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NES games, cartoons and actually doing e outside.
Man, the 64 was the greatest party system. Multiplayer in your home is the greatest feeling gaming can give. I think lack of local multiplayer on 99% of games is the biggest factor to my disinterest in gaming that isn't "I don't have time anymore". online multiplayer.
And if you didn't break remotes or get in fist fights, you never owned a 64.
NES games, cartoons and actually doing e outside.
Agreed with all you said.
The 64 had great single player games as well. Mario 64 might be the greatest video game ever developed (If it isn't in your top 10....then your top 10 isn't legit). Zelda (OoT) was epic also.
But, the ability for all 4 ppl to play at the same time was over the top. You're exactly right though. The salt was ing real. There was always one player who was better than everybody else combined.
Staring at other people's screens to figure out where everybody was at
Had to rewind back to the exact spot and put it back in its hiding spot after I was done. Stressful as when adults were knocking on the door. Had to watch it on mute or like volume 1 too. Kids have it easy nowadays.
Fist fights over who was going to be Oddjob.Agreed with all you said.
The 64 had great single player games as well. Mario 64 might be the greatest video game ever developed (If it isn't in your top 10....then your top 10 isn't legit). Zelda (OoT) was epic also.
But, the ability for all 4 ppl to play at the same time was over the top. You're exactly right though. The salt was ing real. There was always one player who was better than everybody else combined.
Fist fights over Mario Kart
Fist fights over turning CAWs in the WWF games into chicks
Hahaha I did that. Some days you could see it semi clearly, other days sucked.
Maybe I'm older. We were the remote controls. "Turn the top one. Turn it again. Now turn the bottom one.. what the does that one do? Turn the top one... go outside and turn the antenna... now turn the top one"
Damn bruh. That is old school.
Reminds me of spending the weekend at my grandma's house as a kid.
Basically me, chucho, DD, and countless others on christmas day.
Listen carefully. "Now we can get our games from Blockbuster!!!!"
LMAO. When we got our 64, less than an hour later, we were at BB digging thru their bin as they were the only place open and it was the 64 that came with no pack in game or a second remote. Absolutely refused the God awful MadKatz alternative. Bad to wait a day later to get a legit 2nd remote.Basically me, chucho, DD, and countless others on christmas day.
Listen carefully. "Now we can get our games from Blockbuster!!!!"
I could always settle for a MadKatz on any of my other systems, and even preferred their version of the PS1before Sony had analog sticks, the buttons were more loose.
Either way, the 64 ing rocked. I really, really want Nintendo to make a 64 classic. I just don't want to pay a few c notes for it and emulation doesn't gimme the fix I want and the classic reseller market is too high for something I will binge on for a weekend and then only periodically.
life without internet was mostly PlayStation 1 and outdoor soccer...I used to get so mad if my parent's wouldn't allow me to go outside to play soccer..Like what am I suppose to do?
General observation with families..
Weekend get together with other families and outdoor activities was much more common. The same families that we're still close with today, we maybe see them once every two months for barbecue..
I recall families was really big into "going out"..I'm sure for the most part, families still do enjoy outdoor activities etc...but maybe less now with internet.
When I was a kid we rode bikes all over the city or played Atari. I also spent a lot of time in arcades running through quarters. That was also back when MTV was almost all music videos. I got my start on rap and hip hop watching Yo MTV Raps or Rap City on BET. When I got to high school it was Street Fighter tournaments on SNES or someone paging you with a code so you could meet somewhere and smoke weed. Played a lot of dominoes too. I didn't really start spending a lot of time online until after I got married in '02. Those old ESPN boards and NBAWire. FkLA remembers those NBAWire days. That was a fun board for a couple years until it crashed and lost all the old posts.
You could probably emulate the N64 well on a low end PC. I used to play Conker's Bad Fur Day on Project64 using a crappy Athlon 64x2 7-10 years ago and it ran great, and that's supposed to be one of the hardest to run N64 games. I didn't even bother with it on my Raspberry Pi. I imagine a $65 Pentium G4560 on a $50 B250 board would be able to run N64 games at their full framerates. But I haven't tested it myself in a few years since I'm not much of a fan of the N64/PS1 generation. But if the Athlon 64x2 from 2006 could do it.
Ah yes, the arcade. I spent many hours at the Malibu Castle.
Awww . You guys had a Malibu Castle too? I was pretty bummed when they closed that place and a bunch of homeless people took it over and started squatting in their torn down land.
Yeah, the building is still sitting there vacant as far as I know.
i used to have to steal my uncle's playboys to fap. all that has changed tbh
Oh, P64 runs fine on my PC, and ran fine on an old Dell Optiplex I gutted for emulation, but using the usb control pad that isn't an N64 one makes it different, as well as sitting in front of a PC monitor as one of my biggest OCD's is moving/reconfiguring wires/hdmis etc. into my TVs. I'm weird like that.
One thing the internet ruined was the excitement of new music. Going to the store to buy that new cd and listening to each song while reading the album artwork. Also loved the new smell to it.
absolutely. And listening to the whole thing and discovering some great songs that didn't make it to the radio.
I think even CD's hurt that to a degree. Made it too easy to skip ahead if a song didn't grab you in the first couple of seconds.
Same story for movies coming to home formats. Blockbuster, RIP.
Played SNES and N64, had friends around the block so there was always opportunity to crank our hours in front of the console. Watched a lot of TV, played football at the park, rode bikes, swam at the local pool, etc. Plenty of things to get you through the day and have fun as a kid, we had a blockbuster and hollywood video close by too
My family had internet around 1995 but I didn't spend much time on it until after 2000 because it tied up the phone line, tbh
I remember going with my older brother and watching in awe as he obliterated Smash TV
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