it's really hard to go back to old games if you didn't grow up in that era

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ZOOMER PROBLEMS

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah because your brain is fried.

      I can beat the superbosses in Kingdom Hearts 1+2 and Splatoon 2's DLC, Master's Battle Set 8 Mysterial in PBR, play Death Wish in Payday 2...and still eat shit at original SMB.
      The myth of "Pro Gamers" good at everything is fake. It's learned skillsets, like hard labor vs intellectuals.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No kidding.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This
      I have a hard time playing modern games or anything from 2010 to now. Most of it is shit.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        they're objectively better than old shit.
        Also 2011 was one of the best years for gaming.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          What came in 2011 besides Dark Souls?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Minecraft, L.A. Noire, Portal 2, the 3DS, Driver San Francisco, Dead Space 2, Catherine, Skyrim.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              In 1991 snes had:
              >A Link To The Past
              >Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
              >Super Castlevania IV
              >Final Fantasy IV
              >Turtles In Time
              >Super R-Type
              >Street Fighter II

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                pre-3D Zelda is ass and turned me off the entire series.
                seriously, Zelda one is gay as shit

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Okay but ALTTP is not the first Zelda game zoomer. In just its release year snes already had a ton of classic good games come out.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Super R-Type
                That game is just okay.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah because your brain is fried.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Must be hard to see what good games are like when you've been fed slop your whole life.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >it's hard to appreaciate things if you're a brain damaged zoom zoom
    Yeah we know

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    sounds like you're a pleb

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Being boomer I can still appreciate classical music, 60's and 70's music. What's your frickinng excuse? they are old too, so by your logic I shouldn't be able to listen to old music nor watch old tv shows.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If you had posted a picture of an NES or 2600, I would agree with you, but SNES basically perfected 2D games. Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, and Final Fantasy VI aren't all that different from the more recent 2D entries in those franchises.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >If you had posted a picture of an NES or 2600, I would agree with you,
      I can still get enjoyment from Breakout and I was born in 2000.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lmao
      >Mario, Zelda, the list goes on...
      Mega Drive mogged that pile of underclocked shit into next Sunday despite being older. You know you're on Gankerintendo when morons tell you SNES had the better version of Aladdin

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Exactly, which is why Nintendo was beaten out of the console business and the Sega Switch is topping every sales chart there is.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          spottem gottem

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Every nintendo console from the Snes to GC sold less than the one before. Hell the Wii U rivals the Dreamcast for number of sales. Switch is just cribbing from their dead handheld market

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >mega drive
        only euros and third worlders played that.
        literally no one had a gaya drive and if they did they would have been beat up for being gay.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >literally no one had a gaya drive and if they did they would have been beat up for being gay.
          False and a larp, Sega had more sports games, Mortal Kombat with blood, and less censorship. Nintendi was seen as middy shit. Older kids played on sega. Not to mention the snes looks like a blocky kids toy. The only reason you hear about the snes more is because people who owned a sega grew out of games in general or moved to PC. Tendies are perpetually in arrested development and never grew up. I remember friends who were had their balls busted for wanting to try out DKC.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >NES or 2600
      Those are in no way comporable. The NES plays like the SNES with lower res graphics, the 2600 is just bad arcade ports.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Doesn't help there's a ton of indie games that are just SNES games but better

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Get a zoomer to play super mario world and say it's a bad agme

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hey I won't be mean to you. Try something like the legend of the mystical ninja or play gooftroop with a friend. Have fun playing a good beat em up or maybe NBA jam.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Downloads SNES emulator
    >"Yo! Why ain't this in 4k y'all?? Fr fr no cap this twerked af homie! How y'all play dis shit? On God y'all, this ain't bussin'!"
    I feel for your generation.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The zoomer slang joke feels old, and annoying.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Where the hell did this come from. Nobody in real life talks like this, and I work in a high school.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >t. zoomer whose first console was the wii

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It would make more sense if it was an Atari or n64

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No it isn't.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's really not

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    For me it's the Sega Genesis

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >grow up playing nes/snes ports on the gba/ds
    >get to larp as a boomer
    it's that easy

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    For me it's not the graphics that make the game unplayable but the UI/UX. Things like how clunky characters move, how annoying menus are etc. A lot of late SNES stuff I'd still gladly play, but a lot of early 3d stuff and most NES stuff is unplayable because of how clunky everything is.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Unless you're talking about jrpgs I have to disagree

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        JRPGs yeah but also most platformers/shooters. Mario/Megaman/Contra for NES are still playable today, but there is A LOT of crap action platformers on NES that I wouldn't touch now. Even with those 3, I'd rather play their SNES sequels than the NES ones.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I could see why a zoomer couldnt go back to NES or earlier, but by 16-bit the games were pretty refined and accessible. Even the stuff like RPGs were in really good shape (on console, CRPGs were still pretty inaccessible for the most part).

    Your average game was a good deal harder than what you have today but that isnt a bad thing.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      2d games are fricking dogshit
      I don't understand how you have fun playing on a piece of fricking paper

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        2D games unironically have a bigger audience now than they did back then, zoomie.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That has to be a bait, everyone plays 2d games still right?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          only because us boomllennials can see the garbage modern gaming is, the only modern games with sovl have been mostly 2D indie games

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Guessing dis homie didn’t like art class

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    not really, snes aged incredibly well, snes + emulator is better than most 2022 games.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I think part of it is playing on an emulator never feels the same as real hardware

      pic not related. The SNES has plenty of games that have aged gracefully.

      Yes, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3LY2laM-94A

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    anything before gen 6 needs a remake

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Zoomer here and I unironically get bored and can't get immersed in 2D games

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Define depth. Do you mean hundreds of mini quests spread across a huge map or that SNES games lack mechanics that new games have?

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >Link to the Past gives you no direction at points
    That's not even true.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      [...]
      >>Link to the Past gives you no direction at points
      The game puts fricking everything on the map. You are aware of where your goals are 100% of the time and if you can't reach one, go after another.

      Nah, that's not true. I love ALttP, but shit like Zora's Flippers are dumb. The game has great pacing up until a point you have to go out and explore the map so that after a good while you'll find it. OP probably wouldn't have the patience to play any Zelda other than BotW.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No, it's not. You're just a moronic zoomer.
    There are many, many SNES games that are timeless and pretty fun even today.
    Platformers, RPGs (Shin Megami Tensei, CT, FF4-6, Lufia1-2), games like Bomberman etc.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Those games aren't obtuse they're fricking entry level

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I was born the week of the NA N64 launch and I can appreciate games from the early 80s if they're good. I even believe Space Invaders from 1979 holds up. I did play some old games when I was young because my dad had some from before I was born but I still had his NES and a MAME USB ever after getting 6th gen systems.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I prefer older games because I'm tired of games becoming more like movies instead of being actual games.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Games lost all their soul when they went to 16 bit and had more than 2 buttons. NES and Master System are the best consoles of all time.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      i think zoomers would appreciate the NES more than the SNES. It's more to the point and looks more like indie pixel art

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'm gonna have to disagree there. The SNES was when games as an art form really took off, while NES games and before were functionally closer to toys, although you had a few games that had a more artistic bent like Ninja Gaiden. I think the SNES is easier for zoomers to get into, but AVGN probably got a good number of them into NES games.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >functionally closer to toys
          Not really, there are great games in most genres. plus it had a very long lifespan, so more modern games were released in the early 90s

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I found NES games appealing due to growing up with the game boy color but wasn't prepared for the difficulty. Gameplay-wise NES games are not very accessible by modern standards and play like arcade games. Something like c64 is pretty alien to me. It is like an extension of pre-video-game crash gaming with none of the gameplay innovations introduced by the NES. Graphically and sonically it rivals the NES but the gameplay is like Atari or something despite having an entire keyboard to read input (I think the c64 struggled to read too many simultaneous inputs rendering the keys pretty much useless aside from programming or text editing).

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Something like c64 is pretty alien to me. It is like an extension of pre-video-game crash gaming with none of the gameplay innovations introduced by the NES. Graphically and sonically it rivals the NES

            Musically, far, far superior to NES

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >while NES games and before were functionally closer to toys
          >although you had a few games that had a more artistic bent like Ninja Gaiden.
          I ask this with complete sincerity: What the frick are you talking about?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Ninja Gaiden had cutscenes, which wasn't usual for most NES games.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Cutscenes don't make a game "artistic".

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >>Link to the Past gives you no direction at points
    The game puts fricking everything on the map. You are aware of where your goals are 100% of the time and if you can't reach one, go after another.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >have to remember dumb fighting games moves for FFVI
    >literally too stupid to remember basic inputs like QCF or HCF

    Stick to your modern games, little Timmy.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >SNES games have no depth!
    >SNES games have too much depth!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wtf it's like the guy is saying moronic shit to get replies

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      cope

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Are we just typing random shit now?

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think part of it is playing on an emulator never feels the same as real hardware

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You say that, but throwback games like Undertale were massively liked by zoomies.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Undertale is millennialcore.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Warlords is still one of the best multiplayer videogames ever. If you haven't played it with 4 people you have no idea what you're missing. Bonus points for playing an actual wienertail cabinet. You can be a zoomies or a boomer and enjoy it.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >5 years later
    >still a shit list of SNES games on the Switch online

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's because other companies are just porting it straight into the Switch eShop or just remaster/remake them outright so they can gain all the money for themselves. Good, because fricking paying for online.

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't think my generation would be able to go back and play 2d retro if not for the long life-span of the game boy line of consoles and the litany of ports and original 2d games for those systems. kids who started with 3ds as their first handheld probably can't relate to 2d retro and belong to a separate generation of gamers entirely in my opinion

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They can. At some point their favorite YT e-celebs will re-discover retro games and will tell them that Super Mario Bros 3 is a fun game. Also, is not like 2D is an alien concept to them, one of their favorite games is Among Us followed by many top-down games

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think I agree as I grew up in the snes and megadrive generation and was never able to enjoy any games from the NES generation or before.

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    pic not related. The SNES has plenty of games that have aged gracefully.

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why do Bieber zoomers born in 98 like OP hate everything before they were born?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wii zoomers were a mistake

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The 7th gen was the last good generation tee bee aytch.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          7th gen is the worst generation.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            *8th gen
            FTFY

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              7th.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                If you really think the 7th gen was worse than the 8th I feel for you. The 7th gen at least got off to a decent start, it just derailed between 08-10. The 8th gen was pure shit the entire way through and the 9th is looking to continue that trend.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        that guy looks like hes 30

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          No he doesn't, he look 19~23.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            jesus christ how terrifying, hes one step away from looking like a grandpa

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            This post gave me creepy vibes everyone stay away from this anon.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What the frick did a time traveler make this meme? Kids like that haven’t been around for 10 years. Every 23 year old is either an annoying social activist, an incel gamer, or going out and getting fricked up all the time.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The 7th gen was the last good generation tee bee aytch.

      Those are some bleak pictures.

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    SNES games are pretty much the same as a modern indie game. NES games are a bit of a different story though.

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    That's because you're a fake gamer.
    I played ALTTP for the first time in 2006 when I was 21 and I liked it more than BOTW.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's a classic like reading the hobbit.

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I was '98 man, I dont think this is true. I think this applies more to like 2001 and above

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm glad I did, games of that era were basically autism multipliers, unlocking your true potential by repetitively losing until you finally "get it." Zoom zooms get filtered by difficulty and loss

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I can relate to this to some extent. For me it's hard to get invested in the modern video game landscape when I grew up playing games with minimal dialogue instead of glorified interactive movies that almost always overstay their welcome.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm an N64 zoomer and I don't have any problems playing SNES games. NES and older is where it starts to get rough though.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      NES is current gen compared to "before NES"

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There's a big difference between early NES and late NES that might as well have been SNES games like SMB3 and Kirby's Adventure. Though the smooth momentum of SMB1 is what makes that game so timeless.

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    For me I'm playing ESWAT right now. Holy hell that difficulty spike at stage 5, on the other hand the way the game is making you use your jet pack is great.

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Don't know. I had an OG NES as a small kid. I don't play old Atari games at all, but they were pretty simple even compared to old NES games.

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Don't let people shit on you lil' zoomie. You're young and current game design philosophy will just feel right to you. Same way that the style of acting will feel right and a movie from the 50s will feel off. People tend to be more open to the context of older media as they age. Eventually you'll understand the post-arcade design that a lot of 8/16-bit games had and you'll approach them on their own terms and like them more.

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I routinely get engrossed in games that were made before I was born

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What's your favorite SNES games Ganker?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Zombies Ate My Neighbors
      Star Fox 2
      Wild Guns

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Super Mario All Stars

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Legend of the musical ninja
      Gooftroop
      Kirby super star

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Chrono trigger
      Mario RPG

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yoshi's Island. Literally the game I could play every year and never get bored with it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Touch fuzzy get dizzy my homie

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      LTTP or Super Metroid

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I'm going to have to agree with this opinion.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lufia II.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lagoon was the first epic game I remember

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        i bought this on the steam sale. i never beat the game but i did get far in the game, the last boss.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A lot of people prefer the genesis version but the SNES version is peak rocket knight for me. That shmup level was fricking kino.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Rocket Knight! I loved that game but got hard-locked at the giant robot fight

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yoshi's Island
      Super Metroid
      Final Fantasy 5

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      breath of fire 2 but i would not recommend that to a zoomer. I also love DKC 1 and 2 and umihara kawase (which is probably better than any recent grappling hook game)

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        My BoF homie

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Chrono Trigger
      Super Metroid
      Dreamland 3

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      ff6, earthbound, mario world, mario RPG

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That'd be Link to the Past. Also 3 is the best Mario, Worldgays need not reply.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Super Castlevania IV
      >Mega Man X
      >Terranigma
      >Kirby Super Star
      >Super Mario World
      >Chrono Trigger
      2002 anon btw

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      a link to the past
      xardion
      super metroid
      secret of mana
      mechwarrior 3050

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Gen Xers grew up on the SNES. Millennials grew up on the Gamecube. Zoomers grew up on the Wii.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Early millenial here. I started on the NES.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Early millennials born in the early 80s have a lot of Gen X qualities, which is why they're sometimes called Xennials. Most millennials weren't even alive when the NES came out though.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >millennials he up on the GameCube
            >but not those millennials, they don't count for arbitrary reasons

            If anything we can at least compromise that the N64/PS1 would have overlapped with the majority of Millenials as being their consoles.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I think the N64/PS1 were the console a lot of millenials had as kids. Or Saturn if you were cool lmao.

              They would have gotten a Cube/Xbox/PS2 as a teenager.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Millennials born in 1991-1994 spent the golden years of their childhoods with the PS2 and Gamecube. They were 8-12 during their peaks.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Some of them become troon?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Lol. I'm a Millennial. I stopped keeping up with video games at 6th gen. I got into video games when Sonic came out.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        im zoomer and while i had a snes i never really played it. i played gameboy and gameboy color as well as PS2 before we eventually got the DS and Wii much later. never had a GBA or PSP, never had a gamecube either. reason being that all my game consoles and what not where usually hand me downs from my uncle and in the case of the gameboys my own mother who was an absolute tetris addict on the gameboy

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Wtf are you talking about
        Millennials grew up on late 8 bit and early 16 bit
        Zoomers grew up on late PS2 and early Xbox 360

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I was born in 89 I had nes and snes when I was kid

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The only games that aged well are Megaman X and Chrono Trigger. Every single other classic has a future game in the series that's just better in every way. prove me wrong.

    Honorable mention for Earthbound, because it will always have its own identity. But the UI, inventory, and the janky field enemy system aged like dogshit

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Get your regurgitated youtube opinion the frick out of here

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >didn't prove me wrong
        seethe manlet

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Thinks anyone owes him a debate
          Oh nevermind your just a homosexual. Frick off

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >you're

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      also forgot Kirby Superstar, never been a better Kirby since

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well that changes things you're an ok guy

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous
  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I can back further

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nah Super Mario World and the sequel are still top tier even when compared to today's indieshit pixel platformers.

    I will say that I'm a '94 boomer and am slightly biased though

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >94 boomer
      You have to be 30 or older to join the sip club.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >94 boomer

      More like 94 shitter pretending to be in an era he doesn't belong

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just spent half a day playing Thief Gold, you're a tasteless tard if any game released after 1990 is inaccessible to you
    >t. post-9/11 subhuman

  57. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If you didn’t grow up with them then you aren’t “going back” to them. It’s literally not the same thing.

  58. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Pic-unrelated btw. as the SNES isn't old gaming. C64? Maybe, but SNES is newschool vidya.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      NES was really where it started to be possible to deliver full quality for older Z80 arcade games at home, and the SNES / Genesis was where the aesthetic and gameplay of most 2d games was really set in the early 90s.

      This was also the era where PC games started to surpass console game quality, with some really memorable games like Doom, X-Wing, and Sam and Max Hit the Road.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        NES is interesting because it was designed for and started as that sort of home Z80 arcade machine experience, but it was so popular and SMB was such a hit that Nintendo expanded it to be capable of far more, with the FDS then mappers.

        SMB1 essentially maxed out the capabilities of the system by itself.

  59. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's not. Your brain has been rotted from too much advertising and social media.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      If nobody on social media is talking about the product you're consuming what is even the point of consuming it?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No reason at all go post about this post. Smash that bell too.

  60. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    How on earth is the SNES too old for you to go back to? It's basically the same thing as a Game Boy Advance which was meant for your childhood
    The NES on the other hand is worthless and unplayable by modern standards

  61. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the first video games i played was on the NES. i for one have no interest in playing anything older than NES so maybe OP has a point

  62. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    '92
    WHAT AM I? MILLENIAL? XOOMER?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Core Millennial, 1990 was the year the most Millennials were born, the 3rd largest birth year, 1st is OG baby boomers, with 2nd place for 2007 late-zoomers, and finally us core Millennials (I am a 1990). We're basically baby boomers 2.0 with 2007 zoomers the 3.0 even if there's more of them than us

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I feel bad for all the kids born in 2007 who will never know a world without iPhones. Early zoomers are the only good ones.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          my brother is a 1997 early-zoomer, I say he's like a zoomllennial, one of the most based inbetween generations while I'm a core Millennial at 1990

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah I had a really weird upbringing. I'm in my 20s but at some point in my life I've had to live with

            >rotary phones
            >dial up
            >antenna tv
            >cell phones didnt become the norm until I was about 12-13 so I remember calling friends on a rotary phone to hang out
            >dad was anti internet so on the weekends I would have no internet

            Being a zoomllennial is weird

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              People born in the late 90s are in that weird area where they're old enough to have gotten a taste of the pre-iPhone/recession world (before 2008) but young enough that they spent their adolescences in the iPhone world.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I wish I knew more zoomers to contrast what it was like growing up as them. Seeing toddlers with their own ipads is so fricking weird to me. I'm not even old and I can say "When I was your age we had a 'family computer' that everyone shared"

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I think they're quite lucky to have rose tinted glasses of the pre-internet, pre-iphone era going through it as a kid. As a 1990, I was just old enough to remember the many inconveniences of a rapidly changing world and an adult by the time the iphone was released.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You think that's weird? Those of us born in the 80s remember a time before the internet, and before computers were a common thing.
                When I was a kid there were still people with rotary phones, and nobody I knew had a cell phone.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                hey he's just like me but I'm 1993

  63. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If you're talking about the Snezz specifically, then no, it's just shit. It was shit back then, too, I'd know because I owned one. Massively overrated because murrilards grew up with it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Shoo shoo, back to /vr/ auster

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      kek fricking moronic take from a shit-for-brains contrarian. That seems to be 90% of the content on this board....

  64. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It’s the opposite for me, I’m actually really impressed by some of the games I see from the 90s and 2000s and think its incredible what they could do with their hardware limitations

  65. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe ps1 and N64 but the old 2D games aged well

  66. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't believe zoomers can't get into pixel/2d games, this is obviously just a LARP. Otherwise how have so many indies copying that aesthetic thrived? It can't all be boomer money.

  67. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not really
    t. born in 2000

  68. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Weren't the GBA and many DS titles practically SNES games in terms of graphics? Both consoles are essentially zoomer-core.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I feel like the GBA is more millennial, it came out in 2001 when millennials were in elementary school and zoomers were babies. It still got games when zoomers were kids though.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The GBA was essentially retired after 2005, but it was still getting licensed crap until 2008, and it was still selling very well in North America in 2007.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      3d-wise, I feel like DS was more between N64/PS1 and GCN/PS2 - better than the former, but not quite on par with the latter.
      Sprite-wise, I don't know if it's exactly fair to say something is like an SNES title just because it's 16-bit, when you still have that style being used to this day.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I said many, not most. Big difference considering the sheer size to the library. I am talking about games like Chrono Trigger, the two Yoshi games, the DS Kirby games, etc. Pokemon games on DS also used sprites for everything but the environments.

  69. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I feel like GBA games are more approachable than the SNES. Basically the same types and graphics but far less jank be it localization or difficulty. Also more familiar brands for normies thanks to all the movie and licensed shit

  70. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Most of the games were shit. It's worth looking back to see what was good. But you don't have to play them all.

  71. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Our parents experienced first had what was going from black and white tv to color. We got to experience the revolution that was going grom 2d to 3d. What will zoomers get? Will they get to experience anything revolutionary or are they just out of luck and it will be the next generation to witness the next technological leap in visual entertainment?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Out of luck. They can't even say they're the first ones to witness demakes because we got Super Mario All-Stars and MGS TTS.

  72. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    SNES is easier than early 3D shit
    99% of games in the late '90s were disgustingly ugly and it didn't let up until late PS2 era.

  73. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just grow up playing old games with your dad as a kid homosexual lmao

  74. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    my first console was an snes, i didnt get to play a lot of games but i can still easily get into them
    the ones i cant really get into are the genuinely clunky pieces of shit when games first went 3d
    could never get used to the n64 or psx

  75. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >gives you no direction at points
    >the next generation of gamers will never take the initiative, and will be incapable of discovering anything useful without 'GRAB THIS THING' hovering above it.
    >Frick. a decade ago just the fact something was brightly coloured and slowly spinning a foot off the ground would be enough to make kids piledrive sixty Black folk and climb a fricking mountain of shit to grab it no matter what it did or if they even needed it.
    I guess we've finally arrived at that anon's predicted future.

  76. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Only the early 3D era (N64, PS1) is hard to get into if you didn't grow up with it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And that's mostly because of modern displays. I took a look at some N64 games on NSO and just turned the thing off after a few first levels. Ugly beyond belief.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nah they were always ugly compared to SNES/Genesis/VGA. Without a sense of innovation carrying them early 3D was just a fricking abomination.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It wasn't all bad, look at Megaman Legends.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Early 3D has to grapple with how they handled cameras and 3D controls. It didn't begin to get more standardized until 6th gen. So only people that are willing to adapt to a lot of early 3D games will tolerate them.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          There's people around that think RE4 plays like complete shit because it technically has tank controls and no run and gun.
          Some anon many years ago made a valid point about how the XBOX360 control scheme for gears of war basically killed gaming because most games ended up parroting that template.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            RE4 doesn't have bad controls for what it is, but that doesn't mean I think it's fun to control at all

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              RE4 with Wii controls is amazing. Its a shame pointer controls were so short lived.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                using a Wii remote actually sounds like an appropriate balance of control and clunkiness for a horror game

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                They were done well for RE4 at least.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                The wii version of RE4 is almost too un-clunky for a horror game. Pointer controls are nearly always smooth. Relying on the nunchuk and wiimote accelerometers are clunky.

  77. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Black person i was born in 2002 and all i play is old games sounds like ur just a pleb

  78. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    30 year old here.
    Some NES games are hard to play but others are still fun to this day.
    Same with the SNES, but I find the games that have aged well to be most of it's known good games. Issue I have with that era is most JRPGs tend to be a walk in the park.
    PS1 aged maybe the best with it's titles, I haven't played N64 enough to really say (didn't have one growing up, we were a Sega house)
    PS2, Dreamcast, GC era are all still good.

    That said, some games I played growing up are a little weird to go back to. Sometimes it's muscle memory, but also the brain has developed. So some games I used to think were hard, long, epic adventures of sacrifice and drama, were all super streamlined, easy affairs with nonsensical plots.

  79. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not really. If a game is genuinely good it is enjoyable despite technological limitations of the time is was made.
    Let's say Mario 64 for an example, it is a good platformer game from the early 3D era. The only hurdles are the camera controls being kinda shit and the N64 controller, if you're using one, is pretty fricking bad.

  80. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The original NES Ninja Gaiden titles have tighter gameplay than a lot of modern indies.

  81. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the only generation i cant really go back to is NES and earlier but i bet there are a handful of select NES and earlier titles i could still enjoy. but with SNES and beyond its much more forgiving and i can easily pick up a more obscure game and still get joy out of it. with NES, unless its among the best titles for the platform period im probably not going to bother with it. especially since so many games back then were just arcade ports or inspired by the arcade games so its just a highscore chase that gets boring really quick

  82. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Those aren't good examples of obtuse stuff in games. The real obtuse stuff was fun back then though, when you didn't just look stuff up on the internet, and your friend at school would show you a secret that their brother's friend's cousin showed them after they found it by accident

  83. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Incorrect.

    I was born in '91 and played this in late 2010.

  84. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    every zoomer I know only emulates 6th gen games and up, has anyone else noticed? I was born in '99 and only really have an interest in snes and ps1

  85. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    is there any contribution to culture by zoomers? literally anything?

    no, cringe Tiktok videos isn't a positive.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you're expecting teenagers to have a significant influence on culture?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        if tiktok is any indication it's a worthless generation

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Luckily the worth of a generation comes after they've stopped being hormonal dipshits.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            even zoomer teens, all they do is use rap talk and use shitty perm haircuts.

  86. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No it's not, get good homosexual. I bought an NES and Battletoads and Ghost N Goblins to show them they're b***hes. I beat Battletoads and am working on Ghost n Goblins, they're both fantastic games and you're a fricking homosexual if you can't enjoy games for what they are. have a nice day.

  87. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Black person what
    if a game is good you play it and have fun

  88. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    a majority of NES and SNES games are utter dogshit.
    Even a lot of the good ones still have major flaws.
    The bad ones are actually terrible games
    PS2/GameCube/XBOX era is when the standard of video games got high enough even the shittiest games were still passable as a game.
    But before that, games had no standards.
    TLOU2 is probably the worst video game of this and the previous generation, and even then it's not bad as anything made by LJN.
    NES games are all basic ass shit. You have like only 2 good games: Mario Bros, and Mother.
    SNES has way more good games though, like DK country, Shin Megami Tensei I, SMTII, Earthbound, Starfox, etc.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      NES had many good games, but most of those are either really short and/or very difficult. SMB3 is still a fantastic game for example (and arguably the best 2D Mario). The Mega Man series is great. Kirby's Adventure is great. Balloon Fight and Wario's Woods are both still very fun.

      Most of the first party stuff for the SNES aged well. Super Castlevania IV and the Mega Man X games are still great. Street Fighter II Turbo is still great. Chrono Trigger is still great, albeit short.

      There has been shovelware for almost every generation. I think the last consoles to get it really bad though were the DS and Wii.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        There are a lot of arcade ports that should never be played on SNES like Street Fighter, MAME is 1000x better than shit ports even on real hardware

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >PS2/GameCube/XBOX era is when the standard of video games got high enough even the shittiest games were still passable as a game.
      >But before that, games had no standards.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        have fun spending 80 dollars to play Doctor Jekyll, anon. I'll be enjoying my early 2000s cringekino

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >My garbage is better than your garbage
          Not the most compelling argument.

  89. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Frick zoomers

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The only one I'd consider overrated is FF6. That game has the same feverish, cult like mentality as FF7 fans. I just think there's better SNES JRPGs. Like Chrono Trigger.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >there

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
  90. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I really do love how shit you’ve made this board after the rule change, thanks for that

  91. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    If you're able to get past the superficial part and understand the game mechanics, then many old games are perfectly playable because they're comparable to modern things, especially when QoL is added as is the case with ports like Doom, Transport Tycoon, Roller Coaster Tycoon, etc.
    Very prehistoric things start to get difficult because the ability of games to have a certain sophistication in the mechanics starts to disappear. The NES for example has several puzzles that are totally playable even today (Fire'n Ice, Adventures of Lolo, Wario Woods, Dr. Mario) but the sports games are almost all unplayable (even the fun ones like Blades of Steel get boring quickly because they are too superficial). The difference is that puzzles work even without much hardware sophistication, but sports games don't.

  92. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ITT: Zoomers who've played five games made before 1996 tell you how bad the SNES and NES were.

  93. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Zoomers don't play older games to properly gauge their depth. They just see the graphics and go "ew".

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >using a screenshot from the very first level
      i tried playing this just now on my shitch and the shooting is trash

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That's what power-ups are for.

  94. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This is your brain on zoomers who grew up with a cell phone in there hand. I'm 37 and grew up with the SNES era but could still appreciate consoles like atari even they were before my time.

  95. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    What a bizarre and foreign sensation it must be to suddenly experience no hand-holding, micro transactions, always online, THE MESSAGE or hour long cutscenes and instead just get non-stop gameplay.

  96. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    my little nephew fricking LOVES his snes mini
    I jailbroke that shit and slaped 130 roms in it

    good vidya is good vidya for ever

  97. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    False
    I cherished every moment playing MAME arcade games and they were great
    I still emulate consoles and systems with games I never owned/played
    I enjoyed decades late CRPGS
    and I have my fair share modern games and new ones all the time, several generes, and thematic

    we have more than 40 years of videogame history, there's no fricking excuse for zoomshits to run out of good vidya

  98. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    emulators don't feel the same without a similar feeling controller, don't play SNES shit with a PS4/Xbox pad

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I played Link's Awakening and several other gameboy games on the Gamecube gb player, it felt just about right.
      As long as the d-pad isn't a nasty turd, it'll do.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Playing NES/SNES games with a thumbstick is much better than using a d-pad and takes way the feeling of those games being outdated that people complain about.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The only time I'd use a stick is if it's an isometric game. Otherwise the d-pad is always better.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Even back then people knew a stick was better.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Did you know there's nothing stopping you from just screwing off that ball top, it threads right off. Try it out on your own controller.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Joy stick you have in your hand rather than a thumb stick that you only use your thumb to guide. Radically different. Also the advantage of that controller would be the turbo buttons. NES had a serviceable d-pad, the Genesis and Saturn d-pads were much better.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            That stick has minimal travel and only has output in 8 directions. Perfect for digital input. An analog stick is full of dead space that has no bearing on the d-pad input.

  99. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >didn't grow up with a lot of older games, just played what was current at the time I played it
    >still prefer them to 90% of anything made after 2010

  100. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My sister is 21 and her fondest gaming console is the PSP. She used to play Portable OPs plus online. Is that common for zoomers to like the PSP?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah I downloaded tons of ISOs and it was safer and easier than pirating PC games back in the day

  101. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Not my problem zoomertrash.

  102. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm in my thirties but seeing how popular retro style indies, mario maker and retrogaming is I think not. I was myself was playing Atari and NES games in the late 90s when they were more than a decade old at this point.

  103. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Your OP pic is inaccurate, fixed it for you

  104. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I miss the experience of my mom taking me to the local rental place and I'd play a different SNES game every weekend. It's nice and all that I can just play any game I want at the click of a mouse button, but there's no new memories associated with that, just my middle aged ass soaking an office chair with sweat.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I miss the experience of your mom's tight ass and the sex we had every weekend. It's nice and all that I can just bang any thot I want at the click of a mouse button, but there's no new memories associated with that.

  105. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
  106. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The shift in consciousness propelling us towards fourth density has made more obsolete the necessity of quick reflexes for survival.

  107. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    there are metrics on Reddit where the average age has gone SIGNIFICANTLY down. Some years ago Reddit was for millennials in their mid-20s and 30s. Nowadays most users are in their teens and early 20s. I would wager the same is for Ganker.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Where are the boomers going? Is there a secret oldgay chan?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        They're going to watch vtubers. The people complaining about vtubers taking over are actually teenagers or in their early 20s. You can tell by how they call everyone "simps", nobody fricking uses that except the kids.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That is highly disturbing if true.

          It's a bit long but it's interesting and even mainstream, while calling a conspiracy, sees some truth in it.

          Also disturbing, though less so.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's a bit long but it's interesting and even mainstream, while calling a conspiracy, sees some truth in it.

          I doubt it. ResetEra's average age for its userbase is 30+, GameFAQs is around there too. Reddit and twitter seem full of millennials.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's a bit long but it's interesting and even mainstream, while calling a conspiracy, sees some truth in it.

  108. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Feel eternally lucky that Nintendo ported a lot of their Snes games forward to GBA. I would’ve missed several of my favorite games ever

  109. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    I found the beginning of links awakening to be moronic obtuse.

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