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Kolanaki, do gaming w Feeling old
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Pong can’t be that old, can it?

drislands,

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The_Picard_Maneuver,
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It could start withdrawing from a retirement account without penalty in about 6 years.

SirSamuel, do gaming w If anything, I expect to enjoy them MORE once I can share the interest with my kids

I’m in my 40’s. The dad of one of my childhood friends is in his 60’s. He (the dad) grew up playing arcade games. He’s not just still playing them, that man and his boomer disposable income has had like every console that’s ever been made. He passes previous Gen consoles on to families in his community that he knows have little income when the next Gen comes out.

He’s not just still playing games, he’s promoting them for the people least likely to be able to play

LordCrom, do gaming w If anything, I expect to enjoy them MORE once I can share the interest with my kids

I’ve been a gamer since the 70s. Started with pong, Atari 2600, Atari 800 with basic… Compute magazine where games weren’t included on media, it was 5 pages of code you had to type in to play the game …

I keep telling young people the reason you have these awesome titles today is because of my generation playing fucking pac man.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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I love hearing about the development of the old arcade games. It was truly the wild west. Uncharted territory.

I grew up playing a lot of them on my dad’s Atari 2600, early DOS ports, and whatever arcade cabinets were still around through the 90s.

frauddogg, do gaming w Just finished binging the Fallout show, would recommend
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They decanonized FNV by having BoS nuke the dam at the First Battle of Hoover Dam. Cannot recommend; I refuse to recognize this timeline. Even FO4 recognizes some vestiges of FNV.

Cowbee,
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It’s just so goddamn silly how Bethesda just cannot understand Fallout, and it’s doubly cursed to see the terrible goofy grimdark mess of East Coast Fallout with West Coast factions.

Anticorp, do gaming w Time to play some Ogre Battle 64

This was Star Trek The Next Generation for me during the pandemic. Everything was so bleak, and a familiar and hopeful future brought me back from the edge of depression.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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TNG is like medicine to me too. There’s just something uniquely comforting and reassuring about it.

jpreston2005,

I heard someone describe it as “Competency Porn,” and now it lives rent-free in my head

xpinchx, do gaming w I think it must be an urban legend

Hey Quest 64! I almost beat this game as a kid, I think I was renting it.

I miss Blast Corps and Body Harvest as well, so many unique games on N64. Body Harvest was a clear predecessor to the 3D GTA games, being able to jump into any vehicle felt insane at the time.

Kolanaki,
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Blast Corps was my favorite single player game on the system that wasn’t Ocarina of Time. Though, I still think the ending to the story was awful and anti-climatic.

Hempwick, do gaming w Time to play some Ogre Battle 64

Apparently at least 1 person here is not of lordly caliber

state_electrician, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

I once wrote such a guide for a BBS game. Must’ve been 30 years ago. Man, I wish I could find that again. But I just saw you can play the game online: legendreddragon.net

LeroyJenkins, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

I remember I used to print these guides out on Epson inkjet printers in the early 2000s and wondered why I never had any ink left to print my homework out

CheeryLBottom, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

I loved Dan Simpson’s walkthrough for all the BioWare/Black Isle Studios games like Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, etc.

HawlSera, do gaming w They're often much older if I'm emulating

Do a fucking Simpsons Hit and Run remake and I might buy that…

Can they even remake that given that Apu is a major character in it and liking him is “Wrong Think” now?

CaptKoala,

Apu is the second best part of the entirety of The Simpsons: Hit & Run, second only to Homer in his undies.

I said what I said.

Blaster_M, do gaming w Classic Microsoft

Insert quip about minetest

Reminder that minetest (even with Mineclone 2) feels like “we have Minecraft at home” on a good day

AnUnusualRelic, do gaming w They're often much older if I'm emulating
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The soft beeping of Breakout is soothing.

maniel, do gaming w This is why god invented transmog

That’s not what transmog is for

rutellthesinful,

the special weapons always look cooler than the normal ones though

Renacles, do gaming w What was Capcom thinking?

Capcom is back!

In all honesty, this might be the end of Dragons Dogma if they don’t turn it around. The first game was a commercial flop even if it is a cult classic now, the MMO crashed and burned and now they ruined a good sequel for no reason.

I just don’t see how execs will greenlight another one if this isn’t a success.

Vipsu,
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The game will likely be a moderate success provided they can fix the performance problems.

Most players (unfortunately) do not care about having microtransactions in a full priced video games or about things like Denuvo. This is party the reason why the triple-a game industry is in such sorry state at the moment.

Also I find it funny that you’re already worrying about sequels when the newest game has not been out for even a day.

Renacles,

I know it’s weird to think about sequels already but this was a franchise that everyone thought was dead for years only to get a second chance and flush it down the toilet at the finish line.

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