boomers played this slop for hours upon end
Boomers played this slop for hours upon end
No they didn't.
You were considered deeply mentally ill if you spent more than 40 minutes a day playing video games back before 1987
with hallucinogenics probably
Did this game even have a real end or did it go on forever?
Or a normal stoner
My dad insisted otherwise. His high scores are still written on the cartridges and I couldn’t get anywhere near them. Granted I wasn’t even in middle school when attempting to break them and his playing days were in medical school.
The people who programmed the games were on cocaine.
zoomers still play this slop for hours upon end
I had a genesis but same tv
NPCs argue about 'other generation' for hours upon end.
I don't think zoomers understand that idea. Even TV in the 80/90s were limited to certain hours. Imagine the ADHD zoomers sent back in time, they'd probably kill themselves.
People act like old game devs were geniuses but you could shit out a game like this in 1-3 months because these games were so fucking primitive and if you made one you can easily copy paste another game. It wasn't hard at all
Doesn't detract from the fact that even some random arcade games are still better than games made today, so that's saying something.
I'll do it again!
You could beat it, there's a kill screen.
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they played Adventure.
I don't think pitfall is better than Concord. I think you would play Concord for more than 2 minutes because thats how long people usually play pitfall before they get bored
Eh... there was only a few hours where everyone signed off and if you had cable you could find channels with infomercials to watch. If you were really lucky you had HBO or something... I didn't til I was older for a while. Nowadays I don't even have broadcast television, it's fucking trash. It was always trash of course - it's just a hyper-californication'd sort of rich nepobaby writer type of trash now.
I guess I was thinking more of the better arcade games, maybe like Golden Axe etc when they started to improve.
look at him go
That's not true. You revisionist faggot. The exact opposite was true. There was a book written in 1983 by a guy who got addicted to Breakout and played it for like 4 hours every single day. They were selling books in stores about how to reach round 100 in Pac-Man. You also had at least one or two pinball wizards in every arcade and they were considered demigods. It was considered legitimately cool if you were adept at any game, because they all required real skill. Try playing Defender for longer than 10 minutes, you'll be immediately humbled.
You're thinking of the pre-cable days. When cable first came around, programming was on for far longer of the day. There was a whole stereotype in movies and shows of "the guy who sits and watches cable TV all day" that's basically the 90s equivalent of the stereotype of zoomers on TikTok.
Pitfall is good and has objectives
honestly played it for hours as a kid in the early 90s because we had it
I feel like cable was mid to late 90s but yeah before that, it was just a few channels.
That's fair. I would probably play Golden Axe longer than Concord
a guy who got addicted to Breakout and played it for like 4 hours every single day.
And he was mentally ill. People like that existed but it wasn't normal. "serious gamers" back in the 80s were all either ultra grognards who played shit like wizardry and ultima or they were speedrunning high score trannies
Nobody cared that most games were short because regular people didn't play them for very long
You are completely wrong and doubling down by applying chanspeak to a time before you were born. There's zero reason to engage further with you.
Cable existed since the 50s but exploded in the 80s. Just about any big name cable network you can think of (MTV, CNN, A&E, Nickelodeon, The Weather Channel, whatever) was launched in the 80s
I think about this. If we today when back in time to before computers there would be nothing to do but drink yourself to death in your own home.
Ok name one game from the 70’s better than its worst representation today.
OMG look at that SOUL (uglyness)
I still do. Pitfall! was my first game.
Literally impossible. You're talking about simplistic games or when video games first began. Oregon Trail was 70s or 80s I think, even Tetris was early 80s? I would put them above a lot.
Nta, but you’re pretty retarded. Gaming has only just shed its stigma in the last decade. Some faggot wrote a book? How does that make up for virtually every boomer not giving a single fuck about video games and acting like you’re weird if you play them?
Making a similar game today still allows you the decades of collective experience accumulated since then. Back then there were no video games to draw from.
Same idea as Flash games really, small simple games that you could play for hours at a time.
boomers played
millenials played
why are zoomers so obsessed with what people older than them played? i see about 10+ threads like this per day
intergenerational hate is just another jewish psyop like feminism, drugs, mass media and le left and le right autism to keep the goyim poor. Actual wealth is built by long run family business and strong clans that support each other.
slop
Pitfall is one of the 2600's best games, easily NES-tier in terms of gameplay and presentation.
Pitfall
Kaboom
Adventure
Warlords
Activision Boxing
Played them all non stop. Sleepovers while rolling Activision Boxing til 1 in the morning was the shit.
thats nice boom boom
Try 5 minutes.
Video games didn’t become mainstream until the PS2. The only person in my village that had an N64 or arcade machines was the son of the local baron, but kids honestly just flocked to his tower because of the AC (we didn’t have AC, only in the communal hall).
Amazing how fucking revisionist zoomers try to usurp history for clickbait.
CNN launched in 1980 and HBO had been a thing for years by that point. Even if you were a poorfag without cable, by 1985 VCRs and blank tapes were cheap and video rental stores were all over the country. Even the terminally online people wouldn't be totally out of luck in the 80's as BBSes were already a thing.
Arcades were insanely popular from the late 70's and early 80's you dumb zoomer.
games didn't get good until the 16 bit era
more than 99 percent of 8bit games sucked
is that pitfall?
Yeah and normal people spent around 10 minutes at most at a cabinet
Are you trying to imply that you aren't a zoomer when you think that people in the 80s and 90s had tv limited to certain hours outside their parents stopping them
Gas yourself kike
Yes, I did, and it was fun.
Those earlier games weren't fit for playing all day. But even when we did have much better games we still went outside to play pogs and kick things.
uh oh meltie
Stop trying to frame the situation. It just makes it more obvious to everyone that you are a kike.
game program
program contents
that cover art
So kinooooooo
ok boomer
Heh if I act like a bot he will give up
Cowardly kike. Use your words like a man. You are a man, right?
mad + obsessed
Kike. Speak. English.
it was all english. did a jew fuck your mom or something or whats up
Was a great time to make games though.
you have oatmeal brain lol
Imagine how great it would have been to have HBO and all the movie channels in the 90s and get to watch all those great movies after they had recently released. Now the idea of watching more than an hour of TV a day is hard to imagine.
now play the higher difficult levels
people really don't understand and appreciate this concept