Name a worse physical media format for games

i knew like 5 kids who thought they had to take the disc out of the plastic casing when they got their PSP back in the day

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>t. 2000+ kid

They look cool as fuck though
You can't deny that

>he never played vidya on a cassette player
lol

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can confirm true.

I did this when opening my birth by sleep copy and my parents wouldn’t buy me another lol

they were great what are you talkin aboot?

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Carving the code into stone tablets would be pretty awful user

vouchers with download codes on them

You must be incredibly young.

I never had the patience

those literally were HDD-tier of their time (and actual HDD were SSD)

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>buy blu ray
>get digital code too
this should be an industry standard for games and movied

Files were smaller, and still loaded as fast as the system could handle.

this kills the /thread

They never put enough adhesive on the clear plastic to connect to to the white plastic, I had so many games where the plastic fell apart just from regular use, making them unplayable

I was going to say vinyl, but this.

>Buy download card for game from GameStop.
>Find out the company went away several years ago so it can't be downloaded.
>No refunds.

I think everyone did that.

I don't understand why anyone buys those cards, why do you need a middle man for digital games

>$19 nintendo tax on each cartridge for the publisher, which got passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices
>had jack shit in terms of storage space, forced you to buy a $50 expansion pak to play any remotely ambitious game
>single-handedly took nintendo from industry leader to also-ran

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don't talk shit about other peoples dads you fucking gay bitch

Someone's else computer

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>UMD
>UNIVERSAL media disk

>is the furthest thing from universal

Kek.

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I bet you weren't even alive then. The expansion pak was 30 dollars, and it was included with most games that required it.

>no locoroco
>no patapon
obvious b8

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Only if you were like 5 or something when you got your psp.

>Locoroco
God damn that takes me back to the past

paranoia about giving the internet your credit card details?
heck
I know someone who doesnt use internet to pay bills and uses cash only for purchases.
He probably has his own safe filled with money.

i have them digitally for it since they were free

checkmate

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It's usually as an alternative to providing payment details to the company, remember that fuckup Sony did with customer's details a few years ago?

All things considered, UMDs really weren't even close to being the worse.

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zoom zoom

I remember when they packaged autorun-install software on their movie DVDs that would wreck DVD burners in any PC the disk was inserted into.

only Americans

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I loved using these.
>press open *Clack!*
>slide in a different game
>close *ka-pop*
>console starts vibrating a little
>*crunch* *crunch* *wiz* *wiz*
>gets hotter the longer you play

It was just so fucking tactile.

youtu.be/cZmD_KKnVv8

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