Almost all the Satellaview games are lost media, since it was a streaming-only service for the Super Famicom that was discontinued, though some of the games exist in other ways like the Fire Emblem games got released as DLC for Fire Emblem 12 (the horrible DS sequel to the original horrible DS remake of the first game).
Right, but if the servers are dead you still might be able to play on a private server, which is why I specifically limited it to dead servers without private server options.
You know what, you are 100% correct. I never thought about it that way, but only now to I have hundreds, literally thousands of games I never got to play or even know about back in the day at my fingertips for pennies or free.
>literally thousands of games I never got to play or even know about back in the day at my fingertips for pennies or free.
this. sometimes I think back to when I was a kid and seeing all the games in the store, knowing I would never be able to try all of them. now we can download literally all of them for free at anytime. its pretty great
This and also hundreds of romhacks/mods/randomizers that give new life endlessly to your old school classics. There's never been a better time to be a boomer gamer
I agree with the sentiment, but what made the old games great was both the experience and the optimism for the future. You enjoyed the games of how novel the experience is, almost every generation had an entirely different feel to it. Now while we can still experience these games, there is zero optimism or anything on the horizon that is worth looking forward to.
It’s like being wealthy but you’re isolated from everything enjoyable.
Besides the literal game crash in the 80s, early 2010s were an actual dark age for gaming. So many franchises just completely collapsed from low quality releases and it was the peak commercialization of the industry. This is where Game Stop preorder bonuses, games as a service, full moron DLC models etc all were in full stride. Let's not forget the Kinect and all the other low effort imitations and gimmicks that happened here too.
That transition period between xbox/ps2 to 360/ps3
Where every game coming out had to have a version for the older gen consoles, so it made 1 game have multiple versions with different variations of quality
So the PS2 version might cut a level or two but adds a gamemode unique to that version only to compensate
All of that so 20 years later, there isn't a definitive version to play
So like Splinter Cell Double Agent 360 and Double Agent xbox are two completely different game
Also sucked if you didn't know that the versions where different. So you could read that game A is great but didn't read that they reviewed the 360 version so you get the ps2 version not knowing it was the worst version out of all of them
The transition between 360 to xbone wasn't as bad, since all it was, was lower textures and some games just completely gutted single-player (black ops 3). So its a safe bet that the xbone/ps4 version is the definitive version to play.
Xbone/ps4 to Sex/ps5 is non existence
Everyone saying current era;
Have you considered that you can play EVERY SINGLE OLD GAME RIGHT NOW FOR FREE?
This is the best period for actually gaming.
When I was a kid my older brother had an equivalent of the Apple 2 or something like it and it took forever for games to be installed from cassette tapes and the result was always a game so bad that it was hard to play them for more than a few minutes.
The beginning of the gaming industry was pretty miserable. I followed all the evolution thanks to my older brother and being in a country that was always 10 years behind and I'm absolutely sure that we're in the best moment of videogames, even with all those bad games, cashgrabs, soulless AAAs that take 10 years to get ready, etc.
from flash and feature phone games that simply disappeared, to all the service games like mmos and smartphone games, the 21st century has had a ridiculous number of lost games
2022-beyond
Future does not count
Neither does prehistoric
2020-2022
Came here to post this.
Prancing lala-homosexual man.
2013 onwards.
The present is the best time for video games, because the old ones are always there.
Games you can't play because the servers are down and there's no private servers, and lost media.
Lost media is usually lost for a reason.
incompetence?
Almost all the Satellaview games are lost media, since it was a streaming-only service for the Super Famicom that was discontinued, though some of the games exist in other ways like the Fire Emblem games got released as DLC for Fire Emblem 12 (the horrible DS sequel to the original horrible DS remake of the first game).
Or even just the servers being ded
Right, but if the servers are dead you still might be able to play on a private server, which is why I specifically limited it to dead servers without private server options.
You know what, you are 100% correct. I never thought about it that way, but only now to I have hundreds, literally thousands of games I never got to play or even know about back in the day at my fingertips for pennies or free.
>literally thousands of games I never got to play or even know about back in the day at my fingertips for pennies or free.
this. sometimes I think back to when I was a kid and seeing all the games in the store, knowing I would never be able to try all of them. now we can download literally all of them for free at anytime. its pretty great
Not true. The experience isn't the same.
YOU aren't the same, there is a difference
why do you post this nonsense, its obvious people are talking new releases in certain eras of gaming
This and also hundreds of romhacks/mods/randomizers that give new life endlessly to your old school classics. There's never been a better time to be a boomer gamer
I agree with the sentiment, but what made the old games great was both the experience and the optimism for the future. You enjoyed the games of how novel the experience is, almost every generation had an entirely different feel to it. Now while we can still experience these games, there is zero optimism or anything on the horizon that is worth looking forward to.
It’s like being wealthy but you’re isolated from everything enjoyable.
sounds like you're the problem, not the games.
Anything after the 6th generation.
2011-present
everything before and most of everything since
2008-2014
Early 80s
nah pokemon Gen 1 and 2 were great for the time, I was thrilled to play them when I was a child.
2009-
Too many to list
Besides the literal game crash in the 80s, early 2010s were an actual dark age for gaming. So many franchises just completely collapsed from low quality releases and it was the peak commercialization of the industry. This is where Game Stop preorder bonuses, games as a service, full moron DLC models etc all were in full stride. Let's not forget the Kinect and all the other low effort imitations and gimmicks that happened here too.
2003 was peak, dude.
That transition period between xbox/ps2 to 360/ps3
Where every game coming out had to have a version for the older gen consoles, so it made 1 game have multiple versions with different variations of quality
So the PS2 version might cut a level or two but adds a gamemode unique to that version only to compensate
All of that so 20 years later, there isn't a definitive version to play
So like Splinter Cell Double Agent 360 and Double Agent xbox are two completely different game
Also sucked if you didn't know that the versions where different. So you could read that game A is great but didn't read that they reviewed the 360 version so you get the ps2 version not knowing it was the worst version out of all of them
The transition between 360 to xbone wasn't as bad, since all it was, was lower textures and some games just completely gutted single-player (black ops 3). So its a safe bet that the xbone/ps4 version is the definitive version to play.
Xbone/ps4 to Sex/ps5 is non existence
Everyone saying current era;
Have you considered that you can play EVERY SINGLE OLD GAME RIGHT NOW FOR FREE?
This is the best period for actually gaming.
what if ive already played the good stuff?
Today, because it's impossible to afford those games now.
2018-present
2014-
Right now
When I was a kid my older brother had an equivalent of the Apple 2 or something like it and it took forever for games to be installed from cassette tapes and the result was always a game so bad that it was hard to play them for more than a few minutes.
The beginning of the gaming industry was pretty miserable. I followed all the evolution thanks to my older brother and being in a country that was always 10 years behind and I'm absolutely sure that we're in the best moment of videogames, even with all those bad games, cashgrabs, soulless AAAs that take 10 years to get ready, etc.
xbox 360.
from flash and feature phone games that simply disappeared, to all the service games like mmos and smartphone games, the 21st century has had a ridiculous number of lost games
2012 - 2017
Anytime after they put the grand exchange in runescaape