How do you pull it off? How often do you play? Where? What's your set-up?
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How do you pull it off? How often do you play? Where? What's your set-up?
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I don't want to hang out with old people
Ive always hated most people my age and sought out older individuals.
gmilfs?
Anon, are you me?
See if you can find a good video game arcade somewhere. The one closest to me has a few Pandora Boxes set up so you can play pretty much anything
Wrong board
For me it's both
You know PS2 is retro too now, right?
anon the PS2 came out 38 years ago
This
THIS
I don't like hanging out with video game people
I don't, never, nowhere, nothing.
sometimes I play Mario Kart or mahjong games with my wife
The majority of /vr/ either hide power level or are shut ins anyways.
I've been hiding it for so long that I hide it around coworkers who play games
>"I play retro games"
>"Ah yeah, like Xbox 360 or PS3?"
"oh, you like video games? me too"
"yeah, I've been playing a lot of [modern game I've never touched]"
no one really cares man, at least don't stress out about it
>hasn't worked an office job
The term "hiding your power level" is cringe.
Nobody asked, tourist
The term came from /misc/, which is THE tourist board. You tourist.
No he's right. I came here in 2007 and I use hide your power level.
Its board culture and if you don't know that YOU'RE the tourist.
It was self-centered cringe from the beginning.
quit using kid slang while pretending you're some kind of authoritative old-timer
cope and seethe
Like you? Nah
>Complains about old Ganker lingo
>Uses shittier nu "Ganker" speak like "Cringe"
fail
Hiding power level is the opposite of sperging out as you're demonstrating
Feel better soon.
Oh no, you're new
It came form DBZ you dumb homosexual
Bud i was seeing that phrase way before 2016, you're an idiot
I just tell mom to call my friends and set up a slumber party with soda and tendies. By the time she comes home from her second job, everything is already scheduled.
the internet exists so you can talk about video games without having to actually smell people who talk about video games
>talk about
you're supposed to *play* video games
>playing video games
I drive an hour and a half to my old friend's house once a year to play for 1 hour on a shitty laggy HDTV in his living room while his wife takes the kid out of the house.
Brutal shit.
>How do you pull it off?
that's the neat part...
One piece of advice I'd give is to have your whole set-up ready to play as soon as you meet-up. And to not have a cuck-sized screen. 19" would be the absolute minimum. And has to be "zero" lag.
So for me that means lugging a 30" LCD with 10ms around in the back seat of my car along with my laptop and controllers. All emulators already set-up and ready to go. Takes one (awkward) trip from the car to haul it all in. I usually set up on the kitchen table.
My only friend lives 5 minutes away from me, within walking distance if needed.
All my hardware is set up so dont need to haul anything out. Only exception being PCs i gotta set up beforehand for lan play.
Date an autistic girl
30+ people? hopefully in as large a room as possible, like a convention center ballroom, with a lot of tables
Probably every few weeks at my place. Beyond that, you can go to an arcade or barcade. From my experience, most of the people there are going to be in their mid 20s to 40s and beyond.
I use the backroom of my basement and its loaded with crts and old consoles/games and a comfy couch I took from my parents.
Its also hidden enough where my normie friends/dates wont know about it and only my friends know about it. We just used it this Saturday at 35.
That one tv pushed back an extra foot and a half would drive me insane
I just beat Super Castlevania on my SNES Classic hooked up to an OLED. Was talking to some friends in Telegram. Good times
That doesn't count. It has to be in person.
I haven't done it in more than a decade. Though I've gotten friends together for some modern beat-em-ups.
The problem is, when I'm with my friends I strongly prefer just drinking beers and shit talking.
I go to fighting game meetups and play older games like Street Fighter 2, KOF'98 alongside the newer stuff. The same group sometimes brings older non-fightting games to play too.
Through that I have a bunch of friends who like old games and we regularly visit each other to play.
The scamdemic really killed that for me. I used to have people over all the time, for parties, holidays, or just a bbq. Since then I've moved and haven't really haven't had time.
But they key was always to have in person social interaction. The gaming will come later naturally.
For example, I'm not a manchild, so I have no visible toys in the living room. The only clue that I'm quite to retro gamer is a CRT. At one party I heard a couple girls talking about it with one saying "he's gotta be a gamer". They came over and asked about it. I told them I liked old games, they did as well. We talked for a bit and I showed them the 20+ systems hiding behind the doors of the TV cabinets. They splooshed and asked if I ever did gaming parties, which I did a lot of at the time.
its been a minute
but my friends garage +crt
& whatever system im bringing that meetup is always a hit
>2005-6
wii brawl bros era
i miss those times alot
>currently
arcadegay with several cabs
the girls always play for atleast a bit
this cab = siemitsu sticks buttons
supports any vertical jamma pcb
>the girls
fricking normie
>hanging out with other old people
eh no thanks
All my close friends were autistic and live with their parents but I'm a dad now and married so for me it's hard. We always talk about pulling a N64 all nighter, I even got the SNES multitap for Bomberman/NBA Jam/ISS Deluxe years ago and never used it.
i wouldn't waste my friends' time with that shit, but there are some vintage arcade/pinball/bars around here. There's a couple i stop at sometimes if we're nearby and they want to. and another i rarely go to for shows. i don't like it much because it serves stinky fat people food and the crowds are inert.
there's also everything on my phone which works with HDMI and any bluetooth controller, and i have an 8bitdo Zero 2 i use mostly as a shutter button and fashion accessory
I got drunk and invited a cute troony to my apartment to play Secret of Mana on my CRT around midnight. I started fading in and out of conciousness when she couldn't find the in game prompt to enable co-op play after like an hour so asked her to walk home.
>im a homosexual
okay
I'm not gay.
Normally, I browse this board for a little bit during my lunch. I don’t even notice most of the threads. But goddamn, this one just hit me with a dread feeling of pity for people in their 30s still trying to organize gaming meetups like they’re back in high school. In my mind, I know there’s nothing wrong with gaming at any age, and I know half the posts itt are jokes, but I still feel some instinctive revulsion for people my age (millennials) who really do this shit. We’re the new boomers. They got hung up on their college years, gen x is obsessed with their childhoods, we’re fixated on adolescence. Does nostalgia really have that much of a hold on us?
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>In my mind, I know there’s nothing wrong with gaming at any age, and I know half the posts itt are jokes, but I still feel some instinctive revulsion for people my age (millennials) who really do this shit.
Sounds like a (you) problem.
>Does nostalgia really have that much of a hold on us?
I don't play retro games out of nostalgia.
Nah, it’s a (them) problem. I have a life, it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good. If it’s genuinely 30s neet shut-ins doing this, then ok, fine. But I suspect it’s more of a 30s soibeard, muh-heckin-childhood funko consoomer with a job, wife, and “fur babies.” Fricking gay.
I think you're just a misanthrope.
>dude, why are you doing enjoyable activities with your friends that you both enjoyed before?
You sound like one of the lizard people.
You're not allowed to do [fun thing] after you're 30 because it's a round number. 😐
>We’re the new boomers.
lol. no. You're the slightly older zoomers. You have all the flaws of the zoomers, but you're too old to have any chance of turning your life around and becoming a decent human being.
>oozes negativity and defeatism
Gen x found
You can turn things around, dude. Don’t quit.
>oozes
Ew I just stepped in some zoomer.
Still with the negativity and defeatism, you guys aren’t sending your best.
He doesn't represent all of us!
Who said anything about quitting?
I have never missed the even on years. Otherwise it would never be impossible to have couch coop gaming.
If someone cared about retro gaming and lived locally, I would gladly install all the garbage, OSSC included. But we are grown ass adults with their own lives. Right now it's Kaillera or nothing.
OSSC because like frick we are not doing split screen on a 14" CRT. I'm not having that shit ever again
>Does nostalgia really have that much of a hold on us?
No, the world became objectively worse by almost every measure
>he doesn't have an old childhood friend he occasionally visits
last meetup with friends was watching Neil Breen movies and frotting our digimon. made me feel a bit shitty being there instead of at one of the city folk things happening at the same time. at least i ground some social skills with them and a couple new people, and i touched three cats
Idk man, i rather be playing games with my good friend on a friday night instead of sitting at a bar and pretending i care about being there.
>just sitting in a bar
lmao do Guys really?
the things i wanted to be at were some shows and an anime rave at a vintage arcade place. some of my favorite musicians were also in the audiences
My setup is mostly just for me but a few of my friends that I showed it to were pretty impressed
Most of the posters in this thread are not over 30 years of age. The writing style is telling.
You think the mental maturity of those that would come to this site would match their age?
30+ NEETs write in a different style than 20-30 NEETs.
I just started emulating like 10 years ago. Never looked back. If you grew up with CRTs and real hardware, you don't really care about being "authentic."
I grew up with both of those and i care about authenticity and I also see no reason to emulate because I still have all those things.
You don't see any reason to get a decent amount of money for your old shit, clearing out a huge amount of space, whilst also acquiring a significantly more convenient option for playing your games, that also opens up the door to things you don't already own for the price of a single device?
What does authenticity even mean? What makes playing on original hardware more authentic when with modern emulators and controller adaptors you genuinely can't tell the difference? CRTs are the only thing that you can make an argument for being irreplaceable if you want that sort of thing, but you can set up emulators to work perfectly with CRTs anyway.
If you want that and that's all there is to it. Then fine, but let's not pretend there isn't a myriad of reasons to emulate exclusively. There are very few cases where original hardware is a better experience, and 9 times out of 10 its because the console was shit and nobody wants to emulate it. The exceptions being stuff like win9x/xp and xbox.
Space is not an issue for me, i own a house. The original hardware provides a more enjoyable experience being set up then just a computer attached to a flatscreen. Its fun to use and work with physical hardware in the same way a car enthusiast may like to tinker with actual automobiles over just renting a car. The hardware i have has never let me down and everything works as perfectly for me as it did decades prior, I have no reason to stop using it. I dont need the money i would get from selling it all, it wouldn't be that much in the grand scheme of things and I would be likely depressed that i sold off stuff that I have memories attached to. The original stuff just works and its the closest you will get to that original experience because of that without trying to determine what the second most accurate option is. If you live in a small apartment or are constantly moving or you have a b***h wife that doesn't want to see it, by all means emulate, but it would be an inferior downgrade for my current setup.
>I dont need the money i would get from selling it all, it wouldn't be that much in the grand scheme of things
Yeah I don't really get people that talk about selling a collection as a big windfall. It's barely anything. I just paid like $50,000 getting roofing and siding, gutters etc done. I have a decent collection and it would not come anywhere near to that. I would lose more by selling it.
>How do you pull it off?
By showering and dressing in business casual.
>How often do you play?
Only on vacations.
>Where?
Conventions or convention game rooms only.
>What's your set-up?
Whatever they have over there.
>By showering
Right there I could already tell you're larping.
Excuse me for being clean.
Personal preference to be honest.
Why would you want to dress for work in your free time?
so i can feel better than everyone else
>dressing business-casual at a gaming convention
Why?
That's pretty sad.
I don't have a social life. I don't want to be around anyone.
Where is the 'adult man-young girl' meetup space?
Once per year at the lanparty, on the retro area.
That's pretty sad.
Yep. All my surviving friends are either married with kids, live too far way, or straight tell me "I don't play old things". Also, there have not been arcade cabinets or pinballs at the event for years.
So for 4 days, each year 4000 people get together. I always bring a retro console and I usually can find somebody to play. The last time we spent the night playing Saturn Bomberman.
Old people hang out on Facebook nowadays so that's where I socialize with these dudes.
How gay are you? I'm guessing total homosexual and likely furgay/troon as well.
Full console?
Maybe once every month or so.
Usually GameCube sometimes N64.
Have ppl over, sit on couch, put in controllers, play till we get tired or till someone has to go bc they have work the next day.
If there's more ppl than consoles I just sit out and watch.
Me and gf play stuff fairly often tho just the two of us.
>setup
Consoles with reversible hardware mods only, hacked, have a flash cart, ODE, or otherwise can play a bunch of games bare metal > into a GComp SW auto AV switcher or HDMI switcher depending on console and age > Into my 1999 Toshiba 36" CRT via component composite or S vid OR Into RetroTink 5x to my 75" Sony TV. Whatever ppl feel like playing on. I usually solo on the CRT but the flat screen is usually for MP sessions, makes split screen much less painful.
Start by jogging on to Facebook where you belong.
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