Good memories are a thing of the past.

[Briebee72]

Some of you will know what IM talking about and some wont. Use to be you did good as a kid earned a new video game or what not what ever it was you liked. For me was Video games. We would get excited to go to Toys R us and they had the little flip cards on the row. you would spend an hour deciding what game you wanted. Grab the ticket and convince your parents that it was more then they said they would spend but you had to have it. you would mow the yard, wash the dishes eat your vegetables ... anything if they got that one for you. They agreed knowing you wouldnt do any of that stuff LOL. you took you ticket and paid then went to the little window and waiting for them to find the game and give it to you. all the way home you thought of playing it and couldn't wait and then they would want to stop for lunch and you were nooooooo. you finally got home and tore the plastic off and the new game smell was amazing. you took out the book and studies every page ( remember those? instruction books) then carefully placed the game in the console and played it until it was time to go to bed for school and even then argued you needed just an hour more. rushing hme from school the next day to pay the game after talking about it all day... ahhhh

Now it would be hey remember when we were bored that day and downloaded that digital game for no reason and spent 60 bucks and were bored again 20 mins later and never played it again.

Blockbuster or any rental was a family bonding ritual. which mostly always included lets go out as a family and pick a movie and get pizza and then come home and watch together. it was a family night experience.

Now its remember that time we put some random show on to shut the kids up or remember that time we were doing nothing and then clicked button to watch some random crap.

I could go on but us older folk know.. even if we wont admit it , it was better times and we still relive them. Just substitute video game with car part , parents with wife and toys R Us with car part web site. and basically the whole story still works. Ill bet you even have offered to wash the dishes and eat your vegetables if your partner agreed to let you get your car part LOL

I just feel all this digital and convince has killed nostalgia.

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[Briebee72]

I really hate that Toys R' Us went under. I also agree that a bit of the magic has gone out of videogames because of digital sales. I haven't gone to a midnight release in over a decade (Skyrim!). On the flip side, there's now so many great games available, and more importantly, I can actually afford them. Do you also remember having to play every game to death and beyond because you didn't have the money to get a new one? I much prefer today's situation to how it was when I was a kid.

Yeah but that playing them to death because you could not just go get another one was part of it. its why so many people have memories of playing super Mario over and over and over. you had too and you had to get better at it. it was what you had. with out that being stuck with one game there wouldn't be any game memories. For me was street fighter 2 man we wore that cart out.

Yeah last midnight release i went to was specifically for the nostalgia of going to one was for red dead redemption 2. and I think that was the last one they even had to be honest haven't seen any midnight releases since.

 

[Rapid Red]

I remember when kids did not need push buttons or an LCD . Used their own imagination to create fun, not spoon fed.
And if a deal was made to do the lawn or whatever. It was done and are more responsible grown ups today for it.

 

[Rapid Red]

Nah, the adults from that era are shit too

Some sure are

 

[Bikeman315]

Nah, the adults from that era are shit too

Hey, I resemble that remark.

 

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[Norm Peterson]

I remember when kids did not need push buttons or an LCD . Used their own imagination to creat fun, not spoon fed.

Hell, Unless you want to include the Etch-a-Sketch, toys with push buttons, control knobs, or screens didn't even exist for some of us. Slingshots, pickup ball games, and building downhill buggies, yeah. Anybody else here ever play mumblety-peg? (if you did, you probably know enough to not tell the Karens of this world how that game was played )

I was already a parent when Pong came out . . .


Norm

 

[mindo389]

Some of the video games were like "why did I waste time that I'll never get back?" For example; Leisure Suit Larry. Trying to get this idiot laid. Heck I had more fun killing him. One game I used to play, just for the sake of trying perfection was MLB baseball. I had a no-hitter & perfect game, until the 26th out. It got a homerun... Never played it again on my old PS-2...

 

[XS]

I remember oogling the games at Best Buy, Comp USA, Circuit City, etc and buying purely based on the box art. I don't think I ever had a "bad" game. I picked up Duke Nukem 3D, Test Drive 4, 5, 6, Test Drive Offroad, Midtown Madness, plus others, and I loved them all. I remember racing home (well riding in the back seat), and playing the games to death on gloomy winter days.
Just a side note: there is an issue with replayability with games these days - however even though I'm not up on new games, it SEEMS like there are a bunch with great replayability still - Cities Skylines, Beam NG, Banished, etc.
The biggest nostalgia for me was buying StarCraft - again based purely on the box art. I just poured over all the material in the box for HOURS before I even loaded the game up! They had all the stories printed in the book that came with the game, with art on each page. It was so immersive, exciting, and mystical! I loved the game before I even fired it up! I can still tap into that feeling even today, 25+ years later. I remember exactly where and when I was when I opened that game box.

 

[GMONSTAH]

I remember when steam first came out and when I realized I needed their permission to play a game on my computer I was like, oh f this bullshit!

 

[GMONSTAH]

Now I feel old... I remember shopping for 2600 cartridges...

 

[Dfeeds]

Digitalizing games and only having one game to play are different. I was, briefly, inbetween jobs in my early 20s so what I had in my steam library was what I was stuck with. Played the games to death... I had no money but a lot of time.

The nail was hit right on the head above. Now I can buy any game and computer upgrade I want but my time is limited. A lot of games empty their bag of tricks about half way through so I'm onto the next one by then. The gameplay has to be incredibly engaging (Sekiro comes to mind) or the story has to top notch (Witcher 3). It depresses me, to be honest. I don't like losing interest so quick but just taking a joyride in my Mustang competes with my video game time. So it is what it is.


Although I do miss the detailed instructions. Sitting on the toilet and reading up on all the different weapons or enemy types was a lot of fun. In some ways that was more fun than playing the game itself. But that was also before cell phones. Guess where I am right now

 

[Bikeman315]

Now I feel old... I remember shopping for 2600 cartridges...

Well I was shopping for 2600 cartridges for my girls. And then Nintendo, Mattel, & Sega. I was with Panasonic when 3DO came out. Most of the games where from EA so they were pretty good. I still remember sitting in a darkened living room playing "D" with the girls. Scared the dickens out of them. Oh the memories.

 

[GMONSTAH]

Speaking of which, I still play Day of Defeat on Steam every now and then. That’s from 2005. I wonder if you can still spray paint porn on walls?

 

[GMONSTAH]

Well I was shopping for 2600 cartridges for my girls. And then Nintendo, Mattel, & Sega. I was with Panasonic when 3DO came out. Most of the games where from EA so they were pretty good. I still remember sitting in a darkened living room playing "D" with the girls. Scared the dickens out of them. Oh the memories.

I remember Neo Geo being like the holy grail. No way in hell though could I, or my folks, pitch out $600+ for the system and $150 games!

I do remember downloading a few Neo Geo games through the Nintendo wii a few years ago to finally play them!

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