/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1210251]

>Be me
>Relatively new to /vr/
>Wonder how anyone can think retro /vr/ games are fun aside from obvious nostalgia trips
>Been lurking for a couple months
>Eventually get the urge to find my N64 and all the games I stored away like 13 years ago
>Literally has not been touched since
>Fire me up some OoT
>Mfw my original play through hadn't been wiped like I thought it had.
>Mfw all those feels of me sitting with my best bro at the time (we're no longer in touch) spending WEEKS trying to finish the game everyday after school.
>Mfw that was one of the happiest times of my life.

So yeah... /vr/ feels thread I guess.

[Anonymous No.1210256]

You're a fag

[Anonymous No.1210260]

>Never had SNES as a kid but grandma had one
>Did a lot of gaming/logic puzzle work to keep reflexes healthy
>Always play vidya and ignore grandma
>grandma tries to give us tips
>whatevergrandma.PNG
>grandma passes away
>few years later
>cleaning out boxes of grandma's stuff we still had
>find SNES
>instant feels

[Anonymous No.1210262]

>>1210251
Welcome home.

[Anonymous No.1210270]

>>1210256
I love you too <3

[Anonymous No.1210274]

You could have left out half of that story and we would have missed nothing.

[Anonymous No.1210278]

>>1210260
man... your story even gave me bad feels

[Anonymous No.1210286]

>10yo
>dad says I can get a ps1 if I can sell my Genesis
>pumped, dad helps me take out newspaper ads
>few weeks later get a call for it
>get ride
>walk up driveway gripping my childhhood/best friend
>6yo Mexican kid meets me half way
>see the excitment in his eye
>feels

[Anonymous No.1210308]

>Grandpa introduced me to gaming on an old Performa
>First game I ever played was Alone in the Dark
>Rather cryptic (and I was 7 at the time), so my grandpa would sit by me and give me hints and explain what was going on to me
>Some of my earliest gaming memories were of me playing point and click style games with my grandpa
>Grandpa unexpectedly died a few weeks before 9/11
>At law office with family while going over his will
>Turns out he left his computer and all those old games to me
>To this day, I still have all those games and the computer is still in pristine condition
RIP grandpa Clarence 1920-2001, you made me a proper /vr/trooper

[Anonymous No.1210316]

>>1210308
Thanks to grandpa, I will die a filthy virgin neckbeard.

[Anonymous No.1210329]

>>1210274
Dude it's a greentext story. Calm your tits.
I'll rearrange it to leave out the filler if you want.

>N64
>Nostalgia
>Sad

[Anonymous No.1210346]

>be me
>uncle starts getting sick
>my mom drops my brother and me at his house to take him to the doctor all the time
>NES had been left at his house after we got N64
>play tennis and wrestling game every time we're over
>eventually time passes we don't go over and I forget about the NES
>at this point we have the gamecube
>uncle does
>cleaning out his house, we find the NES and all 70 something games my oldest brother had picked up from yard sales and junkshops over the years
>take it home
>fire it up
>feels of childhood and uncle
>thus began my retro vidya journey (the NES was already in his house by the time I was born)

[Anonymous No.1210349]

>>1210346
*dies
Damn it

[Anonymous No.1210353]

>>1210346
Nice story anon. You a collector? What stuff do you have apart from what you mentioned?

[Anonymous No.1210374]

>>1210353
Yeah I am a collector. I have a lot of stuff now. Too much to write all. As far as NES goes I have 300 something now.

[Anonymous No.1210383]

>father introduces me to Gradius and Metroid
>he always played without collecting all the health powerups/weakest shield options for a real challenge
>he could never beat Mother Brain or Bacterion
>several years later
>I beat Mother Brain and work my way to Bacterion
>dad has since stopped caring
>reminisce about it as I enjoy the credits of both games

Dad was always good to me. Even though he doesn't really care anymore, i love him.

[Anonymous No.1210396]

>>1210383
Actually Gradius is easier if you take lesspower ups because of the rank system. The game actually punishes you for playing it

[Anonymous No.1210410]

>>1210316
dude go back to /b/

[Anonymous No.1211039]

> Known friend for six years
> We used to marathon shit on his PS1 or Sega Saturn
> Things like Crash Bandicoot, Einhander, Panzer Dragoon
> We were fuckin' bros
> But lose contact with him for a few years
> Get a call from his mom one day out of the blue
> Telling me to come over
> I oblige and when I get there she hands me a bunch of games along with the systems
> Mentions that he has died not too long ago
> This shocks me
> Ask how he died
> Mother says that he was drunk one day and thought that sucking his dick while curled up into a ball and rolling down the stairs would be a good idea
> He was capable of sucking his own dick, but rolling down the hard wooden staircase was the kink in his plan
> Suspended in disbelief
> Take the games and walk out without saying much
> mfw

[Anonymous No.1211048]

>Find Harvest Moon hidden in a bunch of old stuff
>Pop it in the SNES
>My old save file is still there
>Play for a little while
>Check on my cows
>Their names are FUCK, CUNT, SHIT and NIGR

[Anonymous No.1211052]

>>1211039
> Mother says that he was drunk one day and thought that sucking his dick while curled up into a ball and rolling down the stairs would be a good idea

Man that hits way too close to home.

[Anonymous No.1211097]

i will put a short story
>5 years after i left my home i come back
>some of my friends of the childhood live there
>go around the place
>find that the arcade local where i used to play all day
>boot up Shock troopers 2[my favorite arcade game]
>beat it
>enter name
>i find my old name and remember when i beated this game with only 1 quarter and all my friends went crazy when i did that when i was 14 years old
>mfw
shame that the arcade local is closed now but all the cabinets are scattered around the town and my favorite one is near my old house

[Anonymous No.1211102]

>>1211097
NOTE:The arcade local closed recently,this story happened 3 years ago

[Anonymous No.1211196]

>>1210260
My Grandmother has a ColecoVision with the Atari module in her house, under the TV. She can't play it anymore (arthritis, etc), but apparently her favorite game back in the day was Zaxxon. Once in a while when I'm at her house I'll make sure it still works, clean it off a bit, etc. She's also got a GameBoy Pocket with BurgerTime, Dr. Mario, Pac-Man, Q-Bert, and some other games.

[Anonymous No.1211215]

>>1211196
Thought of another one.

>Mother bought a 2600 when they were new because she played one at a friends house and it was "fun"
>I'm born in 90
Fast forward to 97
>Friends all getting into video games
>Atari just sits under the TV, she barely used it after she bought it
>"Mom, can we play Atari?"
>"No, because I'm not hooking it up to the TV. It's too much work"
>For years I stare at it, wishing I could play it
>Had an Uncle who worked at Parker Brothers during the Atari era so we had some games like Empire Strikes Back still sealed in the box
>Start reading all the manuals
>Memorize everything about the games. The enemies, the objectives, the scoring system, etc
>Fast forward to 2000
>Save up $5 a week to get a PS1
>Finally my first non handheld console!
>Dad goes to hook it up to the TV
>"What's this wire?"
>Follows it
>It's the 2600
>It was hooked to the TV all these years
>I literally could have played it at anytime
I was pretty damn pissed. I don't think I've ever been more disappointed/mad at my parents ever since.

[Anonymous No.1211249]

>>1211039