.5530819 [Reply] [Original]

If you didn't own both a PlayStation and a Nintendo 64 in 1999 you really were not much of a video gamer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:39:44 2019 No.5530825 I owned both, along with a Dreamcast, but I mostly played PC games.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:41:01 2019 No.5530829 >>5530819 Actual gamers just had a Saturn. Cringey incels that didn't know any better had PS1s and little kids had N64s.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:43:27 2019 No.5530838 >>5530829 >1999 Saturn was a dead system, mate. But I had one of those, and a Jaguar too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:44:36 2019 No.5530842 1999 is when my PS1 stopped working, but I was playing lots of N64 and Saturn anyway. I wanted a Dreamcast in 1999 but didn't got one until 2001.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:45:42 2019 No.5530847 >>5530819 I did and it didn't make me any more of a gamer than my peers who had one or the other.

Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:47:28 2019 No.5530851

>>5530825
>>5530829
I bought a Dreamcast on launch day on 9/9/99 with Soul Calibur and it is second only to the N64 + SM64 as being my favorite new system experience. I bought a PS2 on launch day with DOA Hardcore and was let down because it was little different from the DC version.
Having a Dreamcast in late 99 and 2000 was popular among enthusiast-tier video gamers. Sometimes I think /vr/ underestimates the number of high school kids and college students who owned them.

I bought a Saturn at Funcoland for $30 in December 1999. My best friend bought one at the same time. We were freshmen in high school and afaik only one other kid owned a Saturn while the majority owned either a PlayStation, N64, or both. I believe Saturns were more popular with college students and the small number of "older" gamers.

Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:51:28 2019 No.5530862

>>5530851
extra note:

Looking at sales figures on vgsales.fandom.com

The Dreamcast sold a little less than twice as many units in North America as the Saturn did. And again I personally believe the majority of these units went to teenage and college aged boys, so the representation in that cohort was higher than the numbers would suggest. By 2002 Dreamcast was not an especially rare system to see.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:53:18 2019 No.5530865 >>5530851 >I bought a Dreamcast on launch day on 9/9/99 with Soul Calibur and it is second only to the N64 + SM64 as being my favorite new system experience. I did the same thing, but also picked up Power Stone and Sonic Adventure.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:54:29 2019 No.5530871 >>5530819 Ah

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 22:54:59 2019 No.5530873 >>5530862 I knew way more people that had a Dreamcast in 2000 than people who owned a Saturn in 1998

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 26 23:15:13 2019 No.5530929 I had both as well as Saturn. I also had the Pocket Station which was compatible with a whopping two (count'em: two!) games. Saturn was my first 32-bit system, followed by PSX then, finally, N64 in 1999, just so I could own Smash Bros.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 01:09:42 2019 No.5531101 >>5530825 Wrong kind of gamer

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 01:11:27 2019 No.5531105 >>5531101 >played most acclaimed games across all genres I also had a Game Boy

Anonymous Sat Apr 27 01:32:56 2019 No.5531131

>>5530819
I was spending more time with PC games and having a social life

Didn't get N64 until later when brother wanted it for Perfect Dark, but played lots with my dad's second wife's son before I wasn't allowed there because they kneejerked so hard when I went vegan, and then she was having extramarital relations so they split.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 03:45:04 2019 No.5531254 >>5530819 You mean PC.

Anonymous Sat Apr 27 05:01:08 2019 No.5531330
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Get real, nerd. With my Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Pocket, all's left is my 'mon 'tarts and a transfer pak to blow your weekend out the water.

P.S. Crash Bandicoot sucks Bandidick

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 05:04:24 2019 No.5531336 >>5530819 >not playing on PC in 1999 fucking pleb

Anonymous Sat Apr 27 05:10:12 2019 No.5531346

>>5531336
You see, this is how I know you were not playing games seriously at the time. In 1999 "video games" generally referred to console gaming and arcades. Games for the PC were "PC games" and there was a divide between the two groups. This started to break down a lot in the early 2000s.

So when OP says "not much of a video gamer" and your mind immediately goes to PC games it's very telling.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 05:20:39 2019 No.5531360 File: 46 KB, 640x480, 1474125098298.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5530819 PC had Superior version of Tomb Raider 3 in HD PC had superior nipples in Duke Nukem 3D 2 years later, PC had superior N64 library in HD with Project64

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 05:22:41 2019 No.5531361 >>5530819 I sold my playstations by 1999 because they were shit consoles. Never cared for the N64 the moment i saw the first games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 05:59:51 2019 No.5531391 I had an N64 and a PC. I was playing both Super Mario 64 and Quake II.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 06:14:14 2019 No.5531402 >>5531360 wow wow >emulation >emulation in early 2000s kek

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 06:34:24 2019 No.5531438 I didn't because I was 1 year old at the time

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 06:52:42 2019 No.5531463 >>5530819 I wish I were a real hardcore video gamur.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 07:04:52 2019 No.5531476 >>5530819 I had an N64 for a while, then I traded it for my friend's PS1 so I could get my JRPG fix that the N64 sorely lacked

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 10:48:33 2019 No.5531727 File: 93 KB, 1024x678, 1466781263525875370.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] PSX had all the cool games though, N64 had what, Mario and Kirby? LMAO.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 10:50:12 2019 No.5531731 >>5531727 Come play with ma Wii

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 10:52:36 2019 No.5531735 >>5530819 N64 was never popular where I lived, most kids had either a PS1 or a Dreamcast. Tried to save money for an N64 but my cousin bought one so I played his instead. Used the money I saved to buy a PS2

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 11:37:10 2019 No.5531810 >>5530819 I had a high end gaming PC in 1999 /thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 11:41:39 2019 No.5531818 >>5531810 I had the PS1, N64, SNES and a powerful gaming PC. So what.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 11:51:35 2019 No.5531842 >>5531818 Yeah, so what? What is this shit thread even for?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 11:53:48 2019 No.5531850 I had the psX (there was no ps1) an n64, snes, genesis, virtualboy, highend pc with a nice voodoo card, gameboy etc

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 11:55:12 2019 No.5531854 /vr/ is full of fake retro gamers anyway

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 12:08:13 2019 No.5531874 >>5531360 Tomb Raider sucked tho

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 12:08:34 2019 No.5531876 >>5531874 yikes

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 12:08:57 2019 No.5531879 >>5530819 test

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 12:10:06 2019 No.5531882 the advice forums are broken, mods. Connection errors. Typical. Any time I want to say something, same story, online or off, no one wants to hear from me. I should kill myself for real.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 12:11:12 2019 No.5531886 >>5531882 tough luck

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 12:11:31 2019 No.5531889 >>5531886 I hope you get AIDS.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 20:52:25 2019 No.5533149 >>5530819 I was five years old. Wasn't much of anything at the time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 27 20:56:57 2019 No.5533164 >>5530819 I owned a PC with a 3DFX card and a Dreamcast that pissed on both of those systems.

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