Games Released Prior To The Year 2000 Are My Time Machine

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#1 Aero5555
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I mean seriously, forget pics, old TV shows, songs and memorabilia. Whenever you look at those sure you do get nostalgic and thrown back. But do you actaully feel like you're re-living the past?

For me, thanks to my serious devotion to gaming up until my last years as a teen, whenever I play a game now which I played back in the day I get thrown into this vibe where it's as if I'm inside a capsule and everything around me transforms into what it was back when the game was new. It's as if I've literally travelled back in time. This also happens when I watch old video game reviews (the Happy Game Nerd's reviews especially). The box art simply pops up and I can actually recall seeing the box on display at the store back then. What adds to the nostalgia is that the store I recall could be one which is now closed down. I never get as nostalgic as this with anything else.

Do old games do this to you too? Or something close to it?

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#2 Shenmue_Jehuty
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Video games are a great way to revisit one's past. Whenever I play an old game I am reminded of the feeling I had when I first played the game, as well as the overall vibe of the time when the game came out. For example, Whenever I play a lot of early N64 releases (Pilot Wings 64, Super Mario 64, Cruise'n USA, and a few others) I am taken back to when I was 10 and I didn't have to worry about getting a job or worrying about responsibility. I used to spend my days during the summer playing my N64, going to this awesome mall (that was torn down about 3-years ago) and hanging out with friends. Life was very good back then and playing those games does take me back.

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#3 Stinger78
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For me it's just about any game on NES. Every time I think of Double Dragon, I think back to early 1988 - the very first time I saw an NES. It was a short time later that I had my own with SMB/Duck Hunt and the gray zapper - the same year my family and I moved to a completely different place and school. NES, to me, represents more than my first game console, it represents big impressions made to my, then, 9 year-old self. My nephew reminded me of how fast time has flown by. With his graduation money (8th grade) he was able to get a couple games for his Xbox 360. With my 8th grade graduation money I bought TMNT III: The Manhattan Project. It was a brand-new game at that time.
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Sometimes when I'm at Gamestop I will buy PS2 games because I can remember looking at a game back before the rental shop I used to go to closed.

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Sometimes when I'm at Gamestop I will buy PS2 games because I can remember looking at a game back before the rental shop I used to go to closed.

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Oh man don't make me cry, I remember when me and my brother went to Blockbuster all the time and rented N64 games back in te late 90's early 2000's:cry:

For my time machine I play Mario kart 64 and play on Rainbow Road, or Super Mario 64 and lsiten to the file select music.