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I'm not actually into gaming much anymore - my tastes trend towards traditional roguelikes, which are not very popular with modern gamers. The narrative games
by t-3 4y ago
I'm not actually into gaming much anymore - my tastes trend towards traditional roguelikes, which are not very popular with modern gamers.
The narrative games you mention are all great, but I think gaming at that time was still pretty niche and limited to middle/upper-class and geeks, just like home computers were. In my memory, vastly more people played arcade-style games and multiplayer games than RPGs.
- User23 4y agoThe NES changed that. Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy were quite popular.
- t-3 4y agoI wasn't even born when the NES came out. Maybe my perception is faulty, but video game consoles were the domain of "rich" kids when I was young.
- User23 4y agoIt was the opposite in my experience. The upper middle class parents didn’t want their kids playing with “that trash.” So everyone would hang out at the welfare kid’s house because his mom got him the Nintendo.
- kaoD 4y agoInteresting, could that be a regional difference? Every single 90s kid owned a PS1 or N64 over here (western Europe) and MGS/FF7/Z:OOT were mandatory titles to own. PS1 was so easy to pirate that even lower-ish class could afford it.
- t-3 4y agoCould be, or maybe I just uncritically accepted my parent's reasoning for not having them? I don't remember many kids having consoles and remember those that had them used them as a status instrument, but I didn't have many friends either.
- User23 4y agoThe early 90s cool kids in Germany all had Amiga 500s and the AD&D games Eye of Beholder and so on were very popular.