it's 1999 and you're in your local video store. your mom says you can pick out one game to rent...
what game do you choose?
it's 1999 and you're in your local video store. your mom says you can pick out one game to rent...
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mischief makers and I would rent goku midnight eye on vhs
I'd pick out Resident Evil 3 but my mom would tell me to put it back and I'd get Dino Crisis instead (cause my mum is dumb and didn't realize it's the same shit)
i want shrek
wait two more years anon
I am probably downloading freeware and shareware
I remember visiting a small video store with my dad and I walked into the adult porn section without realizing it (I think I wanted to explore the place). I remember liking what I saw on the VHS covers.
the porn section in greasy family owned video stores was kino experience as kid
I remember at this one they had that area locked off behind a closed door and every now and then I would see adults go in and out of it and then shut the door. Even in my teens I didn't what it was for, process of elimination eventually led me to figure out what it could be for.
Blast Corps, or Jet Force Gemini
I hit GTA2 a lot. Maybe Siphon Filter. I played a lot of shit in 1999, anon. Pick something that came out on PSX.
>PSX
are you a chink or something everyone here where I'm at in america called it the ps1
Stop being a pedantic fag. I don't care, that what it was called in all the mags at the time.
you're a chink, that makes sense. You can't read so you just call it the psx. Figures, europoor.
Read what? Its name is literally just Playstation
PSX is a post-mortem term used by zoomers who weren't born at the time. Likewise, nobody called it the PS1 back then either. We just called it the PlayStation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)
>The PlayStation[a] (abbreviated as PS, commonly known as the PS1/PS one or its codename PSX)
You must both be clinically mentally handicapped. Only non-whites and basement dwellers referred to it as the PSX hence 'codename.' Close your browsers and then promptly have a nice day.
Of course it's called the PS1 or PSX today you dingus.
Damn got me dead to rights. A 39 year old zoomer.
Well when the PS2 came out, PS1 started to take hold, obviously. PSX can eat a bag of dicks though.
Nobody said PSX in person, but thats what it was in print. I remember asking my friend why it was called PSX in gaming mags. He couldn't give me an answer.
Everyone called it the PS1 once the PS2 came out.
>rent
Rent video games?
To be fair at that time a lot of cracked consoles and ripped games were circulating at the time.
funnily enough my cousin had a shit ton of bootleg dreamcast games cause they were so easy to burn. good times with power stone
I pick out Bomberman Fantasy Race. I never understand how it works or what the hell is going on, but me and my brother have fun playing it together while our mum medicates herself and watches a film downstairs. We have the volume turned down really low because waking her up/disturbing her means she'll shout at us. She forgets to feed us again that night, but at least we have something new to play, and each other for company.
Boogerman [SEGA Genesis]
goddamn i haven't heard that name in many years
i pick super mario rpg for the 14th time. because it blew me away yet i struggle with it as a i am a french canadian boy who understand no english yet
I always had to rent stuff my brother and sister could play as well. Usually that meant fighting games or stuff like that, so probably Bloody Roar 2 or Street Fighter Alpha 3 on PS1.
This bad boy. I have no idea how my dad and I got all the way to the end in a weekend while I can barely beat get halfway through in a month.
>it's 1999
It's time to bust a move!
was always shit at that game
>it’s 1999
No it’s 2023
I was a PC gamer in 1999. My video store had a deal where you got two overnights and five weekys for $10 so I would have got a couple of fresh new Hollywood blockbusters and then picked up a bunch of action, sci-fi or horror b-movies.
Kite.
Everyone praised the shit out of that movie. I got it thinking I was going to watch a great action anime. I had no idea I was actually going to watch a pornographic rape fest. It was around that time I started to realize how fucked in the head most anime fans are.
I bought my own games because I mainly played on the family PC.
Some shitty licensed game
I lay down take in the plastic smell of all those boxed, hear the crt playing trailers.
And I cry cause I know what is to come. It's all downhill from here
Blockbuster was for those games that were fun to play once or twice but not worth the money to ask for.
Good way to kill a weekend. Go Friday after school and have it beaten by Saturday afternoon. If it was good, give it a replay Saturday night and mess around with the cheat codes that you got out of a crusty magazine from last year.
Sunday was for homework and existential dread about the project you had a month to do, is due tomorrow, and you haven't started on.
>Sunday was for homework and existential dread about the project you had a month to do, is due tomorrow, and you haven't started on.
Leisure Suit Larry while the clerk gives my alcohol mother an eyebrow raise and I shake in excitement as I lose my horny little adolescent. The game sucked tho