I'm an expert on this subject since I was born in 1995. It was pretty good. I remember playing Tekken 2, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario World and Tetris.
You mastered every game or at least suffered through shit because to play another one usually involved a 20 minute drive to Blockbuster and Mom wasnt havin that shit.
If you were a kid you'd probably own a few games that you would play over and over while occasionally renting new games every week or two. Multiplayer on consoles was still split screen and face-to-face, so the social aspect atomized like it is today with online gaming. Even online games were treated as secondary to actual LAN parties (mostly due to shit internet) and things were still primarily face to face, so local communities of gamers were tight knit. Massive improvements in game design, mechanics, and technologies happened every 2 or 3 years instead of things stagnating for the better part of a decade like today. Video game magazines were the primary source of learning about new games and you'd get free stuff like demo discs and posters from them too.
There was also a general attitude of optimism because people felt like we were finally going to leave the shitshow that was the past century behind and move towards a better future at the turn of the millenium. We were wrong.
I will say that one good thing about games these days is that those rare nerds that actually get it and give a shit can make some really amazing stuff.
Most, if not all new games I play now are Indie actually.
demo discs for ps1 were great. It was just something to do in the winter or when you couldn't go outside with your pals.
I had a wutang one too. they had that slick material I know what you mean. Lasted me fricking years they were indestructable. Now you buy a hoodie for £80 and it looks like shit after one wash
You were allowed to find women attractive, and it was okay for a game to just be fun without trying to teach you a big moral lesson for that era's goodthink.
Most games were shit. The good ones are some of the best ever made.
Had to beg mummy for a pre-owned game when out shopping, the read all the case and manual while she's getting groceries.
Gaming was very niche. Normalgays didn't get it. They gatekept themselves.
Great. There were exciting games coming out each and every month. Actual quality was the benchmark of what was considered great games. No one cared for sales figures. It was more about what consumers wanted. Versus nowadays where the whole industry has become about what publishers want.
I was an Amiga guy, still one of my favorite systems
The copyright law didn't exist here back then, so you could buy a bag of pirate floppies dirt cheap from any electronic store
It felt like the future would be good and everyone was full of hope. Every new gen made gigantic leaps in progress, going from the NES to SNES? Unreal. SNES to N64 or PSX? Mind blowing. PSX or N64 to Dreamcast/PS2/Gamecube? It was pure insanity. No generational leap has been as big since. Tons of innovative and jaw dropping games were being released and it felt like gaming was only going to get better and better.
Going online with the Dreamcast, Gamecube or PS2 felt incredible too. If you played on PC you were already used to the idea of playing online but doing it on a console felt crazy and some games like Quake on the Dreamcast even had crossplay with PC. The technological leaps in handhelds were ridiculous too. The GBC felt huge after playing the Game Boy for years, that one kid with a Game Gear made everyone jealous for the 10 minutes it had battery life, and then the GBA was a portable SNES in your hands. Then a bit later in the early 00's the PSP came out and it was unthinkable to get that level of graphics on a handheld and it played videos and it could browse the internet and you could easily pirate every game for it and install emulators to play SNES games.
God it felt good to see technology to progress like that and devs wanted to push the tech as far as they could, so if you were a PCgay you had to upgrade a lot because there was no making games for the lowest common denominator to maximize profits. They were making passion projects and pushing the industry forward. Every couple of years you would be blown away by a game that shattered all your preconceived notions of what was possible.
>every single answer in these threads is the same no matter what time period is put in the OP
I'm starting to think there was never a golden age for anything and that everyone just claims their childhood was le best thing evar
I was born in the late 80s and think that today is better than ever for games. The worst time period was from 2005-2012 because you had a bunch of very similar games aesthetically and gameplay wise, a lot of shovelware and everything felt braindead.
Nowadays even if I don't like whatever garbage big companies are putting out, there are endless numbers of good indie titles either creating new genres or expanding upon old ones.
expensive as frick, if you were a poorgay your options consisted of renting games and beating them in a week. emulation existed, but it was poor and computers were still expensive and relatively uncommon.
the 90s had great games but it sucked to try and play them, the late 90s/early 2000s were better with the rise of PCs and games like UT or D2.
i played a lot of snes games without spending a dime borrowing and sharing cartridges
also i remember playing emulated snes/neogeo games in the computer lab
Hoped you liked fighting games because that was pretty much 60 percent of the games that came out between 1993 to about 1997. After that it was Tomb Raider clones and shooters.
>aniejoy
just looked her up. the work she did on her face for that asian look fricked her whole image up
why change anything when you have an insane waist:hip ratio like that? what a loon
Loads of people in her dms said she was too skinny (because its social media) and she listened to them. Now they say she's too fat despite looking a normal weight.
Greatest time for videogames, simple as. Insane amount of new IPs every year, sequels would come out fairly quickly, game magazines were interesting with well thought out features and articles and gave you a demo disk. No multiplayer or online content so the developers packed most games to the gills with secrets and unlockables for replayability. Graphics hadn't reached ultra-realism yet so we still got soulful art styles and talented developers working with limitations to make things look downright beautful. I started playing games with Sonic The Hedgehog in 1995. Just over 10 years later I was playing games like Hitman Blood Money and Black, which looked incredible for their day. I remember watching the trailer for Snake Eater on a UK Gaming show and being amazed at the explosion effects. Now everything is bland, catering to the widest possible market meaning that it can't be niche or interesting without risk of offending someone. Talented developers are all gone because out of the box enginges like Unity and UE4 + 5 have made creating games a doddle. I would give anything to wake up one more time on my birthday in 2004, watch cartoons, eat sugarslop cereal then play Crash Twinsanity.
I remember the mid 90's almost being done playing videogames and being a normal person then my brother convinces me to go 50/50 on a playstation 1 and getting resident evil 1. the rest is history
I'd like to see some Gen Xers chime in on this; these threads are always full of Millennials talking about their childhood, I think people who were in their 20s at the time would have a more objective view on things.
Pretty good. There were magazines with sexy women on them.
It was nice. Video games were made by people who really loved them and made the sort of games they really wanted to play.
pretty based you were able to joke around and call your friends gays without getting arrested or being canceled
I'm an expert on this subject since I was born in 1995. It was pretty good. I remember playing Tekken 2, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario World and Tetris.
>I'm an expert since I didn't even have any memory before the 2000s
okay
>every year there was a graphical leap and there was actually reasons to buy new consoles
Miss it
You mastered every game or at least suffered through shit because to play another one usually involved a 20 minute drive to Blockbuster and Mom wasnt havin that shit.
Everything just gets better and better. 1990 to 1999 was like going from using horse and cart to interstellar travel.
>mfw going from ocarina of time and quest 64 to morrowind and fable in a single gen
I remember going from N64 to Gamecube and seeing the explosions in Rogue Leader blew me away, I thought they were photorealistic.
If you were a kid you'd probably own a few games that you would play over and over while occasionally renting new games every week or two. Multiplayer on consoles was still split screen and face-to-face, so the social aspect atomized like it is today with online gaming. Even online games were treated as secondary to actual LAN parties (mostly due to shit internet) and things were still primarily face to face, so local communities of gamers were tight knit. Massive improvements in game design, mechanics, and technologies happened every 2 or 3 years instead of things stagnating for the better part of a decade like today. Video game magazines were the primary source of learning about new games and you'd get free stuff like demo discs and posters from them too.
There was also a general attitude of optimism because people felt like we were finally going to leave the shitshow that was the past century behind and move towards a better future at the turn of the millenium. We were wrong.
I fricking miss those kinds of jumpers. I had a Wutang jumper and the quality was incredible.
Gaming was amazing because games actually got better all the time.
I remember when FF7 came out and I wondered how long it would be until in-game gfx would be the same as the FMVs. The thought was mind-boggling to me.
Also gaming mags were indeed awesome. Written by actual nerds like us and covered in babes.
I hide the fact that I'm a gamer now because it has become so embarrassing.
I will say that one good thing about games these days is that those rare nerds that actually get it and give a shit can make some really amazing stuff.
Most, if not all new games I play now are Indie actually.
demo discs for ps1 were great. It was just something to do in the winter or when you couldn't go outside with your pals.
I had a wutang one too. they had that slick material I know what you mean. Lasted me fricking years they were indestructable. Now you buy a hoodie for £80 and it looks like shit after one wash
You were allowed to find women attractive, and it was okay for a game to just be fun without trying to teach you a big moral lesson for that era's goodthink.
It was significantly cheaper to rent games than buy them, and it was "cooler" because you could play multiple games for the same price.
End result was renting the same game over and over, and playing the beginning over and over.
Most games were shit. The good ones are some of the best ever made.
Had to beg mummy for a pre-owned game when out shopping, the read all the case and manual while she's getting groceries.
Gaming was very niche. Normalgays didn't get it. They gatekept themselves.
maybe on pc. everyone loved mario kart.
It was fun, consoles had games.
I'm curious how accurate these numbers really are now. PS5 being double digits alone is odd.
It's mostly VR games
Rad.
It sucked for that guy. Look how fricking cramped his shitty room was.
And he was watching Buffy and Friends, which means he was an idiot.
Great. There were exciting games coming out each and every month. Actual quality was the benchmark of what was considered great games. No one cared for sales figures. It was more about what consumers wanted. Versus nowadays where the whole industry has become about what publishers want.
I was playing viddy games with my friends every day. I miss it
It was amazing.
Everything looked so real.
You played 4/10 shit games and loved it because you had no frame of reference.
I was an Amiga guy, still one of my favorite systems
The copyright law didn't exist here back then, so you could buy a bag of pirate floppies dirt cheap from any electronic store
It felt like the future would be good and everyone was full of hope. Every new gen made gigantic leaps in progress, going from the NES to SNES? Unreal. SNES to N64 or PSX? Mind blowing. PSX or N64 to Dreamcast/PS2/Gamecube? It was pure insanity. No generational leap has been as big since. Tons of innovative and jaw dropping games were being released and it felt like gaming was only going to get better and better.
Going online with the Dreamcast, Gamecube or PS2 felt incredible too. If you played on PC you were already used to the idea of playing online but doing it on a console felt crazy and some games like Quake on the Dreamcast even had crossplay with PC. The technological leaps in handhelds were ridiculous too. The GBC felt huge after playing the Game Boy for years, that one kid with a Game Gear made everyone jealous for the 10 minutes it had battery life, and then the GBA was a portable SNES in your hands. Then a bit later in the early 00's the PSP came out and it was unthinkable to get that level of graphics on a handheld and it played videos and it could browse the internet and you could easily pirate every game for it and install emulators to play SNES games.
God it felt good to see technology to progress like that and devs wanted to push the tech as far as they could, so if you were a PCgay you had to upgrade a lot because there was no making games for the lowest common denominator to maximize profits. They were making passion projects and pushing the industry forward. Every couple of years you would be blown away by a game that shattered all your preconceived notions of what was possible.
>every single answer in these threads is the same no matter what time period is put in the OP
I'm starting to think there was never a golden age for anything and that everyone just claims their childhood was le best thing evar
eva sucks
I'd say the golden age was the 4th gen to 6th gen. The 7th is when everything started going downhill.
the people who grew up with the 7th gen will say the exact opposite
stop being such a homosexual about everything
Yeah because they have no frame of reference and that was their first experience with online play. 7th gen was objectively bad.
I was born in the late 80s and think that today is better than ever for games. The worst time period was from 2005-2012 because you had a bunch of very similar games aesthetically and gameplay wise, a lot of shovelware and everything felt braindead.
Nowadays even if I don't like whatever garbage big companies are putting out, there are endless numbers of good indie titles either creating new genres or expanding upon old ones.
Who the frick is saying the tech advancements of the 2010's gaming era blew their minds?
expensive as frick, if you were a poorgay your options consisted of renting games and beating them in a week. emulation existed, but it was poor and computers were still expensive and relatively uncommon.
the 90s had great games but it sucked to try and play them, the late 90s/early 2000s were better with the rise of PCs and games like UT or D2.
i played a lot of snes games without spending a dime borrowing and sharing cartridges
also i remember playing emulated snes/neogeo games in the computer lab
Austin Powers is pure soul
life in general was amazing
it was hard
What about being a 2000's kid. The PS2 is retro now.
The idea of a "backlog" didn't exist. People played games because they enjoyed it.
1995-2005 will forever be the golden decade of gaming.
Awesome, wholesome, fun
Hoped you liked fighting games because that was pretty much 60 percent of the games that came out between 1993 to about 1997. After that it was Tomb Raider clones and shooters.
The world didn't feel like the hall of mirrors we're experiencing now.
holy shit
thanks for pic
was tired of being gaslit saying I just got older etc..
The people didn't like in school have now weaseled their way into our hobbies and can no longer be ignored.
Based pic. If you ever wonder why all this shit is happening see picrel by the way.
It wasn't.
Same as in the 2000s except worse because the technology was still pretty primitive.
Bottom row second from left is aniejoy, she's active in current year
>aniejoy
just looked her up. the work she did on her face for that asian look fricked her whole image up
why change anything when you have an insane waist:hip ratio like that? what a loon
Loads of people in her dms said she was too skinny (because its social media) and she listened to them. Now they say she's too fat despite looking a normal weight.
and now all the selfies are plastic filtered garbage. Thanks technology.
Pool, pizza and LAN parties. All-night sleep-overs trying to beat couch co-op games in one sitting.
Great and the only acceptable use of the word "Comfy"
Greatest time for videogames, simple as. Insane amount of new IPs every year, sequels would come out fairly quickly, game magazines were interesting with well thought out features and articles and gave you a demo disk. No multiplayer or online content so the developers packed most games to the gills with secrets and unlockables for replayability. Graphics hadn't reached ultra-realism yet so we still got soulful art styles and talented developers working with limitations to make things look downright beautful. I started playing games with Sonic The Hedgehog in 1995. Just over 10 years later I was playing games like Hitman Blood Money and Black, which looked incredible for their day. I remember watching the trailer for Snake Eater on a UK Gaming show and being amazed at the explosion effects. Now everything is bland, catering to the widest possible market meaning that it can't be niche or interesting without risk of offending someone. Talented developers are all gone because out of the box enginges like Unity and UE4 + 5 have made creating games a doddle. I would give anything to wake up one more time on my birthday in 2004, watch cartoons, eat sugarslop cereal then play Crash Twinsanity.
I remember the mid 90's almost being done playing videogames and being a normal person then my brother convinces me to go 50/50 on a playstation 1 and getting resident evil 1. the rest is history
he's trans now
I'd like to see some Gen Xers chime in on this; these threads are always full of Millennials talking about their childhood, I think people who were in their 20s at the time would have a more objective view on things.