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[Enjay]

Press Start

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Region locking
SCART

 

[Duchess]

"Where did I put the manual?"

 

[Aenima]

Load ""

Graphic Adventure

 

[BigDeadFreak]

R Tape Loading Error

 

[Yoboman]

r3m3mb3r wh3n 3v3ry0n3 7yp3d 1n l337 5p34k?

 

[BouncyFrag]

Boot disc
Razzle Dazzle Root Beer
‘SEGA’!!!

 

[mxbison]

"Can I borrow that?"

I still swap games with a friend all the time and it's crazy to me that nobody brings that up in the physical vs digital discussions.

 

[Alan Silvestro]

Parallax.

 

[alienator]

all the words i used to yell at my mom when she picked up the phone downstairs

while i was downloading a sexi jpg from a BBS with my 56k modem

 

[small_law]

Serial port. PC gaming was hell in the early 90s.

 

[Null Persp]

And you were happy when a game asked to insert a disk that you never used, because it meant you found the correct solution to a puzzle.

 

[Gunboat Diplomat]

Doom wads.

 

[Redneckerz]

Fragging and camping comes to mind.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

r3m3mb3r wh3n 3v3ry0n3 7yp3d 1n l337 5p34k?

No. Was that in IRC rooms? That passed me by.

 

[aries_71]

BBS
300 Bauds
Fido
Wildcat
Puma

Man, I’m old.

 

[Miles708]

Zerg rush!

 

[SirTerry-T]

 

[Spukc]

RTFQL

 

[Shwing]

For our latest software catalogue please send a stamped addressed envelope to...

Also upon a purchase... Please allow 28 days for delivery

 

[Skelterz]

“Does zero count” in regards to lives.

 

[thief183]

Frag
Gib

Thia is the only real answer, all the other are still used.

I'll add "asd" instead of "lol", I still use it cause it is faster.

 

[lobsteroid]

Any key

 

[ksdixon]

Action Replay
XPLODER
Game Genie
GameShark

 

[MetalSlug]

I'm still find it strange that controllers no longer have a "Select" button next to "Start"

 

[MoneySings]

Internet Cafes - £5 for 30mins websurfing.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Back in the mid to late 90s, people used to say the term "grinding" instead of "farming" when leveling, looking for materials or items, etc.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Action Replay
XPLODER
Game Genie
GameShark

I still have my Action Replay Max for ps2!

 

[ksdixon]

I still have my Action Replay Max for ps2!

Me too, somewhere. Gotta hack WWE SD HCTP somehow lol

 

[cash_longfellow]

I'll never forget how long it took me to boot my Kings Quest IV on a Packard Bell when I first got it. I think this is why us old folk appreciate what we have in gaming these days

 

[cash_longfellow]

Me too, somewhere. Gotta hack WWE SD HCTP somehow lol

So...I booted my ps2 up about 6 months ago and wanted to update codes for DQVIII. I plugged my ethernet into the ps2 and was still able to update the ARMax through the ps2 internet...wtf kind of magical internet server is that?

 

[ksdixon]

So...I booted my ps2 up about 6 months ago and wanted to update codes for DQVIII. I plugged my ethernet into the ps2 and was still able to update the ARMax through the ps2 internet...wtf kind of magical internet server is that?

DNAS, wasn't it?

 

[cash_longfellow]

DNAS, wasn't it?

I believe so...I still can't believe it was still working on AR's end. Unless they bought one of those lifetime servers they used to have way back in the day.

 

[cash_longfellow]

DNAS, wasn't it?

After doing a little research, you are correct. It was DNAS for gaming and it looks like support for it ended fully in 2016. Strange that Action Replay could still connect to the server to update through the software. I imagine with a memory editor such as that, they had to have their own way to connect, as Sony didn't want any part of people cheating online games. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's why they DNAS to begin with.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Super Magicom

 

[Sp3eD]

Most of the ones I remember are ones used in multiplayer FPS back in the mid to late 90s

Somebody mentioned it a page Back , but LPB and HPB ( Low and high pinged bastard) were common phases back in the quake 1 and 2 days. Pretty much ways of of shaming somebody that had amazing or trash internet. (People below 100ms generally Called LPB people 250ms or over HPB). LPBs were hated by those with modems and everybody hated HPBs as their lag would cause them to skip around.

Telefragging - either spawning or going through a teleported when another player is in the same spot caused a death.

game specific ones like calling somebody a rocket whore or quad whore in quake. Also quake 1 somebody that grabs the lightning gun and waits for people to fight in the water and jumps in and discharges it killing themselves and others was a lightning bitch. Spamming ‘666’ to everybody on chat when somebody had the pentagram of protection (invincibility)

Flak slut (flak cannon), combo whore (using the shock rifle combo in crowded popular areas of the map over and over) in unreal tournament

 

[HeresJohnny]

Scaling and rotation, Mode 7

 

[Mister Wolf]

Calling stages/levels "boards".

 

[CrustyBritches]

Kickstart
Screen Peeking
Demo Disc
Sound Blaster
Nickel Arcade
Rumble Pak
Booth Babe

 

[aries_71]

HIMEM.SYS
EMM386
Expanded memory for the win.

 

[MoneySings]

Lol camper

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Virtual ram.

Back in the early 90s, 1 meg of ram was $50. So boosting a PC with 4 megs was $200.

My bro bought for $50 a program that was supposed to replicate that by I think caching space on the HDD, pretending to be a real ram chip.

I'm pretty sure it did absolutely nothing.

 

[MafiaMurderBag]

My daughter has really gotten into Fortnite recently & I brought her a battle pass.

Then, like most kids, gets primarily driven by need for as many skins as possible, asks me to drop more money to directly buy some for her.

For this who don't know the whole point in the battle pass is to earn your own skins as you level up. I explain that when I was her age we didn't pay money to unlock stuff, That we had to earn in game rewards & unlockable through hard work.

She'll looked at me like that was the most pathetic thing ever & like I was a sucker for doing that.

It occurred to me that many kids first console will be a PS4 & that gaming culture & philosophy is extremely different to what we grew up with as kids.

 

[RoadHazard]

Sprites and parallax scrolling are definitely still a thing. Maybe the latter isn't talked about much today, but sprites are for sure. Mainly in 2D indies, but yeah.

 

[namekuseijin]

Bring back the 'bits' war.

the unit now is K

4K, 8K, 16K etc

 

[namekuseijin]

shoot'em'up

beat'em'up

Lol we were really creative, weren't we?

 

[Boneless]

Fragging
ICQ
IRC
1337
Roflcopter
Warez
Ftp dump

 

[shaddam]

Toon

 

[MoneySings]

Fragging
ICQ
IRC
1337
Roflcopter
Warez
Ftp dump

ICQ - 725041 was my ID lol

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Kazaa
Limewire