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[StueyDuck]

Just a thread about gaming things that these darn pesky kids will never get to experience that use to make gaming great.

For example:

Kids these days will never enjoy the car/bus ride home after saving up their pocket money for a new game and reading the manual and back of the box in anticipation for getting home and popping that sucker in.

another one:

Kids these days will never feel the excitement and wonder of reaching the end of disc 1 (or X) and having to save and put in the new disc, which always felt like a milestone in the game you were playing.

 

[64bitmodels]

For example:

Kids these days will never enjoy the car/bus ride home after saving up their pocket money for a new game and reading the manual and back of the box in anticipation for getting home and popping that sucker in.

aren't physical games still selling a ton in most parts of the world?

 

[StueyDuck]

aren't physical games still selling a ton in most parts of the world?

how are those manuals treating you?

 

[poppabk]

Choose a game to buy based purely on its box art.

 

[Onironauta]

aren't physical games still selling a ton in most parts of the world?

Manuals aren't what they used to be though

 

[TintoConCasera]

Game magazines. You could tell the articles, reviews and guides were made by people who actually played and enjoyed videogames, it was a nice read.

Demo discs, both on consoles and PC. Nothing like spending an afternoon popping one of those in and trying them all out.

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[adamsapple]

Kids these days will never know the omegle Chat Roulette bullshit that was Uno on Xbox 360 with the camera.

 

[ahtlas7]

Tinto beat me to it. Game magazines.

 

[StueyDuck]

Game magazines. You could tell the articles, reviews and guides were made by people who actually played and enjoyed videogames, it was a nice read.

Demo discs, both on consoles and PC. Nothing like spending an afternoon popping one of those in and trying them all out.

demo discs is a big one...

getting the latest OPSM or whatever local mag/console someone may have and popping in that disc to try many games a month, sure gamepass/ps catalog have kind of brought that back, but these discs were for unreleased games which is what made them feel cool.

 

[winjer]

Kids these days will never know the agony of getting stuck in a game, with no youtube walkthrough to help.

 

[DragonNCM]

Waiting for next EGM & new demo for your PS1 console....priceless !!!

 

[Omnipunctual Godot]

Fill out an 80-character password with an NES controller.

 

[touchfuzzy]

Leaving the game turned on and paused overnight cause you had got farther than ever before, and your parents were already mad you weren’t in bed, and there was no saves at all.

 

[willothedog]

... Know the joy of having to rewind the tape a bit and press play again because 'turbo load' on the Commodore 64 had stopped flashing before the game fully loaded....

 

[Cakeboxer]

..experience a LAN-Party. The ultimate gaming experience and nothing else got or will ever get close to this.

 

[TintoConCasera]

..experience a LAN-Party. The ultimate gaming experience and nothing else got or will ever get close to this.

You can still do that! Just grab a few friends and a few laptops.

Dunno of kids are into that, but I still poay L4D2, The Forest, Valheim and all kinds of shit via LAN.

 

[Imtjnotu]

Kids these days will never understand


Having to delete game saves to make room for other game saves....

 

[REDRZA MWS]

Just a thread about gaming things that these darn pesky kids will never get to experience that use to make gaming great.

For example:

Kids these days will never enjoy the car/bus ride home after saving up their pocket money for a new game and reading the manual and back of the box in anticipation for getting home and popping that sucker in.

another one:

Kids these days will never feel the excitement and wonder of reaching the end of disc 1 (or X) and having to save and put in the new disc, which always felt like a milestone in the game you were playing.

I’m old, I miss cartridges

 

[tommib]

Choose a game to buy based purely on its box art.

And it was love at first sight.

 

[Fortress of Regrets]

Experience the joy of swapping between 11 floppies to play Monkey Island 2.

 

[Cakeboxer]

You can still do that! Just grab a few friends and a few laptops.

Dunno of kids are into that, but I still poay L4D2, The Forest, Valheim and all kinds of shit via LAN.

Not the same as with a couple of hundred people in a huge sports hall playing Unreal Tournament and much more the whole weekend. Also "trading" games, videos (no porn, i swear) and mp3s or chekcing out other's computers and talking was big part of the fun. Those were the times.

 

[Agent X]

Hang out at the local arcade.

I know there are still a few arcades here and there, but their structure and overall vibe had changed. I miss the days when you could just pop into your local arcade, insert a single quarter, and show off your skills to all your buddies, along with anyone else that happened to be watching.

 

[6502]

Being a small child and blowing into a nes cartridge then taking three steps right, one forward, one left (or whatever routine) and inserting it with the hope this series of events would get the fucker to load...

 

[kruis]

Kids these days will never feel the pain of losing ALL of your game saves because you were dumb enough to buy a cheap, unreliable knock-off PS1 memory card instead of the much more expensive official card from Sony.

 

[RJMacready73]

Get handed a C90 tape with 4 billion games on it and being told xxx game is a banger then proceeding to fast forward, load, fast forward, load, rewind load and nausea until you finally get to the game your mate was talking about... And it was shit

Also, actual maps.. fuck I loved pouring over actual game maps that came with some games

 

[Goalus]

..experience a LAN-Party. The ultimate gaming experience and nothing else got or will ever get close to this.

Agreed if you are referring to a LAN party of no more than 8 people. The ultimate gaming experience indeed.

However, I still remember my disappointment when I went for a 20-people LAN party for the first time in 1999. It sucked.

 

[Fahdis]

Kids these days will never understand the anticipation of leaving the game on pause for a quick shit.

Kids will never understand how great gaming was before Jim, Phil and Shuntaro.

Kids will never understand looking at magazine and daydreaming about playing the game in your mind for months.

Kids will never understand gaming rumors and uncles who worked at Nintendo and Sega memes.

Kids will never understand the first time you ever did the first Hadoken, Shoryuken, 360 and Fatality.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Agreed if you are referring to a LAN party of no more than 8 people. The ultimate gaming experience indeed.

However, I still remember my disappointment when I went for a 20-people LAN party for the first time in 1999. It sucked.

I had both. With 5 friends in the cellar and with ~250 in a sports hall. While i loved our cellar sessions, the sports hall really impressed me.

 

[hemo memo]

Part of the cost-cutting measures being implemented, it is possible that, in the near future, physical game releases may only feature the game’s title on the disc, with minimal or no additional artwork or printing.

 

[Senua]

know the beauty of owning a CRT monitor/tv which you could rage punch without even so much as making a scratch

 

[cormack12]

Will never pick a game to take home based on concept box art

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Play an RPG where the “meta” along with every trick and secret isn’t known and spread throughout the web in a matter of hours.

Rent Baseball Stars and change all the team names to swear words.

The shared experience in NES days where there were a relatively small # of games and practically everyone your age had played the same ones.

 

[IDKFA]

..experience a LAN-Party. The ultimate gaming experience and nothing else got or will ever get close to this.

This. I used to go round my mates house for LAN parties.

Age of Empires, StarCraft, Total Annihilation, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament were some of our favourites.

Great times that we'll never experience again

 

[Fess]

They also won’t experience 10 minutes load times from cassette tapes and then end up with a load error and having to tweak the azimuth head and then do it all again, a couple times.

 

[ReBurn]

Fill out an 80-character password with an NES controller.

And have to start over if you got one character wrong

 

[Lunarorbit]

Game magazines. You could tell the articles, reviews and guides were made by people who actually played and enjoyed videogames, it was a nice read.

Demo discs, both on consoles and PC. Nothing like spending an afternoon popping one of those in and trying them all out.

I subscribe to a couple long form video game magazines through my library. They come digitally through my library app. Not the same as getting a Nintendo power, psm, or egm in the mail but it's something

 

[Goalus]

I had both. With 5 friends in the cellar and with ~250 in a sports hall. While i loved our cellar sessions, the sports hall really impressed me.

4 or 6 people were the numbers I found to be optimal for my sense of fun.

 

[DryvBy]

Game magazines. You could tell the articles, reviews and guides were made by people who actually played and enjoyed videogames, it was a nice read.

Demo discs, both on consoles and PC. Nothing like spending an afternoon popping one of those in and trying them all out.

Game magazines had to actually be good, unlike websites. When you're selling a product in a store, you can't afford to push something that won't sell so you give the audience what they want.

Jason and Kotaku and groups like that wouldn't be in business 6 months from launch if not for the internet which is easier to maintain poor income.

 

[Thief1987]

Record your playthrough on VHS


Well, technically still can of course

 

[Guilty_AI]

Honestly? Playing a game truly completely blind, knowing absolutely nothing of what to expect or how deep the game goes.

 

[intbal]

What exactly do kids do these days in terms of social gatherings?
Are they even allowed outside the house any more?

When I was a kid, we were given some change and told to get the fuck out of the house. We would ride our bikes to the nearest Arcade (every small town had several) and hang out for most of the day.

This was the absolute center of cultural life in the mid-80s:

*Random image taken from the internet. Must have been in a west coast city or something, because I never saw a "NO SMOKING" sign in an arcade.

 

[Dusktildawn48]

Kids today will never know how awesome midnight launches were. Halo 3, Modern Warfare 2, and Skyrim were some of the most fun gaming related nights of my life.

Halo 3 specifically, got my copy at a GameStop in a mall, there were so many people we had to wait in the food court and it was packed. Probably 100s of people.

 

[Kings Field]

When my mom would take me to the grocery store and I would hit up the magazine section and end up walking out with two or three magazines.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

They also won’t experience 10 minutes load times from cassette tapes and then end up with a load error and having to tweak the azimuth head and then do it all again, a couple times.

I don’t even remember that and I’m in my 40s

 

[GrayDock]

Comfy couch multiplayer with friends... MK64, Contra, Streets of Rage, SFII, GoldenEye...

 

[PhillyPhreak11]

Tinto beat me to it. Game magazines.

I read this EGM magazine too many times to count when the PS2 was coming out. I miss those days.

 

[64bitmodels]

We would ride our bikes to the nearest Arcade (every small town had several)

the closest one to me now is a 30 minute drive away and I don't have a car.

Why did arcades have to die?

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Go into a grocery store and see a new issue of a gaming magazine.

Go into a game store and see a game release they know nothing about.

Pretty soon, just go into a game store in general.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

What exactly do kids do these days in terms of social gatherings?
Are they even allowed outside the house any more?

When I was a kid, we were given some change and told to get the fuck out of the house. We would ride our bikes to the nearest Arcade (every small town had several) and hang out for most of the day.

This was the absolute center of cultural life in the mid-80s:

*Random image taken from the internet. Must have been in a west coast city or something, because I never saw a "NO SMOKING" sign in an arcade.

I assume they just do this…