Top 10 Things Only Early 1990s Gamers Will Understand

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1Blowing In Game Cartridges suggested bymac121mr0
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2Wireless Controllers Were Not a Thing suggested bymac121mr0

“Wireless Headsets Were Not a Thing Either ”
said mac121mr0 7 months ago
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3HDMI Ports Were Not a Thing Only AV Ports suggested bymac121mr0
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4Most Multiplayer Games Were Played Locally Esp. Splitscreen suggested bymac121mr0
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5Having To Carry Memory Cards for Console Storage suggested bymac121mr0
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6No Gamestop suggested byzendaddy621

“Or other similar retailer where you could buy used games as well as trade in your old games... ”
said zendaddy621 7 months ago
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7No such thing as DLC for console games suggested byzendaddy621

“Microtransactions were in-game unlockables in the past ”
said mac121mr0 7 months ago
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8Sega Was Basically an Exclusive Top Competitor suggested bymac121mr0
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9No Such Thing and PSN Store, X-Box Microsoft Store, & Nintendo Store suggested bymac121mr0

“*no such thing as ”
said mac121mr0 7 months ago
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10Renting A Game Console At A Video Rental Store suggested bybobbylashley18
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11Playing On Old TVs With Some Not Having AV Plugs And Having To Plug Through The Cable Port suggested bybobbylashley18
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12In-Game Checkpoint Galore & Long Loading Screens suggested bymac121mr0
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131993 - 1995 were the top years of fighting games suggested byJohnny Fountains
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14The Console wars - Mostly the Sega Genesis and the snes suggested byJohnny Fountains
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15No Gamefly suggested byAlton007
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16Snk games were only at arcades and pizza hut. suggested byJohnny Fountains
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17Rental-Only Games suggested byFastTquick
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18SNK Games were popular at arcades for just 25 cents per play suggested byJohnny Fountains
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19Arcade Games were more popular than console games back then. suggested byJohnny Fountains
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20Bloodstorm is an arcade only game for reasons suggested byJohnny Fountains
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21The Snes caused riots in the streets of Japan suggested byJohnny Fountains
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22Samurai Shodown wasn't in peter piper suggested byJohnny Fountains
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23The snes up buttons on controllers would break easily. suggested byJohnny Fountains
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24The nes died in 1994 or 1995 suggested byJohnny Fountains
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25Consoles Had Unique System Architectures Very Different from Each Other. suggested byFastTquick
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26Memory Card suggested byDaniel Núñez Domínguez
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27Rent Games on Blockbuster Video suggested byAlton007
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28All the mk clones of arcades back then suggested byJohnny Fountains
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29mk and bloodstorm cost 2 credits per play suggested byJohnny Fountains

“A lot of arcade games cost 2 credits per fame even before the 90s.. ”
said zendaddy621 7 months ago
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30Playstation One Demo Discs Were Available at Pizza Hut suggested byEj Bonvenca
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31Sony PlayStation is born. suggested byAlton007
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32GBC is born suggested byLeonardo Lim
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33Internet Multiplayer Was For the Most Part Free suggested bymac121mr0
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34The snes sounds like metal and the Sega Genesis sounded like rap. suggested byJohnny Fountains
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35(This is only if you had Siblings) Fighting over who was gonna play Need For Speed suggested byAshley Durden And Caden
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36Blast Processing suggested byTorchBurst