Thread 713052347

>In-store game demo booths
>10+ page game manuals
>Malls being the hub for getting the newest games

>>713052347 (OP)
Buying shareware doom on 3.5 floppy

The time period where you actually had a chance of meeting someone who knew what this book was

>>713052347 (OP)
Everyone playing pokemon instead of gacha shit or clash of clans.

>>713052347 (OP)
>What are some vidya-adjacent things you miss?
Pornography theaters

>>713052347 (OP)
Nintendo consoles still have demo booths at all the Walmarts and Targets near me

>>713052347 (OP)
i miss the combination game and cactus garden, it was fun trying to dig the games out of the ground without stepping on a cactus

>>713052347 (OP)
summer vacation to play vidya

>>713052347 (OP)
>Manuals
Bro I got a copy of Kevin Smith's Dogma on DVD and was surprised that it had bookelts and little shit from the movie world, and the discs are printed with gags in the graphic.

>>713052448
Pokemon Go was less than a decade ago bro.

>>713052347 (OP)
>stop by a toys r us to get a niece a gift for her birthday and see if they carry bearings for rollerblades
>a fat older guy is latched to a video game controller, playing whatever game
>some kid is playing another
>leave
>have to go back before they close 6 hours later and swap gift out for something else
>that fat older guy is still there, playing the same game

>>713052870
That might have been me, problem?

>>713052347 (OP)
Game stores actually having games and not funko pops and other "geek merchandise."

>>713053260
yes. stop hogging the controller

Actual midnight releases to anticipated games. I don’t know if we’re ever getting another HALO 2

>>713054716
i remember being hyped for world of warcraft and standing in line for the midnight release and retards in line begging to trade their standard copy for my collectors edition copies and trying to juggle a construction job - waking at 6am to get to the job site at 7:30am and working to 6pm then gaming until midnight for a year

rumors and secrets

years after resident evil 2 came out, i told my friend about the different scenarios and he didn't believe me.

>>713052347 (OP)
>Malls being the hub for getting the newest games
That's a weird one for me. I was always a hermit and didn't really like shopping and yet I get the weirdest fucking strongest pangs of nostalgia thinking about simple shit like going to Barnes and Noble and then picking up a cheap shitty fast food burger on the way home with a new book. When I'm feeling extra reflective, like now, I then wonder what the fuck the actual social people feel about it because it isn't just entirely the sensation of browsing goods you're interested in

>>713055884
>the lighting
>some girls looking around occult books
>cute teenagers walking by outside the store in the mall
>the smell of a new book page while looking over a few pages and reading to see if it is interesting enough
>perky teenager taking your food order
>kids excited heading into the arcade
>couples filing in to catch a movie starting soon

>>713055884
For me it was Waldenbooks.

>>713056127
Speaking of smellz, any time a place in a mall had some indoor waterfall or fountain thing. That weird refreshing but sort of artificial since they probably put a fuckton of chlorine in smell. Always loved that. Actually another odd bit of nostalgic business is nicnak shops. Places that sold little glass figurines and scents and crystals and all kinds of dumb bullshit. Basically never bought anything from any of them but I loved looking at all the shit anyway

>>713056215
Yeah, my brain was wandering off into more stripmall territory with the Barnes and Noble, but Waldenbooks was the case for me too in ACTUAL malls. Pretty much guaranteed to have a gaming section so you could paw through some D&D books

>>713056590
same. i always took a seat next to the fountain as it was relaxing

>>713052347 (OP)
FUCK YOU

>>713055884
barnes and nobles was kino back in the day.
>early to mid 2000s
>go to the mall and find cool stuff at EB games Gamestop
>maybe a KB toys
>go to Barnes and Nobles
>clean quiet relaxing atmosphere
> large manga section
>dont know anything about 99% of these
>just pick up random books and flip through them looking at cool shit
>go to barnes and nobles cafe
>get some coffee and some pastry thing
>go back and look at more manga
>look up random books online to learn more about what the fuck all these weird stories are

>>713052347 (OP)
>this was the 6th gens audience

>>713052347 (OP)
cheat codes

>>713054716
yeah we live in another era now. I didnt get to go to the halo 2 release but didnt think it was a huge deal. (had school the next day) wasnt until years later i saw the footage of different halo2 midnight releases where i realized the absolute hype and sense of community i missed out on seeing in person.

i remember playing halo 2 online and it being crazy how you couldnt play a single match without people being on their mic/ headset and everyone talked and was social either being super cool or being a giant fucking asshole. was really fun. now when you play a modern game no one even uses voice.

>>713056727
Zoomers don't know what you mean, my millennial brother.

>>713052347 (OP)
i miss when big name games had good music

>>713060628
Some do, anom