Okay guys 'n gals. What's your first game you thought of while reading this greentext?

Mine is TimeSplitters 2 on PS2.

I thought of an era, not a specific game.

Divinity and then Dark Souls

Gotta agree here. That game was so much fun. Just remember the monkey assistant mode (don't know what it was called in english, the german localization called it "Affiger Assistent" which translates to "monkey-like assistant" or "silly assistant") in multiplayer!

As a fellow German, I feel ya. The monkey was also my favorite char when playing pvp. lol

Tell me more! :D

Halo ce

Perfect Dark

GoldenEye N64

You mean Goldeneye 2?

It was a time of both plug and play simplicity, and head banging frustration. Consoles were dumb easy, and had to have a catalog that competed with the others. PC games were the wild west. Everything from it just works to eight disc setups, but not a single mainstream way to extract more money after the game had been sold. You could pop your ass on the couch and play the same game for 8 hours and still not do everything in it despite the lack of online capabilities. It was an era of mystery, is this article/friend/kid taking me for one? Or is Yoshi really there at the top of Peaches castle in Mario 64? If you'd never know if you or a friend didnt do it in front of you. Subscription was a thing but they seem modest by today's standards. Zezima, Athena, and LeeroyJenkins were the names of our Gods.

-Actually belongs to you
-Developers can't delete it

Goldeneye

Super Mario World on SNES

Fuzion Frenzy even though it doesn't really apply because it wasn't really single player at all, it was only local co-op mini games like a Mario Party kinda (with no board.)

Even though it doesn't really match what the greentext is describing, the vibe of just, like, enjoying video games in your living room with no DLC nor microtransactions made me think of it. It's a game that was, like, moderately successful but not enough that I ever run into people on the internet that know about it, so it almost feels like a kind of secret I share with my sister, and the game had strong art direction that was really early 2000s that hits me with nostalgia too.

I gotta play it. Sadly as I grew older, those old FPS with low FoV give me motion sickness in like minutes. Can't even enjoy Build Engine games anymore, which were my favorite old school games back then. :c

That'll be $75 (for N64 cartridges).

Oh man. Amen!
Thank you for this awesome text. I'm just 26 years old, but I think this is the golden times. Not like, those are the best games or stuff, it's just... I kinda feel like those were the good times. Even tho even then there was many shitty games. Probably even most of the games. It's hard to describe this feeling. :/

Okay that looks REALLY interesting. Thank you for sharing!
Gotta share one thing: Bishi Bashi!
PSX game that's also a minigames collection. Pretty fun, quite high quality as far as I can tell. Haven't found someone to play it atm. :c
Still, looks fun af!

I knew Nintendo was done when playstation started selling games for twenty dollars

Golden Sun 😊

Back in 1997 I bought the game KKnD (Krush, Kill n' Destroy) in a local store for what would now be 110 dollars only to discover that it was broken and wouldn't run on my machine and there was no way to get a patch for it.

But I guess you could get your money back?

Nope :) I mean, I was 13, so maybe I could have if I'd pressed it but I was a kid and figured it was just bad luck.

Like, we weren't online - you couldn't look up consumer protection rules and shit back then, you had to rely on some adult who wasn't a complete moron knowing what to do.

I randomly got KKnD Crossfires for PS1 and we played countless hours in split screen :D

Mario kart 64

Super Monkey Ball 2 on GC. My brother and I spent more time playing the mini games than the game itself.

Well, that's just rubbing it in, isn't it? :P

I genuinely do not regret jumping off the video game train back in 2015.

Everything I have heard about the evolution of the gaming industry since has surpassed my pessimistic predictions back then, which could be summarized as: video games are becoming predatory and I feel like they eat my time and money for dismissed returns.

It was especially the consol market and the whole online aspect that made me wrinkle my nose. Feels like nowadays you actually can't buy and play a game offline.

But what do I know. I only tune in when my friend is playing on twitch and we talk about life over Signal. We have gone back to retro games recently too. Jake and Daxter 🎉

The games are still there. Nintendo may cost an arm and a leg now but it kinda did then too and Zelda still never asks where your season pass is. Some games are the classic games in disguise like Flock Around is just Pokemon Snap without rails. Theres this game called Star Garden thats Kirby Air Ride with a Chao Garden thrown in. Cassette Beasts is Steam Pokemon. I host my own Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 server. Its all still there and still being made. The golden era never ended, its just the giants aren't peddling it anymore and the river is so wide it can be a chore to wade. But, have you slain Olga Flow in the depths of the world? Or repelled the second coming of Orochi with a stroke of your celestial brush? Or discovered the mystery behind what happened to Darth Revan? Theres thousands of hours of games to get through before the modern era. Vimm's lair has 1/4th of it. Kindle your soul and keep the age of fire burning a little longer.

Jet Force Gemini

Plenty of good stuff still happening in games.

Indies are bigger and better than ever. Yeah, the shitty stuff is front and center, but its not hard to find games made with genuine passion either.

Looked at different, we are a in a new golden age of games. Not for giant AAA titles or hardware.

But for the fact that game engines and tutorials on how to use them are readily available, and lots of normal people with neat ideas are making them into real games.

Man, you have been missing out on the golden age of indie games. Sorry to hear that.

Nintendo games still do this bros.

Super Mario World
That game is like 50% secrets and still Nintendos best work IMO.

I enjoyed watching some playthroughs of a couple of games over the years, but then I sorta lost interest. Used to follow John Wolfe a lot and watch his playthroughs. He was good at finding never heard of indie games in the horror genre, so I witnessed a few gems through him.

Why would anyone build a whole ass in split screen mode?

That and Quake II are the only console games I've ever sunk an enormous amount of time into.

when can i stop living in this universe and switch back to the one we originally were on? man i miss it so much. That and original pizzahut

Twisted Metal on PS1

i think a lot of people are (me included) because its just force of habit to gravitate towards the AAA games and even tho there are some famous indie games out there like hollow knight those might not be for everyone and we lack maybe the will to search for them? I am probably switching to pc and i wil be searching for more indie games for sure. Maybe some good might come out of this!

Right?!

A Wario game?

Spyro the Dragon. Man I need to find the time to play through that entire stack of games again...

Ratchet and Clank - Up your Arsenal

Honestly, that's the entire reason i lost interest in consoles after buying the PS4. If i need to:
1 Boot up the console.
2 Update the system (twice).
3 PSN account bullshit.
4 Insert disc.
5 Install the game.
6 Download 50GB update for the game.
7 Install said update.
8 Finally start the game.
9 Login and TOS bullshit.
10 Finally play game.

I might just as well use my PC for gaming at that point. The games library is larger and the exclusives are just not worth it. Especially after Sony started releasing those on PC as well.

one of the things I like about my thirties is that a bunch of people who grew up interested in and liking the same things I did now have the skills and ability to create things I like

PC gaming has more exclusives btw

DK64. I see so much hate for it now, with people saying there are way too many collectibles, but those people fail to realize that back then most kids only had a few games that they just had to play over and over again if they wanted to play video games at all. To have a game that always had a new thing to collect even when you went to the same level for the 1000th time was a godsend.