"You had to be there."

[Anonymous No.7128930]

What are some examples of games where you had to be there when it was popular to understand? Another anon here gave me the idea.
First I can think of is a game like Mortal Kombat. It's not mechanically deep, so it ends up feeling pretty shallow as a pure fighting game. The main reason anyone played this game was nut busting and blood and gore. And if you didn't grow up with it, it almost seems juvenile. People revisiting the game just won't "get it".

What are some other games like this?

[Anonymous No.7128937]

GTA games.

[Anonymous No.7128939]

[Anonymous No.7128943]

probably the first generation of pokemon

[Anonymous No.7128949]

The gameplay was nothing special, but holy fuck it had Terminator ninjas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ7-4ldPqdA

[Anonymous No.7128975]

>>7128930
4-player split screen goldeneye 007 with your bros

[Anonymous No.7128985]

>>7128943
I feel like Pokemon as a franchise has basically just become some weird nostalgic half existence. People play pokemon almost solely because it is pokemon. Probably the sole thing truly keeping the entire thing on life support is people remembering how they cried over the movie, or the first time they unwrapped a shiny charizard or something.

There's a reason the only three kinds of discussion Pokemon fosters is
>wow it still reminds me of when I came home from school and mom wasn't home yet so I poured myself a choccy milk and grinded for a few hours
>okay so flipomon attacks 3 times at double speed perpetually when holding a bingle berry which is the exact amount required to deactivate the 5 chimpy team meta
>the first time I jacked off was to pokemon

[Anonymous No.7129030]

>>7128930

[Anonymous No.7129043]

>>7128937
You mean the first two? I played the PS2 games for the first time last year and I liked them. I can't get into the top-down ones though.

[Anonymous No.7129048]

>>7128939
The NES version is superior. Fair at least, yet the arcade version's sound are top notch.
>AHUUH!!
>AHAAAAAAAAAA..
>GOT IT

[Anonymous No.7129075]

>>7128985
>>the first time I jacked off was to pokemon
Those defining moments of our lives

[Anonymous No.7129080]

>>7128949
That game was and is insane. Have you looked at the plot for it? Have you played the entire MEGA CD version? Jesus Christ it's like a prophecy, almost.
Anyway, cool game.

Also
>IS AIR Force
That pretty much says it all.

[Anonymous No.7129081]

>>7128985

I remember as I got slightly older how surprised I was that many folks I knew found the first Pokemon movie impactful.

I was a little kid when Pokemon first came out, I went and saw the movie opening night and was super excited, and I remember finding it to be just awful. So fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.7129082]

>>7128930
every game prior to the ps5

[Anonymous No.7129121]

>>7128985
One of my friends used to come over to my house specifically to print out bestiality porn of Jessie from Pokemon. It wasn't always bestiality, but it usually was. I had no friends and he was the only one who would hang out with me, and he spent most of the time at my house either using my printer, showing me his porn collection, or using my Wii to look up Aerisdies porno while I was sleeping.

He's in prison now

[Anonymous No.7129132]

>>7128937
Especially 3.

[Anonymous No.7129134]

>>7128930
Arcade games up until the late 90s. They weren't dumb shit you play at a bar, at the time they were the peak of gaming technology. That's why people were willing to pay per play. There wasn't anything on any home system that could compete graphically with arcade games until Doom.

[Anonymous No.7129152]

Shenmue

[Anonymous No.7129156]

>>7129134
You mean Quake 2? Most arcade games looked much better than Doom.

[Anonymous No.7129171]

>>7129030
Based, I'm old and I loved this stupid game

[Anonymous No.7129176]

>>7128943
played Blue for the first time recently, enjoyed it a lot.

[Anonymous No.7129195]

>>7129171
We remember when the game was cutting edge in every sense.

[Anonymous No.7129212]

>>7129121

[Anonymous No.7129217]

Final Fantasy VII. I have tried multiple times to see why this game is so great. I can't.

[Anonymous No.7129234]

>>7129121
>Aerisdies porno
Please tell me this isn't a thing

[Anonymous No.7129239]

I mean, if you're comparing MK to other fighting games from that same era, it wasn't bad at all? People always compare it to Street Fighter, and sure, SF had way better mechanics, but MK still beat the dozens of outright garbage shovelware fighting games in US arcades and home consoles. MK only really starts getting pushed to the back when you add in all the games that came later which copied and expanded on the SF algorithm.

[Anonymous No.7129248]

>>7128930
You had to be there to remember Hillary Clinton and her gang of cronies trying to get this game banned and censored because they thought it made mass killers.

[Anonymous No.7129260]

>>7129248
>Biden: And you may recall, the criticism I got for meeting with the leaders in Silicon Valley, when I was trying to work out an agreement dealing with them protecting intellectual property for artists in the United States of America. And at one point, one of the little creeps sitting around that table, who was a multi- — close to a billionaire — who told me he was an artist because he was able to come up with games to teach you how to kill people, you know the ——
>Warzel: Like video games.
>Biden: Yeah, video games…

don't worry anon, Biden will get violent video games banned this time

[Anonymous No.7129271]

>>7129260
Why ban them when you can go full propaganda with them, have all the protagonists shitskins (and 1-2 pussy-fied whites so it's not blatantly obvious) and then have all the villains be white
They already do this with Hollywood action movies

[Anonymous No.7129274]

>>7129260
Crazy how a dude who’s such a war hawk is also offended by fantasy depictions of violence. Maybe he should sit down and see what his policies have done to people in Libya and Yemen.

[Anonymous No.7129281]

>>7128930
it's innovation was photo-realistic visuals. no other game did that, or it at least wasnt common

[Anonymous No.7129296]

>>7129281
Ahem

[Anonymous No.7129304]

To be sure, Mortal Kombat's innovation was being violent on a level unseen at the time and for playing smoothly, unlike the choppy Pit Fighter.

[Anonymous No.7129305]

>>7129296
*coughs*

[Anonymous No.7129308]

>>7129043
You don't enjoy running over the marching bands?

[Anonymous No.7129317]

>>7129305
Do you have a hoax virus? Anyway, 1990 is older than 1993, but I'm no rocket doctor.

[Anonymous No.7129321]

FMV games

[Anonymous No.7129334]

>>7129317
>1990
>1993

that's a 0.149% variance, that's well within the margin of error for being unable to determine which came first

[Anonymous No.7129345]

>>7129334
Totally legit post.

[Anonymous No.7129523]

>>7128930
You know what was cool about MK when it came out? EVERYTHING

>photo realistic graphics
>"Get over here!"
>crazy bosses
>unique inputs and controls
>fall backwards when tripped
>juggle combos
>deepest lore all around

Time Killers came out about the same time MK did and it was much gorier, you see how well that worked out

>>7129239
There's that too, I feel like people massively overestimate how good the average fighting game was in 1992. Hyper Fighting wasn't even out when MK dropped, and everything else that wasn't Street Fighter 2 was just way shittier Street Fighter 2. MK was at least very different.

[Anonymous No.7129542]

>>7129234
Aeriesdies was an old hentai/cartoonporn website back in the early 2000s. You used to be able to go there and find categories of porn for any show you could think of. It certainly ruined me

[Anonymous No.7129561]

>>7129234
if you didn't know aeriesdies back then, i think you hadn't connected to the internet in early 2000s.
http://www.aerisdies.com
>>7129542
it's still up, but i don't know if it's still updating the contents or not.

[Anonymous No.7129562]

>>7129121
>He's in prison now
what did he do?

[Anonymous No.7129563]

>>7129561
Don't link a porn site on a blue board you mong. But no, it doesn't update content anymore as far as I can tell

[Anonymous No.7129574]

>>7129562
I've talked to about 5 different people and they told me he had CP, but no one is really sure. We do know his house got stormed though. And he's in prison. So the math is easy here.

[Anonymous No.7129582]

>>7129239
This only lends more to the "you had to be there" angle, but people don't realize how many people cried for SF to have a block button and hated what would come to be known as proximity guard, before MK was even a thing.

[Anonymous No.7129587]

>>7128930
Mario 64, OOT, Half Life and GTA 3.

[Anonymous No.7129605]

>>7128985
>the first time I jacked off was to pokemon

[Anonymous No.7129620]

The day I bought this, I had no less than six friends all come over to play it from like 1pm to dusk. We would all go to each other's houses to play games, but this was the first time EVERYBODY came to play. Even my older step bro and his best friend came to play SF2 with us.

[Anonymous No.7129629]

>>7129620
That shit was nuts. SF2 was the first time I remember specifically looking for a game and it being completely sold out... in FIVE stores. We ended up coughing up fucking $80+tax at Kmart.

[Anonymous No.7129647]

>>7128985
fucking kek

[Anonymous No.7129663]

>>7129260
imagine thinking this geezer actually won with a "record breaking turnout" despite losing in a large majority of counties

hopefully the electors dont choose him

[Anonymous No.7129667]

>>7128985
>be kid
>like brainlessly grinding in jrpgs like Dragon Warrior
>pokemon comes out
>entire point of the game is to brainlessly grind
>also it's popular so your friends won't call you a faggot for playing it

[Anonymous No.7129737]

>>7128939
Data East arcade games are pure kino.
>>7129152
This x100
>>7129217
Play some other JRPG's from before its release. Then try it again.

[Anonymous No.7129819]

>>7129737
>Data East arcade games are pure kino.
Spot on. One time my Mum gave me $20 to buy milk and bread and I blew the rest on Midnight Resistance. Still couldn't beat it...

>Play some other JRPG's from before its release. Then try it again.
JRPGs are shit dude, but I still enjoyed FF7 playing it all these years after it was released. Very well polished for what it was.

[Anonymous No.7129820]

>>7129737
pic related

>>7129629
yeah, SF2 was the only game I remember everyone going apeshit about. I had a literal block party form in the rural mid-Atlantic within 30 minutes of letting my friends I got it on release day.

>even a couple girls called to come over and play with us which did not happen, let alone to play vidya as a general rule.

SF2 came out in my 4th to 5th grade summer, so we had 3rd graders to high school juniors all playing SF2 together all day.

>I know nostalgia is BS in general, but I really hate you zoomers will never understand the pre-9/11 world of social interaction and real sense of community.

[Anonymous No.7129835]

>>7129542
Ah yes, where they would resize everything, and add their own watermark.
It really did feel like it had everything though. Then finally we left the dark ages with the emergence of gelbooru, paheal, and sankaku.

[Anonymous No.7129894]

>>7129835
>gelbooru
>danbooru
which one is older?

[Anonymous No.7129954]

>>7128930

[Anonymous No.7130014]

>>7128949
Nice Darius clone.

[Anonymous No.7130020]

>>7128930
Watch some 80s martial arts action movies if you want to really understand why Mortal Kombat was popular. The game was basically Bloodsport mashed up with Big Trouble in Little China, Jean-Claude Van Damme vs Bruce Lee. That and no single game at the time had so good digitized content and gore, and on top of that the gameplay was good (it was very simple to get into, even my mom could pick it up in a minute or two, we used to play MK Trilogy together).

[Anonymous No.7130026]

>>7129248
I don't remember that, but I remember when SEGA went to congress to introduce the precursor to the ESRB, and I remember when they called Doom a pipe bombers training game after the Columbine high school shooting.

[Anonymous No.7130032]

>>7129274
The ironic thing is the US has done way worse stuff in the middle east than has ever been in a Video Game. They only have a problem with violence when its on a game or tv and film in the past before games became the excuse.

[Anonymous No.7130106]

>>7128985
Funny, I have /mtgag/ open in another tab, and it's basically the same thing with Magic Arena, in its lifespan the software has oscillated in quality between quite good and terrible and it's been consistently bad for a good year and a half. 95% of people there, myself included, are still playing for the sole reason we used to play paper Magic when we were kids/teens and have no other way of experiencing it, makes me feel like such a nostalgiafag boomer lol

[Anonymous No.7130612]

>>7129954
Not true, played it first time a year ago. It's still good.

[Anonymous No.7130838]

>>7128943
>>7128985
These. Pokemon was a genuine cultural phenomenon when it first came out. It's obviously still popular, but that first couple of years you couldn't bump into another kid that didn't have his gameboy on him. The cards were so popular that all the stores had to put limits on the amount one person could buy and they had to be banned from schools because kids were getting their shit stolen left and right. I'll never forget how happy and relieved I was when I finally got my beloved Blastoise card from a dealer.

It's clearly still popular with kids, but I think that it is largely being kept on life support by adults that were around for the "golden era" and are mostly trying to recapture something that was very special, which is a sad road to go down because the best days and ideas of the series are long behind them.

[Anonymous No.7130847]

>>7129081
I was never a huge fan of the show either, but the idea to give out a series of promo cards with tickets to see the movie was brilliant.

[Anonymous No.7132175]

Bump

[Anonymous No.7132585]

>>7129152
played Shenmue 2 on my dreamcast for hours and hours

[Anonymous No.7132587]

The original Fallout games.

[Anonymous No.7132619]

>>7130612
Anon, i love the game as much as you but you know that the running up the stairs bit was dogshit

[Anonymous No.7132623]

>>7132587
Nah i got my dose of apocalyptic mad max from em. Still great games reminds me of side story star wars

[Anonymous No.7132636]

>>7132619
one of the first, you're being chased sequences in video games tho

[Anonymous No.7132639]

>>7129954
played this years after it came out because I played Subsistence and wanted to see the older games, instantly one of my all time favourite games.

[Anonymous No.7132681]

>>7128949
Reminder Once Again is amazing

[Anonymous No.7132698]

>>7129248
the amount of sperg needed to customize this meme and make it political is so fucking pathetic.

[Anonymous No.7132746]

>>7128930
>seems juvenile
VIDEO GAMES ARE FOR CHILDREN. Seriously, you can fuck right off, sonny.

[Anonymous No.7132753]

>>7132746
>VIDEO GAMES ARE FOR CHILDREN.
Not really, in fact, games specifically meant for kids was always an afterthought. From the early arcade games to the more advanced home console games, they're by and large meant for late-teens to 50+.

[Anonymous No.7132756]

>>7129121
>imagine never doing a bid

[Anonymous No.7132760]

>>7129248
>Hillary Clinton
Source, please. What’s that? You pulled it out of your ass?

[Anonymous No.7132763]

>>7128930
Pretty much every /vr/ game. If it’s too hard or grindy or whatever, you should fuck right off instead of altering those WORKS OF ART.

[Anonymous No.7132769]

>>7132753
>1993
>adult gamers
Practically nonexistent.

[Anonymous No.7132772]

>>7132769
You're just wrong.

[Anonymous No.7132825]

>>7128930
>The main reason anyone played this game was nut busting and blood and gore.

Oh please.

Don't pretend the presentation (not the gameplay) wasn't immaculate and above anything Capcom would produce almost a decade.
Don't pretend the digitized live action characters didn't look incredible by the standards of the early 90's.

>And if you didn't grow up with it, it almost seems juvenile.

Even as early as MK2, the series wore its silliness on its sleeve with the fucking 'Toasty!' jokes, which it tripled down on in MK3. Honestly, I'd say the series as a whole is its best when it drops its pretenses of seriousness.

[Anonymous No.7132831]

>>7129620
>The day I bought this, I had no less than six friends all come over to play it from like 1pm to dusk

God, I want to go back.

[Anonymous No.7132839]

>>7132831
That game was very close to the arcade version, so close that me and my cousin assumed it was exactly like it. Good times.
My cousin's a jerk now, but he was nice growing up.

[Anonymous No.7132840]

>>7132769
This is completely untrue.

Wizardy and Ultima had huge adult fanbases already, and 1993 was the year that Doom would grind office productivity to a halt across the entire developed world. At the same moment, millions of boomers were buying CD-Rom drives just to play Myst

[Anonymous No.7132864]

>>7130838
>It's clearly still popular with kids, but I think that it is largely being kept on life support by adults that were around for the "golden era" and are mostly trying to recapture something that was very special

I feel this is pretty much the same thing that's going on with Final Fantasy 7 - perhaps even the Final Fantasy series as a whole at this point.

[Anonymous No.7132876]

>>7132864
FF is an even more egregious example of this. Kids still play Pokemon. What kid gives a fuck about Final Fantasy? For that matter, what adult gives a fuck about Final Fantasy? Even the people who liked the originals hate the new games like FFXV. I'm not actually sure who the new games are even supposed to be for or who's buying them. I'm guessing that's why they're rebranding the series going into the next gen.

[Anonymous No.7132969]

The strange stop-motion animation is what I always found appealing about it. Primal Rage especially gets it right because the sprites are made from pictures of clay models. I wouldn’t mind seeing that shit again in games. It was a nice way to do things I think.

[Anonymous No.7133001]

>>7129171
I'm old too and loved this game as a kid. Still do. People that talk shit didn't live in the era

[Anonymous No.7133024]

>>7130026
After Columbine, my mom started worrying about Le Doom is bad hysteria. She had went through my SNES drawer and took my copy of Doom. Her dumb ass didn't understand I had it on my PC and was playing Quake II then.

>>7130032
The Middle East has done enough via their false swine "prophet"

>>7132831
See the faggot above this post? Hang him and pink haired trannies when it's time.

[Anonymous No.7133043]

>>7129894
Dan obviously. Gellbooru just has less rules and moderation, up until the toddlercon fiasco years back.

[Anonymous No.7133117]

>>7132864
seemed to me like most of the people who worshiped FF7 never even actually played the game, it was just some kind of pop symbol during the rise of "nerd culture" shit

[Anonymous No.7133140]

>>7128943
Was 10 when generation one dropped in the U.S., so I was the target demo for this shit. Thankfully I got all my Pokemon nostalgia out of my system during Gen 4. That late-00s wave of nostalgia for Pokemon and 80s/90s stuff was fun as a college kid, but in %currentyear that shit is just corporate exploitation. Fitting, as a lot of that stuff was exploitative even when they were new and we were just too young to know it.

[Anonymous No.7133186]

>>7133117
I was the opposite. Was a 64 fan boy and thought JRPG suck so it must suck. JRPG still suck, but after playing FF7 I understand its praise.

[Anonymous No.7133231]

>>7133117
>>7133186
>lol I'm such a nerd I love tweeting about watching guys play old video games on twitch have you seen the photo I posted of my mario Funko POP! collection?
>>that's cool I guess what's your favorite c64 game?
>I don't know who that is

[Anonymous No.7133238]

Dance Dance Revolution and the arcade culture around it was absolutely a had to be there moment. Pure distilled early 2000's.

I would give anything to go back.

[Anonymous No.7133283]

>>7128943
this and the not-retro launch of halo 3

[Anonymous No.7133284]

>>7129663
Yeah, the other geezer is so much better.

[Anonymous No.7133336]

Arcades, of course.
>mall has awesome arcade
>remember going there with my big sis when I was just a toddler in the early-90s
>in 2006, arcade in mall closes after 23 years
>corner of food court it was in walled off with blank white walls
>sad but life goes on
>fast forward twelve years to 2018
>visiting same mall because I'm back in my homedown
>blank white walls are gone
>the entire arcade storefront was untouched behind the walls
>marquees, logos, everything
>the inside of the arcade is obviously empty but still has the wallpapers, cool flooring, and distinctive lighting
>heavy nostalgia
>I thought all this shit was destroyed
>come back a few weeks later
>NOW it's all destroyed
>replaced by some lame ESPN Radio thing there now that you can't go inside or really interact with at all beyond watching some unfunny DJ read from a script in his booth behind the glass
>ESPN attraction closed by middle of 2019

I wish I'd tried to dumpster dive to grab a little piece of arcade memorabilia. Arcades were so much fun, and I had a lot of nostalgia for that one in particular.

[Anonymous No.7133362]

>>7133336
just think, if you saved up and weren't a failure you could've bought the space and everything in it

[Anonymous No.7133390]

>>7129248
Stop posting this image in every single thread.

[Anonymous No.7133396]

>>7128943

I remember playing blue in 1999

Was fantastic

[Anonymous No.7133475]

>>7132840
he's a consolefag who thinks that games are for kids only.
pretty sure he didn't know what ultima, wiz, and doom are.

[Anonymous No.7133510]

>>7132840
>>7133475
lol not him but you people are insane if you think the number of adult gamers in the early 90s was significant. Myst was an anomally in that they marketed the shit out of it as a killer app for Mac and it was mostly bought by people who didn't play at all

>>7130106
Fuck, I know that feel...

[Anonymous No.7133551]

>>7132587
Nah they're still great

[Anonymous No.7133583]

LOAD"*",8,1

[Anonymous No.7133621]

>>7133583
>Commodore64
looks like an old BASIC statement
t. gwbasic fan

[Anonymous No.7133634]

>>7128930
SNK arcade games
t. south-american

[Anonymous No.7133742]

>you will never have to flip the disk then press return to continue ever again

why even live

[Anonymous No.7134280]

>>7133140
That is peak millenial pokemon experience and I'm right there with you. Granted, they got me with the previous generation. The current one burned me out hardcore.

[Anonymous No.7134306]

>>7132587
It's only Bethesdrones and people who don't get RPGs who dislike them. They're still solid, I pitched them to some fans of classic style RPGs and they were well received.

[Anonymous No.7134320]

>>7133024
I remember all of that. My computer was confiscated and the 'rents took to using computer help lines to "cleanse" of it EEEEVIL. They only succeeded in fucking it up. But, nothing some classes in computers, books and repair knowledge didn't fix. My mom freaked after discovering Blood, good times. Sucks that many of my games, and a lot of my D&D and World of Darkness stuff were sold at a rummage sale though. Fucking moralists, man. Makes me almost regret selling some of my parents' stuff at an auction to get many of those things back.
But, those were worthless space taking knickknacks that they never noticed anyway.

[Anonymous No.7135304]

>>7133238
Got in on it when it was starting to fade out ... but god it was fun. Its funny though the dj, guitar and drums stuff that came before and after never appealed to me.

[Anonymous No.7135479]

>>7129043

It's weird, I played the first one (a pirated version that didn't even have the music from the game CD I think?!?) when I was a kid and it blew my mind. I loved it for a short while and had a great time messing around and ignoring the mission system.

Years later I played GTA 3 on PC and didn't get into it at all. It felt like more of the same... except more awkward to control because it was 3D instead of 2D. But THAT was the one that really caught fire with the gaming masses.

I don't have any clear point here.

[Anonymous No.7135487]

>>7128930
MK was also Urban Legend central

[Anonymous No.7135537]

>>7135304

Man I guess I did the same... I didn't even think of it as a "culture" in fact, because there was hardly ever anybody else playing the games. I'd just go in, monopolize the arcade's DDR machine until I was exhausted, and then leave. Usually nobody else would interfere.

It was fine with me though because I just loved the game, not the idea of playing it with a crowd. I bought a pair of Cobalt Flux pads, purchased/soldered together some appropriate adapters for various consoles, and played every weekend in the conference room at work, with the game screen projected on the wall. It was great.

[Anonymous No.7135548]

[Anonymous No.7135604]

Watched 2 older teens play this for an hour in the late 90s cause it was too spoopy for my 8 y.o self. When they left I snuck in and played through the first level shaking with the light gun in my hands. Single best light gun experience, that shit ain’t coming back.

[Anonymous No.7135631]

>>7135604
>Single best light gun experience