Completely true. It was nerdy and shameful and rarely in mainstream public consciousness until after 6th gen.
No.
I will brook no argument here.
You are just completely wrong.
Zoom off and lurk moar.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Back then a nerd would accept the term "nerd" as a compliment, zoomer.
7 months ago
Anonymous
I won't debate that either way but it is completely irrelevant to what is being discussed here. Video games were completely mainstream in 1992.
7 months ago
Anonymous
No they weren’t, to you they were because you couldn’t see the world from outside your own nerdy bubble. Even in 2000 kids would make fun of you for liking final fantasy or not even know what it is. Today, normies absorbed all of gaming culture from the internet.
You couldn’t say to a normie in 1992 “wow that question was like the final boss of the test” and automatically know they understand what you mean. Now a normie would know exactly what you mean.
Saying you liked video games, especially if you weren’t a child, is like saying you’re a dungeon master for D&D today to a normal person.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Shut up you know-nothing homosexual.
7 months ago
Anonymous
You were one of those losers who didn’t know they were a loser, that’s why you’re a 38 year old virgin. have a nice day.
The average late-70's to early '80s early 20's to late teen chad would master all the gay space invader games and 1 to 1 beat all nerds in everything, it was a trope because it was true. Only later when video games became more complicated with super-involved real time mathematical rule sets did the chad have problems beating the chud. That was around the Street Fighter 2 era.
Yeah boomers had sex, smoked pot, and smashed space invaders. They were still amusements you got drunk and played, “pinball wizard” vibes. But they were simple time wasters and a social amusement. Gen X is when they just became huge recluse gays and video games went from high scoring drunk at the bar/bowling alley to street fighter 2 tournaments with guys spilling spaghetti from their cargo shorts.
7 months ago
Anonymous
The guy on the left was the one who stopped playing arcade games when 7+/10 bawds stopped viewing arcades as a socially acceptable Chad dick hunting ground. The guy on the right was the one who would act smug after beating a 13 year old on the new Street Fighter II cab despite being in his 40s.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Lol spot on.
We can all learn something from left chad. Too many right cucks on this board.
7 months ago
Anonymous
The average late-70's to early '80s early 20's to late teen chad would master all the gay space invader games and 1 to 1 beat all nerds in everything, it was a trope because it was true. Only later when video games became more complicated with super-involved real time mathematical rule sets did the chad have problems beating the chud. That was around the Street Fighter 2 era.
7 months ago
Anonymous
Im neither of those anons and youre the wrong one. Video games only started becoming mainstream after the explosive success of the Playstation.
PS3 was about the same price as a standalone Blu-Ray player when they were new, they came out right around when the PS3 did. Too bad it's a dead format though. Heck there's only one manufacturer of Blu-Ray mechanisms left (Samsung) and they're ceasing production at the end of this year, citing the fact that they have like a hundred million of these mechanisms warehoused because demand never picked up, and they expect that will last the life of the format.
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Nearly all the games had ports on SNES and Genesis anyway. I also don't know at what point major stores kind of stopped carrying it.
My grandfather bought a NGCD in the 90s b/c he had lots of grandchildren and wanted us to play good games but not pay $200-$300 a cart. No idea what happened to the console.
Do we really need another topic on why people didn't buy a really expensive niche console? I can't wait to see another 400 post topic on people arguing whether or not they were ever going to rent out the units again!
Look at where it was sold nationwide. Given the price and distribution channels, they were targeting older gamers and discerning rich kids for the most part, which are drastically smaller markets than the usual home videogame market, which consisted not only of those groups, but huge swathes of poor to middle class children whose parents shopped at big box retail stores. Imagine you're a middle class kid in the 90s who might only get a new game console+games at Christmases and birthdays; what are you going to ask for, an AES with maybe one extra game, or the newest Nintendo, Sony, or Sega console, plus a small handful of games, with some leftover asking money for a toy or two? That's not even getting into the fact that these consoles had huge libraries available for rental at your normal mom & pops, Blockbusters, Hollywood Videos, grocery stores, etc, plus the much greater exposure and hype that these received in kid-friendly gaming magazines and promotional material at the time.
Basically, unless you were a rich kid or old enough to buy whatever you wanted, the AES was hardly on your radar as a reasonably attainable thing, if you even knew about it at all.
>Look at where it was sold nationwide.
At the software stores where everybody went to buy games? Department and toy stores had a real shitty selection of games, barely anybody shopped for games at those place. Everybody just went to the software store.
Even in rural Wisconsin there were software stores.
Sure, people went to dedicated game stores and computer stores to get games m, but that pales in comparison to the number of people who bought games at (or had their parents buy them games from) places like Best Buy, K Mart, WalMart, Target, Sam's Club, various toy stores, etc.
I have never once seen a scrap of ANY Neo Geo AES material EVER at a yard sale, thrift store, or pawn shop in the last 30 years of my game collecting. No booklets, no cases, no flyers, nothin'.
SNK should have dropped it after 1993 and created the Neo Geo 2.
They should have abandoned the AES and Neo CD. Loyalists would be pissed but frick em'.
No home version of the NG2 btw.
Some company should have made a system that was made to buffer large chunks maybe up to 16mb of cd-rom data into a sort of slow ram. All the CD-ROM formats suffered from slow load times, a compiler could have been jiggered to pack up chunks as they were to be loaded.
because nobody cares about a 95% fighting games console
It could have had something to do with the $650 price tag or the $200 games.
wasn't a problem for the PS3
PS3 was 299 by 2009 and had loads of games in every budget from digital titles at just a few dollars to the full fat 60 dollar games
gaming in 1992 was still a hobby for nerds
gaming in 2006 was normie shit
>gaming in 1992 was still a hobby for nerds
completely false
Completely true. It was nerdy and shameful and rarely in mainstream public consciousness until after 6th gen.
Nerds and children.
No.
I will brook no argument here.
You are just completely wrong.
Zoom off and lurk moar.
Back then a nerd would accept the term "nerd" as a compliment, zoomer.
I won't debate that either way but it is completely irrelevant to what is being discussed here. Video games were completely mainstream in 1992.
No they weren’t, to you they were because you couldn’t see the world from outside your own nerdy bubble. Even in 2000 kids would make fun of you for liking final fantasy or not even know what it is. Today, normies absorbed all of gaming culture from the internet.
You couldn’t say to a normie in 1992 “wow that question was like the final boss of the test” and automatically know they understand what you mean. Now a normie would know exactly what you mean.
Saying you liked video games, especially if you weren’t a child, is like saying you’re a dungeon master for D&D today to a normal person.
Shut up you know-nothing homosexual.
You were one of those losers who didn’t know they were a loser, that’s why you’re a 38 year old virgin. have a nice day.
Yeah boomers had sex, smoked pot, and smashed space invaders. They were still amusements you got drunk and played, “pinball wizard” vibes. But they were simple time wasters and a social amusement. Gen X is when they just became huge recluse gays and video games went from high scoring drunk at the bar/bowling alley to street fighter 2 tournaments with guys spilling spaghetti from their cargo shorts.
The guy on the left was the one who stopped playing arcade games when 7+/10 bawds stopped viewing arcades as a socially acceptable Chad dick hunting ground. The guy on the right was the one who would act smug after beating a 13 year old on the new Street Fighter II cab despite being in his 40s.
Lol spot on.
We can all learn something from left chad. Too many right cucks on this board.
The average late-70's to early '80s early 20's to late teen chad would master all the gay space invader games and 1 to 1 beat all nerds in everything, it was a trope because it was true. Only later when video games became more complicated with super-involved real time mathematical rule sets did the chad have problems beating the chud. That was around the Street Fighter 2 era.
Im neither of those anons and youre the wrong one. Video games only started becoming mainstream after the explosive success of the Playstation.
You are completely wrong.
$649.99 in 90s money is $1,468 in 2023 money, and that’s before tax. After tax it would be approximately $1540.
Each game would average around $470 dollars in todays money.
That means if this system was brand new today, you’d be paying over $2000 for the console and ONE game.
That’s why almost nobody had one. This shit was for renting and rich children.
Don't forget the $250 for the extra controller (because you bought this system for fighting games, right?) and $200 for a memory card.
And yet ironically it would go on to be the poorgay's system of choice not that many years later.
The PS3 was also a goddamn bluray player and it's games (which it had) weren't a third of the price of the console.
PS3 was about the same price as a standalone Blu-Ray player when they were new, they came out right around when the PS3 did. Too bad it's a dead format though. Heck there's only one manufacturer of Blu-Ray mechanisms left (Samsung) and they're ceasing production at the end of this year, citing the fact that they have like a hundred million of these mechanisms warehoused because demand never picked up, and they expect that will last the life of the format.
Tell us more about how PS3 games cost $200
It was a problem for the PS3 though
this
Nearly all the games had ports on SNES and Genesis anyway. I also don't know at what point major stores kind of stopped carrying it.
My grandfather bought a NGCD in the 90s b/c he had lots of grandchildren and wanted us to play good games but not pay $200-$300 a cart. No idea what happened to the console.
Do we really need another topic on why people didn't buy a really expensive niche console? I can't wait to see another 400 post topic on people arguing whether or not they were ever going to rent out the units again!
Do we really need a pinned sticky on the latest Chinese retro-mulation handheld? Did this thread bump an ad thread off the board? I hope so.
I don't recall ever seeing them in stores. I only knew it existed because it was one of the categories on GameFAQs.
Look at where it was sold nationwide. Given the price and distribution channels, they were targeting older gamers and discerning rich kids for the most part, which are drastically smaller markets than the usual home videogame market, which consisted not only of those groups, but huge swathes of poor to middle class children whose parents shopped at big box retail stores. Imagine you're a middle class kid in the 90s who might only get a new game console+games at Christmases and birthdays; what are you going to ask for, an AES with maybe one extra game, or the newest Nintendo, Sony, or Sega console, plus a small handful of games, with some leftover asking money for a toy or two? That's not even getting into the fact that these consoles had huge libraries available for rental at your normal mom & pops, Blockbusters, Hollywood Videos, grocery stores, etc, plus the much greater exposure and hype that these received in kid-friendly gaming magazines and promotional material at the time.
Basically, unless you were a rich kid or old enough to buy whatever you wanted, the AES was hardly on your radar as a reasonably attainable thing, if you even knew about it at all.
>Look at where it was sold nationwide.
At the software stores where everybody went to buy games? Department and toy stores had a real shitty selection of games, barely anybody shopped for games at those place. Everybody just went to the software store.
Even in rural Wisconsin there were software stores.
Sure, people went to dedicated game stores and computer stores to get games m, but that pales in comparison to the number of people who bought games at (or had their parents buy them games from) places like Best Buy, K Mart, WalMart, Target, Sam's Club, various toy stores, etc.
I have never once seen a scrap of ANY Neo Geo AES material EVER at a yard sale, thrift store, or pawn shop in the last 30 years of my game collecting. No booklets, no cases, no flyers, nothin'.
Price..I wanted one so bad in the mid 90's..but they ran for like 500 bucks. But seemed like a pipe dream at best when
Because the games were $400 in today's money. And the better games were only coming out in the late 90s, when nobody gave a frick about 2D.
It was expensive as hell and soon became swamped with shitty fighting games that nobody wanted to play.
SNK should have dropped it after 1993 and created the Neo Geo 2.
They should have abandoned the AES and Neo CD. Loyalists would be pissed but frick em'.
No home version of the NG2 btw.
Some company should have made a system that was made to buffer large chunks maybe up to 16mb of cd-rom data into a sort of slow ram. All the CD-ROM formats suffered from slow load times, a compiler could have been jiggered to pack up chunks as they were to be loaded.
Which the Neo Geo is the Neo Geo the moron?