@coolboymew there's a qualitative difference between a kid who had nintendo power and looked forward to new releases and a kid who got a pile of games and a console for twenty dollars at a yard sale
@s8n Nah, the gens were weird and information was low back then. I remember Kirby's Adventure was still sold way into 1996 when Kirby Super Star was out. I would have bought it had I had a NES
@coolboymew (if you're wondering, ???, well tectoy got exclusive rights to the machine from sega and they'll milk all its worth until humanity merges into the singularity, apparently)
@coolboymew I rented it, shit was baller af. I remember there was a really late release ninja turtles fighting game that was a legit 2d two player vs fighting game like street fighter on the nes too and it was fucking lit
I played on other peoples Nintendo but I didn't have one consistently until around 1995. Then I jumped straight to a Playstation a couple years later. Then I went backwards and owned basically everything that came before then at one point.
@BlinkRape@coolboymew playing those original titles on the original hardware during your formative years just changes you. Your experiences are different so you react to other games differently.
Like some new release comes out. Some people out there are comparing it to the few other games they played. They're like oh this fromsoft game is really cool and special and it's a big release. They're comparing it to like idk god of war and assassins creed or something. And it's pretty good you know, in context. For them. But nigger I had The Legend of Zelda on launch day. That's literally where the bar is if you're trying to impress me. And I've been like this since 1987
@s8n@BlinkRape While I was slightly too young for the glory days of the nes, I was born with one and played it, and the multicart I had, for a while, which those years felt forever Still too young for "launch day" shenanigans, and due to my unique location, Video Games Magazines weren't a thing for a while, but I did experience the best of the Snes back in the days SMW, All Stars, Super Mario Kart, Kirby Super Star, DKC, DKC3, Kirby Dream Land 3, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario RPG
@Homegriffon@coolboymew it couldn't have worked on most other properties either because most of the characters were the turtles they just used mostly pallet swaps and only a few unique frames for special moves
@s8n@Homegriffon The Power Ranger game (actually Japanese made, which I believe they took the engine from another game of theirs) does this. The powered up Power Ranger mode has all the same player sprites, even the girls lol
@coolboymew@shitposter.club tfw zoomer doesn't understand that back then poor kids had an NES, even into the 2000's people still bought NES/SNES/GEN games if their family was poor and you could buy a truckload of NES games for the price of one PS2 game because nobody wanted them and only until about 2010 was when retro games were starting to become collectable
@coolboymew@shitposter.club but I played most of my games on a handmedown netbook that my grandma had, then gave to my mom, then she gave to me, but there was also the family desktop that was slightly more powerful (was a POS optiplex) and a family desktop-replacement laptop that was okay-ish
@coolboymew@shitposter.club well I got the PS1 at a garage sale with a stack of games for $10 at a yard sale my mom had an XBOX but I wasn't allowed to play it unless my mom wasn't home because that was her DVD player and her bedroom TV
Most people outside West Europe, North America and Japan were introduced to the NES in the late 90s. There were many bootleg NES devices mostly made in China and sold to in former USSR states and the third world during the late 90s and early 00s.
@coolboymew@shitposter.club the family PC wasn't being used most of the time because my mom and sis had their own laptop, so I used the family PC up until I got my netbook
@coolboymew Born 1996, I started with an N64 at a daycare when I was 5. Saved up enough money for a PS2 eventually few years later, played mostly PS1 games on it (cheaper).
I pretty routinely got my hands on Atari 2600s back in the day because when you're a kid, you take what you can get and they were all around yard sales.
@s8n@BlinkRape@coolboymew yeah, i played Final Fantasy VII at 12 on the PSX, at the perfect age to enjoy that game, that's my bar and modern games rarely come near it
@coolboymew Can confirm, N64 was the first console where people actually raced to buy it when it came out. I was born in 87 but had a hand-me-down Atari then a NES.