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| Does anyone else have no idea how they missed so many classic games as a kid? |
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| maximo310:
Missed out on most of the other 6th generation stuff, since I only had a Gamecube and several games for about 5 years. Thankfully, PS2 and Xbox seem to be relatively inexpensive compared to Gamecube when it comes to game prices still. |
| spac316:
I missed a lot of classics I could have played back when I was a kid. Probably because I didn't have anyway of knowing about them or I wasn't very open minded. |
| Warmsignal:
I've got a pretty good idea how. My parents weren't well off, we didn't really do any odd jobs to earn money, and we had no Internet. We found out about games through cover art and game descriptions at rental stores, and the one-off magazines we would get. We mostly got games for our birthday, and Xmas only. There was no dedicated game store in the area back then, and there was just no way we could have played all of the "classics". Plus games were just one part of being a kid, it wasn't everything that I did. |
| dashv:
--- Quote from: Warmsignal on February 08, 2016, 11:40:44 pm ---I've got a pretty good idea how. My parents weren't well off, we didn't really do any odd jobs to earn money, and we had no Internet. We found out about games through cover art and game descriptions at rental stores, and the one-off magazines we would get. We mostly got games for our birthday, and Xmas only. There was no dedicated game store in the area back then, and there was just no way we could have played all of the "classics". Plus games were just one part of being a kid, it wasn't everything that I did. --- End quote --- ^this Although I lived out in no mans land so all I really had for recreation was video games and a swimming pool. We did have the Internet. But I used Bulletin Board systems on dialup first. I remember playing some door games at 2600 baud. Later when we got on the web at 28800 with Netscape navigator we would download shareware from HappyPuppy.com. Duke Nukem 3D blew my mind and the computer kind of replaced the NES. There was just no comparison between consoles and PCs back then. |
| sworddude:
It's pretty easy to miss classic games as a kid. At least in my case, I did not actively read game magazines or went to stores that often. Mainly games like mario and pokemon in combination with the lack of money to spend It's pretty easy to miss out on pretty much everything else. Zelda was that game that few people had in my neighbourhood I considered that series pretty mediocre since it was no mario, for rpg's you see them from time to time but don't remember them names when you don;t pay attention to much. I knew most characters only due to smash brothers and considered those games to be bad. Sometimes some awesome games at the arcade like raiden but not the kinda games that you find in a store. |
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