/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5763675]

Was anyone here around when Nintendo saved the video game industry? What would be the best way to LARP as a boomer during those times? How would I recreate that experience? Share your stories here.

[Anonymous No.5763717]

First of all, you’re going to want to remodel your game room/living room. Apply wood panels to the walls. Get a corduroy couch with a floral pattern and drape a crochet knit on the back. Place a wooden side table with a glass lamp on the side. Then put an ash tray with several lit cigarettes on it. Carpet the floor with a dark brown pattern. Get a large RCA or Magnavox set and connect it with RF. Put a VCR and cable box on top of the set. You should be good to go.

[Anonymous No.5764080]

>>5763717
This guy knows what he's talking about, you almost perfectly described my childhood home.

Don't forget you need a giant ugly television cabinet

[Anonymous No.5764089]

>>5763717
I can smell it
congrats

[Anonymous No.5764101]

>>5763717
This sounds comfy as fuck

[Anonymous No.5764135]

>>5763717
Grandpa's house/10 right down to the smell of cigarettes, for me it was a light brown wood floor, a giant glass futuristic shelf thing against the far wall with various glass objects and other wares on it, two black couches with stylish red and blue diagonal lines forming a hex pattern, a small square mirror table in between the couches with a red and black phone on it, a big glass table in front of the couches, a tv on a stand in front of the glass table which is against the wall with, a black cable box on top of the tv, a vcr and Nintendo inside the TV stand with a million tapes with random white labels on them.

Playing games or watching TV as a kid would be done on the floor in front of the glass table with adults always yelling at you not to sit too close to the TV.

[Anonymous No.5764141]

>>5763717
Except for the cigarettes and brand of TV (they had Zenith) this was my grandparents house

[Anonymous No.5764143]

>>5763675
It helps to have a small stack of magazines or TV guides from that era too.

[Anonymous No.5764146]

>>5764141
My nigga

[Anonymous No.5764149]

>>5763717
It's like I'm 7 years old again, thanks anon. And don't forget your parents help you hook it up.

[Anonymous No.5764150]

>>5764146

[Anonymous No.5764248]

>>5764150
This, or a very similar TV, is the one I grew up with. Right up until I got cable in my room in the mid-00s, this was the only TV I watched. I'm amazed it lasted so damn long.

[Anonymous No.5764263]

>>5764150
Gen X reporting in.

My 6 yr old saw a CRT TV and said 'dad what's that?'

[Anonymons No.5764280]

1. put the NES on TOP of the TV.
2. use the RF switch, put the TV on channel 3.
3. write your name on the NES carts.

[Anonymous No.5764290]

>>5764146
I still have my grandparents' set. It's a mid 70's zenith that looks almost like that.

[Anonymons No.5764301]

used to have something like this.

i could tune it just right and get scrambled Cinemax porn to show up decently. so many late night tits...

[Anonymous No.5764304]

>>5764280
>on top of the TV
On the floor in front of the TV master race here. I only knew one kid who had it on top.

[Anonymous No.5764314]

>>5764280
>>5764304
I call bullshit. On top of the TV would have the cords from the controller in the way and you are very likely to pull it off the TV since kids would get really animated with the controllers in their hands. Nice try larping, though.

[Anonymous No.5764359]

>>5763717
>carpet the floor with a dark brown pattern. Get a large RCA or Magnavox set and connect it with RF.

This also makes a great nostalgia setup for non LARPers. I have some velvet paintings now and a few more period correct pieces. I do have newer systems and crt, but the room itself is pretty much 80s with some 90s. I was born in 1980 so I tried to keep the room decoration pre 1995 but I'm not super anal about having only this time period. Just the kind of wall decorations and shit I remember seeing at various friends and relative's houses as a kid. I still need a macrame owl and a big glazed ash tray.

[Anonymous No.5764367]

>>5763675
>saved the video game industry
AHAHAHAHAHahahahah. they didn't save shit, zoomer cancer. absolutely amazing. oh how I love zoomer revisionist history. it never ceases to stop being this fucking pathetic.

[Anonymous No.5764370]

>>5764367
>he doesn't know there was a video game crash

[Anonymous No.5764373]

>>5764314
exactly right anon.
>>5764280
> never owned a nes, so im just going to shitpost
congratulations.
>>5764370
please explain to us how nintendo saved the entire industry after the video game crash, zoomer cancer. i can wait. this should be amazing :D

[Anonymous No.5764374]

>>5764135
So comfy of a description. I hated it with a passion, but even the cigarette smoke burning your eyes terribly and making your nose run brings comfy memories.

[Anonymous No.5764378]

>>5764370
still nothing, faggot? im waiting.

[Anonymous No.5764381]

>>5764378
look it up

[Anonymous No.5764406]

>>5764381
> look it up
> i have nothing
what a fucking surprise. shut the fuck up, moron. imagine compulsive lying this hard to end up with:
> look it up
AHAHAHAHAH. zoomer revisionists. never cease at being life's ultimate losers.

[Anonymous No.5764408]

>>5764359
>I was born in 1980 so I tried to keep the room decoration pre 1995
This is the /vr/ equivalent of ABDLs.

[Anonymous No.5764459]

>>5764406
Anon, get off the computer. Its ruining you

[Anonymous No.5764502]

I was about 6 or 7 when ROB came out and I still could see it was a stupid gimmick.
I just wanted a Nintendo so I could play Mario. I've read about how stores wouldn't retail video game systems any more until the toy ROB was packed in but as I remember it there wasn't much demand for it at the consumer end. I remember the only time I saw one was at some kid's house and it was broken into pieces and in disuse. Kids just wanted Nintendo for the games. Mario, Zelda, etc.

[Anonymous No.5764532]

>>5764408
I don't see the problem with it. My upstairs is normal and downstairs is just comfy this way. Friends and family like it, and it's a nice place to have a few beers. The paneling and carpet were already there or I wouldn't have even attempted this. I know not many people decorate this way, but I live in fucking Iowa, so it's easier to find old furniture in decent shape at thrift stores. I enjoy going to thrift stores looking for retro games (which are never there or overpriced) so I see old furniture or decor that remind me of those times. The shit's cheap, you just don't see it all the time, but every 10th trip or so you might find something worth bringing home. If I were trying to recreate a room from the 60s there is a fuckload more stuff in thrift stores, but I don't have nostalgia for this time period.

BTW, also fuck you for making me google ABDLs. That's some fucked up shit lol.

[Anonymous No.5764540]

>>5764532
I'm just goofin' with you anon, that's a really nice setup. Except for the lava lamps sitting on top of the fucking TVs. They can burst, I've had it happen. Put them on a shelf or table you double nigger

[Anonymous No.5764567]

>>5764540
Fuck, I've never had them bust but that's made me paranoid. I've had this lava lamp since the mid to late 90s so I'm guessing it's probably ok.

I'm going to sell that hipster PVM because I never fucking use it. My 13" BVM literally had smoke come out of it this week while playing Shadowrun on Genesis. I believe it was something in the power supply but I've not got the diagnostic tools out yet. It made me realize I don't want to have an expensive monitor that I never play on and could let the smoke out and leave me trying to fix it. I'll probably use the money to buy some systems I don't have.

[Anonymous No.5764708]

>>5764301
>the tv your poor friends had
Mom I don't want to eat dinner over there anymore

[Anonymous No.5764739]

>>5764708
I know that feel. Went over the house of one of my friends from school in the mid 90s to hang out. He had a really cool attic bedroom with this giant old tv sitting on the floor, very similar to the one in that post. He turned it on and everything was the most disgusting shade of pink, and this asshole expects me to watch All That with him like it's perfectly normal.

I never hung out with him again.

[Anonymous No.5764768]

>>5763675
R.O.B. has to be the biggest failure in Nintendo history. Even worse than the Virtual Boy.

[Anonymous No.5764776]

>>5764567
How much are you planning on selling it for? I'm looking to buy my first PVM.

[Anonymous No.5764779]

>>5764314
Nailed it exactly. If your TV was up on feet you could slide an snes under it with no cartridge easy.

[Anonymons No.5764785]

>>5764739
1. Degauss your CRTs.
2. Who the fuck watched All That? Voluntarily?

[Anonymous No.5764808]

>>5764785
I wasn't poor, so all of my CRTs either degaussed every time they powered on, or when powered on after being unplugged for 30 minutes. I don't think that was it though, since it was uniform across his entire set.
>Who the fuck watched All That?
We didn't have any niggers where I went to school, so the multicult thing was fascinating.

[Anonymous No.5764813]

>>5763717
You also need weird art on the wall of some country setting. My great grandparents, grandparents and dad all had this shit on the walls along with old beer bottles. I kept this one because it always creeped me out a bit.

[Anonymous No.5764839]

>>5764813
Check.

[Anonymous No.5764845]

>>5764813
Check.

That's a really cool painting anon, reminds me of courage the cowardly dog.

[Anonymous No.5764874]

>>5764813
How is a tree scary

[Anonymous No.5764889]

>>5764874
The painting makes me feel lonely and isolated. Everything looks aged and sickly. That's the best I can explain it.
>>5764845
Hell yes my dude that's exactly what I'm talking about. My family were a bunch of dust bowl okies so the decorations were very rustic.

[Anonymous No.5765016]

>>5763675
>when Nintendo saved the video game industry

[Anonymous No.5765054]

>>5765016
>muh shitty commodore games that only turbo autists ever heard of
Take your own advice

[Anonymous No.5765291]

>>5765054
You mean ZX Spectrum games?

[Anonymous No.5765685]

>>5765054
>arcades didn't exist
>famicom didn't exist
>master system and computers spanked the NES in Europe
>muh '84 crash was everywhere and not just in burgerland
Nintendo didn't save shit, it was the fucking dark ages in the USA with kids swallowing the NES while Nintendo did anti-competitive practices.

[Anonymous No.5765829]

>>5765291
You better have pronounced it as ZedX

[Anonymous No.5765838]

>>5765829
>zed
Delet this.

[Anonymous No.5766098]

>>5765685
Average NES games are still better than the vast majority of shit for everything else.
>arcades didn't exist
Jesus christ Nintendo saved the "HOME" videogame market is the meme, and OP is obviously joking about it to make a nostalgia thread. If you want to argue the joke like a autist whatever but at least try not to be a blithering idiot in the process.

[Anonymous No.5766123]

>>5763717
I would so love to have that 80s wood panel look in my house one day.

[Anonymous No.5766134]

>>5765291
I think you're on the spectrum

[Anonymous No.5766180]

>>5764768
>R.O.B. has to be the biggest failure in Nintendo history. Even worse than the Virtual Boy.
The big nationwide retailers would not even carry the NES or any other console after 1984. They all got burned and were not interested. For Nintendo to sell it nationwide, outside of electronics specialty shops, they had to make it a toy not a video game.

Even though rob was a useless gimmick, retailers demanded it be included because it made it more marketable as a toy. All early Nintendo marketing pushed ROB exclusively, and also pushed the "VHS style" loading system to differentiate it from traditional topload game consoles. They always called it an entertainment product and not a video game console.

"Yea it happens to also play games but that isnt its primary purpose" was how Nintendo sold it to distributors. Without ROB the NES would have been delayed from market at least another year or two. The original NES box from 1985 had nothing but a picture of ROB on it, that is how important the stupid little robot was to toystores.

[Anonymous No.5766216]

>>5766180
Yeah, i read the nes wiki too.

[Anonymous No.5766241]

>>5766216
That may be the case, but it is correct.

[Anonymous No.5766243]

>>5763675
"We didn't know the industry crashed, greetings from Kyoto".

[Anonymous No.5766283]

Maybe we should make a separate retro larp thread

[Anonymous No.5766298]

>>5766216
Barely any of this is from the wiki. The wiki doesn't even mention that ROB was part of the base NES for the first year, and only became part of an optional deluxe set later on after it passed the test market. The wiki does not emphasize how important ROB was for the first year.

[Anonymous No.5766305]

>>5763675
>larp as a boomer in that time

Pretend to be a boomer in 1985? Be angry at the MTV generation, maybe be mad at Reagan's policies, or be complicit as someone benefiting from it. Have some opinions about the war on drugs and on current Soviet relations. Talk about how much better 60s rock was than the current pop slop.

[Anonymous No.5766314]

>>5764502
It was more to trick stores to carry it than it was to trick consumers. The store owners didn't want to stock video games. Consumers just buy what they see so it didn't matter if they wanted game or not.

[Anonymous No.5766316]

>>5764808
>that reasoning

Man I thought it was funny when I was a damn child. You have some weird rationale there to me.

[Anonymous No.5766337]

>>5765685
Master system only left japan because the NES cleared a path for it. Previous sega consoles did not leave the country because they (correctly) believed there was no market for them internationally until the mid-late 1980s.

Tonka toys wanted something to compete with Mattel's NES, so that opened the possibility of an export sega console. After it's American release, Sega wanted to market it in europe which came a year or two later after some stumbles. Without the success of the NES restoring consumer confidence it is highly likely that Japan would have never made an export model in the 8-bit era, not even for Europe.

[Anonymous No.5766375]

>>5766298
>i-i swear i wasn't larping, guys!

[Anonymous No.5766393]

>>5766180
imagine how much that box is worth now...

[Anonymous No.5766412]

>>5766316
Don't get me wrong, I thought it was funny, but the primary draw was seeing these idealized caricatures of black people, since I had never met one in person. Kenan and Kel was the same. It actually tricked me at the time into thinking blacks were like whites, except they were all really funny.

Then my mother moved me to Florida, and I was forced to go to a majority black middle school, and I've thought of them as more chimp than human ever since.

[Anonymous No.5766974]

>>5766375
I think you replied to the wrong person.

[Anonymous No.5767375]

>>5763675
I didn't even realize Target's been around that long.

[Anonymous No.5767475]

>>5764785
>2. Who the fuck watched All That? Voluntarily?
Pleb filtered

[Anonymous No.5767617]

>>5763675
Real talk I sincerely think Nintendo has done more harm than good. They're popular, sure and have grown the format of video games greatly in terms of numbers. But like Disney, their primary audience is always children and that both limits them as a company and overall has only contributed to them being seen as a medium for kids. Also like Disney, their key market strategy is to keep rehashing the same things over and over, hoping the next crop of kids will get hooked on the same formula the last one did. Fortunately gaming has evoled beyond Nintendo to a degree, but they've still done almost nothing but stunt the medium.

[Anonymous No.5767645]

>>5766216
>I have knowledge
>"you got that from a wiki"
Fuck off, I can smell your kind everytime you spout this idiocy

[Anonymous No.5767674]

>>5767617
t. no historical perspective whatsoever on super mario bros and the legend of zelda vs nearly every single game that came before them (gay ass pc rpgs don't count)

[Anonymous No.5767697]

>>5767674
just because your brain can't handle it doesn't mean it's gay

[Anonymous No.5768038]

>adjusted for inflation
>139.99 in 1985 = $325
>21.99 in 1985 = $52
>24.99 in 1985 = $58
>29.99 in 1985 = $70
Remember when CD's meant we were going to get cheaper games thanks to lower production costs compared to carts?

[Anonymous No.5768043]

>>5768038
Games got much bigger though, more expensive development.

[Anonymous No.5768165]

>>5768043
>more expensive development
Same dev cycles, only now at the end they pack up what they have finished, patch it later, and sell you the rest later on for 20 dollars.

[Anonymous No.5768306]

>>5768038
They’re on sale though, so none of them were cheaper than $58 in the ad and most were bigger. You can also get all those games for $5 now so games objectively have gotten cheaper for the quality/quantity of content you get.

[Anonymous No.5768315]

>>5766337
>Master system only left japan because the NES cleared a path for it. Previous sega consoles did not leave the country because they (correctly) believed there was no market for them internationally until the mid-late 1980s.
The original SG-1000 was sold in New Zealand. The SC-3000 was sold in some PAL regions.

[Anonymous No.5768645]

>>5767674
I think you misread what I was saying.

[Anonymous No.5768660]

>>5765054
Did I fucking say anything about commodore? Go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.5768731]

>>5766305
From a 1984 Newsweek:

>Abbie Hoffman doesn't understand today's teenagers. He doesn't understand their music or their beliefs. "Kids today seem to have no interest in politics." said the 47 year old Yippie leader. "When there's some injustice out there to be fought, it's invariably my generation that has to protest it."

[Anonymous No.5768738]

>>5768731
Ok although he was really pre-boomer.

[Anonymous No.5768794]

>>5766305
>>5768731
Old people getting crusty about what them damn kids are doing and worry that they're going to get new ideas and destroy everything is eternal. Give it as much hemlock as you like, progress always prevails.

[Anonymous No.5768806]

>>5768794
>Old people getting crusty about what them damn kids are doing and worry that they're going to get new ideas and destroy everything is eternal.
yep. You would think they'd be more concerned about which after life they're going to than what some idiot teenager is doing.

[Anonymous No.5768809]

>>5768806
Lol wasting your real life worrying about an after life is one of the biggest cons ever dumped on idiots.

[Anonymous No.5768991]

>>5768315
>SG-1000 was sold in New Zealand
That must have earned hundreds of dollars for Sega.

[Anonymous No.5770660]

>>5763675
No. No one was around when monkeys flew out of my butt either.

[Anonymous No.5770824]

>>5763717
good post but 90% this is samefag

[Anonymous No.5770841]

>>5763717
This is so accurate that it's almost unbelievable.

[Anonymous No.5770863]

>>5763717

[Anonymous No.5771162]

>>5764845
Neat, Anon, I have a few of that guy's velvet prints.
I'll come back with a pic later when I get home from work. I wanna find more of them.

[Anonymous No.5771165]

>The only known release outside of Japan for the original SG-1000 model was New Zealand where it was distributed and badged by Grandstand. Neither the console or any of its official variants ever reached North America, however the SG-1000 compatible Dina 2 in one was released in the US by Telegames. The SC-3000 was released in Australia (John Sands), New Zealand (Grandstand), France (ITMC), Italy (Melchioni), and Finland (Digital Systems). As a result, the SG-1000 likely stands as Sega's worst performing video game console on record in terms of units sold, but Sega likely still profited from the venture.

>In July 1984, Sega released an updated version of the console called the SG-1000 II, which moved the rear expansion port to the front of the system (used for the SK-1100 keyboard) and updated the controllers with an appearance similar to that of the Famicom. Outside of Japan the SG-1000 II is only known to have made it to Taiwan where it was distributed and badged by Aaronix.

[Anonymous No.5771280]

>>5771162
Elvis and Dogs Playing Poker?

[Anonymous No.5773517]

>>5763675
Yes.
Do your research first.
Emulation.
No.

[Anonymous No.5773759]

>>5766314
>It was more to trick stores to carry it than it was to trick consumers. The store owners didn't want to stock video games.
agree
>Consumers just buy what they see so it didn't matter if they wanted game or not.
hard disagree. kids wanted nintendos for christmas because of the games, parents ought them because of that

[Anonymous No.5773779]

>>5773759
correct

[Anonymous No.5773820]

>>5764408
>ABDLs
Actually he has en epic le Stanger Things basement and is the coolest motherfucker on reddit