Man wtf is it with these young kids who can't game...

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

That's how it was breh. The older kids and adults had no mercy on you because you were a kid. The expected you to come correct and would give you that work if you didn't know your shyt and then clown you for good measure. God have mercy on your soul if you somehow won the match and decided to execute a "Friendship" as opposed to a Fatality.

Someone hit me with the babality.

 

[Wild self]

I don't recall Double Dragon 2 being that hard. Actually, IIRC it was the easiest of all those Double Dragon games. Double Dragon 1 was hard as fukk, as was 3. And the SNES one was godly and gotdamn difficult too. 2 was a breeze though. Me and my crew used to run thru that game like 1nce a weekend at least.

That game was hard as fukk for all the people in our crew when I was growing up. Them platforms in the forest stage and the final boss was in difficulty. I played Contra and I played Battletoads, and those games were in craziness.

 

[Wild self]

That's how it was breh. The older kids and adults had no mercy on you because you were a kid. The expected you to come correct and would give you that work if you didn't know your shyt and then clown you for good measure. God have mercy on your soul if you somehow won the match and decided to execute a "Friendship" as opposed to a Fatality.

Same shyt when I was growing up. Everyone met up every Friday afternoon after school and every Saturday and played the living hell of MK II and MK3. Them shyts was crazy on how people were doing all kinds of combos and all kinds of fatalities/ babalities/ friendships. shyt was the ultimate joke back in the mid 90s.

 

[Type Username Here]

Someone hit me with the babality.

Haha. Babality. That's grounds for a fight right there.

Have you been to an Arcade lately breh? I went to one near my house and they made it a family establishment now. They have Fruit Ninja touchscreen games and other mobile games. That shyt was unrecognizable to me.

I looked around and didn't see not ONE child crying. No looks of desperation, no cursing, no crowds gathered around to watch matches, no one calling "next", no one betting on the results, no gangs, no fights. I mean, I'm glad society has progressed so we are more civilized but I can't help but miss the PTSD-enducing atmosphere of the old arcades.

 

[Wild self]

Haha. Babality. That's grounds for a fight right there.

Have you been to an Arcade lately breh? I went to one near my house and they made it a family establishment now. They have Fruit Ninja touchscreen games and other mobile games. That shyt was unrecognizable to me.

I looked around and didn't see not ONE child crying. No looks of desperation, no cursing, no crowds gathered around to watch matches, no one calling "next", no one betting on the results, no gangs, no fights. I mean, I'm glad society has progressed so we are more civilized but I can't help but miss the PTSD-enducing atmosphere of the old arcades.

Gaming in the old days disciplined people's minds to concentrating and made us focus on building our competitive skill.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

Haha. Babality. That's grounds for a fight right there.

Have you been to an Arcade lately breh? I went to one near my house and they made it a family establishment now. They have Fruit Ninja touchscreen games and other mobile games. That shyt was unrecognizable to me.

I looked around and didn't see not ONE child crying. No looks of desperation, no cursing, no crowds gathered around to watch matches, no one calling "next", no one betting on the results, no gangs, no fights. I mean, I'm glad society has progressed so we are more civilized but I can't help but miss the PTSD-enducing atmosphere of the old arcades.

 

[hotbeezie]

To be honest, a lot of those games was unfair as hell.

But we made it

Lost levels
the castlevania games
Streets of rage 1
Etc.

I can imagine kids today getting bodied by Lavos for fighting him to early in the game.

 

[BlackSuperman]

Not true for my 12 year old brother. I suggest good games for him to get (like Ratchet & Clank) and he's a better gamer than myself.

 

[Wild self]

To be honest, a lot of those games was unfair as hell.

But we made it

Lost levels
the castlevania games
Streets of rage 1
Etc.

I can imagine kids today getting bodied by Lavos for fighting him to early in the game.

Streets of Rage 2 on the hardest difficulty level. I made to stage 7 when those enemies started to gang up on me on some other shyt. They ended my crusade there

 

[AkaDemiK]

lmao...the pure disgust from liquid's opening post got me cryin

 

[duncanthetall]

Bruh I'm fukkin WEEEEAAAAK how we all agree that kids these days fukkin SUCK at games


I'm a grown ass man at this point, but I've gotten literally fukkin furious and had to leave the room watchin my little cousin play Mario Galaxy before cause I was starting to cuss n get ignorant at the little nikka

 

[duncanthetall]

Back in my day if you showed up to the arcade and put your quarters on the machine to play the winner you better have known what the fukk you were doing. Didn't matter if it was MK, SF or Killer Instinct. If you tried to win a game by doing leg sweeps all match you would get harassed right there in front of your parents. The arcade had kids contemplating suicide. You better have memorized those moves and combos or you would get you ass whooped in the game and outside the game for wasting people's time.

If you're from South Florida and you went to that arcade in the Swap Shop in Sunrise in the mid 90s you know exactly what I'm talking about. That shyt was like a prison.

lmao wow

 

[Fatboi1]

Kids these days have it too damn easy. Try playing Double Dragon 2 for the NES and not shed a few tears in the process. shyt, I play final fantasy tactics and that game is HARD, but I still stuck with it and mastered the Job system.

Back when I was 5, I was playing Mario Bros on the NES reaching the final stages and holding on for dear life.

Word. Also what was even crazier is most of these old games weren't that lenient on saving your progress. If you jumped into a game, you HAD to keep playing or leave your shyt on. Unlocking characters in Melee?? Leave your gamecube on for 24 hours and fight this nikka while in a slumber when you returned back to the game. :
shyt if I had a game that I was stuck in, a lil nikka had to walk to the public library, sign up to use the computer, WAIT for your turn to use the internet and then search and print out the solution to a puzzle you were having. Having to do that made em just rather figure it out myself.

 

[StarClout]

@Liquid

This thread needs to be pinned

 

[Wild self]

Word. Also what was even crazier is most of these old games weren't that lenient on saving your progress. If you jumped into a game, you HAD to keep playing or leave your shyt on. Unlocking characters in Melee?? Leave your gamecube on for 24 hours and fight this nikka while in a slumber when you returned back to the game. :
shyt if I had a game that I was stuck in, a lil nikka had to walk to the public library, sign up to use the computer, WAIT for your turn to use the internet and then search and print out the solution to a puzzle you were having. Having to do that made em just rather figure it out myself.

The crazier thing is that the old internet FAQs of the 90s was basically words. You had to follow instructions and there was no youtube to see anything. You literally have to talk to ya gaming buddies face to face to find a solution. Especially when saved games was a luxury that a few games had.