Thread 712700060

What was it like playing video games in the 2000's?

>>712700060 (OP)
It was...FUN

I love white women

You had more than one launch title for new consoles

Same as today!

>>712700060 (OP)
That's a fucking DSi at the end. This video is bullshit

>>712700060 (OP)
sex

>>712700150
t.ranny

>>712700253
I'm not trans, I don't play on consoles!

On some aspects it was better on some it was worse.
LAN's were common and they were fun. Patching games or getting new maps for games was terrible.
Metaslaving wasn't a thing back then since esports weren't big and games weren't forcing players into competitive environments

>>712700060 (OP)
It was fun because trannies didn't exist (you heard me) and women knew their place, so games weren't political and anti fun yet.

>>712700138
Nah bro, I got Twilight Princess with my Wii and that was it.

>>712700060 (OP)
Fake video. Americans weren't mutted out that bad in 2004 and that model of. Ds at the end came out MANY years later

>>712700060 (OP)
they still made games for pc first

>>712700060 (OP)
I remember when I got a DS Lite in 2006, my first game was Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow and I was pretty impressed by the graphics. I remember thinking, holy shit 3D backgrounds just like in SOTN, we can finally have PSX like graphics on a handheld.

And that thing's battery life was 10+ hours.

everyone with friends had sleep overs where we all play multiplayer games. All night turok 2 was insanely fun

>>712700138
>>712700509
"On November 19, 2006, the Wii launch was accompanied by 20 launch games."

>>712700060 (OP)
resident evil 4

I got a DS for Christmas 2004, played the shit out of Super Mario 64 DS and that Metroid Prime Hunters demo. Cliche as it sounds, it's hard to believe that was 20 years ago.

I think was one of the first DS games I got.

>>712700876
>XY XX
This unironically couldn't fly in the current era

>>712700713
by /v/ standards, there's a lot of "doesn't count" as games here

I miss it... Everything was great until 2005

>>712700138
It truly was a different time.

>>712700917
Damn, wii u must have done gangbusters with all those launch titles

>>712700060 (OP)
While too many of the games on the Wii were casual shovelware slop, opening it up and playing Wii Sports felt really fucking crazy.

>The controller is a super clean, shiny white remote
>You can just point it at the TV to select things?
>It feels really good to imitate motions and tracks well enough

The DS felt SUPER good to use as well, as someone who was playing on the OG phat DS at school being able to do download play and have multiplayer fun with friends at lunch was CRAZY cool.

>>712700509
Then you ate shit to celebrate right?

>>712700060 (OP)
>no handheld has ever replicated the sheer amount of fun I had with DS Download Play
That shit was black magic. I don't know anybody around my age that doesn't have some memory of fucking around with it.
Or otherwise the PSP kids who always played Monster Hunter together, they were cool too.
It was just a better time.

>>712700990
Those aren't ps2 launch titles. They came out well over a year after it launched

>>712701112
The Wii era was genuinely awful, every first party game had waggle, from Mario to Donkey Kong to Zelda. Shake the controller to attack, blow into the remote to fly up, every fucking game.

>>712701112
Wii sports was a ton of fun and worked so well as a pack in title. Got the normie crowd.

>>712701185
They continued making exclusives even after launch? Damn, thats crazy.

I had to save up for a very long time to afford a DS with Mario & Luigi PiT.

>>712701220
Yeah I know, like I said the console was full of shovelware. I honestly appreciated a lot of nintendos own waggle gimmicks (Galaxy was designed really well for the remote, TP was a little tacked on but I enjoyed swinging the sword at the time I played it).
The absolute avalanche of games with dogshit graphics and absolutely horrendous non-functional waggle seriously bogged the system down, and the utter baby googoogaga mode a lot of nintendos own franchises went during/after Wii era set me off of them for life.

But damn, Wii Sports and the games that WORKED on the Wii felt downright futuristic and bleeding edge, even if they were all in 480p next to their actually fucking stunning looking Xbox/PS3 gaming counterparts (Gears of War, Halo, FFXIII, MGS4)

>>712700138
it's weird that Sony only had one firstpart launch game for the PS2, and it was Fantavision. Third party really did the heavy lifting

>>712700060 (OP)
This wasn't filmed in 2004.

What went wrong?
Capitalism and shareholders was the same as then wasn't it?

>>712701112
>Sniping crows with the bow in Twilight Princess' Hyrule Field, near that one pillar
>Just cuz it's fun
>After getting them all, a Piece of Heart spawns
Pure kino

>>712701448
I remember getting SSX with my PS2
i can still hear "UBER!!", i fucking miss this series

>>712700138
Exclusives are bad for consumers and the industry as a whole. I'm more than happy with niggercattle wasting their money on Scamstations as status symbols, knowing that the rest of us aren't missing out on anything.

>>712701448
>launch lineup mogs the entire ps5 library
videogames are dead

>>712700060 (OP)
Zdaemon CTF on full servers all day every day.

bags of sand

>>712700138
And sequels came out yearly. It didn't take 10-15 years (8 minimum) to see a new game in your favorite franchise.

>>712700060 (OP)
how did we go from this...

>>712702230
How do Americans allow themselves to get so fat?

>>712702184
This is the most baffling part. You could get a sequel with updated graphics on an updated engine with new gameplay mechanics out the ass in 1-2 years. Now it takes nearly 10 and the games look indistinguishable and run a lot worse.

>>712700060 (OP)
The mid 90s to about 2007 was the golden age of gaming
>good economy for the most part
>most games became cheaper than the early 90's. Most handheld games were $30 max, console games were $50, and controllers were under $50.
>constant innovation and evolution
>constant stream of new series and original ideas
>every year felt like gaming actually progressed
>sequels, at most, would take 3 years to make and would commonly have a shit ton of bonus content
>actual fanservice in ads/games
There were down sides, but we didn't know how good we had it. The recession is a great cut off point, that awakened an era of rising costs, longer dev times, less quantity of new titles, and a graphics race that was clearly slowing down compared to the previous decade.

>>712700060 (OP)
these people are 44 now

>>712702469
We don't. We are forcefed against our will by the cia and if we sat anything about it then they

>>712700509
Why didn't you get Excite Truck you pussy bitch?

>>712702530
they what? THEY WHAT?!

>>712702230
>Switch 2 Midnight Launch .jpg
>XB360 and DS for sale

>>712702469
It generally starts in early childhood, before self-awareness is developed well enough to not only recognize that it's a major issue, but also not knowing exactly what to do. There's also the issue where hunger becomes so much stronger than normal, that it overrides good judgement. This is how binge eating followed by regret is so prevalent in the obese population. It takes over like a drug addiction.
>t. Former fat

>>712702648
>t. Former fat
post stomach

>>712700060 (OP)
The peak of humanity.

>>712702469
Our food is genetically modified and the cheapest shit is the most fattening shit. Organic food is pricier than the processed shit. Most people also have office jobs, a long commute home, and vices like vidya, booze, and weed to numb the stress. Those vices lead to more eating, which furthers the cycle. If parents aren't rich, both are working jobs, so kids are either left with family or really expensive daycare. In both cases, over eating happens quite easily. Its not surprising that 40% of america is clinically obese. In fact, its surprising that its that low. In a decade, it will be over 50% easy.

>>712700060 (OP)
What, you don't remember?

Walmart used to have a massive PC section where you could get boxed games for your PC.
I miss it so much.

>>712702916
How could I? I wasnt even born then.

>>712703023
kys zoom zoom

>>712702996
My walmart still has a PC section but very small compared to how it used to be, so small it's pointless.

>>712702778
There's loose skin that makes it still look fat and old. No.

>>712702996
This, Best Buy and Target are where I used to grab PC physicals after FUCKING Gamestop got rid of their PC section, new and used
The used PC games bin at Gamestop used to be a treasure trove

The best times were when you could go up to all these video game displays and each one would have a working console and television with demos or even sometimes complete games to play.

I remember one time spending over an hour at a GameStop playing some donkey Kong country game for the GBA

>>712702996
Honestly, the minute PC gaming became widely accessible around the world and transitioned away from CDs/physical media because most poor countries couldn't/wouldn't import the physical copies was the first nail in the coffin. Even before horse armor, even before map packs. PC gamers abandoning physical media was wrong then and its wrong now. It has done more damage to this hobby than any feminist or Chinese studio. We had it, and we killed it ourselves.

>>712703173
>>712703272
>>712703069
do you remember opening a box with a flap, and it has screenshots and pure hype for the game. Inside, it would have a thick manuel and the 2 CDs, and maybe a poster, or an info cheat sheet (age of empire 2 tech sheet).
kids will never know

2000s had a lot of dudebros

>>712700060 (OP)
It's the time where 3D was being figured out across many a genre but not inherently 'solved', so there was still plenty of room for exploration - for better or worse, but game output per studio wasn't a complete joke either. You'd have entire trilogies of games made for one console and they'd be substantially more different between entries. Partway through, F2P titles were getting figured out still on PC and had notoriety for P2W, full AAA games being downloadable wouldn't really be a feasible thing for most until near the end of the decade.

Beyond that, some unassorted tidbits:
>All 6th gen consoles had online play to a limited extent, internet infrastructure still varied a lot between first-world countries
>Wi-Fi technology would come into relevance in the middle of the decade, DS and PSP having it followed by 7th gen consoles supporting it in some capacity
>Mobile games were a lot more simple until smartphones took prominence by the turn of the decade, but they still had things like RPGs and platformers
>Internet culture as we know it was beginning to take form; direct references to memes and language were generally rare until later, pop culture references would vary in subtlety otherwise
>Flash games and animations on the likes of Newgrounds opened the door to amateurs who might have gained later online relevance in some manner
>It was much more difficult for indies to get onto Steam before Greenlight happened much later; Super Meat Boy was rejected multiple times before finally getting on there
>Tons of licensed video games based on films, of varying quality

>>712700060 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaXoDWSQQrk
>tfw remember playing metroid prime hunters demo, pictochat, urbz, spiderman 2 and SM64DS
>tfw played these games with my brother and sister on launch day.
I wish new console releases kept the soul that they once had, kids gettomg new consoles to play a less shitty version of fortnite is so weird to me.

>>712700138
still do

>>712700060 (OP)
From my perspective it was nothing but a long unbroken string of hit after hit after hit, it was a miracle I made it through school

I actually carried the OG Xbox around to my friend's house for LAN play, it was quite a workout. We played mechassault during breaks at school

>>712703604
>it's 2004
>online gaming is still fairly new
>you look inside the front flap of this game and are immediately sold on the promise of adventure it gives
>spend the ride home thinking about all the adventures you'll have and the people you'll meet
>little did you know it was the worst thing that could ever happen to the genre and would end up destroying MMOs forever

>nobody noticed the dsi at the end
>meaning the video isnt 2004
>posers and posturers pretending and acting like they were there for the ds launch
>dont even know that the ds wasnt well received because poor quality and it was the ds lite that truly sold bank
/v/tards

>>712702786
is there any place that still sells these old wooden battlestation desks?

>>712704156
>"mom, it says i need to pay monthly for this game after the first three months"
>"no"
I'm glad my parents never let me play it

>>712704257
>>712700186
>>712700529
>modern phone resolution
>more than 30fps
no shit this video is fake, it's nostalgia bait.

>>712700060 (OP)
You can tell this was recorded recently, so many anons completely clueless

I can tell it's fake because the phenotype is modern. When I look at the yearbook from 2008 and gen alpha it's like looking at gen 1 Pokémon compared to Scarlett and violet

>>712702521
>>712706134
>>712706383
the bitch at the end of the video is holding a DSi

>>712706383
That and the video being vertical and its quality is what immediately set off an alarm. Then you realize there's an Attack on Titan funkopop there too, how much of a nigger do you have to be to make fake videos about DS release

>>712704373
I played a lot of MMOs just on that first free month. Almost none of them were worth playing beyond it.

We pirated games on PC before Steam really became a thing.

Xbox Live was new and fantastic. Before insulting people or talking shit became a banable offense.

>>712706383
>>712706640
It's incredible America went to shit just in 2 decades

>>712706383
lmao this, I could tell something was off just by the people in the video

>>712706640
me in the back

Video games died when manual booklets did.

>>712706640
Fuckin' jeans man. I don't miss them.

>>712706640
>>712706829
why were people so much happier 20 years ago?

>>712700990
Thank fuck exclusivity is mostly dead now. What a cancer jew fuckery that was.

>>712706895
less niggers

I'm tired of these fake nostalgia

>>712704306
no ya gotta get lucky on like second hand market sites

>>712700060 (OP)
I bought a DS with a flashcard and pirated Ouendan and spent my entire summer to the tune of "LINDA! LINDA!" then played phoenix wright
It was fucking awesome, the DS and Wii era was the last time this hobby had a fucking soul

>>712706925
zoomers all boughted a ds doe

This comment section reflects society on a larger scale, a lot of retards being completely oblivious and no one paying attention to the actual truth

>>712700060 (OP)
So many unique games on ps2

>>712700186
wasn't DSi one of N's biggest fails
Has Nintendo done a single refresh/pro version of a console that isn't milquetoast at best
GameboySP, DSi, N3DS, Switch OLED

>>712706895
Social Media hasn't rot people's brain yet

>>712703604
Remember that freshly printed smell when you open the manual for your new game? I loved jamming my nose in those and taking a huge whiff.

>>712707386
I know this is cliche answer, but it's true. People don't actively surf the web anymore, they passively plug in and let the algorithm feed them "content" that's designed to grab their attention, make them feel angry, or sad, but ultimately will be forgotten within the next minute as they consume the next thing. What you end up with is something similar to watching television, but somehow worse because at least with television, you had to choose what channel to watch and what shows you wanted to be present for. Now everyone's depressed and stressed out from being online, but can't even remember why. Modern doomscrolling is the already-chewed bubblegum of entertainment, completely devoid of nutrition.

>>712707684
Plus, there's another issue at least here in Europe. Many people feel like they have to travel during every holiday. I know so many families who fly abroad for all four major breaks: summer, autumn, winter, and Easter. They're constantly stressed and often book their trips a year in advance.

>>712707967
Nobody can afford that here in the US, maybe once a year tops. Everyone's fucking broke now.

>>712707385
it was the 3rd or 4th version of the DS.

>>712701220
>every
Skyward Sword
Wario Smooth Moves
Wii Sports

In many games waggle was just the result that people figured they can get away with minimal input

>>712708320
The i came with better hardware. It had a few exclusive games to it.
I thought the SP had better hardware too, but it really was just a different design and backlight

>>712708598
>Xbox
>PS2
>GC
>Dreamcast
Bet you were real popular

>>712706895
back then, when someone was taking a photo of you, it would be obvious, so you would smile to look your best

>>712708609
That backlight of the SP was a game changer
Best redesign Nintendo ever did

>>712707385
>wasn't DSi one of N's biggest fails
Is 33 million units a failure?

>>712702469
The government makes deals with companies to put more cheese in their food unironically

>712706917
>712701886
(You)

>>712700060 (OP)
Better in some ways and worse in others, but overall better than now.

>>712706895
EVERYTHING was better. EVERYTHING.

I remember talking to myself out loud playing games in my room alone way before let's plays and such were a thing.

this makes zoomers screech and piss themselves in terror

it was like a n64 but..... le shittier? didn't hold a candle to the gba

>>712709593
What's the cut off for zoomer? I was boring in 98 and had a CRT in my room all the way up until GTA V released

>>712709593
>Yellow
>Peanut Butter
>Pretzel

>>712700060 (OP)
2003-2006 was probably my peak in terms of enjoyment of the hobby. every saturday I would rent a ps2 game and a movie and I would just no-life it until monday. the games were awesome and my conscience was clear since there was no drama in my life yet, I was in bliss.

>>712700138
KEK Super Mario 64 was the only game I had for a while

>>712709668
The introduction of HDMI

>>712709668
1997

>>712709668
Technically 97

>>712709726
1994

>>712709769
If you're American and have solid memories of life before 9/11, you're not a zoomer.

>>712702469
food is cheap. corn subsidies incentivized food corps to make tons of varieties of snacks to tempt the layman.

>>712709593
Baby Boomers couldn't figure this shit out either. Dad knew how to change a transmission on a car but couldn't figure out how to change channels on a new TV. For millennials our greatest fear was the kitchen. We can't cook for shit.

>>712710003
I can make a bomb ass potato salad (secret ingredient is bread and butter pickle juice).

>>712709096
yeah except it was like a year away from the DS release

>>712702469
as an american, a lot of it is laziness. it takes effort to prepare meals yourself. it requires self restraint to stop eating. also, life is hard and eating food is one brief respite from it. i'd say a lot of it is still laziness and gluttony though. all the people blaming it on the food are just looking for a cop out.

>>712702469
You'll get lots of cope answers about how it's totally not their fault, but it is. You can make healthy food for fairly cheap. You can eat less for free. These people aren't eating vegetables that have been sabotaged to make them fat, they're drinking soda and eating chips. They're basically degenerate drug addicts. America will just get fatter as the country becomes browner and dumber, assuming the same access to food.
t. living in the Philadelphia nightmare

>>712710003
I can cook but I hate doing so in a tiny ass kitchen compared to what I grew up in.

I'm genuinely very happy when I get access to a big ass kitchen and someone to help me find a good local butcher shop.

>>712709593
This shit was retarded even back in the day. Don't act like you're on some high horse because you thought having to plug in a million same colored wires was cool. This shit is one of the things I don't miss at all.

>>712700917
I waited on a few but these are the games I bought alongside each console
NES: Mario Bros and Ice Climber
SNES: Super Mario World and Sim City
N64: Ocarina of Time and Pokemon Stadium
Gamecube: Smash Bros Melee
Wii: Twilight Princess
Wii U: Xenoblade X

Didn't buy a switch, bought some switch games, but I just emulated the console.

>>712710336
americans are so funny everything they dont like
>ITS THE BROWN PEOPLE NOT ME
kek

I knew some rich kid I was pretending to be his friend (he was ugly and literal gay) so I could rent video games for free. I could tell he never like playing video games and just wanted friends and play outside. I was the opposite.
He has fucking everything. NES, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, a fucking 3DO, Dreamcast all the way to Xbox era. One day he straight up left to join the army and his parents gave me everything. If I were to value his collection today, it would be over $10,000 worth of games and consoles.

> people meeting up to have lan parties
> console games designed for split-screen co-op
> party games
> playing stripping games with your friend's older sister

>>712710119
nobody bought DS at launch

>>712700060 (OP)
Gamer girls were cute back then, not the e-whores of today

>>712710712
It is a statistical fact that non-white populations in the US have a higher obesity rate. It may make you mad, but this is easily verifiable information. From that, it's easy to assume that more of them will mean a fatter country. I'm excluding Asians because they're a tiny percentage but I think they're easily the thinnest demographic in the country.

>>712710323
There's going to be various factors that go into the growing (fattening if you will) obesity, food is obviously going to be one of them
If I wanted to give a non-meme answer then people just spent too much time sitting on their ass in their car. The country for the most part isn't fit for walking or biking anymore so no one is getting the passive exercise attained by using your legs to get somewhere. Instead if you want to exercise, you have to dedicate a separate block of gym time, which realistically a lot of people are going to find boring especially after the initial gains slow down and fail to keep it up
There's probably also something to be said for the increase of indoor activities, computers, TVs, phones, etc. Not as much hype around some sport to do with your friends like skateboarding or something since people are just watching them their tiktoks

>>712711726
and actual women

>>712710983
>friend has pool
>be good swimmer
>put on goggles and head to bottom of pool
>look up
>35lbs of sister pussy and ass
good memories

>>712711726
Girls didn't play video games until 2011-2012

there were way less gay people back then

>>712711726
>>712712185
they played mostly Sims and browser social games

>Friday afternoon
>get home from school
>throw off uniform
>jump in the pool
>go inside in your towel
>hair still wet
>mom brings in snacks
>you and and brothers each have a friend over
>xbox system link halo 2 in two rooms
>playing all sorts of customs and team games
>pizza for dinner
>play long into the night
>music below playing in between sessions

https://youtu.be/KCSDeT6dPSU?t=274

Best gaming experiences of my life

>>712700060 (OP)
Games used to come complete and didnt require updates or patches to add the rest of the game later.

Shooting games had private servers that you would join on a daily, knew most people from the server, chat with each other, decided rules to make the game more fun, clean screen HUD, not getting spammed with numbers everytime you do an action

BF2 I will always miss you

like playing video games now, but the technology was shittier and you had to deal with your grandma smoking indoors and stinking the house up while you were just trying to play Resident Evil 2

>>712710336
Its amazing how much life improves once you move outside of Philadelphia. Like even 10 feet from the city border in Rockledge is 1000x better than the Philadelphia side. It does wonders being in an area where the police are allowed to do their job without the DA constantly hindering them.

>>712708110
Yes you can. Visiting a foreign country in Europe is like a $150 flight that takes an hour and a half. That's like taking a trip from Boston to Washington DC. Also the median salary is lower in Europe than it is in the USA.

>>712711787
Back then "fake gamer girl" implied the "gamer" part was fake

>>712702469
High-fructose corn syrup, it's in everything that is sold in America.

I remember both me and my then best friend buying a copy of Pokemon HGSS on release day, he got Gold and I got Silver, then spending the entire day + a sleepover just playing it together, trading pokemon and battling, we even setup our pokewalkers and went for a walk to buy snacks to farm watts and catch Pokemon on the tiny device

it was a mix of "you had to be there" + the joy of how simple was life before smartphones and social networks took over + being younger

>>712700060 (OP)
>16:9 vertical video
>resolution higher than 640x480
>clean bitrate
obvious bait video is obvious bait video

>>712716042
I'm out soon, finally switched positions to one that's going to let me leave. It's sad though, generations of my family have lived here. I also love a lot of the architecture here, specifically the late 19th and early 20th century buildings. It's like a sci-fi novel where degenerated tribesmen are squatting in the ruins of a once advanced civilization.

>>712700060 (OP)
it was the same as it is now, but I was 25 years younger and married. I hate that bitch.

This looks nothing like 2004

>>712707385
The DSi had Flipnote Hatena. That alone made it fun

>>712711787
its kinda fucked up that a word who's definition we've agreed on for the better part of our ENTIRE EXISTENCE has been hijacked. like the whole point of pronouns is so I know what's on the tin, and we're just lying now?
there's nothing wrong with boys wanting to be girls but thailand does it correctly and they call themselves ladyboys so theres NO FUCKING CONFUSION

>>712708110
t. has never had a girlfriend

>>712700060 (OP)
>>712700186
>>712705861
I hate millennials.

>>712717673
yeah you can tell by the fact that everyone in it is a sickly weird looking mutt

>>712708609
SP was originally front lit, but the final revision of it changed to a much better backlight

For me it was Emulators and the R4 card and the PS2

>>712709195
I see this and just imagine the opioids, suicides and failed marriages. lol

>>712702469
No food regulation.
Shit diet full of sugar and fat.
Car centric lifestyle.
Bullshit job sitting all day on a desk.

>>712718120
>grow up in arguably the best era of human history
>get to watch it all burn in your 20s and 30s
Is it any wonder?

>>712706917
Consoles are pointless without it

>>712710712
>>712711736
Worldwide, brown people are also the fattest.

>>712700342
>getting new maps for games was terrible.
>game has a file directory
>download fan made map
>pick one from 100s often times
>just drag and drop
>turn on game
>level works
????????????????????????

>>712701181
i downloaded meteos on download play with my friend when we were in HS. Miss you Marcel you were based.

>>712701440
my friends and i played re4 on gamecube a lot when it came out but i think the version which is the most fun to play is re4 on the wii standing up in front of a big tv. yes i agree with your points though, all of them. the last nintendo console i owned was the wii.

one undermentioned game on the wii was monster hunter tri though. the online was cool. in between missions, when you sat in the lobby with other players organizing your gear you could type to eachother using a USB keyboard. felt like a mini MMO.

>>712718362
>less than 45% of America is obese
I thought it was closer to 80%

>>712719214
Overweight, yes, but obese is a pretty high bar

>>712702504
bro were handheld games only 30.00?? its been so long i dont even fucking remember.thats a good value. the last time i really played handheld games was like 2004-2006. GBA games probably were 30.00 but i never thought about it. i wonder about DS games. i remember playing the shit out of metroid prime hunters.

wish i could go back. really felt like every year everything was improving.

>>712702786
those were really fucking comfy. loved them. something about the big battle station set up i think helped immerse you into what you were playing. sort of like an arcade cabinet. i would also sit in stupid ways sometimes where i would face the screen at a 45 degree angle with my calves on the desk like a retard.

>>712702791
i think a lot of people eat because on some primal level it makes them happy for a bit, but its kind of depressing because i feel like a lot of obese people are probably just depressed. ive always been skinny or muscular and slim. but a lot of people i know have gotten petty chubby. and i know some of them 100% use food to cope with stress and being upset. maybe if the world was a little less fucked up people wouldnt binge eat so much and become obese. i try to help people with diet advice and exercise advice to help them feel better but its like pulling teeth. someone who meant the world to me died last year and if he had just exercised a little and cut down on the junk food they would still be here.

>>712717480
>It's like a sci-fi novel where degenerated tribesmen are squatting in the ruins of a once advanced civilization.
I get that exact feeling driving through Frankford/Kensington and seeing the giant steel archways and overhead metros, surrounded by fentanyl junkies.

I genuinely miss technological leaps, lads. 2004 felt so far away in 2014. And now 2014 feels like it was yesterday.

multiple new titles constantly happening, nintendo games would go down to 20, which allows your allowance to get multiple games instead of saving up for a bigger title.

>>712702996
ive only been to a walmart like 3 or 4 times in the last decade i think. in my mind it still looks like this. i miss when they had the happy face logo instead of the soulless starburst thing. honestly kind of an analogy for what happened to the world. going from interesting/cheerful to minimalist/abstract everywhere.

>>712703604
when i was really young and mostly played console stuff, the box interaction you described of PC games made me feel jealous like PC games were higher quality products. i feel like there was a subtle art form to making a kino looking "big box" pc game. I would go to EB games in the 2000s and just flip through them. pretty sure i did that at Best Buy also.

>>712718063
back when the original SP game out it felt like the fucking future. I dont think i ever touched my gameboy advance ever again after that. it looked like a little futuristic mini laptop too which is kino. i never had any issue with the original screen and i was surprised when i heard there was an updated model. i sort of want one because i have a lot of nostalgia for the SP formfactor. that being said the DSLITE other than the fucked up hinges may be superior in every way. not sure.

>>712706838
they're still a norm

>>712720698
I haven't seen a single person under the age of 50 wear jeans in over 10 years. Fuck jeans. Awful clothing.

>>712702504
i think there is a crazy amount of shit in your post that is all true. it really did feel like every year up to the recession, everything was getting better. i sometimes wonder how different things would be if the recession had hit just another year or two later. it doesnt sound like it matters but i feel like it would have led to another wave of amazing things we would still talk about today.

>>712703685
thats a good thing--- they want sports game and stuff but their presence probably slowed down how fast gaming turned into what it is today.

>>712718317
their purpose is being entry level and low iq

>>712701274
Game?

>>712700060 (OP)
The kids still love nintendo

>>712720176
As someone who worked at Walmart for over a decade, I witnessed this shit slowly creeping in first hand. I remember at one point they were pushing for "in Sam we trust" on everything for associates, along with the cringe cheers everyone posts, etc, just as the smiley face slowly vanished from everything, the name badges weren't done by hand with stickers anymore, etc. Like you could feel what little soul Walmart had left being sucked out of the place.

>>712700060 (OP)
I was in a clan and made friends I still am friends with today even though we've all branched off into playing other shit

Kind of like playing video games now except you were a child so you remember it being better

>>712703850
consoles are pretty soulless today. i remember birthdays and christmas where i would get a console. the box was packed with a bunch of cool looking varied games. brand new IPs or really cool looking new entries of old franchises. and i didnt have to update anything or log into anything to use it. 10 minutes after opening the box everything was set up and ready to go. no updating games either no day1 patches. and i knew that no matter what console i got i was going to get a lot of cool exclusives. couldnt go wrong. everytime i got a console back then i felt like it was life changing. now a console seems like a hassle to set up- might take you an hour or two to get it working and for your game to work. and the thing probably only has 5 interesting things on it that all look the same.

>>712700060 (OP)
>2025 video quality
Does anyone not realize this is fake?

>>712721512
Nope, it's only been mentioned about 100 times so far. Great eye, poindexter!

>>712702996
>x3:reunion
damn i wasted a lot of time playing that

>>712721221
its honestly bleak dude. i only recognized it in retrospect but even something as simple as the floor is more depressing. sure white glossy linoleum or whatever they had back then isnt fancy, but its a lot more warm than grey hard concrete everywhere. i had to go to a walmart with my coworkers for some stuff last year and there are camera now in the aisle at face level in the asprin aisle with a little monitor emphasizing that you are being watched the entire time. its fucking weird. and i had to buy a tent at one point and they were all locked up in glass cases as was a bunch of other shit. i know that is because of crime and shit going up but all of it adds up to be a store i just dont like being in. i also feel like they changed something with the lighting because it feels a lot more harsh than it did in the past. it has a shitty atmosphere to it.

>>712706829
i miss lans and it being enough to have one guy bring a copy of a game for everyone to install and play it and everyone brought a bunch

>>712721143
that guys hamstrings tensing up while he is grabbing those stupid toys is super funny like he is in full fight or flight mode

>>712721783
>he is in full fight or flight mode
He is. Not a single one of them intend to pay for any of that, it's a modern smash and grab.

>>712700060 (OP)
The greatest experience ever, to the point that even when today is shit people still are attached to videogames

>>712704156
my friends growing up all played this at its peak and i kind of regret not trying it. i made fun of it because i thought it looked stupid---but i feel like the appeal of that game was the community experience at the time and not the game itself. i hopped on my friends account just saying dumb shit once and instantly met fun people to talk to within like 10 minutes just shitposting in public chat.

>>712706024
>there is an alternate universe where these people remained relevant by making honest reviews and commentary on videogames through youtube after G4 ended instead of fading into irrelevancy and sess becoming obsessed with politics

>>712721423
Idk dude I recently started getting into ps2 emulation and it's honestly really good. Back then budgets were smaller and dev times were shorter so devs took more risks and had more creative liberty than they do now. GTA Vice city took a year to make and San Andreas, a game that was impossibly massive for its time, only took two years. Nowadays games take 7+ years so that causes them to take less risks and follow the game design principles of money hungry corporate stooges instead of the people with creativity.

>>712710983
Gaming never got better for me than the weekends my friends and I would each bring a CRT TV and a PS2 to one of our houses and play 4player monster hunter with some cheap local pizza and Jolt cola

>>712700060 (OP)
are we just going to ignore that this video starts off with a nigger stealing one?

>>712704373
This. My brother sold all his stuff when he was 10 just to pay for WoW and then it's all he did for the next 20+ years.
I played the free trial and couldn't understand the hype.

>>712706383
something about the glasses looked off. cant explain it. i think back then thick rimmed was in style.

>>712700917
Nintendo 64 can't be correct, I had Shadows of the empire as my first game and couldn't get mario until months later

>>712722114
Or how about the fact it's in 9:16 aspect ratio and 4K?

>>712706838
jean are something that will never go out of style i think its just the cut of the pants and the color. i think sometime around the mid 2000s darker faded jeans and black jeans became popular. i have not seen many people wear those baggylight faded jeans since like the 2000s though.nothing wrong with them though. but i think somewhere they became a dad article of clothing like certain types of sneakers.

>>712722078
but monster hunter didn't have local multiplayer, just server based

>>712722176
dont be a fag- i gave the video the benefit of the doubt initially that it might have been cropped to repost online. it isnt 4k but you are correct though shit was like 240p back then on a flip phone.maybe 360 not sure been too long.

>>712722239
This. Since jeans were invented like 250 years ago, they've always been the working man's pants and probably always will be.

>>712720168
>The NES and the Wii are 20 years apart
>The Wii and the Switch 2 are 20 years apart
Diminishing returns is a bitch

>>712706895
people still had hope and optimism for the future- i literally think that is one of the main components.

>>712722274
correct

>>712701448
I don't think people realize how much trash there is here when htey post this image. Only two good games on there, three decent games and the rest are trash.

>>712706917
it was based at the time when each console was trying to be the best but they each had differing hardware. so certain games ran better or were only possible on one or the other. you are right though if its a game that can be on all 3 consoles it was kind of dumb to have it just be on one- however the console libraries back then were so vast it ended up being a non issue because with any singular console you probably had as many games as the entire console market today. maybe i am exageratting but i feel like i would be close. i am not a ps2 shill and preferred the xbox and the gamecube however that is a good example of what i mean in terms of a large library making it irrelevant if you didnt get the games on the other consoles. each console was such a bargain buying a second one didnt even matter. and they all fucking looked cool. now they all look the same like routers and apple products.

>>712722484
which games do you think are good there? based on that i will figure out how i will reply to (you)

>>712722603
Madden and NHL

>>712700917
I didn't know Pilotwings was a snes launch title. I loved that game as a kid

>>712722484
It's always the same double standard.
If a modern console launch has ports or sports shit or kiddie movie-tie in shit then it's bad, but when PS2 or Gamecube did it then it's a-okay.
That PS2 pic has 8 sport titles, 5 arcade ports, 3 Dreamcast ports and only 3 real exclusive games, none of which are big titles. It's still more exclusives than Switch 2, but we live in a reality where BoTW was a "Switch exclusive" when it was a Wii U game lol.

>>712722878
>If a modern console launch has ports or sports shit or kiddie movie-tie in shit then it's bad
If only they did. Instead they launch with nothing at all, not even shovelware.

>>712707684
it probably sounds like schizobabble to most people i explain it too, but humans did not evolve under any conditions like the ones that we live in with the internet and the way it changes our lives. being plugged in and having to be aware of so much shit isnt natural, having to tailor your speech or your behavior around millions of people you have never met and will never met is not natural. being able to date and select from so many people is not natural in any way either. just shit off the top of my head but humans evolved to just basically think about their immediate world around them and whatever group they belonged to. our brains probably from a simple evolutionary level are not formed in a way to process all of this shit in a way that is healthy in anyway. especially now that the internet is something people use not just daily but constantly. once or twice a week in the past was an entirely different ballgame with periods of normalcy to keep you grounded. wish i could articulate it better but im getting sleepy.

>>712722878
>That PS2 pic has 8 sport titles, 5 arcade ports, 3 Dreamcast ports and only 3 real exclusive games
Gj you named 19 games

there are people here that did not experience the pre-smartphone era
isn't that strange

>>712723172
Yeah, like all the kids in that video. It's very odd that teenagers born in like 2012 are now trying to recreate product launches that happened years before they were born.

>>712709395
let me know more about big cheese

>>712709692
i miss those days a lot. would go there with my dad and brother. dad would get a movie and my brother and i would each grab a game. sucks that im older than my brother because he hardly remembers that shit and those days are long gone.

>>712710003
lots of boomer moms cant cook either so never passed the knowledge down- lot of families the dad had to do that too.

>>712710578
crazy how much changes in just a decade or two- growing up with places like blockbuster as a kid and toysrus, places that existed before you were born, you just assume a lot of things will be there during your life that already existed before you got there. arcades are gone too. malls are largely gone and the ones that are still around are usually shit. the places i grew up with that are still around are only things like fucking mcdonalds and tacobell--- and they all look like dentist offices now.

>>712700060 (OP)

The downside was that there were much more console-exclusive titles

The upside was [video game franchise] got its next installment after 3 years instead of 10+

>>712719214
is 80% of the country seriously over weight? how? like i know its bad but 80% what the fuck? thats crazy.

>life is fucked up
>all time low
>realize at least im not fat
> in a select group of 20% of the population

WE CANT STOP WINNING IM THINKING WERE BACK BROS

>>712700917
N64 won since mario 64 is an all time classic

>>712723983
>The downside was that there were much more console-exclusive titles
Yeah, but the consoles were so cheap, you could have them all for less than the price of one today.

>>712724049
The CDC says that by 2030 it'll be 90% and by 2045, 100%, yes ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of America will be overweight.

None of your business zoomerfaggot

>>712706895

zoomers here dont realize what a wealth and power transfer the 2008 recession was, and how easy life was before it

90+ IQ and not crippled? a house and cars were yours

>>712707385
The DS Lite unironically saved the DS family
People don't understand how big of an upgrade it was
You went from a UFO looking shitfest of a system using the SP charger with horrible screen lighting to a sleek, modern handheld that looked like the iPhones of the time with a much brighter screen while retaining GBA functionality

>>712712185
>>712712275
the ones knew around 2008-2010 played stuff like weaboo games, stuff like okami and soul calibur, also harvest moon, and finalfantasy. these are 4 people off the top of my head.

the difference between modern female gamers and older ones in the past is they literally did not care about the made up DEI problems like characters having large boobs or whatever. i think some of them were bi though makes sense.

oh yeah there was another one who play WoW. but yeah it was a different breed of gamer than the modern type. they wanted shit that looked cool.

>>712724194

No they werent dude, games and consoles were comparatively much more expensive.

Super Mario 64 was 70 dollars in 1996; the PS3 launched at fucking 700 in 2006. You're maybe thinking of the Gamecube which had its prices gutted after its sales plummeted to nothing within a year

Which DS system should I get, DSi XL or DS Lite?
>inb4 3ds
Already have one, I use it for 3DS games only though due to the screen quality on DS games

>>712724470

***600, not 700

>>712724330
This. My boss was 22 in 2005 and he managed to get a 3 bed 2 bath house and a brand new Lexus with a factory job he'd just started. His house he paid 150k for is now worth 1.5 million. I was only 15 then and I curse not being born 5-10 years earlier all the time. I'll never own a home.

>>712712318
man its tough hearing that menu theme and not getting a little sad. its a good piece of music that is already emotional, something 343 would never use as a menu theme or in a game at all. but it also makes me realize how far back those days were when this shit was popular. it feels like a different life and a different world now. i play this occasionally on MCC on xbox1 for nostalgia along with halo 1 in multiplayer and its fun but it isnt the same either.

>>712700509
No Wii Sports?

>>712724583
he was lucky-- there are stories i heard of guys in that age range who were in construction and had a wife and a family and a house. 2007 2008 financial crisis got rid of all the construction. lots of stories of the guys losing the job and getting divorced and losing the house. but yeah i still feel the same way you did. our early 20s were in the weird zone of shit turning into clown world and the social media hellscape we have now. not the environment i wanted for my 20s or anything like what i saw in tv and movies growing up. shit got weird fast.

>>712700060 (OP)
If they really wanted to make it look like 2004, why didn't they just use a camcorder from that era? Or are zoomers too tech illiterate to figure out how to transfer a video from a camcorder to a computer?

>>712724250
>they dont think i will probably get fat
>they KNOW i will get fat
what the FUCK do they know that i dont

Being a kid in the 90s and reflecting on the 80's of less than a decade pass was like thinking about a distant time. A mysterious era that might as well have been prehistory.

In contrast 2004, literally over twenty years ago, feels like yesterday

>>712724952
All part of the plan.

>>712724956
idk about that man i have the opposite impression. yeah in the 90s the 80s felt like it was a while back, but a year felt like a long time too back then being so young. the 80s didnt feel like it was a different world with different rules to me, just felt like some shit basically looked diiferent.


when i think of 2004 and today, it feels like its almost been longer than 20 years because the world has changed so fucking much in what feels like every possible way. i also feel like 2000 had more in common with the 80s than 2020 has with the 2000s. just my opinion though. shit feels close to being dystopian at times now. like its not that far from becoming a bad movie.

I got a DS Light and the first Professor Layton when I was a kid because I was going in for surgery
... I got a lot of things because I was going in for various hospital visits, maybe I should have just died instead

>>712725017
i remember when i watched this, being disgusted by the way humans were portrayed in the future. not in an edgy way just it left a impression on me when i watched it and i would think about it occasionally at times in my life. i wonder how many other people reacted in a similar way.

i also describe a lot of modern tech as wall-e tech because starting with the nintendo wii i feel like everything started to look like shit from the wall-e future. im sure it was apples influence but i think even apple made interesting looking stuff until around that time the wii came out. 2007 ish.

>>712700060 (OP)
All those people are dead now.

>>712725302
at least you got to experience some good stuff and some good times-- its better that you did. sometimes i wonder if reincarnation is real or not because if you and i get reincarnated our next life will probably just pick up in the year we died. and the world is going to probably be way shittier then. so what you and i have right now is like easy mode even if we dont know it yet.

normal person:
>woah shows you how fast time goes i should appreciate the moment more
/v/irgin
>the present is SHIT i'm going to choose to be miserable and keep bitching about things not like being like when i was a kid forever!!!

>>712700509
Tony Hawk's Downhill JAM???

>>712702184
>>712702482
That's because people shit on games for doing that. Asset reuse became a stain in the seventh gen and so everything had to be refreshed with every title because that's what people clearly wanted (which leads to shit like Insomniac essentially remaking NYC for Spider-Man 2 and bloating the budget by an unnecessary few hundred million).
The only major AAA company still engaging in asset reuse is Capcom really, and they get a lot of shit for it still.

>>712700821
same kek. dont know why i asked for it but it was a good little handheld.

>>712701220
IRL skill issue. I can't believe people still complain about muh waggle. Post BMI

>>712702469
Poverty, forced car lifestyle, English derived diet, take your pick

>>712725616
i try to make every day count by trying to make my family and the people around me happy. and i try to constantly find ways to improve peoples day. i try to be grateful every day for the small things in life that i can. and i try to make the most of what i have.

but none of that can prevent me from being constantly reminded that the average quality of life has dropped dramatically in the last 20 years. coping doesnt change that. and i do appreciate the present for what it IS because 10 years from now things will probably be even worse. so i force myself to try.

>>712700060 (OP)
Some of those people are dead now

>>712725697
That must be why Zelda games don't sell

>>712700138
DS launch lineup was absolute ass. horrible drought of games followed. the library didn't get good until literally a year later. Early DS was also a kusoge machine.

>>712720998
No it didn't, normgroids are the ones who pay for battle passes for CoD, and buy yearly slop because it's an endless sea of chumps

>>712725360
Yeah, the Wii was the symbol of the Wall-E future, a lazy future where nobody bothers to even stand up anymore. The Wii doomed humanity to a lifetime of sloth.

>>712721221
You seen that Walmart+ shit? Early access shopping at Walmart for a fee? Depressing concept.

>>712700482
>(you heard me)
Made me kek

>>712700060 (OP)
>zoomers and gen alpha are now nostalgic for fucking 2004
me too god imagine being born today with all the shit social media sites

>>712726425
>gen alpha
There's no way. Gen alpha kids started being born in like 2014. Why would they have nostalgia for a time over a decade before they were born?

>>712726425
nostalgia for the early 2000s hit me around 2016 or so. guess i was ahead of the curve.

>>712726503
same reason people are nostalgic for the 80's and the 90's

>>712726564
Yeah, millenials are because they were alive then. It'd be like a 30 year old being nostalgic for the 60s even though they have absolutely no idea what the world was like then.

>>712700821
This. Got it for xmas with mario 64 and I think the sims, but I didnt play that one much

>>712721221
I feel this so hard. I was looking at some old footage I had from my GL2, from back when we had fish tanks in the pets section (I've also wasted my life at walmart). Lighting gave the aisle this lovely calming glow, blues reflecting off the tile surfacing.

>>712726207
having a bunch of dudebros helped keep the scales tipped in our favor, where lots of games still targeted male audiences and did not change themselves to appeal to women who are not interested in the franchise to begin with. all the problems of censoring games and everything else today did not happen because of dudebros. battle passes are more of a zoomer thing i dont think most people older than zoomers buy them in large numbers other than the occasional millennial whale.

>>712727069
Dudebro culture is getting popular again so we might see a resurgence of masculinity in gaming, but I'm probably jumping the shark. Gaming isn't exactly seen as dudebro behavior anymore.

>>712702469
I guarantee you they don't try. They might eat 1 meal a day and it'll have enough calories for 2 days. I blame all the extra shit the corporations add to the food

>>712727269
if thats true good because dudebro shit for better or worse was usually genuine behavior and sttuff that was just fun for sake of fun. i think people who shit on dudebro stuff or call everything dudebro, are sort of acting like reddit psuedo intellectual types where everything has to be refined or mature through whatever subjective lens. time and place for each approach.

>>712727492
I've noticed that since I started working it has become easier to gain weight, I was neet for nearly 15 years and that entire time I remained slim and at a normal weight for my age. But the moment I got a job and had to be out on the road all day, eating with co-workers, started packing on the pounds. It's definately the fast food, but also having access to more than just a local market definitely has changed what things I can/do eat.

>>712727641
So generally people like to eat until their full, sometimes it takes longer for your stomach to let you know its full, then you got items that have more calories and are less filling. Even though the calories are on the box i know most people dont realize that a serving or oreos is literally 2 COOKIES. Especially the calorie count at fast food places aren't advertised. Best advice i can give is just because you buy a big mac combo at McDonald's its best you only eat half of it

>>712701274
sauce

>>712706895
They weren't inundating their brains with constant social media shit that skewed their sense of reality. Their lives were limited to their family, their friends, their town, their school. All the horrible shit happening all over the globe wasn't thrown in their face by algorithms for the sake of "engagement".

>>712727982
Yeah, gonna try to cut my calories down to 1600 a day this coming week from (what I think) is around 3500 a day. Hopefully I can get back to a normal weight in a month or two.

>>712700990
what I think zoomers really struggle to understand is the scarcity back then. My launch games were MGS2, GT3 and GTA3. Those games lasted me YEARS

>>712701448
based ridge racer and evergrace

>>712728143
believe it or not that's too much. Any amount of moving around and 1900 calories will still leave you hungry after a week. Your body will lie to you even when you have 2,000 and you will feel like you're starving. Losing weight is the body eating itself it sucks major dick.

>>712728195
Yeah, I pretty much stuck with Neverwinter Nights, Morrowind and Starcraft for a solid decade. I was aware of other games, read PC Gamer religiously, but never bought anything. Unless you count demos, but that stopped being common place towards the end of 2008-10

>>712700990
I hate that image that you posted so fucking much, it only tell lies.

>>712700060 (OP)
Better than what we have now. When you bought a new game it was COMPLETED. There was no update files, no dlc, or microtransactions. The fact that alot of older games are repacked in the form of collections or remasters with hardly anything new being worth a fuck nowadays says it all.

>>712712185
Maybe normalfag girls, but there were tons of emo girls who loved Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, and Persona.

>>712724420
There's a reason that when people wax nostalgic about the DS they're picturing the Lite over the original DS. I can't think of any other console where a later design revision is so much more ingrained in the public consciousness; even with the GBA where the SP was generally seen as an upgrade it'll still be 50/50 at most whether they post an image of the SP or the original purple blob.

I mean, just compare them side-by-side. The Lite matches the design language of the Wii and the iPhone and everything else people associate with that sleek 2006ish era even though it came out in 2004 while the original is a Nintendium brick that looks like it comes from the late 90s or early 2000s, being handily one-up'd in cool factor by the SP which was almost a couple years old at that point.

>>712700917
My problem isn't really that there's only 1 big exclusive title at launch, that's pretty much every Nintendo console, they have 1 big title and a few minor ones on the side. My specific problem is that Mario Kart is just a party game, not something that gets me hyped to get the new console, I wish it would have launched with the new 3D Mario instead. Switch got it right, Wii got it right.
They could at the very least had Donkey Kong on launch but oh well a month isn't that much of a wait.

>>712728435
I was lucky and big into PC games. Crysis, Far Cry, Deus Ex, Rome Total War. It was a good time to be alive. Honestly those games aged so well, i'm glad to have played a lot of the classics when they were new so I can still appreciate them for what they are. It's harder to play newer games than older ones these days, they're just all the same.

>>712700060 (OP)
It was great. A new console (or good PC) was usually the most interesting thing in the room gaming would be a whole friend group/family thing. You didnt have one guy gaming while 5 watch and doomscroll tiktoks on their phone. The good games were really good and weren't filled with millennial cringe since we were still adolescent at the time. There are better games now but if you weren't sentient before the release of the iPhone you generally missed out we will never have that kind of time again.

>>712728553
He didn’t say those are launch titles you retards
“It was a different time” = “yes I agree also here’s ANOTHER, TOTALLY SEPARATE, AND DIFFERENT EXAMPLE OF HOW THINGS WERE BETTER/DIFFERENT”

I can't stress enough that the small time period between the spread of high speed internet and the release of smartphones was fucking glorious. It basically made everything about the 90s better. As soon as iPhone and social media became a thing it was the beginning of the end.

>>712700546
DoS was pretty fucking good, first Castlevania I played, I was pretty impressed with the amount of weapons and spells. Getting them from enemies was fun as hell.

>>712728553
I could swear ATV Offroad Fury was a PS2 launch title... what the hell. ATV Offroad Fury 2 had no right being as amazing a game as it was. I dont even like ATVs and I suck at racing games, but my god, hadn't had so much fun in one since Off Road Challenge on the N64.

>>712716950
Also, they're all hideous and brown.

Am I just getting older or is everything becoming putrid shit?

>>712722143
Star Wars was only a launch title in PAL regions because by then the N64 had already been out in the regions that matter for over six months. Europoors keep forgetting the world doesn't revolve around them...

>>712701220
I still find those little things fun as fuck for some reason lol, like I was playing Silent Hill Shattered Memories, pointing with the flashlight, getting calls on the Wii mote, I keep thinking "this is so cool" and it's a shame we don't get games with fun stuff like that anymore. But yeah waggling for DKC Returns was retarded.

>>712718317
they are """cheap""" proprietary toybox designed for low iq retards and kids.

>>712702996
I was at a walmart in the midwest in like 2017 or so and they still had a stack of random PS2 games in one of their glass cases below the PS4 stuff

>>712701448
The golden age of Sony was when they were barely making any games.

>>712709391
Back when PC /v Reddit/ fanboys had hair on there heads LMAO.

>>712702638
lmao busted

>>712721143
why are all these faggots wearing socks in slippers? That's like THE quintessential fashion blunder that has been dunked on for like 4 decades. It was never acceptable to wear and it sure as shit is not acceptable now.

>>712700060 (OP)
It was fun.
>Games released were full games, no DLC crap.
>No gatcha shit
>No forced DEI
>Multiple good games coming quickly to systems instead of 1 good game ever 2 years

It might be nostalgia, but fuck me it was better times, so much better.

>>712708598
These images are clearly fabricated and not actually from those ages because collecting video games and tech wasn't actually a thing back then, it started with internet celebrities like the AVGN. Nobody had a setup like this.

>>712729072
Never played the 4th one, but the first three games were so fucking fun. Great music too.

>>712722143
Shadows of the Empire was available by the christmas time, which is what mattered most. And holy shit, they knew exactly how to advertise it.

>>712729738
I had a "set up" like that when I was eleven because my parents were divorced and so a couple years into already having a PS2, I got an xbox from my dad and a gamecube from my mom and it was all set up in the upstairs room with the big tv and the dvd player
it wasn't difficult to have a ton of shit like that when every console was 250 bucks or whatever and everyone in your family is reasonably successful

>>712701448
Games I would buy if I was an adult with money at the time of the PS2 launch
>Armored Core 2
>DOA2
>Ridge Racer V
>SSX
>Tekken Tag
>Timesplitters
>Unreal Tournamnet
Honestly, at first glance I thought it was all shit, but if we compare it to any launch from consoles after 2005, this is insane.

>>712722484
PS1 was the trash console and Sony tried to keep that train rolling with the PS2 despite the uptick in dev kit prices and DVD printing costs. It's not a bad place for a console manufacturer to be, honestly; sure, low licensing costs and huge install bases means lots of shovelware but also gives opportunities for devs to take risks with sub-AA projects that end up launching new franchises or becoming hidden gems. That's why >>712729441 is right; their consoles were successful not because they were making games but giving developers such a sweet deal that they didn't bother porting their games to other consoles.

Too bad they completely screwed the pooch on the PS3 being a royal PITA for third parties in almost every aspect, making devs split their lower-cost efforts between the much more popular Xbox and the Wii. Even now after PS4's success Sony's antagonistic attitude towards smaller devs keeps it from ever reclaiming its position as a hotbed for fresh games from PC and, to a much lesser extent, the Switch.

1999 ancientfag here, you zoomies don't know how blessed we were, it was the best moment for epic gaming

>>712724956
I get the same impression lol, it's like things haven't really changed that much, but at the same time technology and the internet have completely take over our lives.
When we were in 2004, thinking about the 80s was a different culture, different music, people dressed differently, talk differently, and did other things, when I look at 2004 now, it seems like yesterday.

>>712710336
Come to Reading, bro...

>712730128
>PS1 was the trash console
Do not feed them (you)'s boys

>>712728952
man you really are onto something there. When we first got highspeed internet at my house i thought it was a glitch or something when the page loaded so fast. that was around 2004 or so. all the awesome creative/ cool shit to read or look at online was now super fast to load. but without much or almost any negativity like there is everywhere online today. it was mainly me looking up anime and shit, playing flash games, watching primitive youtube comedy skits, watching flash animations, and listening to all the cool music different people were making. it was so good in fact that you will probably laugh at this.

i remember thinking sometime around 2007 man life is so fun online i bet everyone would be happier if they used the internet also and learned to relax and laugh at stuff more- not be so serious. but then the internet basically only magnified all of that negative energy that people had. in retrospect i feel totally ignorant for ever thinking that the internet could improve the whole of society by exposing them to things that would make them happy.

>>712709593
HDMI and USB C make the world a better place

>>712724434
>soul calibur
I wish I had a gf (female) to play fighting games with...

>>712730278
>pic
Average PC fanboy on /v/ and Reddit. Bald.

>>712730024
I'm just jealous I only had 1 console with a bunch of pirated games because I'm from South America. Now I'm rich and have everything though.

>>712709593
to be honest i still don't know what's going on here. i never understood the components that had more than red white and yellow.

>>712711726
>>712712275
>>712724434
>>712730502
when I was in school in the 00s any girl that was autistic enough for me to trick them into being my girlfriend really liked Kingdom Hearts and almost nothing else
This was like 8 different girls

>>712701440
>even if they were all in 480p next to their actually fucking stunning looking Xbox/PS3 gaming counterparts
Not sure if it was different in other parts of the world, but a lot of families I knew growing up in wealthy New England didn't start replacing their big CRTs or rear projection displays until 2008-2010, so I remember in those first few years of seventh gen the Wii tended to look better to us in native 480 over the scaled image coming out of the Xbox with that tiny-ass text.

But now I suspect that many of those TVs probably could have handled HD and our boomer parents just didn't know how to set them up properly until the LCD and plasma sets made the resolution issues more apparent.

I had this black friend back in 8th grade, JJ, cool guy. Me and him both had a DS at launch in this ghetto ass school, the rest of the year every woman thought we were millionaires

>>712728952
I don't know anyone who isn't nostalgic of that era, when the internet meant going into a big white PC, usually connecting around 6 pm or so, and it was all about building communities and exploring (surfing) the web.
The internet being confined to a machine in the house made it that much more special, now we can't fucking escape it.

>>712703604
>only knew console gaming around 2005
>saw previews of FEAR before it came out
>looks incredible
>gotta save up for a PC to play this game
>was completely worth it, absolutely blew me away and still remains one of my all time favorites
>even learn to tinker with BIOS overclock settings to squeeze out every drop of performance
>absolutely pumped to see how future FPS games will top this
>mfw that was the peak

>>712730396
As soon as the internet went from "anonymous online persona" into a gay place where you have a picture of your face and all your data, it went to absolute shit.
Now I just hate the internet, the internet I loved back in the day doesn't exist anymore, there's no need to keep trying to look for it, I try to avoid it as much as possible.

>>712700917
I miss 1996 aesthetics.

it was divine. I don't even like to see or think about these nostalgic things because i feel like blowing my head off...

>>712731085
>into a gay place where you have a picture of your face and all your data, it went to absolute shit.
No, MySpace was based. I learned html code from how insanely customizable profiles were.
But facebook replaced it and it's the mac version of social media, and then youtube went from being more like myspace to facebook and ruined itself.

>>712706425
it's a ds lite

why do zoomers keep saying that they were the first generation to be raised online when millennials also had internet as kids?

>>712731284
ds lite doesn't have leds on the left or a circle mic in the middle DOE

>>712731290
>when millennials also had internet as kids?
Millenials were born 1980-1995. Only the tail end had Internet as children. Most were in high school by the time the Internet as we know it (the World Wide Web) became a thing and very few used it.

>>712701448
ATV offroad fury wasn't a launch game?

>>712731409
>1980-1995
Damn that's a wide margin. But yeah I was born in 91, got my first computer when I was 5 and internet when I was 10, I'm not even American, I'm from a poor country so I assumed that was much more common there. But I guess zoomers were raised on the bad internet.

>>712730031
Armor Core 2, tekken tag, Ridge racer 5, Mightnight club, SSX and timespliters is a pretty good first year haul. If bought a console and had those 6 games in the first year i'd be happy.

Then probably rent a couple of games like bouncer or ever grace

>>712731598
I'm an American born in '92 and the first time I used the Internet was in 2004 at my school. They had 8 computers in the entire building, 4 of which were for students in the library, and you had to book a time to use them for research. I didn't get Internet at home until 2007 and it was shitty 1.5mbps DSL, but still leagues better than the dial up connections some of my friends had.

>>712730502
these were all people i was involved with at some point in the past. they all had fucking issues except the one who played WoW. she was the only one that didnt do weird ass or morally wrong shit.

>>712700917
GRADIUS GRADIUS GRADIUS GRADIUS GRADIUS GRADIUS GRADIUS GRADIUS

>>712731598
Generations span a lot of years. Late millennials probably relate much better to early-mid zoomers than they do to early millennials.

I was 5 days old when this video was taken

>>712731924
>tfw gen alphas can already post here
zoomers are the new boomers

>>712700509
>he didnt force himself to enjoy redsteel

>>712732205
nevermind I'm retarded

>>712723324
look up government cheese. Reagan decided to distribute the massive amount of cheese the government had stockpiled over the past few decades. The gov used to buy ALL the excess dairy that was produced which led to all the cheese (lasts longer than other dairy products). Big dairy is an actual thing and they work with fast food companies to add more cheese to their products

>>712700060 (OP)
Fewer nonwhites, normalfaggots and you were despised for playing videogames.

>>712706917
That you Mr. Hulst?

>>712706383
was it really this that tipped you off, not the fact that there are mostly niggers and women there?

>>712728223

Forever Kingdom was maybe my 2nd PS2 game and boy that shit was terrible but I still kept going because I didn't know better. Abandoned at the very last boss fight because I got some new game. Kinda regret it.

>>712724420
I always felt kinda gypped being the one kid with a DS phat while everyone else had a lite.

>system using the SP charger
That was based thoughever. Bless the EU for standardizing chargers.

>>712706383
Based on all the evidence posted, it's crazy how you were right, this is a fake video.

>>712729738
>collecting video games and tech wasn't actually a thing back then
>it started with internet celebrities like the AVGN
Can't tell if poorfag or underage.

>>712722081
>are we just going to ignore the fact that the sun rose today?

>>712728880
The guy you replied to never actually said that the guy said they were launch titles either, did he? Double retard.

>>712732948
now why don't you go look up how many people actually had TVs when it was considered to have become "popular"
it wasn't 50%

>>712732948
50% in 2001 is good enough

>>712733152
what are you trying to imply here? im sure there are a lot of millennials that left home without their house ever even having an internet connection if they were born in the mid 80s.

>>712733523
not enough to say the generation didn't "grow up" with the internet
you're discounting schools beginning to use it more regularly for example
and media centering around the internet as some kind of major plot element as well

>>712731598
>>712731743
‘89 here, got the net in 95 with a shitty 28.8k modem on our pentium (oh yeah). No DSL until I think 2003 but I was still using forums and stuff when I was around 10 years old

>>712733787
zoomers just grew up with the bad part of the internet, they say they're the first ones because they think the internet before facebook was just ugly and unusable

>>712702469
yeah i don't get it either. i drink 3 of my health shakes every day

>>712725893

Enjoy the present: because today is another time's "good old days"

>>712732875
Anon's point is that we didn't display all our shit. Whatever you weren't currently playing was in a box in the closet.

>>712733787
you are moving the goalpost super far. someone interacting with something on an irregular basis in a computer lab is not the same thing at all as having it in the home. and having it in the home also has a totally different effect depending on the age you get it. in the context of being ''raised on the internet.'' someone who has daily internet use at 17 or 18 is totally different than someone who has had daily access to the internet since 10, or whats relevant today with people buying ipads and shit for their toddlers to use.

by age 18 a lot of millenials formed most of their opinions about the world from their in person experiences where as i would argue the majority of opinions about the world that most zoomers have are things that they have consumed online. reposting and retweeting and repeating mantras and talking points other people share. you can see this in the difference between how most millenials at 18 did not care at all about politics and zoomers at 18 are hyper opinionated about everything.

>>712734329
>didn't display our shit
it's a photo with DVD shelves, retard
everyone who had more than 10 DVDs or video games "displayed" them the same people "display" books on a shelf instead of scattering them across the floor
there's not a glass case on a pedestal in the picture

>>712700060 (OP)
It was a lot more fun.

>>712734120
There is almost nothing good about these days. Nobody will remember this period in history fondly.

>>712700060 (OP)
no steam
no dlc
physical game cart/discs

it was kinda nice

>>712722050
Sess was always obsessed with politics. Go rewatch the episodes, most of G4 was ragging on Bush.

>>712734646
you'll notice that they were "ragging" on him though
they called him a retard and did bad impressions of his voice
they didn't scream about how he's ruining their lives and that he needs to be killed

>>712734567
people talk about how good we have things today but its just soulless conveniences like internet speed/video quality/ games on steam/ phone apps/ steaming/ uber eats while everyone isolates in their home. its just the wall-e life style.

Nothing is more depressing than watching videos from 2+ decades ago
Wtf happened

>>712700876
>XY XX
Pretty transphobic desu senpai

>>712700821
It was the first system I bought myself, and picked up on launch day. Played the shit out of those two games as well and DBZ Supersonic Warriors.

>>712734474
I'm talking about the consoles. When we got a new one, the old one would go in the attic. Mom wouldn't let you mar the living room with all your plastic shit. And honestly no one had shelves full of games. You had like 5 games that you traded with your friends.

>>712702530
thank you mr. cia man for at least hitting "post" before abducting anon.

>>712704306
I found this corner workstation desk in Ikea's website but it's very expensive.

>>712734721
It's all for the same ultimate goal, modern people are just too stupid for subtlety.

>>712735098
>and honestly
No, retard.
No one in the world put their PS2 in the fucking attic if they suddenly got an Xbox, they put them under the TV together because even 9 year olds grasped the concept of Ape Escape 2 not being playable on an xbox
"Entertainment systems" were the most common form of TV furniture everywhere since the fucking 80s, there was not a lack of space unless I guess you were poor as shit living a project tenement building or something
It was extremely common for kids in the 2000s to have multiple active consoles and also a gameboy of some kind because, as I said earlier in this thread, everything was 250 dollars at the most, there was an economic boom at the time where people were overspending (particularly on real estate, but also everything else, too) and the "middle class" of yesterday would make a zoomer commit suicide because assistant managers at a Target could still afford a 3 bedroom house payment
You have no idea what people did back then, you're either too young or you grew up in some absurd edge case

>>712700546
>>712700821
>>712700060 (OP)
It’s crazy how the death of Iwata causes the beginning of enshittification of Nintendo products with the Switch2. We went from a reliable handheld to a pos handheld

>>712700060 (OP)
>DSI at the end
>decent res video
>decent frames
>women
???????

>>712700990
Three times the amount of exclusives the PS5 has at the moment kek, and that was just half a year of games from a single year of the PS2's life

>>712735679
Switch was made by Iwata retard

>>712709498
wtf I knew that guy staring at the camera but he looked exactly like that in 2016

>>712735560
Just say you were a rich kid.

>>712729767
I never even knew there was a 3rd/4th game until your post, wow. Like not a scrap of advertisement reached me.

>>712728952
The worst part of living in the best times is losing sight of the moment and romanticizing the future, thus not truly appreciating what you had. Around that time, I used to think that things were just going to keep getting better and better, but everything became more alien instead. Using your phone to browse the Internet has always been a categorically worse experience than using a PC, yet it's all anyone uses, even in their homes. I don't get it.

I bought a n64 with my allowance in 2000 for 100$. It was perhaps the greatest day of my young life.

>>712710632
Good to know it's not just all kids here on /v/
But how the hell did you not get Mario 64 for your N64?

>>712701181
>That shit was black magic
Funny that they brought that feature back now on the Switch 2.
Also, did you know the GBA also had download play (through the link cable)?
You could download games from other GBAs or GameCubes.

>>712737303
no, the worst part was definitely me not buying the copy of Rule of Rose I saw at an EB games in 2006 like a month after it came out but I had no idea what it was
I could've sold that shit for 2000 dollars eventually

>>712700342
>LAN's were common and they were fun. Patching games or getting new maps for games was terrible.
I feel like this only makes sense combined but then only the patching part.
>500 person LAN back in the early steam days
>patch releases
>hundreds of PCs hit the worst internet connection known to man
Eventually got a steam cache setup but damn. Horrid times.

A late 2000s pic for a change

>Netcafe near my house would constantly host all nighters and had a bunch of high-tier systems that could play fucking crysis at 60fps when it first came out.
>Dad did HVAC work for him on the side.
>Comes out to a deal for me and my brother where instead of paying 3$/hr of playtime we only had to pay 2$.
>Other times he'd just set us up with a good 3-4 hours of playtime cause he couldn't afford paying my Dad every time.
>BF1942, CS, Rise of Nations, everyone playing WoW (they held a CoD4 DM tournament where the first place prize was a brand new copy of TBC with an extra time card), FUCKING CRYSIS.
>The owner showing me and my Dad (huge doomfags) Doom 3 for the first time.

It was a mystical time anon. Leaps in all types of vidya tech that hasn't been replicated since the PStriple era.

>Get hit with a major nostalgiafag mood because of this thread and watching Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross videos last night
>Look on youtube for something to listen too.
>Pic related
You don't know pain until you played through this level.

>>712724067
N64 blowing its load early with Mario 64 then Ocarina of Time isn't that much of a compliment

>>712737676
Is Selling banned gaems for 2000 good for you?

>>712728714
is it just me or are the lites screens slightly larger?

>>712700917
That is an awful lot of trash on the Wii side.

>>712701448
Was worth it for SSX and Midnight Club and Timesplitters.

>>712740186
>Oh, this must be a cool video someone uploaded as part of an archival effort, lemme click on the vid and check th-
>19 years ago

>>712740254
it was never banned in the US, idk if there's some cucked UK laws that banned it though

>>712734057
>266g of sugar
>108g of fat
>2310 calories
Is this a suicide shake or what?
No shit muricans are so fucking fat.

>>712728714
The original DS felt so much better than the Lite.

>>712731409
I was born in 89 and didn't have the internet in my house till around 2003. When I started driving I still used a physical map in my car. Yeah, shit was way different before the net was everywhere.

>>712731409
We got our first Internet-capable PC when I was 10-ish, but I had good parents so I wasn't allowed to use it unsupervised.

>>712741221
so you were 15 when you had the internet
meaning you grew up with it

>>712710712
I mean when it comes to inflating statistics, it is LITERALLY your fault. Like the majority of black women are obese.

>>712741376
To some degree, I didn't really use it outside of sending emails to my teachers. Most of my youth was spent at the skatepark, or wandering around the city with friends. Sitting down to actually browse websites and use social media didn't happen to me until around 2010.

>>712741376
naw
there's a difference between the internet and the Internet
but you're a faggot
so you'll continue being a pedant about it so please continue seething ;)
or gb2 preddit

>>712741862
>Most of my youth was spent at the skatepark, or wandering around the city with friends.
Wow, crazy. I managed do do all that stuff, smoke a lot of weed, and also jerk off to internet porn all the time
I was born in 1991

>>712742063
I saw internet porn at my friends house around 2008, but it was more or less just a novelty. I mostly kept around a stack of hustlers and some JC Penny catalogs.

>>712700509
People with white parents got more than one game, you can't post falsehoods about console launches just because you were born in a bad skin color

>>712742130
that's gay
even just fapping to videos of teenage girls making out on photobucket is 1000x better

>>712718317
good

>>712742350
I'm sure it was better, same with limewire videos and whatever. But my internet sucked and it was easy enough looking a mags. Didn't see a reason for it. That said, I love internet porn nowadays and I'm pretty sure I missed out on the best years.

>>712739389
>black ops
>halo reach
That's early 2010s.

>>712702469
Corn syrup and the food pyramid being a scam

>>712735236
This shit is unironically great. The fact the back is also a whiteboard is amazing

>>712706895
born in '88
>no phones
>no social media so you don't have to deal with faggot/brown people/woman fatigue
>no DEI or anti-crunch in games or media development so you just get a bunch of dudes that think something is fucking awesome coming together to make good games and shows
>brain not ruined from constant exposure to micro-endorphin triggers available with a flick of your finger through an endless supply of 10s videos designed to be consumed like junk food, normal people just hang out together and talk, play, chill
I miss the wood fort we built out in my dad's field and ran extension cords out to with DVDs we weren't supposed to be watching.
I miss playing Melee and Goldeneye Rogue Agent on a crappy little CRT on some milk crates with my bros

>>712742063
Fucking internet porn I started at 13 and now at 34 still haven't stopped.

>>712743118
>ran extension cords out to with DVDs we weren't supposed to be watching.
There was a drainage ditch behind my house that was underneath a highway overpass. We ran cables from our houses to the ditch and set up TV's and amps/music shit. Whole neighborhood would come out and our band would have "shows" there every other week. That shit was fun as fuck. We're lucky nothing caught fire or something. Good times, but also stupid times.

>>712706640
>>712706895
>only 1 in 5 non-white
hmmm I wonder why people were happier...

>>712700060 (OP)
fun. cause life wasn't a crushing disappointing pile of shit and all you had to worry about was having to wake up and go to school which was a slog

>>712743575
Take a break then, you will coom bucket after a few months of nothing.

I was born in 2000 but between having an older brother, frugal parents, and older cousins/family friends I got to enjoy even a sample of these things and it makes me feel very fortunate. It probably doesn't make sense to anyone older because this had to have only been an incredibly short timespan where generations overlapped, but the happiest I remember my family was regularly going to a shopping strip near where we lived that had pizza hut and blockbuster on the weekends. we only got game rentals if my parents went out on a date because they were overpriced otherwise. There's a lot of little things like getting used gameboy color games in little jewelry boxes for christmas, and we used to get ps2/gamecube games for cheap from the bargain bins well into the wii/360 generation. once we moved in like 2007-8 there was a younger family near us that realistically the kids were only a year or two younger than me but I remember thinking it was fucked that they didnt have anything prior to the wii and I hated that aesthetic even though I wouldn't be able to articulate why. we got internet around 2008 too and from then on everything kind of blurs together in my brain technology wise and nothing creates as much of an impression and it comes and goes the same way. sorry if it sounds gay and retarded and like posturing, I mean it mostly that I'm happy I got a taste of these things while they were around and I had a fun childhood

>>712700060 (OP)
>blacks stealing shit
>women pretending to like video games for attention
>fat white dudes
The more things change...

>>712728952
I'm eternally grateful I got to live through this period. I have friends who are just a few years younger than me and they basically grew up on iphones and xbox live. Older millennials and gen Xers can shove it with their eternal september bullshit, early-mid 00s was the greatest time for the internet.

>>712740186
>it ends on "coming soon March 2006"
AHHHHHHHHHHH
has it been that long

>>712743658
It’s almost like having a shared culture and values made people feel more connected or something. But nah, must be white magic or some shit, right?

>>712744639
Thank you for sharing

>>712702786
Man I look at that and I remember when computers and new technology was exciting.
Waiting for a new console to come out was extremely hype.
Now consoles are all the same, and the new "innovations" are just AI slop bullshit and AI up-scaling.

>>712732219
God, I forgot all about that piece of shit.

>>712750660
its crazy how good redsteel 2 was in comparison

>>712700060 (OP)
fun

>>712750950
>gen 8 happens in 2013
>suicide rates climbs back up
the data doesn't lie

>>712750950
So getting called a faggot on xbox live didn't seem be so bad

>>712730645
yellow rca ports give you composite video
green-blue-red rca ports give you component video
component video is better than composite video for clarity of picture
s-video is a component connector, just with everything in one port

>>712735236
>>712743029
I had this one in HS
It was very nice when it was new, however you have to be a little ginger with the moving parts because they will get fucked up
The whiteboard back was very useful as a student, however I remember the adhesive wearing off or ripping off the cheap coating of the particleboard it was adhered to, so it would bounce away when I actually wrote on it
So take care and don't put a lot of force when writing on it, or just really fix it up tight if you don't plan to move it to a new place or whatever

tl;dr very nice setup but it's still fake wood IKEA shit for almost $300 (without tax+tip)

>>712751494
OH RIOT SHIELD I'M A PUSSY THAT USES RIOT SHIELD

Personally I think it's good to reflect but to realise not matter how your life was 20 years ago you'll likely look back on it fondly.
20 years from now I wouldn't be shocked if you and I look back on this era of time fondly. thinking "Why can't it be like the old days?"
I think every generation has this.

>>712730645
yellow composited the video into a single signal, the ones with more, component separated the video into luminence and 2 color difference signals for red and blue to give you a cleaner picture closer to RGB and allowed for higher resolution and progressive scan.
this isn't always wanted though, retro games sometimes look better on the shittier composite video signal, because of the dithering blending the colors together. like the sonic waterfall as a famous example

>>712751494
>>712751870
No one ever felt depressed from these lobby's
It was always just good banter even if it pissed you off it was still just banter
Not the insane "I wish you and everything you loved, died right now! kinds of chats you get today.

>>712740186
how did the world end up so super shitty?
we felt pure hope and happiness just little over 20 years ago, it all come to a hellish stagnated halt of a clown shitshow
whenever I die I hope I can loop back to a timeline of this shit that destroyed our culture and lives being non-existent

>>712731290
as a 90s kid millennial, basically everyone had a family computer and one of these that i knew.

>>712752521
I was genuinely miserable 10 years ago and at my lowest point.
I still look back at it fondly.

Nostalgia is a fucking hell of a drug.

>>712753181
i used those as drinks coasters for 15 years before i ran out
a friend of mine made a mirror out of them by gluing them together

>>712753317
I got bullied a bunch in my 8th grade school as a kid.
Got my ass kicked and shit talked.
And yet. I'd love to go back to those times. cause the bullying isn't what I remember. I remember hanging out with my bros. watching early youtube videos. playing cool shit like Team Fortress 2 and watching the Dark Knight.
Going to the park with my buddies.

I miss it. a lot. even if it's probably not as good as I remember.

>>712700342
>the internet was invented in 2010
retard

>>712753504
AOL sent out over 1 billion of those CDs, apparently there was a point where half the CDs in the world being produced were theirs

>>712700060 (OP)
You audience was literal kids.
No 30-years-old adults who get the DS for make videos where the title is hardcoded in the center

>>712700186
Yeah, that video is fake.
There are genuine videos of the launch day, and the most important, There arent women.

>>712700060 (OP)
The best because graphics were decent enough for a wow factor and games weren't as clunky compared to the 90s

>>712707385
The only saving grace of the DSi was the XL model, which made it arguably the best way to play DS games personally. They really botched the NA colors, though.

>>712709593
oh fuck off that shit was insufferable
dont miss it a bit

>>712724841
I bought an old powerbook from a local thrift store a few years ago for a few bucks to digitize some old family videos. That paired with a camcorder with firewire still absolutely shits on those chinese easycrap dongles people get from Amazon for getting a good quality capture without any dropped frames.

>wondered why there was so much 80s nostalgia when I grew up
>as currently as far from 2000 as we were from 1980 at the time
>get it now

>>712750950
>Spore released in 2008
>line starts going back up
yep

>>712724250
Extrapolating growth at its finest

i can't tell if this is ai generated or if it's just some people making a nostalgia video in a used video game store.

>>712700060 (OP)
I'm glad I was born just in time to experience the most soulful era of gaming before everything went to shit
>There are 2000 and post 00s zoomers on this board/thread
Grim

>>712718317
>Consoles are pointless without it
Modern consoles are.
The PS1 could produce mind boggling effects for much cheaper than you could get a PC to do the equivalent because it was specialized hardware I think. I was a dumb kid at at the time I just know the family PC couldn't do what our PS1 could do

>>712700060 (OP)
that girl with the glasses was cute as shit hat the fuck
it makes me sad sometimes to see cute girls in old videos like that because I know they look like shit nowadays...

>>712752521
>20 years from now I wouldn't be shocked if you and I look back on this era of time fondly. thinking "Why can't it be like the old days?"
Don't think so. Boomers were saying "You kids these days have it so good uphill both ways etc" whereas I pity the current generation, they are absolutely fucking screwed six ways to sunday. There is obviously a shift in the trend.

>>712764847
wait nevermind that's a fake nostalgia video
which means she's still cute!!!

>>712765294
I found the source of the video but can't find who the cute girl is FFFUFKC

no seriously I'm in love and this thread is gonna die soon and I have no idea who she is AAAAHHH

>>712736098
The Switch killed Iwata, retard.

>>712765906
Kill yourself retard