/vr/ - Retro Games

>What did you do 22 years ago related to /vr/?
I was in my dad's nutsack

>>8490536
I fucking hate zoomers. Leave.

>>8490539
22 years old is zoomer now?

>>8490540
Yes? 1996 and after is literally zoomer, zoomer.

>>8490521
I gad probably just 100% Sonic Adventure and was eagerly anticipating the years of fun I would have with my Dreamcast.

>>8490540
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z

>>8490539
No

>>8490521
getting a 3DFX delivered by Lara Croft, that's pretty fucking late 90s fo sho! I would have tapped that in an instant, give the cameras a real show to record! I was 18 approaching 19 22 years ago and I would have been probably playing Grand Prix Legends on the PC!

>>8490575
>I would have tapped that in an instant, give the cameras a real show to record!
I don't think they paid her enough for that.

>>8490521
What's the point in torturing the kid like this?
He can't do what he really wants to do with her.
My parents used to do similar shit to me. Force me to go to hooters for my birthday, tell the waitresses it was my birthday, and then laugh when I spill my spaghetti and they make me take pictures with them. It's like a humiliation ritual just so boomers have something to laugh at.
>HAHAHA LOOK AT THE LITTLE KID TAKING A PICTURE WITH THE BIG TITTY STACEYS. LOOK HE'S TURNING RED. HAHAHAHAHA
what is the fucking point

looks like the most uncomfortable day ever lol

>>8490521
why doesn't she let him hug her

>>8490592
that's some hard projection

>>8490617
Evidently wasn't in the contract!

>>8490521
I know this guy personally. His name is Pussy Raider.

>>8490641
noo he looks umcomfortable and sad!!1 I'm projecting hard because I'm a faggot on /vr/ and not this kid

I was enjoying my Dreamcast after getting it for Christmas of '99.

>>8490592
See also: birthdays at literally any chain restaurant
They never aged past adolescence and they genuinely think these kinds of things are fun.

>>8490521
22 years ago I was probably either playing Sim City 2000 on my parents’ Power Mac or playing Super Nintendo. We were always behind the curve when it came to consoles (got an SNES in 1997 and an N64 in 2001). I definitely wasn’t getting graphics cards delivered by Lara Croft.

>>8490683
Behind the Iron Curtain?

>>8490774
That was pretty common in lower middle class America too. I don’t get where this notion of everyone who wasn’t a commie poorfag got brand new consoles on release day comes from, SNES was still in the shelves in ‘97 and same goes for n64 in ‘01. Christ they sold PS1s up until like 2006.

>year 2000
Play Sonic on Genesis and Mario on NES. Idk I was four.

>>8490576
Just sell the GPU right back to them. Noob.

>>8490818
>selling a 5500 in 2000 just to get fucks

When I think back to then I remember getting Nintendo Official Magazine once a month, shit was hype. I kind of miss gaming mags but they're irrelevant now
Also I'd have been very much into N64

>>8490540
fucking hell, zoomers don't even know they're zoomers, this is some blade runner shit

>>8490592
lmao look at little anon still embarrassed years later, did you like them titties son?

>>8490521
I was a 4 year old in kindergarten. Probably eating my boogers or some shit. Also, those boobs and that ass is immaculate. I'd raid her tomb all fucking day

>>8490929
*shit like that
Fuck I just realized how bad that sounds without that last part lol

>>8490521
She killed millions!

>>8490931
Nice save, poop eater!

>>8490521
Was playing Ultima Online fulltime. Quit school. It was lit.

>>8490981
Pls no bully

>>8490551
>>8490859
I'm just confused because while I agree that I'm Gen Z, people on this website can't make up their mind about zoomers, some say people born after 1999 are zoomers, and others say anyone born after 1995 is a zoomer. Then kids who are born in 2005 and clearly not part of the Gen Z will be called zoomers even if they're "Gen Alpha".

Playing Final Fantasy Anthologies and VIII that I got for Christmas of 1999. Probably a bit of Genesis/SNES as well. I earned some money and bought an N64 in December of 2000 with OoT and Mario 64 (list goes on etc…)

>>8491003
It's not like there is an official government body regulating generation names or anything. People just call each other whatever they like.

>>8491003
>Then kids who are born in 2005 and clearly not part of the Gen Z
That is literally core zoomer.

X: '65-80, so the core is early 70s babies
Y (Millennial): '81-96, so the core is late 80s babies
Z: '97-2012, so the core is mid 2000s babies

You are confused about it because 4chan /vr/ is the king of gatekeeping and most gen z is underage. A 24 year old is just barely Gen Z but 40yo 4channers will spam "ZOOMER! ZOOMER! ZOOMER!" ad nauseam.
Once all of Gen Z is of age the early 2000s babies will actually represent the nucleus of the gen.

>>8490521
I spent the turn of the millennium playing this

>>8491003
The moral is that *oomer posters are retards and shouldn't be taken seriously in any capacity.

>>8490840
I would have given a lot more to dick a Lara cosplayer like that back then

>>8491003
>>8491120
I mostly see serious zoomer posting on /vr/, sice here it makes sense, if someone is larping about things they didn't experience, they are a zoomer and get called out for it

>>8490645
>I'm projecting hard
sure are.

>>8490592
You sound like a faggot. Not because what they did was right, but because you're still bitching about it years later to strangers on the internet.

>>8490793
Thank you for apparently being the only other person to remember the era accurately.

>>8491120
I remember some time ago the common insult was "millennial". Which is kind of silly because there wasn't too many born before 1981 here, not even in 2004, 4chan was basically a millennial imageboard, if something.

>>8491130
I spent late nineties Christmas playing a game like that. I had three controllers and asked my cousins to go against me, because they were not very good at playing. They beat me good!

>>8490521
Playing smb3.
In fact, that's the only game I had to play for three years straight.

>>8490521
I was enjoying the first months of my first computer and also first game platform. Never had videogames as as a kid, only as a teen I could get my first pc and it was mind blowing. Buying Computer Gaming World with a CD full of demos was an event, I must have been playing that in january of 2000, also Age of Empires and my first cheap PC games. In a few months I was going to get Baldur's Gate and Diablo, and that changed my life forever.

>>8490521
i was playing tomb raider on ps1

22 years ago I was in Dreamcast heaven, playing Jet Set Radio and fighters and shooters galore.

>>8491134
Based. It's fucking ridiculous how this board is so averse to wojak pictures to the point janny trannies will remove them on sight yet wojakfag lingo is so ubiquitous here at the same time.

>>8490521
Playing Command & Conquer on the playstation. Earlier than that growing up I played a lot of Doom on the SNES.

>>8490539
Psst... I have a plan to get revenge on all of those zoomers. Meet me in the backalley in 15 minutes.

>>8491247
I had been playing console games since late 80's But had my first PC at the same date as you But all my games were pirated because I'm a shitholer and the PC parts had to be smuggled from another country to pay cheaper too. My first game was Messiah.

>>8491290
I didn't use to play pirate games until I discovered Kazaa. CD's weren't that cheap, and not too many people had recorders. My PC was very shitty but I remember I could play stuff like Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament without a problem, then BG2 came out and it didn't work for shit, which didn't make any sense.

>>8491130
Same. Rented it a bunch of times from blockbuster to play with my friends when they stayed over. Good times, wish I could live them again.

>>8491298
At the time I had my PC, the only thing I could pirate was mp3 music from Napster. My PC was the best at the time. I remember that I got Deus Ex pirated right after release. But my connection was too bad to play online or to download games online

>>8490539
Watching my generation turn into cringy old men like this who just can’t understand them kids has been extremely embarrassing

>>8490521
Flew a shitload of missions in the metropolis

>>8490592
The kids is obviously excited as hell you fuckin autismo

>>8491003
These are literally just marketing demographics no one cares. It’s just neckties trying to divide and conquer and we all let it effect our identities

>>8491329
Cellphones turned zoomers into retards

>>8491279
My friend bought the PS mouse because he wanted to play C&C in PS.
He's a huge fan of C&C series in PC.

>>8491212
Yep. Moot is a millennial himself.
Plenty of people still use millennial as an insult. In fact, "zoomer" is only thrown around by bitter millennials who don't want to be associated with 20 year olds. People over 41 or so don't care to differentiate between millennials and gen z, as they shouldn't.
IMO it's pointless to try and define Gen Z today when most of them are underage. Core zoomers are literally in high school right now.

>>8491157
>sure are.
Well yes, since >>8490592 literally said they were projecting.


>My parents used to do similar shit to me. Force me to go to hooters for my birthday, tell the waitresses it was my birthday, and then laugh when I spill my spaghetti and they make me take pictures with them. It's like a humiliation ritual just so boomers have something to laugh at.

>>8491120
>>8491212
>>8491560
But zoomer literally is insult for "you're a child". Doesn't matter how old you are, zoomers themselves use it.

>>8491298
>until I discovered Kazaa.
Man I remember getting a CD burner in around 2001 and pirating games for everyone at school for money.

>>8491387
this, nothing to do with age/generations
I'm borderline zoomer myself but clearly remember a world without smartphones, young people today are fucked up thanks to them

>>8490989
Faggot

>>8490521
>What did you do 22 years ago related to /vr/?
>January 2000
I was unironically playing The Last Revelation, since friend got his hands on a pirate copy right before new year and burned mine right after the new year party.

>>8490536
It feels fucking weird, man. I remember when we used to joke that one day there will be people on 4chan born after 2000, but when it actually happened, it's just hard to process.

22 years ago was 2000 so I was probably playing PSX JRPGs almost exclusively. It was a phase.

Probably playing NFL2K, Soul Calibur, Sonic Adventure, or Chu Chu Rocket.

>>8490575
I hear that talk all the time, son. I'm gonna give you one chance. Go there and put a smile on her face. You have 5 minutes. Do a job good and I'll let you in the industry. Fail and you'll get the boot. Literally. Film ain't cheap and you're wasting it. Now, go!

>>8490575
>I would have tapped that in an instant, give the cameras a real show to record!
>I was 18 approaching 19 22 years ago
>i think I'm fooling anyone

>>8490793
Third-worlder here. It was like this in here too. I can even say I was ahead of the curve (compared to my acquaintances), because I was able to score a Super Nintendo on Christmas of 1993, but many of my games were bootlegs, save a few cartridges with those special chips.

To be frank, I envied a friend who grabbed a Super Nintendo in late 1997. Games were cheaper and, in a few years, he had bought many classics I couldn't before because of price. Later, I kinda went that route with the PS2, and got things with a much better price. If you don't have a fat paycheck, then it's better not to be an early adopter; too much stress, risks and expenses.

>>8490641
he jacked off to this later

>>8490592
Yeah, I don't get it either. Just fuck with kids to the point that they're ashamed of their own biology, because that can't have huge knock on effects or anything. Most people are just dumb as a brick, when you get down to it.

>>8490793
Gamecube only came out in 01/02. N64 was still very much current at that point. Banjo Tooie came out in 2001, in Europe.

>>8490592
Your story is actually pretty fucked up. While this Tomb Raider thing is somewhat awkward (it's always weird to see nerds interact with attractive women, plus the conspicuous age gap), it's not abusive or taunting.

>>8490774
Iron Curtain was off for a decade by that point, faggot.
Said that, I had a Celeron 333 with 64 MB RAM back then and I was GLAD that I can reload Fallout 2 fast enough to not make save-scumming stealing important shit too much of a hassle. And when I say "fast enough" it means "about twenty fucking seconds".
I still regret giving that PC away in 2005.

>>8491560
me going to my friends house to spend the night.

>>8490521
Holy shit I'm getting old. Think I wasn't even playing video games because I had grown out of them back then. Only got back into them about a decade ago really.

>Playing shit like Resident Evil on the regular
>getting shit scared with your bros at sleep overs
>Ton Hawk Pro fucking Skater
>listen to The Offspring
>Gel your hair into spikes
>Matrix, Fight Club, bunch of other great movies were fresh and new
>Get hyped about how PS2 was going to be the best thing ever in the universe
>probably still collecting Pokemon cards
>3rd edition Warhammer 40k, best edition
>Playing arena shooters against bots because parents wouldn't let you actually go online
>Printing out guides from GameFAQs
>Wasting your time on Shockwave/Flash games when you were allowed online
>Repeatedly playing the trial period of b-grade MMORPGs like Legend of Mir and Myth of Soma

I don't actually want to go back. I have good memories, sure, but there's something really bittersweet about all of it. Knowing that there are legitimately sci-fi super-technologies like VR just barely becoming viable toady makes me feel like I was born at the worst possible time.

Too late for the (actual) boomer golden age of Western society, too early for the cool cyberpunk dystopia it's going to become; but just in time for the really boring bit in between.

>>8491298
>I didn't use to play pirate games until I discovered Kazaa. CD's weren't that cheap, and not too many people had recorders.
So you are trying to tell me it was easier for you to get internet - in a modem era - and cheaper, too, than find some local bloke with a large library of games and get some from him for pocket change? That without mentioning Kaaza is what? 2000? 2001?

>>8491585
I mean that was the entire point: get a burner for yourself and to save space on your disc, but someone had to pay for it, so why not sell pirated copies to people for still pocket change, but quickly earning the recorder back.

>>8490539
Ok boomer.

>>8492049
TAKE ME BACK BROS

>>8490592
At least you admitted to your projection so nobody has to doubt you're a retard.

>>8490521
>I was 8
Probably playing SMW, Judge Dredd and Street Fighter 2 if my dim memories of my SNES is anything to go by.

>>8491003
>>8490540
Zoomer is typically used as a catch all insult like cuck, reddtior and tranny. Don't over think it, the people who use it are mostly brain dead retards.

>>8492049
>too early for the cool cyberpunk dystopia it's going to become
the "west" will look like a african shithole in 50 years

>>8492116
>will

>>8490521
I was playing Everquest

>>8491003
More than anything, you are an annoying faggot.

>>8492115
>the people who use it are mostly brain dead retards.
Mostly when they are the zoomers themselves

>>8490774
No, I lived in small town Appalachia, and while my parents were well off, most of my friends were not. It was actually kind of a big deal to have even an SNES in 1997, because most people only had GameBoys or MAYBE an NES, if they had anything at all. Obviously, having a home computer was an EXTREMELY big deal. Even though my parents had the lowliest, slowest Power Mac 6100/60, handing in school reports comprised of computer type made you a tiny god.

I don’t know where /vr/ got this notion that stores just magically stopped selling Super Nintendos on September 30, 1996. You didn’t have to live in a third world country to be behind the times, even though West Virginia is kind of a third world country in its own way.

>>8490793
I remember finding a catalogue from Christmas 1999 in my parents’ house. It was advertising the “New Style” Super NES for $69.95. I think they sold that right up until the GameCube was introduced. Again I’m shocked that people don’t remember this, or all the brand new SNES games for $19.99.

>>8491212
I always thought of early 4chan as more of a Gen X imageboard.

>>8491789
How did you find pirated games in the 1990s? I always assumed consoles weren’t popular with the third worlders because you couldn’t just copy the floppy.

>>8491003
If you're under 30 right now you're a millenialcuck (zoomer) if you're 30 and up you're a based Gen-Xer (the last great generation)

>>8492178
That's not true at all. The oldest Millennials are getting into their late 30's at this point.

>>8490592
My father offered to pay me to have sex with a cheap hooker instead like he had when he was virgin. But was too afraid to say yes.

>>8491212

I remember back in the early days (I started coming here in maybe 05 or 06- GTFO newfag, lurk moar, etc etc, I know, I know) we used to call people "underage b&" all the time, and that was basically the go-to insult if you wanted to call someone immature.

But I always figured that the meta-joke was that most of us were underage; we were horny edgy teenagers coming here for hentai and gore pics and shit. I'm pretty sure even Moot himself was still underage in 2004.

>>8492235
You rarely see people in their late 30's here these days

>>8491978
give it back tyrese

>>8492254
Nigga was like 15 when he started 4chon.

>>8491212
Boomers (actual ones) have basically been seething about the perceived slights of millennials since they were born. I guess as a scapegoat for their own shitty ideas and parenting that got forced onto the millennials.
The whole "participation trophy" thing is classic Boomer seethe. Firstly, it was their stupid idea. Secondly, I got those as a kid and even then I knew they were worthless, and they made me feel worse if anything, because they couldn't just let me lose gracefully, they had to present me with my failure in the form of a "prize". If anything turned the millennial generation into pussies, it was the lack of decent father figures, and again, that's their fucking fault.
Anyway, a lot of actual millennials unfortunately, internalised all of this, and turned into self-hating cucks on top of everything else.

>>8492254
>But I always figured that the meta-joke was that most of us were underage
I for one am glad I was not underaged when I found 4Chins. I was enough of a weird faggot when I was a kid, and being exposed to 4chan during my younger years would have made my formidable years and school days really fucked up moreso than it was. Just remembering the stupid shit I got up to on a single site as a teen is bad enough.

>>8492174
>How did you find pirated games in the 1990s? I always assumed consoles weren’t popular with the third worlders because you couldn’t just copy the floppy.
We didn't pirate the carts. I don't know where the guy you replied to is from. But the games I got came from china then went to paraguay and then to brazil's selling and rental stores. The cartridges were modeled for the Japanese Super Famicon so we had to remove the block from the USA console version to fit it. The bootleg cartridges worked perfectly. I owned a MK2 game that lasted for years. The bootleg on the pic is a hacked version that allowed for fatalities before ending the round. There were lots pirated jap game versions available to us in the 90's as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLsaWiRFTT8

>>8490521
>many Half-Life mods
>Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2
>Heavy Metal FAKK2

>>8492174
>I always thought of early 4chan as more of a Gen X imageboard.

it was all millennials through and through. You could tell by how childish a lot of the humor was some times. Not that it didn't have its share of gross and nasty shit.

>>8492174
>How did you find pirated games in the 1990s? I always assumed consoles weren’t popular with the third worlders because you couldn’t just copy the floppy.

Same thing as >>8492345 told, for I am also brazilian. Gotta agree with him and blame this shit on China, since many of the games were japanese-exclusives (or the japanese version, if there was an international release), with the aforementioned Super Famicom cartridge shells. However, I must add: some games were, indeed, the overseas version, and even though they sported the japanese shell, they fit like the american ones, so no modification on your console was needed for them. Their price was very attractive too, ranging from a tenth to a fifth of an original's. Though it was rare to see a cartridge with save battery, and I've never seen a bootleg of a special chip game.

>>8492392
>Though it was rare to see a cartridge with save battery, and I've never seen a bootleg of a special chip game.
Renting was the only way to play games that required battery saving. Finished Donkey Kong and Chronno Trigger renting. I could even continue playing from the part the other guy before me had played

>>8492391
I was never insulted for being a millennial. But back in 2001 I used to chat on AOL and the people in the 20-30 year-old chat rooms were retard and annoying as fuck compared to the ones from the 30+ chat rooms. And you could also see a greater maturity difference when comparing the 50s to 30s chat rooms

>>8492391

>you just won an entire internet

Christ, I cringe reading that, but it's easy to forget this is where it started. We invented it, when we were all like 15, then normies culturally appropriated it from us. Only they never grew out of it.

Am I the only one who thinks we slipped into some weird parallel dark-timeline mirror universe right around the point memes became mainstream? I mean seriously, nothing has been right with the world since. I think we inadvertently brought about the downfall of civilisation.

>>8492174
>>8490793
>>8491206
>>8491836

This has a lot to do with how the modern internet/social media space is dominated by consumerism, and blatant viral marketing and astroturfing. Everyone lives vicariously in the world of upper-middle class streamers and e-celebs these days, so even if you are poor (and statistically speaking, you are far more likely to be a poorfag than not these days), your mind is kept hooked in to the latest consumer trends.

When looking back into memory, it's easy to forget details like this, because things are quite different today- XBone and PS4 are still for sale, but the companies don't really want you to know that.

>>8492391
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW5q1eD8T0I
oh man

>>8492574
>Am I the only one who thinks we slipped into some weird parallel dark-timeline mirror universe right around the point memes became mainstream?
It's so interesting to have grown up here and to actually understand the internet from that kind of experience. Also my burning hatred for normies intensifies every day and I yearn for the downfall of civilization.

>>8492413
Anon, sometimes it was hard. The rental shop owner was stingy, and guess fucking what? The supposedly battery-saving cartridge was also a bootleg. I had to finish Donkey Kong Country 3 in one-sitting because of that. Unfortunately, I couldn't do it at once; I had to take breaks, and, in the end, took me two days. Problem was: mom wasn't letting my Super Nintendo stay on during the night, while I slept. I had to put a piece of electrical tape on the console's LED and turn off the lights, so mother wouldn't figure it out. In the morning, I'd quickly take off the tape, so my trick wouldn't be discovered. I had better luck with Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2.

>>8491807

he never stopped jacking off to this

>>8492663
>The supposedly battery-saving cartridge was also a bootleg.
I was lucky that no rental shop owner would do this to me. There were many places to rent. If he did that I'd just rent somewhere else. I remember they also had other cool original games with cool red colors

January 6th I was playing Mario Kart 64 battle mode with my brother that we got for christmas.
Good times.
On july we would buy Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, World Cup 98 and Mario 64, used, and cheap, on a flea market. Some dumb rich kid probably got a brand new Dreamcast and sold his "old" games.
I still have these cartridges.

>>8491807
Probably wrote some terrible fanfic about being a chad and fucking Lara Croft and posted on the internet while jacking off too.

>>8490641
>>8492715
Hey faggots,

My name is John, and I hate every single one of you. All of you are fat, retarded, no lives who spend every second of their day looking at stupid ass pictures. You are everything bad in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten any pussy? I mean, I guess it's fun making fun of people because of your own insecurities, but you all take it to a whole new level. This is even worse than jerking off to pictures on Facebook.

Don't be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. I'm pretty much perfect. I was captain of the football team, and starter on my basketball team. What sports do you play, other than "jack off to naked drawn Japanese people?" I also get straight A's, and have a banging hot girlfriend (She just blew me; Shit was SO cash). You are all faggots who should just kill yourselves. Thanks for listening.

Pic related: It's me and my bitch.

>>8492751
Straight outta '07. 10/10 would meme again.

>>8492751
This must be a bad-taste joke! John died this exact day, ten years ago. Please, have some respect!

>>8492780
t. his mom

>>8492372
Fuck, nofap ending this weekend.

>>8492235
41. The oldest millennials are turning 41 this year.

>>8492178
What the fuck lmao

>>8492790
My son died a hero, you despicable person! And you? What have you done for your country? Just locked away in your room, playing with your bleep-bloops?

>>8492805
ywnbaw

>>8492816
May our Lord have mercy at your soul!

>>8492670
On a quiet autumn morning, sometimes I can still hear him fapping

>>8492816
ytmnd

>>8490793
Yeah exactly, I bought a SNES in 96 here in Aus-saved up my $5/wk pocket money for 40 weeks to get that Killer Instinct + 2 controller pack. Back then Blockbuster would rent out game cartridges, which was cool for a poorfag like me. Later I would get a Pentium 120Mhz with 32mb ram and would play the living shit out of Quake for the next decade. There will never be a gaming epoch like the days when you'd have to download mods and configure them yourself. You'd write little scripts and aliases etc, exec them from the console, tune shit to eek out another 15 ms of latency from your dialup modem. I remember the early days I was on 250 ms, then later I got it down to 190 - 200ms and with more tuning and a hardware 56k modem I got it down to 150s. I don't get how people can say we can't notice the difference between 20 and 50 ms - that shit is like night and day in an aFPS game.

>>8491331
ohhh shiet, I remember we could build a city in SC2000 and then fly through that file in sim copter. That was so cash. And there was an easter egg where if you built lots of fighter jets (which you couldnt fly) and then went there in 'copter, an Apache attack helicopter would spawn which you could go rek shit with. So much fun!

>>8490521
I probably played HoMaM 3, The Sims and Suppaa Smashuu Broothhaaas.
Better days for sure.

>>8493204
Aww man, The Sims and Smash 64 here too. Wasn't playing MaM though, it was Midtown Madness instead.

>>8490553
Zoom out.

>>8491807
Of course he did, he's Asian.

>>8492805
>Bleep Bloops?

Is that a Rick and Morty reference?

>>8490521
>ywn lose your virginity in a straight shota session with Lara Croft after she hands you a state of the art GPU

>>8492252
That's not the kind of thing you leave up to the kid. You get the whore in your house, leave until she leaves, and everyone wordlessly carries on.

>>8490617
... sh, she did. We not watching the same video? There was like a bit of hesitation but he got that hug.

I got caught by my parents climbing up the inside of the giant wigwam in terrydactyl land and looking down Humba Wumba's shirt.

Was going from elementary school into middle school, playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, MechWarrior 3, Sonic 3D Blast and Interstate 76 on PC (when my dad wasnt busy playing MS Flightsim 98), playing Banjo, OoT, Smash Bros and Gex 3 on N64 and playing Pokemon, the Smurfs, Heaichy Alien and Kid Icarus on my gameboy. Would go over to my friends house down the street and play stuff on snes like DKC, power rangers and jurassic park. My other "real cool" friend was only person I knew who had just gotten a Dreamcast and thought he was hot shit. Was also playing magic the gathering and the pokemon tcg and still building lego stuff.

>>8491789
Kek, we only got hold of all those older systems in 2000's in our country, and they are chink knockoffs at that. Same for the games, chink knockoff cartridges that stuffed multiple games in the same piece. All the 1980/90 things that fags here reminisce about are late 2000's memory for me. Internet really changed everything

>>8491928
>Iron Curtain was off for a decade by that point, faggot.
And? The markets were extremely damaged and lagging behind for years to come. I'm from the baltics and even in 2000, most computer stores sold still 486 machines and P3 or P4 machines were hard to get, PS1's started to become popular, etc.

>>8490539
spbp

>>8492115
It was initially a response to the braindead retarded phrase "Ok boomer". That phrase died, but zoomer lives on, forever now as the name of an entire generation.

>>8490521
Probably playing Jet Force Gemini eagerly waiting for my birthday when I'll get Pokemon Stadium

>22 years ago
>Three months after pokemon red and blue were released here
I was probably still trying to get the truck to move.

>>8490521
I was playing final fantasy on ps1 and managing my harem (i was a chad at a young age)

>>8491592
Dumb joyless cunt

>>8493594
Damn, anon... From where do you hail?

>>8493978
pajeetland playstation is probably our country's first experience with gaming. Surprisingly square had a branch here for a long time inspite of having to import the consoles for their games, which are not really affordable in the first place. Maybe its a part of the general japanese corpo obsession with our market

>>8494063
Nice to know, anon. I thought India would'vd been on par with us, since it didn't seem that different (apart from the larger population). Nowadays, how is the gaming market in your country?

>>8494063
didn't india literally have it's own famiclone that it made in the late 80's already? since I remember it was a popular import in europe

>>8492062
Yes, it was. I lived in a tiny town and most people were assholes, also I've always been the antisocial type. I must have discovered Kazaa in 2001 or so, I remember I was playing Diablo II and some guy told me about some crazy program you could use to get games for free. Still it wasn't too easy or practical, with my ridiculous hard drive I couldn't keep to many games at the same time, and downloading them would take weeks, but there wasn't that many alternatives.

>>8492062
>So you are trying to tell me it was easier for you to get internet - in a modem era - and cheaper, too, than find some local bloke with a large library of games and get some from him for pocket change? That without mentioning Kaaza is what? 2000? 2001?
I knew one person in my local village, the older brother of my good friend of the time, he would pirate me games too, while I pirated games for him and others, since internet was slow and it made more sense to share.
Piracy was definitely easier to get the games you wanted or new games than to buy them, since you couldn't even find everything in store or to find someone who had the game already. I remember trying to track down a few games that didn't have cracks with little success.

>I mean that was the entire point: get a burner for yourself and to save space on your disc, but someone had to pay for it, so why not sell pirated copies to people for still pocket change, but quickly earning the recorder back.
I got my recorder for free, I was in my mid teens, I would have never been able to afford one. Luckily my older brother lived in the US and sent us his old burner after he upgraded his PC, it was a few years old burner at the time but better than nothing.
I am the anon you're replying to and I often did make copies for money or to trade against other things or official games. You get a lot of "friends" suddenly when you're the guy who can get any game, assholes would stop messing with you and those who did would get fucked up by the older people who would buy games from you. Lot more than just money was in it for me at the time which I didn't even plan, these days it sound obvious but back then it was just someone coming up to you and saying they get you a few packs of smokes for a copy of a game, since they heard you made one for your friend.

>>8494113
>Piracy was definitely easier to get the games you wanted or new games than to buy them, since you couldn't even find everything in store or to find someone who had the game already. I remember trying to track down a few games that didn't have cracks with little success.
For young people these days that might sound crazy

These days you open Steam, click buy and 50 minutes later you have a 50GB game ready to play, which is far easier than trying to track down a torrent or repack, a VPN, then downloading and installing it, probably jumping thru a hoop or two because crack and pirated copy

>>8494085
Not a chance, probably a reexport

>>8494078
Absolutely dominated by mobile faggotry as any other third world nation. PC or console gaming is restricted to fps. Really unfortunate for someone who mostly plays rpgs like me. Can't even discuss things when most people don't even understand the concept of a rpg

>>8494137
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famiclone#India

>>8492174
>I always thought of early 4chan as more of a Gen X imageboard.
It's always been dominated by millennials just like all the other 2000s "Social Media" sites like Facebook and Reddit.

GenX has a presence but they are a smaller generation anyway and they were mostly on traditional message boards and BBSs.

>>8492260
I'm turning 36 in march

>>8494148
Yeah, as I said rebranded chink models. And they are priced way out of range for a middle class or even an upper middle class family at that time. From the referenced article
>3500 rupees price bracket in 1991
That's the entire annual income of a middle class family at that time

>>8492174
>>8494157
>I always thought of early 4chan as more of a Gen X imageboard.
I've been here for over 16 years now and I'm only 30, most people I know and knew from 4chan were around my age throughout the years.

>>8491578
>Doesn't matter how old you are, zoomers themselves use it.
That's because the internet has created an unprecedented level of inter-generational social mixing, so zoomers are unwittingly spending a TON of time interacting with millennials and gen Xers. Kids are prone to copying what other people do and say, so when they go online and get called zoomers as an insult by older people on 4chan, reddit, in games, etc, etc they'll pick that up and end up using it against their peers in an attempt to sound cool or grown up. That amount of inter-generational socialization just did not happen to the huge degree it does now in the days before the ubiquity of the internet.

>>8494101
>2001
>take weeks
I live in a 3rd world country too and internet was still using dial-up at that time.
It's expensive and slow, so I bought bootleg games which are cheaper and easier to get than downloading with dial-up connections.
>>8494113
I still live in a small city when I started using PC in early 90s.
There weren't that many PC games shops around and I usually relied on my older friends who went to bigger cities to study in universities.
I told them what kind of games I liked and asked them to buy games for me.
Of course I paid them for troubling them.
Later I moved to a bigger city too when I graduated from high school and started attending a uni in mid 90s.
I didn't get my own internet connection till around 2010 and it was a mobile internet connection provided by cellular companies.
I used modem USB sticks and put a sim card in it then subscribe monthly internet connections.

>>8493675
This might shock you, but the exact same thing was going in the rest of the Europe by 2000.
Having a PC, an actual PC, instead of Amiga or similar, was a status thing until what? 97? You weren't "behind the curve", you were still on it.
What sort of fucking bubble you live, thinking everyone owned 5 consoles and two PCs by then, except for potato-eating Balts?

>>8494116
>These days you open Steam, click buy and 50 minutes later you have a 50GB game ready to play, which is far easier than trying to track down a torrent or repack, a
ZOOOM
>a VPN
ZOOOM
>then downloading and installing it
ZOOOM!

It's not even about being a zoomer, you are actively acting more retarded than you actually are, for you are insisting that doing the exact same fucking operation - downloading a game and installing it - takes magically longer and is more complex when you aren't using Steam for it.
I mean what is this shit? Some sort of seven-layers irony?

>>8494223
You are replying to someone who was at best 5, most likely not born at all in 2000, so don't even bother with taking his claims about how "things worked" serious.

>>8490521
Failing through high school, not driving, not getting on with my peers well, dealing with my parents' divorce. Fucking christ boomers are such terrible goddamn parents, holy shit. That aside, playing PS1, DC, and Windows 98 games on an already obsolete P2-400 + Voodoo 3.

>>8494223
I'm >>8494113
We actually got DLS at 128kbps in 2001, shit was cash compared to dial-up

>>8494223
>>8494348
At least dial-up wasn't expensive, it was even free at nights from 00:00 to 07:00.

jesus that Lara is perfect. Huge ass too, hng

January 2000, I was painting up the Warhammer 40,000 3rd edition box set and playing Unreal Tournament in a clan with a bunch of eurofags

>>8494280
Not really, don't know why you'd say that. West Germany, UK, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, heck even Spain, etc, at that time were far ahead of the East-Bloc countries.
My first Pentium 3 was from Sweden in around 2003, from a middle class Swedish family that my mother was friends with, they had it since 1999 and gave it away free when they upgraded and visited us.

I don't know why people try to bullshit everyone here, maybe if you weren't born you'd believe that.

>>8490521
Can you imagine how much seed that dude spilled to the memory of this over the years? I bet he was jacking it to her for a decade.

Might still be at it now.

>>8494280
Also to add, if you actually think that 486 machines in 2000 selling for the same price as they did in 1995 in the US was normal for North/Western Europe in 2000, like it was in my East-Bloc country, you're absolutely mad. You could get exactly the same hardware, for the same price between North/Western Europe and the US, the only lagging behind there was, was usually a few months up to a year and mostly related to new hardware releasing first in the US, like consoles.

>>8494348
DSL was a luxury in my country during early 2000s.
>>8494354
?wasn't expenive
Not in my country.
Phone were expensive because it was monopolized by a single company.
>free at nights
I felt like shit when I heard you had free phone at nights.

>>8494291
To buy, install and play a game in Steam take literally three clicks if your PayPal or CC is saved. You click on game, you click buy, it downloads/installs itself and then you click play.
Any repack or OG installer will even take more clicks.

Meanwhile you'd have to go to a torrent or repack site, click on magnet link, sure it might auto add to the torrent client and then download, preferably you want to start up a VPN before though, since 90% of western countries you're fucked without, after it's downloaded, you run the installer manually, select location, install and after it's done you can play it.

I don't care how retarded you are, you can't say that 3 clicks isn't less than even 10 clicks or that starting one program up and spending literally 10 seconds to buy and let it do it's own thing isn't quicker than having to manually doing it.

>>8494385
Wasn't my intention, sorry bro
DSL came here in 2001 and we had like 3 major companies, so competition kept price down, also they were managed by local people who weren't very savvy, I'm sure things like free dial-up was thanks to nerdy people at the ISPs and phone companies themselves just being nice, since upper ups had no idea how to profit from that, since less than 0.1% of people even used dial-up or had a computer at the time.

Seriously WTF happened to the world? Everything was peaches and cream and then BOOM! 9/11 happened and everything turned to shit!

>>8494401
It's not your fault, it's the monopoly practice in my country.
Even now when there are more cellular companies, they secretly form a cartel and kill competitions.
Same thing happens in many sectors, there are secret cartels everywhere.
Their motto: why pays less when you can pay more?

>>8494291
Don't know what you're trying to prove, my nephew is 16 and has no idea how to run a setup.exe
Meanwhile I was already pirating at 16, even when it took days to download something

Lucy Clarkson

>>8494116
It's for the best that I pirate everything. My attention is difficult to harness and most shit gets gonged within an hour or two. If I bought everything I had the whim to play I'd be destitute. Also, it just seems like you fucked up if you were raised on computer escapism and didn't learn to pirate efficiently.

>>8494486
>Clarkson

>>8494395
I remember some anon posted a story in a SNES thread last month.
He installed ZSNES emulator for his nephews and nieces and put some roms in a folder.
Change setting of rom folder to point at that folder.
His nephew accidentally click the .. and it went to its parent folder.
Confused because all games were gone.
Couldn't get it back to that folder where all the roms are.

>>8494532
Yep, my 16 year old nephew doesn't even know how to run an installer, yet alone pirate anything
Using Steam is fine though, don't need to know the filesystem or anything

>>8494539
Most kids these days just grow up with idiot-proof tablets and phones and don't bother actually learning about computers, sadly.

>>8494567
Can't really blame them, I didn't bother learning about BASIC and assembler, etc either when I was young, even though my dad knew it all since he was a teen in the 80's.

God I hate this board so fucking much now
>>8490521
Playing video games like I currently do now, just without the need to nostalgiafag about it

>>8490592
Sorry for the manipulation upon you anon. Shit be sad like that sometimes

>>8490641
>>8490645
Sorry but kill yourselves. I doubt kid in OP is even alive or if he is, likely never got laid just like most of this site's userbase.

>>8491003
Stop taking this site seriously, for one. That's a sign you really are a zoomer

Zoomer on this site is the same buzzword that is "nigger" or "trannie". Cope words used to say "I hate you, so I'll label you". that's it. nothing more. But just because this site is retarded trash, doesn't mean you aren't what you are, just don't twist it thanks to this site's userbase problems.

>>8494579
>assembler
I doubt current generations programmers know assembler.

>>8494620
I don't see why they should, just like teens today who don't know how to use a PC properly, when everything is just press or click. Just like I didn't need to know how to load a floppy on a C64, since I already grew up with a filesystem and mouse.

>>8494620
I am a programmer and most of my assembly knowledge comes from youtubers who dissect how old games work from machine code.

>>8494498
>the best Lara Croft… in the world

>>8494678
Impressive.

>>8494293
I was 14, I don't see what's so weird about my particular experience. PC games weren't even that popular in that context, there was many Ps1 pirated games around but not too many gave a fuck about PC and particularly the more specific stuff I was into.

Emulating speccy on my amiger

>>8494785
I used to flex on console only fags with emulating SNES and NES on my 'Miger in the late 90's.

>>8493075
Hands off those nurses mr. Peppers

>>8490521
Going to the arcade to play mtal slug with my frineds

>>8494684
Not as impressive as it might sound, I code JavaScript by trade lol

>>8494291
I think you're kind of missing the point.
The point is that Steam is easier than going to a store, buying a physical copy, installing the game from CD-ROM/DVD, and running it. 22 years ago, shrink-wrap software on CD-ROM (increasingly DVD-ROM) was still the standard way to buy software. There were many cases where pirating a game was easier than doing that.

And yes, Steam (personally I use GOG, fuck DRM) is easier than piracy today, most of the time. You don't have to fuck around with sketchy download sites with terrible download speeds. You don't have to broadcast your IP to a torrent network and hope there are enough seeders for the game you want. You don't have to fuck around wondering whether the version of the game you just downloaded has been hacked or fucked with in some way (not even necessarily malicious hacking).

This is before you even get into zoomers' learned helplessness when it comes to computers. Personally I find 3rd-5th generation emulators by far the most convenient way to play console games from that era, but even then I get why people play HD Steam versions of games like Final Fantasy IX.

>>8490521
I was probably playing mario party 3

>What did you do 22 years ago related to /vr/?
Age of Empires 1/2 on MPlayer at night. Damn, that was expensive, and damn, it was a lot of fun.

>>8490521
Exactly 22 years ago? Probably played Duke Nukem: Zero Hour with my dad.

>>8494882
Fuck steam for making pc gaming a more closed eco system. I hope more online stores pop up and ruin them

>>8490521
Try to stay home from school and play NES

>>8495281
Free market.

>>8490539

>>8494839
I code mostly in TSQL.
Also some VBA and C#.
Hate Javascript.

>>8495281
It was inevitable
In fact the success of Steam is holding back the complete bastardization of PC gaming, if there was no Steam we would by now probably be screwed renting always online games as a service on EA's and Ubisoft's servers

>>8494579
>assembler
Is this b8 from the angry little man?

>>8494579
>my dad
>teen in the 80's
God I feel so fucking old.

>>8490521
PS2

Man, I was like 15. Was probably playing Tony hawk or "speed running" a resident evil game. I only use the quotation marks because I didn't even know speed running was a thing, I just liked seeing how fast I could beat them, esp re3

>>8490521
must've taken forever to install that shit

>>8494395
To pirate, install and play a game take literally three clicks if you have your browser already opened. You just find the game you want, you click link, it downloads, you install it and play.
Any other form of getting games will take more time, clicks and of course - money.

Meanwile you'd have to go to a Steam site, download their client, then find the right game, sure, you will later have the Steam cliean installed, but it will require regular updates, preferably you also want to have your CC or PayPal data memorised, since having it saved on your PC with net connection is one of the dumbest things possible, after it's downloaded, you can't play it, because you also need a third-party client, for extra safety of the corporate profit. Oh, and hope you calibrated everything with both clients just right, or else your main drive is going to clog up in no time

I do care how retarded you are, for you have no fucking clue what the fuck you are even talking about and try to act smug about being tech-illiterate, wearing it like some sort of badge of honor.

Just so you know how fucking retarded you come off as

>>8494428
He didn't have to proof anything, for it's a well-known facts that zoomers not only are tech-illiterate, but also proud of it.

>>8496032
>The only releases in existence are the online ones, no physical copies
WHY do you think it's like that? Do you think all the publisher companies would EVER spend a single dime on creating online stores if they didn't saw how much money Steam is making for a 4th-rate micro-company that Valve was back in the day?

>>8497416
Normies being the target market now, not neckbeards or geeks with glasses, that made up the 0.01% of population previously and you had to bend a knee to them for them to buy shit from you

Why did this thread get a bump lock?

>>8497430
>Muh normies
They were always the target, but nice cope projection. Let me guess - you self-identify as "ebic tró gaymer grog" (age 22) and actually feel smug about having most basic competence about using a PC.

>>8497438
>Shit thread full of off-topic shitposting
>Surprised it's bump-locked
Also, nice knowing you are a filthy bumpfag, trying to bring it up from page 11, where it rightfully belongs

>>8497439
Definitely not, computer games, which we are talking about, were made for tech savvy people, not office drones or scientists, the only groups of people who owned or used computers at those times.

>>8497439
>>8497443
>complains thread is shitposting
>shitposts in thread
Lmao

>>8497461
>Definitely not, computer games, which we are talking about, were made for tech savvy people
>t. Yank born after 2000
Thanks for proving my point. Now fuck off back to /v/

>>8497469
What's your argument?

>>8497461
>computer games, which we are talking about, were made for tech savvy people
>the only groups of people who owned or used computers at those times.
Let me guess - Nintendo saved video games, right?

>>8497473
ignore them
pretty sure it's the same retard who thinks concumer TVs do 400 nits

>>8497473
Nta, but you're a pretentious retard that's too young to know what the fuck you are even talking about.