/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8194950]

Would this make a good Christmas gift for my 6 year old son? I'm hoping to get him to relive the golden age of gaming.

[Anonymous No.8194961]

>Nintendo shit
Might as well slip HRT into his food

[Anonymous No.8194967]

>>8194950
Your kid is going to want to play what his other friends are playing in school, not 30 year old roms.

[Anonymous No.8194969]

>>8194961
isn't Nintendo the only modern company that doesn't censors sexy girls?

[Anonymous No.8194972]

>>8194969
Not the SNES one.

[Anonymous No.8194978]

>>8194972
I was playing TMNT Fighting game the other day and the female character was pretty sexy. I was thinking how she'd probably get censored if it was released on modern systems.

[Anonymous No.8194980]

my brother got his 8yo son a laptop and installed a ps2 emulator with a bunch of games, and he loved it
I'm afraid a SNES might feel too old for modern kids to enjoy though

[Anonymous No.8194991]

>>8194980
No ways, I grew up on Xbox

[Anonymous No.8195048]

My primary school aged kids play snes all the time. However my family aren’t brain dead burgers so this might not be relevant

[Anonymous No.8195063]

>>8194950
He'll get bored of it after half an hour of dying then go back to his modern games. Zoomies have no short term attention span which is why games have to basically jangle keys in front of them every 10 seconds.

[Anonymous No.8195117]

>>8194978
She DID get censored in the US version. The JP version had her showing more skin.

[Anonymous No.8195123]

>>8194967
This
His kid will want to play whatever everyone else is doing on the phone. Or some meme shooter. Whatever is new and whatever a black celebrity talks about.

[Anonymous No.8195127]

>>8194969
Sony caved in after the #metoo bullshit and is now censoring and/or refusing to sell all ecchi games like Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball, Senran Kagura, or VNs.
Nintendo said they don't give a fuck. Half the titles in the e-shop are shitty indie anime porn games (my girlfriend is a big titty succubus, my waifu gives blowjobs, etc).

[Anonymous No.8195157]

>>8194950
A Raspberry Pi would be cheaper and more versatile.

[Anonymous No.8195179]

>Will my wife’s 6 year old son like retro?
This is a new retarded meme. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.8195190]

>>8195127
>Half the titles in the e-shop are shitty indie anime porn games
How dare you besmirch the likes of Pantsu Hunter!

[Anonymous No.8195431]

>>8194969
Yeah. The anon you replied to want Nintendo bigots to get on HRT and date him.

[Anonymous No.8195435]

>>8195431
I'm already on HRT, does that mean someone will buy me a Switch?

[Anonymous No.8195442]

>>8195435
Only if you are a cute trap.

[Anonymous No.8195446]

>>8195442
FUCK
nah, I'm speedrunner tier
brb date with rope-chan

[Anonymous No.8195468]

>>8194950
I wish. Kids these days have it too good.
When I was young we already had a 2600, PC, and NES.
I got my SNES for Christmas and to this day it's my favorite console. The runners up being PS1 or PS2. I'll never forget how rich and crisp it looked running off coaxial on our Sharp tube. Great times but you can't replicate that feeling. Just get him a Series X or a PS5. Get him Switch for his birthday or something.

[Anonymous No.8195516]

>>8195063
a 6 year old isn't a zoomer you total retard
It's also a six year old basically a blank slate. You know what I did when I was 6? I pretended that my own caps were link and ganon fighting. And clearly this wasn't ancient times. Kids are literally capable of enjoying any outlet for imagination.
Assuming that kids these days are so alien from your own childhood is retarded.

[Anonymous No.8195523]

>>8195468
why is /vr/ so defeatist? Do you guys even remember your childhood
I'm not saying make your kid into a clone of you by forcing him to enjoy your childhood shit. But the opposite extreme of buying your kid what is now an adult oriented media center that borders on $1000 is also retarded for obvious reasons.

[Anonymous No.8195536]

>>8195523
I respect Nintendo for gimping the Switch because it doesn't have some of the stuff that their previous consoles/handhelds gave kids access to.
I remember seeing pornhub put out percentages of what console accessed their site and it was just kinda sad to see.
For 200 bucks I feel a bit safer sticking a lite in front of some kids face once I think they're old enough

[Anonymous No.8195547]

>>8195536
I don't even know what a modern kids game is. I don't think they get advertised at e3 or anything. Aside from maybe bugs snax.

I know that modern games would be too slow and confusing for the child version of me. Maybe I'd just wander around in the open world forever totally lost?
Kid me would hate fortnite too because I'd suck ass.
It feels like everyone who isn't nintendo has given up on the kid market entirely. Kind of sad honestly.

[Anonymous No.8195557]

My dad let me play on his NES and I thought it was neat. Ultimately though, I spent most of my gaming time on the consoles that were new.


Your kid is going to want to spend time playing games with his friends because everything is interconnected now. It's good for him. These games are special to us, but we have no reason to assume that they'll be special to someone this far displaced from the time they came out.

One day their games will be retro, and our games will be antique. They'll be trying to get their kids to appreciate Minecraft and Fortnite, and their kids will be playing half life 3 not giving a shit about how things used to be.

[Anonymous No.8195561]

>>8195557
You're saying one day nobody is going to give a shit about MGS? or ff7 or this one part of sonic 2? Or the hype to 9 9 99?
The console warring? The ads? Klonoa? Donkey kong country?
What the fuck was it all for if one day nobody's going to care about these things? They're not even going to be appreciated like art or whatever. And even if they were it'll be through some emulated or remastered version.
Nobody will ever care about my childhood psx I've restored or my collection or my snes...
What was it for.

[Anonymous No.8195564]

>>8195547
licensed games were a big market for children, there's a lot less of those now thanks to mobile games and exploitative monetization

[Anonymous No.8195572]

>>8195561
It's hard to say for certain what's going to be remembered. But I can name zero colecovision or commodore 64 games without googling.

But I'm sure everything is going to get several remakes so they might get a version of it adapted to their modern styles.

[Anonymous No.8195612]

>>8194950
Just admit you want it for yourself.

[Anonymous No.8195717]

>>8195190
>it's real
My sides

[Anonymous No.8195753]

teach him how to use a laptop instead
first without any internet (of course), you will set up the emulators for him
then as he grows older you give him access to more stuff
this way he can play both old and new games, and learning how to use a pc is a useful skill
he can also use it for music, movies, ebooks, drawing etc

[Anonymous No.8195771]

>>8194950
He wants to play Clash Royale, not decades-old Nintendo games, I'm surprised by your level of delusion

[Anonymous No.8195776]

>>8194950
Why the hell do you want your 6 years old son to play video games? Please read some books to him and while you're at it teach him how to read and write, fucking Hell. I'm glad my parents were older than most when they had me

[Anonymous No.8195793]

>>8195776
why? It's all just media consumption. I don't care if my kid reads or plays games. I did both and it never saved me. People place reading on a pedestal for bizarre reasons. Probably out of guilt because they don't read as much as they arbitrarily feel they 'should'.
It's all just media man. It's not worth stressing about on that level.
No fruit of my loins will ever be a creator type. So why bother? Why play pretend that 99% of us aren't just drones. Why pretend that consuming one media trough is superior to another? You're still consuming.

[Anonymous No.8196116]

>>8194961
This. Get him a 1Chip MSX instead to play all those sexy retro Japanese shm'ups.

[Anonymous No.8196128]

>>8194950
That's not a Minecraft/Fortnite box.

[Anonymous No.8196139]

>>8195776
Imagine getting your kid to sit still while you read faggy stories to him like a woman/nerd. Get him lawn darts and kick him out the front door. Don't let him back in till sundown.

>>8196116
It's just not the same as the original computers.

[Anonymous No.8196153]

No.

[Anonymous No.8196154]

not really, 6 is pretty young for old games, it's like trying to tell him to appreciate art, they just have to naturally come to do it, have to really know what it is that you should get him

[Anonymous No.8196217]

Get him a hacked Wii U, the amount of games that can be played on that thing absolutely trumps emuboxes by a long mile. It can play games from every Nintendo console leading up to it (NES, SNES, N64, GC, Wii, GB/C, GBA, DS), Master System, Genesis, Atari, PS1, and modern games like Minecraft so he's not out of touch with his peers

[Anonymous No.8196356]

>>8195776
True story: for me, 1990s JRPGs were an enormous contributor to learning how to read. It really speeds up the process if the kid is having fun learning to read, and it's a more advanced reading level than bearstain bears and the shit they have children read to learn.

Only downside is that your vocabulary is significantly more dorky. So yeah, thanks FF6 and earthbound

[Anonymous No.8196365]

>>8194950
Get him a speccy

[Anonymous No.8196864]

>>8194950
ok is this a joke i'm not in on? the new hot meme? why do you need three threads for this if not? anyway, if you're not just taking the piss, i loved emulating snes games as a kid and still do so sure, but you may as well teach him how to use a laptop and download snes9x. maybe a few years down the line he can do randomizer runs, idk. like genuinely any kid that age would probably just be glad he's playing a game. and snes ain't as difficult as some nes titles. didn't really get picky myself until my early teens, and even then i'm poor so it's whatever if i had to play some shovelware.

[Anonymous No.8197392]

New kids dont like this old stuff.

[Anonymous No.8197484]

>>8196153
This right here OP.

[Anonymous No.8197521]

>>8195557
>>8195572
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.8197530]

>>8197392
delusional

[Anonymous No.8197534]

>>8197392
My son is 4 and seems to really like SNES games. Prefers Minecraft but he does play around on my SNES a lot. NES seems to be too much for him though.

[Anonymous No.8197556]

Would this make a good Christmas gift for my 6 year old son? I'm hoping it will arrive before he becomes my 8 year old son.

[Anonymous No.8197560]

>>8197556
don't support this ewaste shit. Don't be an easy mark man.

[Anonymous No.8197716]

>>8194950

>>8195157
This, OP. Mister (DE10 Nano) is another fine choice

[Anonymous No.8197773]

>>8197556
I ordered one for my wife’s 6 year old son. I sure hope he enjoys it.

[Anonymous No.8197781]

>>8194950
He’s not gonna be reliving shit, he’s 6. He wasn’t there dipshit.

[Anonymous No.8197790]

>>8194950
Kids don't care about old shit. How can he discuss it with his friends when they don't know the damn thing in the first place? Buy him a ball and let him grow up to be an athlete instead of a nerd like his dad

[Anonymous No.8197791]

>>8195435
kys

[Anonymous No.8198353]

Zoomer here. The worst thing you can do, if you want your kid to like old games, is to force them upon him. Just get him what he wants (only if it's appropriate for his age of course) and if he'll really like video games, he'll want to play some older games when he becomes a teen. just to experience what they were like. And if he's smart, he'll realize, that games, just like movies or music, don't age, and that the best way to enjoy the medium, is to not care about how old/new games are, but only if they are fun or not. Honestly, I'm kinda glad that my parents don't care at all about video games.

[Anonymous No.8198705]

>>8197521
Not going back, you'll just have to shoot me officer.

[Anonymous No.8198765]

>>8194950
No. Don't force your stupid hobbies on your children. Let them form their own personality without your beta fag urges. By him a playboy magazine and a buck knife. Quit raising your kid to be a pussy.

[Anonymous No.8198794]

>>8194950
op is baiting, but to anyone who thinks it sounds reasonable, pushing your favorite thing on your child almost always fucking backfires

i know so many people my age who fucking hate star wars because of shit like this. the actual star wars btw, as in the movie called star wars, not the gelatinous mass of brand also called star wars.

theyll hate the games, and if you try to correct that he'll hate them forever and the harder you try the more theyll hate you too

[Anonymous No.8198796]

>>8198794
It is reasonable though. Maybe there's a middle ground between pushing your favorite thing on your child and pretending it doesn't exist
Wait this is 4chan sorry. Middle grounds can't exist

[Anonymous No.8198808]

>>8198796
>Wait this is 4chan sorry. Middle grounds can't exist

gett outta here with that shit pretentious fag. lmao enjoy your kid getting mad at your dogshit present. or worse, it works and your kid is an ostracized bullied faggot for playing that shit if they actually like it

[Anonymous No.8198814]

>>8198808
I'm not even op.

[Anonymous No.8198823]

>>8194980
>my brother got his 8yo son a laptop and installed a ps2 emulator with a bunch of games, and he loved it
That's pretty cool. PS2 seems a lot more immediately accessible to an 8 year old in 2021 than your average NES game.

[Anonymous No.8199001]

A real snes and a flash card would be way better

[Anonymous No.8199014]

>>8194950
no you old dinosaur buy him a switch like a normal parent

[Anonymous No.8199064]

>>8199001
Flash cards so his son can enjoy japanese kinos in their original language as God intended? Based.

[Anonymous No.8200910]

>>8194950
Get him a NES or N64 over a SNES, easily one of Nintendo's worst consoles. The best move would probably be to get a PS2 though. Access to the PS2/PS1 libraries

[Anonymous No.8200992]

>>8199014
delusional

[Anonymous No.8201057]

>>8198794
This is why gaming should have ended after the seventh gen of consoles. Zoomers do not deserve to even enjoy video games since the shit they like is so absolutely shit. Gaming was in its best years during the retro years.

[Anonymous No.8201271]

>>8196116
what the hell is this

[Anonymous No.8201278]

>>8194950
NES is more iconic than the snes

Both are good though

[Anonymous No.8201279]

>>8194967
Then he's not a smart kid because 90s games are more fun than newer ones a lot of times

[Anonymous No.8201281]

>>8195157
Or you know, a phone

Raspberry pi is basically pointless phones do the same thing

[Anonymous No.8201924]

>>8201271
Literal unobtanium it's not worth it

[Anonymous No.8202094]

>>8196356
>be heavy into NES
>get subscription to NP to help figure out which games were worth getting
>get into RPGs since it was a game you couldn't beat in a day or two and poor meant only got 2-3 new games a year
>enter school
>already capable of reading at a 6th grade level
Thanks Dragon Warrior 2. You were a cunt, but it made me a better man.

[Anonymous No.8202547]

>>8194967
My cousin has this issue. He's 10 and he begs my uncles over and over to buy him a PS4 so he can play Fortnite, but they only let him have their old PS2 and Mega Drive. While he does enjoy those games (he's gotten pretty good at Sonic 2 and 3), he still makes fits about wanting to play those nu-games, and has a problem fitting in at school with his friends. Trying to lead your kids down the right path is something a parent should do, but maybe too much is an issue.

[Anonymous No.8203121]

>>8202547
It's not really that the games are better or worse it's more about peer pressure and the social scene for most kids.

[Anonymous No.8203191]

>>8195561
Some games and consoles will live on the same way Shakespeare lives on now: as antiques that are appreciated by people who are really into the artform, but not really appealing to normies. I'm a zoomer who loves video games new and old, but that's because I'm a fucking geek.

A zoomer who knows what a Goldeneye 007 is just isn't the norm. Later on such and such gen knowing what a Fortnite is will be wierd. People will still love them, they'll just be niche unless some hipster trend pops up.

[Anonymous No.8203316]

>>8197560
How on earth is the Pocket e-waste? There's a million reasons to discount Analogue, but their products are generally pretty well constructed.
If anything, it's the endless buffet of cheap, Chinese emu boxes that are wasteful.

[Anonymous No.8204286]

>>8202547
I wouldn't think modern 10 year olds even play vidya at all or anything but play with phones.

[Anonymous No.8206274]

As an adult you can do whatever. Dress whatever you want, consume any media you want and nobody cares. Teenagers don't have this freedom; fitting in and looking cool is very important. So even if your 13 year old son would prefer Colecovision games or whatever, he's pretty much obliged to play Switch games to fit in with the insect hive.

[Anonymous No.8206293]

>>8204286
Phones only replaced handheld gaming

[Anonymous No.8206308]

>>8201057
>reasonable post that makes sense gets a fucking deranged reply by an oomerposter missing the point completely
Every single time.

[Anonymous No.8206324]

>>8206274
>Dress whatever you want
>Teenagers don't have this freedom
They have so much freedom they kill themselves over it all the time.

[Anonymous No.8206328]

If your kids see you enjoying SNES games they'll want to try them out and probably enjoy them. If you force them playing anything they'll probably end up rejecting it. Use the games to bond with them instead of projecting your childhood into them.

[Anonymous No.8206336]

>>8206274
I don't think my sister would care about SNES games or playing them now but when she was 13 she was completely "PS2 PS2 PS2 PS2 PS2 PS2" and she thought oldskool games were stupid.

[Anonymous No.8207146]

it's always the trollbait-spam-threads which live the longest.

[Anonymous No.8207440]

>>8194950
Your first mistake was having a child.

[Anonymous No.8207647]

>>8194967
Sounds like another great reason to homeschool.

[Anonymous No.8207680]

>>8194950
your 6 year old son, or did you mean your wife's 6 years old son?

[Anonymous No.8207824]

>>8196116
Vintage Japanese PC are ven more trannyer than nintendo.

[Anonymous No.8207839]

[Anonymous No.8207842]

>>8194950
A real Snes with a Everdrive and a decent CRT will cost less.

[Anonymous No.8207846]

>>8194991
I'll tell you what the good games are if you don't know em

[Anonymous No.8207865]

>>8194950
>6 year old
Did I unintentionally create a meme? Lol

[Anonymous No.8208149]

>>8196153
>>8197484
OPs child likely isn’t autistic like you.

[Anonymous No.8210407]

>>8194961
Fpbp.

>>8194967
This. Get him into football, boxing, basketball, and maybe baseball instead. /thread

[Anonymous No.8210464]

maybe a PS2 with pic related?
I ended up liking the 16-bit era games more anyway :)

[Anonymous No.8210657]

>>8210407
This is the only correct suggestion.
He's 6 years old, he has friends and is absolutely going to get more out of a sport than playing with your old toys.
Hell, he probably already has a few valid interests you just haven't bothered to learn about.

[Anonymous No.8210660]

>>8210464
Based brazilianchad

[Anonymous No.8210861]

>>8195123
>>8210407
>>8210657
This.

>>8201279
You're going to ruin some kid's life if you ever get the chance to reproduce.

[Anonymous No.8211659]

>>8194950
Recently, my mom's friend's has been borrowing old games from me for her grandson to play.
Kids tend to love older games more than recent ones for multiple reasons.
First, the obvious fact that the older ones we will share will be better than the ones he will randomly select out of the choices of modern games, We can curate what they play, and keep out cheap crap.
Second, older games are simpler. Aside from modern games being way too complex in mechanics, even their controls are an awful mess. After the year 2000, controllers had too many buttons, and games tended to overcomplicate their use of the controllers. Things now play like crap even when they are good.

Keep him with the older stuff. Make some amazing picks and see what he likes.

[Anonymous No.8211735]

>100 replies to a trolling-thread

[Anonymous No.8212448]

>>8194950
What's that shit?
looks phony af