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Jose Oquendo posted:If you're over the age of 21 and you play video games please kill yourself. You got it grown man with a children's baseball card for an avatar.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I am not much into gaming any more (except for Smash) but I buy physical because I am like 95% sure that in 10 years if my hard drive dies or my console gets stolen I am completely hosed out of all of my games. Write down and own a physical copy of your username and password
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Nov 24, 2014 01:52
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Ramsus posted:Write down and own a physical copy of your username and password Lol I'm sure Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft is real concerned with keeping up their activation servers for extinct consoles in 2030
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Nov 24, 2014 02:12
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Lol I'm sure Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft is real concerned with keeping up their activation servers for extinct consoles in 2030 Yo suck poop out my butt boy.
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Nov 24, 2014 02:14
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Jose Oquendo posted:If you're over the age of 21 and you play baseball please kill yourself.
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Nov 24, 2014 02:20
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if it aint funcoland, gently caress 'em
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Nov 24, 2014 02:27
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Jose Oquendo posted:If you're over the age of 21 and you play video games please kill yourself. 
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Nov 24, 2014 02:29
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:if it aint funcoland, gently caress 'em holy poo poo i havent thought of that place in a decade
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Nov 24, 2014 02:30
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I think about it every time I drive past one of the multiple funcoland-turned-gamestops in my city. As a kid I would always grab the little newspaper type publicatons they had that listed the trade in prices for pretty much every game ever. They were pretty decent prices, too.
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Nov 24, 2014 02:33
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:if it aint funcoland, gently caress 'em I like Funcoland for nostalgia reasons but if I'm being honest it really was just about as bad as Gamestop, it was just much more rough around the edges due to the 90s game industry being relatively nascent compared to how ultra-streamlined and corporate it got in the 00s (and that's saying something because video games have always been corporate as gently caress).
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Nov 24, 2014 02:38
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Electronics Boutique was great until they changed their return policy on PC games, so if a game ended up running like poo poo on ur PC because u didnt have a 3DFX card u would be poo poo out of luck - so after getting burned a few times because of this i just started  played urself, good riddance
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Nov 24, 2014 02:48
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Mariana Horchata posted:Electronics Boutique was great until they changed their return policy on PC games, so if a game ended up running like poo poo on ur PC because u didnt have a 3DFX card u would be poo poo out of luck - so after getting burned a few times because of this i just started
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Nov 24, 2014 02:49
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Mariana Horchata posted:Electronics Boutique was great until they changed their return policy on PC games, so if a game ended up running like poo poo on ur PC because u didnt have a 3DFX card u would be poo poo out of luck - so after getting burned a few times because of this i just started Oddly enough is why they stopped allowing you to return PC games...
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Nov 24, 2014 02:53
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Oddly enough That and CD keys kind of make it hard to resell
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Nov 24, 2014 02:58
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:if it aint funcoland, gently caress 'em   Though my mom used to call them BuncoLand. Which I gotta admit was pretty clever.
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Nov 24, 2014 02:59
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gently caress, I remember buying Caeser III with my brother and being excited as gently caress to play it. Cool rear end box with this Roman dude pointing his sword. Spent like 400 hours on that game.
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Nov 24, 2014 03:00
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JebanyPedal posted:gently caress, I remember buying Caeser III with my brother and being excited as gently caress to play it. Cool rear end box with this Roman dude pointing his sword. Spent like 400 hours on that game. plebes are needed
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Nov 24, 2014 03:03
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i actually do kinda wish i could get my brother a bigass box to put under the tree as opposed to him telling me what he wants on steam and i just pay for it
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Nov 24, 2014 03:05
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JebanyPedal posted:gently caress, I remember buying Caeser III with my brother and being excited as gently caress to play it. Cool rear end box with this Roman dude pointing his sword. Spent like 400 hours on that game. Caesar III, aka  Hardmode Age of Empires/Sim City 2000 Hybridit was the poo poo but I was also poo poo at it
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Nov 24, 2014 03:05
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Oddly enough actually now if i recall the change in policy was around 97/98, so i definitely wasnt downloading anything on a dial-up connection at that time. it was also before PC games had the recommended sys requirements listed on the box and instead they just showed the bare minimum specs needed to install the game.
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Nov 24, 2014 03:05
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JebanyPedal posted:gently caress, I remember buying Caeser III with my brother and being excited as gently caress to play it. Cool rear end box with this Roman dude pointing his sword. Spent like 400 hours on that game. caesar III is the first game i ever played. as a kid i borrowed unbelievable amounts of roman history books and eyewitness poo poo from the local library. caesar III was bliss
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Nov 24, 2014 03:07
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Mariana Horchata posted:actually now if i recall the change in policy was around 97/98, so i definitely wasnt downloading anything on a dial-up connection at that time. it was also before PC games had the recommended sys requirements listed on the box and instead they just showed the bare minimum specs needed to install the game. if you bought the game, used the cd key and returned it it was basically a more annoying version of kazaa or newsgroups or w/e the gently caress we used then
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Nov 24, 2014 03:10
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why would you buy the game and use the CD key just open the box and write that poo poo down and go home and use it. if you are dumb enough to do it in front of someone and they go 'what are you doing' just say 'i'm looking at the manual to make sure my computer can run this' duh
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Nov 24, 2014 03:16
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i remember going to babbages and getting good poo poo like carmageddon and blood and half-life 
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Nov 24, 2014 03:20
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Moridin920 posted:why would you buy the game and use the CD key just open the box and write that poo poo down and go home and use it. if you are dumb enough to do it in front of someone and they go 'what are you doing' just say 'i'm looking at the manual to make sure my computer can run this'
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Nov 24, 2014 03:21
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Pretty sure I bought Tony Hawk's Pro Skater at a Funco Land
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Nov 24, 2014 03:22
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Moridin920 posted:why would you buy the game and use the CD key just open the box and write that poo poo down and go home and use it. if you are dumb enough to do it in front of someone and they go 'what are you doing' just say 'i'm looking at the manual to make sure my computer can run this' That's a bad excuse they always had the system requirements printed on the bottom of the box or the back of the box.
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Nov 24, 2014 03:22
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:i remember going to babbages and getting good poo poo like carmageddon and blood and half-life Carmageddon was a real classic
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Nov 24, 2014 03:29
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Seeing the box for the original Diablo and not knowing what the gently caress it was but being drawn by the sinister artwork and the crazy cool gothic fantasy poo poo on the back is a pretty powerful memory. Man that game owned.
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Nov 24, 2014 03:33
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JebanyPedal posted:Seeing the box for the original Diablo and not knowing what the gently caress it was but being drawn by the sinister artwork and the crazy cool gothic fantasy poo poo on the back is a pretty powerful memory. This but with Tribes 1. One of the very few games i still have the original box/disc for, even if you have to dl modded version to play nowadays.
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ZombieParts posted:Carmageddon was a real classic  truly the greatest era of gaming       Mariana Horchata fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Nov 24, 2014 |
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Nov 24, 2014 03:44
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Whirlwind Jones posted:What? You still need a physical copy of the game to install it... no you download the game and then use a legit CD key to install it when it asks JebanyPedal posted:That's a bad excuse they always had the system requirements printed on the bottom of the box or the back of the box. so what? if the person points that out go 'OH whaaat' and do the dumb act. it's not like there aren't a fair amount of total morons that buy things, just pretend you're one of those. or just do some technobabble about how the manual gives you more accurate information about set up and whatever
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Nov 24, 2014 03:47
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Sono posted:I got my paycheck on November 1 instead of October 31. Guess I'm bankrupt now. - the stock market Seriously. "Gamestop is going to earn 5 cents less per share than we anticipated. Gotta sell all our stock! *watches as the stock drops $5.68* Hey! Blackberry is dying and everybody is saying to sell, better buy some more of its stock and watch the price go up! Wheeeeee! Playing with imaginary money is fun!"
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LOU BEGAS MUSTACHE posted:if you bought the game, used the cd key and returned it it was basically a more annoying version of kazaa or newsgroups or w/e the gently caress we used then You can still do this because gamestop just takes the disc out of the box and leaves the boxes for display like the games, and the key is usually always on the manual or inside the unsealed box, continuing the stereotype that gamestop is 100% contard Whirlwind Jones posted:What? You still need a physical copy of the game to install it... steam, origin, uplay and/or blizzard's thing don't
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Nov 24, 2014 04:08
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Moridin920 posted:no you download the game and then use a legit CD key to install it when it asks Why would you do that? Back in the days of 56k modems, you could go to the store, buy the game, install it, return it, and finish the game before you would be done downloading the thing. gently caress, I remember trying to get one lovely 128k song off Napster was a chore.
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Nov 24, 2014 04:08
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I wonder how much money and time I spent copying game manuals and copy-protections schemes at Kinkos (until they caught me and made me stop and go... to a different Kinkos) on lovely games that weren't fun and I never played? Nothing that I am aware of will ever beat the Lenslok copy-protection that Elite for the C=64 had.  I never figured out how huge and amazing Elite was. I am ashame.
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Nov 24, 2014 04:12
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mind the walrus posted:That used to be a separate chain in the US you scrub, alongside Software Etc. and Babbages and Funcoland and they all got merged into the ugly ungainly blob that is Gamestop sometime in the early 00s. I miss Software Etc. Bought my first game there, Croc for the PC because PC back in the halcyon days of the 1990s.
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Nov 24, 2014 04:30
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KiteAuraan posted:I miss Software Etc. Bought my first game there, Croc for the PC because PC back in the halcyon days of the 1990s. Sup "had Croc for the PC" buddy 
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I think Software Etc. was around pretty early - might have gotten some Commodore 64 games from there. I was playing EA Summer Games and Archon and such back in 1983, but I honestly don't remember where the hell we bought the games at.
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