Remember when buying games was an actual feat & accomplishment

[Umoja]

I had the cartridge that inserted into the back of the ps1 and had the spring that kept the disk spinning so once the system booted, you could swap out and play burned games and imports as well.

I think it even had a hex editor to enter codes

remember playing all the import dbz games before they even made games for Americans

I think a friend of mine had something like that but not with the spring. You'd have to let the demo gain momentum, then swap it with the burned game.

 

[MaxBundles]

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

reading gamepro magazines to get you hype, fukk i miss those gaming magazines

Funcoland


Gamepro


You nikkas taking it ALL the way back... good times

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Gaming so much better now

Games were high as fukk and u had no alternative but to buy a used piece of shyt that might stop working in a month

Not having to spend $20 on a game guide
And now can just go on yt

 

[Redwood]

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........

 

[NotAnFBIagent]

A lot of friends don’t even have most of the games they bought in their lives. They have traded in or sold systems and games, but I always thought this stuff was expensive and I got systems and games from Ps1-PS5 and Xbox’s all of that, so imma save all of it and maybe give it to my grandkids to have something to remember me by that’s how I think!

Kids in 2062 not playing no ps2 breh

 

[IslandG]

Throughout the NES era I only ever owned one game. Ninja Gaiden III. Most of my friends also owned one or two games maximum. The way we were able to play multiple games was by exchanging our games with each other. So there was a conscious effort to let the game you buy be one that no one else had.

As a matter of fact several of my friends owned no games at all during the NES era apart from the Super Mario Bros pack in.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Some of the best memories of my life was running around town with mom on the weekend after saving money from cutting grass or whatever to find a game or play on demo systems.

Seeing what new had dropped, or what new gaming mag info was released.

I actually feel sorry some kids will never really get to experience this, when preorders were important. The hustle and bustle of a mall or store when something new was released and people had to go out to physically get it.

 

[ItsOver]

This cover

I love/hate that game

 

[The Villain]

Kid across the street was my personal Blockbuster. That kid had every console and all the hot games. For about a 3 year period until he moved away my parents would be like "why would I buy this for you? just go across the street and get it from Alex" as the reason to barely ever buy me games

 

[Razor Raheem J.A.C.]

Kids in 2062 not playing no ps2 breh

You right, but I still want them little fools to have my shyt tho

 

[Phillyrider807]

Used to read electronic gaming monthly just wishing

 

[DamienWayne]

The only getting two games a year struggle. Birthday and Christmas. . The rest straight blockbuster status

 

[Hostile]

I miss the GamePro & Electronic Gaming Monthly magazines.

 

[Deltron]

NP and EGM might've been my favorites

didn't really fukk with game informer or game players (gameplayers only really dope thing is it always came with a CD), Gamepro was hit or miss

 

[daze23]

it always came with a CD

until someone stole it