What was it like being a gamer in the mid 2000s?

You could actually go into a store and find a Japanese game

lolno

I liked that plasticy and dusty smell of old game stores. Also renting games back then was a big help when seeing what games were shit or not.

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I am a third worlder so most games were pirate copies and you they weren't very stable there was a big change your Playstation could read the disk and you had to suck it

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CRTs, 480i, no microtransactions. Online MP was pretty new and you could shit talk without being reported. GTA SA set the standard for open worlds. Kojima was still making movies but you could get some gameplay in MGO. Wii VC is the best thing for a retro nerd.

What was it like being a gamer in the late 1990s?

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>consoles have 1/10th of the library size now
Yeah it's so good living in the current new golden age of gaming

>all those retail game store owners eventually had to call quits when digital games and online retailers became dominant

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selling old games dirt cheap for more games
glad Gamestop is drowning in its own funkopops

Yeah I love wading through endless trash to find a decent game in previeous generations. Fuck off.

Why do I feel pain looking at this

Ebic

I remember my parents were buying a new landline phone at Radio Shack and let me pick a game (They had cheap games) that game in baggies.

I picked Batman Forever for SNES. Me and my mom played it even though neither of us understood it and knew it sucked

I miss those days ;_;

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>tfw going to Blockbuster every weekend with my dad to rent a new game

those were the days..

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For every piece of shovelware in older gens, there were were like 50 good games. Now, the ratio isn't even 1:1. There are only 5 or less good games per gen total, with the rest being pure garbage

>2000s nostalgia
I am way too old for this site. I am ready to witness 2005-2010 nostalgia

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Mareep!

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t. underage whose first console was from last gen

How fucking old are you? I'm 26 and I'm incredibly nostalgic about 2000-2005. Amazing classic were still coming out up until then

Your ratio is probably off but there is a LOT of good material here

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I didn't play very many games because I was extremely into anime. Once my brother got a 360, I played a few titles like Bioshock and Gears of War.

>I am ready to witness 2005-2010 nostalgia

I want to say it feels "weird", but even Wii is nostalgic now.

happy

>tfw every friday gramps would take me to blockbuster for a vidya
>tfw the blockbuster he used to take me to is a fucking dunkin donuts now

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hate being blamed for this shit
t.grew up in the 2000's

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>not having 2005-2010 nostalgia already
youtube.com/watch?v=anHkwBYH-bY

2000-2005 was like an extension of the 90s. 2006 was when the paradigm shifted.

Say what you will but there had never been a better time to be a gamer.
Emulation is easily accessible so you can play virtually anything you want for free. Back in the early 2000's you had to hope to find special carts if you wanted to play something outside of your region.

>one game
>one movie
>no snacks unless you're a spoiled shit when the grocery store is nearby or already have food at home

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>2000-2005 was like an extension of the 90s

I was definitely feeling this as well. I didn't start to notice the concept of WiFi until well around late 2006 and it seemed to rapidly change the atmosphere of the Internet and pretty much entertainment in general. I wonder if that was the most prominent example of the shift?

Guys stop please

it's all too painful
I want to go back
I can't even board up my windows and pretend it's 2002, my mind is filled with too many horrors
I want a lobotomy

phones/facebook

I remember that Blockbuster used to rent NES games in generic VHS boxes and the picture on the front of the box was a black and white photocopied version of the actual game box

I think we rented Megaman V

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Halo 2 was the game to play if you were a dudebro
San Andreas was the game to play if you were a nigger
World of Warcraft was the game to play if you were a NEET that just finished high school

white kids were playing THUG

renting n64 and gamecube games at blockbuster was pretty rad

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this

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>there's already nostalgia over Fortnite back when the BR mode was released
>which is 2 fucking years ago
>one of the most requested Fortnite mode is "classic"
You guys may be mad about Halo or MW nostalgia, but there are far worse ones out there

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You actually got the full game instead of 1/2 of a game and the rest as a season pass.

Tbh, the 2000s didn't really feel like it had a distinct identity like other decades did. 2000-2005 just felt like the 90s, and 2006-2009 felt like a mix between the 90s and the 2010s (moreso the '10s).
I think 9/11 stagnated cultural growth, and then the recession and invention of the iPhone started the cultural death that would define this shitty decade. That's just my theory.

>le 2007
It started in 2006.

Was ok. I prefer 1990-2000 but 2000-2005 was interesting too. Mostly thanks to q3 and cs

Literally the same as it is now

because you know it'll never come back.

Get ready for Gamestop nostalgia threads once it goes the way of the blockbuster

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*crack*
~sip~

Yep, those were the days

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Halo was bad.
Oblivion was bad.
GTA4 was bad.

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Bros...

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Don't you dare compare Blockbuster to Gamestop.

first game was sonic heros,

like you were an astronaut embarking on voyage to find unseen planets

Both failed to adapt to the times.

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Ah, I forget, the whole Iphone crazy early on. It's so weird to notice the difference between 97'/07'/17' kids between the year gap. Every kid has ease of access like that and you can just tell that their terminology is from it.

>it be like that
>sksksk
>tea

Weird shit.

It's probably just that. I don't want to say "Kids aren't kids anymore" because of a ridiculous reason like "not playing outside" because, honestly, I barely played outside either. But, for kids of this age, it seems like they're trying to imitate adults TOO much.

>Rage
Where the fuck was there still a funcoland in 2010

gamestop was alright in the 00s
it was a good place to rummage through n64 carts and buy cheap games you've never heard of

Bad times, PC gaming was on the decline and consoles were quickly taking over.

I'll always nostalgia about the shitty stories of working at GameStop. Like how parents would be okay with buying God of War for their kid but then later return it not because of Kratos ripping guts but because there was 1 cutscene with titties in it.

No

poop i used tp
poop in store
in

There are newer ones now and ones that held on because not all older games are legally obtainable digitally, and piratefags aren't the worldwide majority quite yet.

Blockbuster I used to go to as a kid is an emergency room place now...

Not sure, we're about 480 years away

Hopeful. At least at someone born in the mid 90’s.

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games for windows introduced standards to pc ports

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It's not trolling, Vice City, Morrowind and Unreal Tournament chads knew when they came out that they were being doled garbage.

mine's a fucking liquor store, what really shitty joke

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Mesquite, TX. The sign is still up. Inside its a Gamestop like all the others.

Now this is some hard nostalgia for middle and early high school, mid way thru high school the Game Crazy became something that was the same shit with a different name that died way before the Hollywood Video it was attached to.

It also introduced the worst DRM ever. Classic example is Lost Planet 2. Need GFWL to activate the game but the servers are shut down so the game cannot be installed. Every legally purchased disc is uninstallable now. You have to pirate and crack the game to play single player.

It fucking sucked. Imagine paying $55 (89 money, which had the purchasing power of something like 115 dollars) to play Super Mario bros 2. Video games didn’t git gud until sometime around columbine. Maybe that’s why they shot the school up,

the EB games on my corner is now a weed shop
lol

>implying I wasn't fucking there for it
Child. These games were not bad. They were streamlined, sure, but not bad.

why do I have to be cursed as a zoomer

>Game Crazy plebs....
Pfff

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I'd more expect "FUCKING GAMESTOP thread" nostalgia threads on Yea Forums

Our eb games in the plaza became a beauty shop. I wish ours was a dispensary.

Fucking disgusting

>What was it like being a gamer in the mid 2000s?
youtube.com/watch?v=OO-vG8oPhhM

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This
video games only started to get truly good in the late 90’s then they peaked in 2004 and we’ve been declining ever since

>parents got me a duke nukem game for the n64
>didnt take it away for the swearing
>or the violence
>took it away because mom saw me find the strip club level where 2/5 babes were hidden
>dad put it in the half assed hiding spot where i always got my shit back while they were out

7th gen was the worst gen.

Until a few years from now when games are the same price in Canada. Haha.
$89 after tax. Kill me.

Literally the golden age. You couldn't keep up with all of the games coming out. In one month in November of 2002 we got:
>Metal Gear Solid 2
>Age of Mythology
>Ratchet and Clank
>Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
>Resident Evil 0
>Metroid Prime
>Metroid Fusion
>Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
>Splinter Cell
>Marvel vs. Capcom 2
>Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance
>Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
>Super Monkey Ball Jr

The next year in 2003 in a month we got
>Max Payne 2
>Jak II
>SSX 3
>FF XI
>GTA3
>Battle for Bikini Bottom
>Drake of the 99 Dragons
>Fire Emblem
>Lord of the Rings Return of the King
>SOCOM II
>Beyond Good and Evil
>Prince of Persia Sands of Time
>Mario Kart Double Dash
>Counter-Strike

These are single months of games. Not years, not generations, a month. Nothing like this happens anymore.

Lost Planet 2 is gay anyway. I can still play my copy of Halo 2 legit so I'm thinking this had more to do with Capcom. Regardless, it has better lasting positive effects than negative, but no one cares about facts and logic and shit when they can just parrot negative opinions again. It's unfortunate that thinking takes time and effort.

The wii is the tail end of what can be considered "nostalgic". Even some of their later promo material loses that shine for most of the current world. The BIOS is distinctly a product of its time, and one people will likely never forget.

>making fun of new slang terms kids use
every generation uses dumb slang terms. you just dont "get it" now or are old enough to the point you think its stupid.

It was great. You get all the bros together and play a game on the couch with pizza. Getting games was great too. You just go to gamestop and get it for $50. And you could chat up the clerk about the newest games.

>cars blanket

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the last video game that can be considered nostalgic. Pre-2006 world holdover.

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Speaking of Halo 2, early GFWL games are a joke when it came to DRM. You can use anybodys Resident Evil 5 or Shadowrun key and Halo 2 will still activate. Defeating the purpose of the code. It was an inconvenience to legit customers at best and at worst it locked them out of their purchased game.

I hope you die. fuck off

mines is a Verizon store...

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I was shocked to learn this was created by an 8-man dev team on a $300,000 budget because I remember it *was* AAA when it came out, it was as big and as hyped as a video game could get.

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Its a ford dealership nao

Remember life before 9/11?

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Mine was a Movie Gallery which sucked now it a fucking fitness center. Kmn

I was a poverty fag, so all I had is dialup and Runescape.

I’m 21 and nostalgic about last year

Updated for 2019

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I just play indie games and encourage my friends to do the same. There are some good games being made today by small studios with passion.

Waiting? We literally have Minecraft and Black Ops threads here on the daily. Youtubers are already hopping on the " 'member Wii Sports?" nostalgia train too.

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It was worse than in the 90's, but still unimaginably better than the shit we have now.

there are also people that unironically nostalgia over first gen iphone

Wtf I love columbine now

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Well, I'm not making fun of it, I use their new slang too, I'm just saying that I feel weird now noticing it. Like, I just casually say it, because its easier to connect with the new gen than it is with Boomers. I think Gen X to Zoomers are what makes us separate to Boomers. They're so damn detached that they can't learn new tech to survive their little life.

When was the last time a AAA game was even fucking good though?

You summed it up pretty perfectly.

Gen 6>4>8=5>7>3

And for handhelds:
DS>GBA>Everything else

I saw one fucking user talking about he played Clash of Clans "when he was a kid" and was utterly dumbfounded, only to find out it was a 2012 game and he's technically old enough to post here.

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Barely. I was 6 years old in 2001. Also 9/11 wasn’t relevant to me at all and I don’t think I even knew that it happened at the time.

My Hollywood Video became a dialysis clinic.

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This. it was SOUL.

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kids born after 9/11 are old enough to post here now. there are definitely lurkers though that are younger.

Mine turned into a Wells Fargo bank

dreamcast had better games

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Gamestop is becoming the Blockbuster/Hollywood Video of last decade

Everyone is glad they are dying but you fucking know years from now people are going to be nostalgia for it.

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Instead of console wars, Yea Forums was arguing about GameFaqs contests that would routinely get around 150,000 participants every year

I think the DC has a pretty bad library overall, but if there’s one good thing I can say about it, the cover art for DC games was usually fucking rad.

I don't think this is true. At one point, the technology behind games will plateau, and the only indication of a game's quality will be its creative direction, and the talent behind it. We're just in the middle of the bell curve where our budgets haven't quite caught up to the speed of progress; it's difficult for those with less money to acquire the tools of AAA developers. But it will happen some day.

What's there to be nostalgic about Gamestop? It's always been a shitty store. That's why they're going out of a business. At least with Blockbuster/Hollywood Video it was tragic because VHS/DVD died in favor of digital. But people are still buying their physical games elsewhere.

DVD is already digital

it sucked ass because you had to watch all of the great series you loved go to shit and get dumbed down for casuals, brown and bloom everywhere, "we want the call of duty audience," "cinematic experience," online passes for used games, and you got nickel and dimed with shitty dlc.

You know that's not the distinction he was making.

digital download/streaming. streaming games is dumb and digital downloads can take forever on garbage connection.

Pretty neat cause I had a modded Xbox original that let me burn games straight to the hard drive which was fucking cash money. Rent a game one day, burn it and return it the next saying the disc was faulty and get a new game and hold onto that for the full hire cycle. I pretty much got two new games for less than $10
Found it odd though I couldn't burn all the different Sims games onto the console though, it'd just overwrite the previously installed game.

There's an old Hollywood Video building down the street from where I live. I went there until they closed down and the place is still abandoned. We rented from them so often. I probably see that building a couple times a week still. Hollywood Video was much better than Blockbuster here, so that's where all of my nostalgia is at.

did you a ghost?

Fellas, is there a way to bring back the appeal of shopping at a physical game-focused store?
Obviously, similar to how arcades are beginning to carve out sort of a new niche for themselves, a certain degree of it can ride on raw nostalgia.
But it can't be just nostalgia. There has to be a good reason for people to go out to your location and buy your products.
I would include "Hard Mode: Focus on current releases", but we all know current releases have like, sub 50% odds to actually have a physical form at all, so that goes beyond hard into impossible.

I'm imagining something like this:
> Design aesthetic ranges from 1995-2005, more or less
> Rotating selection of paraphernalia on display from the appropriate era
> A few kiosks with a small game selection going a few generations back
> Hires people who vaguely enjoy and know a fair bit of gaming, allowing them to make recommendations and small talk
> No official setup with people explicitly hired to know EVERYTHING, but a general culture of "hang on, someone probably knows this" enabling people to ask questions, get answers, and probably make purchases they're otherwise not confident in
> Does repairs and maintenance on old hardware (big sellers probably will be battery replacement in old cartridge save games, disc reader replacement/refurbishment, pin repair and cleaning on old cartridge consoles)
> Probably has access to some larger space where events can be set up with older hardware (EX. Halo/CS LAN parties, semi-casual fighting game tournaments, etc)
> POSSIBLY (once the project has proven workable) offers introductions to more obscure and insular communities with weak beginners' resources (e.g. private servers for defunct MMOs, older games in general)

Basically, make it a place to interact with people who know shit about games, and get your fix of older games, just as much as it is a place to buy new games.

>early - mid 2000s grade schooler
>read game manuals on mom's car ride home
>talk about games during lunch
>spread shitty rumors because nobody bothered to check online
>halo nights with the squad at best friends place every friday night
>life was good

>start getting laptops in highschool late 2000s
>everybody pirates cod mw 1 and host lan parties
>rebound my melee key to alt to have the fastest melee time
>abuse ak47 to become a midranged god
>new found respect among peers as the cod god
>biggest stress in life was who to take to the dance
>life was good

Netflix was still sending physical dvd/blurays in the mail when blockbuster died though?

Blockbuster died for shit quality control and high prices not justifying the convenience of getting your movie sent to your door without leaving the house.

I haunt the shopping strip that it's in

>one Blockbuster turned into a no-name rental store and then went into an insurance office
>the other one turned into a pornography store
>Hollywood Video turned into a Jamba Juice
>tfw it feels like the world is getting hotter and crazier by the day, can remember the cool nights of getting a video game on the Genesis after school was out during the summer
>barely any clouds during the summer nowadays, everything has this red haze in the evening
>housing prices have quadrupled and so many homes are sitting empty because no one can buy them
>everything is now covered with a layer of irony or pessimism, people cannot be genuine anymore
>my old neighborhood gentrified and most of my favorite shops have turned into overpriced coffee or clothing stores
>homeless people now camp out in the woods where my friends and I used to play
>half the trees are dying from beetle infestations
>most of my school friends have turned into losers and/or drug addicts
>the friends I do have became overworked zombies or had their spirits broken by a personal tragedy
>family doesn't even get together for the holidays as Facebook and online interactions made them get sick of each other and combative all the time because of politics or gossip
>can't even casually talk with strangers anymore, because they think you're after something
>the one online forum you can still do that for the last 11 years you've been on it is experiencing that same madness in parallel and becoming increasingly hostile, derivative, and paranoid
>tfw you're also going deaf from a neurological disease and there's nothing you can do about it

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>Walk in
>Smells like BO every fucking time
>Pick out game
>Get shilled on subscriptions and other bullshit
>Cringey ass worker there talking about how great the game is or whatever

I will remind them 10 years from now. Gaming is going digital as it is.

The Blockbuster that I remember going to way, way back and trying out a demo for the fucking Virtual Boy was torn down several years ago and the site is now a Steak 'n' Shake.

Based, heroes was fun.

Seriously what the fuck happened? Shoudln't better technology make things easier and cheaper to make? How come its taking more people, money and time to make shittier games? What's sucking up all the resources? I want to blame graphicsfags, but it seems like they're not even getting that much better.

Yes. But you're probably a boomer that doesn't understand the appeal of a local business staffed by knowledgeable and friendly people. Corporations have everyone so brainwashed they can't even remember small businesses actually exist so people mindlessly march into chain stores or sit on their phone to make every purchase.

At that time, buying ps1/ps2 games for around $10 then used Alcohol 120% to create backups incase the CDs got damaged.

nigger you just described the bottom 90% of my premise
read the whole post before you reply

My Pentium 4 lasted me 8 years, I played pretty much everything on it from diablo 2 to oblivion and nes to dreamcast. My 3570k is following his steps, 7 years and still playing recent games.

Nostalgia is always a double edged sword. You remember the fond parts, because life sucks now, you are getting older, things aren't as simple and fun as they used to be. However, when it comes to the actual games you are nostalgic about, it doesn't really mean they are any better or worse than they are now. Modern game graphics, accessibility, usability (think GFWL, and needing emulators) shit on anything from the 2000s. Gameplay can be hit or miss, but we are out of the railroad shooters from the early 2010s, so it isn't bad. Games like Control show there is still room for more linear story based games. Yeah, mulitplayer is monetized to hell, so there is downside there too. I wouldn't exactly call older games "better" than modern ones though.

It was fun but you started to see the industry going down.

I don't think anyone ever expected this level of shit though.

Not better, not worse. Different.

It was harder to find good games back then, even after the internet became a thing. You'd have to bite the bullet and take a chance on a game, and most of the time it wouldn't pay off.

Video game magazines were either cringey dudebro crap or genuinely interesting, and it was a crapshoot as to which way a monthly issue could go. Writers were inconsistent, and it was obvious when they were paid to praise a game. That's one thing I'll give the past over the present, video game "journalists" didn't pretend to be anything more than gamers working as marketing agents.

People pretend video rental stores were amazing, but in truth they sucked ass. Always gross inside and horrible service, and I hated renting a game only for the disc to be damaged beyond play, and not getting a refund unless I raised hell. The hot new games were always out of stock, but I'll admit that's often how I found hidden gems by being forced to rent something else for the weekend.

Like now, most games were awful, uninspired dribble. That's why games like Half-Life 2, Halo, SSBM, RE4, and others are so beloved and remembered. They broke that tired, boring mold. Nowadays you have tons of indie developers trying out all sorts of cool and crazy ideas, but back then indie games were rare outside of the PC.

Online gaming was both amazing and horrible, limited in scope, but limitless in the interesting people and fun conversations you could have. Cheating was rampant, especially lag switches in the days before dedicated servers became commonplace.

One thing I'll definitely miss is how exciting midnight launches used to be, they're truly not the same anymore in the age of pre-loading digital copies.

Trust me, in ten years there'll be people nostalgic for the 2010s, fondly recalling the first time they played undertale and overwatch, and lamenting that video games "just aren't what they used to be".

Same shit, different day.

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Games got more complex under the hood. Which means you need more programmers. Also with games becoming more open world, you need more assets to fill the void. That's where all the 2D concept artists and 3D modelers come in.

Marketing, mocap and graphics is a drain on finances. Triple A devs treat games the same as movies so they end up sinking millions into graphics while game designers take back seat. The sad fact is that marketing works and as long as people end up buying a game, it is a success.

> What's sucking up all the resources?
Marketing, motion capture, overpaid executives, overdone art assets.
It probably takes a thousand people ten thousand dollars to shit out a single skin in Fortnite.

The mid 2000s was nothing like the 90s tf

The standard style in 2006 is thematically closer to the standard style of the 90s than it is to the standard style by 2010.

It was incredible if you had money, awful if you were poor.
>Had to live with PS1, 56k internet and Windows 98 with a pentium II until 2007

I still won't forgive them for what they did to Tom.

from Yea Forumsoomer to Yea Forumsoomer

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Blockbuster peaked at 9,094 stores.
In 2010 they filed bankruptcy when they only had 1,700 stores left. In 2014 they were official gone.

Gamestop is in that 4 year phase, they are at 5,800 stores right now and are closing 200 stores this year and it's only going to increase over the next few years.

There are plenty of kids today that will be nostalgic for gamestop 10 years from now.

6th console gen was the best time to be a gamer. Every genre was booming. RPG, RTS, MMO, FPS, TCG, etc. New IPs were being established and the old IPs were jumping into 3D for the first time.

Doesn't help that 50%+ of a game's budget doesn't even go to the game's development and instead goes to marketing.

there’s still a blockbuster in 2019 despite the company going under over 6 years ago

benefit of the doubt: you live in hong kong or something like that

youtube.com/watch?v=eKAhu7DyZN8&t=18s
shhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt.

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Bunch of babble

Damn

Not gonna lie though hanging out with druggies is kinda fun

Like heaven

minus the social bullshit of course.

The early 00s were the last golden age.

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1 store privately owned that functions more as a nostalgia museum for nerds

I'd say 2005 was the last good year. 2009 was the last year with any remnants of soul left.
But 2006 was the turning point. Fuck 2006.

God shut up

>$90-100 for a video game
Nigger what

Drake of the 99 fucking Dragons nigga?

really?

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OoT was $90 in 1998

Games havent changed in price much

weird foreign pricing

Best response of the thread so far, thank you based boomer. Glad to see not all older people are stuck in the past.

Zoomer out.

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this, name one game you'd really miss if the whole library got erased

Bull fucking shit. Games only costed about $40-50 at most back then. What kind of jew store were you buying your games from?

If we're counting games whose main presence was there but technically existed elsewhere, PSO, Jet Set Radio, and unironically Sonic Adventure.

>keygen music starts playing

It was heaven compared to today, but at the time it was just more of the same shit. Shady business practices pissing people off, a bunch of old fags complaining about AAA shit over casualizing the market and leading to the death of innovation and passion, fear of big tech monopolies pushing their way into the market and throwing cash around to dominate the industry. Nintendo was expected to go third party shortly after Sega.

Same shit, different hardware limitations.

mines a ymca

How are you even asking that question and getting responses? If you truly do not know, you should not be here.

Have you ever been to a Media Play, Circuit City, K-Mart, or Funco Land? Those were the standard prices.

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Canada.

But they're still $90 now

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I fucking loved that system, but I never can find any reason to set it up.

>2000
>wake and go school 7-2
>has time, day are longer
>no job, no money to buy video games
>free rent
>weekend off/holidays,vacation month

>now
>wake, go to work, 7-4
>has money for games, but mo time, day are shorter
>weekend off/2 to 3 week off a year
>rent/rent free
However you look at it, it still suck

virtual on
youtube.com/watch?v=DqDeB2CtSmg

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>upgrade from a 128mb agp to 512mb dx10 card
>oblivion looks like a completely different game
Kids these days will never know that feel.

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I played oblivion on a 64mb integrated geforce 5000.

the game looked like a early ps2 game but it still ran.

Oh fuck, I just found one of these cabinets in an arcade and I REALLY fucking loved the style. I had no idea where else I could find it.

I was really heavily into PS1/PS2 JRPGs at the time, so that was the bulk of my gaming time.

It was a simpler time. Games were just about getting to that point where I felt they were getting a bit too lengthy (and padded for their own good) but we weren't quite there yet.

>I wouldn't exactly call older games "better" than modern ones though.
name one thing modern games do not take directly from the older ones

I really do appreciate how older games actually allowed for a wider breadth of PC hardware with the different graphical settings they had. In newer games, sure you can have different levels of detail on things, but overall the difference between max and min isn't that much. It's not like back in the day where they had entire sets of low-poly and low-res alternatives just for potato players.

>It was harder to find good games back then, even after the internet became a thing. You'd have to bite the bullet and take a chance on a game, and most of the time it wouldn't pay off.

Yes and no on this one. Video Rental was still pretty common, and almost every rental shop had a video game section. So it was really easy to try before you buy... but, those video rental stores were looking to make a profit too, so they'd tend to stock only what was expected to be the most popular and in-demand titles. If you wanted something niche, you were pretty much fucked. But most AAA and a good selection of AA titles were fairly common to find.

As much as the push towards digital is a negative for the industry, services such as GamePass are filling a vital niche that the death of video rental stores has left vacant. The only stipulation I would require is that services like GamePass stick to the plan of keeping games on a rotation, which would encourage the user to purchase the title once it's no longer available should they like it. AND, a complete pipe dream, but it would be nice if companies like Microsoft and Sony were to contract out some third party manufacturer to burn disks and print cases/manuals on demand. Once a game is old enough to get onto and then off a rental service like GamePass - it should have dropped in price significantly. For a few bucks more, there should be an option to put in an order for a physical copy which would be filled either from a certified retailer or reproduced by a licensed manufacturer.

That'll never happen, I'm sure... but it would be nice for collectors or anybody who wants a physical library.

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>that underaged ignorance

Nope, you're flat out wrong. Video games are ironically cheaper now than they were then (assuming you ignore things like DLC and inflation). Video games that costed $70, $80, $90, even $100 were normal throughout the 90s at every store that sold video games. It wasn't until the PS1 that $49.99 became a standard price for games, something that the other consoles didn't really adopt until the next console gen, when Xbox, Gamecube, and PS2 games were all $49.99 at launch. This jumped to $59.99 with the PS3, Xbox 360, Will generation and has remained there since.

I remember going to Toys R Us with my mom in Torrance, California on my 10th birthday back in 1995 and buying Chrono Trigger for $89.99 when it was new.

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No SJWs. Good times.

Mattress discounters.

My Hollywood video is a fucking auto parts store

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>Those were the standard prices.
The games were actually more expensive than that if you account for inflation. Phantasy Star IV cost $99.99 when it launched in 1994, which would be somewhere around $170 dollars in 2019 money.

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Here's the problem with that; I almost never bought games new in the 90's. There were absolutely no restrictions on used games, so you could find tons of good shit for under $10.

>Video games that costed $70, $80, $90, even $100
literally the only games i ever saw for that sort of money were Squaresoft games

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2007 was the last good year. Or at least the year when it all went wrong.

Mine is one of those vaping stores.

Witcher 3 was pretty good.

Do you know what I want to make, a site that picks a random game and gives you the manual and cover art and all that so you can actually browse and see what you want to play. No downloads, no comments, no likes not even a "I played it" counter thing, just a random game that only YOU can pick and play.
Thanks for the inspiration user, I finally found what was missing nowadays, that chance to find an amazing game without being bogged with reviews and opinions and scores. Just the box on a shelf.

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I see people nostalgic for the 2010's even though it was the worst decade in human history. Not to be rude but did you wake up from a coma or been living under a rock

Pretty good, lots of great games, had money and free time to play them.

Meh, I relied 100% on my parents for games

Sad lots of great games but too young to work and too old for my parents to just buy me games on a whim.

Favorite game: Super Mario RPG

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>Just the box on a shelf.
as a kid that led me to equal parts shit as it did gems

Every N64 game I saw in toys r us as a kid only costed $40-50, gameboy games were $20-30. You got jewed you faggot. Just admit it. What shit country and town are you from?

The Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS was the beginning of the casualization. Because the Nintendo DS prepped a generation of gamers and developers to grow up thinking mobile games are perfectly fine. The PS2 era was the golden age of gaming for consoles and pcs.

mine's a fucking PATIO FURNITURE store. fuck florida this is literal money laundering

Everything was great and then 2007 happend. It's been shit ever since. Genuinely feel bad for zoomers

Pet shop

>still have a hollywood video in my town

feels good

>Genuinely feel bad for zoomers
i did too, and then i actually interacted with them. fuck these oblivious children

Only zoomers think everything since mid 2000 has been shit and feel sorry for zoomers

Mine is a chipotle. It still like to visit it, but its not the same. All the burritos in the world can't fill the void that blockbuster left.

There was two in my town. One where my overly religious baby sitter got us veggie tales even though is rather not watch anything. That one is a mountain Mike's. The good one where I bought a pkmn emerald game guide to figure out the braille part is divided into a gym and a monkey bowl which is a ghetto cold stone cremerie

mine's a pet store. It's weird seeing it there when I drive past it

an alternate version of the 90's

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Need a site that simulates being in a blockbuster or the like with lots of different old games on the shelves rendered in 3d you can pick up and examine

ironically, chipotle replaced my local blockbuster and I ate there today. they make good burritos

...

Huh. Just out of curiosity is this chipotle next to a barbershop and a burger king? I seriously doubt it but I wonder if our blockbuster turned chipotle is the same.

One day people will have nostalgia about this era...

How much worse can it get...?

There actually isn't a single point in time that I can remember where I wasn't playing games.

Mine got demolished into a police jail-cell extension. Then the next rental store that was nearby got turned into a failing pawn shop. Then the next one after that turned into an abandoned gas station extension. Small towns suck. 3 rental places all went under within a year of each other.

The hot cheetos asteroids were so good. They came in a can like that. They make them in a bag but the ones now taste like rancid shit

It's weird how back in the day people always stressed about not using your real name online, but normies on social media literally use both their first and last name.

What do you guys think video games will be like 100 years from now?

Pretty shitty time. All the charm of the old order was gone without the conveniences of today's technology. Just imagine today's games but worse.

Late 2000s was pretty good though.

That's because in the switch from cartridges to CD's - publishers actually made good on their word that a cheaper storage medium would translate into a cheaper price on the product. Not like digital which trims a hell of a lot of fat - but rather than pass it on they just use it to strip out content and distribute to you later at a premium.

Part of the issue was that Nintendo held a copyright (I think) on hardware based authentication for cartridges as an anti-piracy measure, so Sega ended up using a software based solution. This meant that third parties had to buy cartridges directly from Sega and Nintendo to put their games on, so every game sold on the platforms netted the platform holders a tidy bundle of cash. But some third parties, like Acclaim, found a way past Sega's software based authentication and were able to sell third party cartridges and cut Sega out of the loop. Rather than rework their strategy for the next generation, Sega went full bore into CD based technology, which could only accommodate software verification and so reworked their contracts so that third parties had to pay an arbitrary licensing fee to publish on their console. Sony followed this route too.

Nintendo was the big holdout, and stuck with cartridges so that they could continue to gouge third parties for the hardware while lying to the consumer and claiming it was a creative choice in order to reduce load times. But the limitations of cartridges compared to disk media at the time were their undoing.

Sega probably could have beat Nintendo that generation had things turned out differently - and despite the more convoluted hardware. The problem was they decided to both announce and launch their console on the same day - ensuring that only a handful of partnered third parties and distributors could sell the overpriced machine for the first 6 months or so. This pissed off everyone else who refused to sell it, killing it before launch in America.

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>internet was a luxury and most working class people didn't have it
>gaming magazines were popular, had a lot of options
>cheat books were a big thing
>everyone would autistically come up with conspiracy theories about games (see: SA big foot)
>the console generation changes were actually huge jumps
>"geek" culture wasn't a thing for lol so random XD tards
>game developers actually tried new things
Take me back, Yea Forums, to the place I belong

I've noticed this too. half the issues regarding security and spying wouldn't exist if people just didn't willingly upload EVERYTHING about them.

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Deep dive VR shit where you literally walk around in virtual worlds in your head.

I know the feel, user.
I used to go to a few places for vidya but they all closed down and turned into something else. The only ones still up are the shitty store, The equivalent of gamestop around here, that overcharges their prices on fucking everything.

I don’t even remember. What generation was that, 5? GameCube and PS3? Fuck I’m old.

>cheat books were a big thing
>everyone would autistically come up with conspiracy theories about games (see: SA big foot)

I miss these the most. Now a days just about everything is known about a game before it even comes out.

Rough. Games were hard.

What are the chances of reincarnation being real? I don't want to get any older but I'm scared of nonexistence.

I was 15 in 2005, I'm double this age now so I think it's safe enough to call it nostalgia.

Ah yes, back when game stores actually existed to sell fucking games and not mountains of plastic """collectibles""" and other nerd culture garbage.

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beating a game felt like more of an accomplishment back in the day. now developers are afraid of pissing people off because they paid for a game and can't beat it. back then devs would set a difficulty level and if you couldn't do it, fuck you

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mine got torn down and turned into apartment buildings

>internet was a luxury and most working class people didn't have it
While true, bear in mind most people had library cards and therefore access to high speed internet. Going to the public library was how I got all my cheatcodes and news back then.

More like, "If you couldn't do it fuck you! Pay $19.99 for guide book, or call our 1-900 tip line."

My boomer parents refused to let me own a game console, so my gaming was restricted to the PC. I loved playing on this at blockbusters, or going to K-Mart and playing the game demos there in the video game aisles. I never got to experience the late 90s/early 2000s gaming culture.

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>Tfw indie is the only way this shitty market will get any better
>Mfw indie will probably find some way to die too

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the one I went to is a Papa Johns. The local place I mainly went to went I was a kid in the NES era is a yoga place. I can still imagine the smell of it and the excitement of friday night new release movies and Nintendo games.

Take me back bros ;_;

that's what helped the feeling of accomplishment, user
when you did it without the use of a guide

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>>internet was a luxury and most working class people didn't have it

It was not, and pretty much every community east of the Mississippi and West of the Rockies had access to at least 56k, if not some form of ADSL. Anyone that lived in an even slightly populated township had access to cable internet. Computers became extremely affordable and popular consumer products in the late 90's. Remember that internet was common enough for Sega to include a 56k modem built into every Dreamcast as a selling point, with an optional broadband adapter. Microsoft required broadband for the Xbox's online.

Shit, I lived way out in the boonies - and we had internet access out there since the early 90's. Even before then, we were getting online via dial-up to local BBSs and services like AOL, Compuserv, and Prodigy which had toll-free lines. And we were absolutely working class. Parents were factory workers. My cousin's first computer was a 486, and his mom was a divorcee single mother working as a nurse. I had a bunch of friends at school who had home computers as well, and would bring in Quake, GTA, and Duke Nukem to play in "computer class" because we pretty much had free reign. School invested in a bunch of old Apple II's because hipsters and "creative" types were idiots even back then and got duped into Apple's marketing long after it was painfully apparent that x86 and Microsoft were going to be the business standard. We had only a few Pentium and 486s, which the teachers couldn't use and even just being able to play games on them showed the students had more proficiency with them than the old football coach they got to babysit us.

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Kmart is going out of business. They don't even sell electronics anymore.

When I was little I wanted to grow up so badly. I really regret wanting that. I wish I could still put no effort in school like I have to in college. I wish I could go home and just play games all day. I wish I didn’t worry about finding a woman and still thought girls had cooties. Back when all that mattered what the new Pokemon in the next game would be, back when you bought games off the shelf based on what was cool and you didn’t listen to or care about reviews. Maybe this is what the Bible meant about gaining knowledge was bad, it wasn’t to keep you clueless, it was so you wouldn’t be aware how bad things really are......

Dentist.

Pet store

I had a fucking awful childhood that i wouldn't wish on anyone, and im so glad to be an adult. Now i can pursue my interests and hobbies as much as i damn well please. Your rose-tinted past wasn't as good as you remember it anyways.

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MEW IS UNDER THE TRUCK

I wasn’t chronically depressed and tired of life when I was 10. I’m 24 and already am getting tired of life.

Why dont they just make N64 games again? Shit, I'd be fine with that

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Same shit that happened to Hollywood. Financiers smelled the money and swarmed. Now every budget is extremely inflated in order to give maximized percent cuts to middle men.

>Come home to dad drinking
>Trying to do my homework and play vidya while my dad beats my mom
>Dad ends up dead
>Mom starts screaming at me and beating me through high school for not protecting her from my dad
>Mfw I start packing my bags as soon as I graduate
>Mfw seeing her crying and begging me to stay as I walk out the door
>She still calls me every few weeks telling me she wish she'd killed me when I was young so I coudln't have left her
>Mfw becoming a mildly successful writer

I only regret moving into northern CA

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Because every game has to make a gorillian dollars or else it's a financial failure.
I liked the old way of making a bunch of little games to make your gorillians instead of relying on one cash cow.

I was chronically depressed as soon as i hit 13. Im 27 now, it feels like it's been a lifetime of depression. Imagine what waking up every day wishing for death does to the development of your frontal lobe, you're basically a totally disfunctional human being by the end of it, and that's the story of my goddamn life.

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jesus fucking christ user I thought my life was godawful

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AAA will eventually collapse under its own bloat and alienate its customers. Indie and upstart developers will come to fill in the hole, and the cycle continues

I'm nostalgic for 1999-2009

No they weren't. The 90's era died with 9/11.

2002 - 2006 is definitely its own era though.

I'm over most of it, my parents had their own problems.
If I can offer some advice that's hard to take, remember to try not to put the hate you feel onto other people.

Being nice is fucking hard but a lot of people open up if you're open and nice with them.

Just remember to be observant for manipulative fucks that just want to drain your bank account and make you their slave
Fuck you Heather I hope you're dead

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>tfw local Hollywood Video's Game Crazy held Halo CE LAN tournaments every Friday
Bring be back. FFA Snipers in Blood Gulch with 16 people was so much fun

My Blockbuster got turned into a Bulk Barn. Not a bad store.

The Rogers Video got turned into a generic chain restaurant.

indie moved to mobile market a long time ago.

I feel the same every time I see that stupid image.

Bitch I was 13 when Cars came out.

Storytime about heather please

if that fake gay story is indicative of your writing then quit now

way better than it is now. If only for not having expectations met with reality yet

Current gf might be a snake, have suspicions and had overwhelming urge to break up with her and just be alone 2 weeks ago. Should I have done it?

Fucking kill me now.

Btw, I never got into baseball cards growing up. I use to buy these, even though I didn't have an NES. We were a Sega Master Race/System household. They had that Topps bubblegum that was like chewing glass, but tasted really fucking good once it softened up.

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>blockbuster at beach house became a five guys
Not the worst thing but damn it brings back memories of a better time

I respectfully disagree. Stuff like the GameCube, PS2, Linkin Park, Ed Edd n' Eddy, Pokémon, Spongebob, Newgrounds, and Windows XP felt like an extension of the late 90s.

hey guys is it strange that my dad still do this day rents movies?

do you think you're some kind of badass dinosaur? I was born in 97 and I grew up with a NES.

every shooter was a WW2 shooter

Mines a recruitment office for those willing to die for Isreal.

>His first console didn't even have wood paneling

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I can't get dark alliance to emulate properly and it makes me sad

>tfw born in 2001
>got a last taste of all this shit
>grew up in this horrible era
>get blamed for it
being a zoomer is suffering

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some of those games were on PS2 as well user.

This is just generic shit you wrote that sounds "correct" without actually saying anything.

I miss PC games in giant boxes with thick manuals.

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nobody's giving your underage ass credit for the PS2, user

>SPORE
This killed games for me.

>born in 1996
>been on Yea Forums since May off 2004
>the odds are so low that nobody will ever believe me
to think ive been here longer than Moot is a strange feeling
as for video games i just preserve what i can and play shit that i enjoy. i dont have anything in particular in mind, i just know im not persuaded by graphics unless the game is specifically about graphics like Rez or something

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early 2000s as fuck

This sounds like someone copy-pasta'd lines from the culture snob in Candide and just replaced Baroque music trends with video games and virgin buzzwords.

31 years old here

I'm ready to ascend to the autistic level of existence and pretend it's perpetually 1997

>1997
good year

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>mid 2000's
Pretty hype. A lot of kids excited about the 360 and its upcoming brand new games like "Assassin's Creed" which they claimed were online only. Imo, not as hype as late 90's - early '00s though. Especially the commercials for those games.

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Rei or Asuka?

Dark ages, games are just getting better.

Misato. This argument will never end

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>no limewire, newgrounds, or sonic OC's

user, are you serious?

Others take notice. This is fact.

Whatever year RE4 came out was definitely the last great year of gaming.

Here user, some quality Commercials for you to enjoy. youtube.com/watch?v=oStN4bN3XwM

Your dates are wrong but your heart and SOUL are in the right place.

>Stuff like the GameCube, PS2, Linkin Park, Ed Edd n' Eddy, Pokémon, Spongebob, Newgrounds, and Windows XP felt like an extension of the late 90s.
Fucking zoomers.

>born in 1996
>been on Yea Forums since May off 2004
You've been on Yea Forums since you were 8? GTFO

The funny thing is people think Earthbound is ridiculously priced, but with inflation accounted, it’s actually cheaper than at launch.

no u. you shouldn't be allowed to post here unless youve connected here with a 56k dial-up connection

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That's not true. You forgot to account for stagnant wages.

>Half-Life 2
I fucking hate this game. I've never understood the appeal of ANY game that Valve has ever made.

It was good! You put the game in your console and it just booted up in a couple of seconds.

Same. The one I used to go to in college with my roommates is an ER/clinic and the Hollywood Video is an urgent care center. The OG mom and pop I used to go to as a kid in the late 80s to rent NES games is a parking lot.

Its an internet cafe now.

the physics were pretty amazing back in 2004

New Retro Arcade Neon is a VR engine, not exactly what you are looking for, but you can examine individual cartridge games before plopping them into a console. It then plays the game via an emulator injection

>I've never understood the appeal
then you don't understand mods

There was a nice pizza place next door to the blockbuster where I grew up. Every time I meet with my dad for the weekend we would go get a pizza, walk next door, get two movies and one game which was usually a N64 game.

I miss those days of being able to not really care about the world.

I've always said that there should be a higher variety in graphics. Like, why the fuck don't they have "2004" era graphics settings just to A. make the game quickly before adding better graphics at the end of development, and B. allow even literal toasters to play?

>Every time I meet with my dad for the weekend

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It will forever boggle my mind that this industry thought this was a good idea. Not only did it lead to many, many studios closing, studios exiting the industry and talent/people leaving the industry because they couldn't cover the massive expenses, but it also lead to the current hell scape of imcrotransaction infested AAA games.

And the higher ups are making massive amounts of money. It went exactly as they planned because consumers are unorganized mobs who cannot fight economic corruption.

Can't tell the difference desu
retailers never advanced, which is why they died

they are like time capsules

A shitty linear WWII shooter, at that.

Hey man,messy divorces were common. Not as common as nowadays but yeah.

A golden time, not to be forgotten

Oh yeah? But was EGG on PS2?

All you doomers need to stop playing AAA slop and try some indie games out. Playing Fell Seal now and it's fucking great

I had four movie rental places plus a gas station that rented out movies which is unreal to me because the town is so small and was even smaller back then. One is now a mexican restaurant, the other japanese. The third was turned into office space for a few different businesses. I don't remember what the fourth one is now.

Zoomers weren't into those things. Zoomers such as yourself like soulless media.

Indie games are huge gambles just as much as AAA games.

>Stuff like the GameCube, PS2, Linkin Park, Ed Edd n' Eddy, Pokémon, Spongebob, Newgrounds, and Windows XP felt like an extension of the late 90s.
Shut the fuck up, you idiot zoomer.

Nah man, check out a few game play videos and you'll know of it's shit or not. Fuck I knew gears 5 and borderlands were shit from the official gameplay trailers themselves

I thought zoomers liked Minecraft, Fortnite, and capeshit?

Make it a specialist shop with a high emphasis on the climate and milieu of the time. I imagine finding and dusting off old demo kiosks would help attribute to that up.

nigger what

When I was born, baby. I got gamer in my blood.

Me too, buddy.

I've made peace with digital, but it was a pretty magical way to experience vidya as a wee one.

>lil zooms at work listening to bon jovi, credence clearwater, nirvana, and queen
gives me hope

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It was like being a teen girl in a squad

youtu.be/NSmh0KnREvU?t=74

>tfw the local blockbuster became a wedding planner office
>tfw the local gamecrazy became a hipster coffee shop

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I haven't any game past the 7th gen desu.

here is a fat fucking (you) aspie

Sherman Oaks eh?

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I'll give you GTA4 and Oblivion, but Halo was breddy gud

They're boomers.

DLC and Micro Transactions weren’t absolutely destroying the video game industry. So that was nice.

>zoomies listening to Nirvana
I hope not

Zoomers don't listen to Nirvana. Only boomers do.

I know some young folks who listen to a lot of old music that even outright stated that new music is garbage.

Alternative zoomettes do.
t.zoomer
It's basicaly a "I'm not like the other girls" band

See, nostalgia moves quite a bit faster on the Internet compared to other media, maybe because the Internet skewers younger than movie producers. In real life, nostalgic movies and TV shows in 2019 are still stuck on LE 80s.

But on the internet, it's a much different story. People online were already nostalgic about the 80s and posting "Child of the 80s" lists around 1995-2005.

Then the "le 90s kid" craze already happened online in 2005-2015 (remember all those Buzzfeed/Reddit/Facebook memes in 2012 constantly mentioning the 90s).

Then nostalgia for early 2000s stuff like Shrek, skater punk, and Spy Kids was happened online in 2015-2018.

Now in 2018-2019, the new wave of Zoomer nostalgia for LATE 00s-early 10s things like Party rock anthem, iCarly, YTP, Phineas and ferb, Team fortress 2, Minecraft, and Cool math games has swept over the internet (pic related).

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Pearl Jam is better anyways

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Was great
PC games were actually made for PC first and then ported to console, if at all
Had server browsers, dedicated servers, supported mods, supported custom maps, and devs usually gave users dev tools free of charge
Console I couldn't tell you, was too busy playing on PC in the early/mid 2000s

I haven't bought any game past the 7th gen desu.

>high school and uni kids working part time
>all secretly boomers
rap and whatever passes for pop these days isnt good work music
but ok guess they fooled me

I use to work there...

Interesting. The leap to the PS3/360/Wii seemed huge at the time, and PC actually got exclusives instead of poorly optimized console ports. Japanese games were kind of meh around that time, but it was right before Western games went to shit. G4 tech TV was also still fun to watch. It was right before Western gaming went to complete shit, but for a brief moment it was really fucking cool.

>be kid me
>go to physical media store
>That'll be $5.99 + late fees
>play for 2 days
>return one day late
>repeat

This shit was fucking retarded good riddance. Streaming games is even better than that shit like damn.

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>What was it like being a gamer in the late 1980s?
Same as now basically.

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Zoomers only listen to new music. That's one of the things that separates them from boomers.

i literally do not know wtf music has been popular since like the mid 2000s
i just listen to vidya music

Next time you see a thread on this board complaining about the graphics of [insert game here] look like shit, people saying things like "this looks like an N64 game" as an insult, the answer to your question should be apparent.

There's like three cultural eras of the 90s, each very different.

1990-1992: 80s hangover
1993-1997: Pure 90s
1998-1999: Y2K era/proto-2000s

t. 94 zoomer

F

Based. Zoomers hate the truth.

they look awful and control awful
6th gen graphics i would say could pass and those consoles (besides the dreamcast) had actual functional controls

You were 5 by the time the downfall shit era started, you didn't experience much, if any, of the old school consciously.

I remember that Bon Jovi used to be a common target for music fans to pick on, as though they were 80s Nickelback. But nowadays they're beloved.

Why do people think zoomers like Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus are "old-school"?

>tfw was deciding whether to ask for Bionicle of LoZ Windwaker for Christmas
>rented Bionicle and blasted through it in 2 days and thought it was mediocre as hell
>Got WW that year

>Another time rented RE4 for a few days
>Got to the very end of the game before having to return it
>My mom wound up buying me a copy a few days later as a gift after I went on about how much fun the game was

Renting was a wonderful thing but it's insane how it survived up until the early 2010's

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While there has been a uptick of 2000s nostalgia for the past few years it still pales in comparison to the nostalgia people have for the 90s. When people start talking about movies/tv shows/games/culture of the 90s it inevitably comes with unanimous praise and people saying they wish they could go back in time and relive 199X because everything was just so great. Yet most discussion about things from the 2000s is just some version of "hey remember this weird thing you saw back then?" or "oh man I sure wish X didn't go away".

>115 dollars
I can tell you're a zoomer, becuase you conveniently say the late '90s were the golden age, the time most of you were born. No, $50 was not equitable to $115 back then. More like $85 or so. Still pricey but not fucking 115. We still had some more affordable options like Gameboy, which were just fine. Plus, vidya these days has expensive DLC, which shoots a $60 game up to at least $80 if we're being generous. Not to mention consoles that are as high as 599 US dollars.

Let's not pretend like gaming was ever an affordable interest. You were spending thousands of dollars over a period of years on games, yes, even in 1998, the year you all glorify. Fucking controllers alone cost a fortune, still do.

mine is a mattress store last i checked

This but instead of smb 2 you got a shitty NES game eg made by LJN.

I live in Italy, i used to have two blockbusters and one Gamestop in my city centre. Now the two Blocbusters are two of those chinese crap shop where the clerk doesn't even speak your language, and Gamestop in just a closed up cubicle in the mall it used to be, now used as a storage room for the rest of the stores. Thank god a new local store came up a year and a half ago and picked up what they left. Life can be good, sometimes.

Mine is still empty, after all these years. Spirits Halloween used to use the building every October for a while, but it's been a couple years since they have.

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>When people start talking about movies/tv shows/games/culture of the 90s it inevitably comes with unanimous praise and people saying they wish they could go back in time and relive 199X because everything was just so great. Yet most discussion about things from the 2000s is just some version of "hey remember this weird thing you saw back then?" or "oh man I sure wish X didn't go away".
Well, I've seen zoomers recently talk about how 2008-2013 was a better time, with unironic memes (now they're all post-ironic), simpler mainstream politics (alt right vs SJW wasn't mainstream yet, average joes weren't thinking too deeply yet about politics), and upbeat pop music (now it's depressed).

>game store
In my country it was all about piracy back.
Never had and original PS1/PS2 game. Also other consoles didn't exist it was all about Sony consoles and piracy.
And you know what? I was legal my goverment didn't care about piracy and literal stores dedicated to piracy (games, music, movies, toys).
Good times.

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Maybe late 90s, but early 90s nostalgia is dead. This site and thread is a prime example. No one cares about Rocko's Modern Life anymore, AYAOTD, SNES, Genesis, etc.

>not Alice in chains

My Hollywood Video sat abandoned for years only to be bulldozed for when the Kroger next door became a marketplace

feels like some stupid loser youtuber is trying to get Yea Forums to do their homework for them

Early 90s nostalgia isn't prominent online anymore, but it's big in real life with the Rocko and AYAOTD movies, Disney renaissance reboots, and the SNES/Genesis minis.

The first wave of nostalgia happens on the internet, then the second wave happens in real life.

I actually feel nostalgia for the Ebin Games of the mid to late 2000's. It was nothing but games from 6th and 7th gen with some 5th mixed in occasionally and demo kiosks for the current systems. It wasn't perfect but at least it was nothing but vidya and I really fucking miss it. I still kick myself for being broke when I saw Fire Emblem Path of Radiance for 50 bucks back in 09, current EB/Gamestop will never have anything like that again since anything older gets phased out for funkos and Rick and Morty mugs

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My man, same here but PS3/Xbox 360 era changed it. My mom always took me to those places to grab a bunch of pirated PS2 games. Had to look through pages of covers and just pick what looks great. Never had an idea what reviews or even internet was until 2007, which eventually got me here in 2008

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I was about to mention Skyrim but then I realized it's nearly a decade old. What the fuck happened?

dude, i never bought a console, and I had a fucking computer with a CELERON processor. it was free so i cant complain and the reason they got that instead of the P4 i wanted was becuase i said i wanted a cd burner too and the P4 didnt have one then i said ah well nevermind thats no big deal but they said its better cause its got it now. Soo, i ended up with a celeron.
with only PCI slots. and SD-ram. i couldnt game even. not until 2008-ish. fukcing og man

my hollywood video turned into a successful pizza bar place i refuse to go to

Based.
In my country things were the same lol we didn't knew about original games only pirated copies.
I remeber some official game stores with original games imported from UK but those official stores also sold PS1/PS2 with chip and pirated copies lol

it was nice. online gaming hadn't been perfected with any formulas so you had to schedule more personally, which lead to more "caring relationships" with people you played games with. Even for people that were introverts and didn't hang out with people, there were still more steps to get the games you wanted and discovering what you might like, everything still felt fresh, even the worst bloatware could still be fun to explore as long as you had a buddy there to pass the controller back and forth with trying to break or mess up the game. it was simpler, but a little bit longer. there was more patience with things. i miss having friends that i regularly hung out and played games with so bad.

greece?

everyone over the age of 12 had a ps2

It was "okay" there was more shovelware back then. It was more exciting around 1998-2001

>t.

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I remember when there was this huge marketplace for bootleg stuff right in the middle of Warsaw. Its been eradicated since then. It was kind of fun exploring what kind of strange bootlegs existed on the market though, Good times.

Everyone talked about Halo 2. That's literally it.

Hes right. The early/mid 2000s were nothing like the 90s. They were such a different time and early/mid 2000s are closer to nowadays than the 90s ever will be. Fucking 1990-1998 was the last great time in the United States. Hope we all live long enough until the next great/notable decade comes along

i had a cousin in cinci that we used to go visit a bunch when i was a kid. my aunt would go to the flea market up there and get my cousin games. i dont know where they came from but when nintendo was out big time, you could go to the flea market up there and they had tons of nintendo games. he would get 2 or 3 new games a week. i went up there and counted his games once he had in a box. 113. i put them in alphabetical order once when he was in school.
my dad one christmas got me some games from up there. i didnt live near a big city, i bet that christmas tho i got more than anybody else. i got up and had 8 games. best one was snake rattle and roll. i burnt that game up. rest were all pretty decent too.

oh yea they were 5 bucks a piece.

Did you try the GC version?

Used to get my gaming news from magazines which were full of actual content and not social commentary about the bussines, I still read this exact magazine actually and they still haven't changed one bit.

I never even knew social commentary existed when it came to gaming, the worst political thing were the young socialists pushing for a ban on violent video games, which lead to a few TV discussions that I actually managed to pirate and watch last week.

You were excited about at least 10 tripple A titles a year and maybe one or two were less good, instead of one or two tripple A titles now and a slew of indie games.

Sony was absolutely killing it, Nintendo was close to death beyond its bigger fanboys, nobody bought anything Nintendo related anymore unless you were a kid back then, Nintendo had the stigma of being made for kids. Until the Wii launched, and global shortage made everyone panic and search the whole planet for a Wii.

Online play was Day of Defeat for me, great game that unfortunately never got a third title, only copycats that never quite managed to capture what made DoD such a good game.

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Reading so of these posts kids got no respect for the classics

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Yeah I'd agree. If you compare the zeitgeist and culture of say 1994 to 2004 it's completely friggin different. Maybe 98-99 was similar to the 2000s but that's it.

Mine is a bank.

Yeah, I remember PS2Central pre-PS2 launch used to have a bunch of people who shit on the PSX as being the death of gaming in favor of chasing the casual dollar and arguing that 3D games had less creativity and challenge than 3D games. The challenge and focus on mastery of a difficult game that was a holdover of the arcade scene they had a point about - but I never agreed with the fags about creativity. That was some serious nostalgia goggles they had on to ignore than most 8 and 16 bit games were derivative garbage partly because of hardware limitations and partly because business people chased trends for a quick buck back then just as adamantly as they chase trends for a quick buck now.

Better hardware and a third dimension added the potential for tons of variability and mechanical originality - most of which evaporated mid-way through the PSX's lifecycle.

Wasn't Bon Jovi outed as a pedophile?
At the very least, he discovered Skid Row which we got one good album out of.

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>2000-2005 was like an extension of the 90s. 2006 was when the paradigm shifted.
No it fucking wasn't. The people who say this are like 27 year olds who only remember 98-99 from the 90s and think those two years represented the entire decade. When 98-99 was in fact closer to what came after than what came before.

Plenty of them are worth returning too as well, I recently replayed F.E.A.R, Splinter Cell, No One Lives Forever, etc, and they hold up very well.

The mid 00s were great for inovative shooters and sneaking games, late 90s to early 00s were better but the mid 00s are to overlooked sometimes.

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Mine's a beauty salon. Someone should be doing a bar graph or something by now

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same as the 90s from what I was told. you rented mostly because carts were retardedly expensive.

>go to the rental store
>the new/good games are ALWAYS checked out
>settle for some licensed garbage

Casual

Any decade is defined by the later years. There's always a transition period. When people talk about the 80's it's all leather jackets, new wave, MTV, and John Hughes, not bell bottoms and the disco.

I see mw2 threads a ton more lately.

> When people talk about the 80's it's all leather jackets, new wave, MTV, and John Hughes,
Those things were already in swing by 1981

got sauce for this thot?

>stadium events $.99
I remember seeing earthbound for like $10 at Best Buy when it didn’t sell in 96 or so too.

And now the European experience
>Beg mom to go to the toys store
>Beg mom to get you a brand new game
>Settle with licensed garbage or cheap shit last gen games
>Get the good games on your birthday

>everyone would autistically come up with conspiracy theories about games (see: SA big foot)
This. No games have this anymore. People just poke through the files.

>Popular/new games are already gone
>Settle for some obscure shit you've never heard of before
>It's a literal diamond in the rough.
Name the game, for me it was Rayman 2 and some others.

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>Any decade is defined by the later years.
Nope, decades are defined by the MID years, i.e. xxx4-xxx7. When people think of the 2000s they mostly think Bush, emo, and Myspace (2004-2007), not Obama, Recession, and Lady gaga (2008-2009).

Yeah, MTV launched in like 81, shithead. And speaking of which, Beavis and Butthead are iconic of the 90's and it came out in 93.

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zzvioletzz, but can only be enjoyed if you are a boomer.

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No, this is completely wrong. The late 2000s to early 2010s were awful. I'm thoroughly enjoying everything right now, and I remember the fun of early to mid 2000s. Some eras were just better than others, it's not so simply different.

2017 was the best and really only great year since 2004.

Propped up with unnecessary expenditures like gigantic numbers of voice acting and wasteful marketing. spending for the sake of spending.

Rayman 2 was great.

mine's a liquor store now

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>How come its taking more people, money and time to make shittier games?
Most of that money is funneled into market analysis and how to best implement microtransactions to make people keep spending more.

go to Japan. In the US everything is a fucking chain now.

People are gradually realizing the quality of a game depends not on how much budget it has or how many wage slaves are working on it, but rather how much the devs actually give a shit and how much a vision the lead dev had in the first place.

>LoTR Two Towers
>SOCOM II
now that brings back memories

there were, go look up night trap or mortal kombat’s controversies. it’s just there wasn’t social media so retards didn’t have easy access soap boxes. same with shit rap music.

N64 was not $50 lol. PlayStation yes because of it being in disc, but n64 was expensive, especially third party. I remember turok being like $80. $60 was the norm usually.

I remember getting road runner back in spring of 2000, with the shark fin modem. Skipped school to come home and use it, it was mind blowing.

>it’s just there wasn’t social media so retards didn’t have easy access soap boxes.
Sure they did. It was called Church and the PTA... which is why for the longest time Republicans tended to get the blame for it despite the fact that it was the Democrats who pushed for government oversight. Because as kids/teens - we heard about the shit from our parents who got their ideas on what video games were from their moralizing peers. What they saw on TV about games was just reinforcement to that, and the whole issue got wrapped up as an extension of the existing crusades against violence and sexual imagery in movies and music.

youtube.com/watch?v=zjHrExOM-ww

user if you’re comfortable about posting it i’d guess it’s probably been an idea you’ve floated for longer than two weeks. it sucks being alone big you feel better shortly after. just make yourself be as busy as possible, with hobbies work whatever. you’ll make it out, don’t waste more time if she’s not the one.

>people are nostalgic for smartphones
>I'm still using my brick from 2007

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It all started with Modern Warfare 3 making $400 million within a day of its release. That one game made more money in a fucking DAY than most blockbuster movies of the time.

investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/call-dutyr-modern-warfarer-3-sets-all-time-record-biggest

I don't recall N64 games being so cheap at release. My poorfag ass had to buy shit used all the time

>implying anyone lurks in post-election Yea Forums
>especially the underage

>I've never played CoD:MW3
>I've only just played CoD:MW2 a few months ago because I wanted to play the No Russian level.

At least I can say I wasn't part of that particular downward slide.

mine is also a medical express. Used to be a Halloween store before that

well for me and my strict and stingy parents it was largely like
"look at all this cool junk you can't have"
i wasn't and still am not exactly sure about their financial situation at the time but all i remember is renting games, and actually buying them was a fuckin rarity

Not insane when you consider even today there’s areas with inadequate internet services. lots of places you can only get satellite, so figure a decade ago how less prevalent things were.

I think it was because everyone was doing well and the economy booming led to less turmoil. Plus most of us were blissfully ignorant.

It was a fun time without having constant internet buzz around.

You could actually have a conversation with someone without them pulling out their phone every 15 seconds.

When applying for a job you actually filled out a paper application and gave it directly to the hiring manger.

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Pre-2008 nostalgia is fine. Anything after that is zoomer cancer. Late 90s nostalgia is still the best though.

That was my aunt to a T. Super religious. Super Republican. She barred my cousin from every fad that took hold, because it was all sacrilege or something.

i gave up having tv for internet. i don't regret it.
well, until around 2006ish. it was before that the best thing and had everything i always wanted to do on it.
i have 5 300 cd book holders. i used to donwload every game that almost came out. i started donwloading and got a computer and broadband both for the first time in 2002. i filled the first book in 3 months. next book took a little over a year. next book took me from 2004-2007. next book took me from 2007-2010ish.
the next book i still have, not filled. its nearly filled right now anyway, and my computer hardrive has like probably 50 games on it right now i could burn off. i got about 20 slots left in that last book

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Anyone else excited to see Toys R Us make its comeback?

Those are all early 2000's, zoomie. By 2003, everyone was using bittorrent.

>video game store
This is the culture of my country.
But now we don't give a shit about consoles now we have free games on PC and a decent gaming rig is cheaper than a console from UK or America.

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easy access by means of instantaneous feedback. there was plenty of small pockets but it wasn’t as prevalent as it is now. religious folk were the sjws of the time. Sheer ignorance they had.

shit. There was a game drought for years before the recession at the beginning of 360 and ps no games.
bitch I was 18 when cars came out and worked at FUCKING GAMESTOP for 5 years after that.

>zzvioletzz
thanks user

>Looking at PC games
>Pick one up
>"Ah this one is heavy, it must be a good one!"

Better

Doesn't quite work the same way. DSL, which is the only other option than Satellite for millions of people, has a very limited range. Dial-Up, on the other hand, has no effective range limitation. If you wanted to pay the international rates, you could dial up an internet service in Japan and connect. Though line noise will degrade your connection speed when you connect significantly over very large distances. A lot of your old services like AOL and Prodigy had their infrastructure hundreds or thousands of miles away from their customer.

Hell, I think you can still get AOL dial-up.

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>tfw thought about killing myself every day when I was 10
>spent every day in a horrid mixture of anger and frustration before succumbing to the sadness at night and crying myself to sleep while begging God to end my life

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>Like, why the fuck don't they have "2004" era graphics settings just to A. make the game quickly before adding better graphics at the end of development, and B. allow even literal toasters to play?

They got deals with graphics card dealers and other computer part manufacturers. Do you publishers let you have a copy of their game with a purchase of a new graphics card because they like you?

Full priced games for majority of the game's life
Parents had to buy or rent games for us
But at least we had demos

earthbound got buried like most rpgs pre 2007 internet meme culture made weeb shit actually popular.
Nigger I shopped at SunCoast. People who watched anime were garbage in the 90s. Now it's every kid and soindividual on the planet and just like everything else it became stale so many years ago are parodies of parodies of parodies now.
>ywn grow up in Japan in the 80s and 90s after their economy picked up and work yourself to death

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Mines an Oriley's

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mine turned into a goodwill that just got demolished for another safeway.

I was talking to a zoomer the other day and he was talking about how much he missed 2012 and 2012 youtuber. In 2012 the recession was still in full swing at least in Europe and YouTube became completely shit with soulless hacks shitting out low-effort childrens' entertainment in the form of let's plays. Late 00s nostalgia is bad enough, but 2010s nostalgia is just awful and wrong.

On about a mile away was finally demolished five years ago after being empty for a few years. It's now a Kroger gas station.
Another one is an Auto Zone.

No, it was even more prevalent back then, because you didn't have any significant access to information outside of your immediate neighborhood beyond large media conglomerates. Cable news, local affiliates, newspaper publishers, recording labels, printing houses, radio... and they all reinforced the narrative. So you had a massive societal push from outside shaping conversations that happened on the homefront, but not a lot of feedback to the media side. That's why movies like They Live and Network were so popular and frightening.. even much moreso than today, because they represented a cardinal truth that big media had us all by the ball, and the average person was either too dumb or disconnected to do much about it. And at the time, one of the biggest media empires that was NOT on the side of the Hollyjew elite (they preferred the more orthodox Judaism practiced in Israel) was the religious right who had preacher superstars that would get on their own cable networks to spread their message. And a big player in this was Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority that aimed directly to inject religion into American politics. So there was a huge crusade on the grass-roots level to get popular support through religious institutions as a push back to the degeneracy of culture.

Also, it wasn't so much that the Religious Right were the SJWs of their time - but that the SJWs are the Religious Left of today. They're cult minded, and their inability to compromise or even co-exist comes directly from an adoption of the tactics the right pushed for decades thanks to Falwell's meddling.

Barry Goldwater tried to warn us. We didn't listen.

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Whining about snacks then getting to go to the grocery store after and getting a huge bag of candy and chips compared to the smaller bags at the video store was the best part.

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The one in my hometown became a asian take out place.
In my current City it became a vape store.

My last console was a Gamecube. Around that time, prices for a full game (in my area) went from 39.99 to 45.99 to 49.99. God the games were good though.

Cuckbuster sucked user. Mom and Pop video rental places always blew them out of the water.

fucking RIP

>lots of places you can only get satellite
Not that user, but, holy shit seriously?

Go to bed kiddo the adults are trying to talk.

I’m 28 and I’m nostalgia for last week when my dog was still alive.

Deja vu, it feels like I've seen this post before

no politics
no retardation

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Same. I remember watching the news report on the day but I couldn't be bothered to remember what year it even happened in until I was a teenager.

I paid $90 of my hard-earned allowance to buy Final Fantasy 7

it can be argued that this very thing right here is responsible for the state of video games as we know them to. While it was probably inevitable, this set the precedent.

>check on google maps
>its now nothing

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I got The Darkness brand new from game crazy for like $5. Renting a copy from the attached Hollywood Video for five days was like $7-8 and their one copy couldn't even make it passed the main menu before breaking.

I never would have played a Breath of Fire game otherwise

Also Final Fantasy III, Super Mario RPG and my extra special and absolute shit favorite Mario is Missing

>Cars

That movie came out, like, 3 years ago.

There was a game and a games workshop next to each other in my local shopping mall.
Both have been knocked down to make a Primark.

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>Mario is Missing
I will openly admit I was too stupid for that game. I considered it a waste of a rental because I couldn't figure out how to get past the first screen.

Consoles were actually worth owning because you could come home with your new game and be playing within seconds, now the only reasons to buy physical are resale and collection, a digital and physical game take up the same amount of storage and you may as well play on PC so you won't have to sit through the gimped download speeds on consoles. I can download a 100+GB game on PC in the space of time it takes me to download a 40GB game on PS4.

Heaven.
No politics
endless fun
shitposting and other nonsense.

not really, dw3 and dw3 xl was a good thing bc the latter was made bc it finished things off. then dw4 left out things on purpose to make a dw4 xl and it became something standard to the series,though not DLC it was the first time i encountered this principle

comfy but expensive

Oh fuck... That's the one... The killing blow... I cant... I have to lay down...

Babbage’s, home....

‘90-‘96 America was the pinnacle of humanity

Only true chads know about this place
My dad used to get one game one movie one CD and as many books as I wanted

sorry for you user

I still rent movies. I like checking the 50 cent rack. Love trash movies. I didnt even know Maria Ozawa did something besides porn

Yes, the US has a fuckton of rural and remote areas where satellite and dial up is all you get.

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>Blockbuster became mattress store
>gamecrazy became one of those seasonal Halloween stores

why

34 year old boomer here. I grew up on Amiga 500 and was really early on the internet because my dad had BTX (none of you zoomers will even know what that means). around 2000 was just a fantastic time for video games there were so many great games coming out. Baldurs Gate 2, Fallout 2, Planescape Torment, various GTA games. The high water mark was in 2004 when San Andreas and Quake Torunament came out. It has been on a decline ever since, then around 2010 or they started politicizing games. I find it hard to get excited about any games any more these days I just play the same old infinity RPGs every year whenever I find the time for it.