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Topic	Valley of The Geeks
Revelation34 11/07/19 2:27:26 PM #451:	Zeus posted... Piracy was very hard because you'd need to find people to borrow/trade tapes with. I'm not sure if you've ever been into anime, but anime VHS tapes in the 90s were a fucking nightmare. Then peer-to-peer came along and there was massive access no matter where you lived. And now you have countless legal streaming options, too. I didn't mean just for anime though. I think back then I watched stuff that was anime and didn't know what anime was. Like the original Dragonball that I caught a few episodes of. Zeus posted... Well, things may change as we get an influx of dedicated streaming sites. For gaming, I'm not sure if Steam will have any serious competition for a while. Epic Store is trash so that will never happen. I_Abibde posted... I still have several of my VHS tapes from the Age of Fansubs. Good times created by good people (because subtitling, speaking from a little experience, is enough of a pain in the all-digital era that I cannot imagine how difficult it must have been in those days), though I do not miss the availability issues. And I want to jump into the JRPG discussion from several posts up, since that's my wheelhouse, but, er, I'm not sure I can completely engage on that one. Most of the games I love from the eras described are games that P.O. absolutely hates. I can offer a memory, though: I picked up .hack//SIGN and Xenosaga Episode I (plus Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter) on the same day back in '03 (February, IIRC). One of my prouder moments as a collector. It was one of my last paychecks from my university job before I graduated and moved back to this city. I remember having to wrap the games up in my scarf to keep them warm for the bus ride back to the dorm. Finding JRPGs felt like more of an achievement back then, both because of rarity and because there were more stores than just Game Stop. E-Bay was also much more of a jungle than it is now. In the beginning, I could not use Pay Pal, so I had to hike to the local Kroger for money orders early in the morning so I could mail them off. (My first E-Bay purchase was a memory cartridge for my Sega CD so that I could get the extra scenarios in Shining Force CD.) Eh, not really going anywhere with that. Just felt like sharing. Walmart usually had the games I wanted even JRPGs in 03. I remember before they were bought out by GameStop that Babbages was how I got hard to find PS1 games like Suikoden 1 and Breath of Fire 3 still factory sealed around the same time period. Other than that I had to go to Best Buy for harder to find modern games. It was the only place that had Suikoden 3. --- Gamertag: Kegfarms, BF code: 2033480226, Treasure Cruise code 318,374,355, Steam: Kegfarms <cite>Revelation34 posted [p:929806534] in Valley of ... [t:77923465]...</cite> <quote>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote>Piracy was very hard because you'd need to find people to borrow/trade tapes with. I'm not sure if you've ever been into anime, but anime VHS tapes in the 90s were a fucking nightmare. Then peer-to-peer came along and there was massive access no matter where you lived. And now you have countless legal streaming options, too. </quote> I didn't mean just for anime though. I think back then I watched stuff that was anime and didn't know what anime was. Like the original Dragonball that I caught a few episodes of. Zeus posted...</cite> <quote> Well, things may change as we get an influx of dedicated streaming sites. For gaming, I'm not sure if Steam will have any serious competition for a while.</quote> Epic Store is trash so that will never happen. I_Abibde posted...</cite> <quote>I still have several of my VHS tapes from the Age of Fansubs. Good times created by good people (because subtitling, speaking from a little experience, is enough of a pain in the all-digital era that I cannot imagine how difficult it must have been in those days), though I do not miss the availability issues. And I want to jump into the JRPG discussion from several posts up, since that's my wheelhouse, but, er, I'm not sure I can completely engage on that one. Most of the games I love from the eras described are games that P.O. absolutely hates. I can offer a memory, though: I picked up .hack//SIGN and Xenosaga Episode I (plus Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter) on the same day back in '03 (February, IIRC). One of my prouder moments as a collector. It was one of my last paychecks from my university job before I graduated and moved back to this city. I remember having to wrap the games up in my scarf to keep them warm for the bus ride back to the dorm. Finding JRPGs felt like more of an achievement back then, both because of rarity and because there were more stores than just Game Stop. E-Bay was also much more of a jungle than it is now. In the beginning, I could not use Pay Pal, so I had to hike to the local Kroger for money orders early in the morning so I could mail them off. (My first E-Bay purchase was a memory cartridge for my Sega CD so that I could get the extra scenarios in Shining Force CD.) Eh, not really going anywhere with that. Just felt like sharing.</quote> Walmart usually had the games I wanted even JRPGs in 03. I remember before they were bought out by GameStop that Babbages was how I got hard to find PS1 games like Suikoden 1 and Breath of Fire 3 still factory sealed around the same time period. Other than that I had to go to Best Buy for harder to find modern games. It was the only place that had Suikoden 3. --- Gamertag: Kegfarms, BF code: 2033480226, Treasure Cruise code 318,374,355, Steam: Kegfarms</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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