/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8899692]

>be westerner in 90s
>get final fantasy for nes
>get final fantasy 2 for snes
>get final fantasy 3 for snes
>all of a sudden get final fantasy 7 for psx
How did people react to this at the time?

[Anonymous No.8899694]

It's not like they didn't know. Also Europe's first FF was 7, but even them knew about it through imports or at least magazines.

[Anonymous No.8899696]

>>8899692
i had an autistic tantrum meltdown when i got gifted ff7 from my mum and dad
>i only beat 3 i haven't done the others i didnt play the rest i wont know anything you idiots what the hell do i do now
i refused to play ff7 for years. i hated it and my parents because it felt like a taunt. i remember smashing the case onto the floor when i got it and all the discs went flying

[Anonymous No.8899698]

americans are unable to read roman numbers, so for them it was just another funny subtitle

[Anonymous No.8899703]

So FF7 is actually FF4??

[Anonymous No.8899704]

>>8899692
>They're calling the next one VII. They must be trying to make it seem more advanced

[Anonymous No.8899705]

>>8899692
They knew why it was 7 because every game magazine explained it several times.

[Anonymous No.8899706]

>>8899696
based

[Anonymous No.8899707]

>>8899705
>everyone read game magazines

[Anonymous No.8899717]

>>8899696
kek
I believe it, too.

[Anonymous No.8899719]

>>8899707
If you were even mildly interested in video games then you were reading magazines at the newstand while your parents shopped or reading one your more gamer-interested friends had.
If you played games as your main hobby you subscribed to at least one magazine or tried out trial offers.
Final Fantasy VII was definitely over into the "video games are my primary hobby" interest for players so they would have mostly known.

[Anonymous No.8899725]

>>8899719
You cant make generalizations like this. Shutin kids exist. Or maybe your parents just didnt take you shopping. Or maybe you lived in an area that was distinctly stuck in the past.

[Anonymous No.8899727]

Kids didn't care about playing in order. Well, most didn't.
Street Fighter II? Sure, it's a classic. SF1 I learned about in the 2000s thanks to AVGN, no joke.

[Anonymous No.8899729]

>>8899725
Even if you didn't read the magazine, you'd know a kid who'd know

[Anonymous No.8899732]

>>8899692
well, presumably kids who did play the games knew that the series isn't interconnected, so the number wouldn't matter
i didn't know that for years which put me off

[Anonymous No.8899734]

>>8899725
>Shutin kids exist.
Even introverted kids got dragged out to the stores by their parents. I don't care about the extreme outliers that literally never went anywhere.
>Or maybe you lived in an area that was distinctly stuck in the past.
I lived in a place that was stuck in the past and we still had grocery stores with magazine stand and the USPS. I had no issues getting magazines.

I'm generalizing because guess what: I'm talking in a general sense of the time and population. Of course there were always exceptions, but that's exactly what they were. You can always find an exception. But don't use it as the standard in a general discussion.

[Anonymous No.8899736]

The whole "start at the first installment" thing was not established at the time. Players were used to jumping into the third or forth game in a series without having played the earlier ones.

[Anonymous No.8899737]

>>8899734
But nobody was trying to use it as a standard. What the fuck are you saying
Evidently you were not in a place stuck in the past. Because I had no USPS and the general store would never dare to stock video game shit

[Anonymous No.8899745]

>>8899719
>>8899729
think you guys are seriously overestimating how plugged in a kid is. when i was growing up i was an avid gamer but i had zero fucking clue about what games were coming out or when until i was about 16 years old. before that it just felt like games suddenly appeared

[Anonymous No.8899764]

>>8899745
>when i was growing up i was an avid gamer but i had zero fucking clue about what games were coming out or when until i was about 16 years old.
You were not an "avid gamer" and underestimate the people that were.
>before that it just felt like games suddenly appeared
See above.

I was looking at game magazines before I could actually read around the time I was a kindergartener (in 1989). I was buying them for myself by the third grade. Several of my friends had similar habits.

[Anonymous No.8899765]

>>8899736
This. Many games were known entirely by their sequels and the first game was some obscure shit on some irrelevant console, or in many cases, arcade only.

[Anonymous No.8899769]

>>8899765
(Or Japanese only and never sold abroad). Some series we didn't get until 3rd or 4th game in.

[Anonymous No.8899771]

>>8899764
>you were not an avid gamer
Yeah I was. I didn't even know video game magazines were a thing. I just played games 24/7. When I talked about games with my friends, we only talked about the games we were playing. I don't know why you're so opposed to my existence?

[Anonymous No.8899776]

>>8899764
you grew up in a different time. nobody read magazines when i was growing up. and as for the notion of having spending money in elementary school...lol

[Anonymous No.8899779]

>>8899737
>Because I had no USPS
You know any of these discussion are about western countries like the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, etc?

If you were a thirdie or east euro all bets were off and it's a totally different historical discussion.

[Anonymous No.8899780]

>>8899779
I'm american

[Anonymous No.8899782]

>>8899771
You liked to play games but not enough to seek out new information on them or advanced strategies. Not an "avid" gamer.

[Anonymous No.8899785]

>>8899776
>the notion of having spending money in elementary school
Kids in the 50s had spending money.
This discussion is irrelevant if you grew up in Mexico or Brazil. Completely different situation.

[Anonymous No.8899786]

>>8899782
I sought out what I could and made discoveries on my own. Again I really don't understand how you can possibly say someone who does nothing but play games is not an avid gamer

[Anonymous No.8899789]

>>8899780
Then you'd better be from Bumfuck, Alaska. Everywhere in the lower 48 had postal service.

[Anonymous No.8899790]

>>8899776
Maybe it's a UK thing. Magazines were super common here even from early 80s due to the microcomputer boom. They'd have print outs of programs etc. Later on we got floppies, and much later CDs for PC games, and PSX demo CDs. Games were expensive as fuck and most of my PSX experience came from playing demo discs from magazines.

[Anonymous No.8899793]

>>8899785
when me and my friends were growing up we thought allowance was just a fake thing they talked about in movies. and nobody let a kid have a job or anything. and im from america.

[Anonymous No.8899795]

>>8899786
>I really don't understand how you can possibly say someone who does nothing but play games is not an avid gamer
Because they aren't. Avid is a word that actually has a specific meaning that means a great interest in a subject and the implication of spending much time researching it. A person who is an avid fan of something is expected to be highly knowledgeable about the subject.

You played a lot of games but that didn't make you an avid gamer.

[Anonymous No.8899796]

>>8899776
Gaming Magazines were niche, but huge during the 90s, at least in Canada. If you wanted to find out about the hottest games, you'd pick up a magazine.

>as for the notion of having spending money

You could just go into a store, read the magazine, and leave. I don't know how it is in other places, but that's how it was in my store. You didn't need any money if you wanted to know what's coming out. Plus, there was a huge recession at the start of the decade so I don't think many people were buying anything.

[Anonymous No.8899801]

>>8899790
Magazines were also super common in the USA.
It's just that there's always this one guy in threads like this who thinks he was THE gamer when was growing up when he was really clueless about how deep people could really get into the hobby. And they'll always be posting things like "nobody but richfags read magazines" which is just 100% horse shit.

[Anonymous No.8899802]

>>8899795
But I did have great interest in the subject, so it sounds like you're wrong.

[Anonymous No.8899807]

>>8899801
But you're wrong. I'm not saying I am THE gamer. But to say you can't be an avid gamer without reading magazines is a bit ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.8899808]

>>8899802
If you had great interest you would have been reading magazines.

[Anonymous No.8899809]

>>8899696
kek

[Anonymous No.8899812]

>>8899808
I would have read magazines if I knew they existed. Don't see what your issue is. I was clearly greatly interested. It was my only hobby. I deeply dove into every game I played.

[Anonymous No.8899813]

>>8899812
You would have known they existed if you had looked. Maybe you just didn't like to read.

[Anonymous No.8899814]

>>8899782
shut the fuck up you retarded gatekeeping autist

[Anonymous No.8899817]

>>8899814
>t. casual gamer

[Anonymous No.8899819]

>>8899813
I clearly did look though. They weren't there. You just need to accept that.

[Anonymous No.8899820]

>>8899707
Everyone who mattered, yes. Why would I care about your opinion if you weren’t?

[Anonymous No.8899824]

>>8899819
Yes, they were unless you lived off the grid in Alaska.

[Anonymous No.8899826]

>>8899817
if you're not a speedrunner or at least 1cc then you are by definition casually playing that game

[Anonymous No.8899830]

>>8899824
>>8899820
JUST SHUTUP. LEAVE ME ALONE. STOPPPP

[Anonymous No.8899831]

>>8899826
I tend to agree. You should have at least a couple 1cc's of your favorite games under your belt. And be able to speedrun your favorite platformers.

[Anonymous No.8899838]

>>8899830
You can leave the thread any time you like.

[Anonymous No.8899843]

>>8899831
I can't do either of these things but I'm still a hardcore gamer I think. I mean I have no other hobbies, not even in media consumption. I dont see what else I could be. Ive played games all day all my life

[Anonymous No.8899846]

>>8899801
Don't know how I would ever have found games I liked without magazines. Hours of reading material, demos, reviews so you could pick the one game you might get on your birthday. You'd get guides and cheat codes which were priceless without the internet. Magazines were incredibly good value if you were into gaming at all. I'd get one if we were going on a trip and read every page, sometimes revisiting the same articles over and over.

[Anonymous No.8899848]

>>8899843
You should 1cc the original Super Mario Bros. It's fun.

[Anonymous No.8899850]

>>8899692
>didn't have Nintendo Power which would have explained everything back when FF2 US was out
>didn't have the internet in 1997 to look it up online
Must suck to live in a cave and not know this stuff

[Anonymous No.8899851]

>>8899848
I'm not a mario fan

[Anonymous No.8899858]

>>8899819
I would often walk to the newsagents and spend a half hour skimming the mags. You telling us you didn't have a shop that sold newspapers and magazines? I think I read more issues than I ever bought, it's not like they were sealed in those days, so you could easily read in the shop.

[Anonymous No.8899861]

>>8899858
My parents unironically didnt let me go outside because they thought id get abducted. They also refused to buy me nintendo power or anything.

[Anonymous No.8899862]

>>8899861
STBY

[Anonymous No.8899897]

>>8899692
I thought it was VII cause it was 1997

[Anonymous No.8899962]

>Final Fantasy II & III are actually IV and VI
>Super Mario Bros. 2 was not the real Mario 2
>Snake's Revenge was not the real Metal Gear 2
>M. Bison, Vega and Balrog's names are all wrong
>Mega Man is actually Rockman
Anything else I missed.

[Anonymous No.8900027]

>>8899962
all that hullabaloo about Poison in Final Fight

[Anonymous No.8900065]

>>8899696

[Anonymous No.8900067]

>>8899707
fuck off retard

[Anonymous No.8900071]

>>8899771
bc you're a lying baiting contrarian faggot
go away

[Anonymous No.8900085]

>>8899692
Serious answer to this shit trainwreck of a thread:

If you were into JRPGs you knew there were plenty of Japanese games that didn't get localized for the US. It was more of a surprise that Squaresoft was ditching Nintendo for Sony. But after the whole Nintendo CD saga this was understandable.

If you didn't follow JRPGs then you probably didn't know or care that they skipped a bunch of numbers.

[Anonymous No.8900087]

ive never played ff7 before...would you guys want to watch me play ff7? i can put a down payment

[Anonymous No.8900118]

>>8899696
You're lying dumbass

[Anonymous No.8900692]

>>8899692
No one gave a shit.
That was it. No one cared in the least. It was minor trivia.

[Anonymous No.8900758]

>>8899696
>MUSTGPLAYGNEGEAMBSiNORDRERRR!!!REEEEEEeEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.8900775]

>>8899692
>be Russian in 90s
>get Super Mario Bros for Dendy
>get Super Mario Bros 2 for Dendy
>get Super Mario Bros 3 for Dendy
>all of a sudden get Super Mario Bros 14 for Dendy

[Anonymous No.8900889]

>>8899692
Dude even at the time we knew what was what. It's not like changing a games number is some complex thing and we had shit like Nintendo Power. Every gamer rag loved to throw out this trivia like it was ground backing. You think the idea of
>10 things you didn't know about X
Is a new concept?

[Anonymous No.8900985]

>>8900775
based russky

[Anonymous No.8901009]

>>8899962
Robotnik is actually Eggman.
Bowser is actually Demon King Koopa (except this is not obscure, except for the demon part).
Toadstool is actually Peach.

[Anonymous No.8901023]

FF7 made me get a ps1 over a N64. Also i wasn't dumb like the other guy and knew FF were stand alone.

[Anonymous No.8901414]

>>8901009
>Demon King Koopa
*Great Demon King Koopa
or Daimao Kuppa

[Anonymous No.8901481]

>>8900758
my brain read the G sounds in this & i spit out my coffee

kek

[Anonymous No.8901493]

>>8899703
it's FF4: Cloud Madness

[Anonymous No.8901496]

>>8899707
They literally gave Game Informer away at Funcoland.

[Anonymous No.8901528]

>>8899696
thanks

[Anonymous No.8902138]

>>8899694
>Europe's first FF was
Mystic Quest GB

[Anonymous No.8903189]

ayy yo if you're a ff iv fan (I originally played the GBA adaptation that was just the reshaded snes sprites but wayy better backgrounds)

I just rediscovered this guy again Hyadain he made a bunch of lyric music videos of songs mainly from DQ, Megaman, but his final fantasy ones are the best especially the ff4 one

but the ff4 one has three versions, i recommend watching in any order but understanding the lyrics makes it so much better:

>Low quality audio + video, but english translation edited in with art explainging the lyrics so watch this one first unless you know japanese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8vz186pjY0

>The original video hyadain uploaded with just sprites BUT 720p highest quality audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1keUIXDa4EE

>Mid quality listenable video of the music and good quality of the video BUT no translations embedded in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFNStOZR-wI

so enjoy i've listened to this shit already too many times lol

[Anonymous No.8903253]

>>8903189
>I originally played the GBA adaptation that was just the reshaded snes sprites but wayy better backgrounds
You mean disgusting washed-out palettes everywhere?

[Anonymous No.8903267]

>>8899692
Final Fantasy wasn't a big deal outside Japan until 7. Personally, I knew it existed, but all I ever played was 1 (which sucked) until 7 came out. I didn't learn that half the pre-7 games were Japan-only until the mid 00s.

[Anonymous No.8903295]

>>8899692
>Played Final Fantasy 7
>Knew it was part of a series, but didn't really care
>Plus the game itself was fun, so it was no big deal
Media wasn't nearly as available as it is now. You were limited to whatever you could get from your local shops. If I rented a tape from Video Ezy, I just accepted that I wouldn't be able to watch a series from beginning to end. It was a similar thing with game series. Hell, sometimes you didn't even know that games had sequels or prequels. Information on the internet was also way less reliable than it is now.

These days, you can instantly download any video or game you want and find at least five wikis dedicated to them with a google search.

[Anonymous No.8903296]

I loved 2/4 and we had a copy. I was able to play 1 at a buddy's house. When I saw 7 I was just excited about playing all of the games I must have missed. Maybe I was too young for this thread but I didn't feel cheated or anything when I found out what really happened. I remember playing an early translation of ff2j on my family's computer and being confused as hell though.

[Anonymous No.8903363]

>>8903295
>You were limited to whatever you could get from your local shops.
Look at this guy who never ordered a game through the mail.
>sometimes you didn't even know that games had sequels or prequels.
Found another non-avid gamer.

[Anonymous No.8903406]

>>8899698
>roman numbers
>calls Americans dumb

[Anonymous No.8903409]

>>8903406
American detected.

[Anonymous No.8903415]

>>8903409
It's our site. Of course I'm a freedom lover.

[Anonymous No.8903506]

>>8899696

[Anonymous No.8903508]

>>8899692
I was really, really confused at the time. And I had internet pretty early, so I went and read about it as a 6 year old, and then played Final Fantasy 5 on ZSNES.

It could not render transparencies correctly and so I had to just feel my way through the ghost ship area, but after that it was dope as fuck.

But to answer your question OP, I was just confused and went and read about what it was.

[Anonymous No.8903680]

>>8903406
Pot meet kettle.

[Anonymous No.8903775]

>>8901023
Mario 64/Conker/OoT >>> FF7/SoTN/MGS/RE
You chose wrong.

[Anonymous No.8904058]

>>8899698
gr8 b8 m8 ff8 was the best in the series and will never be outdone

[Anonymous No.8904178]

>>8903189
My nigger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XK3m8aIFGw

[Anonymous No.8904183]

>>8903775
Delicious bait. I can see this netting at least 3 (you)s.

[Anonymous No.8904606]

>>8899707
By 1997, Final Fantasy fans not reading game magazines had at least occasional internet access, or knew someone who did. Nesticle and ZSnes were both released in 1997 and the RPGe romhack translating Final Fantasy V was finished in 1998.

If you weren't a Final Fantasy fan you didn't give a shit about the numbering.

[Anonymous No.8904613]

>>8899692
I knew, but can't remember how I found out. Game magazine maybe. FFVI (III at the time) was my favorite game so I read everything I could find about VII.

[Anonymous No.8904618]

>>8904606
>the unofficial squaresoft home page
Now there's something that gives me nostalgia.

[Anonymous No.8904636]

I was so hype for this game that I bought every JRPG for PSX that came out before it. Wild ARMs, Suikoden, even Beyond the Beyond. Ended up liking WA more than FFVII

FFT came out the same year and blew all these games out of the water

[Anonymous No.8904641]

>>8904636
It was such a great time for JRPGs.

[Anonymous No.8904652]

I had 2 and 3, then got 7. At the time I just figured I had missed 4, 5, and 6. I kept an eye out for them for a while, but the internet told me what the deal was eventually.
Although, I wish I had missed 3 games between (real) 6 and 7, I bet they’d have been awesome.

[Anonymous No.8904717]

>>8904636
>FFT came out the same year and blew all these games out of the water
Yeah I felt the same way although I liked FFVII more than Wild ARMs.

[Anonymous No.8904862]

>>8904606
I wasn't even alive when this shit came out

[Anonymous No.8904914]

>>8899725
>>8899745
>>8899764
If you were complete shut ins, then you probably didn't know or care that there were 3 missing entries anyway.

[Anonymous No.8906289]

>>8899692
there were bootlegs of the other ff games complete with stickers on the cartridge, boxes, etc. you couldn't tell the difference.

back in the 90's some gaming magazines had ads to order japanese games. it'd be a long list of games you've never heard of, a lot of mecha stuff, most of it written in japanese. the final fantasy games could be ordered that way. there was a blockbuster in the mojave that had a fuck ton of bootleg games from japan, including the, "unavailable" final fantasy games.

[Anonymous No.8906292]

>>8904641
More then anything else, it was the fact that Squaresoft, for about 8 years, was the greatest video game company of all time.

[Anonymous No.8906302]

Is FF7 really that good? Ive never played an FF, or much in the way of actual traditional turn based JRPGs

[Anonymous No.8906319]

>>8906302
ff7 is really that good. but the beginning kind of sucks imo. once you get out of the city the game begins and it's 9/10. imo it's a bit frustrating to get past that initial stuff, but once you do the world opens up, there's fun challenges and progression, the story is top notch (10/10), and there's a ton of side stuff to do that're like mini games but most are done really well. plus collecting the summons and magic is really satisfying as well as defeating a few of the world map bosses. if you can make it past the beginning you'll be glad you did. you end up getting an airship and a nice villa too.
the amount of legitimately fun and quality content in that game is probably unmatched to this day as far as console games go.. hell, even compared to most pc games.

[Anonymous No.8906325]

>>8906319
It still has something to offer even to someone who had it spoiled? I never had consoles growing up. But I got alot of the big things from ff7 through osmosis (cyberpunk, crossdressing, sephiroth, certain someone dying).
The only traditional turnbased JRPG ive played are paper mario, Nocturne and the ps2 persona games

[Anonymous No.8906327]

>>8906302
Yeah, it really is.
>>8906325
Soooo much shit happens in FF7. It's long. I really think you'd enjoy it, especially since you enjoyed those other games you mentioned.

[Anonymous No.8908012]

>>8899692
people new about the numbering through magazines and stuff. i knew quite a few people who were mad butthurt about nintendo's localization policy, myself included. we knew about final fantasy 5, seiken densetsu 3 etc. and instead we got the mystic quest big box and secret of fucking evermore, the latter of which still gives me spontaneous diarrhea just thinking about. well, got me into learning japanese and imports etc. so it wasn't all bad i guess and there was a certain mystic about unlocalized games unimaginable today.

[Anonymous No.8908018]

>>8908012
>hating evermore
what the fuck is wrong with you? fucking poser

[Anonymous No.8908020]

>>8908012
>learned Japanese
Yeah man just rub it in everyones face why don't you?

[Anonymous No.8908040]

>>8899696
Cringe

[Anonymous No.8908765]

>>8904058
I've been laughing at gunsword since 1998 and I haven't stopped.

[Anonymous No.8908772]

>>8899692
I honestly didn't like FF7 that much when it came out, because I was a huge fan of the 2D games and the art style just threw me a bit. I really liked 8 and 9 when they came out, but something about 7 just didn't quite click with me. It's still not my favorite, but I know I'm in the minority on that.

[Anonymous No.8909647]

I remember the letters columns of The GIA and RPGamer were full of people lamenting 3d and how the 2d pixels could portray far more emotion.

[Anonymous No.8909654]

>>8899692
no one "reacted" you stupid zoomer faggot

[Anonymous No.8910167]

>>8908018
oh yes it's clearly the superior game. imagine video game mags teasing with screenshots of secret of mana 2, ff5, dragon quest 5,6 etc - it was an embarrassment of riches. and then getting this instead, custom made for "western sensibilities". they even cancelled the japanese release, lol. yeah. and all the while nintendo not shutting up about how jrpgs are supposedly "too complex" for western audiences. you have no idea how aggrevating that shit was unless you were there. so by all means enjoy evermore, it's obviously what you deserve.

[Anonymous No.8910189]

>>8908772
You're not alone. I was getting into PSX gaming when it came out and boy, was it sure hyped.
However, though there were a lot of things about the game I did like (the materia system, the overall scope of the game and amount of content), I found the story meandering and the characters just plain unlikable. Didn't enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.8910285]

>>8899696
Autism in a nutshell.

[Anonymous No.8910291]

>>8899696
average Final Fantasy fan

[Anonymous No.8910295]

>>8899692
>be european
>no final fantasy games until 1997
>suddenly the 7th game

And really, no one gave a shit. Just like nobody ever wondered where Windows 4, 5 and 6 were

[Anonymous No.8911182]

>>8899692
Almost nobody had heard of Final Fantasy before 7 so there was nothing to react to.

[Anonymous No.8911480]

>>8910295
>Not beating Windows 6 before 7
shiggydiggy

[Anonymous No.8911486]

>>8899692
We thought the series just worked like Fallout, which began at 3.

[Anonymous No.8911532]

>>8899707
>everyone read game magazines
In 1997 and 1998? YES.

[Anonymous No.8911550]

>>8904641
Out of all these games only einhander got released in Europe

[Anonymous No.8911556]

>>8904606
>demo comes out
>"Buy it now and get a free copy of Tobal"

Fuck's sake people were making this same joke 30 years ago?

[Anonymous No.8911562]

I had internet in 1997 so I knew all about FF2j and FF3j and FFV. I assume most people were the same since AOL was spamming everyone's (physical) mailboxes with 500 free minutes CD trials.

[Anonymous No.8911692]

>>8899692
You said "That's weird, why did they skip a bunch?" then asked one of the kids in your class who had internet access if you could come over and use their computer after school to use their computer. A quick Yahoo search later and you had your answer. At this point you either went on with your life, or got in to emulation.

[Anonymous No.8911883]

>>8901493
I am literally going to beat you up.

[Anonymous No.8912227]

>>8911556
People make this joke now?

[Anonymous No.8912243]

>>8912227
I just came across it about two weeks ago. I forget what the demo was for, something that's coming out soon. Saw many people make this same joke.

[Anonymous No.8912490]

>>8899707
Yes

[Anonymous No.8912504]

I never learned how to read Roman numerals.

[Anonymous No.8912547]

>>8912504
It's literally just basic math.
I = 1
II = 2
III = 3
IV = 5-1 = 4
V = 5
VI = 5+1 = 6
VII = 5+2 = 7
etc.

Do they not teach this in schools in the 90s? I thought everyone knew it.

[Anonymous No.8912592]

>>8899745
FFVII was getting adverts on TV, guides in the stores, game magazines all on it. Newspaper game sections on it, men's magazines were doing there first little forays into gaming being 1/2 page to a page.

regular boys all knew about it, talked about it with their little circles. only the weirdo actual shut in kids didnt have any idea depending on why and how shut in.

[Anonymous No.8912597]

>>8912547
He's trying to tell you he's black.

[Anonymous No.8913182]

not him but im white and i never learned roman numerals or cursive. i still cant really read either

[Anonymous No.8913862]

>>8912243
Huh
I guess I haven't touched a console since 7th gen so all I see are digital download demos and zoomers paying for Early Access on Steam.

[Anonymous No.8913989]

>>8899696
my fucking sides went to orbit last night reading this before bed.

[Anonymous No.8914091]

>>8899696
Entitled littlw shit.

[Anonymous No.8914243]

>>8912504
so you just watched the rocky movies in release order then?

[Anonymous No.8914713]

>>8899707
How else does a PSX owner get demo discs

[Anonymous No.8915598]

>>8913862
I think I remember it now, it was a youtube video about some upcoming fighting game. I guess you buy one game it comes with a demo for the other one. I don't play fighting games so I don't know which ones.

[Anonymous No.8917045]

>>8899707
I couldn't even read when 7 was announced

[Anonymous No.8917048]

>>8899745
I won't lie, there was something crazy about not knowing about a game's sequel until you saw a tv commercial for it, or a copy on a store shelf. I remember losing my fucking mind when I found out Banjo-Tooie not only existed, but was already for sale.

[Anonymous No.8917056]

>>8912227
People bought Zone of the Enders just for the Metal Gear Solid 2 demo
The same thing happened where people bought Dragon Quest 8 just to play Final Fantasy 12's demo

[Anonymous No.8917874]

>>8899696
>anon, in an attempt to avoid the plot of ffvii for fear of spoiling the rest of the series, literally becomes sephiroth instead

[Anonymous No.8918231]

>>8899692
everyone that had an N64 was a rich kid that also had a Playstation

[Anonymous No.8918256]

>>8899692
FF7 was the first Final Fantasy I played. I wasn't into it until my friends got me to play the demo, then I was hooked and went out and bought the game.

[Anonymous No.8918265]

>>8917056
Then realize how much better Dragon Quest 8 is compared to the poo poo mess that is FFXII

[Anonymous No.8918278]

>>8899696
i hope you apologized

[Anonymous No.8918291]

>>8899692
All the gaming magazines made a point to explain it, so it wasn't that confusing, more just amusing.

[Anonymous No.8918293]

>>8900775
Did russians think westerners were all retarded newfaggots for going DUHHH DID YOU KNOW SUPER MARIO BROS. 2 IS DOKI DOKI PANIC IN JAPAN online over and over like that's some some sort of revelation?
Better question: did the more savvy russian kids at the time who already knew stuff like Mario 14 was bunk believe SMB2 and 3 were official mario games?

[Anonymous No.8918316]

I mostly remember when 8 came out and people were confused why none of the characters or settings from 7 reappeared.

[Anonymous No.8918326]

>>8899692
see
>>8900085
This. You didn't even have to be deep into jrpgs to know this stuff; it was regularly mentioned in gaming magazines and shit. Also, you know, there was this thing called the internet, it was pretty good for learning stuff about your favorite video games.

[Anonymous No.8918330]

>>8899696
People like you should be executed and your parents should be sterilized so they can never make the same mistake again. Sociopathic, entitled white boys.

[Anonymous No.8918338]

I'd heard of FF3/6, and it looked cool, but I never had a chance to play it. The pictures and videos I saw in previews looked pretty mind blowing, and it was the first game I had on my PSX. I got to the part where you revisit Midgar on my own, but I've never been much of an RPG person, so I bought a guide and restarted. I had to play through the game several times before concluding this game is a mixed bag. Basically, I think FF7 is a lot of great ideas executed poorly. Although I'm fine with how the materia system worked.

If they'd released it with a good translation and done anything other than those weird block figures, I probably would've enjoyed it a lot more.

One of these days I'll replay it with some good romhacks.

[Anonymous No.8918435]

>>8918330
Nice assumption. Don't remember anon disclosing neither gender or skin color.
Maybe you are just looking for any opportunity to be mad about skin color/gender. I think you're the mistake here, champ.

[Anonymous No.8918448]

>>8918293
most Russians don't care about the Western internet. not sure how many people cared THAT much about SMB2 anyway. I think here there's far less of "cult" status that SMB2 and 3 have here. way more people gave a fuck about Battle City, Contra, etc.
as for "savvy Russian kids", see, in the early 90s console gaming was in its infancy in Russia. Dendy came out in late '92 and we knew jack shit about consoles prior to that. not that many people knew that Dendy wasn't a real brand, that it was in reality a clone of NES. there wasn't any official mag like Nintendo Power to explain that. other few mags were often similarly clueless. we even had a whole Dendy TV show where the host often didn't know any better about games either. so no one knew any better. we got better video game media later, but then the Dendy era rapidly ended, with PS1 and PC rapidly replacing it, so obviously everyone stopped caring about about Dendy very quickly.
so basically when everyone actually played Dendy, there wasn't much accurate info on anything, and when there was, no one was playing Dendy anymore.

[Anonymous No.8918454]

>>8918448
i bet russian internet is really cool filled with supers. is it cool is it? should i learn russian and dedicate my life so i can finally see what these places are? its so mysterious. i wish i could experience stuff that cool

[Anonymous No.8918456]

>>8918316
I'm told there were shitloads of players who first started with VII, having no idea how the series worked and got angry when VIII had nothing to do with it.

[Anonymous No.8918464]

>>8918448
>that it was in reality a clone of NES
Famicom, if you want to be exact.
Even today the vast majority of people who are casual fans of Nintendo (and who may own several systems and games) couldn't tell you the name NES used in Japan.

[Anonymous No.8918509]

>>8899696
Whether this is bait or not, I feel sorry for your parents.

[Anonymous No.8918513]

>>8918454
>i bet russian internet is really cool filled with supers
"with supers"? wtf is that?
anyway, not really. it may seem cool and exotic to someone, but it's really the opposite of that. mostly it's just full of arrogant people, trashy opinions and shittalking. more like a worse smaller version of US interwebs

[Anonymous No.8918518]

>>8918513
but ive already started going to college for russian. ive looked up to russia since i was a kid. i played metro and read a lot of russian books

[Anonymous No.8920243]

>>8899692
I had looked around for 4-6 until I read in a gaming magazine that certain FFs were Japan only and this was to catch the west up in numbering. I then got Anthology sometime after FFVIII was released and played through V, which I enjoyed enough for multiple playthroughs over the years.

It took me a lot longer to play through III, but it was pretty great too. I played an NES fan translation. I tried to play through FFII, but have never finished it because I didn't like cheesing the battle system to grind stats on.

[Anonymous No.8920256]

>>8899692
I got FF7 back when it was released and it was the first FF game I played. The fact that it was number 7 meant nothing to me and I never made any attempt to even locate the earlier games. It's still the earliest FF game that I've played and will likely remain that way because I don't like JRPGs anymore. Point being, people didn't care back then.

[Anonymous No.8920543]

>>8899962
Penises come with foreskin.

[Anonymous No.8920686]

Nobody gave a fuck, or simply accepted that it's the 7th game IN JAPAN

[Anonymous No.8921385]

>>8899692
I remember watching my cousin play 3 (6). Then he later got 7. Then I read about 8 in magazines and played the demo with a friend. I never once thought about the numbers.

[Anonymous No.8921391]

>>8918330
No one said they were white you subhuman nigger

[Anonymous No.8921393]

>>8899696

[Anonymous No.8921404]

>>8899696

[Anonymous No.8921405]

>>8918435
>>8921391
LMAO cope some more you school shooters.

[Anonymous No.8921408]

>>8918330
black people literally kill their kids with extension cords because they are too stupid to parent lmao

[Anonymous No.8921537]

>>8921405
a) I’m not white
b) blacks are the most dangerous mass killers and murderers, thankfully they just usually target each other