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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 82 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There were also a tremendous number of absolute trash games that we don't remember because we don't remember them.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 23 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I remember giving my NES games away. I had like 200 of them.

The person receiving it went, "Bet you have a good memory out of every game." And I just kinda answered, "Not really. Most of them sucked."

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

Same with any media, really. Lots of people idolize old music in a “they don’t make it like they used to” way, purely because the bad music didn’t get replayed often enough to enter the zeitgeist.

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gameboy Camera is my favourite 1998 game

[–] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had so much fun with that thing, one time I combined a picture of the family dog with my stepdad and showed it to my mom and proudly told her this is what it would look like if they had kids. Another time I tried to make an action film with my brother, but it was mostly just footage of him doing what he considered crazy stunts (jumping on the hotel bed).

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

She started laughing and asked me to print it out and she then stuck it on the fridge.

[–] Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Actually, I hit my friend in the thigh. Turns out it's really hard to throw stuff blindfolded. You probably shouldn't do it.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I’ve found if you don’t put the blindfold around your arm it stays just as easy to throw things as before.

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 23 points 10 months ago

Damn 1998 had hands

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

So, I just watched the F1 movie with Brad Pitt, and the mention f2 and f3.

I only just realized, that f zero is likely meant to be the next one after 1, as in the new elite race rank.

That game was so fucking good.

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[–] Rokin@leminal.space 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

1998 was great but 2004 was the greatest.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I've been saying that same thing since 2005 lol. 2004 is peak gaming. It was great living through that era.

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[–] Doorknob@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

throws dart

hits Tomb Raider 3

throws again

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

When they said in The Matrix that the late 90s was peak human civilization they weren't lying

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, the smash hit Roll Away, which I have definitely heard of.

And that's Mario Party, the first one, not Mario Party 3. The cover design is confusing.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Kula World in most of the world. Roll Away was just the US title.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Haven't heard of it by that name, either, so the comment still works!

[–] Klear@quokk.au 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Gave it a go, generating a random coord via random.org - 580 x 1087:

4PMYLul8qMoWsJ1.png

Whoops!

In reality, I'd be much more likely to miss by being too to the right, since I'd be aiming for Abe's Exoddus.

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I cannot overstate the impact the mid-nineties had on GPAs across the board.

This picture doesn't even show the full depth and breadth of the PC market at the time. Arcades had some strong offerings at this time, too.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 9 points 10 months ago

Now I just feel old. Really old.

[–] arsCynic@piefed.social 9 points 10 months ago

God I can feel that Charizard Pokémon Red cover in my soul.

[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

spyro and crash were my jam back in the day

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean some of the games were just good for their time. But then there are games like Spyro the Dragon, Ocarina of Time, Half Life, Banjo Kazooie and GameBoy Camera that hold up still as some of the best games in their genre ever. Sonic Adventure has basically never been topped by a game in its franchise since. (At least as far as 3D action games in the sonic series are concerned)

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

A nice thing about gaming today is that it's gotten so much easier to play all the great games, back then my family had a PC and an N64 and could only sample Playstation games at friend's houses.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wore out the connector pins on Rogue Squadron.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (9 children)

96-98 is the greatest three year run in the history of gaming.

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[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

How did my dart do guys?

Tap for spoiler

Edit: Is GameBoy camera really a game?

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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

Hard to top 1998. Same thing with 2007-2009 but for franchises.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Where the Freeman is Half-Life?

Edit: 2nd row, my app was cutting off the top and bottom of the image oops

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Middle of second row.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's wild to me that not only have I play most of those games, I played them when they came out. It was nice having friends and physical copies of shit.

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sonic Adventure came out in '99 outside Japan.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 5 points 10 months ago

Well I guess you'll be throwing that dart really far.

[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 5 points 10 months ago

The year “pixels actually started to look like something I don’t have to imagine”.

[–] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Kula World was suprisingly a lot of fun.

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