"Do you remember when.."

[DaHero]

Do you remember when the community on the internet was still reasonably civil? That's all gone to hell now...

The community on the internet was once civilized?

 

[Retardinator]

Do you remember Intelligent Cube.

Yeah, I went there.

Aka Kurushi. I played the demo fifty billion times, but never actually got the game.

OT: Do you remember a time when 3D platformers still existed?

 

[thedevilscousin]

Do you remember the days before trolls? And when internet meant the inner net in your swimtrunks.....

 

[Not PvP Flagged]

Do you remember when games had "Armor" pick ups?
Do you remember when the best of games took a quarter to play but all of your allowance to beat?
Do you remember what a Beat-em-up and a Hack-n-Slash is?

 

[briunj04]

Do you remember when you had to go to an arcade to play other people in Street Fighter?
(Well, neither do I, because I'm not old enough to have that experience?)

 

[Titan Buttons]

Do you remember when Lemmings came on floppy-disks?
Do you remember when gaming controlers only had one joystick?

OT: Do you remember when handhelds used replaceable batteries? (Nintendo Gameboy, Sega Game Gear)

Arh those where the days, stupid charges and decline in reliability over time.

Do you remember when multiplayer meant sitting on the sofa with a couple of mates.

That my be the best multipler fun I have had and may ever have in my life.
I feel sad now I miss it

 

[ECasThat]

Do you remember this sound?

 

[spartan231490]

Do you remember when there were only 150+1 Pokémon?

God yes, those were the days.
Do you remember when, you could play more than one region of the pokemon world in one game?

 

[AFnord]

do you remember when we had the console wars and TV was still good?

No, I don't. TV was never good, people just had lower standards when they were younger.

Do you remember when add banners could not be animated due to bandwidth constraints?

Do you remember when the cool kids had a grey brick in their pockets (or more commonly backpack)?

Do you remember when the closest things to MMOs were text based? Do you remember the shock and awe of a graphical MMO, that was released in 1991?

 

[Ruuvan]

Do you remember taking the 10th letter from the 5th line of text on the 10th page to play Cannon Fodder?

 

[de5gravity]

do you remember when graphics was an obsession? I'm glad that's ov- oh wait...

 

[Epslion.Bear]

Do you remember running up the endless staircase for 10 minuets trying to bowser in Mario 64

Do you also remember how to manipulate the water level when entering wet-dry world in the same game



Does any one remember when you got readable captchas as well?

 

[AngryMongoose]

I remember when all my PC (well... mac) games had couch coop (I... never had a very good PC).
Made for some fucking good gaming. There's a reason I remember this as the greatest game ever.

I also remember when games looked like that.

 

[Caligulove]

Do you remember when we didn't have analog sticks... I try not to

 

[wrightguy0]

remember the days when you missed a shot in Duck Hunt and the dog kept laughing at you, so you shot at it instead?

Remember when you rescued Peach from bowser, but the ***** still wouldn't Put out?

Remember the days when you wanted to strangle Skippy and would go to great lengths to make sure he/she/it? didn't survive the level?

 

[Fujor]

Do you remember when games came on cassettes and when having 48KB of RAM made your machine a gaming leviathan?

yeah.... good times man.

do you remember when petrol stations sold games and all you need to pirate games was a tape deck?

 

[Rascarin]

Do you remember when graphics were shit, but we didn't mind because the gameplay and story were great?

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Do you remember when games came on cassettes and when having 48KB of RAM made your machine a gaming leviathan?

yeah.... good times man.

do you remember when petrol stations sold games and all you need to pirate games was a tape deck?

Do you remember 10-15 minute loading times to play games with cutting edge graphics?

 

[8-Bit Grin]

Remember when a game's length was measured by the number of disks it came with?

I'm looking at you Final Fantasy 7-9, Resident Evil, Parasite Eve, etc.

Oh, and Riven!

Swapping between 8 disks every time I left an area was BULLSHIT.

 

[Nannernade]

Do you remember when video games didn't need sequels? Or when they did even the sequels were great. Ah if only we could go back to those times...