Do you have nostalgia for consoles you never owned but played at friends houses or similar? do you try to collect games for it now to sort of correct that "wrong" ?
Do you have nostalgia for consoles you never owned but played at friends houses or similar?
I had an uncle who had an original xbox and a cousin who had a PS1 but they both lived on the other side of the country. never owned either of these and PS1 games are getting up there in terms of collecting prices so I'll probably just emulate, but I remember him having frogger, crash 3, spyro, rascal and MGS1.
I used to play Frogger and Driver 3 at a friend's house.
>Do you have nostalgia for consoles you never owned but played at friends houses or similar?
Absolutely. I owned zero consoles but got to sleep over at my friend's house just about every weekend and played the SNES then the N64, then the Game Cube.
>do you try to collect games for it now to sort of correct that "wrong" ?
I have a whole den and collection now with every game we used to play on my very own SNES, N64, and GC.
My cousin was a Nintendo fan while I was a Sega fan, so I have fond memories of visiting his place to play Super Mario Bros and Batman on his NES, and then later playing GoldenEye and WCW v nWo games.
I don't really try to collect games for old consoles, but I do love going back and playing the games via emulation, or other games from consoles I never owned.
I'm currently going through a phase of playing a lot of PlayStation 1 games I missed out on, and they're fantastic.
I never knew someone with a Master System, but playing its games gives me the same kind of nostalgia that I get when playing a NES game.
I have similar feelings playing PS1 games. Always had a Saturn and didn't play a lot of PS1 classics like MGS or Crash. Playing them for the first time now gives me a rush remembering that era.
Yeah, bought an NES a couple of years ago despite never owning one as a kid.
None my friends growing up had one either, but I saw the console, games, and boxarts often in magazines, so I've got childhood nostalgia from that.
Considering they're 15 years old or so I guess I also had nostalgia from online videos about NES, like reviews and AVGN, on early youtube and sites like Screwattack too.
I was a Nintendo kid but owned (still own) a Playsation with one racing game that my mom got for cheap at a garage sale. It's been sitting in a drawer for years yet it's turned a piss yellow color so I've been thinking about retrobriting it and getting some games.
I don't think so. I'm very interested in buying an old computer to mess around with, but I'm not sure that's nostalgia.
I had the Mega Drive. Some friends had SNES.
Frequently we invited each other to play.
SNES cartridges design and color give me nostalgia vibes.
Yes i do, up until Play2, but really the PS1 was the last of the classic game consoles to me.
I used to for snes and genesis because I never got one growing up but I've been collecting for many years that I consider them part of normal gaming now, nostalgia has no part in it anymore.
I basically have a lot more than any of the friends ever had back then so no need for nostalgia.
I still have nostalgia for the dos games I use to play at school, I play them on pc em but its not the same as having that exact model pc but I try to replicate the system as close as possible.
some people used to call PS2 the P2 and P1 for ps1, real weird.
>some people used to call PS2 the P2 and P1 for ps1, real weird.
They still do, it's very much a mexican thing.
>Do you have nostalgia for consoles you never owned but played at friends houses or similar?
NES. Although at some point I got a bootleg console with NES games.
>do you try to collect games for it now to sort of correct that "wrong" ?
No because I'm a gamer and not a collector. The only retro console I want to buy for the heck of it is a Game Boy (even if I play Game Boy games via emulator at my Nintendo DS and my smartphone).
I had a friend with a Mega CD, I once spend his entire birthday playing Road Avenger.
I also watched others playing Sonic 2 even if the only Sonic games I owned as a kid were 3 & Knuckles.
I only had a PS1 and a PC as a kid, but I vividly remember going for sleepovers at my friend's house where we would play Mario Party, Smash Bros and Pokemon Stadium on his N64 in the late 90s/early 2000s. I actually ended up getting an N64 a few years ago just to play Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask on my 27" Trinitron before it dies.
>Do you have nostalgia for consoles you never owned but played at friends houses or similar?
Of course, since those memores are often from good times.
>do you try to collect games for it now to sort of correct that "wrong" ?
Nah, I only seek out games I want to play, the system doesn't matter
>>Do you have nostalgia for consoles you never owned but played at friends houses or similar?
>Of course, since those memores are often from good times.
dammit. I’m crying after reading this.
Yes, I've not yet personally owned an Atari 2600, 5200, or the 7800, even though they're all great. It's just that most people had one or two in their homes back in then and it would have been overkill at the time because people still socialized.
You don't have nostalgia for a video game, you have nostalgia for your friend.
To add to my post on not owning some old Atari machines, one of my fondest memories of playing video games with a friend of mine, Troy. He was a metalhead, think late middle school. I was kind of a wannabe metalhead. Anyway, his room had Medadeth and Iron Maiden posters, that kind of thing, but the game systems were in the living room.
This was during Nintendo's great 8-bit reign, so I asked why he didn't have one-he told me his dad said they already had a game system and it worked so he wasn't buying another. Ever.
So yeah, he accepted it and just made do.
And yes, we did play E.T. for a while and no, we did not like it much. Still had good times joking around n' stuff.
Nostalgia aside I just like old graphics and shit man
I own 6 CRTs lmao, only 3 live in my pad though im not a complete psycho
Mostly just SEGA Saturn, Dreamcast, Game Boy, and Game Gear. My cousin had a lot of cool SEGA stuff and that's how I played most of those systems as a kid, but it was always very brief compared to the amount of time we spent playing N64 or PS1 and eventually GameCube, also sandwiched in between all of the other cool stuff we used to do like going to the amusement park and the movie theater.
>Do you have nostalgia for consoles you never owned but played at friends houses or similar?
Yes, specifically the PS1. My cousin (who was the same age as me) had a PS1 and whenever my family would visit his house we would stay up playing PS1 games on TV while we watched cartoons/toonami on another. It was where I was introduced to such games as Crash, FF7, Ape Escape, Bloody Roar, Lunar II, and Abe's Odyssey. At the time I only had a N64 and PC so these games were always new to me.
A real shame he got involved with the wrong crowd and was never the same after coming back from rehab.
Yes holy frick. I have so much nostalgia for playstation one it's not even funny. I owned a nintendo 64, loved it so much, but NOTHING brings me back to my childhood like seeing a playstation one.
Yeah definitely N64 and Playstation. Since PS emulation has been great since basically the late 90’s I never collected it but I did get an N64 eventually.
>Since PS emulation has been great since basically the late 90’s
wut
I have Gamecube nostalgia because my friend had one but i did not. I ended up playing most Gamecube games during the Wii era.
I have huge nostalgia for SM64 and OoT even though I grew up with a PS, I think is mostly because of screen shots I saw in a magazine I used to buy and always wanted to play them but nobody around me had a N64.
The Saturn, Dreamcast and Xbox, oddly enough.
Each one of these has a charm that I can't quite put my finger on that speaks "you had to be there".
I don't buy the games unless it's priced well. Since prices for these games are just gonna go well above MSRP, I just buy the consoles and softmod or throw an ODE/flash cart onto them and be done with it.
I never had a GameCube either, but the Wii mitigates that.
The Wii is the best way to play GC anyway. It's sad but I don't see any feeling the GC can evoke. We all had them but multiplayer was much better on Xbox, where we would often apply those skills to online play. The fighters were better on PS2 and DDR way better than Mario Dance Mix. It was exciting showing off the guncon 2, having a friend bring his over and you jam out in time crisis 2. Smash Melee had this weird situation where if you didn't have everything down to mewtwo unlocked, some kid would always be willing to grind it out by setting the matches to 99 hours while your GC heats up the room but actually playing the thing? A rare occasion.
It doesn't remind me of the early 2000's the way renting SSX Tricky on the PS2 does. It doesn't remind me of hanging out with friends and the shouting matches like 4 player split-screen Halo or the one time we linked 2 xboxes and TVs up to get an 8 teen shouting match upstairs. It doesn't bring back the fun of stumbling into a crazy taxi for the first time and hearing the over the top offspring music does. It was a transitionary console, you had it around for a bit, you powered it on here and there. The main menu was this sort of stilted, awkward thing that floated in space, taking you to no place but itself, there was no bombast or impression it desired to leave on you. It was just there next to the other systems, its funny discs eliciting a comment before playing a real game.
>It's sad but I don't see any feeling the GC can evoke.
I really surprised this isn't a more common sentiment. It was basically just a Smash Bros machine. So I only think about the friends I played since Melee has been outdone several times over in that series.
I have a lot of nostalgia for specific games i played on it, melee but also crystal chronicles and tales of symphonia and mario strikers and f-zero gx. It still has some real diamonds on it too, like Eternal Darkness. But yes, I don't feel anything for the cube itself. Loved some games, but the hardware means little to me. But maybe that's also because I've been more or less playing it or its games for 2 decades and it hasn't had a period where I was ignoring it. Absence makes nostalgia grow stronger, I think.
I remember when walking about with my friends, we'd always pass by this expensive toy store. It was rumored that the establishment was yakuza owned, which may be unsubstantiated, but it had the Panasonic Q displayed. I always looked at it with such amazement but I'll never be able to afford it. I'd like to get more stuff for it, but it is too pricey, so what little I do have on it I do cherish.
In one thread you lament on not being able to afford a computer and then in another you post at least 2 grand worth of vg. What's your problem?
Marbel anon has 10s of thousands worth of games and hardware
That was my point
You might be misremembering the Pioneer Laseractive which plays LaserDiscs of all regions, while that is an image of the Panasonic Q which plays region 2 DVDs. I got the Q back when Gamecubes were going for $20USD each, and the one I have there not only has a cracked mirror as you can see but no one wanted a DVD player nor Gamecube that does not play US movies/games yet I still overpaid $100USD, 5 times the price of a GC, for it at the time only due to the nostalgia pining for it in that constantly empty toy shoppe. Besides, have you not seen the prices of nVidia lately? I've been trying to save up for a used 1080ti and they are pretty much the same price as when they were on release so many years ago, which is well beyond what my wage allows.
Anyway, between Laputa and that Doraemon movie, they were my youth and I am glad to experience them again.
I'm not misremembering anything. Just leave me alone.
>I'd like to get more stuff for it, but it is too pricey, so what little I do have on it I do cherish.
What kind of stuff? Like peripherals? Isn't the Q basically just DVD player/recorder that plays GC games?
yes, the Game Boy Color was too expensive for latin america,
but Pokémon was such a hit that I still remember looking at the ads in game magazines really wishing to have one
sometimes things make me nostalgic that I didn't own myself. The Xbox 360 controller, for example, with it's hideous mix of white plastic and shiny, transparent, Skittles colored buttons, reminds me of designs and styles for websites and software packages and other things that just aren't used anymore. So, I don't feel nostalgic for the item but it reminds me of things I do feel nostalgic for.
Don't give a shit about collecting for games or systems. Passed that point a long time ago, probably on my second house move. Do a couple long distance moves and you'll start to sympathize with the Buddhist assessment of material things very quickly.
I have a lot of nostalgia for the N64, because I'd play it every week with my friends. Not just the good memories, though, the graphics and sounds are unlike anything else. But I only bought one in 2003, and it isn't something I regularly play. I plug it in once in a blue moon to play F-Zero, Hexen, or Ocarina.
It isn't something I was jealous I didn't have, I had a SNES and PC and since N64 was mainly about the games I'd play with friends anyway.
Yes, I personally owned a PS1, a Gameboy a little late, then a Gameboy color. Xbox and Xbox 360. Then I stopped buying consoles and started doing PC gaming cause it was just most cost effective.
My cousin had a Famicon, my neighbor had a SNES and my second degree cousin had an N64. (Picture all this in 90's Colombia).
I am extremely nostalgic for the SNES and N64. Specifically the graphics in the SNES were so beautiful and the games seemed so accesible. I am also nostalgic about the N64 but I can't get into it, maybe because I use an Xbox controller to emulate, I might need to buy a different gamepad. I have been playing Donkey kong 64 with my girlfriend and that has been quite fun, I get to finger her butthole after.
They were so selfish they didn't even let me play it. Ha and ya I bought them already. Still not sure why they didn't want me to play it
Take that back played MK on it (dreamcast) once. Other than that didn't play it
Played every other system back then though
my grandparents had a genesis and ps1 at their house. while i didn't care for the genesis, i had very fond memories of trying to get as far as possible in megaman legends and spyro.
i don't think about collecting, but i was happy to emulate the things i missed.
no because i think i owned every console worth owning (besides neogeo, which i never played aside from the arcade). i did play the 3do and jaguar at a friend's house, but i think it was after they were pretty much dead.
no and no
i played games on the pc 90% of the time in my adolescence and 99% of the time on pc in adulthood
Ehh some? Never had a n64, played one in game cafes as a kid and at friends place. Wanted one real bad but parents got me PSX instead and that was it.
I fricked around with emulation 15 years ago and realized I wasn't missing out on that much. It would still be neat to get one for real but it would have to be a freebie or some moronicly cheap deal.