Anti-nostalgia thread

get mad at smash bros

mom permanently takes the game away instead of teaching me to deal with my anger

problem old as time

youtu.be/M_3e3rVYrl4

yes they are

I miss my girls

wake up, feel kinda sick

try to eat breakfast

proceed to barf like 5 or 6 times

mom accuses me of faking it to get out of school

feel like absolute shit all day because of nausea and going to shit my intestines out between each class

and she wonders why I don't want to talk to her

mgs1

'insert disc 2'

insert disc 2

reset

doesn't work

This happened to me.
I had to play the PS1 for years before I finally got a memory card. I always had to finish the game in one sitting if I wanted to see the end of a game, or keep the console on for the entire day (but my parents didn't allow that)

This one time I finished Crash Bandicoot 1 (and later 2) in one sitting. I'm pretty sure it numbed me to dopamine and gave me autism.

doctor says I have bad eyesight

mom take away all of my vidya

didn't get a single game related gift for christmas

Eventually they started gradually giving them back but they still think games ruined my eyesight.

They probably did, let's be honest

parents buy a Barbie/Bratz game for my sister to use on my own console

she threw the controllers and chewed on wires whenever a game made her mad

my parents get upset whenever I tell her to stop

parents buy me ps2

instantly go and destroy ps1 with a big hammer

Fucking lmao

MY CHILD IS VOMITING ON PURPOSE 6 TIMES IN A ROW TO GET OUT OF SCHOOL

Why are boomers so fucking retarded

Mom said you have to let me play

parents buy me a game

it's actually an expansion

main game required

parents won't buy the game

t-thanks

loose N64/GC sticks

chewed on wires

Your sister is a rodent of some kind....?

Dad deletes my videogame OSTs to save computer space

I get him back by showing his ICQ chatlogs where he's flirting with other women to mom

lead poisoning

The duality of man.

animal abuse :(

wanted to play MMO at their prime

could not because fucking monthly subscription fee is a thing and Im in because poverty

miss out on SWG

miss out on Everquest 2

miss out on FF11

miss out on WoW

get excommunicate from all groups at school because I am the only one that does not have a WoW or FF11 account

now have lots of money and a career to afford it

except all the mmo are dead

Monthly subscription fee can fucking burn in hell and fuck any fucking retarded that defend that piece of shit system.

40 something American on ps1 is harder to handle than a fucking 6000 kilogram death machine on the same console

decide to make the same moveset AGAIN when you had 2 (two) analog inputs on the next console

Masterful move japaniggers

They really are, shame they don't live very long. I miss mine.

No, they have a unique smell, but you get used to it. Their poop and especially their urine is what makes them stink, so if you smell a ferret who stinks its because the owner isn't cleaning the litter box enough.

I love how these little guys just go batshit for 4 hours, eat and drink for 1 hour, and pass out for the other 19 hours.

I loved putting a sock on my hand under the covers and play fighting them.

pass out for the other 19 hours

They go fuckin apeshit until pass out, so many times I thought mine was dead but they just have the deepest sleep known to man.

parents get us a N64

sister demands that we return it and get a PS1 because all the other kids have one and we can borrow games from them

everyone else

EVERYONE ELSE is only playing pirated copies from russia and we never get the pirate chip everyone else had

I dont even remember why I wanted the N64. Sister probably prevented me from becoming a nintentoddler for life, but I'm still mad.

How long ago?

okay anon you've played for an hour that's enough for today

4th grade

class dismissed

waiting for dad to pick up me and my sister (2nd grade)

see my sister with her friends

she has my ds for some reason (mine was red, hers was silver)

call her out for stealing it

she gets mad at me and throws it on the ground

somehow didn't break

kick her as hard as I can and she starts crying

her friends get mad at me too

hall monitors send us to the office

we both sat there for like 20 minutes until my dad showed up and one of the faculty explains what happened

didn't get in trouble

I still remember I was on the final boss of Mario and Luigi PiT and had to start over because of that.

having nightmares because you watched your dad and older brother play Resident Evil 3 and you are 10 years old

dad deletes steam games from PC

saved gmod adv dupes gone

"It was virus, I remove."

to my sisters credit she told me to go slower in ace combat 1 so i could turn better and hit targets, because i was just zooming full speed. she's still a bitch though.

be me

Parents divorce

Help dad pack his stuff, and see him off

Get sad, get drunk, proceed to look through my old shit

Find a copy of Cabelas Big Game Hunter 2010

Remember how my dad brought it as a gift, how i ended up spending like 2 hours per level just tracking the big animal to kill

Set up the wii (somehow it was still working after all these years) and play it

Realise as an adult how terrible this game was

Game was stuttering all the damn

It was practically impossible to move without lagging

Shooting and recoil felt off

Side activities were pretty much pointless

Game was to quiet all the time to the point it started to make me nervous. There was barely even sounds of nature.

All that matters os to track down the big legendary animal and progress

End up quitting because i remember how i ended up having to spent 2 pairs of batteries per level every time i wanted to do anything, and that of i left the game i would loose track of the legendary animal.

Realise that probably the best gift my dad ever gave me was a hug, and an arcade game about bass fishing

Thanks dad. Im still pissed that you cheated on mom, and that you became a dick, but i still miss you some times.
Still, some of these games just aged like dogshit exposed to the sun.

grandparents buy me and my brothers a PS2 for Christmas

Parents take it back to the store because they dont want their sons to end up as nerds

We ended up that way anyways

that was me, except it was when I played House of the Dead 1 at the arcade. I could get a good night's sleep for like an entire week.

Doing shit like that end up being worse for the kids over all. Better to get it out of the system or they end up regressing and buying Console/Trading Cards/hobbies they miss out and want to recapture that lost moment.

the n64 had some great games but the controller has to be up there for one of the shittiest default controller designs ever

One of my ears are hurting during class

Annoy and piss off the teacher so much about that she calls home and mom comes to pick me about "ear infection"

Go home and play Roblox the rest of the day

I never had a memory card for years after getting a ps2. I would just pause my game and leave it on 24/7. I have no idea how I managed that as a kid.

They shit way too much

Roblox

Are your parents low iq favella monkeys?

You didn't really miss out on much

play snes game

save gone

I fucking HATE cart batteries. Even when they weren't totally dead they lost saves all the time.

mario party 1

HURTS MY HANDS

And today, in my full on bed rotting NEETdom phase, I struggle to play video games even when fully healthy.
KWAB.

>saved gmod adv dupes gone

Oh i'm so sorry

get excited for a game

read a review in a magazine that absolutely trashes it

get mad at them, decide they don't know what they're talking about

get game for Christmas

play it

it's fucking trash

Fuck you, Spyro Enter the Dragonfly

roblox launched in 2006.

correct I played heli wars and build to survive the giant justin beiber

Just like my fellow anons, amazing creatures.

h-how did you know

Komatsu-kun Biyori is a fun, relateable read.

kek EtD was the first game I ever returned, and that meant my mom having to drive us back to gamestop. I did get a memory card out of it which I didn't have at the time.

I had more fun with an exploit than the actual game.

find a spot between a rock and a wall

jump between it

game triggers this as Spyro falling from too high

he starts screaming

Because I am them

Name 15 games

parents refused to get an xbox because dad said it's basically just a computer

They didn't want you to hear that you're gay and your mother is being fucked over Xbox Live.

get my parents to take my SCPH-9001 PS1 to a repair shop

It costed more than just buying a new PS2

With a working, real Playstation 1 you can get a speedrunner tranny to suck your dick.
It's worth it.

rent ape escape from blockbuster

find out i cant play the game cause i dont have an analog controller

cry cause i know we are poor and we aint getting a controller

almost 30 years later thats the only thing i associate with ape escape

My parents buy me my first GBA

Ha! This GBC is obsolete.

*Throws in trash*

the speedrunner tranny

HE prefers the N64 tho.
PS1 trannies are a lot hotter.

GOODBYE HORSES

We used to be so much more based as children.
I outright smashed a CRT computer monitor as a teen not even realizing that thing was superior to any flat screen that would be manufactured until around 2023 or so.

Sniffing up the dust coating inside that thing is probably what made you brain damaged and gay.

want to play animal crossing

have to delete every game's save file

want to play any other game

have to delete animal crossing save file

I never got far in Animal Crossing because of this. I know it's supposed to come with a memory card but I guess my parents got a used copy.

Sex with that rodent.
Gnawing on my dick.

I posted this before

dad hates games

rent Twilight Princess on Wii

he gets really mad that I didn't rent a movie instead

on the car ride back home he keeps insulting me and angrily talking to himself

can never play TP without remembering this

younger sibling deletes your save data

>he gets really mad that I didn't rent a movie instead

oh ho! Little did he know!

I stink like this.

I had to wait until 2006 to get a PS2 from one of my uncles because my parents didn't want to buy me a game console.
Before then I mostly just played flash games and whatever PC games my dad had(mostly boomer shooters and Mafia 1).

3D acceleration is about compromise!

You can have nice high colors and transparency and bilinear on your tomb raider 2

However, you must run the game at 320x240x16, or it either gets too slow, or the textures refuse to load because there's only 2MB of memory

For a specific year, age 10 or 11, I chewed on my controller wires. Always in the same spot. I finally stopped when looked down and noticed I was exposing the strands inside the sleeve. Dunno why.

get excommunicate from all groups at school because I am the only one that does not have a WoW or FF11 account

This is how I know this story is fake. Even at their peak, literally only four people at my school played, and I didn't even know two of them. And I went to a nerdy-ass engineering school with >4k students.

Used to have a ferret

I was pretty young at the time, can't remember how old

Sitting on the floor, eating skittles and watching cartoons

Sometimes we let him run around in the living room

He scampers up to me and steals my fucking skittles and runs under the couch

Start reeing

A few months go by

Dad picks me up from school

Freezes when he opens the door

Turns out the little bugger got out of the cage and one of our dogs caught him and mauled him to death

fug

save up two weeks worth of allowance to rent one PS2 shovelware game from Blockbuster

the disk was always scratched as fuck

couldn't exchange it right away because my parents rented movies along with it and we had to wait for the return day when everyone was done

the one time i actually found a working game it corruped my fucking memory card

fuck you Jak X combat racing.

Was this the voodoo card? I fucking hated voodoo

Dunno why.

You did it due to a lack of reliability and stability in your early life. Your subconscious was attempting to soothe this pain through the development of an oral fixation.

I got like all of my friends into wow well I should say me and a friend played SWG and then I got my other friend into wow and it got like 20 people to play it. Shit was crazy.

he didn't live in an era where kids play mmo together

or Runescape in the computer lab

1. Drakan: The Ancients' Gates
2. State of Emergency
3. The Bouncer
4. Backyard Wrestling: Don’t Try This at Home
5. Robotech: Battlecry
6. WinBack 2: Project Poseidon
7. Vexx
8. Cy Girls
9. Shadow Man: 2econd Coming
10. The Getaway
11. Headhunter
12. Run Like Hell
13. Unlimited Saga
14. Lifeline
15. Ghosthunter

If I had based computer lab friends to molest I would've ended up slightly less gay and slightly less addicted to Anon Babble

What do the last four lines have to do with the rest of the story

Imagine getting filtered by the pure grassroots gameplay-driven freeform sequence-breaking arcadey with a focus on player expression with an unique take on progression pick up and play ludokino that is ENTER the DragonCHAD. Couldn't be me.

I have this opinion too but it's because I never owned a Snoy console so Enter The Dragonfly was the only Spyro game I ever played on Gamecube.
Be aware if you interact with this poster.

man, everyone at my school was too poor to play subscription based games, most of the pseudo-MMOs we played were just online action RPGs you could find on like newgrounds

Your parents were getting fucking fleeced if they were buying an MMO subscription for a kid.
I feel guilty for having done it to them and that shit only lasted like 4 years.

i begged my parents for a WoW sub but they adamantly refused
however, they did get me probably the best online RPG that didn't require a sub, so i am grateful for that

play a new game

struggle to get any good at it or get stuck at a certain part

friends are just as lost as me or don't play it

the Prima™ Strategy Guide doesn't help at all

No online community to speak of and if one exists you can't find it unless you're already in the know

Abandon it because it's not fun

For most games the best you had was a text guide on GameFAQs giving you verbal directions. I remember printing the thing out for Metroid Prime 2 because the light.dark world travel thing is neat but very easy to get lost. It's nice picking up old games I used to struggle with that now have a fully fleshed out wiki teaching you about all the important mechanics that the game either doesn't explain or does such a poor job that it teaches you wrongly.

Robotech: Battlecry

The rest I agree with but, u fucking wot m8?

My man

buy sims 1 complete for ancient pc because the base game worked fine on it

retarded kid me didn't know shit about pc's

hard drive was too small to even hold the install

didn't play it until we got a new pc years later

can be beaten in less than two minutes

lol

But it's okay when Super Mario 64 does it.

b-b-b-b-but-

Ahem. Cope.

In Super Mario 64's case, it requires a series of extremely difficult actions. Actions that most casuals are never going to find by accident, and would need practice to be able to execute properly.

In EtD, all you do is headbash in a particular area. That's it.

literally going "N-NOOOOOO THAT DOESN'T COUNT"

Boom. Donezo.

Dad proudly tears the wrapping paper off a huge box christmas morning

Guitar Hero World Tour with the drums

its the PS3 version

Ive only ever had an xbox

He got mad as hell and kicked the box so when he tried to take it back they wouldn't return it because he had bent some of the tubes. I went and bought it myself a few months later.

Super Mario 64 is also a game that isn't a completely broken rushed piece of shit and doesn't have minigames that completely crash the console.

gets molested by Mom's new boyfriend

Is that Toonces? Used to have a cat named after him.

Bonus CD for PC from some computer magazine

100 games inside!

There are only like 10 games at most

It's all Tetris or Breakout ripoffs

play homeworld

becomes favorite game

discover it has a sequel

save up for months to buy it

slam that bitch into the cd tray

excitement is off-scale high

game runs, kinda, but looks all fucked up and glitchy

dad takes the computer to a repair shop

it's not broken it just doesn't have a graphics card

oh, that explains a few other things

it would take me years to save enough money for a graphics card

heart sinks

dad gets me one as a birthday present several months later

excitement is off-scale high

take the pc back to the repair shop to install the card

my pc doesn't have a slot it fits into

...

fortunately they offer to trade my card with one that is compatible

get to finally play Homeworld 2

a bunch of my other games run a lot smoother and have effects I'd never seen before

Dude I didn't know jack about fuck back then, it used to be that either the computer could play a game or it couldn't, performance almost didn't matter as long as it got more than about 15fps.

One million games

Nexon used to have a shitty counter strike ripoff called Combat Arms

since me and my friends didnt even know counter strike existed in 2010-ish we thought it was the hottest shit

convince my dad to let me borrow his credit card so i could buy some of the premium currency or whatever

few days later the bank gives us a call and tells my dad hid identity might've been stolen, but i didnt know that at the time

a few days after that the fucking FBI shows up at our door, guns out and everything.

they rounded up my whole family and questioned us individually

i legit thought i was going to die and confessed through bitch tears to lying about having good grades to convince my dad to take his credit card and the US Government somehow found out

after a few hours of being interrogated it turns out that a wanted criminal shared the same first and last name as my dad had passed through the state a few days ago, and used the stolen ID to buy several illegal firearms

not even 30 minutes after they left my dad beat the fuck out of me with a leather belt for lying because they told him everything.

they caught the guy years later and we got a check in the mail for like $500 so we wouldn't sue because i got to know what its like to have our door kicked in and have the business end of a Glock 17 getting shoved in my face at 14

my dad still never lets me borrow anything from him now matter how small.

Rush home

See all the buddies log in

Play games

"Mom says to get off now"

No more internet as you leave your desk chair

Good times. It made being on the internet an activity.

Fuck the gba link cable gimmick for the gamecube.

That was based as heck and the only reason I completed my Pokemon Emerald Version national pokedex.

I remember Combat Arms. That shit was fucking fun. I loved the PvE mode they added. Shit was fucking impossible, but it was a blast trying to brute force it and learning all the strats to each map.

Sorry to hear about your fucked up childhood, bro. Hope you got some funny nutshots in your time on CA.

u fucking wot m8?

Idk. I asked ai to make the list.

Im not gonna think of 15 games for some anons shit post. I still do think modern games are generally more playable than older ones.

playing Starcraft online

mom makes you get off the internet because she needs to make a call

It wasn't. It ruined a lot of games when they required a gba and link cable instead of a controller when a controller would have sufficed.
Four sword adventure and final fantasy crystal chronicles were retarded for mandating a gba instead of a controller for multiplayer but still functioning completely fine with a controller for single player.
Pokemon is a little more understandable since it's hard to get cartridges connected to a console. Tech just wasn't that advanced. It's the egregiously shit execution where everyone's controllers are gbas eating up battery life and requiring up to 4 cables and 4 gameboys total to play with each other when controllers are superior at being controllers.

grow up in low income family so only have retro games and consoles growing up

biological dad gifts me an N64 for bday once, get games like Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, Smash, Diddy Kong Racing, and Pokemon Stadium

grandma randomly gifts me a PS2 one day with Spyro and The Spongebob Movie Game

start visiting the local used game store and further my collection of video games

abusive stepdad starts hiding/breaking my games and ejecting them while I play

starts claiming the consoles are his and basically overtakes using my PS2 at one point

he gets arrested for DUI and deported back to Mexico

takes my consoles and video games with him as one last fuck you

gets robbed across the border and all my shit gets stolen by some brown bandits

I emulated most of those games years later but I'm still fucking salty about it.

yeah, it was still a fun as shit knockoff to play and i remember it super fondly, i even still remember the gun i bought, it was a jet black M60 that was decked out with a laser a 4x optic and a 200 round box mag. i was king of the zombies server for a long time with that bad boy.

have to buy a new gamepad because the old one got the wires/buttons fucked

3rd time in a month

I no longer squeeze and mash my plastic fucks hard enough to break them.
I'm becoming fully faggoted, this is actually cringe. I was supposed to be brimming with virile gamer energy even when fully sedentary.

Damn, sorry anon.
My dad sold some of my consoles and games as a “fuck you” to my mom when she divorced him. I know what it’s like to have something stolen from you by someone within your family unit.

have classic stationary landline phone and some portable phones connected to the landline

stationary phone cuts of internet when used

portable ones don't

parents use the stationary one every fucking time

Why

8 years old

sega genesis stolen

cops called

fast forward, age 14

notice something in box

it's my sega genesis

ask mom about it

it disappears the next day

If I wasn't brain-numbed from my shit school life and focusing more on playing ps2/gamecube I would have been more rightfully pissed at getting hoodwinked like that. She stole some of my dad's documents too that we found only after she died and we were going through the piles of stuff left behind.

Remove tix

Remove forums

Remove builder's club

Asinine censor

Do nothing to stop predators

Actively disrupt community attempts to stop predators

Increase robux prices

Incentivize stupid simulator type games

It has fallen a long way since I was a kid.

dad gives away to a child's family friend Mario Golf on N64

buys a Nintendo Gamecube with Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour asking for forgivness

I'm still soo confused about this. Mi early years were like living on a prize tv show. You lose some and win some.

Dad gives away absolute slop and buys you ludokino to make up for it.

I see this as a win.

had a gamecube

one day it just broke, just wouldn't load games anymore

replace it with a wii next christmas

the nunchucks constantly disconnect/break from even mild usage, have to swap through all of them every time I need one for a game

wii breaks after a few years too

I may have treated my peripherals like shit but I was always good to the actual consoles, why did my shit keep breaking. The nunchuck part isn't really relevant I just hate those fucking things.

THIS
it was especially fucking annoying when i was playing shit like Red Orchestra 2 that only saves your class progress and ranks at the end of a match

mom, what happened to my playstation and the games?

i don't know

mom, where are my games and playstation? i didn't do anything

what you saying?

mom, i don't know anyone in this neighborhood did you take them from me? i didn't do anything wrong

you think i do that? you really think that of your mother? okay. okay. no, no, no. fine. you really think that of your mother. you don't trust me? you don't trust your mother? no, no. i see how it is. it's fine. no, i see how it is

fast forward a month

i really miss that playstation and all of those games, i had so many good memories of you and i playing it together

i turn it in. i needed money. anon. anon it was just 20 dollars all of it just 20 dollars

My family might not be the most affluent, but every time I see posts like this I'm glad for what I did have growing up. Sorry to hear that anon, genuinely.

This actually, the part that like feels empathy is damaged.

Loved the shit out of this as a kid, I downloaded a Iso, it's not as good, but I still liked it, certain parts made me almost pull my hair out in frustration, but I beat it.

I finished the whole games in one session without a memory card

All of them?

Yes most of the time when you are a child you have too much free time

I had a gamecube growing up, and I'd leave it on for weeks playing games, and I burned out the laser, my dad said he'd fix it, but he never did, said buying the part off ebay was to expensive, while also spending like 20 bucks a day on him and his wifes cig habit.

yet she proved you weren't too sick for school.

asked parents for a nintendo DS for my birthday

They promised to do so

Birthday arrives

Give me a shitty used leap frog handheld in substitute for a real gaming console

asked them what the fuck is this.

hurr durr We wanted to save money, you need yo consoom more educational shows and games in your life!!

grew up with only fucking edutainment baby games throughout elementary school while the cool kids played mario and halo.

even drains the batteries when turned off

more lithium anon!

i beat re1 and 2 when i was in the 5th grade...

let cousin borrow gbc and pokemon red

he takes it to school

african americans steal it

Your mom is fucking the PlayStation.

I've /mostly/ gotten over it after discovering emulation some years after the fact. I do still give her shit for it when I come visit.

oh when you were little blah blah blah

yeah, remember our ps1?

oh! playstation! oh you loved playstation oh goodness i remember tomba! ha ha! we printed off a guide we found online together! oh so sweet

ha ha yeah gosh did you know tomba is like 100 dollars now?

oh goodness oh goodness what? oh my goodness really? i got it when we at store for 5 dollars you remember?

ha ha yeah, remember when you sold it all and lied to me?

what you saying?

you sold it all and lied to me

i didn't do that

you did

i didn't do that

yes you did

i didn't do that

you said it right to my face

i didn't do that

rent ape escape

put it in

can't move

have to beg my mom to buy me a controller that'll actually let me play it

At least the 3rd party piece of junk never broke on me before i quit playing the ps1.

dad buys me donkey kong 64 from a thrift store

found out I needed the expansion pack for it to work

join army

come home for christmas break

brother bought a ps3

start new game of heavenly sword

it automatically creates a new save, you can only have 1

brother gets pissed because he has to start over

lol

im glad my parents gave up on me from an early age and let me game all i wanted while buying me new games from time to time.

i hate dogs.

i hated how jak became more and more about racing as new games came out.

is turn based combat anti-nostalgia

My dad tried really hard to make me a sporty normalfag.

signed me up for after school sports

never showed up since I could walk home

bought me an atv

never used it

signed me up for karate

intentionally did badly and ignored the instructor

Looking back I think he spent around $1000 over the course of three years. I just wanted to play gamecube and watch nickelodeon.

only had PS1 at my dad's second family's

no memory card

would play the first areas of Digimon World over and over

still haven't brought myself to beat it

2econd

SOVL

Memory cards were one of the reasons I always preferred the n64 instead. They always used to have problems as well.
Plus you could hire a cart from video ezy (didn't get blockbuster where I lived until 2005ish) with a completed game often or just a weird build that was amusing to find. I used those often as a kid.

Yep
My mate's one was DISGUSTING.

mine only ever made me play baseball in elementary school then gave up on me.

I had this, but she couldn't find me playing my SP. I had a doona. The SP had a backlight.

Memory cards were one of the reasons I always preferred the n64 instead

And then you get the n64 game where the devs were cheap faggots that made you get a memcard anyways. Worse still, some of those games nuked the entire controller pack's pitiful memory capacity.

I live in the opposite situation. I was raised by my grandparents, my grandmother who was fully and still is fully bought into the belief beanie babies and literally anything she buys with a label being worth 1000x its value in 10 years. Take that as you will. I simply pray you have a relatively clean home.

I HATED these. Had one for GB.

Oh fuck I forgot about that shit.

Tony Pro Skater 2

Those controller paks died so easily too. I HATED that. Could never get past the school.

Mom put my ps2 in a box outside during rain

I still have most of the games too that I haven't been able to play since 2011.

I had to input the password i had for Xtreme-G 2 so much that to this day i still have QSN5ZKW76ZMM burned into my brain. Shitty as passwords are, at least they'll always work. Plus if you have internet and just want to fuck around you could find a 100% password for the game and freely play without needing to unlock everything.

Over here we only had one serious gaming magazine and they used to give free games with every issue (pic related from May 2013 had DE HR for example). They also had demos for upcoming games and other fun stuff.
Earlier issues also had patches when internet access wasn't as widespread.