Top 10 Things Only Early 1990s Gamers Will Understand

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1Blowing In Game Cartridges suggested bymac121mr0 Make Your Case
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2Wireless Controllers Were Not a Thing suggested bymac121mr0
“Wireless Headsets Were Not a Thing Either”
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said mac121mr0 3 weeks ago
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3Most Multiplayer Games Were Played Locally Esp. Splitscreen suggested bymac121mr0 Make Your Case
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4HDMI Ports Were Not a Thing Only AV Ports suggested bymac121mr0 Make Your Case
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5Having To Carry Memory Cards for Console Storage suggested bymac121mr0 Make Your Case
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6Renting A Game Console At A Video Rental Store suggested bybobbylashley18 Make Your Case
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7No Gamestop suggested byzendaddy621
“Or other similar retailer where you could buy used games as well as trade in your old games...”
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said zendaddy621 2 weeks ago
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8No such thing as DLC for console games suggested byzendaddy621
“Microtransactions were in-game unlockables in the past”
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said mac121mr0 3 weeks ago
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9Sega Was Basically an Exclusive Top Competitor suggested bymac121mr0 Make Your Case
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10No Such Thing and PSN Store, X-Box Microsoft Store, & Nintendo Store suggested bymac121mr0
“*no such thing as”
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said mac121mr0 3 weeks ago
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11In-Game Checkpoint Galore & Long Loading Screens suggested bymac121mr0 Make Your Case
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12Rental-Only Games suggested byFastTquick Make Your Case
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13Playing On Old TVs With Some Not Having AV Plugs And Having To Plug Through The Cable Port suggested bybobbylashley18 Make Your Case
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14The Console wars - Mostly the Sega Genesis and the snes suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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15No Gamefly suggested byAlton007 Make Your Case
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161993 - 1995 were the top years of fighting games suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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17Bloodstorm is an arcade only game for reasons suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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18Snk games were only at arcades and pizza hut. suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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19SNK Games were popular at arcades for just 25 cents per play suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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20Arcade Games were more popular than console games back then. suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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21The Snes caused riots in the streets of Japan suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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22Samurai Shodown wasn't in peter piper suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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23The snes up buttons on controllers would break easily. suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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24The nes died in 1994 or 1995 suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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25Consoles Had Unique System Architectures Very Different from Each Other. suggested byFastTquick Make Your Case
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26Rent Games on Blockbuster Video suggested byAlton007 Make Your Case
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27All the mk clones of arcades back then suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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28mk and bloodstorm cost 2 credits per play suggested byJohnny Fountains
“A lot of arcade games cost 2 credits per fame even before the 90s..”
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said zendaddy621 2 weeks ago
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29Playstation One Demo Discs Were Available at Pizza Hut suggested byEj Bonvenca Make Your Case
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30The snes sounds like metal and the Sega Genesis sounded like rap. suggested byJohnny Fountains Make Your Case
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31Memory Card suggested byDaniel Núñez Domínguez Make Your Case
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32Internet Multiplayer Was For the Most Part Free suggested bymac121mr0 Make Your Case
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33Sony PlayStation is born. suggested byAlton007 Make Your Case
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34Blast Processing suggested byTorchBurst Make Your Case