/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5907442]

I thought you guys would get a kick out of these- i've had the old pictures of me scanned forever.

The one with the NES is about 1988- I had begged my folks for TWO YEARS to get an NES. They got ours from one of the local 'Shopper'-type newspapers, and even then it only came with Stinger, I think. It took a lot of chores to earn Super Mario Brothers, lol.

[Anonymous No.5907446]

The one with the Game Boy I think is about 1991. The yellow box underneath the Game Boy box is Super Mario Land and I want to say maybe the one underneath that is Castlevania Adventure. I was SO SURE I was going to get a Game Boy that Christmas I had somehow convinced my grandparents to let me get it when we visited at Thanksgiving.

Thankfully, I don't have the same haircuts.

[Anonymous No.5907447]

>>5907442
>have to beg for nintendo for 2 years
>parents have a motherfucking chia pet

[Anonymous No.5907456]

>>5907442
I miss carpet.

[Anonymous No.5907457]

>>5907442
>>5907446
These are awesome! God, I miss my childhood. Thanks for sharing these.

[Anonymous No.5907459]

>>5907456
Carpet was indeed cool. And it seemed like everyone had that same brown carpet that OP had.

[Anonymous No.5907462]

It blows my mind that every child
In that era rocked the same haircut. Truly our blunder years my fellow Anon.

But we grew up in the magical years for Vidya. I don’t regret a thing.

[Anonymous No.5907465]

>>5907442
>>5907446
wow, pretty cool pics. You seem a lot older in the Game Boy pic even though its only 3 years apart you say. I guess at that age 3 years is a very long time.

is that TV built in to the cabinet? It seems to have a little drawer underneath the screen. That tv looks real old even for the late 80s

[Anonymous No.5907470]

>>5907442
Oh shit, the Zenith Space Command TV.
We had this model.

[Anonymous No.5907472]

this thread has soul. SOUL TIER

[Anonymous No.5907480]

>>5907442
God I fucking wish I lived in the 80s

[Anonymous No.5907490]

>>5907446
why does the picture seem like its from the 1500s but then the game boy box is like oh that was just a few years ago.

[Anonymous No.5907492]

>>5907465
>That tv looks real old even for the late 80s
Not OP, but yeah, those old Zenith's had a late-'60s early-'70s look to them. We had ours from I think 1981 up until 1996 or so. My parents owned it prior to me being born I know.

I remember a tech coming out to replace a vacuum tube on it. Or at least I think that was what the big glass tube he took out of it was. It came off a circuit board that had other big glass tubes mounted to it.

[Anonymous No.5907495]

>>5907462
I am not much younger but I think everyone has the magical years. Imagine being a kid having a monster tv, with actual good clarity, sound banging, internet to play with the bros, etc. The best I had was taking my heavy ass desktop to a friends to play Starcraft lan because my friends families refused them internet. I don't regret or feel I missed out, but I do think kids these days are not missing shit but maybe some small respect for how good they have it.

[Anonymous No.5907501]

>>5907442
neato
brings back memories (but my carpet was orange
)

[Anonymous No.5907505]

>>5907442
that hair
>computer lab up front
>party in the back

[Anonymous No.5907587]

>>5907442
>>5907446
i think I'm just a little younger than you (born '82) but somehow your pics look nothing like I imagine "my 80s" looked like. Maybe a weird observation but thanks for sharing. Makes me want to find some old pics

[Anonymous No.5907601]

>>5907442
cute

[Anonymous No.5907623]

>>5907442
That is a sick ass CRT

[Software and so on No.5907639]

>>5907470
>>5907465
Yep I'm well familiar with that cabinet. Those things that look like drawers are not drawers, they just look like it.

I wonder how much those things cost in the 70s. My parents never had one.

[Anonymous No.5907667]

>>5907442
hey my mom had little glass elephants like that too. shit I think one kf them even survived all these years and is still sitting in her living room.

kids being born today are going to look at photos of themselves when they were younger and funkopops and anime figures are gonna be their little glasx elephants

[Anonymous No.5907671]

>>5907465
>is that TV built in to the cabinet?
It's called a console TV. Back when TVs were still new-ish, they were quite the room staple they are now, so higher-end ones were designed to match wood furniture. They peaked in popularity during the 70s, but Zenith was still making new versions of them into 2004.

[Anonymous No.5907820]

>>5907459
>everyone had that same brown carpet that OP had.
It hides stains very well so you don't have to clean it as often, at least that's what my mother told me.

[Anonymous No.5907824]

>>5907442
Did you end up making enough money to get a nose job or do you just live like that?

[Anonymous No.5907828]

Houses were very comfy back then. Those rugs, and the texture of wood in furniture give very warm feelings just watching it.

[Anonymous No.5907829]

I think the last sears catalog I saw that had those console tvs was the 1986 edition, but I know there were around a few years after that. Soon after this every tv and stereo component shifted to that flat black "modern" finish.

[Anonymous No.5907841]

>>5907442
My brother also had to wear those grandma glasses in the 80s. I need to look for my old christmas photos.

[Anonymous No.5907850]

>>5907442
>pics of the secret identity of 80's super hero Mullet Mans sidekick, The Redneck Rugrat

[Anonymous No.5907872]

Fun fact: some of those Zenith TVs could make and receive phone calls. Plug a phone cable into it, and you could use the remote to dial numbers and talk to people over the speakers.
>>5907841
>My brother also had to wear those grandma glasses in the 80s. I need to look for my old christmas photos.
I have some grandma glasses photos from that era as well, but there's no way I'm posting them on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.5907910]

>>5907442
id have molested u op

[Anonymous No.5907913]

>>5907442
Wow, you historical revisionists just won't stop. Pathetic.

[Anonymous No.5907926]

>>5907910
Dude chill, he's WAY too young in that pic. The second one though...

[Anonymous No.5907981]

>>5907872
Posting pictures on facebook is probably worse. Nobody gives a shit who you are on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.5907987]

>>5907981
Only because anti-dox rules are enforced. Things posted here can easily make their way to kiwifarms and next thing you know the first google result that comes up when someone searches your name is your babyfur art collection.

[Anonymous No.5908032]

>>5907442
>>5907913
Both look wrong. OP is too blue for RF, yours is too purple for RF.

[Anonymous No.5908034]

>>5907913
where are scanlines?

[Anonymous No.5908041]

>>5907987
Yiff in hell

[Anonymous No.5908072]

>>5907442
>>5907446
We weren't in the US yet in 1988 and by the time we got here November 1990, that haircut had generally fallen out of favour. Or, at least, it had done in the Northeastern US, it seems. I had a bowl cut all through the 80s back in home country and kept this look until summer 1996 when I got that bicycle-helmet-looking one popular at the time. I looked like the stereotypical foreign kid.

>>5907501
>>5907456
>>5907459
It was the 90s, rather than the 80s, but our carpet was maroon, then we had it replaced with champagne. Then eggshell. I've only seen that sorta brown in friends' houses who had parents who never bothering having their carpeting replaced.

[Anonymous No.5908254]

>>5907490
Obvious photoshop.

[Anonymous No.5908260]

>>5908072
>1990 haircuts in the northeast
At my elementary school in the northeast, the haircut of choice for the young gaymer boy was the rat tail.

[Anonymous No.5908262]

OP isn't a faggot for once. Thanks for posting these, they bring back good memories. Looks like you had a ton of fun, and it looks like it made a lasting impact on you considering where we are. Excellent choice in GB games too.

[Anonymous No.5908656]

>>5908260
I lived in the Northeast and never saw that shit

[Anonymous No.5908663]

>>5907490
The house styling is like 20 years behind it's time that's why

[Anonymous No.5908670]

>>5908260
Aww shit son, I remember rat tails. They weren't common but that's something a couple of the "cool older kids" had.

[Anonymous No.5908713]

>>5907462
That pic is comedy gold and I'm saving it

[Software and so on No.5908715]

>>5907829
I didn't post it but I actually went and took a peek at a 1969 Sears catalog and those 26 inch console TVs were $600-$700 in it which makes that $800-$900 price in the mid-80s quite interesting. There was a lot of inflation in the late 70s so its technically more affordable but for the price to have remained so consistent for so long really good to show why those TVs were still getting used and even professionally repaired by middle aged people well into the 90s.

[Grindhouse No.5908741]

I was born in '99 but we still had an NES, one of the first video games I ever played was Mario/Duckhunt.
I don't have it anymore, my parents loaned it to our neighbor when he and his wife adopted a special ed son who I would hang out with on occasion.. Long story short the son got moved to a different home and the wife became a Jehovah witness, after that my neighbor started drinking heavy and fell into a depression, years later in my teens I asked him what happened to my old console, he sold it and all the games for booze. All i really wanted was my copy of Mario/Duckhunt so I had something to put on my shelf and show my children one day.
My parents also sold our N64 at a garage sale for 12 dollars around the same time we lent out our NES.

[Anonymous No.5908749]

>>5907462
That shirt is badass

[Anonymous No.5909061]

>>5907462
did your parents take a picture of your brother with his hands down your pants or something? This is just weird

[Anonymous No.5909091]

>>5908741
Alcoholics and dumb parents are sad. Im lucky to still have my nes from when I was a kid. I regret having lost a great deal of treasures over the years. At least you have a few good memories. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

[Anonymous No.5909095]

>>5908741
Leave it to the retards, Jehovah's Witnesses and alcoholics of the world to come between you and the opportunity to show your outdated toys to your offspring.

[Anonymous No.5909117]

>>5909095
not that anon, and i know this sounds retarded, but that's part of my rationale for keeping and collecting physical copies of everything. i hate today's all digital, all online shopping, social media etc culture. it's made people disgusting animals. keeping physical copies is a small way i can preserve simpler times. i someday want to show my kids all our old shit even though i know they'll probably roll their eyes and scoff.

[Anonymous No.5909546]

>>5909061
>did your parents take a picture of your brother with his hands down your pants or something?
After staring at his hairless twink appendages for some time for reasons, I realized the arm emerging from his pants is his own, while the brother's arm is giving him an N64 controller reach-around.

[Anonymous No.5909614]

>>5908260
Guy you responded to here.
Yeah, I saw a few of those, too, but even as a 9-year old, I noticed that they were common among white trash.

>>5907446
Keeping with the Christmas theme and because >>5908741 mentioned them, my mom was a Witness and all my family were back in Europe so I never got Christmas/birthday/namesday gifts growing up. Instead, I got at least one game for every straight-A report card, as well as just getting games at random times for no particular reason and saving money up from helping this nice blind German lady who lived near by and buying my own. Honestly wouldn't trade that for what other kids had cuz I wound up getting like a dozen games per year or something, although I do get jealous of kids who got to tear open Christmas gifts. Always looked fun AF to me.

[Anonymous No.5909669]

>>5907442

[Anonymous No.5909673]

>>5909669
CUNT DESTROYER

[Anonymous No.5909821]

>>5909669
Froggy what the hell are you doing here?

[Anonymous No.5910375]

>>5909821

[Anonymous No.5911506]

Nice. I sunk more time playing video games on the swiveling beast in pic related than any other set.

[Anonymous No.5911804]

>>5907459
>>5907442
Confirmed white trash.

[Anonymous No.5911805]

>>5911506
Our NES, and SNES were hooked up to a Zenith console tv until about 1995 when the old girl finally gave up the ghost. RIP.

[Anonymous No.5911827]

I think I have a picture of young me playing SMB2, but it is from the early 90s and not the 80s.

[Anonymous No.5912195]

>>5911805
kek we had a Zenith too
It was my parents first color TV
I still have the RCA set in the pic above. It still works perfectly fine. Next year, it will turn 30

[Anonymous No.5913193]

>>5908260
used to sneak up behind guys with this haircut and snip the air behind them with scissors. it scared the piss out of em. never actually cut hair of course thats a dick move.

[Anonymous No.5914689]

>>5913193
>cringe

[Anonymous No.5914698]

>>5907987
Most people aren't furfag freaks though.

[Anonymous No.5915167]

>>5914698
do you even know where you are?

[Anonymous No.5915305]

>>5908741

I'm sure your parents did the right thing by getting rid of your vidya. It's probably the reason you're a successful millionaire right now.

[Anonymous No.5915982]

>>5915305
>It's probably the reason you're a successful millionaire right now.
We live in a trailer

[Anonymous No.5916012]

>>5907495
I don’t think online games have the same experience of lugging your beige box to a local LAN party. Something about everyone sipping on BAWLS energy, Jones sodas, and eating whatever chips, combined with someone yelling from the other side of the room cause you caught them slipping in CS 1.6 has a certain type of magic.

The IRL yelling followed by the laughter always delivers a smile on my face.

[Anonymous No.5916080]

>>5914698
That might be because furfags aren't people

[Anonymous No.5916912]

>>5915982
We know you dumb fuck. Anon was making fun of you and your retarded blog.

[Anonymous No.5916939]

>>5916912
>We know
How the fuck would you know what my house looks like? Are you with the NSA?

[Anonymous No.5917047]

>>5916939
>posting on 4chan beneath the CP poster
Of course he was. Hes got lasers locked on your butthole right now. Turn on your phones infrared camera and check your roof

[Anonymous No.5917129]

>>5908032
>too blue
Nigger, are you serious? TVs had knobs for color, tint, contrast, brightness, etc. No two looked alike.

[Anonymous No.5917139]

>>5917047
That explains why my asshole is so loose when I wake up in the morning

[Anonymous No.5917362]

>>5915167
Yes, 4chan, and many kinds of people are welcome here, but furries have never, aren't currently, and never will, be welcome here.

[Anonymous No.5917364]

>>5916080
If they want to be animals, I should be allowed to hunt them for sport.

[Anonymous No.5917367]

>>5907446
fag

[Anonymous No.5917382]

>>5907442
I wonder if OP ever managed to go back in time.

[Anonymous No.5917383]

>>5917362
This comment is an echo of 2010 or so "we don't like US conservatives they are scumbags, etc" which, lmao, look at some parts of this place, covered in incel wannabe nazis.

[Anonymous No.5917664]

>>5907462
What's that cornucopia logo from?

[Anonymous No.5917668]

>>5907462
Fuck you, my hair was and still is beautiful. Don't blame other because you were an ugly child...or an miserable adult now.

[Anonymous No.5917672]

>>5907462
Fuck you, my hair was and still is beautiful. Don't blame other because you were an ugly child...or a miserable adult now.

[Anonymous No.5917685]

>>5907442
There are three acceptable haircuts: high and tight, crew cut and buzz cut.

[Anonymous No.5917725]

>>5916939
Seen one favela, seen them all

>>5917362
A plague doesn't have to be welcome to exist

>>5917364
Why are you not doing this right now?

[Anonymous No.5919695]

>>5907462
fuck you I laughed

[Anonymous No.5919820]

>>5908260
>>5908670
>>5908260
>>5908670
Where did this haircut come from? Some movie? I'm not from the US but I remember one kid having this exact haircut. At the time I thought it was because of The Phantom Menace and the padawan braid but now when I think of it that makes no sense.

[Anonymous No.5920361]

>>5919820
Home electric hairclippers being cheap.

[Anonymous No.5922101]

>>5917383
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.5922532]

>>5917664
It's not fruit of the loom, poor memory denial monkey