/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8949409]

What age range do you consider to be "when you were a kid" when it comes to games?

[Anonymous No.8949415]

Extra question: do you have nostalgia for /vr/ you experienced in your post-kid days?

[Anonymous No.8949424]

>>8949409
gotta be before I got my ps4 so under 13 but above 6 because that's where I got my ps2.

[Anonymous No.8949427]

>>8949424
Why do you make this cut-off at the ps4?

[Anonymous No.8949434]

>>8949409
From Duck Hunt(6) to Shenmue(16).
>>8949415
Yeah theres a few games that I really like that I never got to play as a kid either because of region exclusivity or just not knowing about them. Terranigma, Super Mario RPG and Metal Warriors are the three that first come to mind.

[Anonymous No.8949437]

>>8949415
>/vr/ you experienced in your post-kid days?
Breath of Fire 3, which I played in my early 20s a few years ago. The soundtrack makes me so nostalgic for such a recently played game.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KVXcu6KSiq0

[Anonymous No.8949440]

>>8949427
games are just too different and flawed after that to be able to hold any nostalgia.

[Anonymous No.8949441]

>>8949440
Perhaps, but you could still have continued playing older games after the ps4 came out.

[Anonymous No.8949447]

>>8949441
Why are you splitting hairs like this

[Anonymous No.8949454]

>>8949409
when i was 4, my parents got a wii (though i don't think i played it til i was 6 or 7), and when i was 9 or 10 they got me a 3ds, but despite that i'd put the cutoff at like, 15, since i have a lot of nostalgia for animal crossing (squirrels are best villagers)
so from 6 or 7 to 15
>>8949415
yea, chrono trigger, majora's mask and especially the mother games which were the first games i emulated outside of on the 3ds

[Anonymous No.8949457]

>>8949447
Because the question isn't really about console generations but age ranges.
If you played a game at age 19 do you consider it part of your childhood?

[Anonymous No.8949460]

I turned 18 right around the same day I beat Metroid Prime soon after it released. Had to have been within a week of each other. It felt poetic and an appropriate end to "childhood gaming".

Then came college gaming.

[Anonymous No.8949532]

>>8949409
A kid is anyone younger than me, kiddo. So 0 to however old you are.

[Anonymous No.8949550]

>>8949415
Honestly I think I have more nostalgia for my college vidya years than my childhood vidya years. Throughout childhood and high school I was a loner autist, but in college I finally had bros who were as obsessed with vidya as much as me. Nights like your pic related were quite common. As pathetic as it might sound, those were probably the best years of my life.

[Anonymous No.8949595]

>>8949424
>ps4
>13
>>8949437
>few years ago
>early 20s
>>8949454
>wii
>4

I'm not even giving you shit, it's just surreal for me.
My kid-nostalgia period is somewhere late-80s to mid-90s. The PS1 is a bit of a grey zone but definitely marked a push into "new" territory. The PS2/xbox era (I don't remember the gen numbers, anyone who does is an autist or an RPing zoomer with too many wiki pages bookmarked) is firmly after childhood nostalgia.

[Anonymous No.8949602]

Anytime between 4 and 21.

[Anonymous No.8949621]

>>8949440
This has been said about every single generation so it holds no water.

[Anonymous No.8949627]

>>8949621
it does when the the age of the speaker is disparate

[Anonymous No.8949630]

>>8949627
How can an age be disparate?

[Anonymous No.8949635]

>>8949595
Just remember like this: Famicom/Nintendo came out in nineteen eighty THREE and it's a third gen system... And you dare call me an autist?!

(Coincidentally that was the same year I was born so it may be a little easier for me, I guess)

[Anonymous No.8949672]

>>8949440
>>8949621
Certainly doesn't. Nostalgia isn't about facts, it's about emotions. Its subjective, not objective. Ridiculous to pretend nostalgia is a property of an object, as in "these games are incapable of nostalgia".

[Anonymous No.8949718]

>What age range do you consider to be "when you were a kid" when it comes to games?
Until I was about 12-13, because that’s when the golden age of my youth came to an end. Things were never quite the same after the mental and emotional diaspora of puberty and the years that followed.

>Extra question: do you have nostalgia for /vr/ you experienced in your post-kid days?
Yeah, believe it or not, I really do. A few years ago I started trying to tackle my /vr/ backlog after something like a 5-6 year hiatus from gaming in general, and some of the games I played were literally the highlight of the season.

[Anonymous No.8949723]

>>8949415
for sure, the games i played in high school/college ended up being some of my favorites, as i went through multiple generations worth of classics and had a bunch of friends online who i played and talked about games with all the time. unlike >>8949550 it was a pretty unhappy time in my life compared to now but i still have nostalgia for it oddly enough

[Anonymous No.8949727]

>>8949409
'98 to 2012. Although I didn't play anything "modern" until around 2003. Before that I had hand me downs from my big brother. I went straight from SNES to Gamecube so I was never really wowed by early 3d. I think the last big release before I graduated high school was Skyrim.

[Anonymous No.8949734]

>>8949415
I totally missed the N64 but I got one around 2015. Got myself a lot of dope shit. Also grabbed Monster Party because it was on Jontron and cuz it looked fun. Really cool but I never beat it.

[Anonymous No.8949781]

>>8949409
I have played vidya ever since I first got into contact with them. I use the word "kid" loosely and the older I get the more it just means anyone 5+ years below my age. But when talking about myself, being a kid is until I was about 18. I got into weed, alcohol and graffiti quite early, around 13-14. But it was harmless, and mostly experimenting. No addictions formed. Then I quit all this completely for a few years and went 100% sober and half of my friends had always been nerdy spergs in my life(the other half where on the volatile artistic-to-thugs spectrum) so I just spent time with them. We did a lot of RPGs and vidya. 18-20 was when it resurged and now I seriously got into drugs, theft, vandalism and general juvenile delinquency, it was a boy-thing but kid doesn't really apply anymore.
When I talk about myself as kid I mean the age range between 6 and 18. From 20 on life really changed.
Your Bonus question:
Only for LAN-sessions with my friends where we played Vietcong. I do have an extreme nostalgia for the period between 13-15, roughly 1.5 years. That period is sacrosanct to me and playing vidya from that period is one of the forms of submerging myself in this old comfort. It's weird because absolutely most good things in my life happened afterwards but I later realized that I have had my first real depressive episode when I was 16 and I have been having them ever since and it is a crippling affliction, mentally journeying back to the last time before I ever experienced that is extremely, intoxicatingly comforting.

[Anonymous No.8949874]

>>8949781
>mentally journeying back to the last time before I ever experienced that is extremely, intoxicatingly comforting
Based, I can totally relate. It doesn’t help that these days games are severely lacking in themes that relay the shonen-esque innocence and basic altruism of renowned 4th and 5th gen titles. Seems like every writer/developer for the past 15+ years would just rather make games about how they were molested instead of something lighthearted and amusing.

[Anonymous No.8950042]

>>8949409
up until 13 for me. 14 is when I started being a teenager and thinking about girls.
>>8949415
I'd say yes, but the concept of time is scary.

[Anonymous No.8950051]

>>8949409
Between Parappa and Halo 3

[Anonymous No.8950054]

>>8949409
14 , you are now a young man & teen


i think anyone in their early 20s is a kid now kek

[Anonymous No.8950096]

>>8949415
The games I played when I was a kid are all shit and even at the time I felt like that, the moment I experienced 3D I throw my piece of shit NES into the trash where it belongs. 5-6-7th gen are the best and the only gens I'm interested in.

[Anonymous No.8950120]

>>8949409
As a 1998 zoomer I would put a hard line on it having lasted till the age of 12.
everything from the 3DS onwards feels like yesterday to me. the newest console that I feel nostalgia for is probably the original DS, never had a 7th gen home console.

[Anonymous No.8950127]

>>8950096
>>>/v/
>these are the children jannies want us to deal with

[Anonymous No.8950138]

>>8949415
Yes, for the games I first played in early lockdown in 2020. Doom, Heretic (which I have a real soft spot for because I quit smoking while I was playing it) and Morrowind. I was 29 at the time but I'm still nostalgic as fuck for those games.

[Anonymous No.8950187]

>>8949409

Between 5 and 10, give or take a couple years.

>>8949415

Sorta. Moreso I miss gaming with the bros, regardless of age. It really sucks being old, and people are too busy with families and work, or are too far away, and also games by and large aren't split screen anymore.

What a fucking blast we used to have at sleep overs. Killing bad guys or each other till 2 or 3 in the am. Laughing over silly video game shit, or going nuts over "once in a lifetime" type shit happening.

Fuck, we used to have it so good.

[Anonymous No.8950193]

>>8950127
I'm old enough to be your father you little shit. Those games suck ass and I dont care how butthurt that makes you feel.

[Anonymous No.8950204]

>>8949440
if you think a kid is not going to be nostalgic for the ratchet and clank game you're crazy.

[Anonymous No.8950215]

>>8949409
5 - 12
NES - SNES
>>8949415
13 - 16
PS2- PC
>>8950187
its the fucking phones for me. every time we hit any little hiccup in a game or playthrough my gf whips out her phone to get the immediate solution or location of a thing.. I feel burgery if I tell her to just let us play the game.. but the ability to look up anything with a phone killed any adventure a lot of gameplay had for me in some games.

[Anonymous No.8950229]

I'm 27 and even I'm really too young for this board about, "retro," games.

[Anonymous No.8950245]

>>8950096
>The games I played when I was a kid are all shit
Why do you hate on the switch so bad kiddo?

[Anonymous No.8950256]

>>8949409
anything under 16 as that's when I started working a job and taking some responsibilities

[Anonymous No.8950295]

>>8949409
3 to 15
stopped playing vidya after that for a while til you need something to do to pass the time when you come home

[Anonymous No.8950320]

>>8949781
your bonus question is not a question.

[Anonymous No.8950812]

>>8949409
NES
>>8949415
Colecovision which I discovered though emulation in highschool

[Anonymous No.8951013]

>>8949595
>>8949635
Fellow old man here. I was 31 when the PS4 and Xbone launched in fall 2013.

[Anonymous No.8951089]

To me, my "childhood" was everything I remember from about the age of 5, until about the age of 12. It's very strange to me when people start talking about "childhood games", and I realise they were fucking 17 at the time. How is that childhood?

[Anonymous No.8951092]

>>8950229
I feel this. The earliest game system I owned was the Super Nintendo. I am also 27 btw.

[Anonymous No.8951306]

>>8951089
Now that I’m almost 40, 17 is still just a kid to me even though it’s technically your adolescent years.

[Anonymous No.8951367]

>>8949409
Probably from when I was 5 to like 10/12. Thats when 3D games became the norm and they stopped being "games i used to play as a kid" which I mainly associate with 2D games. N64, PS1 and late 90s PC gaming are teenage games for me and will never feel retro.

[Anonymous No.8951397]

>>8951367
I’d say this is pretty accurate. I still played plenty of video games from 13 to 17, but also did other typical teenager shit.

[Anonymous No.8951768]

My only frame of reference is N64/GBC. I had both, and almost exclusively played single player because no frens. :(

[Anonymous No.8951776]

>>8949415
I'm in my late 30s and have by far more nostalgia for my college days of playing with the bros than I do for my childhood gaming.

[Anonymous No.8951780]

>>8949409
I guess just around the time the GameCube and Xbox launched, since I turned 10 in '99.

>>8949415
I missed out on owning a SNES myself, so I was thrilled when SNES games started showing up on the Wii's Virtual Console.

Also, I completely missed out on Dreamcast when it was around. I'm ashamed to say I never got around to buying one until January of this year.

I'm just now playing catch-up with Genesis and Saturn games as well.

[Anonymous No.8951781]

>>8950229
Not at all. Retro games are about your interest in them, not the year you played them in.

[Anonymous No.8951837]

>>8949409
I was 10 when Pokemon came out in my country.
That is about the time "when I was a kid".
I don't consider the N64 "retro", never will.

[Anonymous No.8951980]

Anywhere from 7 to 13. Younger and It's "When I was very young" and anything older is "When I was in high school/college/etc"

[Anonymous No.8951991]

>>8949409
Probably about 5 until 13/14 so for me that covers the mid 80s to early 90s NES/SNES. I was big into PC gaming during middle school and most of high school until I got my PS1 in my junior year.

[Anonymous No.8952892]

5 to maybe around 12. 12 is when newer games started to lose their luster for me and I wanted to try out more retro games.
>>8949415
The only one I have nostalgia for desu is Rayman Legends, I have fond memories of playing that during a hot day in a blockbuster

[Anonymous No.8952897]

>>8951013
Does time and everything feel weird to you too now? I just always have to remind myself that I'm in the minority who started with NES, there's "adults" whose console growing up was Xbox 360, the majority of people on /vr/ would barely know anything about retro games if it wasn't for the internet, etc.
It's like actual time is doubled compared to what it feels like for me or something.
(I guess things probably blend together more now, since we don't see those giant leaps in technology every few years like we did growing up though. Maybe that's the main cause for me.)

[Anonymous No.8953045]

>>8952897
Not that anon, but the only thing that feels weird to me is 40yo kiddos calling themselves old men.

[Anonymous No.8953167]

>>8953045
Well, I wouldn't call myself an old man, but I wouldn't call myself a kiddo either.
The the internet is just extremely weird these days and I just can't help but feel that my timeline got messed up along the way or something with how quickly that it feels like everything changed.

[Anonymous No.8953174]

6-13. I played games before that too but I don't have vivid memories. My teenage years are when I became a contrarian and swore off future games. I was a nostalgiafag even then.

[Anonymous No.8953196]

Wonder Boy 3, Links Awakening and FF7 are my nostalgiamax games, the music has been embedded in my soul. I was lucky to have 2 much older brothers that were gamers so although I was born in 1990 I had access to Atari, SMS, MD, GB and SNES from an early age.

[Anonymous No.8953289]

God I miss those days when I actually had friends

[Anonymous No.8953453]

>>8949415
Honestly from the time I got a SNES at 4 years old to when I was gaming on a PS2 when I was 12. Also to answer the bonus question, I do get nostalgia from when I was playing games on my 360 when I was in a year long rehab program. Just getting off work, going back to the rehab facility and just playing through a stack of 360 games I got for cheap at my local retro gaming shop.

[Anonymous No.8953520]

>>8952897
It does a little bit, yeah. I have some younger friends and sometimes I forget they have no idea what Pete & Pete or pretty much any of the Nickelodeon shows I grew up with are. Their cultural touchstones are completely different.

[Anonymous No.8953528]

>>8949454
>when i was 4, my parents got a wii
Holy shit the age of this board. I feel old as fuck.

[Anonymous No.8953536]

>>8952897
>there's "adults" whose console growing up was Xbox 360
This is so wrong. I had one at the time (When I was already in my mid 20s) but it's not really retro enough for me to enjoy going back to. Sure it had some good games but I can barely distinguish it from PC gaming at the time, which is pretty soulless.

>>8951013
Based boomer.

[Anonymous No.8953546]

>>8953536
Well, what he means is there’s now 28 year olds with children and careers that were calling us fags on Xbox Live back in 2008.

[Anonymous No.8953557]

>>8953546
kek

It's surreal to play online competitive games these days (Rocket League, for example) and running into punk ass teenagers with the same 'tude and outlook I used to have when I was their age. I guess the difference is that now since they have YouTube, they're exposed to plenty of 25-30+ year old gamers and so it isn't quite as peculiar for them to run into older gamers as it was to us 15+ years ago.

[Anonymous No.8953564]

>>8953557
Yep. It’s one of the big reasons I’ve largely aged out of online shooters. I feel like a fossil playing Apex or whatever even though I enjoy it too.

[Anonymous No.8953587]

>>8953528
>was browsing /b/ in 2005 when i was 15
>just realised I've been on 4chan longer than some anons have been alive
Feels bad man

[Anonymous No.8953595]

>>8949409
I'm 27 so five years ago

[Anonymous No.8953605]

>>8949621
>>8949672
>I'm trying to, but I just can't...cope.
Craftsmanship is not synonymous with nostalgia. Games are not made as well as they used to be, just like with cars.

[Anonymous No.8953620]

>>8953587
I’m turning 40 this year and I didn’t even start going to 4chan until I was 29 in 2011 and ISHYGDDT was the hot new meme.

[Anonymous No.8953679]

From 6-10. After that, the “magic” of gaming went away

[Anonymous No.8953705]

>>8953167
Of course, you're not supposed to call yourself kiddo, kiddo. You're supposed to call everyone else kiddo. If you're a 40yo kiddo you'll be right 99% of the time.
Your perception that things have changed or become extremely weird is just a side effect of you being a kiddo. If you'd been around longer you'd have seen people being this retarded before. It's happened regularly throughout history.

[Anonymous No.8953714]

>>8953705
Yeah, but it still feels bizarre to interact with anons on /vr/ that weren’t even alive during the 16-bit or even the 32/64-bit eras.

[Anonymous No.8954412]

>>8953714
That's because you're a basement dwelling incel who's not allowed within 500' of children.

[Anonymous No.8954473]

>>8949409
>As a kid age range
5 to 16 or so.
So 1984 (Atari) to 1995 (Chrono Trigger). Peak nostalgia for me is around 1990-1994

>do you have nostalgia for /vr/ you experienced in your post-kid days
Yes but really only for Everquest due to the strong sense of it being a real alternate world. If I boot up an emulator and run around Antonica and Faydwer I feel a wave of nostalgia, memories of time spent with friends and and so on.

Though as usual, people thinking nostalgia miss that familiarity is also a big factor. I might re-play Baldur's Gate because I enjoy the comfort and familiarity of knowing the mechanics and more-or-less what to expect (even if it's been awhile and I've forgotten details). This is despite having minimal feelings of nostalgia associated with that game.

[Anonymous No.8954528]

>>8954412
Pipe down, zoomer. The adults are talking.

[Anonymous No.8954534]

>>8953045
In a hobby for ten year olds 40 year old men are geriatrics.

[Anonymous No.8954543]

>>8954534
Pretty much. That’s why I mostly stopped playing competitive online shooters and such. I have no interest in getting screeched at by 13 year olds.

[Anonymous No.8954545]

3 to 13-14

[Anonymous No.8954560]

For me the age range is 5-12. The main difference being when I started buying my own games when I had paper route money instead of waiting for Christmas and my birthday.

[Anonymous No.8954639]

>>8949409
Under 16. At 16 I feel like you’re basically an adult. Although now that I’m in my 30s I refer to 16 through my early 20s as “when I was younger”.

[Anonymous No.8954708]

>>8949409
Range would be about 4 to 14. I got an NES in '89 when I was 4 years old, then a Genesis in '93. Got a PSX in '98. By the time the PS2 came out (and dropped price enough so we could afford one) my interests were shifting to playing guitar and fucking around with girls. It's weird to think about, but my 5 year old son's first console was a Nintendo Switch. Makes me feel old as shit to compare my first RPG to his; NES Zelda versus Breath of the Wild.

[Anonymous No.8954730]

>>8954528

[Anonymous No.8954732]

>>8954730
I’m 39, anon.

[Anonymous No.8955197]

>>8953705
I don't really feel that your assessment is accurate.
Also, it's pretty obvious that every generation goes through the whole "times are a changing" thing, but the advent and growth of the internet, smart phones, and connected technology, certainly has a lot of effects that no other generation has faced. The same way that we'll never really know what it felt like to be there for so many people of past generations.

[Anonymous No.8955495]

>>8949409
Under 14 years old. I lot some of the interest in vidya after I went to highschool.

[Anonymous No.8955534]

>>8955495
13/14 is also around the age that you’re able to begin discerning good games from bad and making informed choices.

[Anonymous No.8955593]

>>8949409
I'd say around 5 to 12.
Around when I started puberty, time sort of stopped for me. Everything from then on feels like it's still new.

>>8950054
For real. I can't take anyone under 23 seriously, no matter what their government says about them and what they're allowed to do. I taught classes of 19 year-olds and they are literally children incapable to self-control.

>>8955534
Pre-teen:
>play anything, enjoy it anyway
Teen:
>be snobby and enjoy less things than a child
Sounds awful.

>>8954543
Turn their mics off.

[Anonymous No.8955603]

>>8955593
>be snobby and enjoy less things than a child

I don’t think that’s a good way to look at it. It’s more like you start developing your own tastes and preferences in your teen years instead of liking any old shit that’s put in front of you.

[Anonymous No.8955612]

>>8953289
School was great because you were forced to sit together with others of your age for most of the day and make friends.
There should be something like that for adults.

Worked an office job and most of the people there were older.
Went to grad school and people are weird.

[Anonymous No.8955615]

>>8949415
No. I have no nostalgia for anything beyond my "kid years".

[Anonymous No.8955618]

>>8955615
Seriously? I have plenty of nostalgia for stuff from my teens and early 20s.

[Anonymous No.8955620]

>>8955603
>instead of liking any old shit that’s put in front of you.
You simply rewrote what I said.
There is no way to make "liking less things" sound like a positive. You are enjoying life less. That's why people have nostalgia to their younger years.

[Anonymous No.8955629]

>>8955620
Your teenage years ARE your younger years though. It’s when your brain begins fully forming. Say you met a full grown adult with no real taste in music/movies/whatever and just likes anything. You wouldn’t be just a bit judgmental?

[Anonymous No.8955643]

>>8955618
>teens and early 20s
Middle school bullying. Shitty parents, eventually divorced. Father got remarried to a gold-digging woman in her 50s (each being the other's 3rd spouse). Father died, I cut off my shitty family, and now live alone. House needed to be sold for inheritance but step-mother and my brothers never got to an agreement, so they got the courts involved, and I had to get my own lawyer.

Idk, this period in life seems overrated.

[Anonymous No.8955649]

>>8955629
If I was, that would be a me problem.
You're a gamer. You ought to know how shitty it is to have people be judgmental towards the things you like.

[Anonymous No.8955798]

>>8954534
>i jumped on the bandwagon last summer when i was 10
>therefore it is a hobby for ten year olds
Classic zoomer illogic

>>8954732
>i'm a wee babe
Thanks for sharing i guess? kiddo

>>8955197
New technology that makes communication easier always has profound effects. If you'd been around when Ugg made the first picture on a cave wall you'd know this, kiddo. The story repeats though history many times. Also, the second picture on that cave wall was boobies, so the only major change was that it was rule 1 back then not 34

[Anonymous No.8955804]

>>8955798
>I’m a wee babe

I fuckin’ wish, man. Tell that to my increasingly grey head and facial hair.

[Anonymous No.8956042]

>>8955804
Are you sure that's due to age? I mean look at where we are and the message you're replying to...

I actually had a couple friends who were already balding really bad in their early 20s though, so it could be worse. Grey hair can look good sometimes (or worst case scenario be dyed back pretty easily) anyway.

[Anonymous No.8956369]

Gen 5 to gen 6. Gen 7 I was a teen. Had exposure to gen 4 because of my brothers.

[Anonymous No.8956469]

>>8955804
Superficial things like hair color don't determine age, kiddo. I didn't even start getting grey hairs until I was in my late 40s. Same with the wife. Even now it's just a bit of salt and pepper on the sides. Nonbinary pinheads aren't potato years old because they have blue/green/whatever hair.
You're a wee babe because you have to imagine yourself to be old. And try to convince yourself your fantasy is true by calling your elders zoomer.

[Anonymous No.8956693]

>>8949409
1989-1999

[Anonymous No.8956756]

>>8949409
I would say 6-18. I think it covers the phases that most people go through in both this life and hobby. Young kids I think know video games and want to play them, but unless they have older siblings can't differentiate "good" games from "bad" games most of the time, and will play almost anything. But they are one's earliest gaming memories, so they still are held close to a person.

I think from 10 to 16 most kids will start understanding what the most popular genre of the time is (for my it was anime games and later FPS games). Then from 17 upwards most people are mature enough to understand whet they like and what they are looking for in games.

>>8949415
Yes, all the time actually. I believe that people experience "magic moments" a few times a year where things are just so comfortable and well that it becomes ingrained in their memory and stands out almost like a childhood memory does.

Two years ago during the beginning of the pandemic I had two weeks off of work and spent it playing Phantasy Star. I remember sitting in bed with the A/C on as the sunlight poured into my room. I had just bought some plants and watered them every day. The year prior in 2019 I had off for the Obon holiday (I've been living in Japan since 2018) and spent it watching shit on Boomerang and playing Fire Emblem. Both were so relaxing an nice.

It isn't /vr/, but most recently I felt it while playing Elden Ring and watching a Friday night playlist of Cartoon Network cartoons that played in the early 2000s if the anon from a previous thread is lurking I still want to talk to you about nostalgic VLC playlists homie. It was magical exploring The Lands between while Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi was playing. What makes nostalgia is the understanding (in the present or future) that a moment in time is so good you'll remember it and the feelings that went along with it forever.

[Anonymous No.8956763]

>>8956756
yeah well i hate that non retro game you shilled. i seriously dislike it. modern games are TRASH

[Anonymous No.8956771]

>What age range do you consider to be "when you were a kid" when it comes to games?
Pre-teens.
>Extra question: do you have nostalgia for /vr/ you experienced in your post-kid days?
Yes, my teens. The cutoff also happens to more or less coincide with a new family computer and a move that introduced me to a new circle of friends and new experiences. In my pre-teens it was playing stuff like Day Of The Tentacle, Age of Empires and Lego Island on the family computer and Pokemon, DuckTales and other stuff on my Game Boy and playing Gran Turismo or Super Mario on my friends' PS1 or SNES, in my teens it was playing all sorts of then-modern computer games, first and foremost Counter-Strike, GTA Vice City, THPS3, RTCW, Jedi Outcast, BF1942, RCT2, the list goes on.

[Anonymous No.8956830]

>>8956771
>In my pre-teens (now) it was playing on my gramps Game Boy
ftfyur

[Anonymous No.8956835]

>>8956756
>if the anon from a previous thread is lurking I still want to talk to you about nostalgic VLC playlists homie
I spoke to someone about this, but I think it was on another board lol
Guy was talking about showing Digimon to his friend (who came from a religious family that forbid her from everything).
So I recommended making like a VLC playlist of shows and mixing it up so it doesn't feel like a chore to go through any one show.
For me, I made a Python program for that.

[Anonymous No.8956837]

>>8956830
What's your problem?

[Anonymous No.8956843]

>>8949409
xbox 360 and onward

aka when i started high school

[Anonymous No.8956858]

>>8949409
up to when I stopped being a kid

[Anonymous No.8956864]

from 94 snes until after wii era

[Anonymous No.8956865]

>>8956835
I was talking in another nostalgia thread a few weeks ago (I think quite a few people in this thread were in that one) about how I like to make VLC playlists on the weekend of shows that played on TV when I was a kid. There was another anon who said he did the same thing but made playlists in a random way, whereas I stick to a schedule and make a list for mine. I wanted to talk to them more about it but the thread was deleted because some of the boomers got into political arguments.

[Anonymous No.8956914]

>>8956837
Apparently, not having the same taste, experiences, or acting like a standoffish douche makes you a zoomer or kiddo or pre-teen or something.
I have some crazy nostalgia for Battlefield, but sadly I missed 1942, so it mainly revolves around Vietnam and BF2. A couple days ago I was at the doctor and "Nowhere to Run to" (or whatever it's called) came on and immediately brought back Vietnam memories in the waiting room. I miss that game so much.

[Anonymous No.8956932]

>>8956865
>about how I like to make VLC playlists on the weekend of shows that played on TV when I was a kid
Same for me. I put in stuff like Batman Beyond, Jackie Chan Adventures, Teen Titans, Beast Wars, Samurai Jack, etc.
>he did the same thing but made playlists in a random way, whereas I stick to a schedule and make a list for mine
I did both.
The random one has episodic/comedic shows, like Dexter, Power Puff Girls, Ed Edd n Eddy, and the scheduled one (using Python) has like 20 action shows (that more or less have a story) and 8 "slots", so when one show ends, another takes over. So there would be one episode of Batman TAS, then an episode of Samurai Jack, then Megas XLR, and so on up to the 8th show, and then it repeats with another episode of Batman TAS. If Batman TAS finishes before the others, then it's replaced with Batman Beyond.

Anyways, what did you want to ask that anon?

[Anonymous No.8956962]

>>8956932
We were going to exchange ideas on how to build playlists, specifically he wanted to see the schedule for my weekend playlist, and we were talking about the best way to make commercial breaks in our playlists (I make them by hand by downloading the raw 30-second commercials from YouTube and editing them together, while he downloaded pre-made compilations I think). I was wondering how to make 5 minute commercial segments with a program, and that is where the conversation ended before the thread was archived.

Also, is it possible to use Python to make a playlist abiding by a schedule that goes in chronological order with the shows? I know next to nothing about coding beyond basic webpage stuff I learned in high school.

Pic related is my current weekend schedule. However since this was made I've added Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show to Sunday and Monday mornings, and Rescue Rangers and Goof Troop to Sunday mornings. I am also going to add Gargoyles to Saturday morning next to Motorcity.

On Sunday afternoons I also add X-Play, G4's Cheat!, Beyond Belief, Home Improvement, Roseanne, Seinfeld, Parks & Recreation, and The Office before The Muppet Show if I have nothing to do early Sunday afternoon (which I usually don't).

>>8956837
Threads like these bring out the worst in /vr/. They often get filled with boomers who come here to complain why the world today sucks, and those idiots are such easy targets that it attracts low-effort trolls who make said boomers rage infinitely. These threads are made for super autists, but get hijacked by retards every single time.

[Anonymous No.8956990]

>>8956962
>is it possible to use Python to make a playlist abiding by a schedule that goes in chronological order with the shows?
If it follows logic, it can be made with any language.
But you're gonna have to be more specific with what you mean by "chronological". Do you mean like, based on when the episode first aired?

I could make it for you if it's simple enough.

[Anonymous No.8956997]

>>8956990
I mean moving down the episode list, like Cowboy Bebop episode 1 being shown Friday, then episode 2 being shown at the same time Saturday, and so on and so on. Sorry, I didn't know how else to describe it.

[Anonymous No.8957010]

>>8956997
These would be separate playlists, right?
You play the friday playlist on friday, and the saturday list on saturday, right?

[Anonymous No.8957017]

>>8957010
Yeah, the playlists run from one night to the next morning (for example 5:30pm Saturday to about 1pm Sunday is the length of the Saturday Night playlist), and are usually between 16 to 21 hours in length.

[Anonymous No.8957025]

>>8957017
You lost me.

Try describing the whole idea in as much unambiguous detail as possible. Literally do not leave out anything.

[Anonymous No.8957041]

>>8949415
It's sometimes fun to look back at those games and all the great times I had with them, but I don't yearn for those times. I'm a different person now and there are plenty of other important experiences I'll have in my lifetime yet. If I spend all my time lost in the past, I'll never get to appreciate the present.

I don't look down on people who are nostalgic though. My circumstances and theirs would be completely different. I'm sure a lot of Anons here miss the days where they had no responsibilities and could hang out with their friends all day long.

[Anonymous No.8957059]

>>8957025
Sorry, I've been doing this for about six months now so the whole thing has become second nature to me. I'll try to explain it the best I can:

I make three main playlists for the weekend: one that runs Friday night to Saturday morning, Saturday night to Sunday morning, and Sunday night to Monday morning. Usually each playlist starts at around 5:30pm on the day it is named after, and ends around 1pm the next day (Friday 5:30pm to Saturday 1pm, for example). The times are not set in stone though, it depends on what I am watching, individual episode lengths, and so on. However usually each playlist ends up being about 21 hours.

I break up the sections like this:
Friday night's Cartoon Network Fridays runs from 5:30pm to 10pm, including the 3-to-5 minute commercial breaks between some groups of shows. Toonami on Saturday nights runs for the same amount of time, 5:30pm to 10pm, as does the Sunday night stuff. Then, every one of the adult swim segments is nearly exactly 8 hours, from 10pm to 6am. This is what I remember adult swim running for when I was a kid, so the timing is very exact. The Saturday morning playlist runs from 6am to 1pm, and the Sunday morning playlist runs for about the same amount of time. There is no reasoning behind this time, this is just how long it takes for all of the shows I want to watch to run. Because I leave for work around 10am on Monday, Monday's playlist is shorter, running from 6am to 10am.

Each of these playlists go in order in the shows they use. For example if I watched the season 2 Family Guy episode "Da Boom" on Sunday night, the following Friday I would watch the very next season 2 episode, "Brian in Love." Or if I watched Cowboy Bebop E01 on Friday night, I would watch E02 on Saturday night. Then the next Friday I would watch E03. So on and so forth.

I hope that clears things up.

[Anonymous No.8957097]

>>8956914
The anon in this thread larping as a 60+ year old man gets my vote for weirdest /vr/ poster I’ve seen lately.

[Anonymous No.8957104]

>>8957059
>I make three main playlists for the weekend
So every weekend you make 3 NEW playlists? So if for example you have 52 weeks worth of episodes, you'd have 3x52 playlists in total? It's not like 3 big playlists that you just close when you're done, and then next week you open the same playlist from where you stopped?

>Usually each playlist starts at around 5:30pm on the day it is named after, and ends around 1pm the next day
Maybe I'm not familiar enough with how VLC playlists work, but what do you mean by "starts at X and end at Y"? Does VLC have some kind of timing mechanics to only play the playlist when it's 5:30? You're not the one who manually opens the playlist for it to play the shows?

>including the 3-to-5 minute commercial breaks
Are they randomized? For example, if today you have like 6 commercials running, will you have the same 6 commercials running next week on the same day? Or will they maybe a different set of commercials and maybe there will be 5 of them instead?

Some more questions:
How are the video files organized? Do you have a certain folder structure going on? Do you have certain naming conventions?
Do you frequently add/remove shows that you (don't) want to watch? Or is this list of shows >>8956962 fixed permanently?

[Anonymous No.8957137]

>>8957104
>So every weekend you make 3 NEW playlists?
Yes, that's the gist. I save the playlists as files in one of my folders (I'll answer your question on that in a bit) to check the episode numbers, but I make a new playlist for each day by hand every week.

>Does VLC have some kind of timing mechanics to only play the playlist when it's 5:30? You're not the one who manually opens the playlist for it to play the shows?
I don't think VLC has any kind of timing mechanism, no. The biggest reason I break it down by time is because I really want the adult swim portion to be 8 hours, so I have to make sure the other portions don't end after 10pm or begin before 6am. I open or start (in the case of me making the playlists the day of) the playlist every time I want to watch it, but check to make sure the time fits with the requirements.

>Are they randomized? For example, if today you have like 6 commercials running, will you have the same 6 commercials running next week on the same day? Or will they maybe a different set of commercials and maybe there will be 5 of them instead?
Yes, they are all totally randomized. I've made 37 unique commercial compilations so far that I intersperse randomly (watching the same commercial over and over is far more boring). However, I do make compilations that are targeted for one time period, for example compilations made up of 2000s commercials, 90s commercials, or 80s commercials. Then I put them between shows of the corresponding time period (a compilation with 2000s commercials would go into the the CN Friday since all of those shows are from the 2000s, while an 80s compilation would go between two 80s Saturday morning cartoons). So I may not have all of the same commercials running on same day in the same order each week, although there may be some overlap.

I have no idea how autistic this sounds to anyone else btw

(1/2)

[Anonymous No.8957165]

>>8949409
when I was a kid... I think the best way to put that would be 3-16 so 90-2003 though I honestly don't consider games retro passed the 16 bit consoles, its hard to explain because at some point games we know/play today will be retro however I honestly don't think gaming has evolved much since late ps1/n64 with the exception of shooters which figured out how they can work on a console, not be good, just work. to me its really fucking hard to call a lot of games 'back in my day' or 'when I was a kid' when many of the mechanics have not changed, evolved for sure, but not changed.

[Anonymous No.8957173]

>>8957137
>but I make a new playlist for each day by hand every week
That's the kind of thing we'd use programming to avoid.

>Yes, they are all totally randomized. I've made 37 unique commercial compilations
So these compilations are 3 to 5 minutes long each? If you have the individual commercials as videos, do you think it would be better to programmatically randomize them each time and insert these individual videos into the playlist, or are you content with the 37 combinations you have?

>I have no idea how autistic this sounds to anyone else btw
You honestly sound exactly like the kind of guy I want to hang out with.
I have a dream of having a group of friends who are all into 80s to 2000s games and shows, and then buying an apartment together to fill with things from that era; consoles, CRT monitors, VCRs, toys, etc. Then we'd hang out there like every day/weekend. And no phones allowed.

[Anonymous No.8957216]

>>8957104
>>8957137
(2/2)
>How are the video files organized?
They are organized into folders onto one of my hard drives. I name the folders after the shows, and divide them into four master categories: Anime, Cartoons, Movies, and TV Shows. I attached an image of what it looks like.

>Do you frequently add/remove shows that you (don't) want to watch? Or is this list of shows >>8956962 fixed permanently?
I will add a show only if it meets three categories: I want to actually watch it (or wouldn't mind having it play in the background), I can fit it into the overall schedule, and I can pair it with another show with similar qualities (sitcoms go with sitcoms, Disney shows paired with Disney shows, etc.). The list I posted previously more or less is the final master list, however I will swap shows out from time to time but replace them with shows that are similar to them in genre and runtime (I do this most often with anime).

[Anonymous No.8957254]

>>8957173
>That's the kind of thing we'd use programming to avoid.
Yeah, like I said I know next to nothing about programming, even though I've heard from everyone doing it the way I do is a road to insanity.

>If you have the individual commercials as videos, do you think it would be better to programmatically randomize them each time and insert these individual videos into the playlist, or are you content with the 37 combinations you have?
I'm content with the compilations. I went to great lengths to make sure they fit one era, and I like the ability to customize them (even if I often forget what commercials I put in them).

>You honestly sound exactly like the kind of guy I want to hang out with.
Thanks anon, you seem cool too. My dream is similar, but having a bunch of neighborhood friends who would go in and out of each other's homes freely (I'm a very private person and can't even fathom living with someone I'm not also fucking).

>>8957041
You seem like a cool dude too anon. These threads often get bogged down by negative nancies, it's good to see some genuine positivity about the present.

[Anonymous No.8957287]

>>8957216
>>8957254
Okay, so here's what I'm thinking.

The list of shows is subject to change, even if infrequently. So we need to make it robust to that. So we can't just make all the playlists for all weeks in one go; it has to be a program that you run once every weekend, and it makes the 3 playlists for that weekend. There also needs to be text files that the program can read the list of shows from and where you stopped last.

Here's what you need to do on your end: Organize these shows in a way that lends itself to helping the program.
For example, in that TMNT folder, I see you have an image file and a bonus folder. Maybe you don't want to add the bonus stuff to the playlist, but still may want to keep it. So what you can do is create a folder inside called "Extra", where you can put all the non-episode stuff and stuff you're not gonna have in the playlist, bonuses/shorts/images/whatever. Then create another folder called "Episodes", in which you put ALL the episodes files, in the correct order (some files may be named by the episode title only instead of season and episode number), instead of being separated into folders for seasons or anything of the like. It's important to have a consistent scheme that all the shows use.

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[CF !tHaCf1MeNM No.8957318]

>>8957254
>>8957287
It's a good idea to use tripcodes, because mods might get angry that we're not discussing /vr/ stuff. We can take the discussion elsewhere then. But for now, let's stay here.

Now, for the text files that the program reads, I'm thinking there needs to be at least 3 text files:
1) The schedule as in >>8956962 (maybe formatted in a better way)
2) The names of the shows and their folder paths
3) An episode tracking file so that you can continue from where you left off (not for you to edit)

In the second file, the shows should have "codes", followed by a comma, followed by a path.
So something like this:
LAZLO, F:\Anime, Cartoons, Movies\Cartoons\Camp Lazlo\
DODGERS, F:\Anime, Cartoons, Movies\Cartoons\Duck Dodgers\

Then in the first file, you'd put something like:
Friday:
CNFO
DODGERS
LAZLO

Saturday:
(etc.)

For the episode tracking file, it tells you what was the last episode you watched. You will not have to check or touch this. Maybe it will be formatted like this:
LAZLO, 35, "file name"
DODGERS, 23, "file name"
So it can easily tell where you stopped, and if for any reason you wanted to read this file, it would be legible.
If you add a new show, there won't be anything in this file for that show, so it would know to start from the first episode.

How does all this sound?

[Anonymous No.8957340]

Between 3 and 14

15 is when I wasn't a kid no more. I'm 27 now and I enjoy video games more than I ever did.

[Anonymous No.8957351]

>>8949424
Zoom zoom

[Anonymous No.8957354]

>>8957318
This sounds like you should fuck off. Fuck tripfags, it goes agains the spirit of 4chan.

[Not him No.8957363]

>>8949409
Anything before highschool so 2001.

My habits changed a lot then too. I didn't pickup any consoles last snes either, really just did pc games and emulation. Almost exclusively starting Tribes for like 7 years

[Anonymous No.8957368]

>>8949415
I'm literally nostalgic for a game I beat 3 years ago, because I happened to play it while my wife was pregnant.

[Anonymous No.8957375]

This board is filled with 25+ year olds. This is the reason it isn't filled with /pol/ fucking bullshit, pepe posting, zoomer one liners etc.

Teenagers are killing 4chan. Unironically.

[Anonymous No.8957379]

>>8950215
I'm glad my wife doesn't do that unless I ask. That would be terrible.

I've gotten much better in my old age than I ever was, especially about not spoiling myself and trying harder.

I beat La Mulana 2 and only had to lookup a few things like how to get blood gateway to move.

[Anonymous No.8957402]

>>8957375
4chan was full of retards in 2005, and 2008, and 2015, and 2016. The thing is I keep getting older, and my tolerance for the retardation has gotten less. Most of the guys from the 2000's 4chan only post in /vr/ now.

[Anonymous No.8957457]

>>8957375
Anon, you should compare the board from when it started to our current year. It really is very different in a negative way

[Anonymous No.8957467]

>>8949415
No. My brain was too badly rotten by porn and anime and I can't feel any emotions but boredom anymore.

[Anonymous No.8957505]

>>8957375
I wouldn't mind it if the internet required ID to access and didn't allow teens to access anything except like, Wikipedia.
Shit like "meme culture", politics, influencers, "clout chasing", pranks, fetish porn, cyber bullying, "challenges"... all these things are ruining them.
And they ruin everything fun for the rest of us. They learn one thing from their parents or friends, and think that's how all the world should be, and cannot comprehend how there are people different from them.

[Anonymous No.8957539]

>>8957354
Based

[Anonymous No.8957698]

>>8957379
Your wife only does that because his bull told her to, redditcuck

>>8957467
>My brain
Implying

>>8957505
Yes. Forcing children to give their personal details to pedo groomers is the solution
>This post didn't kill itself

[Anonymous No.8957794]

>>8955612
I only made like one real friend at school.

[Anonymous No.8957834]

>>8957318
It would be a better idea to fuck off to /g/ and stop shitting up this board with blatantly not even close to on-topic posts.

[Anonymous No.8958004]

>>8957698
>Forcing children to give their personal details to pedo groomers
That's the opposite of what I said

[Anonymous No.8958363]

>>8949409
about six when the NES came out. My dad had an atari and spectrum before that.

[Anonymous No.8958958]

>>8958004
That's exactly what you said. You're just too stupid to understand what you said.

[Anonymous No.8958981]

>>8949409
4 to 16.

>>8949415
Yes. I still have that strange happy tingle in my chest when I think about Mario 64, Sonic on Game Gear and Yoshi's Island, but I can't force myself to play them. It has to be the right time. I don't accept Gamecube/GBA games as /vr/ but I have nostalgia for some of the games on those systems too.

[Shaloamus No.8959021]

>>8957318
It sounds good, although I have no idea how to do any of it, lol. Also sorry, I was asleep.

I have to go to work soon, but I'll be back around 9:00pm JST (8:00am EST)

[Anonymous No.8959078]

For me, it’s 4 - 13 or so: from when I got my first GameBoy to the end of my interest in the PS2.

Years later in college I started playing games a lot more frequently and I am nostalgic for those retro games I played on SNES, Dreamcast, and PSONE. The city I lived in had a ton of retro game stores with good prices, for some reason. Played a lot of JRPGs.

I am most nostalgic though for the glory days of local multiplayer: N64, link cables for the GameBoy, Gamecube games. It was a great time to grow up, before online games exploded.

[Anonymous No.8959106]

>>8949409
6-11

[Anonymous No.8959250]

For me, 2 (yes, 2) to 13. My dad is a gamer too, so by the time I was 2 years old (I’m a 2000 Zoomer), I already had access to the PS1, PS2, and Game Boy Color. Spider-Man (PS1), Spider-Man: The Movie, Sky Odyssey, Tekken Tag, Crash 3, and Pokémon Red were among the first games I played, and they still hold a special place in my heart, as I continued to play them all throughout my childhood. I also have second-hand nostalgia for games like MGS1/2/3, Tenchu 3, and Ace Combat 4 and 5 from my dad playing them when I was young.
We got a PS3 on my 7th birthday, so I also have a relatively strong nostalgic connection to the console due to being quite young, but unlike the PS2 and prior, I only really feel nostalgic for games I specifically played when I was young, like LittleBigPlanet for instance, rather than that era of gaming (or my life) as a whole. Same with the DS and the PSP. I sure don’t feel nostalgic for The Last of Us, despite coming out on the PS3, because it still feels somewhat recent, when I was practically in my early teens, while LBP reminds me of being a kid again. And of course, PS4 and 3DS and so on still feel “recent”, so I don’t feel any nostalgia for those yet.

[Anonymous No.8959321]

>>8959021
I could write the code for you, it shouldn't take long.

[Anonymous No.8959425]

>>8956042
>I actually had a couple friends who were already balding really bad in their early 20s though, so it could be worse. Grey hair can look good sometimes (or worst case scenario be dyed back pretty easily) anyway.
I was about to say that. i'd still rather have gray hair than no hair.

[Anonymous No.8959430]

I usually go by years in school.

[Anonymous No.8959436]

>>8953536
80s kids aren't boomers though

[Anonymous No.8959735]

>>8949409
Really young for me. My older brother had an NES and I was fascinated by it as a kid. Apparently one time I was playing it when I was about 2 or 3 and shit my pants because I couldn't be bothered to stop playing for 5 minutes to go to the bathroom.

[Anonymous No.8959741]

>>8959735
GO TO THE BATHROOM!!!

[Anonymous No.8959745]

>>8949409
5th - 8th grade. Maybe 4th. I played a shitload of games from 4th-5th grade, a few games from 6th-8th, and then basically stopped gaming altogether except for Skyrim in 11th grade.

[CF !tHaCf1MeNM No.8959980]

>>8957318
>>8957287
>>8957216
>>8956962
>>8959021
I'm done: https://pastebin.com/ATD39UTu
Let's discuss the commercials.

[Anonymous No.8960028]

>>8957216
I admire your autistic devotion to watching cartoons, Anon. Keep on trucking.

[Anonymous No.8960050]

>>8949409
the time between 0 and teenager

[Anonymous No.8960160]

>>8949409
when I used to sit on the couch with my bros and play Sega Genesis...

[Anonymous No.8960164]

>ITT:

[CF !tHaCf1MeNM No.8960174]

>>8960164
Looking at the world now, can you really blame anyone for wanting to go back to a better time?

[Anonymous No.8960185]

>>8960174
The past is bad
You have it good today
Everything new is always better

[Anonymous No.8960196]

>>8960164
outdated, somebody needs to update it for his latest prison mugshot

[Anonymous No.8960276]

>>8960185
Don't respond to tripfags

[Anonymous No.8960282]

Imagine, one day one of the moderators here might be some guy who’s first console was a wii or something.

maybe they’re already here [\spoiler]

[Anonymous No.8960285]

>>8960282
m8 in like 2 years the wii will be considered /vr/

[Anonymous No.8960313]

>>8949409
From 4 to 18
There's a lot of subdivision, but that's when I was a kid playing games.

[Anonymous No.8960351]

>>8960282
I doubt any of them are that old

[Anonymous No.8960358]

>>8960285
Wii will never be /vr/

[Anonymous No.8960363]

>>8960358
this

just like the ps2

[Anonymous No.8960391]

>>8949409
5-12, I think this is the perfect age range.

[Anonymous No.8960398]

>>8960358
I look forward to seeing your meltdown in the future. If these mods know fucking anything they'll cut it off at Gen 7, or rename the board to make more sense.

[Shaloamus No.8960476]

>>8959980
Thanks anon! Although it appears I can't connect to the page (I have the same issue trying to get onto thepiratebay, I think my ISP may block certain sites). I don't know if pastebin links are time-sensitive (I've only used them for /d/ and /aco/'s porn game recommendation lists), so it might be my bad.

Also, seeing as this conversation is getting people pissed should we move it to another board?

[CF !tHaCf1MeNM No.8960491]

>>8960476
Sure, just go to >>>/g/87148172
It's the daily programming thread, so it'll be okay.
So what is it that you cannot open? Th pastebin link, or the MEGA link? (reply there)

[Anonymous No.8960609]

>>8960358
It will be when the Playstation 6 comes out

[Anonymous No.8960616]

>>8949409
0-16, or any games released 2010 or earlier in my case

[Anonymous No.8960636]

>>8960164
Can you blame us? The world is significantly shittier than it was in the 90s and 00s. Europe is torn apart by war, we just got out of a 2.5 year pandemic and it is only a matter of time until Western economies will collapse for some bullshit reason. I know everyone has some sort of childhood nostalgia, but it actually was a much better time.

[Anonymous No.8960647]

>>8960636
>some bulshit reason
It's planned

[Anonymous No.8960649]

>>8960647
>he thinks the world is so simple a group can simply 'plan' the economy and get away with it
Back to your containment board, brainlet.

[Anonymous No.8960672]

probably 3-4 to around 13.

I was born in 1990, so PS2 and forward still feels modern to me. Everything prior is stuff I played, Genesis and Snes being the most comfy. PSX and N64 have a nice feel still as well.

[Anonymous No.8960683]

>>8960196
Bob would be proud.

[Anonymous No.8960684]

>>8960649
kek retard

[Anonymous No.8960743]

>>8960636
Even if the world didn't have all these political/economical bullshit problems, it's still worse, because everything fun is being stripped away.

Games used to have manuals that had lore for the game in them, now the boxes have nothing but the game itself. Console intros used to be so cool, and now they're lifeless. Games are sold to us in pieces instead of full games.
The 80s and 90s aesthetics had so much color, but now everything wants to be minimalist and "clean".
Look at phones in the 00s, how they all came in different shapes with different gimmicks, but now they're just these black rectangular slabs.
Film and game studios are moving away from beautiful, hand-drawn, 2D animation and going into 3D.
Going to the video rental store was so much fun with all the promotional stuff they put out, but now you have video streaming at home and lifeless menus.
Windows doesn't come with games anymore. What happened to pinball and minesweeper?
Toys R Us is dead.
When we were kids, we had so many cool-looking well-animated shows. But now Cartoon Network is full of garbage.
Twatter users keep pressuring devs into removing all sexiness from female characters because it's sexist. Why not pressure them into making male characters sexy too, you twats?
There were arcades where everybody could go and have fun together, but now they're dead because everyone has multiple consoles already at home. Civility could be maintained in-person, but now you have teens screech at you online, feeling safe behind the anonymity.
Even when consoles took over at first, you had to go over to your friends' and cousins' houses to play together. But now everything is done from behind screens.
Disney is remaking all our favorite 90s animated movies, trying to capitalize on our love for a better time, instead of making new good movies. Anything new they make is 3D or live-action, with the last 2D made in 2009.

Fun is not allowed.
Take me back. Take me the fuck back.

[Anonymous No.8960832]

>>8960743
>Fun is not allowed
I hate this the most. I hate how everyone is always on fucking edge and there's almost no sense of joy or wonder anymore in things.

[Anonymous No.8960869]

>>8960649
That's just a shitty Moldbug narrative. You're gay.

[Anonymous No.8960889]

>>8960832
I liked it more when the internet was only for nerds.
Now everyone is here, and they're getting radicalized all the time and making life shittier.
The batshit are making larger and larger communities online, and then taking it into real life.

[Anonymous No.8960920]

>>8960832
Situation in the world is fucked tbqh, there’s no fun allowed because people don’t have cause for optimism. People are on edge because people want answers and plans for how the future is going to work out with all these issues and frankly, there is no fucking plan and governments aren’t really bullshitting us that there is one either, just sort of shrugging their shoulders and telling us to sort it ourselves even if they caused it.

Popular media usually reflects the mood of the times, the 80s and 90s were pretty great because people started to enjoy themselves again after the economic fuckery of the 1970s and in the 90s people thought with the Cold War ending so did the threat of dying in a nuclear war. Then 9/11 happened and shit has just gotten worse and worse since, we’ve finally gotten to the point where it’s obvious most people won’t have homes, the middle class is doomed to shrink into nothingness with most falling into poverty, all we’ve got for overcoming the incoming ecological collapse is to just send the planet’s wealthiest to fucking Mars and nuclear war is once again a real possibility. But people are encouraged to blame themselves and each other, it’s the fault of the wokies or the trumptards but never the fault of people with power.. well it ain’t /pol/ and you get the idea I think

[Anonymous No.8960938]

>>8949595
I remember the Wii arriving fresh on the scene when I was 10 and being like 'shit, im gonna miss the old days with the N64 and Super Nintendo'

That was 16 years ago

[Anonymous No.8961102]

>>8960938
I was 24 when the Wii launched in 2006…

[Anonymous No.8961148]

>>8949409
I'm 30 and I still considered myself a "kid" when I got a 360 when I was 15 desu.

[Anonymous No.8961438]

>>8960358
it's just the gamecube but again, i mean even if you don't buy the years argument it's the same thing on a technical level
not unlike how the gba was just the snes but again

[Anonymous No.8961518]

>>8960920
Very well put

[Anonymous No.8961532]

>>8960889
To add to this: when people were social outcasts they were forced to conform to the social norms. Now they just go on the internet to find other social outcasts that strengthen their conviction that it is they who are wrong, and not themselves. This is why there are so many transgenders and conspiracy schizo's.

[Anonymous No.8961538]

>>8960869
If it's all planned, prove it. You can't because it isn't. Or do you seriously believe you have special access to fundamental knowledge others lack? It's just narcissistic coping because you're too weak to face reality.

[Anonymous No.8962470]

>>8961532
Flat earthers have fucking conventions now.

There's this one comic I remember seeing the encapsulates this. Black and white, badly drawn.

[Anonymous No.8962556]

>>8960743
Another thing to add:
Fighting game players, especially SF players, HATE the idea of having guest characters in their games.
It was fucking fun to have that, what the fuck.

[Anonymous No.8962962]

>>8956962
My brother in christ, just look up toonami aftermath.

[Anonymous No.8962975]

>>8961538
>If it's all planned, prove it. You can't because it isn't. Or do you seriously believe you have special access to fundamental knowledge others lack? It's just narcissistic coping because you're too weak to face reality.
Or maybe you're a retarded lolbert who doesn't know about international bankers.

[Anonymous No.8963018]

>>8949415
Didn't Grow up poor, but had parents who had an "Earn it" attitude and didn't care about video games, so when they split up And I was at my mom's house I had to buy my own Dreamcast and later an OG box and Gamecube in like 2015 on Ebay and those were my main sources of Entertainment at my mom's house. Have fond memories of Playing Dead or Alive 2, Jet set Radio, D2, GTA III, Sega GT, JSRF, Halo 2 , Time Splitters 2 and many others way after those games died off.
Also my Freind's Main Console was a genesis around then.

[Anonymous No.8963021]

>>8949409
13 and under

[Anonymous No.8963436]

>>8960358
At some point they will need to make a new board, it will just become /v/ at some point if it’s on a sliding scale.

I think the cut off should be the 360 gen, and maybe even that shouldn’t be allowed. The only reason I can accept the GameCube gen is that the vast majority of games still didn’t have dlc. The Xbox 360 gen normalized dlc; but at least THOSE game didn’t have day one patches for the most part. Somewhere around there though it needs to stop or else we will have people talking about flappy bird and Minecraft.


>>8961102
What have you learned in your time you can enlighten us younger guys with.

[Anonymous No.8963823]

>>8953167
I'm surprised that guy is still alive and didn't die from doing all the drugs and obesity

[Anonymous No.8963965]

>>8963436
I can almost give some concession to 360 era, at least for the first year or two if only because it hadn't changed that much by then. Any further than that is treading too close to what we consider to be modern video games.

[Anonymous No.8963981]

>>8963436
Wii didn't have DLCs too and you couldn't buy games online. Only indies like Cave Story and La Mulana or Virtual Console games. Man this is fucking cool isn't it? 2000s Japanese PC freeware vibe + retro games and 'big' vidya is disc only. Wii wasn't a bad console

[Anonymous No.8964125]

>>8963436
The feel of retro games being janky ugly 3d or 2d only as expressed by allowing only up to ps1/n64 made sense. Dream cast pushed it uncomfortably far.

Allowing ps2 is a huge fucking mistake and now there's nothing to even argue about. Maybe you can ask for a /vintage board and abandon vr to be just not current gen.

[Anonymous No.8964925]

>>8963981
>Wii didn't have DLCs too and you couldn't buy games online.
neither of those are true
but it was a good console yeah

[Anonymous No.8964991]

>>8964925
You really couldn't buy games unless they were indies or something like the one you posted or CV ReBirth

[Anonymous No.8964998]

>>8949409
Easy
>When I was a kid
When I didn't have much money and every video game was an event
>No longer a kid
Enough money to throw money at games without any worry; when I developed a backlog

I'd probably put the division at about Junior year of college.

[Anonymous No.8965118]

>>8964925
He means you couldn’t buy big name first party Wii games via the eShop like you now can on Switch. It was disc only for those.

[Anonymous No.8965607]

>>8949415
I genuinely dont think I've ever experienced nostalgia or have any kind of rose tinted fondness of any period in my life. I've always done the same things, played the same games, watched the same shows, listened to the same music. I have memories of things, sure, but I don't get that warm fuzzy feeling when remembering things I used to do.
And, if I'm being honest, I don't remember a lot that happened before like 3 or 4 years ago. Like most of my childhood memories are just vague. I'm only 20, so that may have something to do with it.

[Anonymous No.8965624]

>>8965607
You’re only a couple years out of high school, buddy. You’ve got a lot of living left to do so don’t sweat it.

[Anonymous No.8965651]

>>8965624
I'm mostly worried because it could be a medical thing. My father died last year and I know stress from events like that can cause memory loss. I'm just trying to stay on top of my mental health and notice patterns before I really lose it. Whenever I see threads like this I feel like a psycho because I don't remember shit.

[Anonymous No.8965675]

>>8965651
Sorry to hear that, bro. I’ve lost a parent myself and it was the hardest moment of my life. Try to get by the best you can.

[Anonymous No.8965703]

>>8965651
>>8965607
I hear abuse and neglect cause people to forget large parts of their childhoods.
Idk if that really applies to you, but it does for me.

[Anonymous No.8965714]

>>8965703
No. For the sake of brevity my childhood was fairly happy. I just don't remember a lot of it outside of major events.
I could just be acting like a faggot and lying to myself about this stuff. I don't really know anymore.

[Anonymous No.8966159]

>>8957505
hello, epson

[Anonymous No.8966179]

>>8949415
no.
nostalgia doesn't set in unless it's something from childhood, y'know, when you had little to worry about.
any sort of recreational, nonproductive activity eats away at your serenity in your adult chapter of life. at least that's how i feel about it.
i went from being all excited about games to a state of indifference as i got older. it's kind of sad. now if i try playing a game, i spend most of the experience wondering how the game works - followed by running it through a disassembler to analyze it.