Was gaming really better back in the 90s and 00s? If so why or is it just nostalgiafagging...

Was gaming really better back in the 90s and 00s? If so why or is it just nostalgiafagging? Did I really miss out on maybe the most kino time in gaming by being born slightly too late?

Yes
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toddler is playing playstation

snoy sisters...

me in the middle

She's actually a 900 year old anime princess

Those kids are all in their 70s now

Where does the time go?

Was gaming really better back in the 90s and 00s?

Yes and we are never going back

little kid is on the menu screen

Yes. The game industry wasnt run by jews and there was no woke shit.

I just lost the game

I'm not sure if it was the best but it's better than right now thats for sure

Look at the difference between a game made in 1994 and 2004 and then compare it to the difference of a game made in 2008 and 2018.
Huge leaps were being made every few years, the next big thing was always just around the corner. Diminishing returns have gotten so severe I struggle to perceive whether there's any actual returns happening at all.

Yes

why

You buy the game and get everything, no microtransaction or patch bullshit.
Lots of innovation and experimentation between games. You can tell them apart from a quick glance.
Most titles are gameplay-first, difficulty is higher on average and they don't treat you as a retard who needs constant handholding.
And last but not least, what we call "soul". Every work is oozing with genuine passion and is made for the gamers, not for people who don't play vidya or as propaganda.

I'm oddly nostalgic for transparent plastic tech, am I weird?

playing ocarina of time with a buddy, passing the controller back and forth at the fishing hole

trading up to a full trang'oul set in diablo 2

playing halo 2 with five or six friends on xbox live

lining up with others in the morning at walmart to get Burning Crusade as early as possible

it was better for me, anyway. it was nice to be a kid with no responsibilities during those years.

am I weird?

Yes anon. Nobody else does, you're the only one.

you're the only one

:(

Anon, assuming she didn't get shot in school, that girl is older than most of Anon Babble.

I owned some of these, they are ok

Just ribbin ya, transparent plastic is the coolest shit. Fucking love the clear gameboy cololrs.

Anon, Mario came out 100 years ago. Just accept the fact that time moves on.

Yeah, it was. Of course, you can ignore console gaming, which was absolute fucking shit. Consoles were severely outdated by the early 90s, when gaming went through a revolution on PC, while the consoles were stuck in the 80s. Consoles were only really good for sports games, racing games, fighters and games for kids. It was like two entirely different hobbies.

fpbp
gaming in the 90s and 00s was literally the golden age, once the 10s hit it's been purely downhill. Even earlier if you want to get serious

They probably died in a school shooting.

Then a couple years down the line a bunch of fat ugly trans people came along demanding these women be booted from booths.

Both. It was a good era. Being nostalgic for a good era is good. You can still play those games but you won't have the same sense of seeing new novel things first released, the places you see them in, the sounds and smells, the communities around it, the optimism, etc. It was a whole life experience in the way things felt back then