ITT things only oldfags will understand >the excitement of

???????
That's not what oldfag means

>>381639632
Not an oldfag but I understand that first feel, N64 was unbelievably fun

>>381639632
>PCs weren't as powerful as they are today
You're a god damn idiot if you think consoles ever stood up to PC even once in the entire history of the home computer. PC has and always be ahead of the curve massively.

>>381639632
how new do you have to be to type out this post

>>381639632

PC's were always superior, they were just too expensive for plebs.

>>381639968
>PC has and always be ahead of the curve massively

Not that anything came out to take advantage of that back then.

>>381640060
>Not that anything came out to take advantage of that back then.

Don't ever go full retard anon, you're not an old fag or you wouldn't say such stupid shit.

War3 & Aoe2

LAN

>>381640143
>Don't ever go full retard anon

Arcade games have always looked better than PC games back then anon.

>>381639968
>>381640054
Take a look at DOS games from the 80s and NES games and say that again.

The pre-9/11 world

>>381639632
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>>381639968
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>>381640054
>>381640060
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>>381640542
Hey guys, I'm an oldfag, I just wanted to let you know.

Impressive, right?

>>381640643
not really

>>381640673
Piss off, newfag.

>>381640719
okay new fag

>>381639632
>back in the days consoles were the only way to play vidya.

HAHAHAHA. Faggot,

>>381639632
Cute subject f

>>381640542

What part of the 80's? 1985 when the NES came out, or 1988? In 1985, games looked similar as they did on NES, in 88? No contest, PC obliterated the NES. The first 10 years were pretty tumultuous for all realms of gaming.

But, I was born in 1981, so I actually lived most of that.

>>381641608
>36 years old
>still browsing 4chan
lel what a fucking loser

>>381641608
>games looked similar

Examples please.

>>381641882

Hah, joke's on you, I don't even *GO* outside.

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Everyone is a newfag

>>381642174

Like Battle Chess vs Megaman 2
Or Captain Comic vs Blaster Master

PC had a little bit more to the color pallet and more memory to allow for more fluid animations. It took off from there.

>>381639632
>cartridge blowing
>renting
>SERIOUS buyer's remorse (remember, adjusting for inflation games used to be equivalent to over $100)
>couch co-op being the NORM
>LAN
>new genres (remember, new genres used to be invented practically every year in the 80s and 90s)
>system add-ons
>connector cables for portables
>arcades
>joystick controllers (as defaults)
>peripheral controllers COMING WITH THE SYSTEM
>gaming magazines
>"strategy guides"
>How to Win at Nintendo Games
>Captain N
>Mario being cool
>Sonic being cool
>Metroid being cool
>Star Fox being relevant
>getting systems at garage sales
>"waiting for it to come to [console]" (for arcade games)
>PC gaming being an entirely different world from consoles with its own separate set of games
>unlit portables
>"numb thumb"
>being able to see 90s ads unironically
>porn games (that weren't weeb shit or flash)
>newgrounds
>"controversial" games being the NORM, and all attempts to censor them failing
>standing up to play games
>playing emulators with a keyboard
>LCD games
>not being able to play games because somebody else was using the TV
>not being able to play online because somebody else was using the computer
>not being able to play online because somebody else was using the phone
>being disconnected by a phone call
>BBS gaming
>using Terminal in Windows to connect to a server
>vector graphics

>>381642264
Hilarious

>>381642914
>not being able to beat a puzzle because you didn't have the internet
>2D racing games and having your fucking mind blown when 3D racing games started coming out
>Sega
>Atari
>SNK
>NEC
>Coleco
>Mattel
>Commodore
>"epilepsy scares"
>licensed games being a BIG DEAL with ZERO stigma surrounding them
>sports games being a genre with insane variety of selection and gameplay
>digitized photo graphics
>wrestling games (and wrestling in general) not being a total joke
>skateboarding games (and skateboarding in general) not being a total joke
>FMV
>3-button mouses
>having more than 4 face buttons on a controller
>cheat codes
>seeing/playing 3D for the first time
>Myst (if you were there you don't even need me to explain what this means)
>polygonal VR being "THE MOST HIGH TECH FUCKING THING EVER"
>VR gloves

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>>381639632
>you will never load a casette full of pirated games on your C64
>you will never wait 15 minutes for a game to load
>you will never experience cracktros
>there are people here that never owned games on a casette tape

AND I DONT CARE, SHIT SUCKED ANYWAY (except the cracktros)

>>381640060
>Not that anything came out to take advantage of that back then.
they still don't take the advantage, maybe star citizen will prove me wrong in 10 years when it comes out and another 5 years when I will be able to run it

>>381643402
>they still don't take the advantage

They do though, much better than consoles.

>>381643513
sure, they improve the graphics and nothing else.

>>381643716
>they improve the graphics and nothing else.

lol

>>381643769
elaborate

>>381643852
I laughed out loud.

>>381643852
Not >>381643769

Sound Channels, more complex game mechanics, started most genres.

>>381642978
>>381642914
>no one responding to these because no one on /v/ knows what they mean

this thread is depressing

>>381642264
I first saw this on a site that wasn't 4chan

>>381644169
Does a response mean an upvote for you or something?

>>381644169
welcome to nu-4chan
where all the users are redditors and almost all oldfags are just newfags pretending to be oldfags

>>381644078
the conversation I started here >>381643402 is more about the current state of PC games.

could you tell me about any PC improvements not related to graphics that happened in the last 10-15 years

>>381642978
Alright, I'll 1 up you on this.

>Arcade Machines that Titled with your input
>VCR games that interacted with toys
>Age Verification Quizzes
>Command Line
>Handwritten Move lists
>Tiger R zone
>WoT MUD
>AOL Chat RP
>Smoking indoors
>No rating system
>Quartering Up

>>381639632
Which chapter is this?

>>381644785
>Sushi X
>Diehard GameFan
>Working Designs
>THIS IS A PLAYSTATION GAME DISC
>Dinosaur Developer Demo
>Realbout GT
>The Boneyard

>>381644271
I'm not the guy I was quoting, I just was observing that 90% of what they listed in those posts are shit that /v/ isn't even old enough to remember

>>381644348

OH! VR & Track IR. Mobas. There haven't really been a whole lot of new genre's as of late.

>>381640606

I don't even remember what the media talked about before 9/11 happened. Now it's all about terrorism.

>>381645303
thanks for actually answering my question

>>381645083
It's the chapter right before the sick visit chapter.

>>381639632
the first ever console i got was a gamecube at age 6 for christmas when it was released

TRICK
CHEAT
FRAUD
LIE
SULFUR IN THE AIR

>>381639632
what added to it is that back then differences between consoles were far, far larger. The jump between, say, SNES, 64, and GCN was mindblowing. Not only were the graphics far superior, but the jump was so profound that it always opened up a ton of new gameplay possibilities as well.

>>381646310
THIS

Gen 7 was just gen 6 in HD and online. Gen 8 is just gen 8 with slightly higher resolution. Fucking ridiculous.