Current Events > I'm glad I wasn't alive to be a gamer in the early 80's

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Imagine getting up early and exited to play Pitfall LMFAO

rofl

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Analogue games reign suppreme

Lode Runner > Pitfall

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Not gonna lie i actually really had fun with the Activision collection on PS2. The idea of putting on a Flock of Seagulls record and vibing to 80's pop while playing Laser Blast, Kaboom, and Starmaster is hella comfy

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The 80s were hard. All we had was terraria and bioshock 1. games were $15 brand new and you had to hook your console up to an exercise bike to create electricity :(

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I wasn't born until 89 and I liked pit fall as a kid lol

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You were excited bc thats all you had

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Yeah homeboi you dunno nothing about the struggle. Better preciate what you have now.

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I was born in 81. My first consolecwas an atari 2600 my older brother got at a garage sale at some unknown date. I remember pre NES, playing Atari games in like the mid 80s. The games were interesting enough at the time. At least until the NES replace it

First of all, if you were a kid in the 80s, pre Nintendo you just accepted that home video games were vastly inferior to arcades. That was just the trade-off for being able to play as much as you wanted in the comfort of your home without putting in quarters.

Unless you were deep into computer gaming, which had a lot of niche titles that arcades didn't do. But those were mostly for teens and adults, and were a small percentage of the overall population. For the rest of us, games were just this thing we'd do casually for short periods. I had one friend who was into Atari 2600 games like me, but we rarely spent more than a few hours playing before we got bored.

But then when the NES did come out, finally there were mainstream games that were doing things arcades couldn't, and doing them well. If you were going from the Atari 2600 to that, it was absolutely mind-blowing. The Legend of Zelda changed the way I looked at games forever. Then came Mario 3, Castlevania, Mega Man, and countless others. I had always liked games, but the NES taught me to love them. Eventually I got into lots of other different games, especially PC. But Nintendo was what opened the door for me.

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Text adventures were great.

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WashYourHands posted...

You were excited bc thats all you had

This. It was a good time because we didn't have anything more complex.

It was mid-to-late 80s for me, but I remember my days playing the D&D games on Intellivision (Cloudy Mountain and Tower of Doom). BurgerTime. He-Man. Tron: Deadly Discs. Lock'n'Chase. Bump'n'Jump.

Even the much maligned ET wasn't that bad a game if you read the instruction manual and had an idea of what you were doing.

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Being an early 80s gamer was great. You had a front row seat to each new innovation from the side scrolling screen to 3D graphics. Simply amazing.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnB7exdTfl4&list=PL1Be_cMfHOEe-M8AAwMrYfav32cpf0xln&index=5

i'm glad we're past this style of shitty games.

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My first games were SMB and Duck Hunt

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ModLogic posted...

i'm glad we're past this style of shitty games.

Just at a quick look it doesn't look all that bad. Did it play horribly?

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CyricZ posted...

Just at a quick look it doesn't look all that bad. Did it play horribly?

I played it in the late 90's in some rpg collection I had. I enjoyed it. it actually takes place in the same universe as Baldurs Gate, but in a different part of that world that is like fantasy middle east. It's basically an Aladdin rpg.

I imagine it was a lot different back then. Especially with no internet to run to when you got stuck. Players must have felt more confident in their abilities to figure the puzzles out. I bet they had no issue getting hyped as fuck for Pitfall or Legend of Zelda.

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https://youtu.be/pslbO6Fddhw

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HBOSS posted...

https://youtu.be/pslbO6Fddhw

Why do the barrels roll over open holes lmao

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I would literally rather play Pitfall over today's "Hey, buy our incomplete game for $60 and maybe we'll patch some stuff, maybe we won't, but also don't forget to buy the season pass for $30 so you can have access to new gear that you can't get otherwise and get a new area to explore that allows you to get the 'true' ending. And hey, if you want, you can pre-order the legendary edition which is $140 and comes with the game, DLC, and a $5 statue that we're going to say is worth $80."

My kingdom for a complete fucking game.

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Jaded_Dragon posted...

I would literally rather play Pitfall over today's "Hey, buy our incomplete game for $60 and maybe we'll patch some stuff, maybe we won't, but also don't forget to buy the season pass for $30 so you can have access to new gear that you can't get otherwise and get a new area to explore that allows you to get the 'true' ending. And hey, if you want, you can pre-order the legendary edition which is $140 and comes with the game, DLC, and a $5 statue that we're going to say is worth $80."

My kingdom for a complete fucking game.

Dude @ GameStop tried so hard to push the Deluxe edition of Sackboy onto me. I bought the base game and returned that piece of shit in 24 hours. I hate today's game culture. You have all these Fortnite kids going around parroting "That's the way it is!" from their favorite corporation making everything worse.

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Imagine your great grandkids using Bing to search for the games you played, they be going "you have to use your hands that's like a baby's toy"

bknight posted...

Imagine your great grandkids using Bing to search for the games you played, they be going "you have to use your hands that's like a baby's toy"

Ah yes, as they said in the far off future of 2015.

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Yeah, the arcades were HUGE for a reason.

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Uses Power Glove to snap TC out of existence.

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divot1338 posted...

Uses Power Glove to snap TC out of existence.

I actually got to try one on last year when they had one at a consignment shop. No way was I paying $70 for it tho lol

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