/vr/ - Retro Games

Say what you will about Tiger handhelds, these pieces of shit had infinitely more soul than any of the trash you'll find on your phone's app store.

>>7841490
>it will never be the mid-to-late 90s again
>you will never drive around to garage sales and buy up people's entire childhood collections for pennies
>now everyone watches pawn stars and shit and thinks their loose atari 2600 game cartridge missing its label and with clear water damage is worth $1.2 million USD

I still think about the PS2 as "the new playstation"

>2084 was 63 years ago

>>7392431
that warning was why my mom only let me play video games on our old broken CRT through my entire childhood...

I always wanted a megaman gameboy game as a kid but all I got was the tiger handheld

television went through that fad with antiques/abandoned storage units/pawn shops/etc... shows and suddenly every normie out there who would've sold their kid's NES collection for pennies suddenly thought the thing was worth $80,000 USD

>you will never do another a late 90s midnight jack-in-the-box run with your bros during a break in your epic lguk exp session

why even live...

is there a shader that will give me that feeling that you got as a kid on christmas morning and your parents are still alive and you open a present and it's that game you've been begging them to get you for months?

>>7115515
I wish rl was like jrpg and you could just go into the forest and kill stuff for a living...

the same thing I've played every night for the past 21.5 years...

everquest...

>>7103528
>Carmack saves Romero's life
>now they're mortal enemies

>illusion of choice
>reality is that you have to make all the choices so it's really just a list of grinding checkpoints

is there any shader that will make me enjoy video games and being alive again like I did back when I was 8?

>>6957783
>feeding all the currency drops to 1 guy so he can get his relic weapon
>then then sells his account and buys a house irl

>>6909067
>there will never be a FFXI Classic

>>6904042
>sit in bed at night playing LA's over and over again with the warm yellow light from my magnifying lens + light combo
>barely able to see a thing through the multiple layers of glare
>could draw the entire world map from memory
>discovered the screen warp glitch by accident
>holy_shit_this_is_amazing
>warp across every screen in the game looking for hidden rooms and secrets or just trying to break the game and do stuff out of order and see what happens

I miss the days when I genuinely liked video games instead of only ironically liking video games...

how'd it all go so wrong

>play game as kid
>spend hours searching every level for secrets
>play game as adult
>rush through each level as fast as possible

>>6153604
>pay $15 for WoW subscription
>spend 20 hours trying to come up with a name that I can tolerate that isn't taken
>unable to
>cancel sub

>almost all enemies are immune to almost all status effects
>all status effects hit your party 100% of the time

>there will never be new CRTs
>the phosphorous in all existing CRTs has already broken down and even the most expensive PVMs now produce hideous degraded images

>tfw no /vr/mud

>>5385143
>EQ launched 40 years ago