/vr/ - Retro Games

But now you'd be in your thirties like me, and it just plain isn't as fun as the previous decades.

>Those teenage nights smoking weed and drinking beers with my buddy who worked at Babbages, chasing his Mister Grimm around as Darkside
>Getting that job at Babbage's, being each others wingmen at Babbage's/Comic Shop parties back when the nerd birds were available and hot counter-culture types
>Moving into my first place, bringing home the new PSX, N64 and Saturn games on day 0
>Nerds flocking every time, watching them enjoy my setup with my hot ass nerd girlfriend sitting on my lap until one or both of us got drunk enough to go in another room and fuck

Yeah... Nerds of today enjoy a more or less normalized level of acceptance because of we nerd gods playing M:TG on ESPN.

Superman fucking died. Anything was possible.

>>1416728
I fixed mine up a week ago. Hooked it up, expecting the A/V cord to be shot. The light went on and the screen was black, so I figured "cool, at least it still powers up". Then after about 3 seconds of darkness that intro screen fired up (with the TV up too loud). Pic related is pretty much how I felt.

>>1416741

I'm 26 and this decade is beyond shit. It's not your age.

>tfw I'll never hear the Playstation's boot sound for the first time again.

Now there's a feel.

to all my south american niggas

remember pic related but with a skull and shit? it was common with most bootleg Winning Eleven games

>>1416769
This.
Man it almost made me shit my pants. And Crash Bandicoot right after blew my mind

I don't ever remember having my mind "blown" by the Playstation. Arcades were still a thing back then; everyone had seem far better.

>>1416765
I'm 18 and I feel the same.

>>1416796
Not to mention other consoles with 3D like the Saturn.

>>1416796
In a small town with no arcades, consoles were all I knew. Before Playstation the closest I'd ever come to experiencing 3D was DKC.

>Arcade 3D
You niggers are retarded
Dynamite Dekka is neat but it's no Tomb Raider

>>1416752
Tell us more stories about what it was like to be alive and be old enough to have a fully developed brain capable of truly appreciating those times

I remember being completely blown away by watching the SM64 commercial

I took several month to wrap my head around the fact that technology has come this far

>>1416845
I remember playing it for the first time in store displays. I literally couldn't figure out how to hold the controller.

>>1416728

I bought a PS1 with Tomb Raider 1, Tekken 2 when they were new. Then Destruction Derby 2, Adidas Power Soccer etc.

Then Final Fantasy 7 came out and it just fucking blew my mind. Bought it on release day. Best time of my life. Even better than sex.

>>1416841
Well, basically I got out of video games in high school. Partially because when you're in high school you're supposed to not do "childish" stuff but also for the very legitimate reason that I felt personally screwed by the companies I thought were my faithful friends

>Hadn't had the money to get into TG16, but had Genesis
>Wanted Sega CD so bad but couldn't afford it
>Realize Sega CD isn't going to be the next big thing after all when 32x comes out
>CD-I, 3DO, Jaguar
>Final Fantasy 5 does not get an English localization
>Say "fuck you guys I'm done"
>More into M:TG and back into D&D
>Graduate
>Move in with fat older girlfriend
>Two of my friends get Playstations, one gets left at her house
>Christmas 96, Tomb Raider & Resident Evil
>I believe again

>>1416728
You were born right in time for the VR era anon.

>>1416867
Mayhaps my most cherished video game memories are of playing FF7 for the first time while being 13 and having never played anything else like it and having nothing else to do. Even if that meant I was too young to fully enjoy the PS when it was new.

>>1416884
Would you be referring to the Oculous Rift or whatever?

I guess I never really thought of it that way. Then again, I never really thought of this as being the VR era. Is it happening, do you think?

>>1416889
I was already working at Babbage's when Final Fantasy 7 came out but I didn't have a Playstation yet. That was the game that made me get one for myself. I needed private time with that game.

>>1416841
Also, I had arcade machines in my house back then so that sort of cemented my reputation in the 90s nerd community.

>>1416893
>Is it happening, do you think?
Pretty much guaranteed simply because of how many people claim to be amazed when trying it out.

>>1416908
Between Oculous Rift and Google Glass I agree that we're at the beginning of a bold new age of being always somewhat immersed and sometimes entirely immersed in the virtual world - and this is coming from the 90s nerd lion.

Like, back then I met that first fat girlfriend of mine on AOL and let me tell you, the girls you met online in the mid 90s were very very different than the ones you can meet now plus it was pretty normal for people to have 0-5 pictures of themselves online plus only weird girls got online.

Back then, if a girl had 5 pics she might be bordering on a crazy narcisist slut. Nowif a girl only has five pictures she's definitely gross. Soon, if you can't more or less immediately teleconference with any girl you meet online it'll be cause for suspicion.

Thank God that there were hot girls who were hot for the top nerds back then. I give all the credit to Death of Superman. That was the moment when everyone started caring about nerd culture, but the Playstation definitely did its part as well.

>Why was I born too late?

Underage fuck. People were still playing Playstation in the early 00s. You really think that when the PS2 came out everyone dropped their PS1s? Notice that when the PS4 came out, millions of people are still playing their PS3s.

You are not ready
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RkMNtIBrVA
eNos lives

With Battle Arena Toshinden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2y7rYETEzM
$399

Do not underestimate the power of PlayStation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBq2a8ZSnO4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiQo-_bMHcc

>>1416931
I recall that in the older days consoles were abandoned much faster than they do today, especially since they changes between generations back then were much greater, so yes, people abandoned their ps1 for the newer generations.


also dat feel, when my mate and I encountered this lad for the first time

>You will never play Demo 1 disc for the first time

>>1416946
>especially since they changes between generations back then were much greater

Because every household was rich enough to afford brand new consoles? I got a new console at the very least every two years and I was the "rich kid" growing up. That doesn't mean you didn't still buy games for your older systems.

>>1416796
Now arcade technology can penetrate your very home!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaD4zaHQpUU

>>1416946
Yeah, people were so ready to dump all their old games that a significant selling point for PS2 was 100% backward compatibility

>>1416931
I'm not underage you idiot. Notice I didn't actually say any of those things you said I think, you're making stuff up and I don't know why.

>>1416946
Also PS2 was pretty much fully backwards compatible so why wouldn't you have made the switch? You know.

>>1416953
I didn't even have a PSX, but I went ahead and picked up PSX classics like FF7 (already had it on PC), MGS, and Symphony of the Night when I got a PS2. I ended up liking MGS alot more than MGS 2, despite the worse graphics.

>>1416962
Talk about a series that's a great example of how games go downhill. If you can handle the graphics, check out Metal Gear and Snake Eater on MSX. I won't say they're better than the original Solid but they were amazing 8-bit games.

>>1416962
>I ended up liking MGS alot more than MGS 2
Naturally.

You'll never be suprised at this screen for the first time again.

>>1416728
That's funny, the PSX era is when I decided videogames had died; I bought a Saturn early, and watched it choke in NA. They were coming out with shit like Contra in 3D and almost all 3D games looked like shit and had terrible camera problems. I went back to the NES after a few years of that shit. Took me forever to go back to the PSX and actually play the good titles on it.

>>1416997

This was more my reaction; I thought early polygon games looked like complete shit and stuck with my Genesis for years. I eventually came around, there are plenty of great games on the PS1, but lots of them (especially early ones) still look like a soggy bag of ass.

>>1416753
you felt overwhelmed by Ubuntu?

just wasn't aware if you knew that logo was there...

>>1416765
20 and yep gaming is shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7L3caPMVDA

This guy has an annoying long intro and his commercials aren't in any recognizable order but he sure has a lot of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKLrfdaaB6I
Like 7 volumes or more

>>1416728
yeah, sitting besides my cousin, beggin for me to play once was a great thing.
then after hours, finally getting a controller to play duke nukem3D and swinging that thing (the controller) like a fucking retard. hearing my cousin laughing at me and yelling to me to keep that thing straight, because it doesnt do anything when you swing it.

>herp derp im so good i can keep the controller straight and play normally (ignoring my reflexes).. hurr im so badass.

man, my cousin was such a fucking dick.

remember me, motherfuckers?

>>1416728
tfw I was 25 when the ps1 came out. Graphics were revolutionary at the time. Still have my first one.

>>1416908
Make that "how many" -1. I wasn't really impressed with it, but then I've seen a lot of attempts at VR. OR is a good step in the right direction but I can't see it as the product that's finally going to fly.

>>1416952
A lot of poorfags would save up for a new console factoring in what whey could sell the old one for. Then they'd sell the old one and buy the new one on the day the new one hit the shelves. I did this many times and so did many others in my trailer park.

Us nerds born in the wrong generation
thumbs up if you agree

>you will never go back in time and re-live the era when PS1 was the hot new thing with mind-blowing 3D graphics

I wouldn't want to anyway. I hated that generation then and I don't like it now.

Also, there was nothing mind-blowing about the graphics. I wasn't a retard that was easily distracted by shiny things. The 3D graphics didn't matter since the games were so poor.

>>1417394
>in my trailer park
5 star post except when did you try OR and what was your complaint?

>>1417406
>Playstation games
>So poor
Confirmed Nintendrone

>>1417613
try what?

>>1417613
>Confirmed Nintendrone
Doubt it. He probably hated the N64 as well as he did say he despised the whole generation.

>>1417654
Occulus Rift

>>1417910
Yeah. Tried it. My main complaints were that the lag and graphics seemed to be only a marginal improvement over Virtuality. Maybe that's my memory playing tricks on me but the point is that until you have a virtually lag free system it's just a gimmick. No one will want to play it for any length of time. Sure the gadget mag guys who have never seen anything else before will rave about it but at the end of the day it's not yet ready for prime time.

>>1417972
One of two main points of Occulus Rift is to dramatically reduce lag. When did you use one? What version was it?

>>1417976
It was just under a year ago. It was the low res model, no idea what version. Everyone I've talked to who has any experience with VR has the same complaint about lag.
Like I said, gadget bois love it and rave about how good it it... compared to the virtual boy they tried for 5 minutes once.

>>1418149
Are you saying you've used a VR system with less lag?

>tfw you will never go back in time and re-live the era when PS1 was the hot new thing with mind-blowing 3D graphics
I got this feeling when I first saw Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtua Cop at the arcades at mid '90s. And of course N64 games had more mind-blowing 3D enviroments.

>>1418767
Not at all. No idea where you got that from.
Of course systems with less lag have been done but not at that price/size/etc.

>>1416946

no they weren't, nes had games until 94-95, snes had games until 2000, ps1 had games until 2004, almost 2007 if you count those EA sports ports

I was an Atari fag who REALLY hoped that the Jaguar would get Atari back into the big leagues.

When the Jag failed, I went back to my 7800, stayed with my Jag, emulated the NES and 7800 and never looked ahead.

I just got a PS2 a couple of years ago and mostly play the retro collections.

>>1419486
>ps1 had games until 2004, almost 2007
What? PS3 came out in 2007, even PS2 was barely getting any new titles then, except for those sports ports like you said.

>>1419642
>PS2 was barely getting any new games in 2007

>>1419642
Surely you're joking? Or do you just not know anything about the ps2's library post 2007?

>>1419653
>>1419683
I can't really recall any PS2 games even from 2007, not to mention post 2007.

>>1416908
That's what they said about 3d.

>>1416889
I don't understand why being 13 means you can't fully enjoy a game. When I was 13, I had completed many games, and I fully understood the mechanics of those games. Are most teenagers too daft to understand how to properly play an RPG like FF7? It wasn't even a difficult game.

>>1419710

>This guy never played Rogue Galaxy.
Buy it NOW.

>>1419737
Persona 3 & 4

Shit, Persona 4 didn't come out until almost 09.

>>1419747
>Are most teenagers too daft to understand how to properly play an RPG like FF7? It wasn't even a difficult game.
No, and I agree. What I meant was more about being able to critically evaluate the game.

>>1419767
I tried playing that but it was too offputting with the standard "the beginning is a tutorial" bs that lasted hours and IDK, the combat was too just annoying. I want simple and fun.

>>1419767
Well, that looks really nice. I'm gonna check it out.

>>1416775
Yes
Though I never player WE, I did have a couple of games with those ugly custom intros

>>1416838
Ridge Racer is nice, but it's no DAYTONAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>1419710
Bully and Persona 4 both come to mind.

>>1419642
Yeah. It only got a couple hundred new games after 2007 that's like barely anything. It's not even potato.

>>1419710
Amagami came out in 2009.

>>1419737
I got a 3D TV and the main thing I use the 3D function for is dual play. Don't even play 3D games in 3D.

>>1419882
Urgh, i'm a Sega fag, and loved DAYTONAAAAA, and GAME OVER YEAAAAAAAAAH!~ But Wipeout was fucking amazing. Fuck the first one, but 2097 changed the entire gaming world

>>1416946
i was born in 92, and not only was the SNES my first console, but i distinctly remember going to the store and getting new games for it. i'm pretty sure the N64 was out at the time too, and i got one of those a couple or a few years later

>>1417261
BOOM
right in the nostalgia
I actually tried to find my demo CD's so I could find that bastard. What's the name of that game?

>>1416728
I had a ps1 in the 90's but I never had very many games on it and many of the ones I did have were pretty bad. I'm not even sure why.

More of a Nintendo kid I guess.

>>1416946
Also backwards compatibility wasn't a dirty phrase in the industry.

>>1417261
gu gu da da
>>1420352
bilter boy
Playstation UK magazine December 1998