Thread 715522464

What was gaming like in the late 90s and 2000s?

W because PC and no limits on playtime.
Kids these days only have phones and are locked out after an hour or two.

>>715522464 (OP)
we pressed buttons, numbers went up. we missed out on life.

oh look,same as 2025

>cellphones and smartphones in every hand
>a wiki for everything
>social media
ruined this industry among many others around 2007+

>>715522464 (OP)
Late 90s was mainly C&C: Red Alert.
I got a PS1 at the end of 1998 with Die Hard Trilogy and Metal Gear Solid.
Played those until I got Syphon Filter at the end of 1999.
I got a PS2 April 2001 with Timesplitters and Silent Scope. Then I got Zone of the Enders in May and GTA3 in October.
Got an Xbox in April 2002 and just played Halo for the rest of the year, interspersed with Final Fantasy X on the PS2.

I want to go back.

>>715522464 (OP)
it was a new an a niche media

>>715522464 (OP)
Unreal tournament and Quake

>>715522464 (OP)
games made by nerds for nerds
only white people online

>>715522464 (OP)
Competitive clan matches in Quake, organised via IRC, with 200ms latency and text macros instead of voice chat

>>715522674
>a wiki for everything
You can still thankfully experience the thrill of not being able to just look up shit and having to find stuff out yourself through those obscure Japanese indie/porn games that are mostly sold through DLsite. Usually it's just three autists posting barely readable guides on obscure forums but it still beats just being able to look up everything on a wiki.

>>715522802
Whites only was the absolute best part
Take me back

>>715522802
>no latinas
yikes

>>715522464 (OP)
Fun.

>>715522883
we had pictures

>>715522828
Last year's game of the year was Enchant Farm.

>>715522674
fucking this
i hate when people call some game a wiki game when you can figure out everything by engaging with the game
fucking retards

>>715522464 (OP)
Suffering because everything took forever to boot up or load, internet was slow as balls and malware was all over the damned place. Back then technology was advancing rapidly and things were being pioneered, witnessing the progress and upgrading was amazing.
At least games were made for their target audience, now we have a different kind of suffering.

I should've been playing more different games during this time instead of spending 90% of time in multiplayer. Now it's like a void with no memories of video games I can share

>>715522883
Goblinas were only in-game hombre and it was a better world

>>715522464 (OP)
We got Internet at home around 2007. I used to mostly play Habbo Hotel and GBA Emulators

>put my pc and a crt monitor in my dads car and drive to my friends house
>buy a crate of beer and snacks along the way
>order pizza or whatever, make cheese toast
>play and drink all night, ut99, brood war, serious sam, quake, colin mcrae
it was fantastic

>>715522558
Life sucks, vidya is better. Number must go up

>>715522802
I would like to add that third world people around that time actually had good manners, mostly because, if his family had enough money to buy a PC+internet connection they also had enough money to give him an education, unlike modern times where even the lowest IQ retard can get access to smartphones

>>715522464 (OP)
I did this yesterday, but it wasn't Diablo, it was NFS Carbon

>>715522464 (OP)
>Go ahead and pick out a game, anon.

>>715522558
Nice try Zoomie

>>715522464 (OP)
>emulator
@fbi @nintendo @cia @israel @bibinetanyahu

>>715524521
>but there are no PC games that support GLide here, mom

>>715526020
>15 sheckles have been deposited into your account

>>715522464 (OP)
Me and all my friends would bike to a kids house that got a ps1 with medal of honor.

We huddled around a small tv, like 6 of us, as we took turns every death trying to beat the game on the hardest difficulty.

When we beat it it was a crazy celebration, and then we went biking outside, sometimes swam in the pool then went back in to play Medal of Honor.

Simpler times.

>>715527729
Sometimes when I beat a game in those days I'd shout at the top of my lungs

>>715522464 (OP)
new genres were being invented - fps, action rpg, real-time strategy. technology moved forward at an insane pace. everyone didn't have a good internet connection yet, and some games had kind of wack netcode in hindsight. we had lan parties to compensate for that, though.

>>715522464 (OP)
It was before online infected the console market, so people were much more comfortable with couch co-op and just before online went mainstream, Lan parties were retardedly fun
There wasn't a huge demand for visual fidelity, so you could comfortably play like opicrel regardless if pc or console
There was a distinct difference between then and now in just how the game presented itself
You can tell it was made to be fun, and/ or the devs themselves had fun making them. Games didn't try to step out if their lane, or take themselves way too seriously, and they didn't feel like a reverse engineered audience tested and targeted soulless product
It may not have been as technologically as advanced as modern gaming, but there was a spark that midern gaming will never achieve, no matter how many k's and fps they throw at you

>>715522464 (OP)
kino beyond all zoomer imagining. nobody used guides or metas, everyone on the interne spoke english, and normalfags still hadn't been forced out of sportsball and pop music and into the hobby by (((marketing))). the people making the game were nerds and the people playing them were nerds. nobody used the word "Gamer" (tm) (R)

>>715528603
>nobody used guides or metas
i think this is what i miss the most, people doing their own builds and strategies

>>715528603
>nobody used guides

>>715524521
the video store in my town launched when monsters inc and the live action scooby doo were popular and they had decals of those characters on the wall all the way until they closed in like 2014. now it's a dentist clinic, and the clinic still has sully, mike, and shaggy decals on the wall.

>>715528790
>heh, texts guides on cheatcc and gamefaqs existed, therefore it was identical to the youtube guide meta of 2025 in terms of both volume and user penetration

>>715522464 (OP)
>What was gaming like in the late 90s and 2000s?
Zoomer Signature Detected!

>>715522464 (OP)
Amazing since I was a child. In reality, games were often clunky and with poorly explained, all the while wikis were nonexistent. Even game guides bullshitted you every once in a while or were too vague to be useful. If you got stuck in a game that was it and you didn't get to beat the game.

>>715528940
So they used guides?

>>715522464 (OP)
IS THAT KID PLAYING AN EMULATOR???
I'M REPORTING HIM TO THE FBI

>>715529154
Nope. they didn't. literally no one. not one soul.

>>715522464 (OP)
similar to your pic
inviting your friend or going to their place to sit in front of a monitor a play videogames, like you'd play and if you died your friend would play and there would be that exchange going until one of you had to go home
or just watching the friend play game and you'd just sit and have tons of fun just watching because being there together and sharing the moment was a lot better than whatever kids do watching twitch streamers, it's completly different kind of experience

gaming was just more fun back in the day

>>715522464 (OP)
The internet worked

>>715522464 (OP)
>What was gaming like in the late 90s and 2000s?
Fun, kino, soulfull. Industry and technology felt limitless, with a bright future ahead, and it wasnt just that we were kids, the jump from snes to n64 was fucking incredible, it wont happen ever again

>>715529415
>the jump from snes to n64 was fucking incredible
hell the jump from PS1 to PS1 was fantastic
out of sheer fucking skill and without tech crutches

>>715529641
nta, but that's not exactly a fair example, considering that ff7 development started on the 64, and was brought over to ps1
I mean look at ff8, that wasas big a gap too

THERE WAS NO RAGE QUITTING
that was invented by millennial sissy's
back in the day you had to go over to someones house to play pvp/ 2player sports games
you couldn't just throw the controller down and leave half way thru a match you would be ridiculed non stop
you had to get gud
now what we got? eomm sbmm
BLAME MILENNIALS
KARATE CHOP MILLENNIALS

>>715529154
let me help because you're either ESL or (more likely) low IQ lashing out. in american and british english (curse those benchods, right?), certain terms and words can be used as exaggerations for effect to communicate and reinforce ideas. for example, when someone says
>"Nobody cares."
they're not declaring a universal state of being in which no human being on earth is concerned about or capable of being concerned about the topic. i'd suggest taking an introductory college-level expository writing class with an emphasis on persuasive writing to improve your assimilation.

>>715522464 (OP)
IS THAT A FUCKING EMULATOR
AAAAAAAAAAAA BANZAI

>>715522464 (OP)
The best part was that things were constantly changing and evolving. You could constantly have something to look forward to and wonder about how things would improve.

For the past 15 years everything has felt completely stagnant. There's barely anything to look forward to anymore, and everything seems to be getting worse and worse.

The era between the fall of the wall and the collapsing of the towers was a golden age for the US. Society was happy and hopeful. If you were lucky enough to be a kid during this era and had good parents, you were essentially handed a golden ticket. Games were simpler but left a lot to the imagination. Developers wanted their games to do well, but marketing was pretty much non-existent for the most part. You'd MAYBE see a commercial air once or twice in special cases, but that was it. If you wanted to discover new games you'd do it by renting from blockbuster, borrowing cartridges/disks from your friends, or reading a gaming magazine. There's no understating what smartphones have done to us.

>>715522464 (OP)
a lot of time on teamspeak
playing half-life mods, diablo 2, star craft, aoe2, battlefield and a lot of other games

>>715522802
It's weird to remember a time that if you were talking to someone online you could just assume them to be white.

The collective IQ of the average internet user has been taking a nose dive. It was especially accelerated after 2007.

>>715530393
I mostly agree. It certainly helps that it was an age before everything was connected; social media, agendas becoming more blatant, hyperbolic takes became commonplace, opinions became "facts", and what I believe to be the most damning, video games became casualized and infected with soulless post-reagan era capitalist shareholder fucks

>>715522464 (OP)
I remember my friend's older brother installed a gameboy color emulator with the japanese version of pokemon gold on our computers months before it released in America.

>>715522464 (OP)
I remember emulating pokemon gold before it came out in the west. it wasnt fully translated but like 80% so when ur mom or people called it was all in ching chong. shit blew my mind as a kid, my neighbor showed me the ways of the pc and it changed everything

Zoomers seriously believe people didn't call it PSX and they will argue with you about it. At some point people did mostly stop calling it PSX probably around the time the PS3 came out. But they believed it was always this way. 100% nobody called it PS1

>>715530393
>"Society was happy and hopeful"
>LA riots (1992)
>Waco siege (1993)
>Oklahoma bombing (1995)
>Columbine (1999)

>>715530393
The 90s was the last decade of the monoculture

>>715523035
>last year's game of the year was enchant f-ACK!

>>715522464 (OP)
Dude it was so much better, it was like a constant orgasm, all video games were amazing, technology just worked, there were no black people whatsoever and everyone was just happier.

>>715530715
Although making sense of moon runes back then was a different animal, I'm sure it was hype as fuck all the same

>>715531071
yeah turn based rpgs are gay. Even in the 90s they were. Thank god shit like Legend of Zelda LTTP and Secret of Mana fixed that shit real quick. only nostalgia fags think turn based shit is good.

>>715531065
>LA riots (1992)
I lived on the East Coast and didn't care
>Waco siege (1993)
I lived on the East Coast and didn't care
>Oklahoma bombing (1995)
I lived on the East Coast and didn't care
>Columbine (1999)
Something like this had never happened before and didn't occur again until after 9/11.

In the late 90s, I was playing a lot of translated rom hacks of SNES games.

>>715531210
Yeah I had zero idea what I was doing, and I didn't get very far.

>>715522546
I was a consolefag limited to 2h of playtime on most days as a kid in the 2000s.
Despite everything, I have a much better time gaymen these days.

>>715531065
We have riots every year now
Glowies are doing MUCH worse than burning down a shack
I'll give you that one I guess, though with where we're going it won't be long until crazies commit terrorist attacks on domestic soil
Unironically normalized, people hardly care anymore since it's so common outside of extreme cases like Uvalde.
It wasn't perfect, but still much more hopeful than now.

>>715531071
Turn based gameplay is great as long as the choices matter, there's lots of different strategy involved, gearing and leveling decisions matter, and the bosses have depth and can fuck you up. If you disagree then you have been filtered.

>>715522802
>>715522882
>>715530634
growing up in norcal and playing mostly counter strike and fighting games, servers were full of latinos and arcades full of blacks and asians, but it wasn't really a problem because they didn't behave like chimps, they were just normal people. you don't really get that type of comradery between races nowadays

>>715522546
>are locked out after an hour or two.
What do you mean? Parents take away their phones? Yeah, that's a good idea.

games were released finished
the controlers that came with the system lasted years never needing to be replaced

>>715522558
Play games and make number go up or wage slave and make number go up, your live is a never ending shitty grinding game no matter what.

>>715532291
I didn't even meet a latino in real life until I was a teenager. There used to not be many of them outside of the western US

My high school had one black in the entire school and he was a mulatto

>>715531065
>LA riots (1992)
BLM riots
>Waco siege (1993)
Muslim attacks on pulse nightclub/boston marathon
>Oklahoma bombing (1995)
Covid
>Columbine (1999)
nothing compared to v-tech

It's like youre retarded on purpose. 90's were just better.

>>715533165
>nothing compared to v-tech
We had V-Tech in the 80s, and it was awesome.

>>715522464 (OP)
Free from troons and faggots, the only anime games people played was finally fantasy and pokemon, people played rpg games for adventure not romance and porn

>>715529154
Most people didn't know those websites existed. I remember printing an entire guide once to keep it at hand while playing a game lmao

>>715522546
>locked out after an hour or two.
God I wish

>>715522464 (OP)
I miss it

>>715531351
>Something like this had never happened before and didn't occur again until after 9/11.

? I can count at minimum 9 major shooting and/or bombing attacks on institutions of learning that predated Columbine.

it was the golden age

>>715535195
>Columbine
Has anyone here ever played Eric Harris' DOOM maps?

>>715522464 (OP)
it was kino

>>715537031
picrel is the trend i miss the most

>>715537716
We need a resurgence

>>715530081
>hyperbole
>college-level
Ouch.

>>715522464 (OP)
90s to early 2000s. You're talking about the nascent era of 3D games until they hit their stride. The nature of the games themselves weren't that much different from now, since most big games still follow the 3D action meme. Except people were playing Tomb Raider and Tekken 3 and Mario 64, etc. Also instead of shitposting on 4chan we subscribed to gaming magazines and talked to people about games in person. We'd visit our friend's house and play on his system until it got dark and then go home. Shit like that was common.

>>715533739
>I was a retarded child who didn't know guides existed
>therefore most people did not either
Genetic diarrhea take.
>>715528940
>information is different when presented in video format
Genetic diarrhea take.
>>715528790
Nostalgiafags reject reality so hard it's borderline schizophrenic.
Pic rel is an official collection of guides from 1987.

>>715530393
Nostalgiafags have the dumbest, most insane takes imaginable. You literally have nothing to add to this conversation except
>past good fuutre bad my life sucks

>>715522464 (OP)
Get a chinkheld and emulate a bunch of PSX games, that'll learn ya.

>>715539482
>we'd
>overgeneralizing your depressing childhood
No thanks, troon.

this game was fucking HARD

>>715522883
>no fat slugs
nice

>>715537716
>a glimpse of her sex reward hole that you can penetrate if you are a good boy
>she will also queef out a wagebaby to replace you in the workforce
Femaloid... I kneel. I am your slave.

>>715539943
>zoomer buzzword nonsense
get yourself checked

>>715531065
My guy are you WATCHING the news these days?!

>>715530081
So they used guides, got it

>>715539816
You’re not going to get it.

>>715522464 (OP)
Im a 35 year old boomer and I noticed that even I can’t play vidya the old way anymore. Whenever im stuck for more than 2 minutes, I will instantly look up a guide or a yt video. Also the fomo I get of missing secrets has me looking up walktroughs constantly.

>>715532291
Ive noticed blacks are really fun if its just one in a group of white friends. Most of them watch anime or have other nerdy interests (more than whites imo). But as soon as you have two of them, they strictly start speakin in slang and chimp out. Really weird stuff

>>715542397
I'm a boomer like you and got used to looking up a guide for everything after playing shit like WoW where you're expected to minmax every choice and button press. It feels way better to just not do that. Play on your tv with your phone in another room, or turn off your other screens if you're on a PC.
The only things I look up anymore are archaic mechanics or if I'm truly stuck in an area, but modern games don't often have that issue.

>>715532291
>they were just normal people. you don't really get that type of comradery between races nowadays
I miss this. When I used to see a black actor in a movie/tv show it wouldn't even really register to me they were black, they were just a person, the same as I wouldn't care about someones eye colour. Now when I see a black person in the same setting I automatically think "thats a diversity casting" even if it isn't.
I don't like thinking like this, I wish things could be like they used to be

>>715543763
Things are never going back like they used to, they ruined it.

>>715522464 (OP)
>wait until the weekend
>download as many GBA roms as I can on my dial-up
>somewhere in the week I get stuck
>wait until midnight, connect to the internet, go to gamefaqs and download as many guides as I can
The good times

>>715546852
>guides
No one used guides back then, zoomer

>>715522802
It was never only white people online. I think you mean there were no indians yet. I'm black and me and my friends used the internet to chat on AOL

>>715522464 (OP)
3 type of people: the sons of engineers, who grew up on pc gaming; the sons of immigrants playing beatem ups at the arcade; the normies arguing about console wars.
>>715528790
>Vidya mags teaching you how to cheat
The world was trully kino.

>>715547716
>I'm black
Why?

>>715547461
>he missed out on the based text guides and forums from gamefags
Oh you poor soul.

>>715522464 (OP)
Man.

>>715544158
Yeah (((they))) really did irreparable damage

>>715545735
Best Buy

>>715522464 (OP)
>playing pokèmon on a pc
NINTENDO SUE THEM

>>715547716
Yeah, no, you're wrong. The blacks online (like yourself) were in Western Civilization. Or, I should say, were thrown into Western Civilization by kikes to be used as a bioweapon. The internet was largely White and Asian (not chinese, Japanese) 20 years ago. Precisely why the internet was better.

Your kind ruined it, as did other browns.

It was good

>>715531065
The difference is it would go away when the appropriate time to shut up about politics came

>>715522464 (OP)
A lot more social. You could talk to your friends IRL about a game your playing and they would either give you tips or just shoot the shit about the various aspects of the game. That's not even mentioning shit like couch co-op, LAN/couch deathmatch and fighting games like Soul Calibur 2 being fun romps for an afternoon. Let's not forget about the hot chicks in vidya, some of whom were actually kinda cute and cool enough to make it a bit of their hobby (I remember getting a chick from my school into Soul Calibur 2 because she thought Cassandra looked pretty lol). There were definitely some downsides like the Internet being a bit ass, but just like everything before social media and smartphones took over society, it was better on the whole. People were a lot more chill and less on edge. Not trying to nostalgiafag too hard,

>>715522802
>>715522882
>>715530634
>>715551936
>>715542740
You can always tell it's some zoomer or younger person writing retarded shit like this because no one even thought about race like that until Obama and his husband Michael came into office, especially post Trayvon martin and Ferguson.

Before, it was just common knowledge that you act with some sort of etiquette in public (including on the Internet) and only hoodrats and rednecks didn't do so and they weren't on the Internet or near any sort of tech job. Plus, there were a bunch of shitheads acting like faglords for other reasons, even if the community was all white or Asian or whatever.

>>715522464 (OP)
Makes me sick how far we've fallen.

>>715554792 (Me)
>Not trying to nostalgiafag too hard, but I do think there are genuinely good reasons to have a fondness for the period from the 70s all the way up to the late 2000s/early 2010s for different reasons

FTFM

normies ruin everything

The difference graphics wise between games made in 1999 and 2001 might never be replicated.

>>715522464 (OP)
>those two kids are 80 now
Bros...

>>715539816
>depressing
? When did I say that?

>>715522464 (OP)
I hate the modern internet so much it's unreal

>>715554792
It's almost like people evolve from having default hippie npc opinions and only become more racist the more they have to interact with them due to forced integration. I think we should re-enslave the blacks, they've had over a hundred years to sort their shit out and they are worse off now than in the 1900s.

>>715522464 (OP)
Very good.....Very good

>>715522464 (OP)
Every game was a treasure because you didn't have money and games were expensive

>>715559513
POORFAG HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>715522464 (OP)
That's gen 4 so those are zoomers. You're too young to even be a zoomer jesus christ.

>>715560643
That's gen 3

No matter how much I try to replicate the past, I just can't find myself in my grandparents' living room playing PS2 and watching Newgrounds videos with my cousins

>>715561557
Palworld is a much better game than Planescape. A much better game.

t. 36 year old

a little bit of 2007, then 2011, 2013, 2016, 2020, and mobile games did irreparable damage to video games

>>715558391
>It's almost like people evolve from having default hippie npc opinions and only become more racist the more they have to interact with them due to forced integration.

I think it's just a case of terminally online people being mentally ill products of a spiritually depraved society and a host of personal demons they refuse to sort out and blame on others more than anything.

>>715562376
yeah but people don't want to hear that

>>715542397
>fomo of missing secrets
It's too bad there aren't secrets to find anymore. Games used to be an experience to explore.

>>715561557
Why do fags complain about people playing old games
Does it invalidate their existence?

>>715551936
>still falling for the 10 year old /pol/ conspiracy
It's always someone else's fault things aren't to your liking, huh? Nothing to do but give up. Remember: your boogeyman is always 10 steps ahead of you.

>>715562708
7th gen or rather the entirety of the late 2000s
The beginning of the end
and yet I feel nostalgic of that era, that image is right, everything became so massively shit for the last 20 years that even shit eras like that are more sane

>>715562257
>2007

>>715522464 (OP)
@NintendoUSA @POTUS @FBI @AIPAC
DO SOMETHING

>>715564323
It was weird how nerds and dudebros coexisted in vidya for so long with little issue but the second a lot of women get involved it took a nosedive

>>715558361
>>715564323
The internet was a mistake. People clearly don't do well with access to constant connection and communication. Now it's either
>picking from an infinite list of people to blame for your problems
or
>catering your identity to fit in with the largest group you can even if that group changes daily
Shits fucked

>>715564596
Maybe gatekeeping ain't such a bad idea

>>715522464 (OP)
constantly walk/riding to frens houses for multiplayer
renting vidya and beating them on the weekend

>>715564323
>The year the Internet went to shit
The effects of most of this shit didn't happen until a few years later. No one had an iPhone in 2007. 2007-2008 were Blackberry years. Twitter didn't start taking off until 2009. The only thing here that really had a noticeable cultural effect in 2007 was Facebook.

>>715522464 (OP)
A lot more based and a lot less gay

>>715522546
>Kids these days
Your parents said the same thing about you. And theirs said the same thing about them. Nothing has changed.

>>715567918
>>What was gaming like in the late 90s and 2000s?

>>715522464 (OP)
There were fun cultural phenomena, such as OGame, where all the schools in the region were playing it.

>>715568020
>>>What was gaming like in the late 90s and 2000s?

I like how it looked

>>715562376
I don't blame any of my personal problems on them.
I just don't want them near me or my family, they evolved to live in Africa which is where they belong.

>>715566237
>This made queers seethe with rage

>>715530715
Had a similar experience albeit with the German version... more or less. I've got my own internet access by late 2000. The offical German release was April 2001. So the only thing I could get was a weird half-(fan?)translated version with 80% in English, 15% in Japanese and a bit gibberish. I have no idea how that makes sense though, since the English release seems to have been October 2000, so even a few weeks before I got internet in the first place. I really wish I had kept that specific rom I've got back then, since with the context I now know it seemed pretty special.

My "Gold" folder to this day is my "secret" pr0n folder

>>715568103
>tfw most games have simultaneous releases for the Japanese language and English language versions now
>can't buy a JP cart of (game) almost a year ahead of the US release to enjoy it before everyone else does
There are still ways to do this with specific games but for the big ones that are part of mass culture, this is dead.

>>715522464 (OP)
Things have changed

>>715528603
Many zoomers experienced the 2000s though

>>715568009
It has always been true. Before Socrates's time, people memorized entire books. All of human history has been one slow slide into degeneracy. Mass entertainment accelerated it by a bit, but it's inevitable.

>>715531065
A playfight compared to the shit that happened in the mid 2010s

>>715522464 (OP)
Late 90's to early 00's is the best gaming has ever been.

>>715569039
really not surprising a scene girl graduates into a bimbo

>>715524375
>Facebook post dated February 2007
>Photo dated 2 months after the post

>>715545735
FuncoLand was a fucking ripoff, what a piece of shit.

>>715569362
could've been a digital camera set to the wrong date

>>715562708
the PS5 is so pathetic it wont have a single game to even be nostalgic about

>>715522464 (OP)
Me and my brother were allowed 30 minutes each on our dial up line and we tried to play counter strike but it took ages to get in so usually only one of us got to play...

THREAD THEME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE

>>715522464 (OP)
Games were made by white and Japanese nerds. It was a better time.

>>715522883
You were supposed to FUCK the latina, not bring it to the internet.

>>715568551
>they evolved to live in Africa which is where they belong
If you're American and white, you have European roots. You evolved to live in Europe and nowhere else. Would you like to go back?

>>715569360
yep, all about trends

>>715522464 (OP)
>No microtransactions
>No feminists putting ugly women in everything
>No shitty post ironic writing for characters shit was genuine even if it was cringe or edgy
>Only DRM was a CDKey and you could look those up instead of having your game's performance throttled on PC
>Install wizards were cool as fuck sometimes will cool graphics or images while you installed games
>Instruction manuals that were full of tips, art, lore, and backstory you could read like a little novella.
>Split screen was on most games so you and your friends could play together
>No online subscription unless it was an MMO
>Lobbies instead of matchmaking so you could join all kinds of rooms to do whatever that made games live a long time
>Devs optimized their games so no shit performance most of the time since they couldn't just ship a half broken piece of shit and then rush a patch out
>No social media to ruin a game's balance or identity because shitters can't cope
>No gay pandering
>No blacks pandering
>No anything pandering just entertainment and fun
>Cheat codes
>Could go to the arcades and play SFII or MVC2 or DDR with friends
>Game journos weren't super retarded and gaming magazines would have demo discs for you to play games or watch trailers
>Mainstream media shunned vidya so you could have genuine discussions with people who were also into your hobby instead of bringing in normalfag retards and whores
>E3 was actually cool and exciting to watch
>Tons of games and exclusives for all platforms at the time
>Consoles didn't have to install 100gb of data for games

>>715570081

TAKE ME BACK

>>715564323
>Ubisoft lauches Assassin's Creed, ruining countless games with its open world model for years to come

>>715566780
Big bang theory brought nerd shit to the normalfags.

>>715564596
That death of a hobby ms paint comic ages like fine wine

>>715522674
Wikis are great though because I can look up characters I don't know if I'm playing Game 5: Revenge of Villain.
>but muh mystery
Mystery is only fun if you have a way of solving it. I've spent years thinking that Metal Gear Liquid exists. That's not fun, that's just stupid

>>715571721
>Only DRM was a CDKey
Starforce. Certain floppies also had protections that would brick your PC.
>Install wizards were cool as fuck
It took up so much computation resources that all you could do was the installation whatever it was you were trying to install.
>Split screen was on most games so you and your friends could play together
Only if you were a consolenigger or a retarded and weak poorfaggot. LANs were a thing.
>No online subscription unless it was an MMO
AOL existed. ISP subscriptions still exist. They're subscriptions.

not reading the rest of your garbage

>>715568705
Holy goddamn moly this is why using 3-5 adblockers is a must in this day 'n age

>>715573767
>LANs were a thing.
A thing that didn't help you play with your friends in any way unless they lived close
>duude just bring your PC to your friend
How many 12 year olds did that

>>715573767
>They're subscriptions.
pedantic
you know that anon is talking about shit like PS+ xbox live and nintendo charging you to play online, faggot.

>>715571325
You're making assumptions on what I am, rude.

>>715574045
>How many 12 year olds did that
Most of us? Did you grow up in Afghanistan?
The only people who couldn't afford PCs in the 90s were those that weren't well off. They were extremely affordable for middle class families and lawn mowing was a lucrative business for those that couldn't.
Hence:
>weak
because they couldn't physically bust around a monitor and PC setup or had no friends and siblings to help out
>poor
because they couldn't afford a setup in the first place and lacked the gumption to solve it.
>>715574289
It's the same shit, nigger. You're still paying a subscription and in the year of our Lord 2025 you're now getting fucked in the ass twice as hard if you're a dumbfuck consolenigger.

>>715574625
You're trying too hard

>>715574625
We've always paid for internet. and that anon is just saying that now you have to pay twice for playing on console when you never had to before. The only nigger ITT is you

>>715574776
and (You) were not trying hard enough