/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6085703]

Let's be honest /vr/, most of us just play retro games because we grew up in the suburbs during the 80s and 90s, basically the pinnacle of human existence.

Living in a sweet cul de sac, playing with all the neighborhood kids, riding bikes, building dirt ramps in the woods, hide and seek tag (at night!), playing on jungle gyms or whatever, and of course getting home and playing SNES/Genesis/etc, playing arcade games at Pizza Hut...

Thinking about it, I can't believe it was actually that utopic. Literally can't imagine this situation happening now in any neighborhood. This is why so many millenials are remaining in a perpetual state of adolescence: because their childhood/adolescence was fucking awesome, and the present-day world of their adult life really, really sucks.

[Anonymous No.6085704]

>>6085703
Pretty fucking much dude. I wish I could go back every waking second.

[Anonymous No.6085707]

>>6085703
Honesty

[Anonymous No.6085710]

>>6085703
I wasn't born until '96 and did all of that stuff up through the late 2000's. Except our pizza hut didn't have arcades. Laser tag places did though.

[Anonymous No.6085713]

>>6085710
It did however still have the buffet.

[Anonymous No.6085720]

>>6085703
people don't live in suburbs anymore?

[Anonymous No.6085726]

>>6085710
fuck off zoomer, this is real talk

[Anonymous No.6085728]

>>6085703
I wanna go back, I miss being a 90’s middle class suburb kid. It truly was the pinnacle of existence. Everything you described I remember doing with my childhood buds too. Funny how we are separate people but did all the same fun stuff.
>movies were awesome
>games were awesome
>cartoons were awesome
>going outside and playing with friends
>Blockbuster & Pizza Hut
>Funcoland
we will never experience a decade like this again as globalization makes wages lower because now you are competing with 3rd worlders who will work for $3.25 an hour with no benefits and automation, and recreational perpetual outrage culture has murdered creativity and aesthetic.

feelsbadman, it hurts too much

[Anonymous No.6085743]

>>6085728
And the zoomers of today will NEVER EVER EVER be able to experience that time. Not with all the crt's in the world, ahahahahahaha, fuck you zoomers.

[Anonymous No.6085761]

>>6085728
All of it is still awesome. To 8 year olds. You grew up and now you see the cracks. Go ask your parents what they remember. It'll be impeachment, recessions, war. Same shit different decade. Kids are easy to please and don't see the shit part of the world because parents stop it. But my daughter loves Paw Patrol and Daniel Tiger as much as I loved TMNT and Talespin. She gets as much joy playing with her tablet as I did my Gameboy.

Being a kid today isn't supposed to appeal to you because you aren't a fucking kid. This is why men are losing control of the world. Because they aren't becoming men. They just fantasize about their youth forever.

[Anonymous No.6085780]

I miss only having a few games to play, today I feel spoiled by choice

[Anonymous No.6085803]

>>6085726
ok boomer

[Anonymous No.6085831]

>>6085761

[Anonymous No.6085836]

>>6085761
Literally this. All of you retards are just fantasizing about your youth because you dumbass spoiled kids with no responsibilities to shoulder. If you were an adult back in the 90s you'd bitch how awful it was just like you're doing now.

[Anonymous No.6085837]

>>6085743
blessed post

[Anonymous No.6085841]

>>6085831
>dumbshit boomer can't understand when the stark differences between childhood and adulthood are presented
Yikes

[Anonymous No.6085846]

>>6085761
things are objectively worse for "middle class" suburban kids than they were in the 80s and 90s though. No amount of tablets and internet will fix that. Especially in north america. It's not just nostalgia, the US has slipped on every metric of quality of life and cost of living for the last two decades.

[Anonymous No.6085848]

>>6085761
>Go ask your parents what they remember. It'll be impeachment, recessions, war. Same shit different decade.

Yeah. actually no. Most all of the people over 60 that I talk to say how the 80's and 90's were so good to them and how shit has been going down the drain since the turn of the century.

[Anonymous No.6085849]

deez zoomers mad as fuck. lolzzzzz boomers win again

[Anonymous No.6085853]

>>6085846
It was already slipping when you were a retarded child whose negligent parents let an NES raise you instead of themselves. Saying muh suburban 90s muh childhood was better is like saying getting punched in the face is better than getting kicked in the balls.

[Anonymous No.6085858]

>>6085703
Yep *sips*

[Anonymous No.6085859]

>>6085848
>how shit has been going down the drain since the 1960s
Ftfy

[Anonymous No.6085870]

>>6085761
You underestimate how much higher purchasing power was before, especially due to housing costs. This made life much more relaxed (life also was more anonymous and there was not much fear of missing out).
Also LOL at comparing the soulless experience of playing some chink game on a table vs the SOUL of getting a game boy game once a year, patiently going to the store to get it, and inserting the cartridge in your console (which was yours and not your dad lending it and telling you 'dont break pls') to finally play it

[Anonymous No.6085880]

>>6085703
>be a kid in the 90s
>parents having dinner with friends
>me and my brother play with their kids who are the same age
>we all play 4-player games mario party, mario kart and goldeneye 007 together
Quality childhood

[Anonymous No.6085881]

It's interesting that you choose to talk about things that for the most part people still do today. Cul de sacs, neighborhood friends, biking, hide and seek... People still do all those things, but it's the games they come home to at the end of the day and the technologies they use that are so different.

The biggest difference growing up in the 90s was that entertainment and communications technology was entering a new era. It really did seem like all of a sudden everyone had a computer with internet in the late 90s, and with video games, we we seeing the beginning of 3D and photo realism, shifting away from 2D planes.

Today when a new console comes out you can barely notice the graphics being better, it's just little things like better resolution shadows, more realistic lighting, etc. Compare that to the difference between SNES and N64 and you'll understand why it was such a magical time.

[Anonymous No.6085884]

>>6085881
>Cul de sacs, neighborhood friends, biking, hide and seek... People still do all those things
Are you serious? I don’t know where you live but in my country kids today aren’t really playing outside anymore. Especially not without parental supervision. Kids today sit inside playing with their Ipads.

[Anonymous No.6085894]

>>6085884
People have been saying the same thing forever, just replace Ipads with watching TV. You may live in some shitty post-modern nu chic area where parents shelter their kids, doesn't mean everywhere is like that.

[Anonymous No.6085896]

>>6085846

[Anonymous No.6085898]

>>6085703
I didn't grow up like that, and from what I've seen, those of you who did end up like in the Offspring song "The Kids Aren't Alright".
Being a spoiled brat has long-term devastating life consequences.

[Anonymous No.6085918]

>>6085894
Everywhere in my country is like that. You’re just spouting clichés.

[Anonymous No.6085945]

>>6085703
REMEMBER BOBBY'S WORLD?
IT WAS A GOOD SHOW

[Anonymous No.6085954]

>>6085761
this
delusional proto-zoomies really believe that their childhood just happened to be the best time to grow up
every generation thinks that

[Anonymous No.6085968]

>>6085870
>vs the SOUL of getting a game boy game once a year, patiently going to the store to get it, and inserting the cartridge in your console (which was yours and not your dad lending it and telling you 'dont break pls') to finally play it
I've gotten enough turds of GB games to know that they're not all that great.

[Anonymous No.6085971]

>>6085954
Except as far as videogames go (which is the entire point of this) our boomer generation, growing up in the 80s and 90s, WAS infact the best time to grow up. I played all these games as they were new and coming out. There will never be another NES. None of these zoomers will ever get to play mario3 the day it came out or go to a packed 80s arcade. Sorry zoomers, you lose.

[Anonymous No.6085983]

>>6085918
You're the one generalizing. I'm also not sure if you've actually been "everywhere in your country" to know what you are talking about for sure. From my experience some neighborhoods have kids playing in them, some don't. For some neighborhoods it depends on the time too, a place could be super active with kids playing outside for a few generations, but then kids will move out, or grow up and it will die down, only to start again a few generations later.

Hey, maybe you're right and on average kids don't really get out of the house much anymore without their parents. That's 100% the parents fault though.

[Anonymous No.6085985]

>>6085971
Do you have anything besides mass produced video games to live for?

[Anonymous No.6085990]

>>6085803
You think boomers play vidya?

[Anonymous No.6085991]

>>6085985
Sorry zoomers, you lose.

[Anonymous No.6085993]

>>6085991
I'm 30 years old, set to be 31 in March.

[Anonymous No.6086004]

>>6085918
>My country

Strong claim. I could easily counter this with my own observations by simply looking outside the window and stating I see kids playing as we speak, as creepy as that may sound.

[Anonymous No.6086091]

>>6085918
>Everywhere in my country is like that. You’re just spouting clichés.
Where I live the main obstacle to kids playing outside, at least in our neighborhood, is that kids' afternoons are crammed full of "extra-curriculars" starting literally in pre-k.

The second obstacle is that none of the parents in our neighborhood would just let their kids go to that park by themselves until they are middle school aged, so the younger kids aren't included and all the relationships get segmented much more by grade level +/- one grade. Giving a bit more freedom to the kids would make all the kids and all the parents so much happier really...

[Anonymous No.6086096]

>>6085831
This

>>6085841
>sòywords faggot
Stay mad.

[Anonymous No.6086104]

>>6086091
I agree with you, I was one of those kids. My parents didn't let me go further than literally one block away from my house until I was 10-11 years old, and we lived in a ridiculously safe area. They seemed to be mostly afraid that we would be hit by cars. i don't think many 6 year olds are jumping in front of cars or playing on busy streets.

[Anonymous No.6086105]

>>6085985
based goalpost-move

[Anonymous No.6086116]

>>6086105
That's not an example of a moving goal post.

[Anonymous No.6086123]

>>6086116
You deflected from the subject after your previous bullshit was called out. Seethe.

[Anonymous No.6086128]

>>6086123
That was my first post in the thread, so lmao

[Anonymous No.6086238]

>>6086128
Ignore his zoomer ass. If he thinks someone on here saying another person loves videogames is an insult, he must have braindamage from all the duster he huffs. That or whatever the zoomer drug of choice is these days.

[Anonymous No.6086260]

>>6086105
based basedposter

[Anonymous No.6086269]

I go back and forth on this. I think one thing that really gives the like.. 87-92 baby generation an objective win is getting to grow up with the internet as it did.

I honestly can't imagine if my first forays into the internet were after it had already gotten super lame and homogenized, clustered into less and less sites like if I were born in 2001 or something.

But idk, lots of boomers insist they had it the best being kids too because there was zero internet or digital technology in day to day life and all they did for fun was drive around in 3 ton chevys with no seatbelts and listen to shitty classic rock, so, to each their own

[Anonymous No.6086275]

>>6085898
Yeah I don't remember it that good and I was born in 87

[Anonymous No.6086279]

>>6086269
This.
I really miss the Old Wild West days of 1998 - 2000s internet where everything was simple and politics/drama free.
Nowadays these wusses go as far as calling you an ableist for simply saying "retard" (that's how sensitive people have become these days), or how there's barely any options for websites and chat alternatives, all mainstream garbage.

[Anonymous No.6086375]

>>6085743
i grew up in the 2000s and this is exactly what my childhood was like, plus i got to see the golden age of the internet. keep trying boomer

[Anonymous No.6086387]

>be a 2000 born zoomie
>no point playing in the garden 90% of the insects and creatures have died off
>start watching hardcore hd porn at 11
>mind overloaded always on torrent of media and crap so you've never even once experienced the present moment. you literally have no memories because nothing was experienced directly
>find chatrooms and shit where people tell you it's better being the girl
>order pills and shit online that change your body into an abomination
kids in the 90's could only fantasise about cyberpunk, haha owned

[Anonymous No.6086390]

>>6085703
We'll be going home soon...

[Anonymous No.6086391]

>>6086375
ive been using the internet since the late 80s. you did not see the goldenage of the internet you stupid fucking zoomer. eat shit

[Anonymous No.6086393]

>>6085728
I miss going to garage sales and flea markets and being able to find all of the 8 bit games I wanted for less than a dollar each.

I miss being able to go outside to the local bodegas and pizza parlor during lunch.

I miss being able to go on Compuserve and Prodigy.

I miss AOL chat rooms.

I miss all of the cartoons that I grew up with in the 80's.

[Anonymous No.6086402]

I watched these and the feeling was back

You know the feeling. This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnqCnWPg4-0

[Anonymous No.6086406]

>>6086391
early 2000s internet:
>finally starting to speed up
>any information you could possibly ask for at your fingertips
>pre social media, could browse safely without cuckerberg selling your data
>early newgrounds

80s internet
>probably powered by levers and pullies
>newton just discovered gravity a couple days ago shit rocks
>i wonder when electricity will be invented

[Anonymous No.6086409]

>>6086406
>>6086391
It's common knowledge that the Internet filled with retards in 1993

Somehow those retards still look like philosopher-kings compared to the people who entered it via smartphone after 2007

[Anonymous No.6086438]

>>6085703
>Let's be honest /vr/, most of us just play retro games because it's trendy to play with dads toys now
Cool blog faggot

[Anonymous No.6086443]

>>6086279
It's always been like it is now

[Anonymous No.6086450]

>>6086443
No, because you needed an IQ of at least 100 to navigate dial-up in the first place

[Anonymous No.6086456]

>>6085703
I honestly didn't think there was any misunderstanding about this.

[Anonymous No.6086457]

>>6086443
confirmed zoomer

[Anonymous No.6086471]

>>6086450
Haha no you didn't, it wasn't some form of witchcraft kiddo

[Anonymous No.6086473]

>>6086471
I gotta answer this with "no u"

You're really underestimating how fucking stupid someone whose first exposure through a 4G iPhone is, even compared to someone whose first exposure was through 28.8k AOL

[Anonymous No.6086475]

>>6086473
Ok you're right...and there is hooking it up too and typing in stuff and clicking connect

[Anonymous No.6086486]

>>6085703
I grew up in five different trailer parks and numerous apartments in various towns. Youre a moron, op

[Anonymous No.6086490]

>>6086486
I gotta answer this with "no u"

[Anonymous No.6086492]

>>6086490
Cmon man don't steal my post

[Anonymous No.6086518]

Thread makes me feel bad.

I cant help but reflect on my childhood when my children sit down and watch Netflix on demand or download free games of the internet that they have been watching others play on tv. Its crazy how much has changed.

They will never know going to a rental store and browsing for a cool game to rent. Having to get up at 7:00 on Saturday morning to watch your favorite show.

The new tech is nice but there is a small piece of the soul missing.

[Anonymous No.6086537]

>>6085720
Certain suburbs are full of minorities now.
Only explicitly expensive suburbs are white.

[Anonymous No.6086541]

>>6085761
>>6085836
Complete retards.

[Anonymous No.6086543]

>>6085846
this

[Anonymous No.6086547]

>>6085881
>>6085894
Source: your reeking asshole on your head.

[Anonymous No.6086549]

>>6086547
My junior football coach in 98 said all we liked to do was play Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.6086550]

>>6085990
you gotta go back to where you came from

[Anonymous No.6086551]

>>6085761
>All of it is still awesome. To 8 year olds
Have you seen how fucking miserable 8 year olds are these days

[Anonymous No.6086558]

>>6085703
It was utopic because you didn't have the internet exposing you at any age you got ahold of it to the true nature of things, which is that uncomfortable ennui you know now

[Anonymous No.6086559]

>>6086390
that's wild

[Anonymous No.6086561]

>>6086390
>PSX discs just sitting outside of the cases

Into the trash it goes.

[Anonymous No.6086563]

>>6086558
Are you implying the Clinton administration was as tumultuous as second term Obama's and first term Trump's? Seriously?

On the other hand, you may just be a third worlder.

[Anonymous No.6086567]

>>6086561
Not everyone was as careful and meticulous as you were.

[Anonymous No.6086572]

>>6086567
I only got games twice a year, on Christmas and birthdays. You best believe I took care of them shits.

[Anonymous No.6086617]

>>6086409
>Somehow those retards still look like philosopher-kings compared to the people who entered it via smartphone after 2007
think about it: 10 years ago, the posters here were smarter on average---the same guys typing "lulz" and inserting demotivationals

[Anonymous No.6086652]

>>6085703
>suburbs
kids in the hood played games

the same games as everyone else generally, usually just a bit older or stolen

[Anonymous No.6086664]

>>6085703
HEY! Don't we are Gen-Xer's! Don't lump up with the Millennialcuck cancer!

[Anonymous No.6086667]

>>6086664
people born 77.78,79 and people born 81,82,83 are all the same

the "millenial" divide isn't 1980 but sometime in the 90s as those kids would have been raised in an entirely internet world with social media to shape their social behavior

[Anonymous No.6086690]

pathetic nostalgianigger thread

[Anonymous No.6086693]

>>6086667
>people born 77.78,79 and people born 81,82,83 are all the same
That's because Gen X doesn't end until '83 or '84, so no duh, chief.
I have an uncle at the tail end who hung with older kids, had Master System and Genesis growing up, and spent a ton of time in the arcades playing fighters.

[Anonymous No.6086694]

>>6086652
but do kids from the hood come on /vr/? i certainly hope not

[Anonymous No.6086698]

>>6086518
writing cliched pabulum like this shit should bring a ban. it doesn't matter that the way you really feel lines up with what people predicted and made a cliche of before you got the chance to actually whimper out your drivel

[Anonymous No.6086704]

>>6086694
They do especially if they grew up the last white kid in their city

imagine crumbling abandoned buildings everywhere and constant unprovoked fights

[Anonymous No.6086724]

I'm hurting no one. I'm hurting no one.

[Anonymous No.6086745]

>>6085990
Who do you think is hoarding all the arcade machines?

[Anonymous No.6086746]

>>6086471
Eternal September is a thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[Anonymous No.6086884]

you lose zoomers. you lose.

[Anonymous No.6086923]

>>6086279
>1998 - 2000s internet where everything was simple and politics/drama free.
Please tell me you're joking right? That or you're just too young to remember the amount of shit talk there was in regards to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, Columbine, 9/11, War in Iraq ect. I still remember to this day the amount of anger that came out of people when Dubya won the 2004 election while chatting in battlefield 1942 server. You must have been too young to remember.

[Anonymous No.6086924]

>>6086450
Except you didn't. Every single 13 year old girl was using AOL to chat. I was 6 years old in mid 1995 when I first heard of Donkey Kong Country 2...via the internet. I assume you lived in some remote backwoods place thus very few people actually had internet access.

[Anonymous No.6086929]

>>6086450
I assume you're not that intelligent to even think that dial-up was somehow really hard to get into. My mom was and still is fucking awful with computers, yet she was able to connect onto dial-up in 1997 with ease.

[Anonymous No.6086983]

>>6086923
honestly, even the bullshit and hubbub surrounding 9/11 and columbine is basically just a regular day on my parents boomer facebook app at this point. things have changed, you may not want to admit it, but things have really changed for the worse. people talk about politics 24/7, everything is political now. it's not good.

[Anonymous No.6086985]

It was more soulful, yes.

Every console looked different, and the technological leaps were huge.

Our lives were less dominated by tech and local multiplayer was still around.

[Anonymous No.6087020]

>>6086983
Are you kidding? How do you not remember the 80's/90's like the rest of us? You must be young or lived in a gold mansion or a bubble

[Anonymous No.6087357]

>>6086924
>>6086929
What part of "IQ of 100" are you guys struggling with

[Anonymous No.6087382]

>>6085761
Get the fuck out, we don't appreciate facts and logic around here, muh childhood > everyone other generation's

>>6085703
Not really, I grew up in the countryside of a technically third world country, in fact, that's most of the reason I played retro games while they were current, it was not unusual for people to be a console generation behind...