/vr/ - Retro Games

this place is a shithole

>>7398603
the second. I'm 18

A bit of both, I guess.
Having grown up next to the SNES ('93 here), I couldn't really follow its games on release. Thanks to my siblings we had some SNES games so I could at least play them at all. Likewise with the Gameboy, though I got more of its life time.
And I've lived through the 5th gen so I could play some games on release (more or less) and talk about them with friends, getting the full experience.
Only thing I miss, because I missed the time, was of arcades. Nowadays, there are none where I'm from.

>>7398603
Kill yourself.

>>7398603
Neither, I still like a lot of old games so I come here but don't really miss those days. Future is brighter than the past.

>>7398638
How rude and foolish

>>7398603
im here because fuck you

>>7398638
This

Dude I just like video games

>>7398603
Neither. I'm here because there used to be a few grownups who liked to talk about stuff before that.

>>7398603
I like games. I don't need to be nostalgic about a game to have fun with it, a good game tends to remain a good game without all the crtranny hipster larping and playpretend retro theme park atraction to make believe you are on another year back in time.

>>7398603
I want to live in 1994 Japan.

dude vaporwave xd

Less cringeposting more valueposting

>>7398603
A combo of both. I lived them but was young. My mature tastes would relish the japanese vcr age

>>7398603

>>7398603
I miss the 90's

neither
i don't miss those days but i did enjoy their videogames at the time

>>7398603
Neither. I'm here because I like games and designs related to those games from past time periods. I don't want to go back (well maybe on holiday to a few places), I wasn't alive for much of it, and to be frank, you can enjoy things that were around in the past without it due to being nostalgia or some sense of being out of place and time.

>>7398603
it's complicated, being born in 93' i feel that people who born in the 80s most likely enjoyed the 90s even more. i lived it but it all just went over my head. being high school age in the 90s was probably cool but i wouldn't trade what i had for anything. my only regret is not having more than 1 girlfriend in my teens. sex is always something i wanted more of. fucking sucks dude, now that i'm older the chance to be with women that age is pretty much OUT

>>7398603
I guess I kind of miss the old days. Mostly I just love pixels and low poly 3d.

>>7398603
I am here because old games feel comfy and I like playing old games.

I just think videogame aesthetics are at their peak with chunky robots and very blue beaches, and I'll get into pretty much anything that can give me that.

>>7398603
Born in '84. I miss the 90s but I'm unironically nostalgic for the 80s, even though I was too young to remember it. In any case, I'm here because I still love the games and systems I grew up with, not that I necessarily want to go back.

>>7398603
My family used to be poorfag at that time so no to both of your question. Had it been the case I would not have touched those games reminding me of the years of me being poor.

I'm here because it is what I know best outside of work/serious hobbies.
I grew up with this shit and was engulfed in gaming culture from like 1996 to 2014.

>>7400037
I love the FMTowns ads girl, someone has more?

I had lived them, and I'm primarily just interested in "retro games", it's incidental. I don't really get into game nostalgia much or waxing poetic about the old days, cause I've pretty much always just been primarily interested in games from the 80s and 90s, I play modern games when one interests me but I'm just more into the conventions of 2D games.

>>7398603
I’m here because /v/ is unreadable these days.

I don’t want to go back in time, but the world going insane starting at 9/11 makes me sad. Things are so bad now. People used to not be assholes 24/7. Zoomers can’t truest know what they’ve lost, and that’s probably for the best.

>>7398603
I'm here, because it's one of few places when I can talk about games I enjoy to play.

>>7402569
I don't, please take these retro-pop girls instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7SFHf-32nk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwOXOx2M9YI

I miss those days but more importantly the games were better. Tons of pick up and play games.
The technology limitations forced developers to get creative and try hard. Obviously there were some stinkers but overall I think games were better.

>>7402569
I got ad girls + muzik:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2J-mEoPxnY

>>7398638
>>7398653
>>7398657
I feel bad for you. Let it go man.

>>7402694
Not retro, but the best gals ITT
I miss the days when any teenage japanese 3/10 girl in a uniform or one piece only got fat bald middle aged japanese dudes hard.

>>7398603
I'm here because I found this site a decade ago while I was in high school and now browsing ad nauseum is so ingrained in my mind that it's become a crucial part of who I am and I can't function without it. I can go a few days--maybe even a few weeks--away and think I'm free, but eventually I come crawling back.
Discovering this place is geniunely one of the worst things to ever happen to me.

>>7398603
This is the retro gaming board btw it's about playing games from an older era in the present day rather than reminiscing on an older era in general.

>>7402694
>>7402843

Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUbfcQ6QzGA I found this ad, unluckily the quality is shit.

And here is another one is in better quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ih4iRrLuM

>>7398749
This. I'm here for the wider selection of top tier games and for the shit posting

>>7402961
Figuratively me.

>>7403362
speccy-chan

>>7398603
I'm here because I like videogames, and this is much less trafficked than the rapid torrent of cancer that is /v/. Many games I like are old (I 'lived' a lot of them I guess), so it's fine by me.
There's old games I missed out on though, so it's a good opportunity as any to scout for games which look interesting.

>>7398609
The board has seen much better days. Election tourists need to be gassed.

>>7400709
Same, '92

>>7403362
>>7403178
>>7400319
>>7400243
>>7400037
>>7399945
>>7398603

Where do you guys get those scans? Are those magazines scaned?

>>7403178

>>7403081
That's quite a decent quality for the era.

>>7403178
This looks like a missing child poster.

>>7398603
I'm here because these are the games I can emulate or afford. I don't even have an 8th gen system, let alone 9th gen, so /v/ is irrelevant to me. This place doesn't allow 7th gen yet, so I'm here to talk about PS2 games mostly or learn about things I never heard about.

I was alive for the NES era, but I moved on, I just don't have a choice. If I had money I'd be playing PS4 games right now, but then I'd miss out on digging for new old shit to play that's interesting, so it's not all bad.

>>7400709
This is your brain on COOM

>>7405564
>coom
>anything -oom/-oomer
For the love of all that is good, please go back to /v/.

>>7405569
Women are overrated, you should be grateful you had the capacity to be faithful instead of being a degenerate. Not a lot of people have that kindness in their heart.

>>7398603
Yes. Sadly those glory days are gone forever. We can never go back to the golden age.

>>7400709
There are some countries and pizza joints where a 27yo having sex with a tween is perfectly normal.

>>7405403
It is

>>7398603
I long for the 90s and times like when my brother and I played SMW on launch day for the SNES, staying up to 3am conquering the Star World.

In less than 10 years I watched games go from Zelda on the NES as a child to Ocarina of Time in my teens. The evolution was insane in hindsight.

This is one of the few boards I have ever found with anons who experienced that too and talk about it or even anons who like to hear the boomers talk about it.

>>7400037
Reminds me of the Mouse Computer ads from the past couple years. I wonder if Mouse was inspired by these?

>>7402961

>>7405564
>>7405578
Go back.

It's because I find games interesting. Not just "games that are currently being advertised on TV" or "games youtubers are covering", but just games in general. If you care for a medium, it doesn't matter if something is old.

>>7398609
always was

>>7398603
my country was an order of magnitude better in the '90s, has nothing to do with videogames

>>7402961
>a decade ago
That's when this place was still much better. It really sucks to get hooked on something when it's genuinely fun and engaging only to notice a while later that you are now chained to a bloated corpse that's started to rot a long time ago and now is crawling with nothing but maggots.

I miss when the community was still a community, boards where doing collaborative stuff frequently and 4chan was still a secret clubhouse instead of a refugee center for facebook and reddit rejects. When those sites started banhammering normies, we got flooded with their trash and it shows.

m**ts betrayal didn't help either.

i'm pretty nostalgic about the past, probably too nostalgic, but i also just enjoy 90's video games, and there are a ton of good ones i never played

>>7398603
I'm here because /v/ is unbearable and because I can talk about games here more often than over there. Also because I like old(er) games.

>>7398603
I'm here because I can't leave. Same as >>7402961. Even if I stop playing games, I still have some interest in tech and I still like cars a bit, so /g/ and /o/ will just suck me in. So basically, I have to lost interest in life itself to stop.

>>7398603
I lived them

>>7400243
>ad for a PC
>just a picture of some woman

how does this make people want to buy a PC?

>>7407659

>>7398603
Neither. Because the games were simply better back then than the trash that gets made in the pozzed current year.

>>7403362
>That very tiny graph printer.
Why did brits think this was a good idea?

>>7398603
The latter, but also because these games are very good and better than modern games in some regards.

mostly on here to talk about games from my childhood although a lot of the time i'm discussing/playing games i missed out on or only played a demo of back in the day

>>7402961
Exactly this. I've been here for a decade and a half.

>>7403535
not the guy posting those but there used to be a site called kyo music city/jpmp3 that had tons of japanese magazine scans despite primarily being a japanese language mp3 release forum, its gone for more than 10 years at this point though

>>7408820
Was common on more advanced calculators, makes sense to put it on a business computer

>>7402961
endless browsing isn't limited to us dude, i also found 4chan when i was 14/15 (i actually found it through burichan, weirdly i'm not even into futa anymore) and still spend a shitload of time here, but my zoomer gf who has never used 4chan spends even more goddamn time scrolling on instagram, and the rest of the world are doing the same on facebook and twitter
we were just some of the first victims, no wonder google wanted to hire moot

>>7398603
Neither, I did not live through the 80's/90's and I don't like older games any more than modern ones.
I just collect the consoles because I'm a big industrial design/product design fan and a lot of them look cool.

>>7408820
Nice compact printer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcC-3RBi8Iw

>>7406897
you're fucking retarded. serious single digit iq.

>>7409000
I love it when people make posts like that without even so much as hinting at what they took offense with.

>>7398603
I'm here because I hate modern games and everything they stand for.
It's abundantly clear games were much better in the past. Modern AAA stuff is casualized and/or movie shit, and modern indie games, while often good/great on their own, are mostly only using concepts rehashed from older games.
Nobody is doing anything cool or interesting with videogames now that we have hardware so fast you can make anything you can imagine, just more pathetic attempts at action movies. Games like Kenshi and Starsector where the whole world is more or less procedural and simulated/manipulated realtime show the promise of what a game can be but nobody cares.

I was born in the late 80s, so I lived through some of it, but stuff like the 2600 is before my time. I never outgrew old games and continued to play them even during the period when they were simply old and not trendy.
Always funny to see /vr teenagers who watched some streamers and YouTube ecelebs and think they're now experts on anything relating to old games. I'm all for new people developing an interest in old shit, but watching people try to genuinely argue that "PSX" wasn't an often used abbreviation for the original PlayStation (and the subsequent "the real PSX is a PS2 multimedia device") or that the SNES PlayStation was some elaborate 3D printed hoax because something something differently discolored plastics or whatever can be laughable.

>>7408849
Damn, that's fucking maddening. The amount of amazing stuff that probably got lost...