/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7476667]

When did you realize you are an oldfag?

[Anonymous No.7476707]

>>7476667
When I became your step dad and you have to hear the sounds of me wrecking your mom's leaky anus every night

[Anonymous No.7476797]

>>7476667
>Implying I didn't know I'd get old.

[Anonymous No.7476906]

>>7476667
I was born in 1999 bro

[Anonymous No.7476924]

>>7476667
When I realized the atari2600 isn't something you should reveal as being your first console

[Anonymous No.7477012]

>>7476667
when I entered the wageslave circuit and on top of that I had a daughter and divorced

[Anonymous No.7477265]

>>7476707
there's nothing better than having zoomer stepkids and subtly reminding them every day that
I don't love you or even care about you very much, I'm just fucking your mom, and pretty soon she might have another kid just bc your dumb tide-pod eating wrong-bathroom using vape-smoking no-job-having ass turned out to be such a disappointment

[Anonymous No.7477267]

>>7476707
Pisss?

[Anonymous No.7477963]

>>7476667
When I saw the consensus was that "skyrim" was a decent game. Then i knew I was a part of a dying breed. Now I don't tell anyone i play video games and enjoy my hobby in peace.

[Anonymous No.7477965]

>>7476667
I think it more like “Video games that still look like they are 20 years old vs Shit zoomers enjoy.”

[Anonymous No.7477970]

>>7477963
This sounds more like you weren't around when it was released. People couldn't get enough of it, it being shit is a revisionist thing that has been aided by retroactively knowing that Bethesda went to shit afterwards.

[Anonymous No.7477978]

I still think about the PS2 as "the new playstation"

[Anonymous No.7477985]

>>7477978
Grandpa

[Anonymous No.7478102]

>>7477978
>>7477985
Underage, both of you.

[Anonymous No.7478136]

>>7477978
i still think ps3 is a space age supercomputer

[Anonymous No.7478172]

not as old as the examples here but having the new pokemon games i got mocked for liking online for being the 'shitty new generation' be 3x the age it was between those games and the first gen and now, and then seeing zoomers post about x/y being their first games and the good old days
i'm going to blink and start seeing people say sword/shield was the peak of pokemon and it really went downhill after those golden days

[Anonymous No.7478191]

>>7476667
Never. I'm an eternal millennial-zoomer-kid.

[Anonymous No.7478209]

>>7477265
>there's nothing better than having zoomer stepkids and subtly reminding them every day that
I imagine not having to raise another man's children at all is better than that

[Anonymous No.7478303]

>>7476667

[Anonymous No.7478305]

>>7477970
You just supported his argument.

[Anonymous No.7479082]

>>7477265
>there's nothing better than
yeah i can think of a bunch of things that are probably better than that

[Anonymous No.7479098]

>>7476667
coming back to this board and seeing how the average poster doesn't even play any games outside of mario/zelda/doom/sonic shit. election tourists, zoomers?
Back in the early days we just helped each other setup RGB for our consoles and even would play some retro vidya online, like when Duke 3D Megaton came out

[Anonymous No.7479107]

>>7477978
Literally how? Did you own one? its over twenty (20) fucking years old

[Anonymous No.7479163]

It's the same problem I have with music. I am as far removed from my high school grunge days as the grunge days were from the Beatles invasion. In my high school days we looked at 80s music as old, and the late 60s as ancient. But now my soundgarden cds are just as old.

Same thing happened with games. The playstation (1995) is older today than pong (1974) was at the time of its release.

[Anonymous No.7479374]

>>7477265
>he willingly took another man's children is quietly seething at them instead of at least trying to raise them properly
Wow, I don't know what you were trying to do with this post, but you are pitiful.

[Anonymous No.7479419]

>>7479163
I have been completely out of the loop since Lady Gaga was the new big thing. I don't know anything about what is trendy to kids these days, don't know and don't care about current pop artists and pop culture couldn't possibly be more alien to me.
I also don't understand what's so cool or funny about people acting like retards in front of their smartphones to post on these dumb apps.

[Anonymous No.7479428]

>>7477978
This but for the PS3.

[Anonymous No.7479446]

>>7479419
>>7479163
What subreddit was this pasted from?

[Anonymous No.7479471]

i suppose when hooked up my 64 to my old tv dinosaur and adjusted every picture setting to fit the game i happened to be playing. i wish i still had the tv where all the settings were knobs on the front. super mario rpg never looked so good. zoomzooms will never understand with the sad emulators they have been left with

[Anonymous No.7479494]

>>7477265
cringe

[Anonymous No.7480537]

>>7476667
Why does he have six arms

[Anonymous No.7480803]

GTA3 being 20 years old does seem mad to me.

[Anonymous No.7480809]

>>7477978
I know that feel. Cant believe how old it actually is.

[Anonymous No.7480853]

When it became OK to like Halo on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.7480898]

When I mentioned the Sega Genesis in a group conversation about vidya and a girl born in 1997 she “I have no idea what that is”
Also my girl (born 1998) asked me out of curiosity “what’s the difference between Nintendo and the DS?” That one’s probably just a woman being clueless though

[Anonymous No.7480905]

>>7479446
It's a common thing to ponder. I was teasing my parents that the Woodstock concert was closer to world war 1 than it is to the present day. They didnt believe me and then did the math. It is unnerving.

[Anonymous No.7480939]

>>7480898
It would be so weird to talk with a bunch of Zoomers about vidya in person.

>”So, uh... you kids like them Wario land games?” *hairline recedes 2 millimeters*

[Anonymous No.7480943]

>>7476906
I could be your older brother's father

[Anonymous No.7481037]

>>7480939
It was strange. Even if you don’t game, I thought everyone relatively close to my age (‘96) knew who Sega is or what a Gameboy is. It’s like even if you don’t watch sports you know the names Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods.
There are “gamers” on college campuses who’ve never played a system before the Normiebox 360

[Anonymous No.7481067]

>>7476667
why did you put 90s shit
20 years ago was 2001

[Anonymous No.7481114]

>>7480898
>>7481037
>anon is surprised that a woman doesn’t know a console that was discontinued when she was two years old
anon I’m from 97’ and that was the stuff that my older relatives played. My first console was a og xbox, the only times I played something older as a kid was when I went to my poor cousin’s house and played his SNES. I had a 64 before the xbox, but I was too young and stupid to make any progress in anything before it broke so I don’t count it

[Anonymous No.7481131]

>>7481114
It’s the fact that she’d never heard of Sega that made me sad :(

>started with 6th gen
Jeez man, no disrespect but why are you even here

[Anonymous No.7481150]

>>7481131
I’m a board tourist
bounce around shitposting and occasionally having a genuine dialogue

[Anonymous No.7481151]

>>7477265
not raising or having kids in the house and doing the same thing is also doable, but you could only get damaged goods

[Anonymous No.7481154]

>>7481037
i mean freshmen in college were 3 or 4 when the 360 came out so it makes sense that was their first system

[Anonymous No.7481229]

>>7476906
Don't worry, you'll begin to feel it within the next 10 years.

[Anonymous No.7481252]

>>7479107
youngfag

[Anonymous No.7481265]

When kiddies on /v/ started calling 7th gen the best generation

[Anonymous No.7481275]

>>7481067
Those games are from 2001 dummy

[Anonymous No.7481316]

>>7477978
Me with the PS3. Even though I just bought my brother a PS5 for Christmas, I still think of the 3 as a high-end supercomputer. My first time seeing a 1080p video game cutscene on an HDTV was mind-blowing

>>7481154
I guess a bigger problem is that it still hasn’t registered in my brain that I’m no longer a college kid. I keep lumping myself in with them when I shouldn’t. Frat kids today look how high schoolers did to me at that age

[Anonymous No.7481345]

>>7479098

I've noticed this too, but I also sometimes meet kids who do play a lot of games and have some knowledge. And they're weird awkward nerdy kids still.

I think it's really a numbers game, where everyone plays some game or another nowadays and most everyone calls themselves a gamer, but the actual percentage of the hardcore types basically remains constant. It's just now harder to find in the sea of more casual players.

Such is life.

[Anonymous No.7481391]

>>7481265
>when kiddies on /v/ started using "generation" in reference to consoles
fixed

[Anonymous No.7481567]

>>7477978
I still think about the NES as "the new Atari"

[Anonymous No.7481574]

>>7480898
You see anon, your first mistake was interacting with a female for anything other than reproductive purposes.

[Anonymous No.7481838]

>>7477265
I don't even have to read the replies to know some zoomies got triggered. Just the number of replies was enough.

[Anonymous No.7481952]

>>7476667
stop this thread, it hurts

[Anonymous No.7481979]

>>7476667
I can't remember the first time, but seeing friends finding valheim "interesting" definitely left me thinking I am old af.

[Anonymous No.7481984]

>>7481979
>friends try and convince me it's a really good game
>watch them play for an hour
>literally the exact same as every other shitty early access open world survival game
I'm convinced you could sell the exact same game 50 times over as long as you put a different aesthetic spin on it every time.

[Anonymous No.7482014]

>>7481316
>My first time seeing a 1080p video game cutscene on an HDTV was mind-blowing
I felt exactly like that when I watched MGS4 for the first time.

[Anonymous No.7482016]

>>7481979
>>7481984
I still play EverQuest and my entire guild has been obsessed with that game to the point where our raid attendance is down... I don't understand the attraction at all. And these aren't even zoomers we're talking about, they're all like 40+ year old men.

[Anonymous No.7482179]

When my young self regarded pixel art as a lowly form of graphics, to start to understand it as a more refined form of art than 3D realistic graphics.

[Anonymous No.7482471]

>>7476906
>not being old enough to experience THPS

I weep.

[Anonymous No.7483768]

>>7481979
>>7481984
>>7482016

It's the new Flavor of the Month, it's gonna fade away quickly just like every one of them, when the next big FotM is released and the cycle repeats, just like everything related to pop culture nowadays.

[Anonymous No.7483785]

>>7478172
x/y's story did suck yes but i think people were just dunking it because it didn't live up to the standards set by the past 2 games, and they're just now realizing how good they had it after the last couple complete dissapointments

[Anonymous No.7483792]

>>7482016
Well at least we're past the point where people think videogames are for kids, though you'll still see the odd half-hearted troll that it is here. The ironic thing is that the trolls themselves are way too old to still be trolling online is more like.

[Anonymous No.7483845]

When I realize that there are people alive now that weren't even born when Goldeneye was released. Crazy, huh?

[Anonymous No.7483868]

>>7483845
lol fuck my gf is one year younger than goldeneye, i always feel so fucking old when thinking about videogames in relation to her age

[Anonymous No.7484759]

>>7478303
This... this one hits me.
I remember being so impressed by X. ALL the voice acting and textures and whatnot. Ouch.

[Anonymous No.7484781]

>>7476667
Mid 2000s
Gen-X, I wear my oldfag badge proudly.

[Anonymous No.7484915]

When I ran out of time and energy to play games as much as I did as a kid honestly

[Anonymous No.7485212]

>>7484915
I've been waiting for this to happen but i'm 30 and it still hasn't. I do tend to game almost exclusively while drunk or smoking the meme plant though.

[Anonymous No.7485350]

>>7476667
When i realized old videogames were about action and adventure while the new videogames are about agenda and propaganda.

[Anonymous No.7485358]

>>7485350

[Anonymous No.7485368]

I can remember buying Spyro 3 shortly after it released and getting home, playing it for nearly 6 hours straight and clearing the first world.....before my brother whined to the babysitter that I was "hogging the playstation" and made me stop.

I remember that shit like it was yesterday. And yet, that was 20 years ago.

[Anonymous No.7485376]

>>7477978
>The last decade wasn't the 90s

[Anonymous No.7485398]

>>7485350
true

[Anonymous No.7485951]

>>7477978
I mean, I couldn't even name a single game on the PS3-PS5 so it might as well be

[Anonymous No.7486112]

>>7477012
Hello gooseneck

[Anonymous No.7486318]

>>7477978
I remember when the PS2 was the hottest shit around. Me and my cousins playing PS1 and daydreaming about the day when the PS2 would be released, and how huge and advanced its games would be.

[Anonymous No.7486371]

I felt old when shit consoles like N64 and Playstation became what people thought vidya should be about and the increasingly idiotic '3D' games suddenly started needing graphics cards with active cooling.

[Anonymous No.7486626]

>>7476667
When I turned 31 two week ago. I'm literally old now. I'm replaying all 3D era GTAs (with Definitive Edition mods) and having nostalgia over how fucking revolutionary it was when I played it for the first time. But for some reason I just can't get THAT feel I had when I played it as a kid. Something went horribly wrong with me. It's fun. I like it. But also I lack certain feel I remember having while playing these games as a kid.

[Anonymous No.7486629]

>>7486626
I'm a few months older than you and for some reason I cant stop playing GTA3.

[Anonymous No.7486631]

>>7480853
>you're going to live to see the day where it's okay to like fortnite on 4chan
Fuckhing hell

[Anonymous No.7486637]

>>7486629
Ironically I like how simple it is. I love San Andreas and VC but GTA 3 was THE first. It's the most simple and I still can remember how everyone was literally batshit over how fucking revolutionary it was. And I like Liberty City too. I'm already on second island and hopefully I'll finish it in a few days.

[Anonymous No.7486648]

>>7486626
I'm annoyed that I had to download warez versions because I wanted original soundtracks without removed songs. Fuck R* for doing this shit. I own the games but I have to play fucking cracked versions if I want original experience. I can't understand how this is even legal to do. Also GTA IV. It should be ILLEGAL to removing content I PAYED for. I don't give a fuck about them right or shit. I payed for certain game in certain state and them removing content is crime. Fuck R*!

[Anonymous No.7488276]

>>7479471
>tv knobs
Things zoomers don't remember. There is no "canon" NES palette. If you thought the sky should be blue in Mario, you adjusted your tint knob.

[Anonymous No.7488283]

>When
Co workers talk about their childhood video games from 10 years ago, such as Medal of Honor 2010 and MW3

[Anonymous No.7488354]

>>7485398
Fuck. I started tearing up at that. It's too true and it hurts so fucking bad.
>>7476667
I think I've been functionally an oldfag since shortly before RE4 came out, actually. Early 2000's I was neck deep in my Dreamcast and periodically buying NES games to play on the console my cousin gave me as he was cleaning out his apartment. By the time RE4 was out I was bringing my Dreamcast to parties and playing four player Marvel Vs. Capcom with people who were normally Xbox bros. It was chill, at least.

[Anonymous No.7488357]

>>7485350
Lol who gives a shit? Go cry somewhere else

[Anonymous No.7488389]

>>7481952

That fucking monkey and all the toolbars are kindling a memory of hatred within me.

[Anonymous No.7488417]

>>7488357
Imagine crying like a temperamental tranny over new video games, on a retro games board.

[Anonymous No.7488423]

>>7488417
You mean like the post originally being replied to

[Anonymous No.7488481]

>>7485398
One is made by a bunch of talented japanese chads and the other is made by a jew and his team of self hating white liberals
What did you expect?

[Anonymous No.7488775]

>>7476667
When I realized that the classic Resident Evil and classic Tomb Raider games were no longer new. This was after the release of RE4. I hated all the changes it made. When I complained about it all, I realized next that I'm no longer the target demographic. No longer one of the hip cool kids. I'm the old geezer now, who endlessly complains about everything new, and dreams about the "good old days".

I also haven't made a single online game purchase ever. I haven't tried using Steam, or PlayStation Network, or whatever the fuck Microsoft and Nintendo are running. I completely fell off the grid, when things went digital. Physical media is where it's at for me. I haven't even tried playing anything new in years. The last thing I played was Romero's Sigil.wad for Doom in 2019.

It truly is over for me.

[Anonymous No.7488921]

>>7476667
When the top label should be like this.

[Anonymous No.7488929]

>>7484759
10 still looks really nice. Play it some time again if its been a while.