"Do you remember when.."

[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...

 

[Nannernade]

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.

You didn't follow the rules sir there is no "Do you remember when" in that post. >.<

 

[Legion]

Do you remember when this site was the last bastion of intellect and rationality on the internet?

 

[BlueGlowstick]

Remember when gas prices weren't $4 a gallon? (lol sorry...)

Remember when the N64 was the wonky controller & you used to just used the handle with the up/down/left/right buttons to cool down your hand when it got hot from playing so much?

Remember when Microsoft was just part of Windows, had no Xbox, and Playstation had no Blu-Ray?

Remember when the only handheld game system belonged to Nintendo? (I think...)

Remember when Sudoku was still in Japan?

 

[Vibhor]

Do you remember when this site was the last bastion of intellect and rationality on the internet?

Intellect and rationality?
Those things even existed on the internet!?

 

[Realitycrash]

Do you remember when this site was the last bastion of intellect and rationality on the internet?

Intellect and rationality?
Those things even existed on the internet!?

Please see the "Do you remember when the Internet was reasonably civil?" post.

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

You mean when the "internet" was a dozen webbased-bulletinboards that only a handfull of true nerds understood and used? Where you more or less HAD to be civil, or you would get banned from said board, and thus you had no "internet"?

Yeah..I actually do.

 

[Brandon Verrill]

Do you remember when video game commercials were actually good?

 

[tigermilk]

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

*Sighs*, those were the days. Hammering someone at Street Fighter II or Soul Calibur then pulling faces at them until they want to "hadukon" you in real life. Getting owned at COD4 doesn't compare.

 

[Cpu46]

Do you remember blowing on cartridges?

Do you remember the Pikachu Gameboy Color?

Do you remember?! Huh?! Do ya?!


Ah...........whatever.....

I still have one of those somewhere in my house, along with an original game boy. I dust them off from time to time for the sake of nostalgia.


OT: Do you remember when you had to have one of those bendy light things to play gameboy at night?

Do you remember when Games made off of movies.... wait.... they still sucked back then.

Most importantly though:
Do you remember when Han shot first?

 

[Mackinator]

Do you remember when you first discovered Star World on Super Mario World?
THAT was a fun game

 

[tigermilk]

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

Have you tried to play a multiplayer of any modern game? Prepare for a case of grey blind as there are no god damn colours to differentiate anything from anything else in your tiny portion of the screen.

OT: Do you remember when crap wasn't the fore most genre of game?

True, I wonder if anyone other than Nintendo has thought of using a colour pallate beyond grey and daek green. In GTA IV it felt like an aesthetic statement (the grim colours reflecting a cultural malaise) in pretty much every other game it just bored me.

 

[Fidelias]

Do you remember when every couple of hours you had to take out your game and blow on it to get all the dust and crap out?

Do you remember when the N64 first came out?

Do you remember the original gameboy? You know, the big grey brick that only had like 3 games?

 

[Jondare]

Do you remember when you blew into your Gamebo cartridge to get it working?

Do you remember when the games didn't care about "realism", only about how much fun you were having?

In the same vein, do you remember when games didn't take themselves too seriously?

 

[EmzOLV]

Do you remember when Monkey Island came on floppy-disks?

Do you remember when the box came with one of those circular spin disks for you to work out the passwords?!

And my other favourite:
Do you remember when we used to have N64 magazine and people would submit screenshots of completing Mario Kart races in 1 second? And that they had the charts of people who had done it the fastest?

[sub]Cheaters...lol [/sub]

 

[ace_of_something]

[HEADING=1]never forget: the dreamcast died for your sins[/HEADING]
that is all

 

[Lectori Salutem]

Do you remember when computers used punched cards?