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 Remember when video games were magic?  2
#9961360 - 03/12/09 11:36 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I remember when we brought home the NES for the first time, my parents and I. We played Super Mario Bros. all night. My parents were so into it and I picked right up on it. My life was changed forever.  Remember back then when NES games were rare? Everyone I met had an NES and it was always great to see what games they had and do weekly trades and whatnot. I'd hit up the flea market and find so many games I never knew existed. These games took forever to beat! You really had to develop a strategy and dedicate a lot of time to completing NES games.
I don't even play video games anymore. I have a select few PC games but I have every emulator of old consoles and every game for each. Games today are beaten so quickly, come with a complete walktrough with cheat codes printed right there, and they're all so overhyped. They just don't have that magic anymore. It's so amazing to own every old console game and have it fit on one HDD.
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 Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: Newbie]
#9962298 - 03/13/09 01:53 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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you put it so right......
i play my snes more than my ps2.....
and i have all the emus.....
old games are just the best..................
currently i have ninja gaiden triolgy loaded.....
those were the shit on the nes........
i spent so many hours at my cousins house beating that game....
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: Newbie]
#9965940 - 03/13/09 06:58 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I remember when Dad brought home Pong. The fact that we were able to interact with the TV in real time was like a miracle of modern technology!
Of course in those days there weren't ever remote controls. When you wanted to change the channel you had to go over to the set and turn the dial. There were 2 dials, actually. One would tune into the VHF channels (2-13) and would also select UHF. The other was the UHF dial that had another 30 or so channels. But I don't remember there being anything on UHF, and only 4 channels on VHF (ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS).
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: ToTheSummit]
#9966869 - 03/13/09 10:23 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I had the old dial TV's as a kid; they were hand me downs of course but I remember the Christmas I finally had a TV in my room. I was always so excited the night before I could never sleep so I watched a Honeymooners marathon on my little 15" b&w TV. 
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: Newbie]
#9967168 - 03/13/09 11:37 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I remember pong as well, then atari, then the NES.
However I love HD gaming and I enjoy having walkthroughs when I get stuck. Seeing old games brings back enjoyable memories but playing them again I get bored very quickly.
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: Newbie]
#9968996 - 03/14/09 09:23 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't even play video games anymore.
Same here. I think it's more a matter of how old I was when I predominantly played them (early high school) that made them so magic. Now I just can't help but feel that I could be doing so many more productive things instead of wasting my time in some virtual world.
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: deCypher]
#9970175 - 03/14/09 02:35 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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^yup
I think it's a combination of old school nostalgia and the over-commercialization of the video game market.
Back then gaming was sort of a niche market, and (perhaps) a lot more thought was put into video games...
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: France]
#9972001 - 03/14/09 08:03 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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In this thread: people wearing nostalgia goggles
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: Newbie]
#14225685 - 04/02/11 01:57 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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yes, i remember... here in buenos aires arcade games was prohibited during the 80's -i don't know why- and my brother and i must wait until January when my family moves to Mar del Plata for vacations, where arcade was legal. we play galaxian, moon patrol, kung fu master, 1942 and the others... also i remember some electromechanical games. i never enjoy so much any other video game.
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: x7x_x7x]
#14225721 - 04/02/11 02:06 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hell yeah, I actually just got some lost Nostalgia back with "Dragon Warrior".
I never beat it as a kid and know, 16 years later I've almost killed the Dragonlord! lol
It is a rather long game, a very early RPG, just reminds me of summer days of long ago, playing it with one of my first friends.
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: Toe_Jam]
#14225767 - 04/02/11 02:19 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was 17 when I started playing Ultima Online in 1999, obviously that was over a decade after my first time playing an Atari or NES, and the first time I saw that game at my buddies house I about shit my pants. He had been talking about it for a few weeks and I was just floored when I played it.
At that point I'd played multiplayer in Doom 2 and some multiplayer in Bauldur's Gate but the first MMO was video cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy all wrapped into one. The game wasn't ruined yet and guild warring, pk'ing, and stealing shit from people were all the most exciting things I'd done in any video game and nothing has ever come close to it since. Now everyone is online and MMO's are populated by millions of 10 year olds and game developers tailor every game to be a gigantic carebear piece of shit. They're all gigantic black holes that gobble up time, more than anything, to yield excitement and reward.
Nothing was as fun as those rare, epic events that lead to insane wealth or murder in UO. Sitting by a house that is ready to collapse, getting the key to someone's house before lock-downs, ganking silver vanqs from assholes killing lich lords... ahh those were the days.
I rarely play video games anymore and haven't played an MMO in a long time (wasted $50 on cataclysm and logged in once only to /quit after not wanting to set up my UI). I still have hope that someone will develop an MMO that is brutal and more realistic when it comes to PVP and item dropping. UO had some amazing items, and you certainly had to exercise extreme caution when using them, but it was fun to be able to compete with readily available items such that skill mattered more than gear.
edit: That game probably altered my life because my senior year I fucked off so much schoolwork because I'd be playing UO until the server went down at 6/7am.  I talked my Dad into cosigning a loan for me so I could get a new PC just to play it... $4k back then for what is a graphing calculator now.
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: 5HTSynaptrip]
#14225898 - 04/02/11 02:51 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Haha, that reminds me of playing Diablo online for the first time. You could still duplicate items, you could PK easy as fuck, there were so many hackers on there, you never knew what would happen lol. I kept my inventory full of ears I pked. It was so sweet, sometimes you could even kill someone and take their ear to get paid a bounty is the guy was a douche.
Or the first time I played starcraft online (after having played warcraft since I was 6, and loved wc2) I nearly had a heart attack. My buddy was destorying some guys base and he tried to enter the "power overwhelming" code. I lol'd massive.
But when I got Call of Duty, that was the game changer... Boy
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: Toe_Jam]
#14226003 - 04/02/11 03:14 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: x7x_x7x]
#14226026 - 04/02/11 03:16 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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There have been walkthroughs and cheats since the beginning, i had a walkthrough for zelda 2,was in Nintendo Power
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: Toe_Jam]
#14226036 - 04/02/11 03:17 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
E-in Liondragon said:
Haha, that reminds me of playing Diablo online for the first time. You could still duplicate items, you could PK easy as fuck, there were so many hackers on there, you never knew what would happen lol. I kept my inventory full of ears I pked. It was so sweet, sometimes you could even kill someone and take their ear to get paid a bounty is the guy was a douche.
Or the first time I played starcraft online (after having played warcraft since I was 6, and loved wc2) I nearly had a heart attack. My buddy was destorying some guys base and he tried to enter the "power overwhelming" code. I lol'd massive.
But when I got Call of Duty, that was the game changer... Boy
The second most epic game for me was Counter-Strike. That game easily comes in second for the most wasted hours of my life spent staring at a computer monitor. I was in the navy then too so we would go to cyber cafes and they'd all have lan tournaments that went all night long. That shit was always insanely fucking fun. The days of LAN parties like that are pretty much gone. 
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: 5HTSynaptrip]
#14226083 - 04/02/11 03:26 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah, no need for LAN now, lol. I am regretful that I never got to experience one, but sometimes those games made people violent 
I know if I would have been able to locate some of those trolls ..... lol
The game I probably played most since middle school though is probably Civilization 3 and 4.
That is probably the most addictive non-drug object I have come in contact with.
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: Toe_Jam]
#14226358 - 04/02/11 04:17 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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That was the cool thing about LAN parties, most people were cool because they couldn't hide behind the safety blanket of anonymity the internet provides. There was a younger kid though still in high school that went up there and I think was autistic or something. He'd freak the fuck out when he'd die and make this grunting noise while squeezing the sides of the monitor or keyboard. I'm not sure if you played CS at all but there was a map called mice_final and it was scaled so you were in a kitchen and essentially very, very small. There was a direct line of sight between players at their spawn points when the match was getting ready to start but it was ridiculously far and the enemy would normally move the instant they were able to avoid being killed. I had killed him a few times in a row and he happened to spawn where I could see him and I shot him and got a headshot with the M4 as soon as the round began. He fuckin lost it and starting slamming the keyboard.
Then the douche wanted to watch my screen to make sure I wasn't aimbotting. It was kinda weird how those games were because after playing with a certain keyboard, mouse, and key configuration you end up having to rely on it. I'd suck ass if I even used a different mouse.
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: Newbie]
#14226902 - 04/02/11 06:16 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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I did like NES alot. There was this one game called Geurilla Warefare. It was great.
I think modern games are alot better IMO. Some of them are indeed short but one thing that gets me is that I see people buy a new game and try to beat it as fast as they can on easy.
Call of Duty WAW is an action packed experience on veteran. It took me a long time to beat it as it was extremely realistic and challenging. The grenade throw back is absolutely incredible and so is the simulation of 'keeping your head down'. Gotta stay behind cover or you die. Plus the gore is amazing too.
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Quote:
E-in Liondragon said:
Hell yeah, I actually just got some lost Nostalgia back with "Dragon Warrior".
I never beat it as a kid and know, 16 years later I've almost killed the Dragonlord! lol
It is a rather long game, a very early RPG, just reminds me of summer days of long ago, playing it with one of my first friends.
Dragon Warrior is the only RPG I think I have ever beat.
But on topic I find that most games now just don't hold my attention, or maybe they are just below my expectations. Heck I just beat Crysis 2 and when it was all done I was just, meh, glad I didn't buy it.
Granted I have been playing video games for about 30 years now. So I guess just like Hollywood, it is rare when something truly great comes out that is new and exciting. Of course now with games being more console like, even on the PC it just makes think wait, what happened, why is gaming going backwards(at least on the PC)?
I still need to buy Red Dead Redemption, that was fun, but I only rented it. Speaking of renting games I remember renting PC games on 5 inch floppies, that was a cheap way to get new games.
I remember going to school and talking with friends waiting for the bus... omg I just got to gannon holy cow. Legend of Zelda was epic. Going to a party where a bunch of kids bringing there small tv and a nes setting up all around the house. that was fun.
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There have been walkthroughs and cheats since the beginning, i had a walkthrough for zelda 2,was in Nintendo Power
I had the complete map of metroid, that was a life saver. Nintendo power was the shit. It started out as a newsletter all black and white before it officially became Nintendo Power, or it was switched out whatever.
Damn I am all over the place, having a head cold effect my train of thought.
But yeah, games seem to have lost there magic to me. Now I just wait for portal 2.
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Re: Remember when video games were magic? [Re: mr.bixby]
#14241496 - 04/05/11 01:56 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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mr.bixby said:
Seeing old games brings back enjoyable memories but playing them again I get bored very quickly.
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