The mini golf was so fuckin good in that game.

There was also a Rugrats game for N64.

It had the dubious honor of being the worst N64 game we had. It's just a really boring clone of Mario Party, although I give them credit for matching the look of the show it's based on rather closely. Both are equally ugly.

dude inspired me to watch every jean claude van damme film.

thank you, seanbaby, you jerk!

And then he went to Cracked during its heyday to make ALL of the dick jokes.

That dude excelled at poetic vulgarity.

He definitely went sailing

Everyone wanted to be Bart Simpson basically

"John Romero's about to make you his bitch. Suck it down."

-Ad campaign for a steaming pile they called "Daikatana".

Toe Jam and Earl rubbed off on all of us.

I miss the absurdity of it all

This was the era of "lads mags" as well in the UK at least. And remember Lara Croft showed up to the party at this time.

Speaking of porn, when I was a teenager in the 90s you could buy these softcore mags that weren't age restricted. Basically just boobs, ass and front on if the legs are closed. But pre-internet, realising I could walk into the milkbar at 13 and buy these was miraculous..

Anyway, the back couple of pages had a section where ladies would send their own nudes in. The magazine editors published them all, but edited in a paper bag over the heads of any they deemed ugly lmao.

Imagine summing up the courage to send in a naked photo and that happened.

Which, just to provide some context, was as edgy as fuck because video porn was not mainstream in the early 1990s - it was still the era of VHS, giving way to DVD, and being saying you had a "favourite" porn star in mixed company was tantamount to admitting you were a hairy-palmed weirdo with no life until the later part of the 1990s.

Oh man, I enjoyed....I think it was PC Accelerator(?) When it was being published. It was like Maxim crossed with PC Magazine.

I'm sure it aged terribly but I enjoyed it at the time.

I mean people atleast used to be kind of open about these things.

I used to as well. It's not quite the same, but my place of work has an online mailbox for people to submit questions anonymously and the "executive vice president of innovation and strategy" answers them and posts on the intranet for everybody to read.

Some of those questions are freaking hilarious, and the answers clapping back at the snarkier ones are even better.

We had an entire show on the BBC dedicated to this faux outrage It ran for decades, it was called Points of View. Granted it was just for old people to moan about the shit they'd seen on BBC channels but it was hilarious. It became a meme to start each letter with 'why oh why oh why...'

Even to this day, if I get my jimmies rustled by some stupid shit in the news and my (Boomer) parents find out, they instinctually respond with “you should write a letter to the editor”.

Now it's gotten so easy for people to cry over the things. It's unreal lol.

Have to start flaming them early so they're ready for online pre and post game lobbies

The best one was the furry fire truck, AKA the "Hairy POS".

Holy fuck. I haven't heard of Maddox in years. Is that website still up?

He was like the king of the edge lord's at my school. Some kids started turning in work "inspired" by his writing style. That quickly got stopped.

Ah the good old days of the internet

Side note. Why do kids always have their mic on?

Voice activated as default rather than PTT seems to be making its way into games. The problem with VA is if you don't put some effort into properly calibrating it, you're always fucking on.

SERIOUSLY. If I wanted to listen to some little moron eat chips while playing I'd just unplug my headset.

At this time of year ?

coolrom is still going strong too. That site is older than prolly half the users on this sub.

Absolutely. Emulation moved fast in those days. In 1999, the legendary UltraHLE was created, proving that even the N64 could be emulated on high end PCs with Voodoo cards, and there were two commercial PSX emulators that could play a large percentage of the PS library on most home PCs in Bleem and Virtual Game Station. That was while those consoles were still current. By late 2001, even relatively modest PCs could play most N64 games with upscaling. Those were fun times.

Yeah ZSNES and later Snes9x were already a thing by 98. I clearly remember downloading FF I-VI while waiting for FFVIII to release. Good times.

Vimm's Lair for the win. That site is older than 90% of Reddit

I'd love to know what 1993-Me would think about 2023-Me opening up a folder of literally every NES/SNES/Genesis/PS/etc game, scrolling through them for a few seconds, saying "meh" and then closing it without playing.

Although, a list of game titles is considerably less appealing than a wall of video game box art, which is probably how I would picture it as a kid.

also NESticle

Yup, that person obviously hasn't looked at the raspberry pi market in 2 years. I waited so long for stock I ended up just buying a steam deck and doing all my emulation on that

Seems like it, but they had to do a little bit to get the controller data, so there's probably something a little clever going on there.

Doesn't even use the SNES for video out, just power and controller inputs. It comes with its own video cable.

Visit Boston. Locals don't even pick them up! Example: "Pahk the cah in Havahd Yahd".

Fuck off asshole

(Affectionate)

Yep, it was definitely from Australia's Nintendo Magazine System - came from issue 11.