Pemalite said:
tiffac said:
We did not have internet back then. So when we talk about consoles, it was straight up, face to face. So we were more respectful on the way we jab at one another on which console is better and actually get to talk about games and why they are good rather than trying to down play them because they are exclusive to one console. So we had fond memories of that period.
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Don't know about you, but I had the Internet in 1995 after Windows 95 launched which consequently was during the Super Nintendo/Sega Master System/Saturn era.
Back then however, only fairly wealthy families could really afford a PC and internet connection as our first PC cost well over $3,000 and that wasn't even a gaming powerhouse (I.E. Only a 2D accellerator, no 3D.)
Not to mention Dial-up costs being fairly extravagent compared to DSL/Cable of today, luckily we had free-dial up internet providers back then in Australia, from the likes of Global Freeway, GoConnect etc'.
Consoles discussions/wars was not something I noticed back then, generally if you owned a PC you played PC games, 3D accelleration was just starting to take off thanks to 3dfx, nVidia, Matrox, ATI, Rendition, NEC, S3 etc' and new genre's of games were being invented, it honestly felt like we were getting a couple of dozen big game releases a month around 1998.
It really was the golden years of gaming though, today it's all fairly predictable in comparison.
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Yeah dial up was costly in the Philippines back in the day, ordinary households couldn't afford them, only some businesses have them and not every telcos can provide them. The infrastructure was so bad, that sometimes it would take hours just to connect on your dial-up. lol!
I mostly remember going on Forums with limited post counts and mIRC when I could but you would mostly find Movie and/or Anime fans.
When we want to talk about games, we go to game shops that rents consoles kinda like a PC cafe only with consoles (not something that exists now). You get your slice of the console news from comics and magazines. My fondest memory of the console wars back then were advertisement on comic books. lol!
