What was it like being a gamer in 1999?

That's the way with all technology. 90+% of the population does not deserve it nor are they prepared for it.

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>Drakan
I need to replay that

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Better in every way to what it's like today. Gaming really died in 2007.

All that vidya and merch that probably went unsold and got chopped up and thrown in the dumpster out back so no one could have it. All of it lost like tears in rain.

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Idk I was just born.

It was pretty nice. I do like modern conveniences, so I won't pretend that it was all sunshine and rainbows, but the industry practices were less shitty, companies were experimenting/expanding instead of making the same game every year, consoles were cheaper than they are now, and it wasn't nearly as politically charged.
It was easy to just grab a game you never heard of, and still have a good chance to have a great time.

Wholesome and innocent.

>trusting reviews

GOO GOO GA GA

That's why based blockbuster was around for renting instead of buying

Which game did you guys rent in the past that was so shit it ruined your weekend?

Everyone was playing car shit like Gran Turismo and Colin McRae Rally.
As far as my circle was confirmed, i was the only one playing RPGs.

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Magazines were entertaining, there was basically no SJW shit and when someone tried they were laughed off, cheap as you could get used games for next to nothing, it was a niche hobby and treated as such. Pokemon saw an end to that.

>reviews
Just watch 5-10 minutes of a youtube video.

video games seemed to be advancing and hitting new levels of interactivity

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Good times

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I think at that age I would have more likely only cry and not make other sounds.

Magazines were actually pretty tough back then, there didn't seem to be the "in bed" attitude today where a shit AAA game will never get less than 7/10

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Same as it is now, just a different coat of paint.

Can't think of one off the top of my head, but I rented brave fencer musashi so much I should have just bought it.

Except it doesn’t

HOLY SHIT A TALKING BABY.

>muh essjaydubyas

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what happens if I click force things

This is why Nintendo gained such popularity and such intense fanboys. All of their fans were play-it-safers who knew they would be getting a good game but were afraid to take a chance on other companies.

You try and hope for the best and just end up in front of the prompt again. GG

t. 18yo t_d poster

Someone's triggered. I'm simply stating a fact user that no one gave a shit about any of the stuff they push, it was just about entertaining vidya.

Don’t talk shit about Colin McRae bud

Fake false flagger. You can tell by his weight and the color of pepe is wrong.

>Pilotwings 64 - 89%

Yep, tough review there.

>responds immediately
>projects himself being triggered
Like clockwork

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dilate

Oh no we triggered the leftie

Video Game magazines were really cool, plus stuff like EGM2 and Gamefan were awesome because they had anime stuff in the back pages. 15yo me had no idea what all the Dragon Ball Z/GT stuff in those pages were but I thought it was the coolest shit ever.

>seething

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Vor dem Gesetz.

Gee I wonder who could be behind this post

I actually don't get why that sort of subtlety has been lost to devs as of late. There were very clear games that had "political" messages back then. For example FF7 had its whole environmentally friendly message, but the game didn't really have that whole preachy undertone that a lot of shit now has.

please stop shitting up my comfy nostalgia thread with this please

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>implying it wasn't fun as fuck

meanwhile cashgrabs like FIFA and MKTrilogy are sub 40%

>we
You think this is your personal secret group of friends? You have no friends, incel. No one gives a fuck about you.

>responds immediately
>projects himself being triggered
Like clockwork

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yeah..no, he is actually right, you don't have to be a burger to see the huge amount of propaganda in every piece of modern entertainment, at the same time i'm glad that killed my retarded hype for almost every new product

>REEEEEE
The post

>drakaan strategy guide
oh god how i wish i had that

>complains about propaganda
>sorrounded by daily rightwing propaganda on this very board
Whew

Difference is games used to explore in-universe politics between different factions like in Deus Ex or Fallout, not reference real life contemporary politics which just date the game.

Buy a JRPG and strategy guide from retail store. Hope it is good from magazine reviews. Hope the strategy guide is good because I had terrible access to internet.
Have fun playing Sonic Adventure and owning a Dreamcast before years in the future when everyone suddenly hates it.
This is before I could go to Funcoland because no transportation. Or buy games online because of crappy internet. Find out about good games from friends when I could go over to their houses. Playable demos in magazines. Rent anime on VHS from Blockbuster. Never knew if it would be good.

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>All these (You)s for this basic post
Keep shit on topic you pathetic fucks.

Remember when vidya games were great again? Hurrrrr everything in the past was better, lets regress amirite? Retard time for the retarded people yaaaaay

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Games as a whole have been dumbed down to astonishing levels as the hobby has become wider and wider with many seeing it as a mouthpiece for their drivel that they couldn't get published in other mediums. There's no time for subtlety or passion in this niche hobby turned giant industry.

yes, in a chink forum i choose to enter, is not the same when you put it in films/games for kids

>phone poster

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Fake false flagger, not a real Trump suppoter.

This is what modern games do to people.

>wont anybody think about the chillenssssss
Go pearl clutch somewhere else, cretin.

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This.

Speaking of nostalgia remember when mobiles were just mobile phones and not multi media pieces of junk that all look the same? this board would be so much better if phone posters were blocked.

I look like the banjo player in Deliverance, therefore im a true trump supporter

It already has been tainted sorry.

so... this is the brain of the new generation, i wonder who is behind that "unique and original" form of thinking you have

Roleplaying boomer again, edgelord?

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Not that poster's fault Trumpfags are easily triggered. What a bunch of snowflakes.

Its the left that are snowflakes everyone knows that stupid cuck

Fuck you libtard

No shit im so fucking angry fuck em snowflakes

Says the seething Trumpfag :^)

>the left that are snowflakes
Watch this:

Donald Trump? More like Putin's bitchboy!

you honestly think that all the people who doesn't like what the left is doing with entertainment are obese trump suporters? i'm not even american or overweight, my only mistake was trying reason with retards like you

Political Tourist are the worst

I had a subscription to pic related and Nintendo Power I think.
I'd read them cover to cover looking at everything including all the advertisements and strategy guides to games I wouldn't ever play. The readers' comment section was probably my favorite.

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More beautiful than you can possibly imagine.

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I hate you all.

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Fuck you libcuck putin puts gays in graves and thats good tranny dilate

Why did people come into this seemingly innocuous thread in order to derail it?

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Shut up mike.

/pol/ was a mistake

Stop REEEing, incel. We’re not going away.

Unironically tell me whats so bad about Putin?

Bet you work for Hillary dont you libcuck

*annexes you*

I’m sorry

Read this first to understand your question

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So this is the modern liberal zoomer huh

I got CVG and Gamesmaster. Both were great to read as they were written by proper lads that enjoyed vidya. As you said readers section's were quite good just for the banter factor.

Liberals HATE the 90s
This one weird trick makes communists hate a white majority and improving economy

Yeah she paid me 10$ to start browsing Yea Forums in 2007

>2019
>Still bringing up Hillary
The absolute state of trump supporters

It was kinda bad, if you were older than 12 you had to hide you liked videogames because it was considered stuff for kids

i honestly envy zoomers, they really don't know better, so they don't need to look back when the world wasn't a dystopia

I dunno, I was born that year

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Your forgot to say cuck

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You'd think they'd like the 90s since it was the Clinton era.

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Youre a jew id bet money on it you snowflake piece of shit

2016 was a mistake

I rather be in the Reagan era he was a man who stood up to the russians except for Putin hes cool as fuck just like our president trump

Nah, I meant what I said.

Because you weren't politically aware in the 90s.

Yeah man those liberals deserve the rope fuck em snowflakes

America was great in the 90s, lets make america great again by going to the clinton era fuck yeah magaaaaaaa

Where did the shitposting touch you, user?

>1999
Was 4 at that time and was playing GTa2
I want to go back

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>get IBM shitbox with dial-up in summer 1999
>get Dreamcast that year as well
>playing UT99 and all kinds of shit on PC and Dreamcast games online
>renting games every other weekend
>listening to dumb rumors about games
>trying to find violent anime
>making and visiting shitty game and anime related websites littered with frames, midis and gifs and writing dumb shit on guest books
>trolling with methodustoolz on AOL chats
>trolling on gaming message boards and making sites with fake cheats and facts
>printing out shitty porn and hentai for poorfag friends
It was pretty fun.

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Shhhh...
He frogposts in 2019

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Because some people just want to be faggots, user.

You're right, I remember that part in FF7 where President Shinra was a clear stand-in for Clinton and the game said if you don't support clean energy you are literally hitler and white and need to donate to unicef or you're committing genocide. How could I have been so blind

I miss pre 9/11 America

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Hi Guys, haha you should let me rent the game guide cause... haha. Ohh and by the way, that Futurama Lila plushy I bought last week is awesome. Well I better go now, see you guy later.

k

Delete thread now.

rpgs, west and east where king during this era. it was fucking glorious

One of my relatives had something like this.

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k

>the game said if you don't support clean energy you are literally hitler

That is basically what it said at points yes.

Remember when Clinton left a surplus? Republicans ruin everything. Only imbeciles could vote Republican.

americans are retarded

ywn Techtv and old Newgrounds again

youtube.com/watch?v=kFYehMLVIRA

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have sex

>Dreamcast
>remember dad grilling me about wanting one pre-release
>asks me if it'll be around long and do well unlike 'their last game system'
>"YEAH DAD IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME"
>that gut punch in 2001 when Sega dips out of the console market
Sorry, dad.

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Hurrrr I support Republicans and their censorship of videogames hurrrr videogames are the devillllll

TechTV was the best.

Muh nostalgia durrrr

Where did the shitposting touch you, user?

k

This is objectively the greatest gaming mag and still is

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Colin McGAY lmao

I don't know, I wasn't alive.

I don't read krautsquiggles.

k

>grow up loving animation and cartoons
>draw comics, use camcorder to make shitty stop-motion shorts by tapping record
>get computer with windows and dial-up at the end of the 90s
>discover NG
>mind fucking blown that you can get software and make your own animations
>portal happens and I'm still stunned there's a community dedicated to making these cartoons
>pirate flash from sketchy source and start submitting shitty animations that get blammed
Time flies.

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>don't spend a few bucks for a megazine with a review before spending 30 to 60 bucks on a game
People are so stupid
I bought megazines of course but still you'd often find unknown games barely reviewed on sales
With no internet back then sometimes you took a risk and sometimes it would end to become one of the best games you ever played

Other then that I'd say it was better because with no internet there were no "vocal minorities" polluting every discussion about anything.
This wasn't only about videogames though.
To be fair internet in the early years was really good.
There was always someone to talk to because people on the internet were on the internet because they wanted to meet someone and discuss about their passions.
After 2007 web2.0 people only cared about likes and karma.

I am mot familiar with it, what made it so great user?

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>Black with red lights
Peak Terminator aesthetics.

It was great. No hillbillies and definitely no right-wing retards. The people that enjoyed exploring MediaPlay were just learning about anime or were interested due to Pokemon, and had respect for Japanese media.

TechTV was literally ALWAYS shit. They would start shows using bait hands-on reviews of games, spend twenty-five minutes shilling $2,000 TVs, then rush through the reviews without showing any gameplay.

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Those were different times

>be weeb
>see animu RPG by Square
>neat
>buy Xenogears
>FIND GOD

>Dumbass uneducated redneck Trump supporters ruining a nice nostalgia thread
Can we ship these faggots to their own island with Trump?

>buy magazine
>read magazine
>reviewer says game is pretty awesome
>buy game for $60
>it's shit
Some things never change.

Good writing mainly and being a PC mag instead of console one. It still has some of the journos from 80s too

I want to upgrade. To the past.

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Where did it touch you

Do you still draw user?

>With no internet back then sometimes you took a risk and sometimes it would end to become one of the best games you ever played
I rented a lot of stuff based on covers. My parents didn't like this one but I discovered Darkstalkers and Morrigan that day.

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>d-definitely no right-wing
lol

>Miss Dynamite
You just gave me nostalgia and I'm starting to remember something now, isn't there a Miss Dynamite flash game where those two torture a member of N'Sync? It was either a guy from N'Sync or The Backstreet Boys. I'm pretty certain it was Miss Dynamite. In the game, I remember them driving a nail through one of his testicles and then it only escalates more, I think the asian girl ends up smashing it completely. It was really difficult for me to watch.

Looking forward to Gameboy Color games.

i just want to go back

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Things were more positive and videogames were only improving. You find the direct opposite today.

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Great, i don't know how to feel about today though, sometimes it's great and sometimes it's shit, i feel like we would be happier if the internet ceased to exist, the world back then felt alive, the world today feels like a simulation

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About to start again. Went through some very rough years where none of my old hobbies were appealing.
Damn I forgot about that. I think you're right. I remember jokingly playing it with a friend or someone and the testicle part kinda being a bit too much.

k

>no SJWs
>no starbuckssocialists
>no RetardERA
>no bluecheckmarks
It was a better age

We all do

>Sit in beanbag chair
>Soda on the right
>Friend to the left
>Chips in the middle
>Playing video games until we pass out
What happend bros? Now all I do is play games by myself.

Resident Evil.

I was 8.

Phoneposter wanted (you)s

>banned
Nice.

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>About to start again
Nice, I have always wanted to be good at drawing. Hope you find joy in it again

>tfw born 2001
>boomer at heart
i really wish i could for a day experience what it was like at the time

Thanks man. It's cheesy but you just gotta practice. I'm not that great but looking through older sketchbooks there's slow progress. You have a cool weekend, user.

>No internet social media coverage, litterally nobody except your friends gave 2 shits about what you playing
>Vidya were more ambitious, there wasnt a set pattern for making money so everyone tried their best
>No esports bullshit, multiplayer content was free and you paid just for mmos, which were mostly sandboxes and you could do a lot of shit you cant even dream to do nowdays.
>Tiddies everywere and violence was the biggest issue for church moms. Gays were mocked, retards too, women 50\50.
>You played frist what you see now shilled everywhere with different coat of paint
>Games were made mostly for entertainment, you have a couple of sequels or expansions. No endless stream of dlc or remasters, remake whatever the fuck.

Im 41, i enjoyed the 90s wave in my 20s and it was totally worth it, but all good things come to an end.

How do you get over the disgust of looking at your shitty drawings long enough to improve?

I played Subspace on a dial-up. Dad didn't like the phone bills.

>but all good things come to an end.

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I know, Im just being lazy and spend most my time playing video games instead of learning new skills.
You too user.

It was a comfy time but I'm sad my family to move back to the states around this time.

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Ooh ouch. Yeah I was pretty bummed after the PS2 killed it. After it stopped releasing games I got a PS2 and Gamecube.

I still feel disgust or frustration, but try to stay in the mindset of that by realizing the flaws I can improve next time.

Why is there a door to a black hole just sitting there in this hobbyist shop?

Gaming was great before the nonwhites and semenbrains took over

Or when the shitposting touched you

>semenbrains
Is this a new meme? If you're talking sexual pandering back then all kinds of adverts and games had skimpy girls, suggestive things etc. to catch guys eyes and wallets.

Yeah, but it wasn't a non-stop dosage of porn like it is today

>those magazines
>the whole giga comfy atmosphere
FUCK YEAH, I LIVED THROUGH THAT

a little something like this:
youtube.com/watch?v=AKqt2otmEB8

Paul Davies era CVG? Just the best.

it was great

then it went mainstream and met the same fate as everything else that goes mainstream

fuck Paterson

I haven't seen this video in a decade. Apparently youtube converted what was no doubt a five star rating into a like automatically.

Damn straight.

god I wish they kept star ratings.
It's fucking retarded to have a like/dislike tug of war, it's seen as controvercial for a video to have more than 10% dislikes and utterly hated for it to have more than 30%.

time's today feel like a huge monkey pawn of everything i wanted as a kid

what isn't mainstream these days? Nothing in years as had that underground comfy vibe.Atleast to me

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The media is a fucking disease that can't let anything stay pure

God what an insufferable faggot. Should have been put down after turning off the power the first time.

Tabletop games.

Critical Role would like to have a word with you

huh, how come there were zero women involved in the scene back then?

>that image
Man, all these feels.

It was great. I still remember when I used to go to this local game shop near me. Shit was magical. Demo kiosks (N64, PS1 and later PS2), shelves full of games, stacks of numerous magazine publications, some accessories and posters. Game boxart was actually really imaginative and varied.

Unfortunately, somewhere in the mid 00's the shopkeeper couldn't keep up with the expenses, assume because of competition from Gamestop, and had to move into a smaller space. Now, the shop has moved to a different address and merged with a fishing gear shop to stay afloat. It shares half the space than it originally used to.

Recently, found the original shop's old website on archive.org. Really takes me back.

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Hyperbole.

>MTG
The mobile app and further SJW-ization of the medium is evidence of your wrongness

1997-2002 was the golden age of video games, most of the stuff that was made back then is not only the high watermark of technical (including art direction) excellence, but is something that would not even be tried today; too many liabilities in trying to ship a demanding product. some indie devs still try to follow suit - underrail, age of decadence, zachtronics stuff being good examples. rpgcodex is the only place i know that still retains some of that old gamer spirit despite shitposting inherited from millenial-zoomer boards like this shitplace.

>Oh hey a comfy 1999 video game thread.
>Oh no....

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even Yea Forums lost that vibe when the goobergate and 2016 happened

Pretty much what said. When that Gamegate thing happened, a LOT of people and places changed. It was only two sides to everything for awhile.

>For awhile

it still is.

99 was the hypest year with the whole turn of the millennium thing.
I was 9 and dreaming pokemon was real all the time, being a poor huehue fag all i could do is rent megaman x on snes and drool over game magazines showcasing the pokemon gb games.

Hanging out with friends whose parents got them a computer and playing games with them.

My friends had heaps of those and I'd read them from time to time.
The reviews were quality, honest stuff and you could see they were written by passionate people.
Zero Punctuation is the only thing that still resembles that feeling nowadays.

youtube.com/watch?v=QwbW0fS5_4Y
America in the 90s

cope

why did everyone wear such shitty clothes?

Half-Life and Quake,literally everywhere and also that small community mod called Counter-Strike seems to be becoming really popular.

We still wear shitty clothes

You were the cool kids

i dont think so. everyone is more fashion conscious these days. at least people don't wear baggy clothes

Van exploding and chanology got my more normalfag friends on here. I'd say those were the start of the downward spiral.

Early internet was great. Everyone was educated and white. Now it’s nothing but trolls and third worlders.

You took a gamble on an $80 N64 game and hoped it would be fun enough to last you the next six months.

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>mom I want video game
>ok sweetie here is your allowance to rent 1 game for the weekend
>go to EB Games and gamble on which game is good or not by judging their cover

I miss the old days of vidya game memes, pokegirl porn, RP tripfags and yes tripfags in general.

It was all better than what we have today.

Sorry Nintendo 1st party shit was always good GAMES even though people might not LIKE them?

Seriously, when has a 1st party main mario or zelda gotten a 5/10? Never.

And people don't believe me that gaming is shit now. Fuckers, i been playing games since 1985, i LIVED videogames.

I know what I'm fucking talking about.

So nothing?

Did they play MKT on 64?
Because besides having a shit exclusive character and bizarrely missing boss characters, it was the same shit.

Also, n64 didnt need a fucking option for shang tsung to morph into set characters or all the characters but add load times DURING A FIGHT, like ps1.

Games reached their highest point in utilizing 3D environments. Everything you loved about games then only got better and the less likely to find a bad game was higher in my experience.

The fuck is wrong with that dudes eye

>90s: "Hey Billy don't ever tell anyone your name online"
>Now: "Here's my full name, address, phone number, face, voice and browsing history. Do you need my SSN too?"
Smartphones/ease of access and social media fucked everything.

b-but people are more polite when they post with their real name

Overall, it was very good. I was 15 in 1999. Played a lot of Counterstrike 1.5, Unreal Tournament or StarCraft at LANs and your typical Multiplayer games on N64 with school friends. I miss that time, even though we still play the old games from time to time.

Never thought the games industry would turn into the nightmare we have today.

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Like this

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It's just technology in general. We have this amazing resource that contains the collectiive sum of all human knowledge yet governments and corporations use it to collect reams of data on the shitting habits if nobodies. It's absolutely fucking absurd.

More interesting and diverse. Now companies know what sells and what doesn't and so video game won't be as experimental as they were in the past.

Buying games was like buying a lottery ticket. It was either a fantastic game or it was absolute garbage, but you played through it because you bought it. There were magazines to gave you a look into some games and get reviews, but it was mostly only games everyone was going to buy anyway.
You went to your friend's home and played games together, sometimes even stayed and ate dinner, their mom was like your second mom and sometimes made better food than your own, it was great.
No fuss, no console wars because if your friend had a console you didn't have you get to play games on it as well and vice versa, just playing games and having fun.

Fucking this. My parents gave me the lecture on being anonymous at the very least. The internet should be just anonymous/handles shooting the shit with eachother. I blame facebook.

whats the game displayed at the top of the pillar the one with the south park dolls at the bottom?

In a few years kids will say the same shit about us

Bullshit, Facebook proves that people don't care except insecure fucks that wanna appeal to many people.

>buying magazines
>being a n64 owner

You could try them on good systems before buying them.

There also was blockbuster/rental stores. It wasn’t a pure gamble as the olds say it was.

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imagine the 80´s or the 90´s

the future was, it was a dream so great so pure yu wouldnt belive.

But then 2000 came, realety hit, nothing is holly any more.
proganda, lies, no ethics, no decency, no humanity....

kiwifarms.net/threads/electronic-software-association-esa-leaked-the-dox-of-every-journalist-registered-for-e3.59201/

....only war

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>Unreal Tournament
youtu.be/ULSg04fUzT0
Such a complete goddamn package. I had to set shit to low to play it on my potato back then but I loved it.

fpbp

No DLC, no loot boxes, no "woke-ness"

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Things with entry barriers. Heavily-modded old games (e.g. Freelancer MP servers for a long time), things like Daggerfall Unity, TES3MP, SS13, etc.. Most of it is evaporating though.
Wrong. Acq Inc saw to that. Now the likes of Matt Mercer are shitting everything up with exposure, and the books for a lot of TTRPGs suggest that the companies are infested with bluehairs

to be fair, most people i knew got their nintendo power subscription for free.

>What was it like being a gamer in 1999?
I born in 1979, so 1999 hit me on my 20´s. It was an odd time. PSX was for like 4 years, Zelda and Dreamcast appeared and PS2 was over the horizon so it felt like a long, long year of change/transition.

31 year old boomer here. it was absolutely the best time to grow up. the late 90s were the shit

>Trying to get the right spot in the car so you can see what you're playing on your Game Boy Color.

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kys lefty scum

this
no one cares about the politics they just want attention

>325 pesetas
Less than 2 fucking euros, those were the times...

>Those rows of thick Prima strategy guides

I miss it, bros. God damn.

Roughly 4 out of 5 NES games were complete shit, no matter how cool the cover looked. Many a weekend was I forced to go play outside with my friends because I chose something unplayable.

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You would be surprised how many games these days have none of that

>ehrgeiz strategy guide
I NEED IT

>Ehrgeiz
OH SHIT FUCK NOSTALGIA BOMB

What is this? Was it edited?

It's unedited and from Fallout 2.

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Probably a very sociable time but I was too much of a poorfag to enjoy it just like I am now.

Fucking fantastic. Enjoy your FunkoStops and Ecelebs, zoomies.

fuck I remember this. No wonder I didnt give a shit about the NES Mini. Such a bloated game catalog

man, I was poor as fuck but I sure enjoyed way more playing with friends and with my only 3 cartridges at the time

>games cost like 10 euros tops
>no shoehorned political shit
>no DLCs
>no preorder bullshit
>no microtransactions
>you actually owned the game
>comfy vidya magazines

It was a magical time.

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Shit dude what are you doing here?

Exciting. You never knew what was around the corner with video games and it was always awesome to see a sequel announced in game magazines. Also I really miss how baggy clothes use to be, sure it looks terrible now but they were so comfy

FPBP

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>All those new in box N64, PS, and Dreamcast games
I WANT THEM ALL!

I bought a shit ton of magazines(Free PS1 and PS2 demos duuude)

youtube.com/watch?v=ujprj85lTEg this was my high school

>anime

You were the cancer.

TnT was pretty fucking great. I still use some of the guides for maps and shit, and they had a good content-to-ads ratio.

Shame that Larry Flint fucked everyone on the stafd over while they were gone to E3

It's people just like you that make me want to go back.

right?! if only I wasn’t a broke kid back then.

>tfw I want to slip back in time, not to do anything great, but to buy vidya shit in mint condition
Something went terribly wrong in my life

>too poor to have the shit you wanted back then
>rich enough to have all the absolute shit tier junk now that I'm grown up though
I fucking hate modern consoles.

life isn’t fair!!!!

kid
>all the time in the world to play games
>no money to buy them

adult
>now have money to buy whatever
>but no time to play
>also most games are shit now

>subhuman newyorkers
yfw all these guys are construction workers now and their ratchet ass bitches are pregnany junkies.

I'm so fucking happy I moved away from the east coast the moment I turned 18

Superman 64

I was just thinking about this when elementary teachers said to never give your first name online for internet safety because the internet was seen as dangerous, but now that concern is nonexistent after years of social media. It makes me wonder how schools teach kids about internet safety now that nearly everyone is connected and not afraid to post with their real life identity.

You're probably right. That place has seriously only gotten worse. The year I graduated there was freshman with a huge ass that was famous for showing it off on the internet. She got into fights every single day and bit out a chunk of one of the security guards hands.
Where are you now?

In 1999?

>Rented a bunch of stuff since games were expensive and didn't drop in price often. N64 titles were many times $60-70 bucks and $30-40 bucks were considered to be a decent sale. Only time you saw games less then that they were either greatest hits or bargain bin stuff.

>Internet was not like it was now and had to rely on magazines or word of mouth. That is how I found out about stuff like Final Fantasy, Ocarina of Time, etc.

>No cell phones so game boy was king. Rechargeable batteries are not as good as todays and not as common, so it ate them like a motherfucker.

>Pokemon was absolutely huge and didn't have the baggage the series has now.

>N64 was gaining momentum, Playstation was pretty much already the main console for most kids I knew in my area, and Saturn was dead. Dreamcast was a curiosity when it came out, but I didn't know a lot of people who had one.

>Babbages was my main go-to, as well as a little import video game store in Nashville that is still around, but went to shit a decade ago. Gamestop wasn't really much of a thing yet and was still fairly small.

>This was around the time they started to card for M rated games, so I started to buy stuff like Resident Evil on eBay (long before Amazon was reliable). Used this tactic for years and bought other kids stuff with it, made some decent cash on the side.

Honestly, it was simpler. We didn't have all the crap surrounding the video game market that we do now and it felt like the wild west of discovery.

>Fallout
>System Shock
>Thief
>HoMM3

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>tfw will never relive 1999

I just want that one year.

Every game was fun.

why is that image weird to you

nowadays i don't even buy games. i just watch them be played online. it's a sad state of affairs, but it's probably saved me a ton of money.

baggy clothes was cool back then

i don't play games anymore but i say still spend more on gaming than i did when i was a gamer due to twitch subs and donations

I used to store very old gamepro magazines and read them for nostalgia once in a while. One day my mom threw them all into the garbage. Was really funny seeing the writers go nuts over graphics and then you see the screens with shitty old ps1 graphics lol

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I had Nintendo power and EGM but I think often I would get the copies after a game had already released. I mostly planned my awaited game purchases and trying of new games on box art and word of mouth. The game magazine were mostly good because they had snippets for stuff which would eventually be coming out.

What the fuck is wrong with magazines douche cock? Back then journalists took their job seriously. Also the only other way to get news was to go down to Toys R Us and talk to the employees.

>Yea Forums whines about gamestop having figures and plushies
“reee game stores used to only have games”
>op has tons of figures and plushies
Hmmmm

great cause all you fucks were not able to talk yet or young enough to not ruin culture

growing up in post-commie shithole

>only widespread console are Chinese copies of NES. PCs are mostly Amiga 500, Commodore 64, IBM 286 to 486. Real PC is considered a luxury.
>most games you have probably came with your console or PC.
>90% of games not translated. If not good with English, had to play with dictionary in hand.
>for newer games you had to drive 20km to nearest marketplace to buy pirated copies, which would cost ap.10% of your monthly pay. Per CD.
>local bar has pay-to-play Playstation, and it gets more attention than slot games.
>only stable internet is in government buildings. Some random dude might be using telephone modem, which sis expensive.
>modern games is something you only get to see in gaming magazines.

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>mfw those huge fucking cardboard boxes pc games came in packed with supplementary material like cloth maps and books and the manual was so thick you could kill someone with it

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I love old vidya mag covers and adverts

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>post-commie
Are you from Yugoslavia because you perfectly described my childhood

>subs and donations
Do these people really bring you that much joy?

I kept going west. Then I went west more and hopped the IDL, and then I went west more and now I'm in europe. If I go even more west I'll have made an entire loop. I go to visit my parents in new england about once every two years I enjoy the short time I'm there but fuck the east coast is super depressing.

>he didn't thumb through the magazines at the grocery store to get cheat codes and reviews

>Open it
>Only the game inside
>Doesn't even come with a good case, just a clear jewel case with not even art on it

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I was still waiting for John Romero to make me his bitch.

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Games weren't shit. There were no normalfags.

>Daikatana

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