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9064623 No.9064623 [Reply] [Original]

How different would gaming be if disks caught on worldwide in the 80s?

>> No.9064625 [DELETED] 

>>9064623
its not that it didnt catch on
people were pirating the shit out of everything & the (((chip shortage))) was over so carts could be sold profitably again

>> No.9064667

>>9064623
>if disks caught on worldwide in the 80s?
>if
What universe are you from? Definitely not the same where I am.

>> No.9064729

>>9064623
They would never "catch on" in consoles. It was only a temporary thing, due to the expense of ROM chips.

>> No.9064797
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>>9064623
But it did, OP...

>> No.9064827

>>9064797
but computer games in that time were boring digitized D&D settings not fast fun action stuff

>> No.9064894

>>9064623
I remember our local computer store having disk stations where you could load shareware onto the floppies you bought there or brought from home for free, and it probably had some software you'd pay for at the register. (I only got the free stuff of course)
You'd have seen more of that including for NES games.

>> No.9064903

>>9064827
C64 had loads of action games, zoomzoom. You know it had hardware sprites and scrolling background layers, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_VIC-II

>> No.9064937

>>9064827
>>9064623
you are so dumb that it's literally unreal to witness. zoomers are fucking stupid: confirmed and witnessed.

>> No.9064947

>>9064903
> background layers
it had no layers.

>> No.9064951

>>9064729
>They would never "catch on" in consoles.
it did in japan for the nes. hugely popular. before that people were using tape.

>> No.9064986

>>9064623
Er, disks DID "catch on", anon.

Is this the ultimate nintoddler post, or is it someone falseflagging?

>> No.9065019

did sony have patents on floppy disks they way they did with optical disks? I wonder if floppy disk usage would have circumvented sony's entrance into the console market.

>> No.9066597

>>9064947
It had two layers stupid. Sprite layer and char layer. Yes, the background was rendered as char graphics similar to VIC20.

>> No.9066612
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>>9064623
They did catch on in the 80s.

>> No.9066615

>>9064986
>How different would gaming be if disks caught on worldwide in the 80s?
>IN THE 80s?

Is THIS the ultimate retard post, or is it someone falseflagging?

>> No.9066681
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>>9064827
>computer games in that time were boring digitized D&D settings not fast fun action stuff
wassup bitch

>> No.9066690

They did catch on for everything that wasn't solely a toy.

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9066729

>>9064623
Imagine how different the gaming landscape would be if ZX Spectrum cartridge games had caught on worldwide in the 80s.

>> No.9066757

>>9066729
how does this work? is it from the expansion in the back?

>> No.9066782

>>9066729
The rubber sleeves on those things look janky as fuck.

>> No.9066917

>>9066757
Yes, you need an addon to plug them in. They don't go right in the expansion port. There were barely more than a dozen titles released. Almost as rare as PC Jr carts.

>> No.9066920

>>9064827
Most C64 games are fast action stuff, without the annoying flickering the NES had.

>> No.9066921

>>9066757
>>9066917
They were designed for Spectrum 16K model, which had a cartridge slot. The 48K model didn't, and would need an add on to do the same. The extra 32K RAM replaced the cartridge slot.

>> No.9066925

>>9066917
don't think it would ever catch on really spectrum culture was too closely bound to the advantages of cassettes, i've seen people sharing demos as mp3 files now

>> No.9066927

>>9064729
ROM chips were always expensive and never ceased to. For a single NES game you could buy more than 60 floppy disks.

>> No.9066948

>>9064623
Dumbest OP for a while.

>> No.9066952

>>9064623
if you mean computers and game consoles primarily using CD's, not much. The first game that really made good use of the CD beyond music was Final Fantasy 7. There'd be a lot more FMV games in the early 90's but nobody gives a shit about them

>> No.9067061

>>9064903
>>9066920
He probably means Amerifat games which were all D&D settings and flight simulators. Most of the action games on C64 were European.

>> No.9067130

>>9064623
ervery one of those console extention things failed

disk system failed
32x failed
64dd failed

why did they keep trying to push shit that no one was interested in

>> No.9067189

>>9067130
Mid-generation upgrades aren't gone. The difference is that you're expected to buy the whole console again for them nowadays.

>> No.9067196

>>9066681
>came out 10 years after the c64
Wow you really showed him

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>>9064623
>if disks caught on worldwide in the 80s
>if
Are you retarded?

>> No.9068837

did you unlock the FDS-kun trophy in Melee?

>> No.9068869

>>9064623
HuCards were the best. Diskette size with no retarded magnetic media BS. Those should have become the standard with small slip cases like the Disk system games had.