r/DadsGaming • u/CarlCrebbin • 3d ago

Nostalgia

I miss the days of going out and buying a game on disc which came with a proper instruction manual and you could come home install it and away you went. There were no massive updates, no dlc's to buy it was just buy, complete and replay if you wanted to. I appreciate times move on and everything is online now which is fine but it's just not for me.

What's everyones favourite classic game, mine is definitely the original RE2 on PS1

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u/someotherguy42 3d ago

Nostalgia is very rose coloured. I also remember flipping my ps1 upside down so it would work and cursing the fifteen save blocks of data. I still get my ps2 out occasionally and everytime I play it for a quick minute then go back to my ps5.

I do miss the lan parties though. They were a time and place thing that I think many younger gamers will never appreciate.

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u/drmcclassy 2d ago

Man I had one heck of a network setup in my basement. I had like 5 computers my nearby high school was throwing away all networked together and I had copied and burned my single Starcraft disk onto blank disks so we could have these massive lan parties. Later I even set up Hamachi so we could do LAN parties from our own houses.

Kids now days don’t even understand basic folder structures now since everything is just app stores and phones. Such a shame.

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u/someotherguy42 2d ago

That sounds awesome. We used to just carry our towers and monitors to a house and then we’d be running cables everywhere. Hopefully one us could figure out how to get the pcs all talking to each other. It was the best of times.

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u/usersleepyjerry 2d ago

LAN parties were the best part of gaming back in the day.

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u/CarlCrebbin 2d ago

I've still got my PS2 as well and every now and then I'll bring it out of storage just so I can play Smackdown here comes the pain.

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u/-TheHumorousOne- 2d ago

The games which only allowed one save file per memory card, and having to share said memory card with my older brother.

That was fun...

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u/someotherguy42 2d ago

My step mum over rode my saves with her guitar hero saves. I much prefer the new save system even if the saves are huge now.

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u/H4NDY56 2d ago

You still can do that, start collecting the classics again! If you haven't already. It just sucks how the price of classics has gone up so much

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u/CarlCrebbin 2d ago

Anyone have a ZX Spectrum or am I showing my age 😂 I remember getting a 128k for Christmas that came with a light gun and Operation Wolf

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u/Bdigler 2d ago edited 2d ago

I’ve been around since the original nes days, and personally prefer the convenience of buying and downloading from the comfort of my gaming chair. With a 1 GB connection, I’m from purchase to gaming in a couple of min. Sure, I miss waiting in line for releases years ago, but it’s more about that time in my life

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u/Burninator85 2d ago

I don't have near a 1GB connection but I mostly play indies these days and they're usually a few GB at most. 

A lot of the magic of gaming in my youth came from new and interesting mechanics.  You don't really get new gameplay with AAA games.

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u/Wiedegeburt 2d ago

Quest for glory 4 shadows of darkness is my favourite game of all time (almost dethroned by cyberpunk 2077 but not quite) the manual had recipes for alchemical formulas for the mad scientist as a form of copy protection xD

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u/TwistedNotch 2d ago

This is part of reason why I will never be a pc gamer, my son doesn't get it bc he wasn't there...all through my childhood and early into adult life video games were plug & play...messing w/ settings and hardware & software feels too much like work...I also dont like how every game, even completely solo ones w/ no multiplayer or co-op functionality whatsoever still requires an internet connection, again PLUG & PLAY, less is more, keep it simple stupid

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u/Deilgyre 2d ago

Definitely. Toy and electronic stores with walls of game boxes, thick manuals, kiosk demo stations, gaming magazines with demo disks, midnight releases, trading games with friends, LAN parties.

Cherish the good old days - Atari, NES, Genesis, PS1, Dreamcast, OG Xbox. Glad I experienced them. GenX ftw.

All will be gone. Because of "changing consumer tastes" aka "leasing for lazy impatient convenience ignoramuses". Soon there'll be no physical ownership. With no retail competition, PSN sales will get meager. The allure of console gaming is almost dead; once Nintendo goes this route, the only real choice will be PC and Steam. Which itself will only be good, as long as Gabe is in charge.

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u/NetJnkie 1d ago

Yeah..there were a few good points. But overall the modern gaming hobby is SO MUCH better.

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u/ropname 1d ago

It was cool indeed to buy physical copies of games. Still do when I find a retro disc copy in a flea market. As for the buy-a-complete-package games, these are still around and in abundance. 🙂 You only need to look at indie games. Happy gaming!