Nostalgia

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Nostalgia Anonymous Fri Dec 23 12:57:47 2022 No.9512626 [Reply] [Original]

Images that fill you with gaming nostalgia. Old gaming stores, people playing old vidya, screenshots and the like

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 13:28:22 2022 No.9512674 File: 254 KB, 450x741, toysrus-catalog-holiday.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Lots of young fags here. You must be mid 30s to post

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 13:58:44 2022 No.9512717 >>9512706 Not retro

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 14:00:12 2022 No.9512721 >>9512657 I lost.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 14:16:04 2022 No.9512748 File: 14 KB, 480x360, TechTV-Extended-Play-image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512734 Now do you want a titty monster or a girl that actually sounded like she played video games in the 90s or early 00s?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 14:22:42 2022 No.9512754 File: 3.09 MB, 4032x3024, 4461B732-16BA-44BD-97C2-819D9F88E5A0.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Some of my childhood toys they always remind me of the good old days

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 14:31:22 2022 No.9512760 >>9512626 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV9dy7DDQ2g Lots of nostalgia in this video.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 14:46:18 2022 No.9512778 File: 190 KB, 1600x900, facing-worlds-unreal-tournament-3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I modded so much goofy shit into this like adding bender and homer with voice clips

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 14:48:07 2022 No.9512780 >>9512748 Can I have both?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 14:52:43 2022 No.9512782 >>9512754 Throw that fucking Psyduck out it looks like the banana from rockos modern life

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 14:55:59 2022 No.9512784 File: 34 KB, 640x406, l_4555.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512748 botello was okay but i prefer the titty monster

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 14:57:01 2022 No.9512786 >>9512770 remember the episode where he had his weiner on screen? classic i'll try to find it on youtube

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:02:39 2022 No.9512798 File: 796 KB, 757x757, 1665104877689100.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512782 but the pikachu is okay?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:03:40 2022 No.9512805 File: 481 KB, 940x1292, 1648752815403.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >verification not required [spoilers]jannies are trannies

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:09:56 2022 No.9512816 File: 173 KB, 424x564, page1-424px-EGM_US_075.pdf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I mean instant information is cool but there was something about the anticipation of getting new mags

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:13:13 2022 No.9512820 File: 95 KB, 560x757, 1633064074676.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] would be pretty based if a collector anon could post a few pages

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:21:12 2022 No.9512828 File: 305 KB, 608x456, Pyramid64.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I wish all my gaming friends didnt all move away

Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:22:06 2022 No.9512829

>>9512684
It looks silly, but this system was way better than Gamestop. Last new game I bought at Gamestop was Puyo Pop Fever for Gamecube. I took the shelf-worn display case with a price sticker on the front to the register, and the employee put a disc in it he got from the back room. I asked for a factory-sealed copy and the employee said they have none, as they open all the new games. Toys-R-Us' system ensured you got a pristine factory-sealed copy when buying new games.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:23:06 2022 No.9512831 File: 471 KB, 1280x651, 441b53b479d2c2173d3172108ffd4591.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Part of the reason I built my first gaming pc was because of playing this at a friends house

Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:27:40 2022 No.9512835
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>>9512829
I had a cousin and friend that worked at gamestop around the mid 00's and didn't even defend that open every game policy
The employees hated it the costumers hated it and it was secretly a way to slip people used games as new.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:27:45 2022 No.9512836 >>9512723 Fuck all that noise, playboy. Dat ho be trifflin as a mf

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:28:54 2022 No.9512837 >>9512828 wonderful game! The single player is quite charming but that frantic multi is where it is at!

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:29:00 2022 No.9512838 File: 2.53 MB, 2560x1920, 1624314699535.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512836 please calm down and don't say stuff about my mom

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:29:10 2022 No.9512839 >>9512798 Yeah, makes you think what the fuck anon did to that Psyduck

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:32:10 2022 No.9512843 File: 436 KB, 616x440, pilotwings06-616x440.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512798 The maps for this blew my fucking mind for the time. It was almost like a pre san andreas for how big and detailed they were for a 1996 launch game

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:34:48 2022 No.9512847 File: 77 KB, 531x398, 1209086924961822274.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512838 >>9512840 Less hoes

Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:38:13 2022 No.9512850
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>>9512835
I mean what other fucking reason would they have to open new games? I mean a best buy wouldn't open a new tv put it in the back and bring it back out just to put it in the box again

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:39:15 2022 No.9512852 File: 2.18 MB, 640x480, 1664308112211355.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512838 No

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:44:30 2022 No.9512859 >>9512628 I don't miss being an edgy middle schooler with longer than normal and smelly hair

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:44:36 2022 No.9512860 Well the little pikachu can vibrate if you pull on a string

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 15:54:48 2022 No.9512883 >>9512859 Well I do

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:05:11 2022 No.9512913 File: 117 KB, 960x720, 1574393759289.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:05:12 2022 No.9512914 File: 54 KB, 1000x618, a7306d1524be8392.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512859 I had long hair in middle and early high school but it looked more like this. No I'm not obsessed with street fighting and dragon ball games

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:07:24 2022 No.9512924 File: 54 KB, 500x500, artworks-000631834123-hwgmdu-t500x500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It was goofy the acting was terrible and you could beat it in less than an hour but it came with the system so why not fucking play it

Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:22:53 2022 No.9512957

>>9512835
>>9512850
They don't have to open ALL of them. If you wanted a display model, you could just open one and leave the case on the shelf. Let the employees take the disc home to become familiar with what they're selling... but leave all the other copies in the back factory-sealed for customers to buy. That solves all three problems without angering customers. But you're right, they must've done that to sell used games as new.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:34:10 2022 No.9512980 File: 78 KB, 706x642, smashed&slammed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512913 beautiful dog, I love collies

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:37:28 2022 No.9512984 File: 75 KB, 500x500, artworks-q6I7muvEqmbgyZ6Z-qWLWFA-t500x500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512976 >>all those CD drives.. Why?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:39:31 2022 No.9512987 >>9512984 are you 12?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:39:46 2022 No.9512990 File: 160 KB, 693x687, silverstein-wtc (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512964 Lol at all those kill Osama and other Muslim games in the early 00's but we didn't know

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:43:30 2022 No.9512997 File: 15 KB, 424x311, mario-tennis-virtual-boy_219150510_std.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I know everyone hates virtual boy but this and teleroboxer were an experience >>the woman robot litterally punched you with her tits

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:53:21 2022 No.9513020 >>9513001 Why is he black

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 16:56:47 2022 No.9513025 >>9513020 It made for an interesting dynamic with the four white kids. Isaac Hayes was a great pick for voice.

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 17:11:28 2022 No.9513067 >>9512629 weird telly in the middle there

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 17:25:50 2022 No.9513093 >>9512692 thanks

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 17:35:03 2022 No.9513114 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRlrdl_YB6g good old times

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 19:47:37 2022 No.9513367 >>9512829 >still remember when my mom and i got WarioLand 2 then 1 and Pokemon Gold on Toys R Us.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 19:51:35 2022 No.9513378 File: 38 KB, 404x550, Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 140 (March 2001)_0067.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >that wacky weed

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 19:53:14 2022 No.9513382 >>9512719 sexo

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 19:58:35 2022 No.9513402 >>9513380 Why does everything have to be so soulless, monochromatic and minimalistic nowadays? Where did we go wrong?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 20:04:43 2022 No.9513415 >>9512913 That dog is dead now :(

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 20:07:18 2022 No.9513424 >>9513419 fucking mitt romney ree

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 21:12:52 2022 No.9513576 >>9512829 >>9512684 this

Anonymous Fri Dec 23 22:01:34 2022 No.9513691
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>>9512668
Love how they just slapped Polywhirl in the middle, so out-of-the-loop parents and pearl-clutching schoolmarms can immediately associate "SPIRAL" with "MIND CONTROL" and build an opinion without ever reading the damn article. Class act, Time Warner.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 22:07:22 2022 No.9513705 >>9513691 poliwhirl was pushed really hard during gen 1

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 22:28:03 2022 No.9513770 >>9513025 kek

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 22:31:21 2022 No.9513781 >>9512836 I'm sorry I don't speak whatever brain-damaged monkey language you're speaking.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 22:36:26 2022 No.9513797 >>9512651 Jesus thats a nice line up to put out in the same year. In-between main FF games too.

Anonymous Fri Dec 23 22:36:26 2022 No.9513796
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>>9513705
No more than the starters or the mains from the TV series and NO WHERE NEAR as much as Mew or Mewtwo. The magazine cover is immediately disingenuous.

Sometimes I forget how fucking retarded people were around the Millennium. It took me years to shake off referring to people as "townies" and in "flyover stataes." There's still a few, but thankfully nobody's getting trampled over Beanie Babies or getting 'disappeared' over TTRPGs anymore.

Anonymous Fri Dec 23 22:37:02 2022 No.9513804
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>>9512957
Nope during the 6th and the beginning of the 7th gen era they opened alot of them obviously it wasn't just for display otherwise so many people wouldn't have bitched about it. No larp but the people I know that worked for them mid 00's both said they sold used games as new and even if they didn't do that they were encouraged to sell used over new

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 22:38:44 2022 No.9513809 I've tried my best to track down that first Women of Video Games issue of Playboy so I could link it here. Fucking useless modern Internet...

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 22:48:50 2022 No.9513829 Why did the world have to go to shit after 2007, bros?

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 22:59:25 2022 No.9513854 File: 232 KB, 640x1596, 1649648626268.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512957 Even if they just opened one in what other store would they charge you full priced for an item in an opened box?

Anonymous Fri Dec 23 23:07:52 2022 No.9513873

>>9512626
>Soulless Sims Box
I have no idea why they didn't continue the iconic template found on the base game + living large and house party. On top of that, why the hell did they change the house party box?
>>9512632
The real nostalgia is
>X Ra1nb0w X
>Wazup 1994
>Beast Guard2
Just missing "Imnonoob007" and "PoopMaster69"

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 23:28:35 2022 No.9513916 >>9513910 and i just won...

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>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 23:44:38 2022 No.9513949 File: 7 KB, 237x213, images (1) (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How to keep a kid busy for hours and hours during a road trip

Anonymous Fri Dec 23 23:46:41 2022 No.9513952
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>>9513796
No, 9513705 is right, back when they were figuring out who kids would gravitate to Poliwhirl was on tons of shit. One of the six Burger King toys, cereal boxes, pajamas, posters, dude was everywhere. Right up there with pikachu, charizard, and jigglypuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 23:50:50 2022 No.9513963 >>9513952 Are these still worth nothing? I was surprised a few years ago when I found mine again that they had no value. I'm sure there's a ton of them out there, but Pokemon doesn't seem to run on logic.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 23 23:53:46 2022 No.9513968 >>9513910 Little did he know that was actually the worst day of his life

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 00:09:06 2022 No.9513995 >>9513952 I got a new two, ball is still wrapped but the box disintegrated over time. It's with my Mr mime plush.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 00:10:48 2022 No.9513996 >>9513829 I guess cause my daughter was born.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 00:17:07 2022 No.9514005 File: 34 KB, 450x308, 1665842408091139.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this is one of the best

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 00:24:46 2022 No.9514025 >>9514010 Is that Tobey McGuire?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 00:26:00 2022 No.9514029 File: 23 KB, 320x240, 7731a4bc9573bd81b5f4e1275ed0441b.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9514025 she's an angel and nothing you guys can say will change my mind >verification not required jannies are trannies Auto 10

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 00:28:28 2022 No.9514040 File: 1001 KB, 3024x4032, vqxuvoibxug71.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I miss demo discs

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 00:28:53 2022 No.9514042 File: 637 KB, 1280x964, 1611560040234.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 00:28:59 2022 No.9514043 File: 19 KB, 480x360, hqdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 00:31:55 2022 No.9514049 File: 21 KB, 320x240, morgan-webb-and-adam-sessler.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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Anonymous Sat Dec 24 00:58:07 2022 No.9514083

>>9513952
I'm not saying there WASN'T merch, I was saying the merch was MUCH more abundant for other characters.

My main point, however, was the Time article about the franchise being "manipulative" and featuring a Pokemon that has a big spiral on his chest. It'd be like asking, "Are Video Games Getting TOO SEXY for Children???" and putting a photo of nude DoA characters on the cover. It's inherently disingenuous.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 01:08:56 2022 No.9514104 >>9514040 Fuuuk getting demos with mags was amazing

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 01:11:46 2022 No.9514112 File: 155 KB, 777x1024, aldi pc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 01:17:05 2022 No.9514121 File: 215 KB, 1000x981, 1661804422191665.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9514112 Fuuug aldi was around that long? We just got our first ones in my state like 3 years ago

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 01:20:14 2022 No.9514126 >>9514121 Aldi has been around since the 1960s

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 01:27:00 2022 No.9514132 File: 277 KB, 2001x1125, 4v20gp6ruoa81.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9514126 Sorry I'm a big dumb doody head

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 01:27:29 2022 No.9514134 >>9514126 Yep. 33 years old and been shopping at Aldi all my life. It seems considerably better now than when I was a kid, to be honest.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 01:35:19 2022 No.9514140 >>9514042 god fucking damn it i miss this aesthetic. Looks like Segaworld.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 01:46:51 2022 No.9514165 File: 377 KB, 1600x1200, main-qimg-30abb48e9d7f55666fd36d83cd4d563f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512859 sorry if you're insecure about how society perceives you, but there is no such thing as a "normal" hair length.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 01:54:02 2022 No.9514175 File: 538 KB, 1280x984, DF4EEDAC-59BF-43E4-A5CE-BAA182F7ED25.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 01:57:49 2022 No.9514182 File: 36 KB, 460x345, aqjynZM_460s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9514165 I wish I had gone to more smelly lan parties when they were still a thing

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 02:02:49 2022 No.9514193 >>9514175 We were robbed of the Y2K future we deserved

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 02:59:40 2022 No.9514251 >>9514040 Now you can demo any game you want at any time.. ...but they all suck

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 03:28:27 2022 No.9514295 >>9513952 poliwhirl was pushed so hard because it is satoshi tajiris (pokemon creator) favorite pokemon

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 03:29:28 2022 No.9514298 >>9514020 the cheaters episode where joey greco gets stabbed was pure kino

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 03:30:29 2022 No.9514304 >>9514040 everyone used to steal the demo discs from the playstation magazine and I would have to sort through them trying to find an issue that still had the disc

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 03:31:41 2022 No.9514308 >>9514175 y2k aesthetic is the fucking best

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 03:38:20 2022 No.9514313 >>9512654 Dang. Brought me back.

Anonymous Sat Dec 24 04:30:11 2022 No.9514378
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>>9513402
I wanted to say something witty here but I legitimately have no idea. Maybe bold and creative designs dissuade enough people that they need to play it safe? Maybe it costs too much money to make SOVLful things? Or maybe it's just the trends of the time. But I do agree with you, shit is wack.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 04:36:22 2022 No.9514385 >>9514378 the internet killed culture is the real answer

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 04:39:41 2022 No.9514390 >>9512997 I loved VB. The Mario game was fun I still have a complete working system in the Blockbuster case with the AC adapter too

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 04:44:18 2022 No.9514396 File: 878 KB, 1080x1709, g1zKB82yjDEhmfmU9cH0NQZtnzgTRkqJyzdH_6E_Lrk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 04:47:02 2022 No.9514401 >>9514396 Funcoland were so shit, almost every old NES site from the USA had a section about Funcoland being fucking awful.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 05:01:57 2022 No.9514420 File: 1.71 MB, 498x375, farley.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9514396 I'd buy out the entire store today.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 05:04:26 2022 No.9514426 >>9513380 Damn. Everything just looks so damn sterile now days.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 05:41:57 2022 No.9514485 File: 666 KB, 746x1026, epp5oldfso901.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hey remember when Warcraft came back, before coming back again? Also, Interstate '76 was dope, and still is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 06:20:10 2022 No.9514537 >>9512692 it sucks how much old magazines sell for now

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 11:59:29 2022 No.9514956 File: 71 KB, 666x642, 1671859683590654.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 12:40:29 2022 No.9515005 >>9514040 Fun fact. Some demo games contain the code for the whole game but devs just lock it because its easier https://youtu.be/Mjh0S8df0fo

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 12:48:06 2022 No.9515013 >>9514537 you gotta get lucky and get to an estate sale after a collector croaks. some people go to hundreds of those things just hoping for that to happen

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 13:08:31 2022 No.9515027 >>9514182 Man, I do not miss all of the fucking headphones we had to wear back then. I can still feel the pain of wearing any of those sets for more than 20 minutes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 13:41:40 2022 No.9515072 >>9514396 Interesting that some of those games were even that expensive at that point.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 14:05:34 2022 No.9515112 File: 153 KB, 1152x768, 1656890439085.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 14:11:14 2022 No.9515124 File: 20 KB, 240x320, 1656954849844.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9514396 >>earthbound for $24 Give me every fucking copy you have and every copy the stores in the surrounding area have

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 14:15:21 2022 No.9515130 >>9515115 I owned that purple coat i_i

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 14:17:00 2022 No.9515132 >>9515130 I was that black kid with all white friends

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 14:22:48 2022 No.9515142 >>9514025 kek

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 14:35:37 2022 No.9515157 >>9512770 It's funny, I know that guy more from the podcast Security Now with Steve Gibson. Excellent podcast, incidentally, highly recommend

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 14:36:43 2022 No.9515159 >>9515157 Thanks for recommending your podcast Steve

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 14:43:14 2022 No.9515161 >>9515112 Fuck you gramps

Anonymous Sat Dec 24 14:44:22 2022 No.9515162
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>>9514020
I still can't believe G4 killed TechTV and themselves. Let alone of it happening twice 10 years later. I loved Tech TV and really liked early G4. It's wild how much the big wigs over at G4 fucked up marketing the channel and understanding what viewers wanted. Just show video game related content. Shows like Cinematech must of pulled in bigger audiences than Cheaters
>>9514401
Funcoland in my area was great. Though I mainly remember it from the 5th generation

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 15:14:11 2022 No.9515205 >>9513415 so's the tube :((

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 15:23:43 2022 No.9515217 >>9515132 Are you a highly paid plastic surgeon now?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 15:24:30 2022 No.9515219 File: 2.43 MB, 3840x2160, 1565668210852.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I am sure it's not truly retro, but cool none the less

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>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 15:35:35 2022 No.9515242 File: 330 KB, 1784x1216, 1659432718314686.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Obligatory retro pic

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 15:51:40 2022 No.9515271 File: 500 KB, 1745x1231, 1604706927118.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 17:24:30 2022 No.9515425 File: 174 KB, 640x481, pic_disp.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 18:40:40 2022 No.9515547 >>9515234 >>9515238 >>9515241 >the wait is over ...but the Dream™ is over :(

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 19:35:01 2022 No.9515615 File: 3.78 MB, 2610x4640, IMG_20221223_230756.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512626

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 19:44:45 2022 No.9515632 These threads make me angry. This is what they took from us, and we're doing nothing about it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 19:57:15 2022 No.9515650 >>9515242 It feels like this pic is a fake just putting in everything that was popular at the time. Or the guy is a huge normie.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 20:00:50 2022 No.9515657 >>9513402 Apple becoming one of the world's most valuable companies with a huge profit margin, and everyone trying to copy their store aesthetic on the assumption that it would allow them to move upmarket.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 20:03:02 2022 No.9515663 File: 66 KB, 851x1270, pepe-cheer-tears.64d3de15.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512713

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 20:16:49 2022 No.9515683 File: 179 KB, 720x894, 1663089014552815.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9515650 >>guy watching friends

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 20:18:37 2022 No.9515686 >>9512713 Poor Devin, being both a tendie and wrong must've hurt. At least his heart was in the right place.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 20:34:11 2022 No.9515706 >>9512659 Does anybody else miss old web design? Flash-laden splash pages aside, I miss how practical it looks. No ugly white space, or endless scrolling, or pop in ads getting in the way of your click/tap. Just what I need without extra steps.

Anonymous Sat Dec 24 20:56:14 2022 No.9515736 [DELETED]

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As a small kid I loved entering these smoke-infested dens with loud eurodance music playing. Any picture with arcades full of early/mid-90's games is hugely nostalgic for me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 21:08:47 2022 No.9515753 >>9515547 >The legend will never die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wHIMljreUE

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 21:12:35 2022 No.9515759 >>9512668 >glamorous cover pic >addicction >"is it bad for them?" Journos baka

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 21:18:45 2022 No.9515768 >>9514956 Is that Melissa Joan Hart?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 21:30:32 2022 No.9515784 >>9512913 Cute. Good dog too.

Anonymous Sat Dec 24 21:31:48 2022 No.9515786
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>>9513380
Oh fuck dude lost it so much. Seeing the copies of fucking Myth on the racks. Fucking played that game so much. I was the only weirdo in school to play it too! Great game.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 22:29:08 2022 No.9515871 >>9515234 >>9515238 >>9515241 nothing takes me back to 99 more than the dreamcast

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 22:43:16 2022 No.9515903 File: 894 KB, 782x514, captain-power-the-young-all-stars-9-1988-post.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://youtu.be/6w9ZyBPk5_8 YouTube apparently censors flashing lights

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 22:59:07 2022 No.9515929 >>9513952 >>9514295 Poliwhirl is round and simply designed. Blastoise has lots of bits on him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 23:01:25 2022 No.9515937 >>9512713 >>the more things change the more they stay the same.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 23:05:22 2022 No.9515942 >>9515216 I miss kb toys

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 24 23:10:53 2022 No.9515958 >>9513796 Red also had a Poliwhirl in the manga, which was absolutely released here in the states, before you say shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 00:09:48 2022 No.9516071 File: 3.63 MB, 4640x2610, IMG_20221224_150507.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512626

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 06:47:22 2022 No.9516582 >>9514042 It's Wacky Pomo. https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491/wacky-pomo I don't "hate" the whole minimalist aesthetic, but I agree that's it's long past time for a change.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 07:13:15 2022 No.9516627 >>9515650 You never went to other peoples houses in the 90s.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 07:15:52 2022 No.9516630 >>9512626 I would rape Gabe Newell's dead mother to get physical copies of PC games again.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 07:16:58 2022 No.9516632 >>9516630 Id be right there rapin from the unoccupied hole, brother.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 07:37:37 2022 No.9516653 This thread has made me sad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 07:57:52 2022 No.9516665 File: 78 KB, 750x750, 1545350974862.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9516653 Just take the escapism pill. You can still play the same games on the same hardware today.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 08:00:14 2022 No.9516669 >>9512628 fuck wow players, everybody I knew who played that was some kind of maladjusted asshole.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 08:07:59 2022 No.9516675 >>9512713 Where's Devin nowadays?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 08:09:52 2022 No.9516679 >>9516627 Sure he did. He was just in his dads ball sack at the time.

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 08:12:46 2022 No.9516682

>>9516630
It was inevitable even without gabe. Digital is the future. Physical is obsolete trash for weirdos. Don't blame the player, blame the game. I don't really like it either but there's really not that much sense in producing physical media these days when internet is as widespread and fast as it is.
Personally I'd be more mad about stupidly invasive drm, no local servers etc. in games these days.

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 08:23:22 2022 No.9516695

>>9512668
Poliwhirl was a personal favorite so I liked this cover when I saw it.Is it bad for them? Well, no more so than any other media crap. One must wonder where the line is for a stupid brand obsession becomes unhealthy. You rarely see anyone describe sports obsession as unhealthy, yet it's just as likely to make adults act childish and nonsensical.

>>9512693
98% of teens think post sigs are cool. If you're one of the 2% who knows better, put this in your sig.

>>9513378
bastards were hogging it all to themselves.

>>9513402
clean, easy, inoffensive, easier to export globally. I always default to blaming the Swiss for globalizing their design sensibilities.

>>9513804
GameStop still does this shit, I learned recently (not from my own experience, last time I bought from there was 2014).

>>9513829
you try too hard to fit in

>>9514018
PC engine and eroge, name a more iconic duo

>>9514049
nice red dwarf reference

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 08:24:24 2022 No.9516697 >>9514083 I think you're reaching for this one to be frank

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 08:25:34 2022 No.9516702 >>9516682 Fortunately, in the modern age we get to have all those bad things.

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 08:31:25 2022 No.9516708

>>9513804
That definitely had to have been a regional thing or only certain years. I worked at GS for 3 years in late 2000s and we only ever had 1 "display copy" gutted and out at a time and we even would give a 10% discount on the display copy if it was the last copy available. Usually a customer would just bring the case up and you swapped it for a sealed copy. Employees were also allowed to rent out games, but i cant recall if that was only on preowned stuff.

The thing that irked me was prices on cover art spine. Like stickers stuck right on the artwork. Sometimes they put them on slips of paper and slid them in but most monkeys were too lazy to bother.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 08:53:13 2022 No.9516735 >PS2 is Notalgic for Zoomers Please True Retro ends in the SNES generation everything after is Zoomer Crap

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 11:01:30 2022 No.9516860 >>9515706 yeah but its mobile phones that caused it. even if you hate the minimalist wasted space design we have now its because of fucking phones. they ruined everything

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 11:07:31 2022 No.9516864 >>9516695 shut the fuck up faggot and go back to redd.it

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 12:37:51 2022 No.9516921 >>9516864 make me :^)

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 12:47:59 2022 No.9516926 >>9513852 >Saturn stand showing Shinobi X >Nearby PS1 stand showing Ridge Racer No wonder the Saturn failed

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 12:52:26 2022 No.9516929
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>>9512976
Lol I know someone whose cousin still has one of those operations in a favela
Fantastic frankensteining of technology all the way from the 90's to brand new
And people are still buying lots of pirate DVD's

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 12:52:47 2022 No.9516931 >>9516665 But you don't have the same society around you nor friends sharing your retro hobby

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 13:02:46 2022 No.9516937 File: 44 KB, 165x180, 1666532926487134.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >adult people on a retro forum have nostalgia for stuff I'm too old to care about I had a good run

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 13:20:25 2022 No.9516952 >>9513378 'nah bro I only do ketamine'

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 13:25:52 2022 No.9516958 >>9512812 Lol

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 13:32:00 2022 No.9516963

>>9512748
Morgan was known for being a windows backdoor programmer she would work as an intern for call for help and send out tips to people on how to install windows programs without buying them. While also being general 'tech support' she's not a retard when it comes to computers just abused by the kikes that created g4 and techtv as a sex idol so niggas never realize she had credentials.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 14:31:05 2022 No.9517038 >>9512784 Such a handsome woman.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 15:34:02 2022 No.9517136 >>9517078 Goddamn, those blinds look nice. We've got a smaller version in front of the window above the kitchen sink, but I've never seen a full size one like that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 15:58:22 2022 No.9517169 >>9517049 >>9517051 old school gamefaqs was based

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 17:48:10 2022 No.9517356 >>9516695 >I always default to blaming the Swiss for globalizing their design https://youtu.be/1-bCIA_vyVc

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 17:54:33 2022 No.9517365 >>9515271 Looks like my brother before he went to prison, Merry Christmas. Don't ever show yr face again, just stay safe for the next 12 years. I'll be too old to beat you when you get out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 17:57:51 2022 No.9517370 >>9517365 Did he go to jail for slaying too much pussy?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 18:14:37 2022 No.9517396 >>9512651 Squaresoft were on a higher plane back then. I hate what's happened to them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 18:23:26 2022 No.9517405 File: 91 KB, 800x600, rtcw_tower_by_sine_zero_d39u0a-fullview.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9517026 >RTCW at 5,000 players Mannn.. I miss it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 18:26:59 2022 No.9517412 >>9513001 That looks like a Bubblegum Crisis package at the top next to the door. Screensaver software? Man, I'm going to have to watch the OVAs again.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 18:36:01 2022 No.9517426 File: 40 KB, 351x500, D78BA48C-4310-499A-9EAA-537742F2AF30.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9517412 'Tis.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 19:00:39 2022 No.9517483 >>9516912 Let me guess, it was impossible to win.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 19:01:28 2022 No.9517486 >>9517483 Yeah. Apparently there were a lot of scams like that going on in the 90s.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 19:07:37 2022 No.9517498 >>9517053 OPSMag bros.. I miss you. I am looking scans about this magazine there are like 108 issue but I only found 12 on archive dot org. If anybody can send a gofile/mega/webpage with all those magezines I will thank him

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 19:12:32 2022 No.9517508 >>9517405 I remember the chaos in the document room when people rushed in with flammethrowers and panzerfausts. >objective taken >objective secured >objective taken >objective secured

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Anonymous Sun Dec 25 19:34:58 2022 No.9517553
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>>9516708
Its definitely a country wide thing. I would post stories but I don't want to get called a reddit fag. I could see if it was like the last copy and all they had to sell was the demo version but they do it to a ton of them and still charge full price

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 19:45:00 2022 No.9517579

>>9517553
I worked at E.B. Games right when they were bought out by GameStop (2006). I can confirm as well, this shit happened. One time a guy stole a ton of new PS2 games and sold it back to us. It was sort of karma because we took in his stolen games all the time. What did the manager do? resealed them and acted like it was new product. That's highly illegal. We also could take home used games to rent out for a few days. It was pretty common

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 19:46:46 2022 No.9517583 File: 657 KB, 930x528, gamer food.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512661 We had no idea how good we had it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 19:53:01 2022 No.9517596 >>9517579 >>9517537 >>9517579 >>9517537

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 19:56:13 2022 No.9517605
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>>9517579
What other fucking tech products could you do that to and it be considered legal? Like everything else that is open box you have to sell as open box, tvs, blu rays, microwaves, refrigerators, speakers. I could think of a bunch of others

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:05:17 2022 No.9517634 File: 7 KB, 124x150, 1671825256080293.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9513384

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:08:11 2022 No.9517640 >>9512628 Is that Asmon

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:12:02 2022 No.9517646 >>9517583 I bought his mouse and it developed a double click issue after a month. Piece of shit Logitech

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:15:30 2022 No.9517653 >>9512990 >silverstein It's all so tiresome

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:18:19 2022 No.9517658 File: 304 KB, 872x1039, Screenshot_20221225-151548_eBay.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9517412 Early DVD set. Disc's in jewel cases with no art in a big space wasting box.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:18:34 2022 No.9517659 >>9513691 >>9513705 Poliwhirl is Tajiri's favorite. That's why Red has one in the Pokemon Special manga.

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:20:56 2022 No.9517663

>>9517646
I would never buy anything marketed by a pro gamer unless they are just mentioning it without any sponsoring for it. That said I had logitech G400 and it served me well for maybe 4 years, then stopped working completely. The power cord solder broke off the circuit board.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:35:44 2022 No.9517686 >>9517658 Not him, but that display box looks super thrown together and cheap. Anime DVDs sort of had their shit togehter by that point. Look at the Cowboy Bebop DVD sets. I believe they came out in 2000

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:41:10 2022 No.9517694

>>9517605
None, the managers there at the time just didn't care. My manager was a complete bitch that ran the store on a skeleton crew. I only ended up working there for 3 or 4 weeks because of her. It's a shame because everyone else working there there was super cool and knowledgeable about games. They genuinely wanted to help customers and inform them. Not her, she just wanted to push pre orders and edge cards, even if that meant fucking over the customer. She took it very, very seriously too.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:42:04 2022 No.9517698 File: 13 KB, 400x288, qotd631-led-mice-3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I felt like a pimp being the absolute first person in school to get a non trackball mouse

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 20:46:31 2022 No.9517705

>>9517686
Agreed. But it's legit, I own one myself that I got from EB around that same time.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/284972837300?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=fbeqvyv2q_2&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=rZ6FA4-qRBS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 21:05:16 2022 No.9517727 >>9517705 Wow, that is wild. It looks like an early big box PC game. I wonder if that's why they did it. I am sure it also saved them money

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 21:13:15 2022 No.9517745
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>>9517694
My cousin would constantly complain about ghetto bitches dropping off their brood for hours, even on school day hours? Like you can bring them here but not to fucking school? This was years but people as a whole started complaining about it but I guess sone legal shit came up

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 22:44:00 2022 No.9517868 >>9517053 Enjoyed this magazine a lot as a youngster, looking at scans now you can tell most of the staff either never played the games they reviewed, were paid off or just didn't know or care.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 22:49:13 2022 No.9517878 File: 94 KB, 717x538, 1671986447273882.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 22:52:26 2022 No.9517885 >>9517868 My go-to magazine was PC Gamer (US), who obviously did play the games, but their reviews were just as worthless.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 23:02:23 2022 No.9517901 File: 2.42 MB, 1080x606, 1593665613904.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I miss it bros

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 23:03:38 2022 No.9517904 File: 1.84 MB, 720x480, 1480921722753.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

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>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 23:40:38 2022 No.9517949 >>9517852 Wtf is that?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 25 23:48:19 2022 No.9517960 File: 303 KB, 613x480, X-Men-Mutant-Academy-2-Activision-Arcade-Fighting-Sony-PlayStation-PSX-PSone-Xtreme-Retro-3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9517949 X-Men: Mutant Academy 2 Good shit

Anonymous Sun Dec 25 23:59:25 2022 No.9517973
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>>9513402
Why do you underaged kids think that these tacky, commercial signs are any less manipulative and soulless than today's ads? There is no such thing as soulful advertising.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 00:01:17 2022 No.9517976 >>9516675 https://www.linkedin.com/in/mifflin-devin-90652726

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 00:03:11 2022 No.9517982 File: 44 KB, 599x804, woqff.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9514015 It reminded me of this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 00:07:48 2022 No.9517991 >>9515706 >pop in ads getting in the way of your click/tap As far back as I can remember, there have always been garish ads on the World Wide Web. In fact, most of them looked a bit like the ones advertised here on 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 00:10:07 2022 No.9517993 >>9516702 We were warned about this stuff by all the cyberpunk novelists of the 1980s. We had over twenty years to prevent it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 01:51:45 2022 No.9518157 File: 1.59 MB, 1600x2144, 1587533881912.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9517136 i think they might be more common in coastal areas

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 02:37:50 2022 No.9518246 >>9517412 >>9517426 Pawn shop gave me a 2000s box set of this for free and god damn it is a kino series. Wish they had been allowed to finish it as intended.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 02:43:13 2022 No.9518252 we need to go back :(

Anonymous Mon Dec 26 02:47:41 2022 No.9518257

>>9517553
Like i said, it definitely may have been nation wide, but the district managers would give flexibility. Even before I worked there, all of the stores around my small city (eastern Pennsylvania) only ever would take the display copy handed to them and pull a sealed copy out until only the display copy was left which we would do a small discount on (if customer asked) and used a sticker "seal" to act like the shrink-wrap and we informed customers once that seal was ripped, it was treated the same as ripping the wrap off. Obviously, we pushed preowned if we had a copy, but you are saying literally every "new" copy was sold open? Or they would sell the shelf copy then gut open another copy? I always heard shit stories about other stores, but all the stores i shopoed and worked were great(at the time, maybe they are shit now)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 02:52:34 2022 No.9518263 >>9517948 Ahh all my favorite gameboy classics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 03:25:42 2022 No.9518297 File: 1.48 MB, 1920x1200, 1671047607849035.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] For me it's Full Moon over Red Dunes

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 03:49:09 2022 No.9518334 >>9512821 Holy nostalgia batman. Loved that level too

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 07:25:45 2022 No.9518604 >>9517640 Yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 08:16:24 2022 No.9518660 >>9512626 yeah those were the times before the fsocial justice warriors ruined videogames.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 10:03:06 2022 No.9518765 >>9512859 GOOD MORNING SIR

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 10:20:45 2022 No.9518784 File: 55 KB, 500x500, 1663704526649.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9518660 yea.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 10:25:03 2022 No.9518787 >>9514015 >Works for Titus Mr. Takahiro has long since passed, then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 10:48:01 2022 No.9518805 File: 236 KB, 990x1100, 20220912_195819.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Anyone else miss getting chunky cheat books from gaming magazines?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 11:02:50 2022 No.9518817 >>9518805 Me a lot, I also miss when games had cheat codes

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 11:03:42 2022 No.9518818 File: 1017 KB, 1280x1570, tumblr_5880a1f560e22e9cfb08912fe8935e55_95d6022d_1280.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 11:08:05 2022 No.9518823 File: 370 KB, 268x500, tumblr_de8356812868c53399e7d046a24578ab_f97dae29_400.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 11:13:50 2022 No.9518827 File: 2.34 MB, 2048x1536, 183647291736536.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9518805 I wish I had cheat books I was poor

Anonymous Mon Dec 26 15:46:51 2022 No.9519136

>>9517973
Of course it's all just consumerism and it's all been about finding the most efficient way to sell product, but it's disappointing to see how not just the advertising but everything has become so cold, sterile, and dystopian. Like they know they have us by the balls and don't need to put any effort into selling the dumbass masses products anymore because they'll buy it anyways. Not saying we should get up in Arms and cry our eyes out over the loss of old McDonald's building designs, but you have to admit the designs of old had more character than the neutral colored, inoffensive commie-blocks we have now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 26 15:49:13 2022 No.9519138 >>9519136 on the flip though it is easier to break free from their manipulation tactics

Anonymous Mon Dec 26 16:04:59 2022 No.9519153

>>9519136
>the designs of old had more character than the neutral colored, inoffensive commie-blocks we have now.
I think they did that so the building could be repurposed into any other fast food restaurant. Increases the resale value. It'd be hard for people to see a traditional McDonald's building as anything else.

Anonymous Mon Dec 26 16:19:22 2022 No.9519184

>>9519153
>resale value
And that's just it. It's why everything is the way it is now. From cars, to homes, to restaurants, all being bland innofenssive garbage with their grays, whites and blacks is just so that it doesn't hurt the prospect of them making slightly more money in the future. I know consumerism is inherently soulless, but this is ascended soulless.

Anonymous Mon Dec 26 22:04:07 2022 No.9519859

>>9513378
Yeah that's America, in Europe it was still hash mostly until about 2000. First time I got high was in 95 when my punk friend showed me these chunks of hash he'd just bought and he was so proud that I couldn't help it and just snatched one of them from his little box and swallowed it whole just for the fuck of it, this turned into a good trip lol. There are fags on /vr/ complaining about Anons randomly bringing drugs up but we WILL NOT STOP.

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 00:23:32 2022 No.9520151
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>>9513402
Excessive corporate control and cargo-cult wisdom in corporate branding methinks. We used to have artists, designers and architects making things that look good for the sake of it, or things that they thought would work without having some boring standard to follow. Then some faggot started writing textbooks and teaching design curricula in universities and now nobody has any unique sensibilities or real creative control in branding.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 00:38:08 2022 No.9520192 >>9515214 Is this the legendary cheese lasers pic?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 01:23:07 2022 No.9520285 >>9515657 Yeah, unfortunately this. The glossy clean hellscape of "web2.0" was the first nail in the coffin but Apple's the one who buried it.

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 01:37:39 2022 No.9520335

>>9515214
I'm hoping the internet fad surrounding retro games fucking dies. It was just a short few years ago you could see PS1 games that weren't complete bargain bin trash on the rack at any used media store, but now they're behind glass for absurd prices.

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 02:18:08 2022 No.9520403

>>9517878
I miss MSN chat like crazy. Made a bunch of friends there because im a social loser irl. Still friends with a few of them from 2000 to today. Some of them dropped off the face of the earth and one died last year. It sucks knowing you'll never talk to some of them ever again.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 02:39:59 2022 No.9520460 >>9519136 Pretty much this. If I have to eat equal quality filth, id atleast probably go with the one that seems like they are having garish fun with it instead of a minimalist prison cell.

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 06:03:14 2022 No.9520849

>>9520335
Anon this is just a thing that happens, not even limited to video games. Whoever is currently in their 30s and doing well in their career goes out and buys the cool shit they wanted as a kid. If you're in that cohort, you're competing with everyone you went to school with who ended up more successful than you for a limited run of consumer goods.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 14:33:31 2022 No.9521420 File: 1.12 MB, 1815x2200, tumblr_d0ee4cde879d23f4ac2f2fb500c9b127_fa48f1aa_2048.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 14:50:33 2022 No.9521438 >>9518297 seeing this, I'd love to have a WinXP and earlier 4:3 wallpaper thread. I only have a few wallpapers from the games that included some.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 15:02:11 2022 No.9521451 >>9521438 >I'd love to have a WinXP and earlier 4:3 wallpaper thread Would be obscenely comfy Mind uploading the few you do have?

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 16:22:09 2022 No.9521565

>>9520849
I will never be convinced that it was a completely natural occurrence. It happened very quickly and with too many extraneous circumstances.
And success has little to do with it. Unless I was certifiably rich, so rich that money had no meaning at all anymore, I wouldn't pay these prices for video games that can be played for free. The days of sensible prices are still too fresh in my mind. I am not yet broken. Imagine paying more than original retail price for a used game that sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 16:30:44 2022 No.9521573 >>9512754 don't keep cartridges in the cartridge slot, it's gonna make the little things loose and fuck them up on the long run

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 16:43:13 2022 No.9521598

>>9521565
Prices were already getting funny, and then Covid hit, and you had all these 25-40 year olds out of work but still collecting money. Then prices skyrocketed. Don’t think it’s natural at all that happened overnight it’s just a side effect from the steps taken on how Covid was dealt with. Combine that w everyone and anyone in my age range having a gaming room w official retro gear and YouTubers pushing and promoting all kinds of former garbage tier games making even those hard to come by… yea it wasn’t natural at all.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 17:39:02 2022 No.9521723 >>9512628 burgerpunk af

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 17:40:58 2022 No.9521727 >>9521723 He’s using the arrow keys to move lol! Definitely a keyboard turner holy shit how do you even play wow that way at all? Haha

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 17:45:34 2022 No.9521736 >>9521420 I want to go back too

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 19:25:21 2022 No.9521993
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I think a lot of this is nostalgic because it was shared culture. We all played the same games, read the same magazines, watched the same TV shows and movies, dressed in the same clothes, had the same references and probably even ate similar things. After the internet and the explosion of media, but even more so after the democratization of the smartphone, things were never really the same again.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 19:39:52 2022 No.9522012 >>9521997 Microsoft Madness chads... we're home

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 19:41:30 2022 No.9522016 >>9515706 I don't miss it because they were designed specifically for 800x600 or 1024x768 and weren't elastic/web responsive

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 19:42:47 2022 No.9522019 >>9522016 To correct myself I'm fully aware html is inherently elastic in size but the way web was being designed with static templates, they became... not

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 19:45:43 2022 No.9522024 >>9521993 >tfw you will never again be a level 52 swordsman farming toy factory 2 for 10 hours and then meet a blue haired thief girl in prontera that you fall in love with and want to marry irl it hurts

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 20:04:44 2022 No.9522054
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>>9522024
Playing the game for the first time before there were guides and everything was solved was a magical experience. I imagine the same goes for a lot of MMORPGs of that time. The human interactions were more genuine, you had to barter and trade for the items you wanted instead of just using a global marketplace menu, it really felt like you were on an adventure and part of something bigger. You banded together with other random newbies to explore the world and get stronger, eventually guilds and friendships were formed and some people even married IRL.

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Anonymous Tue Dec 27 20:16:40 2022 No.9522090

>>9522054
yeah man, RO was something special. i started playing during beta of 2002 (before there were even 2-1 classes), and there's never been anything else like it. i still remember when you could do crazy shit like warp monsters or use DBs in town. everything was so rudimentary and dependant on player interaction like you said; there wasn't even a world map for the longest time. it felt like you were just plopped into this strange land and had to figure everything out on your own, and it was the best feeling. want to sell your shit for top dollar? you've got to make a merchant, pick a spot in the world, come up with a catchy shop name and start your own store -- and if you kept up with it, you could forge your own little niche, like being "the guy who sells potions outside the dungeon" or "the guy who sells elemental claymores in west pront". the game had a humbleness but also let you create own identity and legend. that's to say nothing of what is probably the best OST in any game ever made and timeless graphics. RO was amazing. i still go back every few years to whatever server pops up; it's definitely a shell of its former self, but even now, i still catch that little fleeting feeling of warmth that it gave me as a kid. truly one of the greats.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 20:26:21 2022 No.9522118 File: 245 KB, 550x766, 1595790485675.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9514029 finally a man of culture.

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 20:28:47 2022 No.9522126
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>>9522090
I'm off that train, the last time I tried getting into it was two years ago with /vm/ and I just couldn't recreate the feeling. It's not the same without the people you cherished and the world around you being alive and breathing. Now I'm just old and bitter.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 20:33:37 2022 No.9522140 >>9514298 So much this. Pure kek

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 20:53:00 2022 No.9522182 I'm 33 - is it normal for threads like this to absolutely gut me? I get legitimately depressed seeing pictures of 90's mall stores - that can't be normal can it?

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 20:59:02 2022 No.9522195

>>9522126
i feel you. the biggest problem is that the playerbase of young americans is gone and replaced by aging foreigners who can't speak english or have their little clique that they never interact outside of -- and everyone else is just a bot. still, wandering out into an empty prontera field and whacking away at porings or rockers with that music and those bright green colors still does something for me, even if i'm doing it alone. it's melancholic though, to be certain.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 21:01:04 2022 No.9522201 >>9522126 I miss when xbox tried to be edgy with their shit. Only really did it for their first system. In a way it felt kinda like 90s Sega.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 21:29:48 2022 No.9522263 >>9522182 Nah, it's normal. The present is a nightmare.

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 21:46:42 2022 No.9522296
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>>9522182
It's normal. I'm 28 and it hurts knowing that we'll never see something like this again. Malls are dying and GameStop is a soulless Hot Topic wannabe now (which also went downhill when they changed their branding).

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 22:04:27 2022 No.9522330 >>9513380 The Pentium II ads in the back really drive home how big PC culture and gaming already was in the mid 90s. In a way I feel like has been slightly memory holed.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 22:25:10 2022 No.9522370 >>9521565 Well yeah COVID messed with everything but that's another independent effect. Absolutely everything went up in price, stuff you can do at home alone even more so.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 22:50:05 2022 No.9522419 File: 281 KB, 499x673, .png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9516665 You can't visit certain websites that aren't even archived nor can you play most flash games and animations.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 22:52:12 2022 No.9522429 >>9521451 I can do that tomorrow, it's just a handful though

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 22:57:00 2022 No.9522445 >>9512668 I miss this nintendo "clay-like" look like you wouldn't believe

Anonymous Tue Dec 27 22:59:35 2022 No.9522449

>>9522398
>>9522402
I've never played in a sit down Japanese style cabinet like that. I've always wondered how the screen angle works. A tilted monitor makes sense to me if someone's standing up because they're going to be looking down at the screen a little. But if you're sitting down you're looking at it at a much more horizontal angle and I would think that having the screen tilted like that would be annoying. Or maybe I'm just wrong and the angle is basically the same either way.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 23:13:29 2022 No.9522471 >>9522445 pre-rendered graphics are top tier soul.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 27 23:25:24 2022 No.9522495 >>9522387 >>9522391 Pretty cool. What were the promo items on the second disc? It would of been nice if they did something like the Clone Wars Vol 1 and 2 DVD set. They put demos for Star Wars games on the disc

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 00:59:29 2022 No.9522656

>>9518827
I'm glad I didn't. I remember going to my friend's house to call him for us to go to the library's computer to write down cheats. Each one could have 30 minutes, so 1 hour was just enough to turn the PC on, go on gamewinners, translate things with babel fish and write them down.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:09:24 2022 No.9522772 >>9522387 what's the story of this?>>9522495

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:10:25 2022 No.9522778 File: 170 KB, 630x374, girugamesh_guy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9522660

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>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:16:20 2022 No.9522798 File: 734 KB, 2560x1679, 1666193769250751.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:18:07 2022 No.9522806 File: 39 KB, 512x409, 1667827454251489.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] where are the magazine scan chads at?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:19:08 2022 No.9522808 File: 137 KB, 1280x720, 1625969088417.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9522798

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:20:39 2022 No.9522810
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>>9522182
It's completely and absolutely normal.

>tfw the mall in my small hometown is still thriving due to it being the only thing that it really has
I wonder what it's like these days. I haven't been there since 2004.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:22:46 2022 No.9522813 File: 149 KB, 640x480, 1625971257258.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:23:30 2022 No.9522816 >>9522391 Pure early 00s

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:25:17 2022 No.9522819 File: 189 KB, 1200x800, 1587931923356.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] remember when croc dominated the 3d platforming genre

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:26:19 2022 No.9522821 File: 84 KB, 640x400, 1574664748970.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:28:48 2022 No.9522829 File: 2.96 MB, 1117x1487, morgan-webb-6.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:29:55 2022 No.9522831 File: 2.59 MB, 2688x1754, 1596589237813.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9522829

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:30:56 2022 No.9522835 File: 35 KB, 600x450, 87122577_1186955931511759_1000286746388201472_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] log into your msn gaming zone account to play some AOEII

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:38:07 2022 No.9522848 >>9515686 snoy seethe

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:38:38 2022 No.9522850 >>9522821 I still have my 3D glasses from this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:41:20 2022 No.9522854 File: 1.32 MB, 2886x1994, 1587533334616.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9522850 post a pic of it so i can add it to my nostalgia folder please

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 02:43:46 2022 No.9522859 File: 81 KB, 220x199, tenor.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 05:11:28 2022 No.9523252 >>9512684 I loved this aisle

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 05:20:37 2022 No.9523283 >>9522859 Goddammit anon, I didn't want to feel this feel.

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 05:35:20 2022 No.9523324

>>9516695
>You rarely see anyone describe sports obsession as unhealthy, yet it's just as likely to make adults act childish and nonsensical.
I'll riot right now if you don't stop slandering my beloved sportsball this very moment. DON'T YOU EVER COMPARE SPORTSBALL TO A KIDS GAME AGAIN!!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 05:45:16 2022 No.9523338 File: 1.16 MB, 221x266, Zn5ka8e.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 05:53:56 2022 No.9523364 >>9522819 the first croc was comfy kino

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 05:55:23 2022 No.9523372 >>9522391 >crystal method name of the game this song was everywhere back then

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 05:56:57 2022 No.9523375 File: 319 KB, 960x720, 29xh8v2kmck91.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:32:42 2022 No.9523504 >>9512976 the original bitcoin mining

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:44:02 2022 No.9523540 File: 1.70 MB, 1359x825, 1616387365926.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9523375 based

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:45:23 2022 No.9523547 File: 100 KB, 640x431, 1620251081561.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:46:30 2022 No.9523549 File: 2.31 MB, 2404x3129, 1596587648586.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9523547

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:48:54 2022 No.9523557 File: 237 KB, 1200x791, 1587931765810.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] remember when Ty the tasmanian tiger dominated the 3d platforming genre

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:50:14 2022 No.9523561 File: 2.28 MB, 188x238, 1581158458956.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this image overwhelms me with gaming nostalgia

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:51:17 2022 No.9523564 File: 346 KB, 779x1024, dark cloud.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:52:18 2022 No.9523568 File: 239 KB, 705x843, 1625371595146.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:53:20 2022 No.9523574 File: 304 KB, 870x1162, 1610944145342.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9523568 this is how you advertise a tactical role playing game

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:54:22 2022 No.9523576 File: 159 KB, 671x509, 1610942157457.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:55:24 2022 No.9523579 File: 320 KB, 1107x1572, 1610942135375.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9523576

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:56:28 2022 No.9523581 File: 345 KB, 1010x1434, 1610941709976.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9523579

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:58:20 2022 No.9523586 >>9512659 Nepo baby confirmed. His parents invented IMAX.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 06:58:22 2022 No.9523587 File: 1017 KB, 2442x1530, 1603473608470.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9523581

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 07:03:21 2022 No.9523602 File: 1.51 MB, 2901x1928, 1597344095198.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9523587

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 07:13:50 2022 No.9523616
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>>9513045
It's crazy how Knuckles being a Taz ripoff there turned out to be because of an early prototype character manual describing him as having the ability to spin like a tornado. There was also originally meant to be a mechanic where sunlight nerfed his speed and jump height until he got underground or indoors and could take off his sunglasses.

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 07:17:28 2022 No.9523619 [DELETED]

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>>9512990
From Wikipedia: (the article is locked from editing btw)
>Silverstein has said in interviews that he usually spent his mornings in breakfast meetings at Windows on the World on top of the World Trade Center North Tower, and with new tenants in the building. However, the morning of September 11, 2001, his wife insisted he attend a medical appointment, inadvertently saving him from almost certain death.

Lucky break amirite guys?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 07:35:40 2022 No.9523636 >>9512990 >>9517653 >>9523619 Can you guys FRICK OFF for one measly thread?!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 07:41:11 2022 No.9523638 >>9512976 this nigga gotta table at the local fleamarket

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:01:34 2022 No.9523670 File: 1.41 MB, 4032x3024, vy7ju41lubt51.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9515706 here's your website bro https://www.heavensgate.com don't forget to order some vhs tapes

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:06:12 2022 No.9523679 >>9512630 I can hear the backstreet boys playing in the store's bg, and tvs hanging from the roof, and some with a blue screen. "Every little thing that you have said and doneee Feels like it's deep within meeee, Oooh, ooh oooh"

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:08:47 2022 No.9523684 >>9512657 motherfucker!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:10:07 2022 No.9523687 >>9514026 Apparently the quiet muffled chatter you can occasionally hear in the backround on the original xbox menu screen is audio from the moon landing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:12:14 2022 No.9523690 >>9512659 >360's shadowrun, release in 2007 is this still retro?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:14:10 2022 No.9523691 >>9512696 >actual gameboy props lucky the bastard that got to keep those.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:16:06 2022 No.9523696 >>9514040 So do I. I remember playing the demo disk that had the F.E.A.R. demo on it on my 360. Almost convinced me to buy the game too, but not quite. Fear had good gameplay and a clean art style but the story was stupid. >muh clone army lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:16:48 2022 No.9523697 >>9512628 Man, I spent my very late teens and early 20s like this. One one hand I miss them years so much, on the other I wasted like 5 years of my life playing WoW.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:18:47 2022 No.9523705 >>9512651 Wish I could find a clean enough version of this to print into a poster. It's so good

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:23:20 2022 No.9523707 >>9512654 Just ordered a few things to get my Voodoo 3 PC back up and running.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:26:15 2022 No.9523710 >>9512976 All of my late 90s and early anime collection came from a room just like this

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:27:55 2022 No.9523712 File: 41 KB, 205x549, Snake witnessing The Pain & Sorrow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512713 >GAYstation The prophet knew before anyone else, he tapped into zero point and warned us. We didn't listen...

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:28:14 2022 No.9523713 >>9522330 Mid 90s? Don't think PC gaming was as big as you think it was back then. You weren't buying PC parts at anything but computer stores while consoles games were sold at everything from Toys R Us to sears

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:30:04 2022 No.9523715 >>9514298 Right up there with the Moon landing as far as all time great TV moments

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:30:58 2022 No.9523716 >>9512718 loved the mtv music videos with the nvidia girl

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:33:10 2022 No.9523718 File: 284 KB, 1024x768, 111701.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9512719 All time classic issue, peak vidya industry

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:35:11 2022 No.9523725 >>9512725 banzaaaiii https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcCj75XQZ_E

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:37:04 2022 No.9523727 >>9512734 >>9512784 She killed millions! >>9512809 Billions!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:39:58 2022 No.9523730 >>9514026 It's so ominous and comfy at the same time. Used to leave it in the bg for hours. Glad the emulator got the xbox menu running so I can listen to it again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:40:59 2022 No.9523732 >>9514029 >>9522118 TRILLIONS!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:43:28 2022 No.9523738 >>9517078 Outside of the color choices and a different chair this could be my parents bedroom back in the late 90s.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:44:32 2022 No.9523739 >>9513001 Fucking Drakan right up in the front. Damn that game is so fucking good

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:48:03 2022 No.9523743 >>9522296 This and Suncoast were so fucking good back then, shame Suncoast died and hot topic became a meme. The cashiers at hot topic used to be super cute alt and punk chicks. God, this hurts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:51:03 2022 No.9523749 >>9522201 What didn't feel sega about og xbox it even had peter moore.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:53:17 2022 No.9523751 >>9522810 sooo 2000s, lol, I love it. it's like future 60s

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:54:18 2022 No.9523754 >>9522819 oof, poor guy

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:56:50 2022 No.9523759
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>>9516665
The old internet still lives if you know where to look.

https://doom2.net/

http://toastytech.com/doom/

https://webwonderland.com/arenas2/

https://www.doomworld.com/wolfendoom/

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:57:44 2022 No.9523761 >>9512976 >tarzan and jane movie poster next to chamber of secrets what an odd choice

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 08:59:15 2022 No.9523762 >>9522296 Was at the Cherry Hill Mall today and I fucking swear a hot topic that looked like that would get massive business. One off brand store was setup like this and it was mobbed with teenagers

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:00:19 2022 No.9523764 >>9513380 I want to go back! oh god, I can hear the store in my mind

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:07:37 2022 No.9523775 >>9513829 07/08 are the last good years, internet became easier and easier to access by normalfags. The more popular it gets, the worse it becomes. Maybe hipsters were on to something, they just went about it the wrong way.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:09:14 2022 No.9523779 >>9516937 Everyone's a boomer after 30

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:10:47 2022 No.9523781 >>9517026 >those tribes numbers wew, if only that were still true

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:12:17 2022 No.9523782 >>9523779 Boomers are 70 now and when you are 70 you will still be a millennial.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:16:02 2022 No.9523787 File: 828 KB, 353x600, Rikku_(Art)_KHII.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9517049 that makes me wonder if Rikku has underwear in kh2 or if it's just a black void.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:18:43 2022 No.9523792 >>9517583 He was cringe even before this meme, this ad was long past his prime, too.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:21:19 2022 No.9523795 >>9517852 XmenXTekken when https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KERl1FOTupY

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:24:26 2022 No.9523796 File: 40 KB, 512x485, serious sam reference.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9517901 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:25:59 2022 No.9523798 >>9523782 you're thinking of baby boomers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:30:27 2022 No.9523807 >>9523787 In the PS2 version of Kingdom Hearts you can see Kairi's white panties with a red ribbon at one specific area, but it was censored in the HD remakes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:38:03 2022 No.9523818 File: 32 KB, 357x524, nice.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9523807 Bet you 20 bucks a chick modeled those panties. Nip bitches love modeling panties.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:39:29 2022 No.9523819 >>9521420 this was my first demo cd I bought, it was December 1998, last week. of that month

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:41:11 2022 No.9523823 >>9523818 I could absolutely see that being the case. It's a shame it was changed to a black void when remade on the PS3. Here's a video that shows it, sorry about the guy talking over the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L5K4Bx8Igw

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:44:48 2022 No.9523830 File: 641 KB, 1280x720, ribbon.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9523823 Wew

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:51:01 2022 No.9523832 File: 97 KB, 800x600, RainbowSix_RogueSpear_60456.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9517026 >Rogue Spear I miss playing that on MSN Gaming Zone, there was something special about this game but let me tell you it did not age well.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:55:27 2022 No.9523836 File: 48 KB, 278x420, xfire.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:57:33 2022 No.9523837 File: 230 KB, 1055x545, Steam.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 09:58:52 2022 No.9523841 File: 1.50 MB, 1178x872, gamershell.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 11:42:52 2022 No.9523990 >>9515650 he is obviously in his sister’s or girlfriends room

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 12:00:16 2022 No.9524021 >>9514175 This reminds me of the room in Gaball Screen.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 12:10:57 2022 No.9524045 >>9523798 What the FUCK do you think a boomer is?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 12:16:00 2022 No.9524056 >>9523670 kino

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 12:22:38 2022 No.9524062 >>9521997 FUCK ME do I remember that Age of Mythology icon.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 12:30:00 2022 No.9524073 File: 215 KB, 640x794, 1619407105705.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 13:23:59 2022 No.9524127 >>9524045 anyone above 30, try to keep up, boomer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 13:26:51 2022 No.9524131 File: 1.57 MB, 3840x2160, 1643345831031.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9518297 based

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 14:42:10 2022 No.9524218 >>9521997 https://youtube.com/watch?v=g7koH2XW3ss&t=9 E M P I R E E A R T H

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 15:46:45 2022 No.9524341 >>9512639 >>9512964 can you still play those old flash games or did they become obsolete?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 15:58:53 2022 No.9524372 >>9523713 That's how it is today though and PC gaming is as big as ever

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 17:28:04 2022 No.9524535 >>9524127 >Gen X?

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 18:11:16 2022 No.9524647
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>>9522419
The Flash defunct was hands down the most obnoxious thing that happened. I'm sure they have a good reason but man did it tank so many good games. If we're gonna talk nostalgia, Neopets is a good example. I popped in there out of curiosity a month or so back and the games on that site outright went defunct when the Flash switchover happened. Now they only have like....maybe eight or nine games.

Here's a goodie from the early games on that site.

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 18:25:22 2022 No.9524674
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>>9524647
I believe it's because it was an easy way of spreading virus, along with the laziness of porting it to new protocol. HTML5 is also faster and more responsive. Good thing there's still ways of playing swf files.
Also, I'll leave this here that I found yesterday. Been playing around with it in a VM running XP. https://theoldnet.com/

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 18:52:43 2022 No.9524752 File: 1.10 MB, 1599x1197, nintendo_power_june99_cutout.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 19:37:31 2022 No.9524856 >>9524341 You can still play them. https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/downloads/

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 20:27:56 2022 No.9524985 >>9523713 Literally look at the pic bro BTW even at the height of PC gaming you couldn't buy a GPU at a Wal-mart.

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 20:41:53 2022 No.9525012
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>>9524985
>>9523713
That pic was taken in the very early 00's at Comp USA. I got my first PC at the end of 99 for Christmas and spent endless hours in that store. PC building was big even back then. I remember buying PC magazines for updating stuff. The tech was improving at lightning speeds too. While pre built PCs were by far the most mainstream way to get into PC gaming, but people still did build or upgrade their PCs.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 20:58:53 2022 No.9525036 >>9524856 Nice! thank you so much, anon

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 21:14:59 2022 No.9525065
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Here's a tip for those who want an easier way to see old websites:

1) Grab an old browser from here: http://www.oldversion.com/
(It will be a dedicated old browser so you don't have to change settings in your modern ones. I use Netscape from 2001 but any will do.)

2) Set the proxy as shown here: https://theoldnet.com/docs/httpproxy/index.html
(Port range is from 1996 - 2012, depending on what year you want.)

3) Now when you open the browser and type an address, it will load directly from the waybackmachine.

Now you have a dedicated browser frozen in time for all your nostalgia needs. Thanks for reading my blog.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 21:57:10 2022 No.9525146 >>9525012 >That pic was taken in the very early 00's at Comp USA The fact there is a Pentium II advertisement section suggests otherwise. Suggests 1997-1998. The Pentium III came out in 1999.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 21:58:28 2022 No.9525150 >>9525065 cool

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 22:55:19 2022 No.9525315

>>9525065
I do this on my beige windows 98 machine, CRT monitor and everything. Nothing like browsing old 90s websites in the middle of a winter night while drinking hot chocolate. Oh, and re-runs of King of the Hill on in the background or having the radio tuned in on the local 90s alternative rock station.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 23:05:28 2022 No.9525334 File: 425 KB, 2048x1536, S.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9514956 What game ? Some Sonic ? I'd play against her.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 23:06:53 2022 No.9525338 >>9525315 shame that a lot of thing appear broken

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 23:06:59 2022 No.9525339 >>9525334 are you blind?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 23:07:02 2022 No.9525340 File: 24 KB, 480x360, 51D30576-5402-4A8D-9B5E-5CCEFFB7DA05.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9525334 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q24N2xlI5QA

Anonymous Wed Dec 28 23:23:34 2022 No.9525390
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>>9525315
I recently built a Win98 machine from scraps I had over the decades. I need to find a better sound card for DOS, but I'm quite happy with the results.

>>9525338
It depends on the browser. When I used wayback machine on modern firefox or chrome, many times pictures and scripts are broken. But when using an era appropriate browser though the proxy, they load fine. There are still broken websites around, but many of those don't work because of some incompatibility with modern browsers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 23:32:56 2022 No.9525420 >>9525390 nah, they're actually missing bits, like old youtube. I'm using IE on XP loading 2010 websites

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 23:36:28 2022 No.9525431 >>9525146 You know what? I think you're right. I looked up some of the games in the picture and they came out 1997 and 1998. I am betting is that year or 1999. My mistake

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 23:41:42 2022 No.9525445 >>9525420 Well yeah, you're not gonna get the entire archive of old youtube or services that no longer exist like megaupload or rapidshare.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 28 23:49:24 2022 No.9525469 >>9525445 it's not just that. even some wikipedia homepage ones are missing images. even the logo is missing in some

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 01:09:16 2022 No.9525680 >>9512651 Holy fuck all of those games were bangers. What kind of drugs were the Square developers on to output consistently between 1995-2002.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 01:59:46 2022 No.9525798 >>9516190 I miss this nigga

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 02:09:18 2022 No.9525821 >>9525146 They're also smoking indoors in close proximity and nobody is paying it any mind.

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 03:10:37 2022 No.9525978
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>>9525036
U bet. If you have the disk space then consider downloading the whole 1TB archive so that you will still have it if something happens to the blue maxima project. Also remember that flash players like ruffle arent perfect yet but are still being actively developed so everything should get better with time.

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 04:51:44 2022 No.9526173

>>9515219
This is Super Potato, a retro game store in Akihabara, Tokyo. It's hard to tell if the pic is old or not because the store is decked out in tons of retro shit. I highly recommend going there if you ever get the chance. They have one in Nagoya too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 05:07:49 2022 No.9526201 >>9512641 Babbages that was the store

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 05:33:30 2022 No.9526285 >>9512632 Remember "woot," anon? Remember what pure, uninhibited online joy came from that expression? Woot was born on the old internet, and died on the old internet.

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 05:39:04 2022 No.9526313

>>9512674
I saved up that cold, hard $199 all by myself in kindergarten / first grade, and then I ended up playing way more SNES anyway. Had that EXACT AD hanging on my fridge. Pilotwings was my first game, followed soon after by the rest of the classics. Still remember the Christmas that I got Ocarina of Time and a used copy of Final Fantasy IV for the SNES (II back in the day). Good memories.

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 05:40:49 2022 No.9526320

>>9514537
>>9515013
I had no idea there was a market for these. Doesn't surprise me though. I legitimately have every single Nintendo Power sitting in my storage unit from when I was a kid.

What are we talking in terms of cash money American pesos here?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 05:48:46 2022 No.9526336 >>9520151 >CRT >shitty Dell keyboard that came with mom's computer >runescape >2000s tower >modern wifi router One of these things is not like the other.

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 05:55:21 2022 No.9526352

>>9522182
Just turned 34 dude. I feel it deep in my soul. For lack of a better way to describe it, I remember the way those places smelled like endless possibility. Every generation completely changed the way games looked, felt, and played. It was like a constant stream of new adventures into ideas that had never been explored before. The excitement of a new controller, the fun of having friends spend the night for split-screen on some new game... I remember how it felt to get the newest console or some obscure SNES game on Christmas after my dad spent weeks trying to track down something on my list of hard-to-find games. It had a spark.

Now, I'm an adult, my parents are gone, and that spark had been gone for a long time. All I play anymore are retros and indies. This Christmas I literally got nothing because I didn't have a single thing I wanted that I didn't already have.

People can call vaporwave music a meme too, but when I listen to some of that coming from a video of a shopping mall with Dreamcast era graphics overlayed, it makes me feel things.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 05:57:42 2022 No.9526360 >>9522445 Remember the Earthbound player's guide, with all the clay models? That look hits me in the gut when I see it.

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 06:00:27 2022 No.9526370

>>9522808
Oh my fuck. Did this come with Windows 95 Plus or something? I cannot believe this fell into my memory hole, but seeing that fucking monkey face unlocked something.

First PC was a sick Pentium with a 2GB hard drive and Windows 95 Plus. Cost my parents a cool $2000, but came with CDs for Earthworm Jim, Mechwarrior 2, Monster Truck Madness, Encarta, the game you linked, and some other stuff. It was pure kino.

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 06:03:19 2022 No.9526382

>>9522859
>>9523283
MSN Messenger and Myspace were the ways I communicated with everybody in high school. Remember that feeling of anticipation when you'd watch that login and wonder who was also using the computer at the same time? It felt special to chat, like "hey, we're both [here], so let's catch up." Now, everybody is always online, so there's no sense of that [here] anymore.

Fuckkkkk. What happened?

Anonymous Thu Dec 29 06:11:19 2022 No.9526406

>>9523837
I haven't used Steam since it looked like this, so whenever I see people talking about it I still picture it exactly like this in my head lol.

Back in the day it made my angry because I just wanted to play my game without some launcher eating up all my memory, so I've developed a subconscious dislike for launchers all thanks to original Steam. Just wanted to play the new shiny Counter Strike with the cool kids in computer lab.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 06:18:39 2022 No.9526427 >>9526320 i don't know, i just want to read them. post or gtfo

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 06:28:27 2022 No.9526445 >>9512851 This dude is a never meet your heroes type of guy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 06:30:25 2022 No.9526449 >>9513020 It's exactly what makes the pic non-universal. What is he, the one black guy?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 06:32:36 2022 No.9526457 >>9514040 Sometimes you didn't even need the full game. Those 2 levels were good enough and sometimes you didn't even get past them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 06:45:51 2022 No.9526480 File: 226 KB, 800x600, 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] AoE main menu screen almost literally take me back to 1997.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 08:18:33 2022 No.9526619 >>9526406 I started using steam in 2007 and it quickly made me hate DRM, an opinion I still hold today and will never change. Good job Gaben.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 08:32:34 2022 No.9526636 >>9526619 This. Basically killed my interests in pc gaming. I will take typing in a little number any day over games literally locked to an online service. Then again, pc genres died out around this time anyway or became bastard forms.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 11:18:14 2022 No.9526881 File: 24 KB, 640x411, wrt54gl-640x411.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9526336 this thing came out in 04/05

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 13:22:02 2022 No.9527080 >>9526881 And the previous line came out in 2001. That anon was made in 2006.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 15:14:52 2022 No.9527327 >>9513829 global financial crash in 08

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 15:30:14 2022 No.9527354 >>9525798 I'll play retro and browse cheats and guides on gamewinners and no one can stop me. https://theoldnet.com/get?url=gamewinners.com&year=2010&scripts=false&decode=false

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:06:30 2022 No.9528046 >>9515425 FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:06:53 2022 No.9528048 >>9522182 Back in the 1990s, malls were seen as a threat to businesses just like Wal-mart and Amazon are today.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:17:29 2022 No.9528073 How come this thread can stay up with 200+ images but other threads fall off the board with less than 50 images even with an active discussion?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:40:49 2022 No.9528123 >>9524856 >Supported operating systems: Windows 7 SP1 and up >can't play flash games on XP like I used to

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 20:56:12 2022 No.9528176 >>9526382 >what you up to? >nothing, you? >same >k >k I miss that short and stupid conversation.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 21:46:40 2022 No.9528309 >>9512641 You'll never meet a happy person like this anymore. Everyone has some kind of dread in them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 21:52:55 2022 No.9528327 >>9515112 Just look at the lighting. Nowadays, those walls would be painted the brightest white possible, and the lights would be bright as fuck LEDs. I hate modern shopping malls, I never go to them because of this.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 22:15:23 2022 No.9528395 Amazing thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 29 22:33:00 2022 No.9528452 >>9528327 nobody else goes to shopping malls anymore, either.

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