/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6452180]

>born July 1995
>my older brother (born August 1982) tells me that I'm not old enough to remember the heyday of the original Gameboy, and perhaps not even the Gameboy Color; that I was the perfect age for the GBA, but that's about it

I want to be oldschool... he's wrong, right? Right???

[Anonymous No.6452182]

>>6452180
give it a few months and gen 6 will be welcomed here with open arms, don't fall for that lone anti-gen 6 autist spamming threads with multiple devices.

[Anonymous No.6452185]

>>6452180
ehhh who gives a shit, i was born in 2001and I don't let that bother me. fuck all the gatekeepers, just play video games.

[Anonymous No.6452189]

What a stupid post. Obviously you can't remember the "heyday" because you were too young. That doesn't mean that you can't know about it or still enjoy older games though.

[Anonymous No.6452190]

>>6452189
>what a stupid post
>but you're right and i agree completely
what did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.6452194]

>>6452190
It's a stupid post because it takes 10 seconds to realize that you can be "oldschool". There's no reason to make a thread seeking confirmation.

[Anonymous No.6452195]

>>6452194
was there a reason you posted in this thread just so you could agree with OP and call him stupid?

[Anonymous No.6452197]

>>6452190
Eh? He's agreeing with OP's older brother, not OP.

[Anonymous No.6452201]

>>6452197
OP's post is clearly expressing disbelief that his brother was, in fact, right, so I'm not sure what you're struggling with here.

[Anonymous No.6452204]

>July 1995
Me too, OP.
My family already had a lot of games by the time I was born, though. Even had my own computer by the time I was 3 (was a 486 with a Pentium Overdrive) when my father upgraded his system.

[Anonymous No.6452205]

>>6452195
Yes. My post gives him the confirmation he desires whilst also allowing him to realize how unnecessary his thread was. In an ideal world, after reading my post he would delete the thread.

[Anonymous No.6452207]

>>6452205
you have strange notions of what an ideal world is anon, but i'll allow it. soldier on.

[Anonymous No.6452209]

>>6452201
The main crux of anon's post was that OP is stupid and his brother is correct. The last sentence is more of an afterthought and pat on the back.

[Anonymous No.6452212]

>>6452204
Are you flirting with me? Your image kind of makes it seem like you are...?

[Anonymous No.6452216]

>>6452209
>main crux
hello, is this the redundancy department? I'd like to file a complaint

[Anonymous No.6452221]

>>6452212
Just thought it was cool to see someone who shared my birth month out of the blue!

[Anonymous No.6452240]

>>6452180
This is now officially copypasta

[Anonymous No.6452248]

>>6452180
If you were born in 1995 you were barely forming permanent memories before the GBA came out.

[Anonymous No.6452252]

>>6452248
it came out when he was 6 or 7 you smelly retard

[Anonymous No.6452258]

>>6452252
It would have come out just before he turned 6. I don't know about you, but I can't remember much of anything from before I was 6 or 7, most of it is very fuzzy and a lot of it is false memories constructed from hearing people talking about what I did at that age.

[Anonymous No.6452259]

>>6452258
Well fair enough but my first vivid memories are from when I was 3 or 4 anon.

[Anonymous No.6452265]

>>6452180
Waaaaay too young to be here but I commend you for taking the rights step. Start by making amends and spread what you learn.

[Anonymous No.6452267]

>>6452265
>25 is too young
i can smell your BO and sad eyes through my monitor anon

[Anonymous No.6452272]

>>6452258
maybe im alone on this, but i don't have any problem recalling memories from before i was 6. i think my earliest memory that isn't just meaningless blips is from when i was 3

[Anonymous No.6452276]

>>6452180
>born in 1995
Heh, sorry kid, but you'll never be retro. You had to be at least 10 years old before the year 2000 in order to be considered a retro human.

[Anonymous No.6452294]

You weren't around for the heyday yeah but GB lasted so long most late 90s kids still grew up with one and a lot of poorfags stuck with it for a while after GBA launched

[Anonymous No.6452648]

>>6452267
Imagine projecting this hard.
What's the opposite of juvenoia? That isn't gerontophobia... is there a word for boys who hate slightly older men?

[Anonymous No.6452672]

>>6452248
>>6452258
true yeah I can remember from 4.
My earliest gaming memories are when I was 6, got an N64.

BUT its important to point out that if you have older brothers you can remember a bit earlier (if that makes sense.) OP has a (much) older brother so it possible OP can actually remember 6th gen pretty well (which includes game boy advance.)
Also bear in mind many NES and SNES games were re-released on GBA, the "NES Classics" line and then all the Super Mario Lands on SNES were released as Mario Advance 1, 2, and 3. The GBA is essentially a handheld SNES, as the game boy was basically a handheld NES / game gear was a handheld Master System. DS got some N64 re-releases; it was a souped up handheld N64 basically. (Lylat Wars, Mario 64 DS, the n64 Zeldas both saw re-releases on DS.)

So, with an older brother for guidance, and lots of retro games coming out on a current console (gb advance), and also in Animal Crossing on gamecube you could play NES games; thats how I first played them (Emulators werent as prevalent or capable in 2003). Also, a Zelda Collectors Edition disc came out in late 2003 on gamecube that had the two NES Zelda games on it, thats where I first played NES Zeldas.

>t. born 1992.

[Anonymous No.6452686]

>>6452294
This too, Pokemon in particular gave the Game Boy (and GBC) a longer lifespan. I have an official nintendo gen 1 pokemon guide from 2000 which advises for Kogas gym;
>"If you are lucky enough to have a SNES and Super game boy working, play your cart here and youll easily see the invisible walls in Kogas gym."

I was still bringing a (1989 brick) Game Boy into school in 2000 / 2001 to play/trade/battle Pokemon Red.
The trade cables had forked ends; the smaller port for Game Boy Color and larger port was for brick Game Boy.

It was not unusual at all in 2000 to see brick game boys. By about 2001 you would have got a bit of a slagging for it, though.

[Anonymous No.6452713]

>>6452180
You know, come to think of it, the gameboy really was great towards the end of its cycle. There was nothing fun about barely being able to see the fucking screen. Also Pokemon came out in 98 or around then right? I think you got in at the best time to be frank.

[Anonymous No.6452725]

>>6452185
It's not about gatekeeping, but you'll never know what it was like, you grew up too spoiled by technology. Simple

[Anonymous No.6452998]

>>6452180
What does it fucking matter? Just play the games anyway if you like them.

>>6452248
Dumbass.

>>6452258
>I don't know about you, but I can't remember much of anything from before I was 6 or 7
I remember a lot of things from when I was like 4 or 5.

[Anonymous No.6453298]

>>6452998
Another '95 kid here, I remember watching my mom and dad taking turns playing MediEvil and laughing at Fortesque's mumbling. I cling pretty strongly to those kinds of old memories, because by '99 my parents had split and I was living the next ten years homeschooled and TV-free with my grandparents in the middle of a fucking desert, and they tried to get rid of pretty much every movie, album, or video game my dad had left me with. I've been spending the last decade just playing catchup with all the shit I missed the first go around. I think people just have different capacities for early memories, or they keep certain memories and toss others due to how impactful it seemed at the time.

[Anonymous No.6453328]

>>6452998
>I remember a lot of things from when I was like 4 or 5.
Yeah, but that was last week

[Anonymous No.6453338]

>>6453328
Anon you’re the one throwing the tantrum here, don’t you see that?

[Anonymous No.6453374]

>>6452180
It’s fine OP. That’s just what big bro’s do. I was born in October 94 and I tease my little bro (March 02) about how he didn’t live through the 64 and he’d barely have any memories pre-Wii. It’s all lighthearted though. But he’s a huge old school gamer and has a big NES collection so it doesn’t really matter.

Your bro is kinda wrong though. You should be able to remember GBC at the very least. I had a GB at like 4 and got a GBC for Christmas 99 with Pokémon Gold, and I vividly remember enjoying that, the Oracle games, Kirby Tilt n Tumble, etc. Don’t worry so much.

[Anonymous No.6454121]

>>6453338
>n-n-no u

[Anonymous No.6454125]

>>6454121
>sperg out
>get called a sperg
>”haha takes one to know one!”
Why are you like this?

[Anonymous No.6454469]

>>6454125
>make fun of speg spering out
>sperg is newfag who can't into how anonymous boards work
>sperg spergs out even more
>spergception
>sperg will spergpost spergcope, like pottery
>the power of assburgers compels it

[Anonymous No.6454928]

>>6454469
this is the most autistic post ive read in years

[Anonymous No.6454941]

Quality thread.

[Anonymous No.6456916]

>>6454928
>this is the most autistic post ive made in years
liar

[Anonymous No.6457007]

>>6452258
That's pretty common in molestation cases

[Anonymous No.6457128]

>>6452180
Im from 96 and i remembee the gbc
Hes wrong

[Anonymous No.6457154]

>>6452180
Deep down this is the mindset of every "PS2 and Gamecube are retro!" posters.
That being said, who gives a shit. Enjoy what you enjoy. I was born in 1988 and grew up playing NES and SNES, even though I was too young to actually grow up during the prime years of the NES. Nevertheless I have fond childhood memories of the console and gladly play it to this day.

[Anonymous No.6457161]

I was born in 89 and in my opinion you need to be born in 1994 or earlier to be counted as a true boomer.

Once you've born in 1995 or later, it's doubtful you would have any memories of real arcades (not just dancing ticket winning family entertainment venues). Arcades, not home experiences, were the true ticket to retro.

[Anonymous No.6457183]

>>6452672
>DS got some N64 re-releases; it was a souped up handheld N64 basically. (Lylat Wars, Mario 64 DS, the n64 Zeldas both saw re-releases on DS.)

Actually, the only DS N64 re-release was Mario 64, the other three games didn't get a remaster until later and that was only on the 3DS.

[Anonymous No.6457251]

>>6452180
i'm 5 years older than you and just barely old enough to have played a gbc when it new and i wasn't an actual toddler
so no, he's right, you're too young for gameboy/colour

[Anonymous No.6457270]

>>6457128
dude the console came out when you were 2 years old, you may remember the console, but it was either already old news when you did, or you have memories sucking on the corner of the console as an actual baby

[Anonymous No.6457528]

I'm in a weird situation, I was born in 1993, but in the place where I grew up the "heyday" of the SNES lasted well into the early 2000s. Every kid seemed to have one, there were always people to trade carts with and places to rent, I never knew too many people who had N64 or PSX and those who did were always alone, in the sense that they didn't have a "community" to be part of. Which is why I always think of myself as someone from the SNES era.
I couldn't pinpoint the exact moment everybody stored their SNES away in the attic for good and started getting PS2s and computers, maybe sometime around 2002-3, but in my mind that's what separates the old times and the modern times.

[Anonymous No.6457848]

>>6452180

you were born when the golden age was ending, sorry man.. you were too late to the party.

[Anonymous No.6457856]

>>6452212
shut the fuck up you fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.6458068]

>>6457161
>tfw when jan 94
i made it bros

[Anonymous No.6458360]

>>6452180

Who the hell cares about the original Game Boy? I was born in 1980 and I never wanted one. Play Link's Awakening and Metroid 2 and there you're done with it.

Portable game systems in general aren't great. If you want old Nintendo stuff then play NES games.

[Anonymous No.6459021]

>>6452185
Based fellow zoomer. 1998 here.

[Anonymous No.6459029]

>>6458360
anon if you just wanted to ask for Game Boy game recommendations, just do it normally.

[Anonymous No.6460638]

>>6452180
>>my older brother (born August 1982) tells me that I'm not old enough to remember the heyday of the original Gameboy
Yeah he's absolutely right. That doesn't mean you can't enjoy the gameboy games though.

[Anonymous No.6460641]

>>6452265
>Waaaaay too young to be here
Shut the fuck up retard. The only requirements for being here are being over 18 and having an appreciation for retro games.