Remember when buying games was an actual feat & accomplishment

[Barney Rubble]

Remember renting games based on the cover art, only to find out it was trash but having no choice but to play that bullshyt all weekend anyway and still having fun

 

[jeh]

I think the first game I bought with my own money was probably MVC2 or Armored Core

 

[Fatboi1]

I remember when I was in middle school I wanted Viewtiful Joe for the Gamecube bad as hell. I was fiending for that shyt after playing the demo. I used to get $10 every couple of weeks to get a haircut from my dad so one week I decided to not get a haircut and instead have my brother cut my hair with clippers we had in the house.

Dude gave me a fukked up haircut. I had one side of my head with more hair than the other and my line up wasn't sharp. I went to Gamestop with a bunch of old games to trade in with that $10 and bought me VJ. Man I was on cloud 9 but I still got in trouble later that day when my Mom saw my shyt.

 

[Darth Nubian]

once knew this kid had about this many NES games in his room stacked like this in the late 80's I will never forget that shyt........

Damn, he got all the "Nintendo Tapes"

 

[Lord_nikon]

Damn, he got all the "Nintendo Tapes"

Yeah that shyt was crazy,, the max i had back then was maybe 7 tapes

dude family had to be balling ,,

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Remember renting games based on the cover art, only to find out it was trash but having no choice but to play that bullshyt all weekend anyway and still having fun

Not always

 

[L@CaT]

Damn this ninja had gamepass before gamepass

My childhood best friend was like this except with Sega Games.

 

[Lord_nikon]

Remember renting games based on the cover art, only to find out it was trash but having no choice but to play that bullshyt all weekend anyway and still having fun

This cover

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

Used to get the big ass Funcoland newsletter and circle games whose title seemed interesting.

Funcoland

 

[Grifter]

This cover

 

[beenz]

You made a big achievement and got the console but now what.. Unless you had rich folks trying to scrounge up, save, or get money to get that hot new title on cartridge or physical disk story onto itself back in the day. No game sales, no online digital downloads, no nothing. If you weren't that guy then you knew definitely knew somebody in the neighborhood who had all the games and they acted like kings

Its another reason why the games were complete and ready to ship back then without any patches, updates, or downloadable content. I tell ya brehs, that was a different era. Gettin' games nowadays is nothing but a finger snap away

I also remember trading games with friends. that was how u could play games without having to save up.

 

[beenz]

once knew this kid had about this many NES games in his room stacked like this in the late 80's I will never forget that shyt........

homie was clearly rich.

 

[beenz]

Remember renting games based on the cover art, only to find out it was trash but having no choice but to play that bullshyt all weekend anyway and still having fun

what's worse is buying a game off the strength of the cover and then ur forced to play that bullshyt and pretend to enjoy it indefinitely.

 

[Lord_nikon]

I know man,,, i never completed that level ,,,


I had a friend that was older than me ,beat that level ,,
I remember my crew of friends never passing the level below

 

[Black Hans]

Downloading took away the "sold out everywhere" angle.