Can any oldfags here tell me what gaming was like in the 1980s?
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It was really terrible. All the games sucked and there was no internet. Also the graphics were bad.
It was mostly arcades, all games were insanely hard to scam you out of chips
Sorry, didn't get my NES until Christmas 1990, or maybe 91.
Enjoyable, you didn't play them alone, it was always social and fun.
Our family got a Tandy trs-80 in about 1983. It had a Pacman clone and a defender clone called penetrator. 3 of us would sit at the keyboard, one doing the movement, one shooting and one bombing. It was the OG multiplayer game.
It wasn't really a thing for most. Kids usually went ouside in the streets and played with their friends.
Honestly you played for maybe an hour or two because it was so fucking expensive and mom only gave you a little bit of money. Wasn’t a social experience at all. You go with your friends and play games but you never talk to anyone else there. Sometimes there’d be that one kid that you know was there just cause his parents needed a babysitter while they worked so he was always getting the high scores but never looked happy about it. All in all it was fun but you’d never spend a whole day there
That's fucking terrifying
Expensive and rare. Back in those days we had no console wars and you were happy that the kid next door had another system because that meant you could trade games.
I'm really glad that we have so many games now, and for free if you know what you're doing.
sup fellow zoomer
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I'm not from the 80s, but here's an assumption based on how modern games play compared to the old days. Gaming in 80s was an affair that inspired socializing. Gaming today inspires complete escapism from ones life. I guess the main difference would be, gaming in the early days was similar to chess and the like, whereas today it is more similar to movies with its intricate storylines and immersions.
I mostly played outside as a kid. Games weren't a second life back then. They were something you did like playing a board game.
graphics were terrible and sounds were like bleep bloop blang controls everything was practically unplayable but you played anyway because there was nothing else
it's really incredible how far we've come in such a short time
>Gaming in 80s was an affair that inspired socializing
God no.
Dude, the graphics were amazing. Seeing anything move at 60fps was mindblowing.
i played some commodore or ms-dos games in like 1992-1993ish? I was a baby tho
they were pretty much just slow pc games with pixel graphics.
you probably replicate this feel if you get a CRT monitor and played some boomer games.
also i think i played punch out in the arcade
Alright. I had a fake atari with over 300 copy pasted games and where half of them didnt worked. The spiderman, the koala game, the hockey, the labyrinth, jungle hunt and hide'n'seek(with friends) were fun though
You posted it.
Playing mario 1 with your idiot brother, who kept trying to shoot the bad men with the fucking zapper going PATANG PATANG PATANG, which pissed grampa off until he told us to go outside or we get the belt.
And then mom brought us like a monster plate of brownies that we should have shared with neighborhood kids but never did.
Everyone played them at some point even ultra boomers who thought games were toys for children have at least played and enjoyed one game. Why do you think they threw the hardcore audience under the bus to cater to the casual audience?
arcades were where it was at.
home systems were a shit.
anyone tells you any different, they weren't there for it.
oh. Well, as I said I just assumed, considering most gaming was done at an arcade spot. And since other people were around, maybe guys competed with each other for the high scores and the like. Anyway, that was my main point, I thought games in the 80s were considered through a competitive spirit first and foremost, whereas now it's more about immersing yourself in the world of the game.
>tfw brother trashed my trash 80
if you had a bike, you were a king. you could.
>ride to your friends house
>learn tricks
>ride fast
>escape from psychopathic neggars that wanted to kill you and steal your bike
If you like your game, you can keep your game.
Meh. Arcades were scary. I got mugged like twice. Home consoles were a suitable alternative until the NES arrived and fucking shat all over the arcades for anything except light guns and styling over strangers in street fighter.
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Gaming was nothing like it is now. Back then, it was about fun and seeing what cool new ideas/mechanics would be used in games. Creating games seemed like the coolest job in the world.
The crash didn't mean squat for most Americans because Big Lots and Kmart sold a ton of games for cheaper prices.
When Nintendo came out, it had a huge amount of press and hype. That's the real reason why the NES was so popular in America, because Nintendo heavily invested in modern day tier marketing to push the system.
You had to get gud.
>Arcades were scary
exactly. do you know that this very place you're posting was very scary too? was being the key word.
At least Tetris, even by older people. The brick game was pretty cheap and everyone had one
I couldnt play arcade because laws made them illegal to kids, it was only alright from teenage point.
But you would be cooler with a skate or rollerskate
it was actually shit , except for a few games.
now that i think about it in the page of game2gether(page of endless space) you can get 2 free sega games for steam but i got 4 instead trying it 2 times straight , also riftar is used to get other roms in the workshop most are platformers like tiny toons buster hidden treasure , earthworm jim 1 & 2.
saddly you have to log in and link you account with you steam account
>skate
yeah
>rollerskate
nope
the thing with the bike is you could go up and down hills with ease, unless you were the fatkid. I give props for skateboarding kids since the board was more portable. roller skates were straight up faggy.
Sure, but you're not going to get raped and murdered by the cockmongler by going here. Spending time in seedy places posed a pretty tangible danger that just didn't exist if you sat at home.
It was pretty good. I was born in the mid 80s but grew up in a country where kids were still getting Commodores for Christmas in the 90s. We didn't catch up until the PS1 era. Almost every game was bad but almost every game was trying something new. Gaming was super expensive back then, especially compared to average earnings so you swapped games with friends and appreciated every new game you got your hands on to the utmost. Also as a result of that there were way less idorts and coupled with the internet not being a factor in gaming at the time, social gaming and going over to a friend's house to play co-op or try out some game on his system was the daily routine.
I couldn't really say if it was the best but it was definitely fun. The GameCube, PS2, HugeBox era was my favorite as it combined all the best elements of that earlier era which was where my gaming began, with the infancy of the internet gaming age, back when games had 0 moderation and you could do or say whatever you liked, before politics, games as a service microtransactions etc ruined it all. You were as likely to spend a day playing Diablo2, calling people niggers on Halo, or doing 8 player couch co-op on Timesplitters or winner stays on with Smash Melee, or just spending a day playing something from the Golden Age of PC gaming.
Really 97-07 was the peak of gaming kino.
>Was
>Board used by "far" right-wing racists is literally ruining race relations for an entire generation
The site is far scarier now than when we were debating which Evangelion female was the best.
Funnily the answer was always teh Rei who looked a lot like a circumcised cock
arcades were dingy, cigarette smoke-filled affairs, and the games weren't that great all told. quite different from their portrayal in today's media. late 80s/early 90s was when all the good arcade games started cropping up too like truxton, strider, final fight, contra, sf2, etc., just in time for the industry to begin its gradual decline in the west.
Rollerskates were for girls, until you made tricks and when others realized how hard that shit was to keep balance when they tried
the game library for the nes is incredible, lots of actual good games
so you were a little faggot then, now you're a huge faggot. got it.
those fags are nothing but fuck ups. it's the quiet ones, the lurkers. now those? yeah be afraid.
That was always a problem during that generation. It seemed like no matter where you went in America, there was a million copies of Mario and Sonic games, but practically nothing else.
fun.
pre-internet there was a sense of mystery about everything. Part of this is due to getting older, but I could go over to another kids house and he would have games I had never even heard of before, sometimes even entire consoles.
Because there was no internet, things like game endings, hidden stuff and cheat codes were sort-of myths that could only spread by word-of-mouth. If you had money you could buy a gaming magazine.
Other than that it was less social, in that you had to physically get together to play something. In those instances it was great! But 80% of the time people played alone and isolated
Sometimes a new game would look so amazing and UNLIKE ANYTHING before that you would invite people over just to see it, even if it was single-player.
That was the main appeal of arcades, which were always graphically beyond whatever what was on console until the 2000s.
I went back, didn't I? Fuckface.
And a lot more garbage in-between. Buying games blind was pretty dumb. I did it once with Tennis felt pretty empty shortly after. Least played NES game I have probably.
Not being able to save means your bash your skull at a game until you know it inside-out. But because you don't have many alternatives and the others are just as hard, you keep bashing.
Early 80s Nintendo wasn't a lifestyle, it was like a novelty card game that you could play with friends to wind down after goofing off outside all day. Graphics were bad but your imagination filled in the gaps so it didn't matter. It wasn't until like 91 with the SNES that it developed into a cultural thing, but even then it wasn't celebrated so you didn't mention it except to nerd buddies.
>If you had money you could buy a gaming magazine.
I still have memories of the trashy kids that would tear code sections out of magazines.
>Didn't have a subscription
Casual.
This. I've had friends invite me to their house just so they could show off their Sega Saturn, Mortal Kombat, or anything 3D.
Also look up the original version of MYST for the PC. Not the remake. In the mid-90s my parents were fascinated by it and no other video game. And they were right, the music wasn't generated by a sound processor and was actually prerecorded and stored on a CD.
it truly is the GOAT gaming mag
>penetrator
heh
But you could rent games back then, so if you got a bad one it wasn't a huge loss. Ideally they bring back that concept with subscription games in the future so I don't have to spend full price for a Kirby that lasts me half an afternoon.
>all games were insanely hard to scam you out of chips
Now they’re just insanely tedious
My dad used to play a lot of PC first person shooters like Duke Nukem, Quake, Malice, Blood just to name a few. A couple of months ago I caught him playing Quake Champions and holy shit he was good. The man is almost 50 years old and here he is fucking people up with the railgun. Truly a Quake boomer, love my dad.
Disregarding local variants that nobody else here would recognize, damn straight.
Though my favorite was the SEGA magazine which lasted like 5 issues and did nothing but bitch about how much Nintendo sucked. Reminds me a lot of Yea Forums.
never had a subscription but I read almost every single issue at my local library. Seeing stuff in person that you had only ever seen in egm was cool. The first time I went to "incredible universe" they had atari jaguar's on display and it blew my mind.
OP said the 80s not the 90s you fucking clown
This. After playing on an Atari 2600 for most of my childhood playing on a NES felt like a fucking wonderland. Everything was silky smooth and there were games with actual stories that weren't just short burst scoring games. I know people like to think the PS1/64 era had the biggest leap in technology, and maybe it did, but the switch from Atari to NES for me was a way better jump in actual game quality.
>80's PC gaming
Wh-Who needs Castlevania when you've got Alley Cat, right?
the 90s were better than the 80s for gaming
The two big milestones I remember in the 80's was SMB and SMB 3. Before SMB games could be anything; single screen button mashers.
But after SMB, the screen had to scroll. There had to be several levels, bosses, and powerups that changed the way you played the game. On top of that the graphics had to be colorful, the music had to be original etc. Something like Mega Man could never have come out before SMB.
But then SMB 3 set the new standard right before the Genesis/SNES era. Replaying the same 6 levels wasn't enough anymore; games needed to be stuffed with so much content that you could keep playing them basically forever.
It was cool. We got to see the birth of a new medium.
People with incomes owned a Nintendo. People who didn't had an Atari. Those in between had a c64. Arcades were a thing, as a kid that tended to be the best experience. In retrospect, computer games were a more adult and hobbyist experience than we have now. You played what you could get your hands on and fantasised about the rest.
t. Born in 1984.
Man, that sucks.
I kept mine for years. Finally took it to the dump along with an sgi octane workstation I bought for $2000 and never used. They moved house with me about 3 times but never made it out of the garage.
Arcades and pinball machines
>It was DA OG MULTIPLAYA JOINT
if you had any taste you got centipede, invaders, pong and pong type games, uh packman, some Nintendo games later on. The rest were pretty bad.
I still have a copy of this issue
Born in 89. I got to experience arcades.
My dad was too poor to understand saving so we would go to the mall and walk around. This nigga loved video games so we would play a game literally each and that was it. If a game cost 50c, you were fucked and couldnt play. So, my dad, my sister, my cousin and i would all get 25c and play a game. Well, I loved fighting games. I remember walking up to a UMK3 machine and started pressing buttons and it worked, i was actually playing. then some high school prick comes up and starts mollywhopping my ass and my turn was up 2 minutes later.
At home, I had a NES, SNES, Sega Genesis and Gameboy. My mom and dad both loved video games but it was mainly Mario Bros and Pacman.
I grew up in a golden age of video games and didnt even know it. Mainly because my parents were poor but they always sacrificed to get me the latest consoles and a game atleast.
I'm gonna go call them right now.
>tfw 94 boomer whose earliest gaming memory is playing bubble bobble with mom
>played stuff like super mario bros 3, gradius (discovered worm hole skip myself), and fester's quest as a kid
go fuck urselves zoomies
Heartwarming post user, need more like these on this shithole.
Just another year closer for you fags to die off
care to post pics? no homo
isnt that true for us all
unplug your internet, throw away your cellphone. There, it's the 80s again.
Crts made your eyes burn after long periods
you had to wait until your parents weren't watching anything on TV, and had limited time until the news and evening shows they watched came on to play. Many of your games did not have saves, they had passwords, and you would write them down on paper. Some just had to be beaten in one sitting.
Many games could be beaten start to finish in 2-3 hours, but were difficult enough that you would likely take months of practice to be able to complete them.
Most games did not have stories told through gameplay but the premise was given in the instruction manual instead. Ninja Gaiden was one of the first games on the NES to try and tell a story in the game itself.
it was great. I miss my old NES.
I fucking loved Ninja Gaiden 2, favorite NES game of all time. That feeling when I managed to beat the last boss and watch the final cutscene and conclusion to the story, followed by that amazing ending theme is still one of my favorite gaming moments ever. Funny how people cry about games being movies nowadays but back then in game cinematics like in Ninja Gaiden blew people's minds.
Retarded. Walkthrough Contra for hours and never finished.
My dad bought me the NES back in 1989 when I 5 years old. He took my brother and I to Toys R Us and walking into that store at that age was like walking into heaven. We had a 21 inch CRT tv and I remember playing Mario Bros and using the Zapper to play Duck Hunt was mind boggling. We also had the Power Pad which came with the NES. It was a more innocent time and if you weren't playing video games or watching cartoons inside you went to the park to play and then go to McDonald's as treat afterwords
I feel like I'm going to cry now
It was just a sense of triumph to get past THOSE FUCKING BIRDS
It was awesome. No one gave a shit so every day you'd just make up new games and explore around and stuff like that.
It was great. Games were oppressively difficult and rewarded mastery, none of this pussified dog shit we have these days where they're all fucking walking simulators, and if a no-limbed retard can't get through the game it's considered too hard and able-phobia or some madeup shit word by fucksticks.
Much of the games on the NES at launch were super basic and very unforgiving. We played outside in the streets with the other kids mostly and gaming was something we did inbetween
As years went by gaming became easier and more forgiving while the streets became more dangerous and families everywhere started splitting up
C64 from 1983-89
Best time gaming of my life--Ultima 3, Ultima 4, no hint books at all.
Seven Cities of Gold, Loderunner, Adventure Construction Set, Summer Games, Winter Games, Gauntlet, Bruce Lee, Karateka, Yie Are Kung Fu, Racing Destruction Set, Mail Order Monsters,Lords of Conquest, Early C64 BBS at 300 baud,
I'll never experience this much fun ever again.
You sat in front of your TV
You only had a few games so you'd never give up on them, and you usually had to start from the beginning every time you turned the game on so you got DAMN good at these games.
And you would read gaming magazines a lot.
also I personally didn't have to worry about money and wasn't aware of the world's problems at the time because I was a child and was deliberately shielded from them so therefore that era was objectively better.
>Chrono Trigger
>80's
nigga that shit was mid 90's.
>I’m not qualified to answer the question but let me say some incorrect bullshit anyway
let me give you a quick run-down, though I wasn't born in the 80s. was born 1994 but got around playing really really good shit in various ways. I basically got the same experience like way older people than me.
in any case let me begin with how it progressed in my case.
>arcades full of fightan games
>make friends and play ouside
>visit each other to play on consoles and shit
>sneak out of home to go to the electronics store to play on shit that is for testing
>obtain PC and share a lot of fun with big bro playing AoE, C&C and what-not
>play an increasing amount of flash games and stuff
>discover emulation and get hype for games I never got to own
nowadays it's not a magical feeling. you discovered new shit and got an endorphine rush.
I miss the past kinda.
The other day I was looking into my old games and in some games I had pieces of paper with cheatcodes, hints, passwords.
It was weird as hell, it seemed like another life, something from centuries ago
95% crap, 5% good stuff.
>Your parents help you hook it up!
>channel 2
>channel 3
choose wisely
>I didn't play games in the 80's but I can tell you how it was
fuck off zoomer.
95% good stuff, 5% crap.
3 you fuckwit holy shit what is EVEN channel 2
Yeah I'm glad we grew out of that phase.
>94
fuck off, zoomer
I too hate fun
It was either amazing or great. I onyl expiernced the late 80s since I was born in the early 80's. You judged every game by it's cover and blurb. And it was eiter the sickest shit ever or absolute wank. I remember as a teenager in the 90's how I relied heavily on gaming mags.
I was a poorfag with an NES while my neighbor had a white PSX. I went over to his place to play all the time. So many hours in Tenchu.
I remember asking for the Legend of Zelda pretty much because the cartridge was gold and that meant it had to be good.
.. and it was.
>having to manual search to find the right frequency to play games and for the fucking vcr
>all that nonsense of connecting a couple of cables to get tv signal
It was annoying to change between consoles, like MS and the NES. I think some models of MD had that kind of switch/adapter
wtf is with these zoomers talking about 90's shit when OP clearly asked about the 80s
We were amazed at, like, everything. I began gaming around 1987, really, so, I missed a lot of the atari or other early '80 stuff. But still. I remember playing Double Dragon II on nes and thinking I had never seen such an impressive game.
didn't read lol
fuck, man, i had to use the spare tv for consoles, so had to get an RF adaptor even for the original xbox
As long as you never wore a pink hoodie you were safe from niggas stealing your bike. Well, in NY at least.
We got a nintendo when I was 5. I was born in 82. Duck hunt and Mario.
It was more social then because 1) less people had videogames 2) you were sort of "cut loose" by your parents. So the combination led to a caravan of kids going to whomever's house. 7 kids passing around a controller.
You were totally fucked if you got stuck in a game somehow, whatever puzzle, because no internet. The room of hyperactive 6-10 year olds weren't going to be much help, either.
Now that I think of, I also had one for the Saturn and Dreamcast. Thank god during the Genesis era scarts were a thing
I was born in 1983 and don't really remember gaming until the '90s. Too busy playing with action figures.
You need a Gen Xer to explain his experience.
Ever lose your internet during a thundestorm? That's what the 80s felt like 100% of the time.
Also, I think a lot of people are taking shit, here, confusing the '80 with the '90.
Home videogames weren't social in the '80 apart from very few exceptions, like Double Dragon on nes, which l talked about, for exemple. Only arcades were social.
People who didn't life it can't understand the enormousness of how Street Fighter II changed everything. Before that, arcade adaptations on consoles, like, sorry to repeat myself, double dragon did not "import the arcade in your home", the graphics gap was still too obvious. When SFII was adapted on SNES, it really ushered in the end of arcades and the start of gaming at home being a social event.
Classic Gaming Quarterly has a good series of his experience with gaming in the 80's.
in the 90 internet was to expensive to use during the day for most so you would only use it at night, and even then only a couple of hours at most.
Most time was spent offline, I don't miss that crap
But piracy was legal, now that was nice
Fuck you, I always died on the last boss fuck, now I’m getting flashbacks because if I didn’t get to Ashtar with enough lives I knew I wouldn’t have a chance to beat it aaaaaaaAaAaaah fucker.
He is right, you know
The crash was the best thing to happen to gaming, turned it back into a niche hobby. I really hope another crash comes.
Street Fighter 2 on the SNES wasn't arcade perfect. But I guess it didn't matter since it was close enough.
>I really hope another crash comes
It won't. The crash happened because everything was riding on the success of a single company which imploded. Things are too spread out for a massive company's failing to take the whole industry down with it.
user.. In Ninja Gaiden 2 if you beat any of the boss's forms it remembers it and the next time you get to him you'll start from the second/third phase. It's Ninja Gaiden 1 that reset your progress back to zero. You could have beaten the game back then if you just kept trying.
I never said it was arcade perfect. Exactly like you said, it was close enough so that it was seen as a better investment to just buy a snes and play it at home rather than spending money in an arcade were you got mugged for money once in a while
Games were sold physical only which is based
I don't understand the whole "arcades are dangerous" thing. I was dropped off at arcades when I was like 12-14 for hours at a time and nothing ever happened to me. They were always mall arcades though so maybe that's the reason.
60fps was the norm
>mid 90's
>finally get a SNES
>get secret of mana
Holy fuck it was the first game I ever got everyone to level 99 and every weapon level to 8.99 in
Maybe it depended on where you lived. To be fair, most of the time l went to arcades nothing ever happened to me. But I got mugged several times. Or you put the coin in and a bully shoved you off and played your coin, sometimes. Or fights or heated arguments happened about whose turn it was or you cheated, or l dunno what else... It was mostly safe. But I knew something could happen. Having the option of playing a near-perfect adaptation of the arcade at home was a no-brainer, for me.
it wasn't anywhere near as good as today
you had to rent games and hope they would be good. you rented a lot of games and bought few
big-name stuff would come out with you having no idea it was coming out, like super mario bros 2 was just out one day.
shit
Listen to these roleplaying zoomer.
>graphics were terrible
The fuck you smoking? All the graphics were impressive, because no one had any frame of reference for what better graphics looked like. Not until it came out.
>60fps
Nigga, no one thought about frame rates back then, because EVERYTHING was 60fps. No one was like "ooo, this is so smooth". 60fps was just standard. It was a given.
Wrong. The graphics were SHIT. They didn't even use pixel shaders.
More mainstream. Arcade games were LITERALLY EVERYWHERE. And literally EVERYONE played them.
Rentals were also a massive thing. People rented WAY more than they bought. So you'd own only a handful of games, but you might play 50 or more for the system.
"Multiplayer" meant "multiple people in the room". Even in the 90s "online" was considered a separate thing and not considered "multiplayer" (and yes, online gaming existed in the 90s [just not on consoles]).
Games were actually finished. You literally could not ship a game unfinished. And DLC was nonexistent.
You just suck at video games. You could play through any decent game for 2 bucks if you had even the slightest amount of skill (or less if you actually bothered to git gud). Games were CHEAPER then as a result.
This guy is right. Even "single-player" games were usually played with other people where you'd pass the controller back and forth.
>I think a lot of people are taking shit, here, confusing the '80 with the '90.
Absolutely this. Almost no one on Yea Forums is old enough to remember the 80s, so they're just posting their memories of the 90s and assuming that things were the same in both decades, which isn't true.
>The crash was the best thing to happen to gaming, turned it back into a niche hobby.
This is delusional.
SJWs will cause another crash
>When Nintendo came out, it had a huge amount of press and hype. That's the real reason why the NES was so popular in America, because Nintendo heavily invested in modern day tier marketing to push the system.
Delusional. You're obviously too young to remember that time. NES was literally not marketed when it was first released. As in "no print, TV, or radio ads of any kind". Not a single fucking one. The system initially sold through word of mouth alone. They didn't start advertising it until later.
Super Mario Bros. sold the NES. Not "marketing", you fucking retard.
i really don't understand how people could enjoy most atari games. of course there were some classics that were great, but a lot of its library just seems like shovelware garbage.
> 2009 was a decade ago
Because like people said before original games weren't "experiences" you sat down and played for 40 hours straight. They were like board games. Diversions you set up to play with your siblings for a bit in between playing outside and watching TV. It's like expecting Snakes and Ladders to be as good as a modern video game.
You are thinking with todays mentality. Back then nobody thought of shovelware, they were just games, or "toys" to most.
>tfw got a NES 30 years ago
no but it's nearly 30 years ago
First game was some bootleg pong on some small home system. Got an NES when I was 6 years old and it was a total blast. Excitebike, RC Pro AM, Mega Man. So many games that while so simple seemed so different. It was a very magical time. No cell phones, going to a friends house meant riding a bike or walking. Going to blockbuster was like going to the candy store and I made it my goal to beat every single NES game they rented in 3 days or less. People were generally much more well adjusted and friendly. The best part was barely anyone cared about games and the people that did were very passionate. I feel bad for kids today. They might seem like they have an advantage with technology but they seem empty and bored and are assholes about it.
Full of actually fucking fun GAMES instead of storyshit with shit controls and horrible gameplay like 99.99999% of "games" now.
Games back then had shit controls too, sometimes on purpose
>comparing awkward controls back then to utter fucking garbage "controls" today
I'll take any fucking "bad control" game back then to any of the shitty modern games you fucking kids praise to the fucking heavens today.
bad is bad, no matter how nostalgic you are about it
But when even the "worst" old game is many times better than the "best" modern game, you have a fucking problem.
Get over it. Your generation plays shit games, and you should never be playing any game released after around 1995 or so.
1972 born here. The games were neither better nor worse. I've been playing games since the 80s and still playing to this day, hence my presence here.
I can't really judge because of nostalgia.
Early computer games (ZX-81 gen) were pretty shit, only interesting because they were promising we'd soon be living in the future with COMPUTERS and SPACESHIPS.
Got an Atari VCS and it was great, actually the games are still cool to play to this day because they're so limited, every game is like a psychedelic trip.
Next gen (C64, spectrum) games wer more commercial and there was some real creativity at work on the part of developers. The first indie devs. Interesting times. The games were mostly tedious to play but you'd play them for baing part of the computer revolution.
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Ok I'll skip all the other gens, best thing about gaming in the 80s were the kickass japanese arcade games of the late 80s.
You're trying too hard, dial it back next time.
>posts dragons lair
>most games these days are fucking boring "do what's right or die" games just like dragon's lair, just a little more disguised
At least we knew what we were getting back then. You modern gaming idiots are just playing shit made by lazy fucking devs that can't do shit except LOLPRETTYGRAFX bullshit that makes zero difference in anything.
Look a little closer, it's not the game you think it is.
it was like getting your dick sucked
It was like this
I was 1 in the 80s. We used to kick mom in the uterine wall until she quit smoking
I remember playing Dungeon Master on the Atari ST for the first time. Blew my mind. That and Great Giana Sisters. Can't believe they made a better Mario on computer. The recent remake looks abominable though.
Holy fuck op that picture really takes me back. We had the same sony tv and i spent countless hours on the floor in front of it playing zelda...even had the same fucking haircut.
Yeah I loved the Atari ST/Amiga era because the games were stylish and adult in tone. And after living through the 8bit era of games the 16bit graphics looked somptuous
back in the 80s the graphics were actually better because we'd play on TVs with scanlines and phosphor and your brain would actually fill the gaps with a lot of details
Really great.
When there isn't anything available thats better than you don't think any differently.
I played the shit out of my c64 as a kid, I loved Wizard of Wor, international soccer, karate and spyhunter.
how do you take yourself seriously, you faggot
Grew up in Chinatown, NY would go to the arcades in Times Square that were next to video parlors of trannies and old bats lining up while my friends and I played Street Fighter Alpha. Used to play with Justin Wong in Chinatown Fair before it became an imitation Dave & Buster's. When you told anyone who didn't like playing video games that you played video games, you were a social leper, not a cookie cutter primed for a "career" in front of your razor webcam. MMOs were filled with Brazilians, unusually more than they probably are today. Gaming was predominantly white, male, in the U.S., except for NYC which is a free-for-all expressive to get out of whatever shitty environment you were thrown into as a kid — essentially, gaming was cathartic, unsupervised fun that got you out of your comfort zone. Any platformer back then was harder than whatever zoomer iOS game you're playing now.
Also, bawls and club mate were gamer fuel back then. Everyone had a pair of Reebok Pumps. You unironically needed to bring a link cable to trade Pokemon with or play 2 player Tetris on your GB in elementary school.
Life was good. Clinton years were the best, though. heat.net, Dreamcast, consumer DVD players (goodbye laserdisc), SOCOM, best multiplayer ever with games like PSO and Ragnarok Online. Xbox Live ruined multiplayer.
>(and yes, online gaming existed in the 90s [just not on consoles]).
>Playing Lucasarts Indiana Jones on like 15 floppy discs
Gotta say it was pretty tedious, but I guess that made you appreciate it more.
LITERALLY NO ONE had that.
sega genesis had online, you mean online MP
>When you told anyone who didn't like playing video games that you played video games, you were a social leper
This is delusional. If you had no friends it had NOTHING to do with the fact that you played video games.
>says he has a grasp of gaming culture in the 80s
>proceeds to ramble on about 00s gaming culture
I don't care if this was posted 3 hours ago or if it's bait, fuck you.
part of the reason for this was that not every family had consoles, You'd have a NES or you had 1-2 friends with NES, and a lot of friends that didn't, so people would go to the house that had the NES when it was kinda shitty outside and you'd play something multiplayer or pass the controller back and forth each taking turns on some difficult games like mega man games and stuff, or if it was something like Zelda, people would just be trying to figure out dungeons together even if only one person was controlling 2-3 other people would be hanging out and pointing out "hey try the candle on that bush that's sticking out maybe there's a secret"
By the early 90's that expanded, more families had consoles but some kids had sega some had nintendo, and some had PC, and so people would go to different friends house based on what they all wanted to play, and when multiple friends got PC's and learned how to make lans people were playing Doom together in the family room with computers on top of a pool table and shit.
So, I was born in 83 and have been gaming since I was 2 years old on an Atari 800xl. Games back then felt really lonely because I didn't have friends. But I was a lot better at them. Nowadays, with discord being a thing, I'm often too busy hanging out with friends to git gud at games (but they're still an important part of all of our lives.)
As for the games themselves, they still hold up if you're not looking for anything complex. Don't forget that, back in the day, vidya was made to be entertaining, not to drive a narrative or make money for shareholders. It all felt so much more pure back then (especially since my family went from the 800xl to the NES whilst skipping the shit-tier 2600.)
Percentage of houses with consoles did not expand in the 16-bit era. Both SNES and Genesis sold significantly less than NES and combined they sold only slightly more and even that was a result of multiple console ownership more than anything else.
Older brother states it was more about arcades depending on your area. But most of all, actually typing shit into a game.
seemed like locally everyone got a SNES with a handful getting sega, when during NES days.. maybe half of the people I knew had one.
There's some good meat to this, some stuff I agree with, some stuff I disagree with but
>PSO and Ragnarok Online
makes you my nig nog
>1994
Fuck off retard you're literally only two years older than me lmao.
We all played games and there was no stress from journalists and political agendas.
Oldfag here, born in 1975 so I remember the 80s well, and since I've always been a gamer (c64 in 1982) I can comment on what it was like.
In the 80s arcades were King; loud, crowded, and filled with people from every socioeconomic and racial sorts. Race relations in the 80s weren't bad, they were surprisingly good in Milwaukee, even though the niggers still killed one another with wild abandon. You played arcade games for the superior graphics, sounds, and controls; NES was for the evenings and rare rainy summer days.
The 80s were an awesome time to be a kid, really. We were still free back than.
I meant with girls, guys don't care about whether you play video games back in school unless they were posturing to be ultra cool dudes while behind everyone's back they were crying that their parents were divorced and didn't let them go out to play vidya with their friends. Girls were totally conditioned by every form of life to hate video games back then.
gg milwaukeefag here