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I know a guy who was born in 1987 and says the NES is synonymous with the first half of his childhood. Is he actually old enough for that to hold true, or is he just pretending to be older than he is?

>> No.5990153

can't speak on the specifics of your question because he's a decade older than me, but just want to say that it seems pretty common for lower-class kids to be really out of touch with games. some people have told me i'm too young to have grown up with the stuff i did, but in reality we were just broke as fuck and older games were cheaper. looking back now at my childhood favourites i always tend to do a double take when i see how much older something was than i thought. anyways, just don't give your friend such a hard time, that's all.

>> No.5990162

>>5990141
I was born in 1994 and had and played and enjoyed SNES when I was ten (2004). Had an N64 already but it was at my dad's, the SNES was at my mom's, my dad had a Genesis too and I even remember buying some Genesis games from the local video store around 2005 to play on it. So, if the circumstances just happen to line up, you can be familiar with consoles that ought to have been before your time.

>> No.5990164

>>5990141
By 'first half' he probably means to when he was 5-6 years old

>> No.5990167

>>5990164
Right. Was it common for kids of that age to play the NES from 1992-1994?

>> No.5990175

>>5990167
Nintendo did officially support the NES until 1994 or something AFAIK. Besides stuff like Mega Man games Nintendo themselves released Wario's Woods in later 1994.

>> No.5990179

>>5990167
Of course it was. NES was everywhere in the early 90s.

>> No.5990183

>>5990141
Of course it could hold true. I was born in 88 in the USA and grew up with the NES, eventually got an SNES, and received an N64 the Christmas of its launch year. I rented NES games from video stores and got NES games from stores - new games. Some of my friends also had NESs. And besides, NES games were released well into the 90s.

>> No.5990193

>>5990167
Just compare it to modern systems: did the Wii die as soon as the Wii U came out? The PS2 as soon as the PS3 came out? If a system is very successful, it lives beyond the release of the followup system.

>> No.5990205

>>5990162
Where do you live that they were selling genesis games in '05?

>> No.5990210

Is this an amerian disease where if you must immediately buy everything new that comes out? You know there is a thing called used games?

>> No.5990212

>>5990205
A rental video store, like I said in the post you quoted.

>> No.5990217

>>5990141
>>5990167
Yeah definitely. It was still officially supported until around the mid-90s and garage sales and older brothers were very common.

>> No.5990218

>>5990210
I used to love picking up NES and SNES games for cheap from Funcoland-then-GameStop. That's probably why I still love old games now, I never came to view prior systems as obsolete.

>> No.5990220

NES stuff was fucking everywhere in the 90s and you could buy it for dirt cheap. I knew this one kid around 1995 or so who had dozens and dozens of games for the thing, and it was really cool to play because I didn't have one. In 1997, my neighbors' kids, who were at least 5 years younger than me, had an NES as their only console, they definitely weren't poor, either.

What sort of autistic kid worries about whether the games they are playing are "old"?

>> No.5990226

>>5990220
Zoomers, always clamoring for the newest iPhone and epic gaming PC.

>> No.5990227

>>5990220
This. I got into Mega Man by playing the first one, which my brother mistakenly bought at a garage sale, thinking it was X1. Still one of my all-time favorite games.

>> No.5990231

>>5990220
>mfw getting Link's Awakening DX for the first time in 2004 and playing it for hours on my SP
Kids don't care if what they're playing is old, kids just want to play games they find fun.

>> No.5990240

>>5990167
I was born in 1985, but yes, me and a lot of my friends were playing NES.

There were Super Nintendos around, but it felt like people who had an SNES (me for example) also had an NES, and then there were friends who only had an NES.

But it was still a staple of hanging out at peoples houses until the mid 90s.

>> No.5990243

>>5990240
I had only an SNES. I loved playing NES at other kids' places because NES games looked and sounded nothing like SNES games, it was a totally different experience.

>> No.5990246

I was born in 1997, and I thought the NES was the only gaming console until like 2006.
t. poor and no friends
But boy was I happy when I finally got a PS2.

>> No.5990249

>>5990226
haha epic

>> No.5990302

>>5990226
t. zoomer

>> No.5990304

>>5990141
If that was all he had to play then it's a perfectly reasonable thing to say. Not everyone had SNES or Genesis's. And even if they did they would still be playing plenty of NES games. I was still playing my NES in regular rotation until the Dreamcast came out.

>> No.5990310

>>5990141
In Mad Men, a show set in the 60s, the producers were careful to make sure that cars from the 50s and 40s were regularly seen, because people didn't magically upgrade to the newest model every year: placing only the absolute cutting edge stuff in a period show is a rookie mistake.

Similarly, if you came from a poor family (or cared more about things other than consoles that occupied your major Christmas / birthday wish list spots) you could easily have been a full generation of consoles behind, or more. I was playing Intellivision well into the late 90s.

>> No.5990313

>>5990141
>I know a guy who was born in 1987
>is he just pretending to be older than he is?
How old does he say he is? Why are you incapabale of doing the simple math to work out whether he's telling the truth? Are you pretending to be older than you are by shitposting in an 18+ gook toon picture forum?

>> No.5990317

>>5990167
Yes. Super Mario Bros 3.

>> No.5990320

>>5990310
I mean the first half of the 60s was essentially still the 50s. All that 60s zeitgeist stuff mainly came in the latter half of the decade.
Look at American Graffiti, you'd mistake it for a 50s period piece but it takes place in like 1962-1963.

>> No.5990330

>>5990320
Yep, and it's a real common thing. The 90s as commonly thought of really didn't kick in until the start of 92, for instance.

>> No.5990340

>>5990330
Every decade is like that. Like how the 90's, to me, extends into the beginning of the 00's.

>> No.5990353

I was born in 91 and have a lot of memories of playing Duck Hunt, Paperboy, SMB, etc when I was in my single digit days at other peoples houses

My first video game system that we had in the house in 2001 was a SNES that I bought for $60 from a neighbor kid with saved up allowance. My sister and I had game boys but beyond that my parents were pretty anti having a game console in the house that plugged into the TV up until then. I feel like until 2003/4 or so from what I remember, you were pretty lucky/had loaded parents as a kid if you had a 6th gen console in the house, the xbox in particular

>> No.5990365

>>5990353
>I feel like until 2003/4 or so from what I remember, you were pretty lucky/had loaded parents as a kid if you had a 6th gen console in the house
I knew crass welfare trash that had an N64, Gamecube and possibly a PS2 or Xbox, so that's not true.

>> No.5990371

>>5990141
The NES was the only cobsole I had until 1996 when my parents could finally afford the N64. I had to work part-time doing newspaper delivery to afford games, though.

>> No.5990380

>>5990153
This is more or less my experience as well. My first console was a SNES in 2002 because my neighbor friend was forced to sell his to help pay for a Gamecube.

>> No.5990385

I was born in 91 and my fondest memories are of the Mega Drive, we didn't get a PS1 until 97 or so but I did get a PS2 on launch.

I think people tend to think that games you play as a teenager define you the most, while in reality the games you play when you're 5 have the most lasting impact. This kind of stuff makes me feel bad for the newer generations that grew up with microtransaction filled ad "games" on their tablets and phones.

>> No.5990387

>>5990141
I was born in '84 and that holds true for me too. Although I also played a lot of Atari 2600, SNES, and SEGA Genesis, so you could say I had a pretty well rounded gaming experience in my childhood years despite coming from a low income family. Even though we were kind of poor my mom always managed to get me every game system I ever wanted, and I love her to pieces for that.

>> No.5990434

>>5990167
I was born in April 1987 first console was the NES.

>> No.5990463

>>5990141
I was born in 86 and had a NES since as far as I can remember, but got the SNES when it came and kept playing the NES, too. I didn't get a 5th gen console until 98, so all I had were those two.

>> No.5990485

>>5990365

There's a rich man/poor man thing with game consoles where it's like

Back in the day there were definitely trailer park types I remember having a PS2/gc/xbox early, maybe even with a rear projection "big screen" to boot or something

But it's because for some poor families, they might decide its worth it to spend 400 on a PS2 once to keep the kids entertained for years, which is good cause they weren't doing shit outside the house that cost money on any regular basis.

Then there's the kids in the middle who might have better standards of living overall but stricter parents who aren't gonna pay 400 bucks for something that "rots their brains"

And then on the upper end, parents who strict or not, have enough money that it was a drop in the bucket to get an xbox for their kids

>> No.5990487

>>5990385

Really? Like shit I remember having fun with games when I was 6 or w/e but anything I played at 14 was done so religiously and with a fervor since unmatched. Speak for yourself

>> No.5990490

>>5990385
My little brother in law comes over every so often and always asks to play Mario games with me. He loves the older games "because they have buttons and stuff". I see what he plays on his parents phone and its all sniper sims and shit. Makes me worry.

>> No.5990535

>>5990141
A LOT of people were still playing NES in the 90s.

>> No.5990542
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>>5990141
Of course. I was born in 1988 and played, or watched my parents play it during my formative years. They bought their NES before I was even born. We didn't get a SNES/Genesis until the prices dropped a few years later, and only then were kids my age were playing video games. Most kids in my class didn't even know that there was a Nintendo before the SNES.

>> No.5990582

>>5990167
Yes. Fuck, I was born 92 and I was still playing it in the 90s, SMB3 and Batman were still tight as shit, even when we eventually got the N64

>> No.5990605

I was born in 1991 and the Genesis and SNES were the biggest parts of my childhood. I got an N64 in 1998, but 16 bit memories far outweigh 3D shit.

The NES was getting games up until the PS1 was released.

>> No.5990608
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>>5990141
'87 babby here. Was playing a 2600 until Christmas '92 when we upgraded to a Genesis. Played the NES all the time tho at friends houses and did so until probably the late '90s. Very common at least around my poor to lower middle class area for people to play the same console for years. Didn't end up replacing my Genesis until the Dreamcast came out.

>> No.5990618

i remember getting a nintendo i think 1989 or 88. i was in 2nd or 3rd grade.
robocop was the 1st game we bought for it (it came with mario/duck hunt).
even tho i got a snes in 1992, my brothers n i played nes mostly. even after my youngest brother got a dreamcast, nes was still good.

>> No.5990619

>>5990167
I was born in 1990 and I played the hell out of my NES during the Genesis/SNES even with owning a Genesis during that same time.

>> No.5990647

>>5990608
This picture hurts me deeply

>> No.5990820

>>5990141
I born in 1987, NES was my main console up until I was 10. Mainly because I was poor and couldn't afford newer shit. So yes, the same could be true with him

>> No.5990989

>>5990153
This was generally my experience with things, I was born in 88 and I always owned a console one generation behind because my parents could get games far cheaper for it than whatever the newest was. In fact, I had got a pack of like 30 NES games from my aunt because one of her coworkers was giving them away since her son got a SNES for Christmas.

I think it was the PSX where I finally got something that came out only a year or so after its release, and it was mainly to play the latest installment of Final Fantasy.

>> No.5991163

>>5990313
He says he's 32, but aren't 32 year olds more likely to have a PS1 and N64 in their early childhood?

>> No.5991173

I'm also 1987, and the answer is yes. Absolutely. EVERYONE had an NES, but the SNES was something mostly only kids who were into video games had. I don't think I got my SNES until like 1995.

>> No.5991182

I remember Christmas of 1994, Walmart was advertising as being on sale were Kirby's Adventure, Tetris 2, Startropics, and Yoshi for 20 bucks each. I remember specifically because I asked for all four and ended up getting all of them but Kirby (which I got at a swap meet a few years later). Yeah, NES games were still being sold at big box retailers as late as 1995. Like, you could go into ToysRus and buy all three Final Fantasy games. It's not like it is today where old systems tend to get booted out of the aisle within a year of the new generation coming out.

>> No.5991187

Born in '86, my dad had an Intellivision plus the Atari adapter growing up so I played those games, but all the neighborhood kids still had an NES until the early-mid 90's, son I was still playing Mario 3 and DuckTales in early childhood. The SNES was the first console I bought with my own money in '94.

>> No.5991193

>>5990619
Are you literally me

>> No.5991256

>>5990141
And how young are you that you don't fucking believe him? Anyone old enough will tell you that the NES was still very popular well into the mid '90s. It wasn't like modern gaming where systems got dropped like a rock as soon as the next one comes out. Sytems had a shelf life way beyond their generation, zoomer.

>>5990153
Retard. It had nothing to do with being "lower-class". People just played games from previous generations for longer. Even though I had an SNES, Genesis and N64, when I wanted to play Ninja Turtles II or River City Ransom with my friends, we still fired up the NES. This was back before emulation was widely common, so maybe you don't understand. People held on to their shit and there wasn't this fervent "UPGRADE AND REPLACE" mentality that exists today.

This is part of why I find the "retro" vidya phenomenon so weird. Video games felt very contiguous even into the beginning of the new millennia, but somewhere along the line, people started to treat anything before 2001 as though it were some kind of ancient artifact. Zoomers gonna zoom, I guess. This has to be the stupidest thread on this board right now.

>>5990243
This. To kids in the '80s and '90s, we didn't treat previous generations as automatically inferior. I grew up on NES and C64, but I had a friend with and Atari 2600 and thought it was cool as shit because the games were different and it had its own look and sound. Back in my day, "retro" video games were just called "video games".

>> No.5991319

>>5991256
jesus you sound like such a bitter elitist faggot lol. i feel sorry for you.

>> No.5991432

>>5991163
I'm 27 and my early childhood was NES, Gameboy, and then eventually the N64.
I got to experience SNES games on emulators in the 2000s.

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>>5990141
>>5990164
>>5990167
Born in 87, didn't have a NES but dad got a SNES when it came out. Used to come home from Pre-K to play SMW. NES was your childhood if you were poor lol

>> No.5991698

>>5990141
Yeah, born in 86 and played NES until like 1997. You could go to funco land and get NES games for a couple of bucks back then.

>> No.5991708

>>5991187
How did you get that much of your own money when you were 8?

>> No.5991716
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'85 here, got my Famiclone around 1992, I was 5 or 6.
Played the shit out of it until 1994 when I got both SNES and Mega Drive.
I think it's possible.
My younger cousin born in '88 only got a SNES some years after I did, before that he also played Famiclone.

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>>5990141
I got every system a generation late till the 360, i started with snes though. It's kinda cool in that most the systems library was out and cheaper.
I don't say this lightly but you need to check your privilege anon

>> No.5991886

>>5990141
I was born in 1989 and played nes until I was around 6 or so. Not every parent bought a new system just because it was new. Hell, I didn't even know snes existed until it was through the door.

>> No.5991890

>>5991163
2019-1987=32. It's completely possible that someone who's 32 didn't have something in their early childhood when it wasn't even released until they were 9.
I'll that that as a "yes" that you're pretending to be 18+

>> No.5992176

>>5990141
I was born in 1997 and played NES games on a shitty knock-off for the first few years of my conscious life.
I played shit like SMB, Contra, Kirby and Adventure Island.
Used to live in a slavic shithole like Bosnia.

>> No.5992217

I was born in 1985 and got my NES in 1989. Played it all the way into the mid/late 90s. Didn't get another console until the N64 came out.

>> No.5992232

>>5990141
Yes, but more importantly, why do you care?

>> No.5992258

>>5991708
My parents taught me to save and invest from a very young age, I did chores and tasks around the house from the age of four and saved for years. Had a giant bank full of change I saved up to buy the SNES.

>> No.5992263

1990 here had hand me down nes from cousins can confirm was poorfag

>> No.5992270

>>5990167
I was born in 1990 and remember playing NES and SNES games contemporaneously. The only "old" system back then was shit like Atari and Coleco. If you wanted to play Mega Man X, you plugged in an SNES. If you wanted to play Mega Man 3, you plugged in an NES. It was whatever.

In another twenty years will people be asking if people that grew up with a Wii REALLY had a DS?

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>>5990647
tfw you'll never play smash 64 in a smelly ass basement with your brother and friends again.

>> No.5993536

>>5990141
Alot of kids born in 1987 got their older siblings old video game systems as hand me downs.

So snes,NES and genesis were common second hand systems.

>> No.5993540

>>5990167
I was still playing NES and genesis In 92 didn't get a SNES untill like 94 or 95 when it had a drastic price cut.

>> No.5993541

>>5990205
I remember grabbing Starflight and a few other Genesis games from a Game Crazy in like 2006, it wasn’t uncommon.

>> No.5993552

>>5990240
I was born in 1986 and the NES was a huge part of my childhood. So yes someone born in 1987 would grow up with it.

People didn't buy new systems the moment they came out back in the 90s.

>> No.5993560

>>5990167
My parents always waited for consoles to go on sale before buying them. Guess when they go on sale? That's right, just before the new ones come out. We were perpetually one generation behind. Then after the N64 we didn't get a new console until the Xbox 360.

>> No.5993574

>>5992258
You must have had wise parents because not only me but a lot of adults as well should've learned how to handle money a long time ago. I'd never have the willpower to save for 4 years to buy a new console, let alone at such an age.

>>5992263
Also 1990 but I was lucky my brother got a NES that same year. I must have had a very fortunate childhood because we were able to play on a SNES, a N64, several Gameboys and last but not least, several home computers (one of them solely property of my brother when he turned 14). I can understand now in hindsight but as a child it was a normal affair to me to get every new nintendo thingy until the gameboy advance era. Missed out on 6th and most of 7th gen but they're not retro anyway.
It would've been even better if I was able to play more Megadrive, Saturn or Playstation games but beggars can't be choosers.