Thread 718915539

Was it really that good?

Where's all the funco pops? Why aren't the systems and games gutted and locked behind the counter?

>>718915539 (OP)
I don't get it, is it different today?

>>718915930
Not around here

>>718915539 (OP)
This looks exactly the same as the stores I went to in the 00s. The only thing missing is the 2x1 meter large crate of used games in the center, where you could buy 2 for like $10. I'm pretty sure I could find one in a mall somewhere today that looks like this.

Good riddance, I guess. Being able to buy games online is so superior to getting a disk.

>>718915539 (OP)
>artist interpretation reveals how the fabled "90s" might have looked, we may never know the truth

>>718915539 (OP)
What's the difference? Shops are still the same here. If it's any different then that's a (You) problem.

>>718915539 (OP)
Each year you would be getting in the range of 400+ new games over Sega Master System, Nes, Megadrive, Super Nintendo, then Playstation. Sega Dreamcast was 1999, PS2 was 2000 & Xbox 2001.

All technologies were rapidly achieving a transition from 2D to 3D story telling, worlds, graphics, features, game play. Your ability as a gamer rapidly expanded. This was also the glory years for PC as well.

>>718916352
it was just different. you will never experience what buying games in the 1990s was like.

>>718915539 (OP)
Yep. You would invite a couple of friends home just to play that shit.
There was only one or two controllers for the 4 to 6 children of the clique (plus maybe one or two little siblings). And yet everyone was happy.

>>718916773
You were forced to interact with people you barely know against your will. There, he's all caught up.

>>718915930
Everything is locked behind acrylic to prevent brown people from stealing.

It was better.

>>718915930
there's alot more niggers now(sadly)

>be poor but still get to rent the occasional game
>Rent Perfect Dark a couple of times in a row
>Get home from school one day
>mom had bought me N64 expansion pak, Perfect Dark, and the PD Strategy Guide

I love that damn woman so fucking much. It will be a very dark day when she leaves this world, anons.

>>718915871
The playstations were still locked up back then, it's just no one would even steal a n64, let alone buy one, LOL

>>718915930
Mostly funcos now. Even with digital sales taking over the collectables could be less ugly. The store aesthetics were better too: white walls with colored trim, made everything pop out more.

>>718915539 (OP)
>7 years old
>rent a star wars game from blockbuster
>don't remember the name but i remember fighting an ATST and getting my ass kicked and then opening a door and getting my ass kicked again my snow wookies
>save my game
>you can type in a 3-letter name
>type in "ASS"
>lol i am a comedy genius
>was going to change it after i got back from school and played one last time before returning it
>mom picks me up
>tells me she already returned the game
>was terrified for a week that blockbuster would call the cops on me for type "ASS"

good times

>>718917889
cool story bro

>>718917594
Must have been nice, my parents hated video games. They bought a Nintendo & Genesis then stopped cause I wasn't playing outside enough. Years later I did summer work and bought a PlayStation which they were pissed about but it was my money so too bad. Didn't matter how good I did in school, getting an engineering degree, multiple promotions at work...they still considered them a bad influence.

>>718917889

That reminds me. Not game related, but when I was a kid, the grocery store we went to had an employee with my name (apparently). I would act up in the store with my mom, and I'd hear "anon, please come to the office." My mom would use that to scare me straight. I'd be freaking out, thinking they were going to grab me as we head out the store.

Moms are something else.

>>718917975

That sucks, anon. Sorry to hear. You can't please some people. Just know you don't have to meet their expectations.


I'm proud of youno homo

>>718915539 (OP)
>vintage photos
will we get time witnesses speak about it on tv... uhm I mean tiktok?

>>718917975
you ended up here so they were right

>>718915930
none of these cases had games inside of them as anons imply, just a manual and box art.

the way it worked is that you picked up a case and they would either give you a fresh copy or disc of the game from inside the store.

they died out not because of white genocide, but because of digital downloads being more popular. steam, XBL, and playstation plus offered either offered free or extremely cheap sales of AAA quality games and these stores couldn't compete with them.

Tbh, physical stores like Gamestop deserved to die because they were scams. You only earned a $5 off coupon for a physical game if you traded in 10 games that cost more than it. They also offered shit overpriced merch too. The only thing worthwhile were gaming magazines like EGM, but their anti-woke Jewish CEO guy cut that off.

>>718917594
wtf i played flash games because my parents beat me up for bad grades (making bs instead of As)

>>718916773
>you will never experience what buying games in the 1990s was like.
But I did? There's literally no difference.
You're just trying to enforce a "ohh you younguns don't know how it was" position which only makes you seem pathetic.

>>718915539 (OP)
>"the golden age"
>"we really had it all and blew it"
The fuck are these faggots on about? It's literally a display of goods for sale, orchestrated by men in suits for the purpose of making as much money as possible. It was tacky, garish, bare-faced consumerism designed to ensnare gormless youths then, and it still is now.
>"but I was 10, and it was soooo soulful"
Fucking grow up.

>>718915539 (OP)
This is bullshit, we had light in the 90's and people would actually come at the shop to look at those games.

>>718915930
You are a fucking retarded faggot.

>>718918267
>digital downloads being forced by corporations to save money
Fixed it for you, you cock sucking, pig raping faggot. Next time don't run your retarded mouth on things you weren't alive for.

>>718915539 (OP)
>vintage photos
>90s

>>718915539 (OP)
never bothered renting games because we had rampant piracy in my country

>back in late 80s
>Pharmacy section of an air force base
>Half an aisle is Nintendo games, mounted in their boxes in plastic door type things, same way posters are commonly presented so you can flip through them all

Magical experience. Lasted until like 1989, then never saw video games presented in that manner again.

Overrepresentation of games like nobunagas ambition or romance of the three kingdoms

>>718918636
*sigh* more anti-frog bigotry... to be expected i guess...

>>718918608
We only picked the good ones, nobody was cucking us until we lost gamergate and the big bang theory audience took over.
Shove a funko pop up your ass, I feel bad for you.

>>718918682
as bad as they are, they were less of a ripoff than physical stores. unless if you went to a pawn shop, their cheapest games were $20 USD regardless of age. Meanwhile you can buy recent games like Battlefield 2042 for $3 USD

it might be different nowadays

>>718918831
LOL

>>718918831
That's some bullshit I rented plenty of bad games and bought a few. Though buying was less common

>>718916352
Less non whites around. Now all I see is niggers and browns

>>718917594
Who asked lil bro?

>>718918267
Wrong. They had the cart or disc in them.
No mudslimes in the EU back then, savvy?

You can go to Gamestop right now and experience this. Thanks to all the people that pushed up Gamestop stock, the brick and mortar retail stores are still going strong. Most of them would probably be closed by now if not for that.

They even have a used game section that you could find some hidden gems, but it's difficult nowadays because all the Ebay and Amazon resellers grabbing up almost everything that's some half decent deal.

Gamestop hasn't really gotten much worse from its peak of brick and mortar retail. The used games are less of a deal than they used to be but that's it.

>>718915930
It's literally the same except society was more high trust so they just let the games sit on the shelves

>>718919320
And by the way, appreciate Gamestop whilst we still have it. When they all close down you'll be lamenting it. Gamestop is all that's left of the way things used to be, so go and support your local Gamestop.

>>718918330
WE'RE ASIAN, NOT BSIAN!

>>718919320
No, it's not the same thing at all because all the toys and bullshit completely ruin the feel. You can't experience the same thing. Plus for the longest time gamestop has done insane shit like taking discs out of boxes. Don't touch my fucking new product wtf.

>>718918682

Customers adopted digital purchases willingly, it wasn't forced by anyone you stupid zoomer. You weren't alive to see it but PC games used to come in boxes, on a disc, before mutts bent over for Steam and made digital storefronts the new norm. Don't post again until you turn twenty five and stop being a retarded little faggot.

>>718919568
Will you ever stop acting like a woman

>>718918831
Bait

>>718915539 (OP)
It was otherwordly. The feeling of that time cannot be conveyed to somebody that didnt live it.

>>718919613
And I miss it every day, but the Steam shills do not shut the fuck up ever

>>718919639
I don't think you experienced a video game store or aisle in 1993. I can tell the thread about it. Don't contaminate the past with your inference.

Insanely astronomically rare Captcha shows I have God's authority on my side

>>718915539 (OP)
>vintage photos
>phone format
>vintage gaming

>>718918082
Thanks bra
>>718918217
Better here than r/gamingcirclejerk. Could've ended up an unemployed tranny.

you could find people at stores playing the demo console/game as a kid, and you'd watch for 30 minutes until that guy got tired and gave you a try. The PC stores were the most cozy, watched a guy play through up to the sanctuary part of act 2 with the spirits on diablo 2, before buying it myself.

>>718917889
Shadows of the Empire

I was around back then. Toys r us literally just had the cover art on the wall and you took a paper up with a bar code to pay and then a separate walled off are you had to goto to get your game like it was a bank or something.

I only went to Toys R Us like twice as a kid. I remember one time I went, I bought the Sonic Labyrinth game for Gamegear. It was a waste of money.

>dad was a regional manager for Blockbuster back in the day
>would go in with my dad and all the employees would treat me like a prince because my dad was their bosses' boss
>got to rent anything I wanted for free because of my dad being a regional

I wish my brain wasn't so fried that I remember more of that time. I wish I had more than just an N64 at that time so I could have truly taken full advantage

>>718919865
>you could find people at stores playing the demo console/game as a kid, and you'd watch for 30 minutes until that guy got tired and gave you a try.
God damn. I cant believe i forgot about that.

>>718919061

You did. In the future you asked me about my "Perfect Dark story" in a post. I'm from the future posting in the past. You end up replying to this post asking me to tell you about it. It's a loop I've been stuck in for a while.

one

>>718920438

Oh

Uh...Hey man, tell me about that Perfect Dark story of yours.

zoomers are unironically nostalgic over 2016, fortnite season one and youtube toy slop channels so yeah, I'd say we had it better

>>718915930
less games and more video-game adjacent garbage that doesn't matter, exactly like /v/

>be me
>kid in the late 90s/early 2000s
>walking through aisles full of vidya, no funko pops or merchandise or whatever, just vidya
>countless titles that were on display are legendary now and many of them are considered to be the best games ever made by people today
>there were kiosks with consoles and a small TV hooked up so you could try out of the game
>if you wanted, you could buy one of the many gaming magazines that were stacked on the counter
>large, beautiful 3D pre-rendered late 90s and early 2000s CGI or gorgeous hand-drawn posters made by the company's artists of the latest vidya releases hanging from the ceiling and taped to the walls
yeah, it was the golden age
i'm so tired, bros...

In high school, I sold burnt PSX and Dreamcast games and Gamesharks to people. I'd go rent a game at Blockbuster rip it, then burn it to sell at school for $2.50 each. One for $3, or, 4 games for $10, or 2 for $5. I sold the Gamesharks along side them because to play the burnt PSX games you needed something like that, or some mod to the console. I probably did a lot of damage to the local Blockbuster and retail stores. I was making $500 a week sometimes as a 14 year old. No one was even aware that I was breaking the law and was doing it out in the open.

>>718920612

I admire the hustle. Did that carry over into adulthood? Just curious.

>>718920612
sometimes i'm genuinely annoyed that i've never been smart or driven enough to do shit like this to make extra dosh

>no PC big boxes
Shit image

>>718920715

Not the anon you replied to, but I'm the same way, bro. I consider myself very smart. Smarter than all these dumbass normies. But I just don't have the drive. I think because I don't value money a lot. I'm the type to over tip, or pay for something to get delivered, because I can't be bothered to do it myself. Not lazy exactly, just no drive, like you said.

I could easily get into slinging some drugs or something, just...meh.

>>718917941
kill yourself, nobody will miss you

>>718919304
Being from that era myself: some times they did, some times they didn't. It depended on the actual store or chain.
The stores that removed the cart or disc and sleeved it behind the counter instead were usually the bigger chains influenced by US business models and also tended to have really, REALLY shitty staff that didn't care one iota for the material they were handling.

I knew a guy who used to work in one of those stores who was so disgusted with the flagrant malpractice of his colleagues that he up and left.
I'm talking levels of shit like opening collectors' editions boxes to harvest pre-order bonuses from them, copying authentication keys for PC games (which at the time were still written in the clear on the back of many manuals) leaving a future purchaser in the lurches, and even a few assholes playing frisbee with Playstation and PC games and having a good ol' laugh over intentionally scratching them.

Personally, I had made it a policy to accept only clean factory-sealed copies with the manufacturer-specific rip-cord intact and present - or I'd simply walk. I've had my fair share of people in line sighing and complaining about things taking too long, until I actually explained this shit to them - at which point most of them would look at the boxes they were holding somewhat quizzically; clearly wondering what they were in for, and more often than not they would actually follow up for asking for a factory-sealed copy as well.

>>718920664
Around the time I was 18, the PS2 had came out and DVDs blew up in popularity, so I was selling burnt DVDs and PS2 games as an adult. I started subcontracting residential paint work soon after a couple of years before the real estate collapse. I would pay people I knew to come paint for me. And by then as well not as many people were buying burnt DVDs as they used to. But the real estate bubble blew up in 2007 or something and all the work dried up so I went to college, and out of college I got a job where I didn't really need to do all that hustle anymore.

>>718915539 (OP)
Abloo abloo abloo muh old times were the best ;_; abloo abloo I was le happier before le forever alone ;_;

Everyone in here sure shits on reddit but god damn do you guys just ape the same shit as reddit over and over.

>>718920868
>>718920892
>>718920914
>>718920941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENooEA_V6_I

>>718920991

Thanks for sharing, anon. Best of luck. Have a skooma.

>>718921219

I am 75% certain the boy in that picture is me. Where was this taken? Any info on it?

>>718919061
god damn you are one miserable autist

>>718915539 (OP)
With the way all of the displays of funko pops and plushies and other crap are set up, my Gamestop is like the hedge maze in front of the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time; it's really claustrophobic and there's lots of twists and turns and you have to know the right way to navigate or you might get caught in a dead end with a fat pig.

>>718915930
Yes and no. Now there is funko slop and other junk in between the games. Another difference is you have likely heard and know a reasonable amount about most of the games you are looking at today where as back in the 90s/early 2000s you didn’t know much about most of the games you were staring at. You would look at the cover of the game and if it looked cool you would just hope it was good. I don’t think this old system is necessarily better but it certainly created some good memories. I explicitly remember my grandma taking me to EB games (Canadian game stop) for my birthday and I got to pick one PlayStation 1 game for my new system and I picked harvest moon back to nature because it looked neat. Fell in love with that game and it still holds a special place in my heart.

>>718921478
Looks just like how I remember my local Walmart in the 90s including the direction the inferior is facing.

>>718918267
Canada had the games in them until about the mid 2000s then they were removed them. Eventually they removed the manuals and free 48 hour Xbox live cards because brown kids would steal them. Early 2000s is when a lot of Punjabi started to move to Vancouver fyi

>>718915539 (OP)
Why do people pretend the 90s were 100 years ago and no one actually remembers how they were? There's really a coordinated effort to gaslight people who lived through the 90s in order to convince them it wasn't as great as they remember.

>>718921545

I live in a (once) small town. Our walmart was so quiet and quaint back in '93. They used to have this flat carpet. You remember that? It was dark blue I think. Some of the poles had it too. I miss that.

>>718915539 (OP)
No lol
64 sucked
Ps1 destroyed all and now we're here 30 years later and the end of the consoles

>>718921665
I remember the electronics section being carpeted in my local Walmart in the mid 90s, and the rest of the store was tiled.

>>718921665

Found it. I don't know why it's so significant to me. Probably because I was only 4 or 5 and low to the ground. I remember hiding in the clothes.

>>718915930
video games have been replaced with video game adjacent toys and collectables. Doesnt help that its impossible to have trail and error games equating in overall less games.

>>718921748
Oh yeah definitely. I was about to mention that I thought the clothing section was carpeted as well.

>>718917594
How were you playing a rented Perfect dark without the pak? I could've sworn it was like one of the 3 games that absolutely required it.

>>718915539 (OP)
Naw bra, it was worse. Back then they would always try to upsell you on the fucking prima game guides. They kept them on a shelf behind the cash register counter. Nowadays I don't have to go into the store and face the harsh judgement of the bullies who camped outside it in the mall to pick on nerds. I can just buy shit digitally. Video games used to be something for big fuckin nerds, It wasn't "normal". It was seen as weird. You were weird if you played video games and it was okay to push people who played video games around. On a day one release of a game you had to dress up like inspector gadget to sneak into the video game store if you wanted to maintain your reputation. Also back then, you had nothing to go on but the picture on the box and the description on the back, which always fuckin lied to sell copies.

>>718921647
The tactic lately has been to pretend it's all relative, that everyone loved their childhood and we're only nostalgic because we were young and had no responsibilities.

>EVERYONE LOVED LIFE WHEN THEY WERE KIDS
No, I don't think 90s kids in Bosnia & Herzegovina were having quite as much fucking fun as I was playing my SNES in 1994 in the USA.

>>718921794

You could play combat simulator. But our blockbuster also rented out the paks.

>>718920991
Lmao based. My uncle used to dub VHS tapes and used to burn DVDs. Spent 4 years in jail for selling party drugs at night clubs. Joined the ironworkers union when he got out of jail and managed to get me on as an apprentice in 2013. Loved my uncle Wayne guy is fucking hilarious

>>718920914
me on the left

>Its 2008
>You are off break from college
>You walk into gamestation to look at the preowned games and ogle the 7ft emo girl with H cup tits they employ as the counter clerk for a damn good reason
>4 PS2 games for £5
>Every week i return him with shit like michigan report from hell, zombie vs ambulance, oneechanbara, trapt and more. A cornacopia of cheap kusoge gems.

What a time it was

>>718918031
What the fuck, you just uncovered a memory I never knew I had still.

>>718921794
>>718921829

To add to my post: The BB one's looked something like this. You could pull them out easily with your fingers. I didn't get one the first time I rented. The second time they had them in stock.

>>718921031
sovl...

>>718921953

Do tell, anon. Don't leave me in suspense.

>>718915539 (OP)
>'90s
You have no idea how happy it makes me to see this spelt correctly. 90% of the time when I see it it's either 90's or 90s.

>>718915539 (OP)
Notice all those games are in security boxes and you can see the security stickers on some of the systems.

What has changed exactly?

>>718921647
I just assume it's like my friends and growing old hasn't been to kind to them so they have to think "good old days" was a thing when the reality was you were just younger and death wasn't as close.

>>718921749
Anon that "vintage photo" is from a Toys R Us. Gamestop for the last 35 years have sold a large amount of merc, in fact back in the 90s and 00s most preorder bonuses were posters, key chains, toys, etc.

All that's changed was new toys and merc were made that wasn't like what you grew up with so you noticed it.

>>718921031
EB absolutely knew how to make a store layout.

>>718921935
>college in 08
>not highschool

Rough bro, 08 was the best time for gaming but I’d hate to have wasted my early 20s playing those games. Glad I went through my loser years in highschool while you did it as an adult. Rough one loser

>>718921219
I'm jelly of this cool as fuck Tshirt

>>718915930
Gamestop was the last store type in my area with that kind of display.

Remember, its subtle. OPs image has 7 shelve width of games. In one direction.
Larger supermarkets with a electronic sections used to have 3-4 shelf aisles for the same.
Now we are down to one aisles sharing Switch2/PS5, with a few mandated boxes alongside that.

>>718915930
Go to any big box store.
>Aisles are essentially one set of shelves for one brand's games and system + demo then maybe another set of shelves for the accessories for the brand.
>Target keeps Amiibos and gift cards in the same end display with the systems.
>Target's clearance section is now one single shelf that also has full price games in it so you don't even know if it's clearanced or not.
>Walmart just puts all the games and systems in half of an aisle with no real demarcation between the three, they basically all just blend into each other.
>The clearance aisle is as big as the entire three system section now in the two or three I've been to since Covid ended.
>Best Buy got rid of clearance aisles in the ones I go to and are so heavily cut down that the Switch "aisle" is half of a stocking shelf with no discounted games at all.
>Gamestop has basically every game locked in paper sleeves behind the counter.
>Gamestop's shelves are full up with boxes but in exchange it's filled with Funko Pop sections, entire spinning racks for clothing or more FPs, random Premium Bandai and Figuarts stuff in a corner that no one buys even though it's like $100 cheaper than ordering it directly from P-Bandai or Japanese shops, standing racks of random discounted knickknacks they couldn't sell, and blind bag toys near the checkout.
Even before Covid every single store had aisles twice as big as they do now and even they weren't as big as a basic ass K-Mart electronics section from yesteryear.

>>718922028
Same story basically. One time I let go of the cart we were shopping with to go into the aisle with her, not realizing the floor was slightly sloped, and so the cart rolled all the way down the main aisle and into some stand in the middle that was holding a bunch of knick-knacks that probably got damaged when the cart slammed into it. I just remember being confused and apologetic, and nothing came of it.

Then one time, we were in the same store and I was acting up, and I heard my name over the intercom, and she was like "See? They know you're acting up again" or something to that effect. Scared the shit out of me.

>>718921647
Um but have you considered they weren't as good for BIPOC of color? Check your privilege, pinkcel

>>718918608
You're retarded
>nooo its just a display of goods how you arrange your store and the lighting and decoration don't matter
You are like people with no inner monologue, except for atmosphere. You just can't recognise it, it doesn't exist to you. Some stores sucked ass, and some were beyond godly, entirely because of the atmosphere they achieved from these things. It's the same reason people are nostalgic for video rental stores, or for arcades in the 80s, because they were not just ordinary places they were a deviation from everything normal. It's why the retard cracker barrel interior redesign, or any mcdonalds interior design comparisons between the 90s and todays stores annoy people, because one achieved a specific atmosphere and the other is stale, generic, normal building like every other normal building
The atmosphere is what makes going to a place either routine, or an actual experience. Very few things remain in society today that are experiences

I must be the only one who actually lived in the 90s and thought it FUCKING SUCKED

>>718921894
you're hot

>>718922268

>See? They know you're acting up again

Damn man that's so funny. Almost verbatim what my mom would say. I remember ducking down by her on the way out of the store since you had to pass some of the offices that were up front. Was so thankful when we got to the car. Shit worked, too. Mom had it easy the rest of the shopping. I behaved.

>>718922306
I'm black and have very fond memories of the 90s, but that may be because I was born in 93. But there was 100% more cohesion to society.

>>718921647
We have made a century's worth of technological advancements since then. Yes, that includes getting all of the 3rd world on the internet at the same time.

>>718915539 (OP)
Why are zoomers such miserable wretches devoid of humanity?

>>718921647
Your life is as great as you can remember but that doesn't change reality as a whole. My best years of life were 2007 to now. From the worlds perspective everything is getting worse, and they might be right. It doesn't change my perspective but say I start shitting on you saying the 08~112 housing market crash was a bad time to be alive and I accuse you of gaslighting and you are not remembering things right because it was so great to me.

Same thing here. You have good memories, you have good experiences,but you don't want to hear that was just your experiences and not the world because that means the change to a better life now is based on what you do and not what the world does.

>>718922368
nah

>>718920990
>>718921219
>>718921521
What year was these? Was it the 80s? They look older than the 90s

>>718922449
I miss how every kids show in the 90s was about 1 white boy, 1 black boy, a random girl and sometimes another kid in a wheel chair.

>>718921647
I'm 31. (so born in 1994)
I don't remember the 90' because I was a toddler.
Is it really that unnatural?

>>718922606
Super Nintendo came out in 1990 in Japan, 1991 in the US and 1992 in the UK so all those photos are early 90s at the youngest.

>>718921647
>>718922628
I was born 95, our country wasn't first-world yet thus lagged behind in tech and our household were a little hard on finances, so the 90s lasted a little longer here than it did in the rest of the world.

>>718915539 (OP)
>Calling my childhood vintage
Ouch

>>718922368
>>718922592
sucked is a little strong but I know I really didn't really enjoy it too much until the late 90s. Short of PC gaming anything else felt awful to play.

>>718921748
They don't have that anymore? I haven't been in a Walmart in over 10 years. Of course, now that I think about it, carpeting has disappeared in general for understandable reasons, but still.

Ugh... remember the old ways we used to consume products? It just isn't the same now that we consume them differently. So nostalgic...

>>718921647
Yes, that's a real thing, but I think it's also the fact that the world is some demonstrably different now in so many ways, that the 90s and early 2000s seem alien even to those of us who lived through it. The more knowledgeable among us could've seen this awful hellscape coming that is 2025, but we all thought things would just keep getting better. This whole, "things were always bad" mentality that I used to believe back when times were good has completely been stripped from my personality in the past 10+ years just because of how awful everything has gotten. I now realize how wrong and ignorant I was. It was so much better because 2025 is so much worse.

>>718922964
I know it seems that way on the surface but what people are mourning the loss of is the monoculture

Product consumption at least used to replace something/serve a purpose in society. Now it is its own end.

physical > digital
get it

>>718920990
I stared in awe at that display in toys r us for hours. The one I went to had a TG-16 with Kieth Courage and a Genesis with Sonic. I memorized those attract demos. My mom would let me stay in the game section there while she shopped in boring clothing stores.

>>718921031
I managed one of these from 2000-2003 and learned how to hate people.

>>718915539 (OP)
I lived through that era, but I was poor and didn't have much access to games. My friends and I would visit stores and rental shops where we would meet other poor kids and talk about games.
Today, I have access to 1000 times more games. Digital games have been a revolution for those who are more focused on actually playing them (regardless of whether it's legal or not).
The fact that I can easily and freely download most of the games I used to look at on store shelves back then is insane.
People today take this for granted and don't understand how modern PCs and digital games have made life easier for players.

>>718922897

Nah, it's this fucking faux wood shit. Sucks.

>>718915539 (OP)
>go to store
>purchase game
>it is 100% complete, with manual and no DLC, simple one-time purchase buys you the entire experience, no subscriptions, no accounts, no bullshit, just pure gaming bliss
The modern "gamer" (subscriber) cannot comprehend this.
>b-b-but games used to be $70 dollars then too!!11!
They're not $70 now. $70 gets you the "base game". The total experience for most big-budget titles nowadays runs you over $100 in addition to outright requiring internet connectivity at the very least for the initial download.
>b-b-but games back then were SHORt 109710oylshkidg
I would rather play a tight 5 hour experience than spend 100 hours enjoying "content" (repetitive, low-effort "missions" where half the play time is traveling and the reward is +5 wheat). I will replay that 5 hour game a dozen times plus, exploring alternate paths and enjoying a well-crafted experience that isn't going out of its way to waste as much of my time as possible. I'm never touching that 100+ hour "game" (human skinner box) again and probably will never see the ending unless I watch it on Youtube.
>but
Just shut the fuck up. I get it. You're a retard. You're easy to placate. You have no concept of value. Your brain is barely functioning when you "game". I don't care. Fuck off idiot.

>>718922515
Anyone that would shit on you for remembering 08-12 fondly would be forgetting that 2013-present is even worse due to the mistakes made in 08-12. Sometimes it takes years for it take effect. I didn't notice the Internet truly feeling different until 2013, when minimalist design, mobile-first UX, and social media was in full bloom. Even now, I can still understand someone being nostalgiac for 2013-2019 just because of how awful 2020-Present has been. Who know how much worse it'll get, but all I know is with globalization and the Federal Reserve continued devaluation of the currency, there's no coming back to the good times unless something radically changes.

zoomers get what they deserve

A dogshit economy and no trust on society

fucking die

>>718922964
true

>>718922964
Midwit retard pretending he's enlightened

>>718923790
That's a bullshit perspective because tons of games were unfinished, needed patching theyd never get, etc etc

There are so many high quality FREE experiences today that gaming is a richer landscape

>>718915539 (OP)
yes

All these stores, no matter if they're from the 90s or the 20s, are one of the worst places humanity has ever created in terms of aesthetics. Barely any natural light and ugly artificial light instead. Rows upon rows of things that scream at you to buy them and have no visual cohesion. Some stupid music playing to shut down your thinking. These spaces are entirely artificial, there's no beauty or soul to them.

>>718921647
The people who are convincing you the 80s, 90s, and 2000s were actually worse are the ones who place value in the new things society has embraced after those times. Social media, the non-white explosion, influencer culture, the hatred of your neighbors, the unprecedented levels of corporate profit min maxing, perhaps above all is the decadent obsession with convenience.

>>718922964
I miss the products being catered to the demographic we had in those times.

>>718923823
I wonder if anyone will have nostalgia for slop.
It seems like people will have nostalgia for anything, but I don't know how anyone is supposed to look back fondly on something which is so clearly garbage. I guess if things only get worse they can remember the "good times" when it wasn't so bad

>>718922964
t. Age starts with a 1

>>718924240
I tried to give my neighbor that I don't know a gift basket for their new baby and they accepted it as if there was a bomb inside. I'm sure they threw it away. I would still do it again though.

>>718915930
Yes. Here in the UK the game shop is in a small corner of a sports shop and sells mostly non-game stuff like lego plushies and snacks. And the vidya they do have is priced £10 higher for no reason

>>718924196
the people that hate pre-2010 are liberals that hate freedom and want things restricted.

>>718919443
You're 100% underage holy shit

>>718915539 (OP)
>Those comments
KEK zoomers truly are the transformed generation

>>718922964
I miss when creative industries were dominated by white men and the fruits of their labour and passion were passed down to the consumer

>>718924512
Fun fact that photo WASN'T taken innthe 90s and was from some aesthetic tumblr

>>718918267
Finally a logical take that isn't just retarded nostalgia. "Oh no I just download games straight to my pc in minutes now, I have no reason to go out and buy it woe is me."

>>718924368
why did they do it

>>718915930
>stores use to be open 24/7
>could go shopping at walmart at 1am with an empty parking lot and 5 people in the store
>soda machines use to not be locked in cages
>all items in a store use to not be locked in cages

>>718915539 (OP)
Honestly I'm kinda glad that nowadays you can just pirate 99% of games if you really wanted to play them, including most console games.

>>718921647
People who could actually, cognitively remember a large majority of the 90s would've been, at the youngest, 10 in 1995.
Someone who was 10 then is 40 now.
People who actually got to live through the 90s would be people who were 13-14 (typical age you could get a job) in 1990. Those people are bordering on 50 now.

>>718918608
It's not even like you can't go out and buy a boxed copy of a game right now, no one does of course because it's inconvenient and pointless.

>>718915930
It starts with N and rhymes with the Disney character named Tigger

>>718919443
You missed the squeeze you retarded baggie, bagstop is never coming back.

>>718919613
Yeah I really don't miss multiple discs and CD key bullshit.

>>718924512
>Books stacked bottom out instead of spine out
>Snarky t-shirt
>Girl that looks like that playing video games circa late 90s

Poseur social media faggot shit

>>718924656
i remember a video of shaq going to walmart at midnight to furnish his new house. some walmarts are still open 24/7 but most are not.

>>718924646
feminists hate it

>>718924656
Good to know japan is finally catching up

>>718921647
It was undoubtedly a better era but the things people focus on are so fucking lame and gay. "Oh no McDonald's looks different now" kind of shit. Rather than the destruction of high-trust societies.

>>718915539 (OP)
>we
you morons who supported shit like steam caused this

>>718924981
Oh wow! I wonder what recent change could have caused this to happen!

This whole shit about how
>Ohhh, things are getting WORSE and DEGRADING
Is so laughable.
You know, people who were actual adults in the 2000s fucking hated it right? Because of the recession and housing market crash?
Go back to the 90s, a lot of boomers hated it because kids were now constantly on the 'tube and they had to propagandize in films to get them to go outside to dying arcades and "pop shops". Gen X'ers especially hated it because the 90s was right after the end of any true peace loving movements and the hard realization that life is eternally miserable and nothing they accomplish will hold any meaning (that's why so many of them became bad parents).

Even the late 70s and 80s were, again, shitshows to a lot of people who lived through them. It's easy to go "Star Wars... vgh so sovlfvl..." today, but you want to know what people who actually like science fiction said at the time?
>And all I can think about, in childlike wonder, is that amazing scene in the 1939 version of The Thief of Bagdad where Ahbhu, the little thief, uncorks the bottle and lets out the seventy-foot-tall genie. And I ask myself: If Star Wars is so goddamn good, howzacome all I can think about is a dumb fantasy made almost forty years ago, that taught me so much about fighting to stay free and individualism and love and the value of friendship and honor...?
>And why do I remember that moment of characterization when the evil vizier, Jaffar, as evil as Darth Vader any day, shows how vulnerable his love for the Caliph's daughter has made him? Was that movie less "entertaining" because the evil villain had a touch of identifiable humanity?
They fucking hated it because it compartmentalized an entire genre into being an extension of fantasy, and still being worse than proper fantasy works (plus it was the actual thing that ruined conventions forever).
Don't forget the 60s, a decaded marred by the fucking Vietnam war wherein everyone unequivocally lost.
Life sucks for everyone.

>>718915539 (OP)
>Was it really that good?
Yes.

>>718923685
This is why I'm convinced that most of these nostalgia threads are being made by people who weren't even alive in the 90's.

>>718925098
>>718924981
>bros... they hurt the vending machine...
You guys realize Japanese high schoolers kidnapping a teenage girl and raping/torturing her for weeks resulting in her death, only to get off on light sentencing, is still relatively recent history right, like that happened after Gunbuster and Akira.
It's one of the only first world countries where a public assassination of a political leader happened in broad daylight in a crowded area.

>>718923790
>game has broken feature or game breaking glitch
>patches don't exist yet
>just have to deal with it

>>718925113
bad things happen every decade. that doesn't mean it wasn't enjoyable overall.

>>718922964
The feds are trying to push a color revolution on Millennials, but the only material they have is a bunch of superficial shit from the 90s and 00s.

>>718921748
Old Walmart layouts were nice. I still remember how the Walmart near me used to be laid out and it just flowed so much better.

>>718925282
>game has broken feature or game breaking glitch
This is why devs did EXTENSIVE QA testing before releasing anything back then.
If your game was unplayable trash pile, you singed your own death sentence.

Consoles going online and enabling the modern "lol we patch it later! :^)" mentality is one of the many, many sins that started killing the industry, 20 year ago.

>>718916773
>you didn't get to consoom the same way I consoomed when I was a kid
Fucking kek

>>718925252
>do you realize there was a murder in Japan in the last 20 years???
Woooooah I guess immigration is good after all

>>718925356
I would decisively say the 60s were not enjoyable unless you were one of the guys who got lucky and got to go around America, high as a kite, in the back of a van.
I would honestly say the 60s were among the worst decades to not be a weed addict of a businessman.
As for the others, every decade where you have to actually live like a human being and not as a child sucks, because you have to do all the work and you have to worry about economic and market factors. People here complain about blockbuster not existing when blockbuster's own existence was maligned in the 00s for having pushed out every independent retailer, leaving people's options for buying movies in the realm of supermarkets, other grossly huge chains, and blockbuster.

>>718925414
>This is why devs did EXTENSIVE QA testing before releasing anything back then.

no they didn't. people wouldn't resonate with avgn if that were true.

>>718915539 (OP)
God, I remember when I was a kid they weren't even behind glass barriers

>>718925516
It wasn't a murder, it was one of the most sociopathic and deranged incidents to occur in a first world country both of the time and since, and has never really been matched.
And I listed an event that occurred recently to boot. How about a guy burning down a building and killing 30 people, that was recent too, and wanna know why he did it? Because Japan is a society that breeds schizophrenics and he thought the guys in the building had plagiarized his fanfictions.

I miss the way they used to sell computer games in malls, too. Oh, Babbage's.

>>718925576
>no they didn't.
Yes, they did.
(You) were not even alive in the 1990s, kiddo.

>people wouldn't resonate with avgn if that were true.
Ah yes, because cherrypicked 1980s shovelware truly is the representative of the average industry offerings, especially after the end of Cold War...

Typical Youtube era zoomie has no idea what he's talking about.

>>718925608
>It wasn't a murder, it was one of the most sociopathic and deranged incidents to occur in a first world country both of the time and since, and has never really been matched.
Ok you leftypol troon jamal, japan LE BAD!!! because of these obscure crimes that you dramatically deign as the worst things that have ever happened ever, therefore mass immigration is le GOOD

>>718925523
>you have to actually live like a human being and not as a child sucks


uh.... yeah....

>>718925608
>and has never really been matched
Nah migrants do this shit all the time in europe.

>>718925764
You do realize that the only reason you see so much of it comparatively today is because of the boom of technology, right?

>>718925252
Woah, a freak case means that Japan is actually a bad place and all semblance of social cohesion must be destroyed in the name of diversity.

Fuck off stupid jeet shit fiend.

>>718925749
Never said mass immigration good, just said that the idea a Japanese guy is incapable of tearing up a vending machine is fucking retarded.

>>718925732
>(You) were not even alive in the 1990s, kiddo.

i'm an 80s baby. that's how i know it's not true.

>Ah yes, because cherrypicked 1980s shovelware truly is the representative of the average industry offerings, especially after the end of Cold War...

yeah that's the majority of games people bought back then. people connect with the frustration of poorly designed old games.

>>718925608
Wooooah TWO murders??? Well then import all the Africans ASAP.

>>718925608
You just listed 2 isolated incidences within the last 30 years but haven't mentioned the brown rape gangs that operate on a daily basis?

>>718925764
If you pay more than $30 per month for phone service you're retarded.
There are unlimited plans starting at $10.

>>718925910
>the idea a Japanese guy is incapable of tearing up a vending machine is fucking retarded.
And no one implied otherwise, retard.

>>718925867
yeah....

>>718926050
>There are unlimited plans starting at $10.

in america?

How is this better than just downloading and playing a game right away? Seems like extra steps and needless hassle.

>>718925910
Tearing up vending machines damages Japanese society more than murdering a girl

Torturing and murdering someone is a Japanese brain act, going into vending machines is a nigger brain act. A nigger brain did it. Your life will be easier if you understand this way.

>>718925917
This guy is the actual 80s guy. Though I never once watched avgn looks like fag shit for losers. I also can't fucking stand millennials who play video games all day and don't have technical understanding like that guy apparently. Low iq

>>718926050
She didn't say how much her phone bill was, only that she had less than $400 left after paying rent. But she has to worry about paying her own rent and you don't so you really don't have any valuable insight to offer here.

>>718926119
>putting a cartridge into a console is needless hassle

>>718925878
>Woah, a freak case means that Japan is actually a bad place
These are the types of people that Japan breeds retarded.
Sagamihara, 2016, some fucking nut decided to attack over 40 people at a care home, killing 19 of them. Reason why? He wanted Shinzo Abe to begin enforcing euthanization for people with disabilities.
Osaka, 2021, guy lights a building on fire that kills everyone except one person, 27 dead. Guy also forced his son to commit suicide years prior. Reason why he did this? Nobody fucking knows.
Nagano, 2023, guy killed four people for no particular reason. Just felt like it.

Japan fucking sucks to live in and creates tons of sociopaths.

>>718925917
>yeah that's the majority of games people bought back then.
Not by a long shot, toddlerooni.
I had 32 games for my NES alone back in the day. None of them even remotely as broken and infuriating than some Dr Jekyl & Mr Hide slop you are referring to.

By the time 16-bit consoles were the norm, QA had improved ten-fold, all thanks to Nintendo's requirements. And come PS1 era, you really have to dig for truly broken games that anyone would know.

>>718926119
it's an experience. babies wouldn't understand.

>>718926171
holy shit GOTTEM i hope that random whore reads this, lil' underage newfag nigger

>>718926060
Considering every post is about mass immigration, yeah, people are convinced that poor innocent Japan could NEVER fuck up a vending machine.
>>718926125
>Product is more important than human life
You must be American.

>>718926259
Thats artistically a rate of 0 sociopath mass murder incidents per year considering their population. Less than a rounding error

>>718919441
they just had empty boxes presented, you were loaned games when you brought it to the counter

>>718926258
Yeah? Easier to just have all the games installed without having to move and store these discs or whatever.

Also, what do you even do when the game updates? Do you have to take the game back to the store and they patch it?

>>718915539 (OP)
It was pretty neat. But "they" despise the 90s because they only got corporations to bend the knee in the 200ss.

>>718926259
More freak cases that pale in comparison of the irreversible damage than a decade of two digit IQ street shitters and Africans have done to every single nation that has hosted them.
Stupid jeet.

>>718918267
Yes they did. I was there

>>718920941
In just the left corner I see
>Old Lego Mindstorms kits that used to teach kids embedded systems C programming with 32KB RAM on those Hitachi H8 CPUs that were also used in the Namco System 12
>Which have since been replaced with Android kits that teach kids to program bloated unoptimized slop with Object Oriented Java Poogramming

>Plushies of South Park supporting characters, Officer Barbrady, Chef, and Mr. Hat
>None of whom have even appeared on the show in the past 20 years, with Mr. Garrison being reduced to some gay political commentary for over a decade now

>Entire shelf of anime VHS tapes, complete with a box set of Lina Inverse's face
It just keeps getting worse

>>718926319
You missed the point. I bet your eyes are black. I don't see you on even terms as I am white, sumimasen

>>718926259
>3 incidents over 7 years
>TONS OF x
lol this is as stupid of a post as that other retard pretending nobody in the world has ever paid rent other than the random tiktok whore he likes

>>718926301
The fact that you don't have any sympathy for someone struggling with work and paying rent/mortgage shows you're a spoiled brat. You'd understand if you had to ever actually pay your own living expenses like some people have to.

>>718926410
>nobody in the world has ever paid rent or lived alone except this one girl
holy newfag nigger why do ALL of you immediately make up the most psychotic lies wew lad

>>718926259
And some nog shoots up his hood every weekend in America. Your point?

>>718921631
i disagree, a lot of fresh copies were shrinkwrapped

>>718917889
Reporting to the FBI right now. Hope you like it behind bars, kid.

>>718926125
>don't have technical understanding

like crouching against a wall with a specific item and waiting for an event to happen? everyone knows you're suppose to do that.

>>718923790
>>it is 100% complete, with manual and no DLC, simple one-time purchase buys you the entire experience, no subscriptions, no accounts, no bullshit, just pure gaming bliss
I still cant believe how this was simply the norm and today its a completely alien concept. Absolutely crazy.

>>718926259
So countries with more crime than Japan would suck to live in even more and their societal values would breed even more sociopaths, no?

>>718926474
When people have been through hardship or struggle, or difficulties and they see someone else struggling with the same thing they did-- they understand and feel sympathy. And you're showing up, laughing about her saying she's tired from work and tired of being broke and tired of spending all her money on rent. If you knew what it was like to work full time and still be broke and barely be able to make a rent or mortgage you wouldn't be laughing.

>>718916032
>Disk
Those are cartridges, unlike disks they're made to last

>>718926410
Not that guy.
Having sympathy for women, specifically white women, who are in their prime birthing age, who decided to fall for le stronk independent working womyn meme instead of finding themselves a good man is for retards.
They are effectively responsible for the downfall of civilization. And they still "struggle" when every single aspect of modern life is tailored in order to give them life on easy mode.

>>718926261
if shitty tie-in games didn't sell, no one would make them. it's a tried and true formula.

>>718926660
>nobody in the world has ever paid rent or worked to take care of themselves aside from this one girl
You will always be laughably ignorant and a psychotic 14-25 year old newfag.

>>718919061
wow kid, you're a little faggot

>>718926591
Also most of the games were objectively shit and the only way to kinda know which weren't was to buy overpriced magazines. Yeah the game is "complete" and unchangeable when you buy it but that also means if it's broken it stays that way.

>>718926347
Any sociopathic mass murder incidents is bad. retard.
Having your country run by cults is bad as well, but I suppose it's okay when Japan does it! It's okay when the last Prime Minister was good friends with a cult leader and promoted his cult! It's really great when Japan lets a cult grow to absurd sizes, to the point where they have factors making sarin gas and AK47s WITHIN JAPAN.
>>718926376
>freak cases
These are just the ones who blew up and made a big scene.
What, you think all the dead girls in back alleys are just collapsing on their own? You think that's "Ah... soulful Japanese aesthetics..." as well?
>>718926407
Again, any number is bad. For major spree killing incidents, Japan is going toe to toe with Canada, a country filled to the brim with migrants in addition to sharing a border with America, and prior to covid, Canada had fucking LESS incidents than Japan. For the 2010s, the breakdown is thus
>Four major incidents (Canada)
30 deaths
>Ten major incidents (Japan)
81 deaths.

>>718926394
>Plushies of South Park supporting characters, Officer Barbrady, Chef, and Mr. Hat

oh shit. i want one.

>>718921647
It's not coordinated, gaming has just improved tremendously. It is cheap and freely available, no one missed the era of securom ill tell you that

>>718924716
Poos are coming up pretty fast on the scum race. Negroes are still the worst, but Poos fight for 2nd with Spics, and Chinks come in at 4th. Slavs take 5th in the scum world.

>>718926579
No like being able to use computers you fucking retard. Do you not know what words mean or something you fucking Brown spic retard

>>718924981
>>718925098
>>718926153

>>718926736
There's nothing funny about being tired from work and broke. It's a serious matter that you wouldn't understand, and you show that you don't understand.

>>718926836
>implies that these freak cases are just the ones we see on the news for being notorious
>proceeds to compare similar events to Canada, a country so racially suicidal that they do whatever they can to hide foreign migrant crime from the public view
Disgusting jeet.

>>718926907
kek, seems like immigration is working out just as well for them as it is for the rest of the developed world

>>718926352
>Grab box
>It's heavy
>fuckyeah.jpg

You will never know what it's like

>>718926916
>I'm new to 4chan and make up the life history and biography of anybody who disagrees with me
I wish there were faggots like you advocating for support of MALES but you only care because she's a bitch.

>>718918724
Retro is 20 years, vintage is 40.

We are literally 4 years away from the 90's being vintage

>>718927035
>that they do whatever they can to hide foreign migrant crime from the public view
If that's done, it'd be done through hiding the perp, not saying an event didn't happen.
Pretty funny how your only defense is "The numbers are wrong!"
There is a reason Japan is committing societal suicide and not fucking. Nobody likes it there. It's one big dead end for everyone there, including immigrants. Once you get past hollow tourist trap facades, you quickly realize the majority of its culture is eroded and solely maintained by people who do nothing but maintain it, and that the average Japanese person has turned every aspect of their being into a form of slavery.

>>718926823
>Yeah the game is "complete" and unchangeable when you buy it but that also means if it's broken it stays that way.
Plenty of games today are way more broken and are still broken after several updates.

>>718926667
TRVTHNVKE

>>718926916
>being tired from work and broke
You just described 99% of the male population, stupid retard.

>>718927156
This is some serious bullshit anon.

>>718917975
Retards gonna retard unfortunately. Just sucks when you realize you're blood-related to them. My mom used to be a proto-gamer girl, was really into Atari and PC games, bought us a Playstation in the late 90's, but when I got my own GBA she totally flipped the script and went full Christian "games are Satan", and she's only slightly cooled off from it now.

>>718926907
Its over for japan it isnt?

>>718927052
I'd rather see exhaustive people that have to fend for themselves do good, and be successful in life. And I'd rather see people like you end up in the situation of fending for yourself.

>all these sad and pitiable zoompids seething, who will never get to experience a white society
I feel bad.

>>718926660
t. r/communism mod

>>718927279
>I'm new to 4chan and make up the life history and biography of anybody who disagrees with me

>People saying the reason we no longer have this shit is becuase of black people
The reason we've moved to ultra-fast consumerism where money drives and not passion is becuase of white men/Jews and the internet.

>>718926660
No, you fucking faggot.
When someone who is working class sees a person whose rent is worth 90% of their salary, the first thought in mind is
>move somewhere cheaper
Which this dumb bitch won't do because she became a slave for a shitty menial white collar job to live a fake life in a fake cosmopolitan city.

>>718918267
> the way it worked is that you picked up a case and they would either give you a fresh copy or disc of the game from inside the store.
Wrong. The game was in the case.
> they died out not because of white genocide, but because of digital downloads being more popular.
Same thing.
> steam, XBL, and playstation plus offered either offered free or extremely cheap sales of AAA quality games and these stores couldn't compete with them
Nope. The industry sabotaged physical media. They deliberately made it impossible to play without connecting to the internet to download the rest of the game in order to play. People rightfully shit on nintendo for their damn game key cards but Sony was doing this with CDs since the PS3.

>>718927474
The reason why money became the ultimate goal is because money allows you to get away from minorities. And this applies to minorities themselves. So no, it's not because of whitey, faggot.

>>718927394
In other words, exactly what you're doing by calling me a newfag.
>>718927546
I'd agree with moving somewhere cheaper in similar circumstances, but unsolicited advice is only as useful as the person giving it.

>>718927625
>The reason why money became the ultimate goal is because money allows you to get away from minorities.
TRVTH NVKE

>slop:
:(
>slop, 90s:
:D

I WANT TO GO BACK I WANT TO GO BACK I WANT TO GO BACK I WANT TO GO BACK
PLEASE GOD SEND ME BACK
PLEASE LET CERN RIP OPEN A BLACK HOLE THAT LETS US GO BACK

>>718927626
>I'm new to 4chan and make up the life history and biography of anybody who disagrees with me

>>718927626
>but unsolicited advice is only as useful as the person giving it
What kind of passive aggressive faggotry is this retort? If you post a video of yourself crying on the internet about how hard life is, you don't expect people giving you advice in order to make your burden a bit lighter?
You come off as extremely sheltered and low test btw. No wonder you talk so much about empathy while mistaking meaningless sympathy for it.

>>718926881
right i forgot he was big into pc gaming

>>718927236
>let niggers and pajeets in
>"wtf how could this happen"

>>718915539 (OP)
>look at the box
>try to figure out if the game is good based on 3 stamp sized screenshots on the back of it
>buy it
>it's shit
Nostalgiafags are overdoing it.

>>718927895
UHHHH DEB000NKED CHUDDIE, WHAT ABOUT THESE TWO BAD CRIMES DONE IN THE PAST 30 YEARS BY THE NATIVES??

>>718919613
Bro, I hate seeing retarded 17 year old zoomies like you talking shit about an era that you never went through just because you watched some ebin youtube nostalgia video. PC games got absolutely fucked in the early 2010s as the digital media in those cool boxes that you’ve never seen started being shipped with a steam/origin (that’s what EA play was called back in the day, if you’re too young to know) key for digital download and the disc was only there to maybe make the installation a bit quicker if you had slow internet.

>>718927838
If you want to talk about passive aggression. What is giving unsolicited malicious advice? You're not saying, move somewhere cheaper, to try and help anyone. You're saying it to attack. You have zero intention of helping anyone to a lighter burden. You only want to feel better than them. That's the purpose of your so called advice. But here you are pretending like you're just trying to help

>>718918608
>orchestrated by men in suits for the purpose of making as much money as possible
You monkeys think that you are so smart when you spew this magical thinking bullshit.

>>718922075
i had this toy

>>718927961
You were supposed to buy the magazine and read people’s articles about the game before buying it.

>>718927474
Your a pea-brained redditor. No one cares about your falsehoods

>>718928050
No, you literally are making an imaginary scenario where I reply to that retard's video giving her advice.
I'm not giving her advice, I'm mentioning that any person who actually values their labor and understands how hard it is to make a living wouldn't trade their life for a shitty apartment just to live a fake cosmopolitan life, stupid retard.
>move somewhere cheaper
Is not an advice, it's a statement that I've seen happen with people who were actually struggling. I wouldn't give her that advice because I understand that people like her are too far gone and won't listen.

>>718925764
If you're living alone why the fuck did you get a 2bedroom apartment? This idiot whore could get a 1bed or even a studio if she's alone and have plenty of leftover money. God women are fucking morons.

>>718917594
impregnate her

>>718928518
God, incels keep fighting imaginary arguments. Fucking morons.

>>718927236
>>718924981
>>718925098

>>718917594
My mom did this same thing for me when Pokemon Staidum first came out.

>>718928497
So you just confirmed that it was a passive aggression statement. Yes, I'm well aware that it wasn't advice. When someone is making $2,000 a month and expressing frustration with being broke and tired, there is something wrong with you if your immediate reaction is to attack. You're either a spoilt brat or a crab in a bucket.

>>718928745
How is that an imaginary argument? She has a 2 BR apartment and no roommate while making slightly above minimum wage. Everyone struggles, stupid people struggle comparatively more.

These threads are the result of arrested development. If you had anything worthwhile going on in your life, you wouldn’t be wistfully thinking about how a cardboard Game Boy display in Toys R Us looked. I know because I’m 36 and not obsessed with nostalgia for the toys I played with back then. I bet you’re the same fags making threads calling modern games “friendslop”.

>>718929254
Go back normalfag

>>718915539 (OP)
Why do broccoli heads have a weird fixation with the 90s?

>>718921570
People smiling dats crazy

>>718927156
>technology never really moved forward after the 90s
>society got 10x worse
>zoomers are retards

Maybe it's time to press the lolnuke button and get this over with.

>>718928518
I own a 4 bedroom home. >3k sq ft. Private pool. 3 car garage. I live alone.

>>718929254
After midlife, when you're then in your 50s, 60s, 70s, etc the nostalgiafagging gets even worse. Spend some time around boomers and they do it every single day. Even media caters to nostalgiafagging boomers. Shitloads of movies, they do it in commercials, and there's entire businesses dedicated to boomer nostalgiafagging.

>>718929016
No, stupid retard. First you said that I made an advice in order to make a passive aggressive remark, then you said that not being an advice makes it a passive aggressive remark.
Literally making up an argument in order to confirm your bias.
If she's making 2k a month and most of it is going towards her rent, she's living way beyond her means. And any person with a brain would then realize that they need to move out from somewhere they can't afford.
You are projecting because only a spoiled brat would find it so hard to understand this.

>>718929539
Why would you buy that?

>>718929381
Because they recognize this world is shit and we never truly recovered from the 2008 recession unless your household was already rich and had asset values like real estate and stocks. For everyone else, wages stayed stagnant, prices got higher, even while the stock market and corporate profits soared. Millennials were promised a fairy tale dream early on that if they did everything right, they could enjoy what previous generations did. Zoomers grew up in a world where the dream was already dead, and I don't know which one is worse psychologically and spiritually.

>>718919053
That includes mirror, Sanchez

>>718915539 (OP)
I remember when Toys R Us had barcode slips you took to the register in order to purchase games. As a kid it was like holding a lottery ticket. You went to the store and hoped there were slips for the game you wanted, as an empty sleeve meant it was sold out and you were shit out of luck on that copy of Nights Into Dreams.

>>718921647
I'm 37 the 90s was great. Imagine a world without fear. America had action comedies and culture coming out of Hollywood with proper acting chops behind it. Lots of places had close communities and people would hold to themselves personality and character when they open conversation. Everyone was getting by but you could always feel a sense of progress and purpose in people. Then America got scared, world news started to dramatize horrible events in the world and try to make it your problem. Corporations went from competitive to solidified monopolies or Oligarchies fucking around markets to crush smaller competition and set prices. We had accelerated advancement for the next 8 years but by 2008 it felt like everything started to stall, but the price still went up.

>>718929695
Why not? I like being 5-10 minutes away from the beach.

>>718923823
I'm at the point where I have to wonder if the top is as AI-generated as the bottom. Like, imagine a realistic/believable AI "person sitting in a room" reacting to a comparatively-lower-quality AI fake movie trailer.
We can't be far off from "content" like that.

>>718915539 (OP)
no day one patches, niche enthusiast gaming press actually gave you a heads up if something was shit or not. demo discs with the magazines. yeah it was better.

>>718929254
well yeah I don't go nostalgia tripping but there are definitely pros with the culture and behavior of people compared to how things are now.

>>718929765
You can't even form a proper insult in English, Ranjeesh.

>>718929689
I don't live beyond my means. Every dollar I have, and everything I have, I worked for all of it myself.

>>718915930
When I was around 8-9 I could walk into a GAME store (the company doesn't exist anymore) and the aisle would be packed with both new releases and classics. There was also an even spread of pc games in relation to consoles. I went back to one of their central locations in my country back around 2020; they had a few new releases on display, but no real order other than that. Their 'bargain' aisle was a complete mismatch of different discount console titles, and the oc games were practically nonexistent. I found an expansion disc for D2 and asked the klerk if they also had the base game in store, he just shook his head. They were literally selling expansion discs which were unplayable without the base game (unless you pirate the base but then what's even the point of buying the expansion...)

>>718923823
Probably the most demoralizing webm I've ever seen.

>>718929943
It is anon. They are both AI CG

>>718930087
> the oc games
*The pc games

>basic adulting and budgeting is an insurmountable task for the microplastic generation
The next few decades are going to be so fucking funny.

>>718915539 (OP)
I wish I was so lucky back then. I had a few games to pick out at walmart and if it wasn't there you were shit out of luck. I never got to play Banjo Tooie or Snowboard Kids 2 and I am still seething.

>>718915539 (OP)
I don't think glorifying consumerism is the way to go. Sure I had fun playing games but I miss being outside more, playing in the mud.

>>718927156
Retro means not in use anymore
Vintage means 20 in french so it LITERALLY means 20 years old and was used for wines.

Wooooooow boxes. So soul. Much wow.
I got all that (and 10000+ roms) in a SD the size of my pinkie finger nail. Am I supposed to believe that is better?

>>718928779
the fucking nose lmao

>>718916032
>find a mall
Most malls went extinct too....atleast in NA because in tacoland they are still opening new ones from time on time however covid did a real number on them, lots of stores closed up permanently and it wasn't till last year that someone new rented the space.

>>718915930
looks the same in germany

I still have my nba jam for Sega Genesis that my mom bought on lay-a-way from k-mart..she had to pay it off in installments

>>718918608
based and true

>>718930806
This sounds like bullshit but i believe it

>>718931135
>layaway
i 'member those days. your mom was a real nigga

>>718925764
Popping back in to say I agree with this 100% and I'm 36. The suits squeeze you for as much as they can with lower hours and personnel while expecting more work than before to be accomplished. I moved back in with my folks and only work 28ish hours now, and while I'm still miserable at work I do enjoy my days off. That's more important than making slightly more money.
I encourage anyone else feeling like this to move home and work less for your own happiness.

>

>>718917594
I hope your dumb cunt mother falls on you and dies

>>718922058
>spelt

>>718915930
here's a more recent photo

>>718915930
boxes are empty now ( niggers stealing)

>>718915539 (OP)
You could not just have game consoles out in the open like that today, they'd all get liberated by "gibs me dats 4 free" tards within a week.

>>718925252
Damn wtf the japanese sound fucking horrible! Hey I have an idea, stay the fuck in India!

>>718926410
No, I don't have sympathy for spoiled brats who upload crybaby videos on the internet for cheap and free sympathy. It's pathetic. Get a grip, most of us are struggling to get by and aren't attentionwhore pisscrying on the internet for a pat on the back about it. I don't care about people who do things for attention because they feel sad, there is nothing wrong with this.

>>718934648
So what changed?

>>718915539 (OP)
1980s Toys'r'us was pretty nice.

>>718921986
Jesus fucking christ I remembered the donkey kong 64 rental from blockbuster having a fake expansion pack that sometimes worked & sometimes didnt. Shit was awful & probably because someone stole the real one

>>718915930
Modern video game stores have maybe 10% dedicated to actual video games, the rest 90% dedicated to plushies, mugs, board games, Warhammer figures and everything you can think of. We are in a situation where people don't go to a video game store to buy video games.

What took the Toys R Us guy so long?

You'd grab the yellow slip and take it to the dude then he'd disappear into the little white shack for like 10 fucking minutes before returning with your game.

>>718915539 (OP)
>dozens of consoles just sitting out in the open

thats insane.

>>718917975
Yeah but Anon now you are making bank and have the option at least of being stabley independant. Ever seen that simpsons episode where Bart grows up to become a lawyer because Homer wouldnt let him see a cartoon movie?

Thats you. Me im like the opposite of that. Parents let me go crazy with vidya,now I make like 38k/yr and am that guy that brings girls over to his moms house

>>718915539 (OP)
they had to stop putting boxes on the shelves because people would keep stealing them

>>718937495
I don't even need to say it

>>718938548
Empty boxes.

This thread has made me realize that extroverts are the ones that should be pitied if they weren't so insufferable.

>>718938707
>people

What sort of "people" I wonder

>People are now making suicide baiting videos promising you can live like it is the 80s/90s forever and they're "waiting for you"
Grim, remind me of this

>>718939076
Found it
https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1958543900022542480

>>718923684
Any retail job does that for you.

I have a jew fatigue

>>718941378
So did God, that's why he exiled them, but you already knew that.

Modern gaming is trash for mindlets obsessed with graphics and willing to pay $20 for cosmetic items.

>>718915539 (OP)
it was so hard to find out about obscure games back then, let alone find a copy of one to buy even if you knew about it. I remember my parents being early adopters of Ebay for this reason.

>>718915930
it's similar but you can spot the PS5 aisle because it's empty

>>718919320
gamestock bankrupted and it's now called gamelife

Our hobby is fucking dead bros, there's nothing to look forward to anymore, just F2P gacha/multiplayer slop

>>718925764
Wow. Manage your time and money better, you lazy loser. I wouldn't even hire this bitch for anything.

>>718917594
When Ape Escape came out I had a demo of it but didn't have a dualshock controller. Asked my mom to get me one. She bought some third party controller not knowing the difference and I was disappointed it didn't work with the demo but never had it in my heart to tell her.

>>718920941
>warm glow of mostly incandescent bulbs
now it's all harsh leds

>>718926579
Look for hints and pay more attention to what villagers tell you. You didn't even play the game.

>>718918831
>and the big bang theory audience took over.
Video games have been mainstream and one of the highest grossing entertainment industries since the fucking 80s. The only time it wasn't was a brief period after the crash which even then it quickly rebounded.

>>718929875
I'm 40 and I never got into video games until I was 15. Culture took a massive swing when ghetto nigger music and baggy pants were popular. All of my friends who used to hang out at the recreation center, playing baseball riding go karts mini golf sometime play arcade games, all them suddenly just wanted to listen to nigger music with the word fuck blasted every 10 seconds and smoke weed. I hated that shit. I retreated to be an indoor neet and play video games all day long because of it. I want the early 90s to comeback.

>>718934648
>dead charmander
fitting