/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8844784]

When did original hardware become the non-poorfag option? Go back in time 10-15 years and if you saw a SNES, N64 or PS1/PS2 in someones house you assume they were poor for playing on that old stuff. Now the original hardware people are well-off and emulators are poor?

[Anonymous No.8844790]

Reddit economy and people with their parents money are to blame.

[Anonymous No.8844801]

Retro vidya was always a poorfag pastime until mentally ill degenerates started treating them as golden age comic books. In fact that's the reason why japanese games kept their prices low for a long time before succumbing to western retardation, that's how many japanese see it (and I imagine they probably seethe weekly about westoids plundering their reserves and driving prices up).

[Anonymous No.8844802]

>>8844784
I never threw out my old consoles or CRTs, still use them too and have even other ones as backup.
Meanwhile I was also always on the bleeding edge since I'm a sucker for technology.

So no idea.
I also still emulate with a proper CRT and stereo system and high end PC.

[Anonymous No.8844805]

I want to say 2016-2018. Shit hit the fan in 2020 but it was still bad before then.

[Anonymous No.8844808]

>>8844784
(((Speculators))) and (((Collectors))) drove up the prices.

[Anonymous No.8844812]

I never assumed anyone was poor. I just thought they didn't get rid of their consoles and liked playing their old games. weird assumption to make desu. when i was in college ten years ago, my friends played N64, SNES, and other shit all the time. because it was fun.

[Anonymous No.8844816]

>>8844812
I swear no one cared about old consoles until HDTVs became common. My friend and I would hop between Genesis, N64, and Gamecube games without a care.

[Anonymous No.8844913]

>>8844812
You can't imagine being in middle school when the PS2 came out and seeing kids make fun of other kids if they still had 4th gen?

[Anonymous No.8844932]

Rich people buy excursions to get away from their massive houses filled with designer clothing and furniture, they don't obsess over mass produced consumer electronics unless they're already relatively nerdy. Vintage gaming is for middle class nerds, not the wealthy.

[Anonymous No.8844935]

>>8844913
Not them, but no. The kids must've been a little less shitty where I grew up than where you did. I would still play PS1 and SNES even after my family bought a PS2

[Anonymous No.8844959]

Going to someones house and seeing them play stuff on xbox360 will grant them the title of poorfag these days. Things change as time goes on anon. They've just ascended from poorfag tier to collectible tier.

[Anonymous No.8845301]

It's clown world op, get used to it.

[Anonymous No.8845318]

>>8844784
>Go back in time 10-15 years and if you saw a SNES, N64 or PS1/PS2 in someones house you assume they were poor for playing on that old stuff.
I was gonna say that this is dumb but people nowadays absolutely do this stuff. I don't think 15 years people gave a shit, but online play gave a rise to a new type of gaming that so many are unwilling to go back to single player stuff.

[Anonymous No.8845518]

>>8844784
>When did original hardware become the non-poorfag option? Go back in time 10-15 years
anon, 15 years is a lot. it's almost enough for a console to become retro.
Youtube is just a bit over 15 years old. 4chan is 18 years old. we're talking pre-social media era.
>Now the original hardware people are well-off
see >>8844790. the culprits are manchildren and Youtubers who advertise retro games to them.

[Anonymous No.8845554]

>>8844932
>body on frame
>steel bumpers
>RWD (or RWD biased AWD)
>thicc 6.8L V10
>column shifter
>no center console
>long
>just fucking gigantic
>fuel economy measured in yards per gallon

Now this was a real SUV, none of this unibody, plastic bumper, FWD bullshit. I'm surprised Ford got enough flak to discontinue it so quickly, it really was way ahead of its time, now that all the suburban white moms wants cars this fucking big just to drive her pit baby to Walmart.

[Anonymous No.8845560]

>>8845518
>zoomer thinks time dictates retro status

[Anonymous No.8845960]

Since youtubers began shilling certain games as "hidden gems".

[Anonymous No.8846075]

>>8844784
My parents bought me a NES in 1997 for $3 because we was poor. I wanted a N64. Oh well. I played that nes to death.

[Anonymous No.8846081]

>>8844784
15 years ago you still had to buy each game to play on those systems. Was not cheap.

[Anonymous No.8846094]

>>8844784
>Go back in time 10-15 years and if you saw a SNES, N64 or PS1/PS2 in someones house you assume they were poor for playing on that old stuff
2007-2012?
No one would have thought that in those years. Or any year, really.
I reject the whole premise of your question.

[Anonymous No.8846096]

around the early 2010's gaming culture switched from "new good old bad" to "new bad old good"

You can really blame it on a few things. The abysmal state of AAA gaming and nintendo by that point, youtubers like Gamegrumps popularizing retro hardware and collecting, the industry itself popularizing old games with all those fucking cashgrab HD port collections.

[Anonymous No.8846117]

Only on /vr/ does anyone consider retro gaming to be expensive.

>SNES
Less than $200. Less than $100 if you buy a Super Famicom.
>N64
$100
>PS1
$50
>PS2
$40

Games are like $10-50 which is fine if you are actually playing them and not just coomlecting. You're going to get a lot of hours of entertainment for that price.

Do you have any idea how much people spend on other hobbies? On just drinking and smoking? Spoiler: a lot more than that.

People spend as much on a single motorcycle helmet as an entire "richfag" /vr/ setup.

[Anonymous No.8846135]

>>8846117
Where are you getting games for 10-50?

[Anonymous No.8846139]

>>8844913
I was in high school when the ps2 came out and it would have been preposterous for anyone to do that and they would have been considered extremely stupid and lame by others if they tried it.

[Anonymous No.8846178]

>>8844913
Nigga you just outed yourself for growing up in the hood.

[Anonymous No.8846180]

>>8844913
no, my friend had a SNES at his house in 2002 when I slept over. I had a PS2 at the time. I thought it was so cool that he had it. I had never played Kirby Superstar and we got to play it together.

[Anonymous No.8846185]

>>8846135
Ebay. That's the non-meme prices for games for those systems.

[Anonymous No.8846251]

>>8844801
imagine you're tanaka-san and you pick up old super famicom games to play on sunday night's while the wife is out visiting her mum, they are super cheap so you can basically pick up anything you want for a few hours of fun and just recycle them back to the shop if they are no good or you're gather a few too many, then one day you see some white pig fat gaijin looking at the snes games in hard-off and think it's strange, it keeps happening more and more though and now the prices on games have jumped up that your whole little recycling system doesn't work any more, one day you've just had enough and metal fucking jesus rocks is now in your hard-off he gives a shitty American konnichiwa and you just punch him in the face

[Anonymous No.8846285]

>>8844784
I'm basically building an SNES set right now from absolute scratch and I'm literally in $200 before I even buy any games. Cheap retro is over.

[Anonymous No.8846662]

>>8844784
I still assume you're poor for being a low achievement gamer wasting your life on achievement porn

[Anonymous No.8847075]

>>8844802
Based

[Anonymous No.8847184]

>>8846662
>low achievement gamer
What does this mean?

[Anonymous No.8847301]

>>8844784
Name 5 /vr/ games that aren't arcade boards or on Xbox, CDi, Nuon that I can't finish at full speed/without noticeable glitches emulated. I'll give you one for free, faggot, you can even include it:
Rogue Squadron 3

[Anonymous No.8847321]

>>8847301
Space Berserker
Rocket Coaster
Ghost Rush!
Hyperion
Blue Chicago Blues
Goalposts moving in 3

[Anonymous No.8847331]

>>8844784
Emulation has always been the poorfag option.

[Anonymous No.8847337]

>>8847321
It was on me for not specifying those literally whos on a gay moviegame platform no one cares about. So yeah. You "win". Do you feel proud of yourself? Do you feel you argued in good faith?

[Anonymous No.8847342]

>>8847337
Yes

[Anonymous No.8847345]

>>8847184
gamerscore, bro. sorta like taking a picture of your TV set when you defeated Mike Tyson and sending it to Nintendo as proof you beat the game

[Anonymous No.8847349]

>>8847337
engage maximum back-pedaling

[Anonymous No.8847358]

>>8847349
Do you own those, anon? Do you feel like an emufag is truly blown the fuck out by not owning or being able to play them? Could you at least try to cite examples people care about?

[Anonymous No.8847361]

>>8847349
>>8847342
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying you could do better.

[Anonymous No.8847369]

>>8847361
It's just shitposting anon. For all it's worth at least I do care about those games, Ghost Rush is a cute little dungeon crawler for example that I want to buy for my laseractive. Dunno much about emulation not being up to par since I emulate mostly 8 and 16 bit systems anyway.

[Anonymous No.8847370]

>>8845560
>Thinks time stands still

[Anonymous No.8847390]

>>8847358
>>8847361
I'm not the anon in question, just poking fun.

[Anonymous No.8847393]

>>8845560
legit makes me sad how hard that dude fell off

[Anonymous No.8847409]

>>8847321
>tfw no barren firebush pick-me gf to own the emufags with
Why live?

[Anonymous No.8847438]

>>8847393
This is Bam Margera and we're sunking phil's dink

[Anonymous No.8847441]

>>8847184
few real achievements. video games are to achievement as porn is to sex.