Gaming in the 90s was awesome...

[brainofjtd]

Oh I believe you. You just should've seen the face of disbelief I was wearing when I read it. lol

Let's see 90's gaming...

Did anyone else rent the shit out of games? I was too poor as a kid for anything new outside Christmas, but I got weekend rentals. Opened up my horizons more than anything I must say. I know it's probably been discussed, but hey... whatever.

[ReddMcKnight]

Oh I believe you. You just should've seen the face of disbelief I was wearing when I read it. lol

Let's see 90's gaming...

Did anyone else rent the shit out of games? I was too poor as a kid for anything new outside Christmas, but I got weekend rentals. Opened up my horizons more than anything I must say. I know it's probably been discussed, but hey... whatever.

I rented many games back then. One memory in particular was my rental of Mega Man X. I ended up keeping the game for way longer than I was allowed to. Man, they were pissed. lol.

[brainofjtd]

You did that too?! Mega Man is THE rental series. I played all of the NES games 1-7, X and X2 so many times. So satisfying.

[RadarScope1]

Nice thread. It was definitely a time of experimentation and discovery. I am really happy to have been able to experience it at the age I did (I turned 11 in 1990 and was REALLY into games up through about 1996-97).

You guys should check out this quick vid:

http://tv.gawker.com/5731995/the-touchi ... times-sake

[AppleQueso]

Did anyone else rent the shit out of games? I was too poor as a kid for anything new outside Christmas, but I got weekend rentals. Opened up my horizons more than anything I must say. I know it's probably been discussed, but hey... whatever.

Thanks to this I pretty much played every remotely notable n64 game.

[msimplay]

Oh I believe you. You just should've seen the face of disbelief I was wearing when I read it. lol

Let's see 90's gaming...

Did anyone else rent the shit out of games? I was too poor as a kid for anything new outside Christmas, but I got weekend rentals. Opened up my horizons more than anything I must say. I know it's probably been discussed, but hey... whatever.

Me too I couldn't afford anything back in those days and you know what It served me well because it saved on clutter but I did play loaaaads of games back then and sadly every good game is not a good game worth owning.
Sometimes no matter how good a game is its only worth one time play through ie a rental.

[BurningDoom]

Oh I believe you. You just should've seen the face of disbelief I was wearing when I read it. lol

Let's see 90's gaming...

Did anyone else rent the shit out of games? I was too poor as a kid for anything new outside Christmas, but I got weekend rentals. Opened up my horizons more than anything I must say. I know it's probably been discussed, but hey... whatever.

Me too I couldn't afford anything back in those days and you know what It served me well because it saved on clutter but I did play loaaaads of games back then and sadly every good game is not a good game worth owning.
Sometimes no matter how good a game is its only worth one time play through ie a rental.

I constantly rented games. And I had the coolest mom-n-pop video store within walking distance to my house. I'd go mow random lawns in the neighborhood for money, and the often spend it there. It was called Video Depot. It had a HUGE selection of games, an entire room dedicated to games. And it had a HUGE collection of eclectic horror movies that I'd also rent.

The coolest thing about Video Depot, though, was the game room. Not only was it for taking home games to rent. But they also had multiple systems set-up including NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, and Atari Jaguar (it was done right before PSX and N64 came out). You'd pay for an hour at a time and you could play any games not already rented out during that time. You could switch games as many times as you wanted. It was awesome to bring a bunch of friends in there and play multiplayer.

[Hobie-wan]

I rented NES games all the time since I couldn't afford to buy many. I had a very small allowance and usually the only extra money I had was either birthday, Christmas, or when the neighbors down the street went on their bi-annual 2 week vacations and I'd watch the house and the pets.

[ryanofcali]

Ah the days when paying for a "lost" rented game was less than the retail price.

[Lord_Santa]

90's brought us "cinematic" games (what's it called? FMV?) and 3D games..

I prefer the 80's...

*sighs with nostalgia*

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scratch that
my 80's ended in '92, so I guess the 90's did have some good to it