I spent $1500 a couple of years ago on a nearly complete set of NP magazines from eBay, all in good or better condition, with posters, trading cards, etc.

Some of the best money I ever spent. It’s amazing sitting down and having my childhood right there with me again, and there’s nothing like having the actual magazine and not just a pdf. Invest in a set + a real console and crt tv, and it’s the closest you can come to feeling like a kid again.

I remember pouring over this page a hundred times, examining the screenshots over and over imagining how fucking cool Mario 4 was gonna be. Check out that in development screenshot of a version we never got

This fucker kept the hype so constant through the late 80s and 90s. Replaying the games isn’t the same without it; having the magazine was really part of the culture. There are so many games that I know about in depth that I never even played cause they had a feature

I know your being a smartass spending $1500 but the box and magazines can enhance the experience compared to just randomly selecting a game on your raspberi pi. I've found interesting stuff in them like how Monster Max on gameboy is by the same people who did those isometric speccy games or how Metal Gear 1 and 2 on nes were considered below par for their time.
You play Turrican on gb and think decent shooting game but read the magazine reviews where they had been waiting ages for a good shooter and how they were blown away gives you a different perspective.

>>11820805

Yeah, you get it! The instant gratification isn’t as fun as understanding we had to WAIT months for these fucking games. Like, when SNES came out we had Mario, F-Zero, and Pilotwings and that was fucking IT for a minute. The slow trickle of new SNES games made you really appreciate the ones you got.

As far as the fifteen hundo,
I mean, that’s how much that many magazines costs. Like, any given issue goes for $15 at least for the common ones, and the rare ones can fetch up to $50 to $100. Getting like 170+ at once was a huge blessing.

>>11820785 (OP)
>muh childhood
The Peter Pan shit needs to stop, man. I play old games because I prefer them to new games, not because they put me in touch with a time where I snuck extra Flintstones vitamins.

>>11820864
Damn, must suck to be so old and crusty and bitter that you can’t even reconnect with that inner 10 year old and celebrate how far you’ve come in life, and some of the defining gaming moments you shared way back then. Maybe if you hadn’t overdosed on vitamin a growing up your brain would have formed into a lump that wasn’t quite so shriveled and miserable

>>11820874
I don't need to "reconnect" with my "inner 10 year old" because I'm not a grown man with autism.

>>11820874
>iphone filename

>>11820883
Yeah it certainly sounds like you’ve become the exact adult i always pitied and worried I’d grow up and become - just a miserable old sack of shit, bitter at the world, every drop of dopamine and seratonin wrung out of his brain. I used to look at adults like that and worry that was all of our fate - just to be an old asshole that thought that being a professional adult and eschewing all joy and childhood was the only way to be.

Whew.

Thankfully, that wasn’t our fate. Some people grew up to be that, but that’s a choice they made. I’m glad I’m not one of them. That must be awful. Pic: very related

>>11820885
oh no, I use the most popular phone on the planet, you got me. The shame the shame. Fuckin wanker

>>11820898
The problem, aside from you being a faggot in general, is that you think adulthood is some miserable thing that needs to be escaped. You failed as a man, so you're trying to become a child again -- and not only that, but insinuating that striving to do so is normal behavior. I hate to tell you, but it isn't. You're like Dewey in that episode of Malcolm in the Middle where he's jealous of the new baby and tries to "go back" by wearing jammies and pooping in diapers again.

>>11820919
Nah, relaxing and enjoying the things that brought you joy as a child isn’t failure. It’s sad you think so.

After a life spent traveling the world, swimming through luxury, partying hard, and working hard to get wealthy and comfortable - it’s nice to just be able to relax and enjoy things that used to bring you simple joy. Back when you weren’t worried about the future and didn’t need to reminisce about the past. Just living in the moment and enjoying life.

That’s why it’s nice to go back.

Holy fuck your life must suck. I’m glad I’m not you. You know, even though it’s a stupid example, I still think i’d rather be Dewey in that episode than to ever be you. I bet it’s really lonely and miserable in that head of yours. So miserable in fact that when you do encounter someone else’s honest joy, the only thing you can manage to do is attempt to shit on it. I can feel the bitter old indignation through the screen - “i hate myself and everything around me; how DARE this person find joy in something!”

Meanwhile I’ll just be over here enjoying fond memories of my childhood, bathing in feel good chemicals your brain no longer has the capacity make. Cope and seethe about it I guess. That’s your destiny - to be miserable. So keep fulfilling your shitty destiny.

>I spent $1500 a couple of years ago on a nearly complete set of NP magazines from eBay
>IMG_8387.jpg, a picture of the magazines
>IMG_8393.jpg, a picture of the auction
Something about this LARP isn't adding up. First off, why would you take a picture of the auction after you already got the magazines? Second, why would you keep that picture of the auction for years? Third, a "nearly complete" set of NP magazines is far more than the 170+ you claim, that picture only mentions 173 since it's a 'rare' issue that costs more due to people wanting the Pokemon card in it. And lastly, if you really had those magazines in your possession, why not post new photos of them instead of photos you took years ago?
I don't think you have any NP magazines, or $1,500. I don't think you even have $200 and a copy of How To Win At Video Games.

>>11820989
KEK OP BTFO

>>11820989
Jesus fucking Christ, at no point did this retarded twat consider that you can simply scroll down your list of purchases in eBay and find a screenshot of things you bought. Instead he constructs a 500 word schitzo theory to make himself feel better. Holy fuck you’re actually retarded.

>>11821002
him and his yes-man cock sleeve

Pic related: here’s another image for you to dissect and analyze fuck face

>>11820785 (OP)
>I spent $1500 a couple of years ago on a nearly complete set of NP magazines
well that was fuckin dumb of you

>>11821101
Nah, great use of money honestly. Fifteen hundred is a decent chunk of change, but it all depends on how much joy you get out of something, and i get a lot out of being able to read the actual issues from my childhood. Also, it wasn’t a “nearly complete” set like the listing said, but it was easily 180 issues or so, starting at #1. If you tried to assemble that ala carte no way you’d be able to do so. It was nice to just get the whole collection at once, at least for all the retro games i care about. I’ll eventually pick up the rest as well; still playing through them one by one.

>>11821125
>Nah, great use of money
nah, not even a little bit
like i'm glad for you that you have enough money where you can just piss away 1500 bucks in such a retarded manner, but I have that kind of money too, and I would still never do anything this retarded
not that I actually believe this is real anyway

>>11821125
>he doesn't know you can read every Nintendo power for free on the internet archive
>he paid four figures for the privilege of touching paper

>>11821132
A small price to pay to hold the actual magazine you had as a kid, be able to read the pages, play along to your favorite games like it’s the 1990s again. People pay tens and hundreds of thousands for vintage cars - why? For that same nostalgia. I can’t ever see doing that, but having that slice of the past - it’s worth it. Maybe you’re a young millenial and it’s pokemon cards or whatever dumb shit you’re into that I won’t understand. Or maybe you’re a zoomer and go fuck your self who ever knows what your nostalgia will be.

That was a decent chunk of change for me, but considering I’m getting all the games for free anyway on a Everdrive cart, this felt like a worthy expense to complete the retro collection.

>>11821135
Yes I obviously know how pdfs work, but it’s just not the same man. Holding the physical magazine; there’s something real about it. It’s like the difference between playing the actual game on real hardware and a crt vs playing at 16:9 stretched on your shitty LCD monitor

>>11821164
>too retarded to figure out how to play games in their original aspect ratio on a computer monitor
well now I understand why you dropped over a grand for the privilege of... touching a magazine

>>11821164
>That was a decent chunk of change for me
wait, really? a measly 1500 dollars?

>>11821167
implying that your shitty LCD monitor can replicate the glory of a real CRT television. Enjoy your 100ms input lag, you deserve it.

>>11821174
For some people that’s a lot of money, for some it’s nothing. For me it’s a reasonable chunk of money, but still worth it.

>>11821167
>>11821174
>>11821135

honestly sounds like a bunch of people are just salty they can’t afford nice things. That or it’s probably the same miserable shit bag from earlier samefagging. It suits him and his style, since he has so little else going on in his sad life

it’s honestly kind of sad that this board is ruined by faggots who have nothing better to do than troll every thread with their bait. fucking miserable sons of bitches; god forbid anyone enjoy anything at all and post about it

>>11820785 (OP)
>it’s the closest you can come to feeling like a kid again.
Fuck off.
My playing games of the /vr/ era has been an unbroken streak and progressive exploration and evolution since I was a kid in the late 80s.

>>11821164
>A small price to pay to hold the actual magazine you had as a kid
It's $1500, that ain't a small price to touch paper.
And you bought every issue, not just the ones you had as a kid.

>>11821174
stop being facetious

>>11821187
We take a hard line against "muh childhood" recreation and escapism on this board. It's a cancer of the /vr/ communities.

>>11821197
> wE tAkE a HaRd LiNe aGaInSt ‘mUh ChIlDhOoD’ rEcReAtIoN aNd EsCaPiSm On ThIs BoArD. iT’s A cAnCeR oF tHe /vR/ cOmMuNiTiEs.

lmao what a pathetic prissy faggot you are. I’m sure the only thing you take hard is the slowly clogging arteries that will thankfully shuffle you loose this mortal coil so the rest of us can enjoy our retro games in peace. Imagine your life being so meaningless that you try to gatekeep old video games.

>>11821194

I had like 13 years worth of them until I went off to college. They’re a pretty awesome collectors item and only getting rarer and more expensive - go check prices on eBay for some of the earlier issues; good fucking luck getting any in good shape for a decent price

>>11821193
> “My playing games of the /vr/ era has been an unbroken streak and progressive exploration and evolution since I was a kid in the late 80s.“

I’ve read this sentence like five times and I still have no idea what the fuck you are trying to say. I’m not even sure you know what you were trying to say.

>>11821135
I mean there is no price I wouldn’t pay if I had the money for a first edition Great Gatsby… so maybe this is his Gatsby

>>11821207
Invests 1500, looks like single issues possibly may be going into the 100s? Great investment OP

>>11821219

Hey, someone gets it. Since actual interaction is rare in this thread, tell me about your Gatsby. What does it for you? Why, emotionally, that book? What does it mean for you to have a grail like that.

Also, slightly related, I recently learned the book from the 1980s called MAZE, which inspired Blue Prince (one of the finest games ever released, just came out) is a very rare book worth hundreds of dollars - and it’s a damned softcover

>>11821224
fuck yeah, thanks bro. not that it’s about the resale value or anything, but old shit in good condition does cost money. that’s why you can get a beat up N64 for a couple of hundred bucks, but if you want a true like-new one with a pristine box - better pony up $600 or $700. That was my latest quest, and I finally nabbed one on eBay.

>>11821210
He's saying that he has continuously played games that are now considered retro since the 80s. The implication is that retro games don't give him a sense of nostalgia because they've never not been a part of his life. He's not "returning" to anything when he plays them, because for him, they've always been there. Maybe it's because I feel the same way, but that really wasn't hard to understand at all.

>>11821197
>We take a hard line against "muh childhood" recreation and escapism on this board.
I wish this was true. /vr/ is thoroughly a nostalgia-informed cesspit.

>>11821235
>He's not "returning" to anything when he plays them, because for him, they've always been there.
You got it.

>>11820874
Some of us are just aware we're adults and aren't needing to harken back 30 years.

>>11820949
I have never seen a poster more in denial than this lmao what is going on in this board, did reddit take over? Holy cringe

>>11820903
You can't watch webm or use readchan
Yikes

>>11820903
>>11821285
what happened to just telling retards to kill themselves instead of humoring them? This guy deserves to die for his insufferable boomer pics alone, let alone the absolute manbaby cringe he is talking about. We're so lucky there are no emoji here, I thank god every day. These turbo normies deserve the rope so hard

>>11821197
You don't get to say what we all do or believe just because you successfully spake the "muh" shibboleth. If everybody here would do nothing but gush about stupid stuff they used to love the place would be ten times better than it is. You are ADDING cancer to this thread with your robotic imitation of a cool meme-spouting member of the in crowd who lays down the harsh truth in defense of the cool kids' delicate ineffable wisdom. Every faintly countercultural forum like this one gets clotted with copies of you. OP is a breath of fresh air among your kind - or at least was that, briefly, before wading into the pointless flame war with the rest of us.

>>11821289
That usage of "cringe" is your subculture's emoji. "normies", "the rope"... I would rather see a ;-P here and there myself than that kind of trashy posturing

>>11820793
For some reason I don't think I really did that with the SNES stuff a lot. But the Ultra 64 sections really impressed me. Later I would develop a strong preference for 2D graphics in games, haha. But back then I was a kid who loved Mario Paint and felt that Mario Sculpt or whatever its successor might be called would just be the most amazing thing imaginable. Just mind-blowing possibilities.

>>11820795
I think I can still name a few characters from Darkman because of their article on it, even though the game probably sucked and I have never played it or seen the movie.

>>11821296
if we stop talking like that we will get absolutely overrun with soulless slop like the iphone-boomer-manbaby poster above who thinks he can act here like on reddit or facebook or any of the other dystopian plastic places infested by our sick normie society. This 'posturing' is the only thing standing between us and the total dead eyed death of our culture. Nigger.

>>11821219
that's retarded too.

>>11821183
NTA but I bought a house and put my nice things in it and if I dropped $1500 on masturbatory goods I'd be up shit creek.

>>11821193
>My playing games of the /vr/ era has been an unbroken streak and progressive exploration and evolution since I was a kid in the late 80s.

It's been the same for me, always a little wild when I see people come into retro games with the nostalgia angle.

I have my old issues starting from issue 198 just lying in a pile in my closet. I should pull them out sometime

>>11821183
projection
I can afford to drop a few grand on dumb shit whenever I want, I'd just prefer to drop it on vacations, or front row concert tickets for me and the homies, or basically anything other than a bunch of paper from the 90s whose entire collected content is available online for free

>>11820874
Buddy I can’t even reconnect with 20yo me. That was a different person, long gone.

Also I have a bunch of these mags locked up in an old chest, where do I go to sell them?

I can't imagine being gauche enough to start a thread by saying "I spent $1500 a couple of years ago on [magazines]" and then proceed to brag about "traveling the world, swimming through luxury, partying hard, and working hard to get wealthy and comfortable," while also describing $1,500 as "a decent chunk of change." Regardless, a very funny read.

>>11821991
eBay.

>>11821294
>OP is a breath of fresh air among your kind - or at least was that, briefly, before wading into the pointless flame war with the rest of us.
People are laughing at OP for being a waste of a thread. This is an anonymous imageboard. We only give a shit about people who actually create or do things. OP is neither, so everyone points and laughs at him for wasting his time and ours.
The guy who storytimed NP, we like him. The guy who uploads the dumps of recent homebrew, we like him. The people making PCem/86box pre-setup packages and that Win9x game package, we like them. Romhackers, homebrewers, dumpers, scanners, map makers, artists creating OC, we like them. They give us something new or interesting, or otherwise put some effort into doing something for the community.
OP bought some shit on ebay, who gives a rat's ass? What sort of response was he expecting? A bunch of anons clapping and saying "Congrats!!!"? If he wanted to start a conversation about Nintendo Power, he put shit effort into it. A low-effort "look what I bought" thread doesn't benefit the board any, or lead to any interesting discussion about retro videogames or associated topics. OP came on /vr/, took a steaming dump of a thread, and /vr/ shit on him for it. And he deserved it. I only wish /vr/ did the same to the shitty console war threads.

>>11821285
iPhones can watch webm just fine? Sorry your android forums lied to you.

>>11821250
“sOmE oF uS aRe JuSt AwArE wE’rE aDuLtS aNd aReN’t NeEdInG tO hArKeN bAcK 30 yEaRs”

Unironically the kind of asshole who died of cirrhosis or lung cancer in his 50s, still hung up on his ex who recognized his toxicity and left long ago.

>>11821289
Sorry to interrupt your ego masturbatory cess pit of self loathing with a little actual retro joy. That must be very traumatic for you.

>>11821317
“Muh culture”. Please, you have no culture. You are the same sweaty unwashed neckbeard you always have been, who thinks that others can’t possibly understand him because they don’t get his obscure “culture”. In reality, your nasty ass needs to go take a fucking shower, actually wash your ass crack, and realize that you are fundamentally a childish asshole - THAT’s why people don’t like you. And because you were bullied your entire life, you are desperately seeking out the only way to attempt to bully someone else - failing even at that small task. Grow the fuck up.

>$1500
kek, i knew this thread was going to be a shit flinging contest

>>11821945

>I prefer to spend my money on fleeting experiences or trying to buy friendship from people that are cooler than me, instead of a relic from my childhood that will bring me continuous joy for years to come. The only correct way to spend money is the way I say to, because I am long neckbeard and though I may be permanently unfuckable and unlikable, at least I reject any notion that anyone can ever have any happy memories from childhood. This all goes back to getting sexually abused by my dad, but because I’m not ready to face that, I’ll just be a dick to people online instead.

Grow the fuck up.

>>11822086
What kills me is that for a board about retro games, there exist a certain chunk of people here who absolutely REEEE at you if you spend any amount of decent money for a quality retro item. A pristine mint condition console? “Why not just emulate fag!” Collectors physical magazines? “PDFs are FREE FAG”.

In reality it’s just poor slavs and RV druggies probably coping, but still - obnoxious.

>>11822091
lmao holy fuck, you're projecting pretty hard there bud

>>11822095
/Vr/ used to have no problem with anons posting collections of games/magazines/toys. Hating on collections are a recent thing

>>11822082
>He woke up seething

>>11822101
>>11822117

No comeback club unite, apparently. Got it out of your systems? Good, so fuck off to another thread then so we can get back on topic.

I’ve been thinking about going for the Player’s Guides too. I have lots of them, but am still missing the Chrono Trigger Guide, the FF3 Guide, and the Super Metroid one. All of those go for $100 minimum on eBay though, so it’s a steep investment.

Did anyone actually ever play this shit? Damn I remember looking at this game fondly, being angry that Japan got all the cool shit and it never got brought over to our shores. It didn’t help that NP dedicated an entire section every month to showing how fucked over American gamers were getting.

>>11822181
it's perfectly on topic to say it's retarded to spend 4 figures on 30 year old magazines lol

>>11822283

>no one should ever spend money on old collectors items that were an important part of their childhood

Sorry you can’t imagine spending money on your hobby and/or are too poor to do so. “But I’d spend my money on-“ No. One. Gives. a. Fuck. The way you waste your money is not inherently better or worse than anyone else, neckbeard.

>>11821934
>198
Damn those are some OLD manuscripts.

>Muh nintendies!!! Bing bing wahoo!!!! This is just like my childhood!!! Mmm I love eating yummy candy and eating captain crunch!!! Have you read Ready Player One and seen Scott Pilgrim??

Do 40 year old boomers really?

>>11822331
To be fair, I've spent somewhere in the ballpark of $50k on retro games, and I also think you're an insufferable faggot. The issue is you, not the way you spend your money.

>>11822331
if magazines were an important enough part of your childhood to drop over a grand on them, your life is sad and you should feel bad

>>11822369

> zoomer thinks he’ll never get old
> definitely way too cool to ever look backward
> don’t worry, you’ll surely stay forever relevant
> you’ll definitely never find comfort in the quiet joy of revisiting a simpler time, when life felt less complicated, when laughter was easier, when friendships felt permanent and summers endless
> it’s absolutely impossible you’ll ever miss the harmless innocence of your childhood, longing someday for something uncomplicated, something gentle amid life’s relentless grind
> surely you won’t ever scroll wistfully through half-forgotten playlists, seeking refuge in melodies that used to mean everything
> no, you’re certainly immune to aging, to growing weary, to ever finding peace in memories
> your hobbies will never fade, your interests never mocked, your tastes never rendered irrelevant by a relentless, impatient generation snapping at your heels
> it’s inconceivable that someday, when youth slips quietly away without fanfare, you’ll find yourself alone, turning to memories you once dismissed, realizing how cruelly brief it all was
> no, surely not you—you’re the exception who will always be young, forever in step, never the fool, never humbled by the merciless ticking of the clock


Enjoy your arrogance while it lasts, kid. We’ll save you a seat.

>>11822518
Not him and that was kinda gay but, you do have a point.

>>11822497
I’m glad you can agree that retro magazines are a worthy way to spend money. Which ones do you own? Or are you just here to make yourself feel briefly better by attacking one of the few people online that openly shares your hobby, slowly but inevitably isolating yourself even more into the hateful little bubble of self pity, derision, and ego that you so desperately cling to. I bet it’s been a long time since you had human contact you didn’t pay for, huh? Damn that’s tough. Better go sling some more insults online I guess. Maybe that will make you feel better - even though we both know it won’t. The problem is you. It’s always been you. No amount of spending or insulting others will ever make that better. I’m so glad I’m not you. We all are.

>>11822503

Peak zoomer take. I grew up in shitty trailer park poverty, could barely afford new games and systems - ended up renting many of them, and the ones we actually bought were precious. Game magazines were both a way to escape the relentless poverty of youth, and also inform yourself about which games were worth your time. You studied them, discussed them with friends, they were your internet back in a time when there was no internet (or at least when it was hard as fuck to get on). They were the common link among kids that shaped memes and language.

And in the years since I’ve had a great life, made tons of money, traveled the world, loved, lost, partied, slept around, loved many more times, and eventually settled down into a happy stable life with plenty of comfort and good things.

And somehow you think it’s sad to want to revisit something important from my youth that brought me a lot of joy when everything else felt so hopeless at times? One of the few rays of light that gave us kids hope that we weren’t defined by the shitty conditions of our youth and that we could do whatever we wanted to one day?

Man. That’s what I think is fucking sad. That you would deride someone’s joy in revisiting those happy memories. What a stale, sterile childhood you must have had to have not known any struggle, nor ever had something that brought you hope and comfort in dark times.

>>11822528
Yeah that was pretty gay I’ll admit, but thanks for seeing my point. I remember when I was a kid and made fun of my mom for being 40 with a silly little childhood song. She just laughed and said “oh don’t worry, it’ll happen to you too. Just wait.”

Damn was she right.

>>11822564
If you had said this from the beginning instead of taking on the person of Grandpa Reddit, your argument would've seemed more relatable. Regardless, if you're a super successful sex haver and you have an awesome life and just want to drop 1500 on paper, then I see no harm. Try to understsnd though, that a significant portion of guys doing stuff like this (if not the majority) are complete losers who have never grown up, so you can't really blame anybody for making fun of muh childhood when a fascination with such is often associated with social and mental retardation.

>>11822518
i'm almost 40 and I've never done any of that faggoty shit
maybe have a better life so that the best moments you've ever lived aren't all behind you

>>11822564
>paying over a grand for paper when you can see the contents online for free is actually fine because I was poor or some shit
or whatever dumb shit you said, I didnt read that to be honest with you bro

>>11822564
if you actually had a great life you wouldnt be desperate to relive childhood joy
btfo

>>11822586
Everything is online for free, but I still have things that are printed on paper. I will own these things, and I will not submit to globohomo.

>>11822610
I mean, I have paper copies of my favorite books, but they A) didn't cost ridiculous amounts of money and B) actually look nice on a shelf
I'd have to be an absolute retard to spend four figures on a bunch of outdated magazines focused on what were essentially children's toys

>>11822582

>never reminisced or enjoyed retro things from the past
> posting on board exclusively about retro things from the past
> truly one of the takes of all time
What a pathetic loser. Please hurry up and drink more alcohol so you can die of cirrhosis faster so we can enjoy things in peace without you.

>>11822586
yes i have no doubt that you didn’t read, and why would a zoomer without basic phonics skills ever see the value in owning rare magazines and books; after all it’s just words on paper and we have established that you can’t read. Why don’t you run along back to tiktok where you can continue watching brain dead AI generated content that’s more your speed?

>>11822592
….did you actually just high five yourself in your own comment for your own cringey insult? Wow, there’s been some sad and pathetic people here, but I want you to know that you just surpassed them all. Truly, the most autistic and sad thing I’ve seen. You’re the type to replay conversations 30x in your head until you come up with the perfect insult (according to you, which in reality is still cringey as fuck) and then feel smug about it - aren’t you? God damn. Go take a shower sweaty, I can smell your autistic ass crack from here.

>>11822610
Based and retro pilled

>>11822630
Yet you are spending time posting on an obscure Chan board for what was essentially a children’s toy. It sounds like you spend your life worried about what other people think of you, constantly under the judgement of some invisible authority figure that only exists inside your own head. Imagine spending money on something simply because it looks “nice on a shelf” instead of because it brings you personal joy to own it. I’m glad I own physical magazines that I can enjoy without worrying about “what looks nice on a shelf”. Holy fuck, there used to be a word for you in the 90s; it was called “yuppie”

>>11822649
I had a lot of friends and spent a lot of time outside as a kid so I missed out on quite a few of the thousands of games that were released back then. All the retro games I play and talk about are new to me.
Basically i'm the guy exploring classic cinema, and you're the guy endlessly rewatching a handful of movies you saw a hundred times already as a kid, desperate to feel the joy of childhood again because you aren't feeling any joy in adulthood.
Also, I don't drink. Nothing against people who do, shaming people for their vices is cringe, but I prefer a clear mind.

>>11822659
>Yet you are spending time posting on an obscure Chan board for what was essentially a children’s toy.
the fact that you think this is equivalent to spending what you believe to be "a nice chunk of change" on outdated paper that's available for free tells me that you're completely retarded
>[weird projection]
yeah yeah good for you
>Imagine spending money on something simply because it looks “nice on a shelf”
Who did that? How they look is just an incidental reason why my purchase was smarter than yours.
I spend money on my favorite books because they're my favorite books. Sometimes I like to sip coffee and read on the back porch on the weekends, when the weather is nice.
>there used to be a word for you in the 90s; it was called “yuppie”
you... don't know what that word means lol

>>11822534
>Or are you just here to make yourself feel briefly better by attacking one of the few people online that openly shares your hobby
I just want to gatekeep. I'd rather the hobby die than be used as a personality enhancer by later-comers like you.

>The great thing about buying stupid shit isn't enjoying the shit, it's telling everyone online that I did

>>11821228
I’ve not heard of blue prince or maze, but in college we never got to anything that modern for lit courses. May have to check that out.

I’d say Gatsby is just it for me. It’s my favorite book, it’s not going to lose value so it’s a smart investment, it’s a piece of history that I wish I could’ve witnessed myself. I’d also pay whatever price for certain CiB or brand new games like Dual Hearts for ps2 or golden OoT MM if I didn’t already own those two latter games. Some things just speak to people. I don’t ever need it but if I had the opportunity hell yeah I’d get it like you did the Nintendo powers.

>>11821582
Your are allowed your opinion, even if you are a subhuman.

Eat ur bugs and own nothing can be your mantra but for most people that have hobbies there is a certain enjoyment in collecting and maintaining… ah fuck it ur probably 3rd world and couldn’t possibly understand. Like my dogs would be easier to communicate this w then u.

>>11822756
I get wanting to own your favorite books. As I said earlier, I have several.
What I don't get is throwing absurd amounts of money around for a "first edition".
It's the same story regardless of when it was printed. The first printing doesn't have a different ending or anything.
Owning stuff makes sense to me. "Collecting" stuff never has. And to a man, every "collector" I know is retarded, autistic, a manchild, or some combination of the three.
If you had some ultra-prized first edition Gatsby you'd basically be the same as a Funko Pop collector, just with a different special interest.

>>11822779
>every "collector" I know is retarded, autistic, a manchild, or some combination of the three.
I can confirm this. I'm a collector, and I'm all three.

>>11822091
I mean maybe he likes going to concerts where there is a high probable chance for chump outs (see Travis Scott) or maybe most recently all those people at music festival in France getting stabbed w poison needles. I lived in Nashville and was part of the music concert culture, there is nothing more fucking idiotic than someone buying a bunch of tickets to a shit band or singer pushed by the algorithm for them and their friends only to come out w few memories of said event and wondering why they withdrew 300 dollars at 3;24 am that morning after the show. At least if you’re going to pick something, pick something that isn’t a total and absolutely waste of money. Op can possibly double his money in a few years. Ur friends will go right back to calling you Brian and avoiding u the minute they can ditch ur ass after a concert. Lmao

>>11822095
These people own nothing and literally live in filth. At least if someone is dropping money on vr stuff at that amount they most likely have a very nice place to store it show it off. Emulation fags never make sense, because the vitriol they spit has to be motivated by something else since us spending money on retro shit literally effects them zero. In fact, if morons didn’t over spend on random shit from time to time and then dump said item they would have even less to emulate and let’s be honest, never really play anyway. It’s wild the reaction since it can only be an end positive for emu fags to have people buying up and taking care of old VR shit. What happens if archive.org gets taken down and this anon scans all his copies for us because for some reason it just happened that way…. Goddamn u want people to own stuff just in case ur data bases get wrecked.

>>11822798
I went through a period of life where I was dropping money in Vegas on some VIP tables and seeing some djs and artists and shit. Some of them were memorable experiences, but holy fuck Travis Scott was next level awful. I didn’t really care; he was just happened to be playing that night and I wanted to party at the club, so whatever.

That mother fucker came out high as fuck, didn’t know the words to his own songs and had to read them (poorly) off a screen, stumbled everywhere and did an awful fucking job. The crowd was kind of just stunned, and this was him headlining a major fucking club too.

You’re absolutely right about everything you said, but especially about that asshole

>>11822503
Now u know u did the right thing. Op is so based I hope his purchase triples in value over the next few years and someone on this board asks him to scan his copies because something happened to the ones online or maybe he had a rare one or something. The seething from the have nots in this thread is glorious!

I bet reading through all of those is really fun. I remember reading some of the later issues(gamecube/gba era) at the public library when I was a lad(born 1992) and they were always mad comfy to read. I never would've found out about cool games like Chibi Robo or Astroboy for gba without reading them. I bet the nes/snes era ones are even cooler.

Random memory but I just recalled almost pulling the trigger on an entire set of Illuminati cards on ebay back in the day for like 120 bucks. Shoulda done it. Woulda been hitting a similar lick to what you did by getting these magazines, though on a smaller scale. Cheers, OP. Sorry you're catching a bunch of flak from sour grapes weirdos who hate physical media despite posting on a retro video game forum.

>>11822717
It’s a mixture of both. I do enjoy the games I have already played through, but I’m looking forward to enjoying games I never got around to back then as well, like Breath of Fire 2 and 3, and Dragon Quest V and VI. I’m also looking forward to my first ever replay of Chrono Trigger

>>11822731
OP literally was playing these games before you were, since they mention they had them in childhood. Imagine being a zoomer and trying to gatekeep someone from something they literally were enjoying before you were born

>>11822812
Based. I spent a lot of time emulating old systems in the 2000s and 2010s. But something didn’t quite feel right, you know? It was always…. Off. But I could t quite explain why.

Then recently I got my hands on a CRT, plus some old mint systems and some Everdrive carts. And fucking WOW. It felt responsive and *real* in a way I hadn’t experienced for decades - ever since the real thing back in the 80s and 90s.

That’s when I learned about emulation lag. All that emulation carries about a 100ms input lag which causes everything to feel squishy and delayed as fuck… but so slightly that you might almost swear it’s your imagination. …until you play the real thing, that is, and suddenly are back to the 20 to 30ms input delay you remember from way back when.

Emulation fags literally won’t ever comprehend what they’re missing. I’m just grateful for Krikkz and his carts so I don’t have to shell out for the overpriced games themselves just in order to play them.

>>11822779
I see ur point but comparing one of the greatest American novels ever written to funko pop is disingenuous. Also do you disapprove of museums? Having the first edition is basically like bringing home a piece of history. I can’t even imagine what I’d pay for a signed print. I recently bought the hardcover for 4 dollars. I’d still spend 20k on an original, if I had the money. And it’s also an investment that again as I said, won’t lose value, so long after I’m gone I could pass it on and the family would have a valuable trinket if they ever got into financial trouble. Honestly tho I just want it. I have like 20 physical items I’d like to own, most are VR and for those 20 or so items IF I had the money I absolutely would pay whatever price.

That’s my reasoning anyway. You dont have to agree. And I do see ur point.

>>11822816
He also was responsible for setting up the venue of his astroworld disaster yet somehow managed to avoid really any backlash. He wasn’t just the performer he set the whole thing up and was ultimately responsible for the people who died. Like I went to concerts but all that shit is free if you work in the industry and it’s really fucking dangerous. So yeah, his point about concerts over vr purchases was dumb.

>>11822091
If magazines from your childhood bring you years of joy then you also got molested bud, sorry to be the bearer of bad news

>>11822798
how very sad that you have never had friends who treated you any better than what you've just described. I pity you.

>>11822850
I mean my most prized /vr possession is a hard modded og halo xbox. I’ve beaten a ton of retro games using those emulators but ur right. I recently found a Sony trititron and wow, playing sonic 2 on a model 2 like I did as kid… it was a very different experience. I have nothing against emulating it’s just the absolutely poison over people buying stuff is motivated by something other than “it’s free retard.” I’ve had people angry at me for telling anons to import games from Japan where it’s far cheaper. “Nooooo u can’t do that! It will mess up their gaming ecosystem!” And it’s usually emufags mad about it. Like how could that possibly affect ur emulation and playing for free. Not all who oppose importing on here are emu babies but there does seem to be a few of them and it’s really quite insane.

>>11822564
I wish the types of people to either be like this, or lie about being like this, would stop posting on the same websites as me. Congrats or whatever, but you are annoying and gay and your success isn't nearly as unique as you think it is

>>11822798
Holy christ this is a sad outlook man. Some people have actual friends they're willing to do nice things for. Immediately assuming that "friend" equals whatever you just described is either cope or seethe on your part

>>11822886
Wow what an own. You got me.

>>11822837
People who talk about "reconnecting with their childhood" are almost universally latecomers. He has absolutely nothing interesting to add about the magazines, because he doesn't actually know anything about them, because he took a 25 year hiatus after playing some Nintendo as a kid. It's just "look at this thing I own, here's how much I paid for it!" He's successfully baiting thirdies by flaunting his "wealth", and embarrassing himself to anyone who has been involved in the hobby for more than a decade. Nobody who collects in earnest talks likes this.

>>11822893
The fact that anyone is defending this retard is unbelievable to me. This is a new low.

>>11822823
>>11822826
OP, this kind of samefagging is hilariously obvious and more than a little sad
>>11822860
>comparing one of the greatest American novels ever written to funko pop is disingenuous
not if what you're cooming in your pants over is the fact that you're buying a really old copy.
"collector" mindset is the same regardless of the objects being collected. stamps, funko, old books, rubber ducks, retro games magazines - same mentality.
>Having the first edition is basically like bringing home a piece of history.
so is having a bunch of old magazines or funkos or whatever. Just a different period of history.
basically, to be consistent, you must also approve of those dudes who have a massive collection of dead-eyed plastic dolls, or youre a hypocrite. me? I think you're all equally retarded

>>11822902
Yea you’re definitely the “Brian” of your group bro.

Jannies, please just delete this shit thread, for the sake of all parties involved. Let OP try again in a month with a new picture and a revised opener where he doesn't mention becoming a baby again. Thank you.

>>11822909
it's not an "own", I just genuinely feel bad for you. that's terribly sad.

>>11822923
nobody else knows what you're talking about when you say that, bro. whatever shitty experience you're projecting isn't as universal as you seem to think it is

>>11822912

> “PeOpLe WhO tAlK aBoUt ‘ReCoNnEcTiNg WiTh ThEiR cHiLdHoOd’ ArE aLmOsT uNiVeRsAlLy LaTeCoMeRs.”

> “He HaS aBsOlUtElY nOtHiNg InTeReStInG tO aDd AbOuT tHe MaGaZiNeS.”

Why are there always people like you in every gaming community? You desperately cling to an imagined hierarchy based on how consistently someone has obsessively curated their hobby, terrified that newcomers might expose your flimsy sense of superiority. You act like enjoying something casually is some unforgivable crime, bitterly resenting anyone whose life didn’t revolve around gaming and plastic cartridges for thirty uninterrupted years. God forbid someone comes back after a break and finds joy in it again, right?

You’re gatekeeping pixels and nostalgia, gatekeeping the very concept of fun itself. If your entire sweaty ego hinges on how long you’ve hoarded old systems and games, you’re far more embarrassing than the guy excitedly rediscovering his childhood favorites. Maybe touch grass, or better yet, touch soap—because the only thing here that’s genuinely embarrassing is your sweaty, angry desperation to police someone else’s harmless happiness.

Oh, and for the record - I’ve never stopped playing video games, and my current collection of mint systems and games rivals just about anyones. And yes, my collection of video game magazines too - as your seething jealousy illustrates.

>>11822915
Honestly not same fagging, though I do wish user ids existed on this board because I do suspect king sweaty is doing it.

>>11822823
>>11822812
>>11822826
Whoever you people are, you’re based and thanks for the sanity amid the sea of trolling and seething.

>>11822915
Yes owning a piece of history that will only increase in value is retarded. lol have a nice day bro, and enjoy not collecting or owning or doing anything really but shit posting on 4chinz.

>>11822932
I’m just gonna make this a regular //NG// Nostalgia General thread now, when this one hits post limit. That way we can have a space to reminisce about good times and gaming, and the neckbeards who can’t bear to imagine anyone finding joy in retro games and feels can stay the fuck out

>>11822956
Well ur definitely under age if u don’t even get the reference. Post somewhere else lol

>>11822957
The exact type of person who needed to be told "lurk more, faggot" and take it to heart. You are not welcome here , samefag-sama

>>11822923
Do you not agree that healthy friendships exist? Or are they so mythological to you that anyone claiming to habe them must be lying? Genuine question, you seem like you must have had a rough go of the whole social thing

>>11822739

I feel you, nice way to explain it. Honestly I’ve never cared about a first edition of Gatsby either, but your description of it just elevated it in my mind and now I’m casually googling it and thinking about how cool it is. Collecting has always been around, and collecting quality relics that meant something historically and mean something to you will always have value.

Let me caution you to please never live in the Deep South or New England, or anywhere humid. I never realized how bad humidity will fuck you until I lived there for a few years as an adult. The mold will creep into the things you love and destroy them, even if you live a clean life. I will only ever collect and buy real estate in dry climates from now on, holy hell

>>11822976
I’ve been on 4chan since 2008, and been posting and reading this board for years. Sounds like you’re the one who’s not welcome here, sweaty. Touch soap

Gayest thread I've ever seen.

>>11822984
That’s a lot of projection. Have fun w being alone and not owning anything. See I can do it to!

>>11822969
>increase in value
see? it's not even about the thing you're collecting.
it's about how it "goes up in value", which means you're either gonna get rid of it someday, or worse, you're gooning to a hypothetical number that will never matter.
funkos go up in value too, by the way. I have one I received as a gift years ago that's going for around $150 right now. so maybe that's not the killshot you were hoping it was.

>>11822987
I’ve lived in Georgia my whole life and never had any issues. I did recently get a dehumidifier just in case tho for my collection.

>>11822971
>I'm going to make and maintain a "nostalgia general" just to spite anonymous people online
Even if this is tongue in cheek, I no longer believe it's even remotely possible that you've had sex.

>>11823026
Ur arguing about a funk pop comparing it to a first edition Gatsby. Bro enjoy the win u think ur taking here.

>>11823034
>i-it's just d-different
>I can't explain h-how it j-just is
All "collectors" are the same. The difference in what they collect is entirely superficial

Anyway, good job OP. Hope the value increases and the joy it brings you continues. What is your favorite issue and why so far?

>>11823090
Bro...

I would not be remotely surprised if this was the nintendo power storytime poster. Same passive aggressive redditor attitude, same fixation on magazines, and IIRC that guy claimed he was scanning them directly and not getting them online.

>>11822735
kek

>>11823092
Sis….

>he read nintendo power for tips secrets and walkthroughs

DID NOT BEAT THE GAME

>>11820785 (OP)
Is that shit really worth so much? I tossed out my entire collection 10 years ago. Straight into the trash.

>>11824863
>Is that shit really worth so much?
no
this thread is pure fiction

>>11824863
Big mistake bro.

>>11824870
Oof, premium cope and seethe. You also must have thrown them out. Imagine having a priceless relic from the past and not even realizing it. Worse, imagine actively deriding such treasures. What a fucking loser.

Pic related - actual reality, as of today - much less the future

>>11824830

Some of those old games were so intentionally obscure; having the magazine to go along with it was almost a requirement at times. There was a LOT of “use this pixel at this random pixel” shit with no in game clues otherwise.

>>11823103
Yeah I have no idea wtf you’re on about.

>>11823030
Nah, this is gonna be the first NG thread, and once it hits post limit we’ll make another. I think it’s an important part of retro gaming.

>>11823026
It’s amazing when you can have a passion you’re collecting just for the personal and emotional value - and ALSO know that it’s retaining. (And increasing) in actual value. Most collectibles just sit on a shelf. Gaming is cool because it’s one of the few things you can collect and actually do something with, as in, play it.

>>11823090
Man I loved those old SNES spreads when the system first came out. There weren’t a ton of games coming out back then, so they really had to spend effort to hype each game UP. They were still doing custom art for each game - some of which had zero to fucking do with the game (why does Kain look like an Amazonian drag queen). It was a big deal to get each issue in the mail.

Also, later on in the mid 90s they started doing that “Epic Corner” article where they teased all the cool shit we weren’t getting in the states. It’s amazing cause now we can read through it and actually go play fan translations of those games!

Anyway, thanks for asking. You have any memories of these old mags?

>>11824997
>look at this obvious photoshop
lol
the funniest part is, by dickriding some notion of "value", you're giving yourself away as a dumb faggot who doesn't actually care about the item itself
>>11823026 explained it pretty succinctly

>>11822091
You can't download going out to eat with your friends and family.

>>11822095
Because there are better ways to spend your money on /vr/. If OP had spent that $1500 on making an amazing (and tasteful, not a manchild cave) home set-up for playing video games it would have been appreciated for what it is. A place where the games can be more easily appreciated, a place to bring out their best. That's a much more respected intangibility than "feeling the magazine in your hands instead of on a screen".

>>11822850
>emulation lag
Can't think of a system that has a flash cart where the emulation isn't at the "same as console" lag level these days. Maybe N64 would be the outlier.

>>11822957
get out, cancer

>>11825189
I mean, you are fully able to go do a simple search on eBay yourself, but instead you austically screech nonsense. Those are the prices on eBay; those are actual auctions for sale. Go fucking check em, retard.

And as I have stated before, I bought the magazines because I enjoy owning them. But also, it’s nice having a hobby where the money you spent isn’t thrown into a pit and has a chance to retain or even increase in value. Sorry you’re too fucking poor to be able to buy nice things. And let’s be honest - since you can’t even use basic eBay search, you’re probably too stupid to do so as well.

>>11825302

>implying I don’t already have an amazing retro setup.

Fucking obviously bro. It all started when I found a perfect crt tv at an estate sale for five bucks. Then I went on eBay and started collecting mint / new consoles: NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, Saturn, N64, PlayStation, etc. I even collected quite a few games CIB before I discovered the wonderful world of Everdrives. So yes, I have quite the gaming museum at home, and so a nearly complete set of Nintendo Power magazines in good shape fit right in. And yeah, there’s a big difference having the gaming magazine there, the real thing, while you’re playing the game.

>>11825303
Cope af. Not even Nintendo’s first party solution has it figured out. That and PC are both squishy and laggy as shit. The non-CRT crowd really are the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet.

Like I get saying - “I wish I could afford a good crt and real hardware, one day!” To which I could say “hey man, you’ll get there, save up, shop smart.” But you retards that try to insist your laggy ass, awful looking emulation is the same thing as authentic hardware are pure zoomer cancer.

>>11825308
I don’t think you’re enjoying it here anon. Maybe it’s time for you to go back to gamefaqs

>>11825361
>a hobby where the money you spent isn’t thrown into a pit and has a chance to retain or even increase in value.
again, there are only 2 reasons to care about this.
1) you intend to capitalize on that stored value by selling the item(s), in which case all you really cared about was the speculation, not the item(s)
2) you do not intend to sell, which necessarily means you just enjoy gooning to a hypothetical value that will never matter, in which case you are fucking retarded
by continuing to harp on the idea of value, you completely undermine all your claims about the joy of childhood from earlier in the thread. essentially you are the same as a funko pop collector, only with decades-old magazines as the item of interest.
in other words, you're a fag.

>>11825405
This guy is just either auto bumping the thread or has serious issues either way thanks for the bump. There is a massive difference in collecting to preserve and hand down to future generations of yours so they can appreciate it or maybe sell it and buy some land or something. The point of collecting is different for different people it isn’t an either or situation which ur small brain seems to think it has to be.

Simply put I collect things I like regardless of price. I also collect things I feel will increase in value that way my dollar (which decreases in value everyday btw) is not only being used on something I enjoy but the value of said thing can increase so yes potentially if I’m in trouble down the road I could sell but mostly it would be held onto and maintained for either my kids or someone in the family so they can have something cool collectible and potentially valuable. I made the case for Gatsby but same applies for my desire to own dual hearts again. 1. I want it in my physical collection 2. The title has only increased in value and the way aaa gaming is going it will continue to increase 3. The price isn’t important if it’s expensive then it needs to be a good investment like ops seems to be. If not then I would have to balance my desire to have it with, can I just emulate.

U argue in bad faith and yell and screech. All you’re doing for me is bumping the thread and articulating to me why I enjoy collecting. Despite urself I’m having a good time w this thread.

>>11825361
To the part about encouraging them, bro I straight up tell them to buy a summercart or krizzk cart for whatever system until they can afford it and that way they play the games first and can decide which to buy after. We obviously have no issue w people emulating but it’s when u spend money some contingent on here freak out and at this point imma start copying ur thread format everytime I collect some good shit so I can a. Get some good responses like we had and b. Kicked the absolute hornets nest of angry people who can’t afford it and probably don’t even play the games they have on a flash cart.

>>11825302
Like, that’s just your opinion man.

As I stated before it would change quick if somehow the archive.org got taken down along w anyone else hosting these magazines because Nintendo is insane. But I’ve seen anons on here begging for scans before. I hope, in a true twist of irony, one of these angry anons eventually asks someone to scan something and it’s you who do it magazine man!

>>11825460
there wasn't a single meaningful or coherent statement in that entire 1000 word essay
typical funko pop collector. brains as empty as their little plastic dolls

>>11820785 (OP)
>I spent $1500 a couple of years ago on a nearly complete set of NP magazines
Genuine, unironic, mental illness. But that's no surprise from a nintentroon

I like magazines

>>11825405

I enjoy collecting these magazines because they remind me of my childhood and it’s nice to have physical magazines while playing the games.

> that’s GAY, what a waste of fucking money! FAG!

Actually, these magazines have only been going up in value. So not only are they nice to own; they also are a time tested investment that I can feel good about owning.

> See! You only own them to make money! FAG!

….. are you, like, an actual 7th grader from 1995? Because I honestly believe you may have mentally stopped aging at that exact moment. You talk like the most bratty retarded twat i’ve ever met. No reason seems to be good enough for you, and no matter what all you can do is screech about how mad you are that someone bought collector’s magazines that you can’t afford.


It’s sad man. How fucking sad

>>11825471
Based af. I love Krikzz; that was the biggest pill to swallow when I started collecting, were those fucking $100 to $300 prices for the good games. And even as a purist, I got to admit I can’t tell a difference when I’m playing a rom on an Everdrive, as long as it’s a CRT + hardware. I do still collect but it’s so nice that my collection can hang nicely on the shelf and not get handled unless I’m really craving the ultimate experience. It’s good to encourage new collectors, and though I’ve used zoomer as an insult in this thread - NOTHING makes me happier than when a zoomer gets into this hobby properly. That’s real preservation; a new generation that cares.

You’re awesome - keep being awesome; and fuck the hornets.

>>11825586
> I honestly believe you may have mentally stopped aging at that exact moment
says the dude who dropped "a nice chunk of change" on 30 year old paper to "feel the joy from childhood"
lmfao. retard

>>11825484
As a kid - “I love Nintendo! Team N for life!”

As an adult - “fuck Nintendo and their abusive practices; it’s always ethical to pirate Nintendo and fuck them over whenever you can. ….also they made some of the best games of all time.”


>>11825597
I fucking wish I knew a zoomer who was passionate about this stuff, or maybe a Gen alpha one day. One thing I worry about is that one day I will die and my literal $20k worth of gaming systems, games, magazines, etc will be sold off on eBay - shoveled off cause no one cares. It would be awesome to one day meet a young dude who actually cared; I’d happily will the shit to him. I mean, I’m in my 40s; not gonna die for a while hopefully, but still I think about it

>>11825608

It’s funny how it makes you seethe so much that people can afford nice collector’s items from the past, especially when they held special meaning for them back then. You must be such a sad sack of shit that you lack the ability to feel that about something, and/or you’re too fucking poor to imagine spending any money recreationally to own anything cool from the past.

What a fucking loser. What a terrible life. I’m so glad I’m not you.

>>11825530
/k/ is leaking

>>11825620
>if you wouldnt waste money the way I did it must mean you're poor!
lmfao, cope. 1500 isn't even "a nice chunk of change" for me, it's peanuts. I'm just not stupid enough to pay for things I can get for free, and not emotionally infantile enough to derive 1500 bucks worth of joy from touching glossy paper from the 90s.

>>11825586
...you are literally either throwing the money away never expecting to see a return, or you're holding them as speculation vehicles expecting to sell later. There isn't a third option.

It's really weird that you got all defensive about that.

>>11825617
>also they made some of the best games of all time
Name 5.

>>11825620
>same NPC posts
>Same NPC images

>>11825361
>>implying I don’t already have an amazing retro setup.
Let's see it.

>>11825731
I might post it one day, but I’m definitely not going to post it to justify myself to you, autistic faggot

>inb4 “you won’t prove yourself to me so you’re lying!”

This is why you’re a forever alone, single incel. This is exactly why.

>>11825718
I spent money on things that I enjoy; that were important to me as a child, that are cool, and also which are appreciating in value and are collector’s items. It’s weird this triggers you so much. There must really be some deep trauma going on here for you to be acting like this.

>>11825704
If you can’t afford it, that’s fine. Owning an actual Nintendo Power collection isn’t for everyone. To be fair, one most be a true retro enthusiast and have a very high IQ to appreciate what it means. And that’s just not you.

>>11825721
Zelda.

>>11825724
You get the image you deserve. Maybe try harder next time

>>11825718
There is, though. You can buy collectibles without intending to ever resell them while simultaneously taking comfort in the fact that they do have good resale value in case you ever want/need to. People and the economic conditions they're subject to aren't static, and the added value of "knowing I can probably get my money back if things take a turn" is very real.

>>11825757
Holy fuck, actual maturity and sanity in this thread. This must be a normal, well adjusted adult with a job, happy life, and the wisdom to appreciate the good things he has. Imagine that!

>>11825773
>This must be a normal, well adjusted adult with a job, happy life, and the wisdom to appreciate the good things he has.
I'm a chronically unemployed ABDL with autism (L2). I am married, however.

>>11822518
Or instead you can just live a fulfilling life and have hobbies than have to 'seek refuge' lmao. You are a giga faggot

>>11822974
NTA and almost 40 and have no clue what the fuck you're talking about. You really are an insufferable cunt.

>>11825757
>taking comfort in the fact that they do have good resale value
that literally makes no sense unless you intend to resell them someday.
There isn't a third option here. There are only people in the second camp lying to themselves.

>>11825748
>If you can’t afford it
It's weird that you bought a bunch of magazines when you clearly struggle with basic reading comprehension.
To reiterate: your "nice chunk of change" is peanuts to me.

>>11825748
>won't prove it

Sure thing faggot.

>>11825748
>Zelda
Which one? You can't name any without looking at your fagazines I bet.
Regardless, 4 to go.

>>11820785 (OP)
>and it’s the closest you can come to feeling like a kid again.
why would i want to do that ? i was never a happy kid tho so maybe its different for you.

>>11825361
>That and PC are both squishy and laggy as shit. The non-CRT crowd really are the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet.
You can use emulation on CRTs, retard.

>>11825854
You know how I know you don’t own anything of value? Just the stupidest fucking take I think I have ever seen in 30 years on the internet. “If you own it because it makes you happy that’s stupid because you’re wasting money! If you own it because it is valuable that’s stupid because you’re not owning it for the right reasons.” The world would honestly be better off without you.

>>11825858
If you can’t afford it, just say so man. There’s no need to cope and seethe about it. Some of us enjoy nice things.

>>11825861
Your insults take me back to my childhood too; shame your brain literally stopped growing in 93. It must have been a lonely life eh? Protip: people don’t owe you proof on the internet. You’re just gonna have to grow up and learn to accept that.

>>11825869
No, that’s on you for asking a dumb fucking question. I reiterate - Zelda.

>>11825890
Emulation vs. the original hardware is where a lot of the input lag comes from. Though I will admit that emulating on a crt at least gets you halfway there.

>>11825829
Not all of us have little bit egos that need to prove themselves. Some of us have had fulfilling lives, and enjoy the toys and cool things of our past. That’s because we have a healthy, happy relationship with ourselves and are kind to ourselves throughout time. I’m kind to the 10 year old kid who used to own this stuff, just as I’m sure the 80 year old me will think kindly of me. I know that’s a foreign fucking concept to a self-loathing autistic faggot like you, so just screech a bit more into your keyboard why don’t you. Touch soap.

>>11825471

I don’t even think it’s a hornets nest. There’s one guy, maaaaybe two max. But I think it’s just one literal giga neckbeard that cannot stand the sight of anyone else experiencing joy in this world because he’s so miserable. I mean, he probably is fat enough to split him down the middle and make two - but he’s still same fagging. I’ve been encountering various versions of this guy on the internet since literally the 90s. Just miserable and angry incel that hates everything and that nothing is good enough for. He doesn’t play retro games to experience joy. He plays them to have something in this world that he can feel like has some kind of authority and gatekeeping power over - since literally he has nothing else in his life. No family, no women, no happiness.

He’s already living the worst fate I can imagine though - he has to be trapped in that disgusting fucking sweaty body and head with himself.

Meanwhile we’re just enjoying vidya

>>11825927
>If you can’t afford it
I can afford it. I could afford it ten times over before I would even notice it's missing.
Again, it's bizarre that you spent so much money on magazines when you struggle so mightily to read

>>11825927
lmfao holy shit you are such a fucking retard

>>11825950
Bro not everyone can afford authentic retro experiences and that’s okay. We’re not trying to shame you. You should try saving up thought and at least getting a crt tv to play on; and then maybe some real OG hardware. The ever drive carts can help make it affordable.

Once you have a quality retro setup; then you can think about branching out to some quality strategy guide and magazine collections. Having a good quality collection of Nintendo power is way up the pyramid, so don’t stress if you’re not there yet.

If you work hard in life; I’m sure you’ll get there one day!

>>11825964
I get that you're trying to overcompensate for outing yourself as a poorfag by saying 1500 was a lot of money. I get that. You should know it's having the opposite effect though.

>>11825854
I feel like you, somehow, have even less life experience than I do. Either that, or you're intentionally being obtuse. I'll try to explain this once more. If I can't reach you with this, then I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Most people don’t buy a home intending to flip it for profit. They buy it to live in, and to pass on to their family. But they still take comfort in knowing it retains value, and that it could be sold if need be. That doesn’t make them 'speculators in denial.' It makes them financially aware. The salability of the home is a property of the home itself. This remains true regardless of their intent when purchasing it, or their feelings towards selling at any given moment. The fact that the home is likely to retain, or even grow in value, provides financial security - even when the homeowner genuinely hopes the property will never leave their possession.

The same logic applies here. I didn't start collecting with the intent of reselling. In fact, I began collecting long before video games became commonly viewed as speculative assets. I started collecting because I love them, and intend to hold onto them as long as I live. But it would be financially irresponsible, as well as intellectually dishonest, to not acknowledge the objective fact that, regardless of my attitude towards it, my collection is a fairly sizeable financial asset. Like our loving homeowner above, I have no intention of ever selling my collection. But that doesn't change the objective fact that it is salable. In times of economic uncertainty, that fact brings comfort. It is perfectly possible to both simultaneously hope you'll never have to sell something, and take comfort in its salability. This should be immediately understandable to anyone who has ever had to deal with the economic pressures of the real world in any capacity.

>>11825975
Until I see a timestamped stack of magazines, I assume this is just surprisingly effective bait.

>>11825984
>a home
my man we're talking about a grand worth of magazines

>>11825997
You're mistaking an analogy for an equivocation. The scale is different, but the underlying logic applies to both as it pertains to the discussion at hand.

>>11825975

Imagine seething this much because someone spent some money on some collector’s magazines that were important to them in their youth.

Here’s the thing - I know people who actually have as much money as you are larping about having. You know what they are doing - off enjoying their life. What they *don’t* do is chain post endlessly on 4chan bragging about much money they have. Man, I cannot imagine anything more pathetic.

And oh god, if you DID actually have money it would be even MORE pathetic. No - I think you are thoroughly broken. Fiscally bankrupt. Emotionally bankrupt. Spiritually bankrupt.

In truth, you have nothing of value in your life do you? That’s why you spend your time here, bragging about imaginary money, trying to deride someone for enjoying some gaming magazines they bought. In truth, it wouldn’t matter if you did have lots of money. You’re a broken, bankrupt soul with nothing that brings you joy. That’s why you attack the joy of others - because it enrages you to see someone having a good life and enjoying themselves. Because you know deep down you are living a shallow, pathetic husk of a life.

I’ll just be over here enjoying my gaming magazines that I paid $1500 for. But even if I didn’t have them, I’d still be so happy I’m not you. I can’t imagine anything worse than that.

>>11825984
Yeah I’d didn't read any of that. I hope you didn’t spend much time writing it. I’d rather be reading the Nintendo Power magazines I bought. I actually have been missing some issues, so I went on eBay and found the few in the 60’s I was missing and I’m gonna be working on the holes in the 70s and 80s as well. See, unlike your paragraph, you’re actually reading what I’m saying. That’s because what I’m saying has value - like a stack of cherry Nintendo Power magazines. I hope you learned something today.

>>11825984
You're trying to explain home equity to a homeowner and then use it to justify gooning to the theoretical value of a bunch of old magazines. Fuckin wew lad.

>>11826008
Imagine thinking anyone is seething about your larp

Nintendo Power was too expensive but it must've been nice to know about what's new. I only ever found out a game was new when I didn't recognize it at the rental store

>>11826015
I'm not interested in the value of his magazines. I'm interested in addressing the claim that you can only approach collecting as an exercise of throwing money to the wind, or of financial speculation.

>>11826017
I mean. You are though. Here you are, continuing to seethe. Unstoppably. You can’t let go. This is what you’re doing with your free time. Not playing video games. Not enjoying your life. Seething. About the fact that Nintendo Power magazines are valuable and some people choose to collect them.

Wow. I can’t imagine anything more pathetic than that.

>>11826005
The scale entirely changes the logic lol
>oh boy I sure am glad my 10 dollar funko pop tripled in value! you know, in case the economy tanks
if you don't immediately see how that's retarded, I can't help you

>>11826028
you vastly overestimate how much time it takes to backhand a reply your way and make you write another 5 seething paragraphs lol

>>11826032
Scaling it down to the point of irrelevance doesn't change the fact that what we're dealing with operates using the same underlying logic. Additionally, the claim that I'm responding to was about collecting in general, not a $10 Funko Pop, or a $1,500 stack of magazines.

Frankly, I suspect you're operating in bad faith at this point, so I'm going to check out. Still, I had a good time. Enjoy the rest of your evening!

>>11826050
>u-uh okay the scale changes the logic
>b-b-but a six figure investment and 1500 dollars are still the same
lmfao. retard

this is turning into profound autism

>>11826050
It's hilarious how so many of you fags announce that you're running away from arguments you lost on an anonymous forum. very reddit behavior.

>>11826057
it's been that for a good while now my friend

There are literally $50k NEO GEO carts being bought, while neckbeard poorfags on here seethe and rage over some anon appreciating a unremarkable 1500 purchase. FFS how the Small Tymers seethe, lol.

I still have my Club Nintendo Magazines from spicland
2005-2009

I bought a box of NPs for like 45 bucks circa 2003 or so. Maybe 40 or 50 issues between 1988 and 1996. One of the best purchases I ever made.

>>11820785 (OP)
>Nintendo Power Thread
Why a thread about a flopped "you will own nothing" service?

>>11827784
I'd like to find a box full of old GameFans. Those issues are worth their weight in gold these days.

>>11828175
They are so damn hard to get. I did some organizing today and I randomly found a treasure trove of old mint EGMs on EBay for like $400 a few years ago, so I have all the EGMs from like 1992 to 1995 in pristine condition - and I’m talking those thick ass phone book ones. Damn those magazines were exciting. You didn’t care that it was half ads - it was a phone book sized book about your favorite thing!

GameFans took the craft of game journalism to the next level - but if you want that same feeling again, you’re gonna fucking pay for it. Still though, I’ll never forget their Castlevania SotN review - it sold me on it

>>11827324
As a kid: rich kids have the Neo geo - you’re never gonna see one, or the games.

As an adult: those same rich kids own the Neo Geos - you’re not gonna see one, or the games.

*sad face*

Loving this thread
One of the best this year so far

crab bucket thread

>>11820849
>>item not as described
>>one page had a small crease
>>ebay has ruled in your favor - full refund and keep the item(s)
dont hate the player

>>11820874
You spent 1500 bucks on a bunch of magazines so you can söyface at the idea of being 10 again, buddy

>>11828509
Oof, low karma behavior. I have only done this when something reeks of smoke or has clear water damage that wasn’t disclosed. And I’ll offer to return the item at their expense too. But I’ll give you that eBay needs to fix their shit - this is why I’m so hesitant to sell things there

>>11828609
I’ve covered pretty well why I bought these magazines, and I’m really happy with the purchase. They bring me a lot of joy, and also they’re becoming rarer and rarer. I’m sorry that it triggers you much to see someone happy with something from their childhood they bought for themselves. Oh well; you’re just gonna have to grow up and deal with it.

>>11828372
We’re going to make this a regular part of this board now: “Magazine Collector General” or something like that for all the physical magazine and strategy guide collectors

>>11828890
nobody is triggered lol we're all just making fun of you
you clearly have this fantasy that people are, like, super mad about you being a retard who wasted his money on his arrested emotional development
I assure you, everyone you think is red-faced and raging is actually just laughing at your autism lol

>>11828372
I'm surprised this thread is still going, I got a massive stack of Nintendo magazines for $5 in something like 2009. My main concern is doing high quality scans. I've got a physical scanner so I'm probably going to remove the staples or remove the spines to get perfect scans, some people might consider this damaging them but I'm probably just going to end up giving them away anyway. I think overpaying just to have a personal library of them even though they are already scanned, well its just not for me. I do see car magazines at the charity shop for $2, I feel they are about what they are worth.

>>11820785 (OP)
>Some of the best money I ever spent.
https://archive.org/details/nintendo-power-complete

>>11829012
LMFAOOOOO
this retard actually spent 1500 bucks on shit that's free on the internet, holy fuck
absolutely too fucking dumb to live lol

>>11820949
>Back when you weren’t worried about the future and didn’t need to reminisce about the past.
>didn't need to
Nobody is making you do this. You're choosing to reminisce then acting like it's both a necessary burden and an escape from that burden. What the hell? Instead of worrying about the future why not look forward to it with hope? You're creating your own problems here.
>Just living in the moment and enjoying life.
That's what I'm still doing at 37. Read the Tao Te Ching instead of children's magazines and maybe you won't feel the need to collect old memories instead of experiencing new things.

>>11822812
>Emulation fags
We're called gamers bub, we play games. While you are mindlessly CONSOOMING we are experiencing and honing our skills. You just buy games, we beat them.

>>11829026
>the Tao Te Ching
i'd honestly rather read old Nintendo Power than waste time on that pseud chink bullshit.
>The way is not the way, the name is not the name
so le heckin deep!!! thanks for the wu-wei kind stranger!!!

>>11820949
>After a life spent traveling the world, swimming through luxury, partying hard, and working hard to get wealthy and comfortable
and yet still has the body of a 16yo pudgeboy sitting on a budget rug and linoleum from 1985.
>>11820785 (OP)

>>11820949
>After a life spent traveling the world, swimming through luxury, partying hard, and working hard to get wealthy and comfortable
>claims 1500 is a "nice chunk of change"
>obsessed with projecting passive-aggressive put-downs in every reply, the way nobody with life satisfaction ever would
we've got a larper here lads.

>>11822075
Good examples of other people who do this kind of thing while being likable, I agree
I wanted to root for OP for similar reasons but this thread is worse than a dumpster

>>11829031
>i would rather read consoomer rags than some of the most historically influential and relevant philosophy of all time
>i'm not reddit you're reddit!
lmao fuck off

>>11829063
>influential and relevant
lmfao not a chance. the daodejing is an exercise in speaking a lot while saying nothing. kind of ironic really. lao tzu was a hack.
daoism is retarded and daoists were retards. they literally thought they could become immortal through "internal energy work" and other gay nonsense.
if you put any stock in the daodejing you're just as retarded as a bible christian from the south, only without the excuse of having grown up in that religion. you literally sought out and chose retardation.
the only eastern philosophy worth anything ever was Chan/Zen, and only then because the only consistent message from any of its masters was "shut the fuck up and get back to the work at hand." still you have retards everywhere insisting it was something more le heckin mystical than that.

>>11829076
zen buddhism was the product of taoist influence on buddhism. the concepts of doing nothing and koans, the hallmarks of zen, come from taoism.

>>11829076

>>11829089
zen and zen buddhism are two completely different things.
zen buddhism is not zen.
doing nothing is not zen.
the point of koans was for the "student" who kept insisting that this old "master" had something to teach to realize that there was nothing special to learn, shut the fuck up, go chop some wood.
you clearly don't know shit. stop embarrassing yourself.

>>11829096
see >>11829098

>>11828994
Yeah it’s a terrible conundrum that to get good scans you basically have to destroy the magazines

>>11829012
>>11829015

Are you suggesting that because roms are free on the internet, anyone who buys real consoles or games is also retarded? That’s how retarded YOU sound. Imagine thinking your blurry pdf you have to zoom around on is somehow the same as holding a physical magazine in your hand? “Porn online is free I can’t believe you’d ever go to a strip club!” What a fucking incel.

>>11829029
Honing your skills while not even playing the real game - enduring 100ms lag times while I’m playing the real thing on a real crt. Enjoy playing a laggy facsimile of the game, while I play it.

>>11829031
Jesus thank you for the sanity

>>11829040
>>11829061
Ooh somebody got triggered at the idea that successful people exist and maybe he’s wasted his life. Take that up with your therapist buddy; this ain’t the place.

>>11829063
>>11829076
>>11829089

Omg no one cares about dumb ass Chinese bullshit. Oh god is THAT why this board is so fucking cancerous? You CCP shills are hanging out here during your lunch breaks from /pol/? That actually makes a LOT of sense, that Chinese piss skin propaganda trolls have never had anything nice in their life, and never learned to value anything - since their entire way of life is IP theft and creating the cheapest and shittiest possible clone of a thing - and are now infesting this board and seething because not only do they not own nice things - they don’t even know how to properly culturally value them. Fuck the CCP and fuck your terrible Chinese value system. And double fuck any westerners emulating these fags

>>11829098
lmao zen is just a short name for zen buddhism. it's just a school of buddhist teaching that was adopted and influenced by the chinese. there is no other zen. zen buddhism heavily influenced many aspects of modern chinese and japanese culture. if you want to understand modern japanese culture it helps to understand zen buddhism. if you want to understand zen buddhism it helps to understand taoism. the tao te ching is a kind of foundational text when studying eastern culture. this isn't just my opinion, it's something universities around the world include in their history curriculums.
>you clearly don't know shit. stop embarrassing yourself.
take your own advice. go read and learn something.

>>11829098
Oh is that the entire point of the Liber Primus? Glad I didn’t waste any time trying to decode it then. I bet the final page translates to “THE MASTER THEN SAID - GO AND ACQUIRE A SWEET ASS MINT COLLECTION OF NINTENDO POWERS. THIS IS THE WAY.”

>>11829124
I agree that the Tao Te Ching is a classic and worth reading due to its wide influence, that said it's also wee-woo garbage. I think people should read it to see what a fraud Laozi was and to better appreciate a real genius like Confucius.

>>11829119
>Jesus thank you for the sanity
I'm not on your side, fag. Reading old Nintendo Power magazines is dumb and gay. Paying over a grand for paper copies when you can read them all online for free is mega retarded. you're a fucking moron.

>>11829124
>lmao zen is just a short name for zen buddhism
false. zen buddhism is a religion codified by frauds. it has little to nothing to do with zen.

>>11829151
And yet that’s how you’re spending a significant portion of your life, in a thread about Nintendo Power magazines. My collection of Nintendo Power is actually one of the culturally most important things in your life - you have posted about it already, and will post about it again. It is a part of your psyche, and you are seething about it, and will likely think of it several times today. What does your Chinese scam discount philosophy say about that? That you’re a whiny bitch? Probably jealous too.

Anyway, while you’re angry about the fact that magazines exist, and there are people that collect them and enjoy them - I’ll be properly bagging and reading through my collection. It’s been nice going back through the Super NES era and replaying the games with a magazine by my side.

But instead of actually owning the magazines, you’re going to spend your day in a thread about Nintendo Power magazines, bitching and seething about them. And you’ll probably discuss some dumb ass Chinese slop philosophy no one cares about in an effort to cope about your obsession.

You could be spending your time playing old games and enjoying actual physical Nintendo Power magazines. But that’s not your destiny. In this life there are some people destined to play games and enjoy gaming, and some destined to be angry and miserable at the joy of others.

I guess we know which one you are.

>I bought $1500 worth of Nintendo Power magazines *sips onions* let me tell you about your life...

>>11829143
while i appreciate confucius i think any social system that depends heavily on the adherence of its members to a standard is doomed to fail, either by tyranny or dissipation. most of china's golden ages occurred at a time of competing philosophies being held in equal esteem in the prevailing courts. i wouldn't say laozi was a fraud but he didn't offer a complete solution on his own either, and neither did confucius. i don't particularly like either philosophy but i think they're both interesting according to the cultures and ultimately the empires they helped to spawn. i do think there is some truth to all philosophies, it would be hard to spend so much time thinking and discover nothing after all.

>>11829125
>Liber Primus
not zen

>>11829161
>a significant portion of your life
nigga i'm almost 40 and I've spent all of ten minutes in total on this thread. are you retarded?
meanwhile you type out these seething 5 paragraph replies to everyone who rightly calls you a moron. nobody is bothering to read them, by the way.
don't you have some overpriced outdated magazines to read?

>>11829119
>le emulators have 6 frames of input lag
Look man I own way too much plastic myself, but it's time to stop inventing alternate realities

>>11829204
And now it will be eleven minutes. Tick tock. It keeps on slipping away, even as you read these words. Even as I continue to enjoy authentic Nintendo Power magazines while playing classic games that bring me so much joy. Because that’s the difference between us - while I enjoy classic gaming with real hardware and magazines, you enjoy being miserable and angry. That is your true hobby. And so here you are, spending your time being miserable that others can afford things you cannot. Being angry that collector’s magazines exist. Spending your time writing and reading about them, even though you claim not to care.

This is your life now. Thirteen minutes. Tick tock. Tick tock. Now write a response. This is, after all, your hobby. Seething in my magazine thread.

Others invent things, experience things, love, explore, conquer. Not you. Your destiny is to be angry about other people enjoying old video game magazines.

Tick tock.

>>11829389
I don't want to believe you're actually too stupid to see the irony here, but somehow I know that's the case

>>11829404

You don’t know anything about me. You can’t even be sure that I’m real. I could be a bot, who knows? But you? You know you’re real. Your time is real. Your capacity to care is limited. And yet, here you are - continuing to care and seethe because someone supposedly collected some video game magazines. Imagine spending your precious life thusly. I wonder if, when you have one more day left, when the eternal end of your existence is finally upon you - will you finally realize the fortune of time you spent here? Angry that someone is enjoying something that you can’t afford?

Alas, you probably won’t. This is your life. Some men conquer. Some enjoy luxury. Some build empires.

Not you. Your purpose in life was to sit on a thread about old video game magazines and be angry that they exist and that people value them.

Wow. Just wow.

Anyway, I think video game magazines are an awesome investment. Well worth the money for a quality set.

>>11829434
hey keep going

>>11829435

> engaging in my new hobby.
> will spend the next few years of my life responding to these threads.
> angry about video game magazines
> this is my purpose

Enjoy it fag; I’m off to play some Legend of Zelda with the physical magazine right beside me.

> I’ll just reply back to you!

Yeah buddy. Keep telling yourself you’re not my bitch. I own your time. You dance when I say you dance.

>>11829494
one more, you can do it

more like fagazines hahaa gottem

>>11829509
>one more, you can do it

>>11829206
Are you actually trying to argue that there’s no significant lag when playing on an emulator and modern hdtv vs original hardware and crt? Like, you can *feel* the difference immediately; unsure how you can possibly be trying to deny this

>>11829546
I thought you were off playing Zelda with your beloved magazine?

>>11829554
just use runahead
a properly configured emulator on a low latency monitor feels exactly like a CRT, any perceived difference is purely placebo
CRTfags are this decade's audiophiles, utterly self-deluded into thinking they need an antique 40 pound display or the games are unplayable

>>11829565
Imagine implying that your flimsy hardware hacks are at all comparable to playing authentic hardware on a real crt.
“Yeah well my setup with all of the tricks and techniques can approach your levels of the real thing! You’re a fag for not hyper coping like me!”

Meanwhile, I just play the real thing. Imagine having to cope so hard.

And there is NO, and I mean *zero* crt filters which approach the real thing. Bare pixels do not look right and the way crt displays the old games is how they were meant to be played. They look fucking *good*, unlike in whatever dipshit led monitor you have.

You faggots are this generations “my electric Tesla is just as good as your Italian supercar!” twats

>>11829559
> I thought you were off playing Zelda with your beloved magazine?

>>11829575
>NO you have to spend MONEY for the AUTHENTIC experience
cope. it's the same shit
>muh beautiful CRT
CRTs look like ass. I have no idea where this worship of shitty picture quality came from. it seems like a zoomer thing, like vaporwave, pretending that bad quality is somehow preferable to clarity. maybe it's tied up in the weird obsession with "authenticity" or whatever other meaningless buzzword that has never mattered

Those of you in this thread unironically getting angry or flinging insults over the fact that someone liked video game magazines are bizzare. Especially considering we’re literally on a retro gaming board. This is like coming into /hm/ and throwing a hissy fit because there’s so many dudes.

Wild that the jannies don’t clean up the blatant trolling that only serves to derail threads and hurt the board

>>11829580
this isn't /soc/, we don't post selfies here.

>>11829583
“Muh Honda civic and your 68’ Corvette Stingray both get us to the grocery store!”

This is how fucking stupid you sound. Worst of all, you’re on a classic car enthusiast board - or at least the equivalent.

>>11829583
This is literally how retro games were played you zoomer faggot. Again, you’re basically coming into a retro games board and complaining about retro games. The bare emulated pixels look like ass, but because your broke zoomer ass never knew any better - that’s what you think is good. I’m guessing you never even saw a crt in real life.

>>11829587
nobody is angry here. well, OP might be.
ultimately the situation is a lot closer to picrel than your image

>>11829592
>tHiS iSn’T /sOc/, wE dOn’T pOsT sElFiEs HeRe.

>>11829597
Seems pretty gay desu. If I saw a thread about video game magazines and I didn’t like them, id just… move on? Instead people click this thinking “oh cool yeah I remember Nintendo power” and come here and it’s just hundreds of messages of triggered zoomers who should have been hugged more by their mom and molested less by their dad

>>11829595
>Muh Honda civic and your 68’ Corvette Stingray both get us to the grocery store
legitimately yes. nobody gives a fuck about whatever faggoty retro car you drive to the grocery store.
>Worst of all, you’re on a classic car enthusiast board - or at least the equivalent.
this is a board for retro games, not retro hardware. hardwarefags like you are a niche here. the vast majority of posters in this board emulate.
>This is literally how retro games were played
operative word "were". we're not limited to inferior displays anymore.
>you’re basically coming into a retro games board and complaining about retro games.
I have not complained about any games here.
CRTs are not retro games. They're a choice of display.
>I’m guessing you never even saw a crt in real life.
I'm almost 40. I'm just not blinded by nostalgia, or incentivized by having wasted money on obsolete shit.

>>11829615
> various cope because you can’t afford authentic experiences.

this is why you were bullied as a child; and why you are unloved as an adult. The problem has always been *you*.

Meanwhile the rest of us will enjoy playing video games they way they were meant to be played, on real hardware with a proper crt display. And some of us will enjoy video game magazines the real way as well.

But you’ll just continue to seethe about it here, and in fact - enjoy neither. There are three types of people: those who enjoy retro games on original hardware, those who can’t afford real hardware so enjoy emulation (or don’t know the difference), and there’s faggots who seethe about how they can afford the real thing on online image boards.

We know which one you are

>>11829606
it's 4chan. people call a retarded spade a retarded spade around here. is this your first day?

>>11829625
So what you’re saying is that the board description is incorrect. It should read “this is a board for triggered zoomers to seethe about not being able to afford physical consoles, media, and nostalgia.”

>>11829624
lmfao. I guarantee I make and have more money than you do. I'm just not dumb enough to throw it away on things I don't actually need because I fell for le authenticity meme.

>>11829627
sure, whatever.

>>11829631
I don’t think you have more money than me. You don’t even have a real Super Nintendo, or a CRT, and probably don’t even own a real issue of Nintendo Power.

I hope you save up and can afford good things one day. It’s not shameful to be broke and still enjoying the hobby - it’s only shameful to larp brag about how much money you have on an online message board, when we both know you can’t even afford proper hardware for a hobby you enjoy.

What I particularly enjoy is that this conversation is deepening your anger and seethe, and therefore your disdain of proper hardware and crts. This means that despite it clearly being the superior way to play - you’ll never experience it because your little boy brat ego won’t ever allow you to.

That makes me happy, knowing because of your own toxic shiftiness you’ll forever hate-keep yourself out of good experiences. You deserve it

>>11829645
>I don’t think you have more money than me
Ok. I definitely do, though.

>>11829652
Nah. You don’t even own a real Super Nintendo, nor even a CRT. Maybe you have more imaginary numbers in your larp account, but when it comes to authentic retro experiences - you are wallowing in poverty.

And let’s also discuss how emotionally bankrupt you must be to feel the need to brag about “muh money” online. God, I’ve been in some low places in my life but NEVER have I ever been in that position. You’d have to be truly and thoroughly miserable inside to think typing something like that out sounds at all reasonable.

I would say I feel bad for you, but I don’t. You deserve being stuck inside your shitty head, and I’m sure it’s miserable in there.

Meanwhile the rest of us will be enjoying authentic retro game experiences on crts, playing with the wisdom of real Nintendo Power magazines by our side.

And you’ll just be online larping about how much “money” you have. /biz/ is that way, loser: here we’re talking about retro games. Something real. No one cared about your imaginary nonsense

>>11829654
>enjoying authentic retro game experiences on crts
is that what you call camping this thread all day long and writing 5 paragraph seethe replies to everything?

>>11829657
This is what I spent most of 2003 doing on GameFAQs, so yeah, a pretty retro experience actually

>>11829181
lmfao rekt

>>11829663
The same fagging in this thread is truly next level; this thread is the proof of why we need poster ids so these faggots can stop high fiving themselves

>>11829674
>everyone who thinks i'm retarded is the same guy
lmfao
the only person samefagging here is OP

>>11829676
> 47 posts by this ID

Touch soap sweaty

>>11829657
I like how this was the post that made OP finally leave and pretend to be doing something other than sitting on 4chan all day

Just the funniest thing is the way some people get so mad over other people spending money. If you don’t want to that’s fine but this thread could’ve been halved w discussion on what ur favorite n power was or what was op’s favorite. Instead it’s constant I have more money than u do and we’re all anons w no proof of anything so it’s pointless beyond bumping the thread.

So OP what’s ur favorite issue and why

>>11830058
see >>11829597

>>11828303
Those 400 page EGMs that came out around Christmas are some of my most prized possessions. They'd take me weeks to fully absorb as a kid and I still have fun flipping through them. The industry felt so big back then.

>>11830058
Not OP and it's really hard to narrow down my favorite issues but I really like the Jan 1994 issue. It's their new year "bonus issue" so there's lot's of extra content like year end awards and a cool section on Japan-only titles. Moreover, I really love the year 1994, probably my favorite year in gaming and the fact it starts off with Mega Man X really reinforces that for me.

Really though every year up til 1996 or so could have a number of favorite issues for me. The 100th issue in 1997 is also really good.

>>11829124
the Zen Buddhism of Japan is virtually nothing like the Chinese Chan tradition of the old men like the 6 patriarchs and successors like Mazu, Huangbo, Joshu, etc.

>>11829119
>Are you suggesting that because roms are free on the internet, anyone who buys real consoles or games is also retarded?
unironically yes
I laugh my ass off at collectorfags and the absurd amounts of money they spend while I play the exact same games for free
I laugh my ass off at the dumb cope about "genuine experience" that collectorfags tell themselves

>>11830180
You sound like you were born maybe 5 years ahead of me. I played nes snes genesis but I don’t think I got my hands on a Nintendo power in any capacity until after the n64 launch? But that’s cool, that time of year I feel like always had major content to draw from until we got to modern gaming. Do you remember what game u felt most pumped for?

>>11830437
I was born in 84...I actually had the very first issue of NP. Some older cousins of mine had it and they knew I was a Nintendo nut so they let me have it. I used to sit in the bay window of our living room and thumb through it for hours...until I spilled milk on it and my dad threw it out.

As far as the game I was the most pumped for? Probably Super Mario World. There's something about the screenshots in of early SNES previews that makes them look better than they did in real life.
Also, Donkey Kong Country. There was massive hype behind the game and NP even sent me a VHS tape. Was also hyped for Super Mario 64 of course. I didn't have a lot of interest of Pokemon but the mini Pokemon power guides they gave out sold me on the game. NP was unmatched as a marketing tool.

>>11822891
>“Nooooo u can’t do that! It will mess up their gaming ecosystem!” And it’s usually emufags mad about it. Like how could that possibly affect ur emulation and playing for free.
they clearly said it would badly affect the japanese ecosystem which it does,not their emulation.
stop being retarded.

>>11824997
>Worse, imagine actively deriding such treasures. What a fucking loser.
lmao,how are they priceless you bought them for pocket change like you said.
anyway i store truly priceless treasures in heaven not some magazines made to make you buy children's toys in my manchildren basement.

>>11825361
>Sorry you’re too fucking poor to be able to buy nice things.
i pity you if thats what you consider nice.

>>11825586
>Because I honestly believe you may have mentally stopped aging at that exact moment.
we arent the one trying to go back into our childhood dumbass.

>>11825748
>If you can’t afford it, that’s fine. Owning an actual Nintendo Power collection isn’t for everyone. To be fair, one most be a true retro enthusiast and have a very high IQ to appreciate what it means.
true,i know the reincarnation of Nikola Tesla he has a complete set of Nintendo power.

>>11825757
>and the added value of "knowing I can probably get my money back if things take a turn" is very real.
the way the world is going when shit hits the fan you will use those magazines to start a fire and warm yourself during winter.

>>11829575
NTA I just emulate directly on a CRT and it feels lagless for old stuff without hardware hacks. It also looks authentic. It's a very close inbetween without costing much.

>>11831183
>>11831187
>>11831194

Same guy, same fagging, shitting up the thread. And he believes in magic make believe religious faggotry to boot. Go fuck yourself; there is no afterlife and your pathetic childish notions of a magic god are laughable.

>>11831218
You come off like you’re trying to convince yourself of this.

>>11831226
The burden of proof is on the idiot claiming insane stupid shit. No one has to disprove your religious faggotry; no one believes in that stupidity. Take your religious bullshit the fuck off this board

This thread should really have been deleted by now.

>>11831217
lol, poorfag. your little compromise is a pale imitation.

>>11831232
Really makes you think

>>11831229
yet you worship Nintendo,also belief in God came before atheism in fact belief in God (or gods) is as old as human history so you are the one making the claim there is no God.

>>11820785 (OP)
>it’s the closest you can come to feeling like a kid again.
The closest way to actually feeling that is to start a family and have kids, you fucking loser. Man, you fucked up.

>>11831291

>>11831369
lmfao gottem.
OP is a recluse with no romantic prospects and no friends i bet, hence his retreat into childish nostalgia as his only source of joy

>>11831369
lol he fell for the family meme. Worst case: when your kids are out of diapers your wife decides she needs to reinvent herself, leaves you, and now you are stuck paying 60% of your income as child support for life.

Best case: you end up spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for teens that resent you, think you’re dumb and controlling, and that actively reject you the harder you try to connect with them. Every scrap of something you carve out for yourself is considered “selfish” when you could be providing for your family instead.

Nah - no thanks. I’m happy to enjoy my life and not raise more humans.


> “But what about the species!”
Well, thankfully I have people like you to take care of that for me

>>11831570
SSS tier projection fag. OP is happily married and also enjoys retro games and magazines. Cope and seethe about it

>>11831573
Jesus. Your childhood must have been absolutely horrible. My dad is one of my best friends, I could never resent him. We still play games together online. I'm going to a concert with him and my cousin in a few weeks.
I feel deep sadness for you, that your view of family dynamics is so poisoned that your "best case" is so awful and bleak.
I guess it makes sense that you associate childhood joy with retreating into a magazine about toys.
God damn, anon. I'm sorry it was so hard for you.

>>11831579
Sure you are, OP. Sure you are.

>>11831583
That’s good anon. You’re one of the lucky ones. Not everyone was so lucky in childhood, nor adulthood.

>>11831639
That cuts both ways though. Not everyone was as unlucky as you. In fact, among all my friends and family, broken or difficult parental relationships are very much the minority. They exist, yeah, but most people I know had decent childhoods and love their parents.
What's sad is the fact that you take whatever awful childhood you had, project it onto all parent-child relationships, and then crow about how smart you think you are for not "falling for the family meme" as though your bad experience is inevitable and universal. Talk about sour grapes.

>>11831649
The secret ingredient is money.

>>11831649
I bet you were one of the insufferable twats who unironically said shit like “wait until my FATHER hears about this”.

Peak normie upbringing created a good little cog in society. I bet you did have a smooth life, no challenges to overcome, no trauma to vanquish - nothing to challenge that shallow little middle class bubble of yours huh.

Keep patting yourself on the back for playing life on Easy mode. People like you don’t get the real ending of the game either.

>>11831740
We were lower middle class. Plenty of my friends with good family relationships came from blue collar families. Sorry, anon, I don't think you're correct.
>>11831747
I've never said anything like that in my life.
I'm truly sorry that you had a rough upbringing, anon, and I'm sorry that you're still hurt by it to the point that you have to invent these angry fantasies about other people as a coping mechanism. I hope your magazines bring you the joy you have never really had up to this point.

>>11831756
I’m truly sorry the most exciting thing about your life is your dad’s money. Imagine unironically bragging about being some normie brat, then trying to do psychoanalysis on anons as if being that qualifies you to know about their lives.

No, the true happiness of childhood was having a subscription to Nintendo Power magazine, and I’m betting you didn’t even own a single issue - did you? Gaaaay

>>11831761
My dad didn't have money lol. We were lower middle class. I already said that. It's really weird that you're continuing to lie to yourself about what my life must have been like as a coping mechanism. Not gonna lie, dickhead behavior like that mitigates my sympathy.
That said, I did have a NP subscription from around late 97 til sometime in 2003.

>>11831780
It’s really weird that you’re on 4chan desperately defending your tender relationship with your dad. I think that you need to go to a therapist and discuss these feelings of inadequacy you have, because we don’t want to talk to you about them, nor is this /fc/ Family Counsing General.

The rest of us have happy marriages and lives too, but we just don’t feel the need to brag about raw dogging our wives and breeding. Unsure what you’re overcompensating for; maybe you’re worried about the kids being yours or something, who knows.

That said, congrats on the subscription, sadly NP was in decline by those years, although it did get a shot of awesomeness around the release of GBA

>>11831793
>it's really weird that you're saying things that refute my bitter take on how shitty parent-child relationships will be even in the best case
Yeah, not really lol.
>happy marriages and lives
Sure you do, anon. That's why you have such a horrible outlook on things, because you're happy, right? lmfao.
>oh and your subscription sucked
topkek. I accept your concession :)

OP might actually be the biggest faggot on all of 4chan, stop bumping this cancer

it's hilarious how op runs off for a few hours after every one of his little tantrums
you can tell when he gets frustrated because he starts ignoring whoever he's arguing with and insists on whatever fantasy he's decided is the case for a few posts, then falls silent
I bet he's crying right now kek what a bitch

>>11831954
The real "tantrum" is the seething by all the loser covetous poorfag Small Tymers in this thread.

>>11832109
>n-no t-t-they are s-seething not m-me
KEK WHAT A BITCH

This should be a fun thread but everyone in it is a massive faggot

>>11831954
I’m off playing old video games and reading my magazines; should not come as a surprise. Oh, did you expect an immediate response to whatever childish temper tantrum you most recently posted? Is that what you feel you deserve? lol, cope and seethe.

>>11832195
you sit here for hours posting until someone makes you look like a fool, then you very obviously get upset and post a little more, then you run away lol

>>11832238
you are obviously much more invested into this thread than I am, or anyone else. How sad. You’re probably the same guy who was high fiving himself earlier. I’ll just be off playing actual video games while you seethe and hang out in a thread about video game magazines, petting yourself and telling your little ego how cool you are.

>>11832250
>I'm getting frustrated again so i'm going to feign bravado and run away for a few hours
okay, have fun! :)

OP is a LIAR and a FRAUD, he doesn't have a single issue. He will not post a timestamped photo because he has nothing!

I have the only TRUE and HONEST Nintendo Power collection on this board. I own all issues from #1 all the way to #285, a complete set!

If OP produces proof of his "so-called" collection, I will respond in kind! But until he does, let it be known that he is a LIAR and a FRAUD, a wussy fake man who is deceptive, and doesn't keep his promises!

Op is really taking some anons in this thread for a ride lmfao.

>>11832712
>I was only pretending to be retarded

>>11829662
kek

>>11832665
I mean, I posted pictures of it already. Or part of it. You’re welcome to reverse image search those - they’re original pics I took. Unsure why you are soap boxing

>>11832731
I’m not OP and have tried to have discussions on the topic several times but you guys keep throwing fits itt because someone bought some magazines. Absolutely hilarious how OP has made 2-3 of yall sperg out so hard you may have to check your depends!

>>11820785 (OP)
Hell yeah! This was the best magazine back in the day. Do you have the October 2001 edition? It had Nintendo Power wrote with an American flag background. I think Luigi was on the cover. I got rid of all of mine years ago when we moved to a new house as a kid. I regret not keeping them. God bless anon!

>>11832146
>He'll never be a BIG TYMER

>>11820785 (OP)
I recently bought a bunch of old magazines. All from the early to mid 2000s.
The layer of dirt on the front and back is disgusting. It takes the shine off the magazine. It's not obvious at first glance, but after cleaning it, the magazine looks like new again.
Use 99% isopropyl alcohol on a soft cloth to wipe away all the filth. Don't be disgusting freak.