Things only old gamers do

[Stwert]

In some cases I can see it being the equivalent of a rental just to say you experienced it/saw what it was about.

Perhaps, but even with a rental you had to play it yourself. The only equivalent I can think of from back in the day, was when there were a few of your mates around. But even then, if not multi player, it tended to be shot about, so there was very little pure spectator only activity.

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Play old games reasonably fast?

And blindfolded it certainly feels that way sometimes.

 

[slaphappygamer]

Not pee for hours and hours.

 

[FAST6191]

Perhaps, but even with a rental you had to play it yourself. The only equivalent I can think of from back in the day, was when there were a few of your mates around. But even then, if not multi player, it tended to be shot about, so there was very little pure spectator only activity.

Certainly the "feel" of a game can be far more easily sussed with some means of doing your input but at the same time I have played enough games now that I can watch something like portal and attempt to solve the puzzle almost from images (or perhaps faster than the person on screen).

Similarly I could also see a condensed version of a RPG or action game with story serving to allow you to experience the story of the game but not have to play it. With the state of most game writing I don't know that I would.

I forgot to also mention it can also fall under display of skill.

That said the only use I have for longplays is when I want to hack the game and see how some aspect works, or as a walkthrough for something. Never got having someone yammer over the game that did not make it or hack it (think DVD commentary) or be actively reviewing it (even then very rarely can something about a game not be said in 5 minutes rather than spaced out over hours) and should one of those only exist (no straight longplay) I will be hovering over the mute button all the time (or muting it if I don't need the audio).

 

[AmandaRose]

The following is snippes from a conversation from last summer I was listening into with great amusement I might add between two guys in their 50s talking about gaming. The two below are just small examples of the stupidness I heard them say that day

Guy 1 Hey what Sega do you currently own.

Guy 2 oh I have a PS4 what Sega do you currently own?

Guy 1 I have a PS4 and the wife has her own Sega I think its called a Sega Switch.

So they then started talking about games they played when they were younger and after a while guy 2 said

I loved that old game where you play as the little green guy with a sword and rescue the princess. I think the green dude is called Zelda but I have no idea what the princess was called.


At this point I burst out laughing and had to walk past them as I had been rumbled tot he fact I was listening in to them.

I don't know if its just a thing local to my area but most old people call every console a Sega lol.

 

[FAST6191]

I have had things be a Sega in a few places (including a generally world wise 30 something guy around the time the PS1 was new, so timeline wise that would probably be 50s today), and plenty of older people in America would call it a Nintendo.

Was Sega silly popular around there do you know? Over the whole UK I think current numbers have it as the megadrive sold twice as much as the SNES but I have met pockets of SNES only.

Linguistically though it is no different to all vacuums cleaners being hoovers, razors being bics, tissues being kleenex, corrective fluid being tippex, pens being biros and so on.

 

[666nyan666]

The original Playstation is old enough for this thread right?

If so:
- having to switch discs midway through the game
- never having to worry about controller battery levels
- collecting every item/playing on higher difficulties/doing speed runs because we want to, not because it's required for a trophy or an achievement

And my favorite: saving your game to a system's own proprietary memory card!

Oh... and going back a generation:
Setting the tv to channel 3 to play sega/nintendo.

 

[FAST6191]

The original Playstation is old enough for this thread right?

If so:
- having to switch discs midway through the game
- never having to worry about controller battery levels
- collecting every item/playing on higher difficulties/doing speed runs because we want to, not because it's required for a trophy or an achievement

And my favorite: saving your game to a system's own proprietary memory card!

Oh... and going back a generation:
Setting the tv to channel 3 to play sega/nintendo.

I had to switch discs between 360 games on occasion.
I have had wireless keyboard/mouse since... well it was ps/2, came with an AT adapter, had options to use the media keys with windows 3.11 and used infrared (no such thing as bluetooth at that point, and digital RF stuff was a few years out or very very expensive).
Not for unlocking bonus modes?
360 had proprietary memory cards (USB options came rather later in the day), sony does rather seem to not favour SD cards (not to mention USB on the PS4 is a relatively new addition), and hard drives you can reasonably swap out is a new thing as of this generation at best.
I did not have to put it back to whatever channel because I ran it through a VCR (TV only had RF, VCR took SCART in).

 

[slaphappygamer]

Writing down the longest password EVER, so that you can continue your game later. Thanks metal gear and river city ransom. Don’t even get me started kings bounty.

Then trying to remember where you wrote it down at.

Also, NOT being able to save your game was fun. Thanks contra and super Mario brothers.

My favorite was having the game genie and making your own codes. Crashing a game almost seemed like a game itself.

 

[zxr750j]

- Calibrating my joystick almost every day (after all these years you'd think drifting would be a thing of the past)
- Renting a gameconsole (Sega mastersystem) and getting the most out of the time you rented it and returning it at the last minute..
- Thinking the latest virus you've got on your pc was very funny! It would play music, occasionally drop all the letters to the bottom of the screen.

 

[Robert Newbie]

I've been enjoying these replies. Thanks to everyone that posted positive stuff about us old timers.

Another Zelda one is to refer to Ocarina of Time as "Zelda 64." When the Nintendo 64 was just revving up, almost all the in-development titles were [Something] 64. Even Yoshi's Story was "Yoshi's Island 64" to some. We eventually got a second Zelda game on the console, Majora's Mask, but, for those that spent so much time waiting for that first big Zelda release, Ocarina of Time remains "Zelda 64" to many. That includes me.

It's faster to say.

 

[FAST6191]

- Renting a gameconsole (Sega mastersystem) and getting the most out of the time you rented it and returning it at the last minute.

I still see consoles for rental, on the high street even. Don't think I have ever met anybody that does it in the modern world (they tend to be given away with mobile phone contracts, credit cards, insurance deals and whatever else if people don't just outright buy one. See plenty of TV, furniture, white goods and whatever else though.) but it is still a thing.

 

[SG854]

Play with a controller, we play with motion now

 

[FamicomHeero]

Refer to Final Fantasy IV and VI as 2 and 3.