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SvennoJ 4 hours ago
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firebush03 said:
rapsuperstar31 said:

True in the sense that you can still play all old games in addition to current games. To me nothing will beat playing N64 multiplayer with my friends in front of the couch for hours on end before going out for a watergun fight and coming back in to play some more Goldeneye.

I feel like you miss your childhood more than you miss N64. (Nostalgia does wonders in warping my perception.) Personally, my preference is for games of today over any time of the past.

N64 was way past my childhood. Still much better time for gaming.

In that time period we frequently brought our consoles to work, to play during lunch in the meeting room. N64, Dreamcast 4 player split-screen Re-Volt, taking turns on MGS on PS2. At the end of the day we played LAN Duke Nukem 3D, Half-Life Deathmatch, Unreal Tournament and Quake. The hype for Halo was unreal. We had a demo on PC that everyone wanted to try (before XBox came out)

Then after work we would frequently go to each other's places, end up playing split screen games all the time. Come back from clubbing, wind down with some split screen racing or Micro Machines.

That all changed when my workplace 'grew up', however nowadays people just go home and play online.

Gaming was also far cheaper back in those days. You only needed one copy to play with many people in LAN. 4 per copy of Half-Life it was. Split-screen, couch co-op of course meant only one had to buy the game to play together. Different friends with different systems, could play it all together. Now you need (mostly) the same system and your own copy of the game to play together.

Sure there's more cross-play and shared game libraries, yet just this weekend we found out that GTA5 is excluded from Steam sharing, and has no cross play with XBox. No wonder it sold so many copies! Back then we either copied each other's games or simply borrowed them.

Also where did the LAN parties go as well as game conventions, E3 is dead. When I grew up there used to be computer expositions multiple times a year, in our small town. I got many games from those as well as some hardware. It was always exciting to visit and see the latest technology.

Nah it was much more exciting to be a gamer in the 90s. Computer shops everywhere, specialized game stores springing up, games sold in book stores, video stores rented out video games and consoles. (Very handy when going to a cottage)