/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5938674]

>that rich kid in class who had a PS1 and a N64

[Anonymous No.5938678]

>t. madcatz

[Anonymous No.5938680]

>>5938674
>that kid in class who had a PSX and a N64 and a Sega Saturn

[Anonymous No.5938690]

>were poor but parents still spoiled me until we were practically homeless
>everyone thought we were rich

[Anonymous No.5938693]

>have three siblings
>I got an SNES, older brother got Genesis
>and on more or less through the gens

[Anonymous No.5938695]

I was the kid that had an N64 and Saturn.

[Anonymous No.5938697]

>>5938680
and a Neo Geo CD
and only had sports games for all of them

[Anonymous No.5938704]

NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, TurboGrafix 16 (the only kid in my school who had one), SegaCD, 32X, Saturn, N64, PS1.

[Anonymous No.5938709]

>instead of talking about retro games, /v/ wants people to blogpost about the past
Talk about retro games or drink bleach.

[Anonymous No.5938714]

>>5938690
Same. My parents just spent a ton on my brothers and I for Christmas so my friends all thought I was rich.

[Anonymous No.5938726]

>>5938695
Who lost Gen 5? YOU did, anon.

[Anonymous No.5938728]

>>5938709
>I have no social skills
>I take everything as literally as possible
>my favourite part about collecting retro consoles is getting to perfectly stack the boxes in my closet.

[Anonymous No.5938762]

>>5938726
Age is the thing here.
When I was in elementary school, N64 was all the rage. Every birthday party was 4p multiplayer games like Mario Party, Smash Bros, wrestling games, etc. PS1 kids were around but they were a minority.
Meanwhile, my older brother and his friends were all about PS1. They still liked to play Goldeneye though

[Anonymous No.5938763]

I had two PS1s and three N64s back then.

[Anonymous No.5938832]

>>5938680
Rare

[Anonymous No.5938837]

>>5938709
We're talking about retro consoles and supply thereof you fucking moron

[Anonymous No.5938961]

>>5938762
>Every birthday party was 4p multiplayer games like Mario Party, Smash Bros, wrestling games

I legitimately wonder if 4 player multiplayer actually hurt Nintendo's console sales. Think about it; you're going to someone's house to play Goldeneye with three other people. Do you really need to buy an N64 at all? By contrast, the PS1 has a lot of single player games, going to a friend's house to experience MGS or FF would make you more likely to buy a PS1.

[Anonymous No.5938963]

>>5938961
Feel like multiplayer would be more of a draw for the parents actually buying the console.

[Anonymous No.5938970]

>>5938963
A draw for the parents, but a short term one. Most of the N64's most iconic games are multiplayer, and the game have little substance so they translate perfectly to multiplayer, why buy an N64 for Smash when you can go to someone's house and play largely the same game for free? Meanwhile the PS1's most iconic games are single player, getting a sample of the game would probably make you buy a PS1 and the game you want. This is probably why Sony had such a huge lead on Nintendo, and how Sony's "single player" model was expanded upon in modern games. Few games have local multiplayer but they have online multiplayer, thus one game and one console per player.

[Anonymous No.5938998]

>>5938961
I never thought of it that way. It makes sense. Pokemon carts could only record one record and they made Game Boys fly off the shelves

[Anonymous No.5939053]

>>5938674
>Be American
>Have insecurity issues based on your possessions
Must be sad

[Anonymous No.5939074]

>>5938674
>poor
>still had both
Having divorced parents had its perks.

[Anonymous No.5939086]

>that kid who emulated PSX and bought a N64 when everyone had a PS2

that kid was me

[Anonymous No.5939169]

>>5939086
Damn, that actually sounds pretty 1337.

>>5939074
THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SUMMER OF GEORGE

[Anonymous No.5939174]

>>5938674
>that poor kid with an nes in 1998 with only shitty licensed games since they weren’t expensive

Wish I had parents who weren’t 15 when they fucked.

[Anonymous No.5939221]

>>5939086
Kek, me and my siblings got PS1 a week or 2 after PS2 came out and N64 the same week Gamecube came out. SNES and Genesis were the best choices we had til 2000.

[Anonymous No.5939237]

My family was poor as fuck and I still had both. Christmas comes every year, you know. Might not have every console right at launch, but there's always next year.

Now, I didn't exactly have a ton of games for either, but that's where video stores come into play.

[Anonymous No.5939240]

>>5938674
my older brother always took the playstations when he moved out and he had all the cool games for it and i was stuck with my baby nintendo games

[Anonymous No.5939480]

>>5939240
Bastard

[Anonymous No.5939513]

>>5938674
>that poor kind on your board who is too young to have had anything earlier

[Anonymous No.5939559]

>>5938998
More like Pokémon required (and still does) one game and one console per person to be played. By contrast, Pokémon Stadium could have two players play on the same console and the same game, albeit with rental Pokémon. But if the people needed to use their own Pokémon, I believe you need two copies of the game boy Pokémon games, two transfer paks, one n64, and one pokestad. But yeah, Pokémon is a great way to showcase what I mean, N64 games rarely had robust single player experiences, multiplayer games made up the bulk of the library, and the full game can be played in its entirety in multiplayer.

[Anonymous No.5940180]

>that Jew that gets presents for each day of Hanukah

[Anonymous No.5940197]

>>5938680
t. his single mom spoiled him

[Anonymous No.5940215]

>>5938697
>spoilers

[Anonymous No.5940259]

>>5940180
שלום
נמשיך ונעשה חוטי פיתיון כדי להכעיס את הגויים

[Anonymous No.5940264]

>>5940197
this. its honestly kind of heart breaking to think about. trying to fill the void left by a father figure with video game consoles and presents :(

[Anonymous No.5940284]

i had snes and genesis and n64 and psx. i was not even close to rich. pretty poo actually. but videogames were far more important to me than cool clothes or toys or whatever other dumb shit you faggots were up to.

[Anonymous No.5940292]

>>5938674
i had a fucking neo geo.

[Anonymous No.5940297]

>>5938674
>Be me
>Lower middle-class, parents got out of being poor
>Gets a PlayStation and N64
>So did a lot of other lower middle-class kids in the neighborhood

[Anonymous No.5940304]

>>5938674
are americans really this poor? in my country it was pretty common for kids to have a PS1, a N64 and a Game Boy. Sometimes a Saturn/Dreamcast as well.

[Anonymous No.5940308]

>>5938674
>be me in 1999
>grow up with decent gaming PCs
>but only have a Sega Genesis for console gaming

[Anonymous No.5940318]

>>5940304
Oh yeah? Which country, friend?

[Anonymous No.5940324]

I had an N64 and a PS1, but didn't get the PS1 until I think 1998 or 1999.

[Anonymous No.5940326]

>>5940318
Spain

[Anonymous No.5940328]

>>5940180
My family never really did that. We'd get like 1 or 2 "big ticket" items on the first two days, and the other days would be smaller stuff. Really not much different from Christmas.

>t. celebrated both holidays because father's side of the family is jewish and mother's side is christian

[Anonymous No.5940339]

>>5939086
Was it on a Mac with Connectix?

[Anonymous No.5940345]

>>5940328
No one cares, jew.

[Anonymous No.5940426]

>>5940328
Celebrating both must be cool.

[Anonymous No.5940493]

>>5940304
It's parents thinking "I already got you one, why do you need another?"

[Anonymous No.5940509]

>>5938674
I wasn't rich. I worked. I was the only one of my friends who did. They thought it was funny. I was also the only person I knew with a car. Maybe you were just like the kids I knew back then OP: a fucking freeloader faggot butthurt about "all the kewl stuff" I had even though I fucking worked for it. Fuck off. Also I fucked your girl.

[Anonymous No.5940518]

>>5940509
Are you rich now, at least? And everybody's fucked my girl anyway. Get in line.

[Anonymous No.5940519]

>>5938674
You didn't have to be rich to own a PlayStation and N64. Lots of kids who were very poor owned both. Video game systems are not really that expensive, and used systems were sold everywhere.

[Anonymous No.5940521]

>>5940292
Weren't they expensive?

[Anonymous No.5940523]

>>5938674
>/vr/ thinks kids only owned one console per generation
>in reality there were people who bought a new ps1 every year because they wore them out in that time

[Anonymous No.5940529]

>>5940521
Just depends on the time and place, and what kind of Neo it was. I could see someone finding an AES or Neo CD at a yard sale for $20 in that time period.

[Anonymous No.5940551]

>>5938680
>>5940197
literally me, also had an uncle with a lot of money and loved video games too so I had a Genesis, SNES, NES, and a fucking Jaguar too.

[Anonymous No.5940570]

>>5938674
>got a 64 for Christmas
>got a fuck ton of christmas money from various sources
>"buy" my first console, the PSX
I still own that shit. I can't let it go.

[Anonymous No.5940572]

>>5940197
wait, single mom's spoil their kids? Mine totally spoiled me

[Anonymous No.5940705]

>>5940529
Man, that'd be sweet

[Anonymous No.5940709]

>>5938697
neogeo sports games are awesome at least, i wonder what 360 kid is up to now a day

[Anonymous No.5941992]

>>5939053
>>5940304
Always on your mind

[Anonymous No.5942002]

>>5941992
yeah well at least I have free healthcare

[Anonymous No.5942007]

>>5942002
>yeah well at least I have free healthcare
...that you have to wait several months on a list until you can receive any service. lol

I'll take expensive private insurance over "free" government healthcare, and I'm not even a yank.

[Anonymous No.5942010]

>>5942007
actually; I can just go in whenever I want since I have family working in the national healthcare system

[Anonymous No.5942187]

>>5939086
>emulating PS1 in the '90s
How bad was it, anon?

[Anonymous No.5942243]

>>5938709
>he didn't live through the console wars
I lol at you child

[Anonymous No.5942284]

>>5942010
>this poster was later arrested for having an impure thought while holding tweezers

[Anonymous No.5942349]

>>5942187
Pretty bad. The emulator was surprisingly good though, yet when I upgraded to XP it stopped working and had to switch to shittier ones.

Some games didn't work properly like Megaman Legends.

[Anonymous No.5942363]

>>5939053
O B S E S S E D

[Anonymous No.5942382]

>>5942002
Enjoy 60% tax

[Anonymous No.5942383]

>>5942363
>brazil
>in front of 3 early humans

[Anonymous No.5942432]

>>5938678
lmfao

[Anonymous No.5942537]

>>5942007
>I'll take expensive private insurance over "free" government healthcare, and I'm not even a yank.
Confirmed you don't work and are under provision of your parents.
Last month I had accute adenovirus conjunctivitis. I became blind on my dominant eye before lunch break. Got admitted to a doctor within hour after getting to the clinic. Got full check and diagnostics. Got my prescriptions. Got a regular check each 4 days without a single delay or waiting longer than 5 minutes due to previous patient still being inside. Didn't pay a single penny, except what's in my taxes. Would have pay an equivalent of my pay for over two years if I tried to pull this through private practicioners.
Oh my, it's truly terrible how bad the national health system is!

[Anonymous No.5942543]

>>5939513
>that ESL on your board

[Anonymous No.5942553]

>>5942382
I pay 18%. In States I would pay 22% and had to cover for everything beyond absolute bare essentials from my own pocket. So guess again who is more fucked by taxes, burger.

[Anonymous No.5942556]

>>5942002
At least i don't have to be a self loathing pussy

[Anonymous No.5942559]

>>5942556
But you are already, so what the fuck are you even trying to pull here, Brad?

[Anonymous No.5942562]

>>5942537
I agree

I can't wait till the US Balkanizes and mother Russia starts handing out guns

[Anonymous No.5942564]

>>5942559
Unironically, the destruction of yurope

[Anonymous No.5942581]

>>5942537
I always wonder from where the fuck Americans always get those "b-but health care is terrible when not private!" stories. Niggers are being charged 1k for IV and given full diagnostics they don't even need, just to pinch on their insurance and they then bitch about how bad national systems are. What the fuck?!

[Anonymous No.5942915]

>>5942537
>someone else paid for my shit so it's all great
>why is someone else not happy about this?
derp

>>5942543
>that zoomer who thinks zoomerlish is english

>>5942581
I always wonder why 3rd world shitholers think they understand US health care shit

[Anonymous No.5943009]

>>5942915
>Everyone in the country pays their taxes so they can access quality things freely later
>COMMUNISM!
derp

And there is nothing to understand - your social security and health care coverage is designed from ground up around the concept of "either you have money on your own and premium package of services, or go fucking die in a ditch". There is nothing to understand when you can make a TV series about a guy building drug empire to pay his bills for chemo.

[Anonymous No.5943040]

>>5942915
Please enlighten us what then taxes should be spend on, if not for precisely that: paying for shit of the tax-payers when then need it? I mean why should I pay taxes, if I've got absolutely nothing for return and especially neither health nor education, being paid by it.
Explain yourself, burger, because it takes to be either too young to actually pay any of those things from your own pocket OR a fucking retard who seriously think it's a better deal to just indebt yourself to pay for your appendectomy rather than spend few buck more a year to be safe. Your hyper-individualism is precisely what rubs so many people the wrong way. Clearly, why should you care for anything else than my own ass, right?
Go inawoods if you don't, then.
But I guess all I'm going to get is some bitching about yurupoors and free rent, since you will be unable to answer the question asked to you.

[Anonymous No.5943042]

>>5943009
>i got BTFO so COMMUNISM!
kek
"My" "social security and health care coverage" is designed around thousands of years of feudalism and the irrelevance of human life you stupid fuck. China, bitches. It works pretty much like your fantasy shit aside from not working, at all, ever. GFY poorotrash.

[Anonymous No.5943048]

>>5943042
>Live in a slave state
>"This shit never works, for anyone, ever"
>t. slave
Aren't they cutting SCS points for shitposting in the net? I'm pretty sure they do

[Anonymous No.5943052]

>>5943042
You know, this explains a lot. Not in your case, but generally. Since you come from a complete shithole, you can't even imagine other situation than the shitty one, so you are actively dragging down functional system when being part of it, simply due to your conviction that nope, this just can't work and will never work, regardless of reality of it. Which explains why pretty much all 3rd world immigrants actively try to ruin social systems of country they migrate into, despite being beneficiators of said systems. Because deep down, they can't fucking imagine a non-failed state being real.

[Anonymous No.5943063]

>>5938674
If you got any console at launch and not wait for them to come down in price you're a fucking rube.

>Dad got a Saturn with like 14 games for $50 in 1997 because his friend got bored with it after he got a Playstation
>N64 in 1998 when it went down to like $99 at Electronics Boutique
>Playstation in 1999 was the most expensive and we got it for something like $129

[Anonymous No.5943068]

>>5942007
peak cuck mindset

[Anonymous No.5943073]

>>5943063
>Having three consoles
Nigger, get real. If you weren't well-off, it would end up at the first one.
Or you would just have a PC to cover for it all and also have additional functionality beyond electronic toy (which was the typical reasoning of parents back in the day where hardware wasn't something everyone just had).

[Anonymous No.5943081]

>>5942007
The only thing I ever had to wait for was the first orthodontist appointment, as according to the regulations, it's not a life-threatening or health-risking situation, thus there is no reason for instant access. And that "wait" lasted less than 3 weeks. Of course I got the braces for free, since, duh.
Never waited for any other specialist or treatment longer then 5 hours and again, triage rules apply, so in case of emergencies, the help was always instant.
Not bad for a 1.75% illness fund rate if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.5943083]

>>5942915
>someone else paid for my shit so it's all great
Ever heard the fable about stone soup? I guess not. Alternatively, you've heard the American version of it, where the moral is changed from "Everyone gives a little and they all get big profit" into "Good things never happen, distrust strangers and hoard things for yourself". Way to go, America, fucking up one of the most classic fables.

[Anonymous No.5943283]

>>5943048
>live in the most advanced commie country ever
>b-b-b-ut we'll get it right eventually
kek

>>5943052
>Since you come from a complete shithole
You're absolutely correct kiddo. I come from LA. A total 3rd world shithole. Should I even bother making fun of your strawpersons?

[Anonymous No.5943301]

>>5943083
>stone soup: poorostan common core version
No wonder you fucks are fucked

[Anonymous No.5943503]

>that kid who's family couldn't afford games

[Anonymous No.5943525]

>>5942537
>Didn't pay a single penny, except what's in my taxes.
I'd rather pay for medical care on the rare instance that I need it than double or triple my tax rate.

[Anonymous No.5944240]

>>5943525
>Gets cancer
>Cooking meth is his only way to pay for his treatment
>mfw

[Anonymous No.5944246]

>>5943503
>that kid who's family wouldn't let him play games or watch tv

[Anonymous No.5944262]

>>5944240
No, that's what insurance is for. If I got cancer I'd have to pay like $3500 per year at most because that's my maximum out of pocket. Insurance would pay the rest.

[Batowl No.5944281]

>>5938674
God you must have been dirt pooor.

[Anonymous No.5944294]

>>5943073
Shut the fuck up you you stupid fucking know-nothing twat

[Anonymous No.5944459]

>>5943525
I pay 20% income tax, thou. And the health care package is 1.75%.
Given how most Americans pay 18-22% tax, you are paying the same rate as I do, but get absolutely NOTHING in return. More, you are actually convinced that somehow you are the one in better position.
From where the fuck even Americans get those absurd numbers on non-American tax rates?

>>5944262
I would have to pay $0 for that, everything covered from my insurance. So let's assume the "worst" scenario - your tax rate is 18, mine in total 21.75%. For this deal to be better for you than it's for me, that $3.5k would have to be equal to 3.75% of the income. So you would have to earn slightly above $93k a year for this to turn profit and actually saving you money.
Do you earn that? Because I seriously doubt you get half of it, when American median income is below $32k.
But hey, I'm the sucker, right?

[Anonymous No.5944474]

>>5944459
>From where the fuck even Americans get those absurd numbers on non-American tax rates?
Because average Yank can't into compound percentages, so they also can't into any more complex taxation system than "I give away all the income within the percentage", rather than grasp the sole concept of tax thresholds

[Anonymous No.5944515]

>>5943068
peak cuck is cucking yourself to government gibs in exchange for your freedoms

[Anonymous No.5944524]

>>5944474
You know we have a graduated tax scale right?

[Anonymous No.5944582]

>>5944281
OP is still on SMS

[Anonymous No.5944596]

>>5940326
I also saw this in Spain, but I grew up in an upper middle class suburb...most kids were copying ps1 games

[Anonymous No.5946353]

>all this faggot squabbling over economic differences
The jews murdered JFK, bombed the USS Liberty, and bombed the Twin Towers.

[Anonymous No.5946518]

>>5943503
We had video rental stores for that

[Anonymous No.5946524]

>>5946353
Hey buddy, I think you've got the wrong door. /pol/'s two boards down.

[Anonymous No.5946537]

>that wealthy nigga wit the supa nintendo sega genesis

[Anonymous No.5946558]

>>5944459
>So let's assume the "worst" scenario - your tax rate is 18, mine in total 21.75%
But my tax rate ISN'T 18%, it's actually much lower. Let me break down for you the federal income tax I pay each year.

I make $53k per year, I contribute approximately $18k each year to various tax-sheltered accounts and pre-tax benefits (401k, IRA, HSA, health insurance premiums), which brings my taxable income down to $35k. We then deduct the "standard deduction" of $12k and my final taxable income is $23,000.

The first $9,700 is taxed at 10% = $970 in taxes
The remaining $13,300 is taxed at 12% = $1,596 in taxes
Add those together and we have a total of $2,566 in federal income tax owed, which is about 4.8% of my total gross income of $53,000.

My state's income tax is about 5% of that $23,000 taxable income = $1,150 which is 2% of my gross income.

So that means each year I pay 6.8% of my income to state and federal income taxes, while you're paying 21.75%, which is THREE TIMES THE RATE I PAY.

You're also not accounting for the fact that I can save away my maximum out of pocket each year that I'm not sick and then use it later when I do get sick. Again, I find this preferable to paying THREE TIMES THE INCOME TAX EVERY SINGLE YEAR. If I had your tax rates, I would have to stop saving for retirement if I wanted to pay all my bills, and I'd much rather save away my own money and retire when I'm ready than have the government dictate every stage of my life. It's all about whether you want to control your own money and savings or if you just want to give all your money to the government to do everything for you, and I would MUCH prefer the former.

[Anonymous No.5946576]

>>5946353
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but unless you can tell me what the Jews have done regards to retro games, you're on the wrong board.

[Anonymous No.5946584]

>>5940328
>father's side of the family is jewish and mother's side is christian
>father's side
lol fake jew.

[Anonymous No.5946589]

>>5946576
Fuck off, idiot.

[Anonymous No.5946806]

>>5938674
that was me poorfag

[Anonymous No.5946851]

I had NES, Sega Genesis, Game Gear, 3DO, N64, PS1, Jaguar, SNES, and Neo Geo Pocket Color all in the 90s as a kid.

[Anonymous No.5946862]

>>5946851
>no CDI
Get a load of this poorfag.

[Anonymous No.5946901]

Kid who grew up with a PS1, N64, decent PC, and the previous Nintendo systems.

[Anonymous No.5946963]

>>5942010
>I have family working in the national healthcare system
Thats not free healthcare for all, thats just nepotism.

[Anonymous No.5947258]

I'm proud of the intense autism displayed in this thread

[Anonymous No.5947270]

I had every console growing up and now I'm in crippling medical debt

(the above post is a true story)

[Anonymous No.5947274]

>>5946901
He's a big guy

[Anonymous No.5947295]

>>5947274
>>5947274
>>5947274
>>5947274

[Anonymous No.5947297]

>>5947295

[Anonymous No.5947298]

>that poor kid who had a PS4
in 1998

[Anonymous No.5947308]

>>5947298
>they didn't have PS7
Dear Nintendo,

[Anonymous No.5947318]

>>5938674
>tfw your parents only allowed you to have one console

I chose N64 over PS1. mostly because the games applied more to me back then. it was a good decision considering that I played OoT religiously and that I loved Snowboard Kids and what not.

[Anonymous No.5947667]

>>5946558
>Let me break you how tax brackets work
>Assumes is the only country where brackets work
I don't even start to pay taxes until I earn the equivalent of 15k of dollaridoos, but m'kay, you showed again how burgers can't into taxes

[Anonymous No.5947774]

>>5939174
>that face when no qt game boy cabbage

[Anonymous No.5948838]

>>5947667
I was showing you how American taxes are a lot lower than you've been led to believe, and my estimate that I pay 3-4 times less taxes than you was actually pretty fucking accurate. If your total income tax payment is 21.75% of your gross income, it is literally 3 times higher than mine at 6.8%.

[Anonymous No.5948862]

>>5947667
>>Let me break you how tax brackets work
>>Assumes is the only country where brackets work
No, I was breaking down the percentages for you because the percentages in your example were absolutely outlandish. I figured you understood how tax brackets worked and the difference between marginal and effective tax rates. I thought you were saying that 21.75% is your EFFECTIVE tax rate and were claiming that most Americans pay 18% as an EFFECTIVE tax rate. In response, I showed you that my effective tax rate is actually about a third of what you were claiming. But if you were talking about marginal tax rates the whole time then obviously we're just talking past each other, talking about marginal tax rates in this kind of discussion is pointless anyway.

[Anonymous No.5948870]

>>5942007
It depends where you are. It's hell on earth if you're somewhere like Toronto or London but service is much better in smaller communities.

[Anonymous No.5949156]

>>5938680
I guess me and my two brothers ended up with all 3 consoles. Though the n64 was only to stay at my dads house, luckly it only has like 4 games worth playing.

[Anonymous No.5949169]

>that rich kid in school who let me borrow and beat any damn game I wanted

[Anonymous No.5949175]

>>5949156
Yeah, having two brothers is how I ended up getting everything too. Though it sucked having to divide things up after we all moved apart.

[Anonymous No.5949358]

>This entire thread
Didn't summer ended a month ago? Shouldn't /v/ be gone by now?

[Anonymous No.5950212]

>>5949358
All the good posters /vr/ used to have don't visit much any more because the content has been stagnant for years thanks to the autistically rigid definitions of what qualifies as retro. All that's left are the autists and the /v/ shitposters which serves to only push the good posters further away.

[Anonymous No.5950334]

>>5950212
>Be 2009
>1999 is retro

>Be 2019
>2009 is not retro

[Anonymous No.5950356]

that kid who had a pvm

[Anonymous No.5950368]

>that kid whose uncle owned an arcade center and let you play any of the cabs on free play mode

[Anonymous No.5950372]

>>5950368
nice

[Anonymous No.5950396]

>>5950212
>because the content has been stagnant for years thanks to the autistically rigid definitions of what qualifies as retro
Fuck off zoomer to /v/. This is the worst falseflag I saw in years

[Anonymous No.5950421]

>>5938674
>rich kids having ps1
>still coming over to poorfag like me because I had PC that mom got at work half year before she was unable to work and didn't need it anymore and there were better games for more than 2 players

[Anonymous No.5950641]

>>5938674
My best friend and neighbor as a kid had every console up to the Dreamcast. His dad also had a “danger room”, it was where his dad smoked weed, played video games and kept his massive collection of porn.

[Anonymous No.5950649]

>>5950641
Is like to also add my other friend had a mom who went to Japan and brought me back a 0083 laser disc and I watched it before Gundam wing aired on toonami

[Anonymous No.5950662]

>>5950641
>>5950649
Where you and your friends rich?

[Anonymous No.5950763]

>>5950396
We've been having the same threads over and over discussing all the same games over and over for years, man, it's the same threads every fucking week. Eventually non-autists get tired of it and leave because it's not interesting to repeat the same threads forever, but the restrictions on the definition of "retro" ensure that no fresh content can really be discussed. I'm only trapped here by my own autistic tendencies myself, but I'm at least self-aware enough to realize it.

[Anonymous No.5951205]

>>5950334
>Be 2009
>Be stupid

>Be 2019
>Still be stupid
What is a zoomer?

>>5950763
There's plenty too new to discuss. But people are too stupid and/or new to discuss it.

[Anonymous No.5951214]

>>5950334
>>5951205
Fact: The PS2 is older now than the N64 was the year /vr/ first started.

[Anonymous No.5951232]

Should've known there was a resurgence of /v/ babies shitting up the board on-purpose over not being able to make PS2 threads. What's supposed to make us think that you'll stop being twats when you get what you want? Like a bunch of kids throwing a temper tantrum until they get a new super soaker. It's just an even bigger recipe for disaster.

[Anonymous No.5951248]

>>5951232
You're really paranoid.

[Anonymous No.5951252]

>>5951232
The anti-6th gen posters aren't doing a great job at demonstrating their maturity either.
I've concluded both sides are spergs and try to avoid this topic.

[Anonymous No.5951258]

>>5951248
But it's true. Most of the shitposting on /vr/ is because sixth gen niggers can't get their way so they ruin it for everyone else. They always keep bringing up how "dreamcast is allowed but the rest aren't" or "they're almost 20 years old now" which fuels their falseflag faggotry.

[Anonymous No.5951262]

>>5946353
>Jews bombed the Twin Towers
Imagine believing youtube conspiracy videos because you're a low-IQ schizo.

[Anonymous No.5951281]

>>5951262
Google dancing israelis and the israeli art students.

[Anonymous No.5951306]

>>5951281
Thanks now it makes sense. Secret agents who know about a huge event often stand nearby cheer as it unfolds. Shame they got witnessed cheering. That must have blown their cover a bit.

[Anonymous No.5951407]

>>5951214
>Fact: I'm a retarded zoomer
No one is disputing that fact

[Anonymous No.5951770]

>>5951407
Why do facts trigger you so much?
N64 released in 1996, /vr/ started in 2013. N64 was 17 years old.
PS2 released in 2000, this year is 2019. PS2 is 19 years old.
This is just basic math.

[Anonymous No.5951840]

>>5951770
Fuck off and just go create your own forum where you will allow whichever shit you want to. Retro is not defined by time since release, but rather by technology and limitations.

[Anonymous No.5951945]

>>5950763
>Hey guys, we've got a board to discuss about firearms
>You know what we need?
>Let's also talk ASG!
I imagine /k/'s reaction if you tried to pull this shit. But it's not like you care or see any difference

[Anonymous No.5951949]

>>5951770
>Board is explicitly for games released prior to 2000
>Whaaa, why I can't talk about stuff from 2000 and onward!
Because you are on a wrong board for that. Fuck off to /v/ and /vg/, they exist and cater to exact need you have.

[Anonymous No.5951974]

>>5951840
>>5951949
All I've done is point out the ages of two consoles.

[Anonymous No.5951981]

>>5938674
What? I wasn't really rich, I was just good at saving money. There were some cool games for the N64, but it really needed more 2D games.

[Anonymous No.5952013]

>>5951974
... yes, and?
They aren't accepted on the board, because they aren't within the range of the board. It's so fucking simple, yet so many faggots just can't wrap their heads around the concept of this board: games prior to 2000, period.

[Anonymous No.5952041]

>>5938674
>poor but had a N64 and ps1
My dad just really loved video games
>tfw my mom donated my N64 to my cousins in a third world country
>when I told her to take the ps1 instead, she said no, they want a a Nintendo 64.
It's been over 20 years and I am still mad

[Anonymous No.5952145]

>>5951840
>Retro is not defined by time since release, but rather by technology and limitations.
Quit being a disingenuous, illiterate tryhard faggot; no one's falling for that excuse anymore.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retro>relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of the past : fashionably nostalgic or old-fashioned

[Anonymous No.5952156]

>>5952145
>This non-argument yet again
This board is not for "ever changing boundary of what is considered retro". It's for games released before the year 2000. It's like you were throwing a tandrum that McDonalds isn't selling fried chicken. After all, it's a fast food joint, isn't it?

[Anonymous No.5952159]

>>5950334
>>5950396
>>5951205
>>5951232
>>5951258
>>5951407
>>5952013
You're next post will be
>WAAAAAAAAAH 6TH GEN WILL ALLOW /v/ SHITPOSTING BECAUSE THEY WERE UNDERAGE WHEN 6TH GEN WAS NEW
>ignores that the average PS2 owner in the early 2000s is in their 30s now

[Anonymous No.5952191]

>>5952156
>This board is not for "what the word retro means"
Ftfy. In that case, change the name to /v20/ or some such shit for pre 21st century games, and then you'll get your precious/v2k/ so you're imagined outrage at another board that gives 0 shits about your stagnant board. You're like a retard in a dying restaurant that serves the same slop for years and wonders why you're in the red.

[Anonymous No.5952197]

>>5952191
Retro doesn't mean "when a system is so many years old" like you want it to mean either, though.

[Anonymous No.5952214]

>>5952159
>If I purposefully miss the whole point and call others children, I will win
The ban on 6th gen is because this board is for pre-2000 stuff.

>>5952191
Explain to me something:
Why should /vr/ change, if it's doing its job just right? If you want a board for "games that are 20 yo and older", then start a petition for that.

[Anonymous No.5952461]

>>5952013
Okay, but my post didn't say any of that.

[Anonymous No.5952472]

>>5952214
/vr/ was created to give people a place to talk about games that were too old to get traction in threads on /v/. Knowing this, there is no reason for the definition to be so rigid, regardless of the term we use. You're following the letter of the law, but not the spirit or original intent of it.

[Anonymous No.5952483]

>>5952472
What part of "we don't want your gen 6 and up faggotry on this board" don't you understand, nigger.

[Anonymous No.5952496]

>>5939053
>be 3rd world
>have no possessions
lel

[Anonymous No.5952504]

>>5952472
Remember when some anon said "why can't /vr/ talk about PS2 if even /v/irgins can do it?" and cross-linked a PS2 rec thread that got over 100 replies on /v/?

[Anonymous No.5952508]

>>5952483
>we
You're referring to a rapidly shrinking minority. Even the sticky itself betrays your rigid definitions:
>With the release of the 8th generation of consoles, the Sega Dreamcast will now be considered "retro"
This wording implies that the definition of "retro" is subject to change as new consoles are released, because that's exactly what happened with Dreamcast. The problem is that at some point we got turbo-autist mods who changed the process and now refuse to adjust the rules even though they have been adjusted in the past.

[Anonymous No.5953178]

>>5938674
>that poor kid in class who thought you had to be rich to own a PS1 and N64

[Anonymous No.5953194]

>>5952472
Uh no the spirit of the retro law wouldn’t include Xbox and PS2. They have very modern 3D graphics. Do you have Downs Syndrome?

[Anonymous No.5953426]

>>5953194
>Uh no the spirit of the retro law wouldn’t include Xbox and PS2. They have very modern 3D graphics.
The Dreamcast is allowed here, this argument is invalid. It literally has better and more modern graphics than the PS2.

[Anonymous No.5953713]

>>5951770
The only one triggered here is you and the other little zoomers. Fuck off back to /v/ kiddo.

[Anonymous No.5953868]

>>5952508
>You're referring to a rapidly shrinking minority
Says who, based on what metrics and data?
Because all we've got is the yearly claim of summer tourists pretending this board is just /v/ lite.
Get lost. I mean you will leave on your own within next month, but the post-summer period, all the way until mid-November, is always pain in the ass to endure due to your constant moaning.

[Anonymous No.5953872]

>>5953426
The Dreamcast is allowed, because it ceased to be a thing by 2001. The line of games for it ends at that range, too. That's why the exception was made.
Somehow, for morons like you, the distinction doesn't exist at all and you push your retarded "we should accept things with range ending in late 00s as retro, because I'm a faggot on a wrong board and the board should change to my whims"

[Anonymous No.5953902]

>>5952508
>Why should I talk about games I don't know? Let's just change the content of the board, because I know nothing about things mentioned there
The logic of average 6th gen poster. I get it, you are too young to know and care games that are within the range of /vr/. Happens and is absolutely normal.
But demanding from the board to accomodate to your will while there are already two other boards for what you need and want is just fucking disgusting. This is the reason why the "current generation" is called entitled. You want to get something that you already have, for the sake of it and your own personal amusement, while screwing over everyone else, because who cares, right?

[Anonymous No.5953913]

>>5953902
I'm 30 years old and post about retro games here all the time. I just also recognize how stagnant the board is and realize that time moves forward and how there are people who want to discuss GBA, GCN, and PS2 games who gradually have nowhere to discuss these things because they're becoming too old for the literal zoomers of /v/ to care about but /vr/ still refuses to change. Even though once upon a time people actually did reevaluate what should be considered retro with each new generation of consoles, like how the Dreamcast got added with the introduction of 8th gen. As we move into 9th gen it starts to make sense to reevaluate things again, but the autists on this board just won't have it.

[Anonymous No.5953925]

>>5953902
>>5953913
You also have to be fucking blind to not see that discussion is skewing later and later on the board, slowly but surely. First and second gens are almost never discussed here any more, aside from the occasional thread or two every couple months, and usually it gets relegated to someone creating a general thread because there are so few people here to talk about those gens. Third gen threads are slowly becoming more sparse as well, and the predominant conversation revolves around fourth and fifth gens now. Like it or not, demographics shift and eventually this board is going to be fucking dead if we don't allow some new blood in by reevaluating what's allowed here. New consoles being allowed means new discussion, and I don't buy the idea that allowing 6th gen would completely push out all discussion of previous gens, either, that's just people being irrationally afraid of any change.

[Anonymous No.5953935]

>>5938674
My parents bought me a PlayStation when I was around 4, maybe. My cousins had N64’s, so I’d sometimes switch consoles with them. My grandma had a NES and a SNES, too. Pretty sure my uncle had a Genesis. I feel pretty lucky all around. Wish I grew up with a Dreamcast though.

[Anonymous No.5954396]

>>5953925
Oh, so you've got nothing. Cool

[Anonymous No.5954502]

>>5953925
better dead than sixth gen

[Anonymous No.5954678]

>>5938674
>that kid that played hidden & dangerous on the school computer

me btw

[Anonymous No.5954720]

>>5953178
Right? All it takes is having a parent who treats their child support as a digital-babysitter tax.

[Anonymous No.5954734]

>>5943040
As a burger, military, so we can stop providing defense for you, which subsidizes your free health care and such. And your budgets are still a wreck despite that.

[Anonymous No.5954779]

>>5954396
I don't know what data you expect me to pull up about this. A scan through the catalog at any given time supports my observations.

[Anonymous No.5954790]

>>5954396
>all your fancy evidence and statistics don't mean nothing in the real world
this but unironically

[Anonymous No.5954842]

>>5938674
>rich
>n64 and ps1

I was in the hood and had both of those

real rich kid shit was like neo geo or sega channel or PCs with internet before about 1999

[Anonymous No.5955148]

>>5938680
> That kid that owned a saturn and lived within walking distance to a decent import shop.

[Anonymous No.5955152]

>>5954842
True enough. Always envied the motherfuckers that could run Quake on release.

[Anonymous No.5955153]

>>5938674
Also that cat has the perfect amount of fat.

[Anonymous No.5956693]

>>5946524
he's not wrong you autist

[Anonymous No.5957295]

>that kid who had a PlayStation, but whose parents wouldn't plump for a memory card, so he had to play games from the beginning every damn time

No I don't want to come over to your house to play Batman again, Daniel.