Old Heads....How were y'all affording shyt back in the day?? These prices are disgusting

[Londilon]

I remember asking for zelda 64 at and finding out there was an online community that would find ways to get the triforce in zelda 64.

 

[CACarot]

You really had to strategically plan out what games you could get on occasions like birthdays and Christmas. Take those games and resell them along with your little bit of pocket change and hope you can get another game out it. Had to trade with friends, one time went half on a game with a friend and we borrowed it from each other. I gamefly now and just look at this like a blessing these young boys don't even know they got, also the ability to pirate didn't exist back then. Free disc demos that game with magazine was like free games.

 

[Knicksman20]

What the Fukk is a Neo Geo?


Lol That sh1t had that ps3 launch price


So did yall old heads get together and one person buy a different system? Yall had like 10 systems outchea...

Just doing some googles and found this as an option for yall as well....

It looks kinda hot yo..

We only have Ps4 and Xbox....and sony has all but eradicated microsoft from the stratosphere

Neo Geo is the GOAT console for 2D fighting games bruh. You might not have heard of the console but I'm sure you've heard of these games:

1- Metal Slug
2-Samurai Showdown
3-World Heroes
4- Fatal Fury
5- King of Fighters
6-Last Blade
7- SNK vs Capcom: SVC Chaos

These were true arcade ports to a home console during the 16 Bit era.

You had to be crazy rich to have one of these back in the day

Atari Jaguar had a new Tempest game & an Aliens vs Predator game that were ok

 

[WhodatWhoadi]

shyt Blockbuster was the GOAT, rented like a motherfukker, then the few games I did get, would trade/borrow with the homies for something new.

My Mom mostly rented the games for us my dad when it came to video games..was like hell naw birthdays and christmas only!... Once a while if the money was good mom would lets us buy one from the store..

Me and my bro be standing behind the glass looking at the games like

Mom would be like .........yall wanna game?

.............. "yea"....."uhh..We mean yes please?"...


"go ahead and pick ONE..."

Me and bro

 

[Optimus Prime]

How did you break that thing fam? Some parts of it were metal which seemed hard to break?

Those metal hinges on top of the shoulders were held in by that plastic, somehow i broke that plastic keeping the hinges in on one side...

 

[illadope]

I used to steal everything. I had all the consoles some how but I would never get the games cept what came bundled with whatever.

Remember my homeboy got the virtual boy and we pretended to walk to school then would come back to his house after his moms left to play. That shyt was terrible it probably gave me cancer but Wario Tennis was fun. Cant believed I skipped so much school in Elementary



My grandpa was asking me what would I want for a xmas gift. Took me to the PX and we copped a Game Gear with Sonic & Power Rangers. Then he was all like "This will be a good gift for that girl down the street. Thanks for helping me figure out a present for her. " I was livid. I wanted to kill him, her, and her parents. I was pissed for weeks. Xmas day comes around and im all like cuz I knew that bytch down the street was getting a game gear and I was getting some socks or some other dumb shyt. I open up a few presents and start seeing red. Then the last one was this big ol box. It was the game gear with the games AND the magnifying glass with a pack of 32 AA batteries. My grandpa was lookin at me like . It was then I realized I had an anger problem because I still wanted to kill everyone for lying to me but I was too busy trying to beat Power Rangers to act on it.



Got the Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure & Phantasy Star online. You couldnt tell me shyt. Grandma copped a second phone line for the house because we would miss all the calls with me being on PSO all day. One day we were at Montgomery Ward and they were going out of business. I saw Skies Of Arcadia & Seaman and for some reason the casing was open. So I stole them hos & a few VMU's too so I could breed Chao's.



Taught myself how to solder and copped a bunch of Ps2's from the used spot here in town. I bought every game they had and burned them on some harddrives I stole. The store had a "Beat it in 7 days and we'll give your money back" So I went up there the next day after I got done ripping all the games and said I beat them. The manager was like theres no possible way . I argued with them he cant deny me and that I was gonna call the store owner and complain. He was like and gave me all my money back. I was selling modded ps2's for $300 and packs of games for $40. I was the only one in town that was bootlegging games. Haha Im looking at my first modded ps2 I made. Shame the mod chipped one I made and painted gold for my sis got robbed from the house but oh well.

Trading/stealing was how I had every video game and or Pokemon card I wanted back in the day. Crazy thinking bout all this now that Im older haha.

 

[illadope]

Oh yeah shout outs to Media Play. They had a loss prevention team instead of cameras. That's how I was able to get everything I desired

 

[315]

I actually beat World Heroes in a grocery store

Every time I would beat the next fighter my mom was

 

[1970s HeRon Flow]

Damn I remember the N64 prices cuz I would always be at toys r us and they always had the flaps on display with all the prices,I was in middle school by then so I was stealing most of my games from circuit city
But I remember I had having a NES and super Nintendo,had a bunch of games too,makes me appreciate my father spending all the money he did on dozens of SNES games

 

[scarlxrd]

What the Fukk is a Neo Geo?

:stfu::stfu::stfu::stfu::stfu::stfu::stfu:

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

Y'all younger generation miss out on a lot because of technology. nikkaz used to get together and have tournaments back in the day, shyt didn't matter if it was sports, fighting, whatever. 10 people, weed, junk food and ONE TV. shyt was some of the most fun I ever had as a kid.

The shyt talking, roasting sessions, just straight ignorance/fun was great

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

you had to really decide exactly what game you wanted. Get one game for your birthday and one for christmas, if you got really lucky you'd somehow manage to get one in between big holidays or on easter or some shyt. Then you had the GOAT blockbuster or hollywood video. My parents were very forgetful about taking the games back on time i know them late fees were a bytch and then there were games you'd get your fix at your friends house. One of my best friends family was wealthy so he always had all the best shyt

 

[315]

Y'all younger generation miss out on a lot because of technology. nikkaz used to get together and have tournaments back in the day, shyt didn't matter if it was sports, fighting, whatever. 10 people, weed, junk food and ONE TV. shyt was some of the most fun I ever had as a kid.

The shyt talking, roasting sessions, just straight ignorance/fun was great

NBA JAM & Madden 94 tourneys in my hood in particular

 

[MarloStanTrill]

I make 25 an hour and its still not enough

move to ATL u will be good.

I was in Cali with a better job than I have now, was in a shytty studio in long beach payin $950/mo. no money or time to do shyt, no thottys was answering my text..

moved to ATL with only a DECENT job: got a huge one bedroom apartment - its basically a 2 bedroom paying $700/mo. riding foreign. gas $1.99 right now. Plenty of bad bihs out here i ran thru soo many at my first job out here. Now I got a woman, and shes bad too.

Alotta nikkas on the coli seem to be obsessed with gay dudes whenver Atl comes up. yes, we have gay guys here and that leaves more women for the str8 guys.

ALSO funny nobdy talks about all the GAY WOMEN here. For every place you go and see some flaming gay guy, in the sme room you will see some STUD dressed like 1998, and her girlfriend. I tend to see that morre than gay shyt.

All I know is if you have no education,, and no real skills go to Atl. They got tons of call center jobs and these places are just full of bad bih after another. They come to work all thottied out and you can stack your papes while bagging bytches.

Any real nikka in Atl reading this knows I just gave yall some real game. Of course, if you another city and you already doing your thing there, shoutouts to you too

TLDR: I moved to ATL two years ago. Started working in call centers and met hella women. I ONLY make 40k a year and I'm down here living comfortably.

 

[MarloStanTrill]

NBA JAM & Madden 94 tourneys in my hood in particular

Playing Madden actually meant something for 2 reasons:

1) In a room full of homies you see everyday- there was no RAGE QUIT, only way out was getting skunked 21-0.

Let a nikka up and quit in mid game. Nex time he come around nikkas would be looking like

2) If you lost, you didnt go back to the lobby and start another game- Nope. You gotta give up them sticks. Seeing how its 10 nikkas in tha room, you wasnt getting another turn that day. So winning and losing held real weight.






but them days where you was on sticks all day

(thank you mike vick and madden 04 )