Old gamers, what will new gamers of today never experience?

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[cjthemisfit]

My older sister was a secret gamer. She was on the cheerleading squad and did ballet but I'm when she was at home she was like an addict for games. On weekends if she didn't have practice she would either play Pokemon or Mario from sun up to sun down. Now that she's an adult she doesn't hide it and she happily plays games with her two kids

[Mocita]

Buying a game and actually having a full game available with minimal bugs or graphic breaking glitches, instead of just getting a partial, unfinished game with monetized DLC required to finish the game.

Edit: Please note I said minimal. I understand older games do have bugs and glitches, but not as much as the newer ones that are pushed out specifically for money before getting polished.

[VybeX-]

Things modern day gamers will likely rarely to every experience is:

Couch Co-Op
Getting Stuck in a game and actually being forced to think about what to do to progress rather than looking it up online
button cheats
a finished full game with unlockables and minimal bugs / glitches
Long games loaded with content and good quality. You as the player could tell that a lot of love, time and effort went into the game and it didn't feel rushed.

[EmbalmerEmi]

The dial-up sound.
Every time we connected to the internet it sounded like an eldritch demon was being summoned. 😂❤

[geistgrace]

Games that aren't set in stone.

Back then, you had things like Earthbound's Threed tent glitch. A glitch so extensive that, to this day, we are still learning things about it.
You could have 100 people performing it at once and each person could have a different outcome.

[Boba_Fett_Bounty_Hunter]

Unlocking new fun things in a game, instead of having to pay extra for it

[movezig]

Cheat codes. Nowadays, games typically will either have unlockables or DLC, but gone are the days of inputting an obscure button combination to activate Big Head Mode. The only times you'll see these are in retro-style games, like Infernax or Shovel Knight.

[waywardwriterryu]

While it’s still happening to an extent, the joy of finding out playing the previous game in the series let you carry over save data forward to the next one and giving you cool stuff like the best weapon in the last game early in the new one, the last time I saw this being advertised in modern gaming is how Monster Hunter Wilds will let you get exclusive skins for your Palico if your system has save data for World and Iceborne
My favorite example of this though is Etrian Odyssey 1 and 2, if you fully complete 1 it generates a code for 2 that lets you begin 2 using your previous guild name and exact party, you even get unique dialog from npcs that heard tales of your achievements in the first game

[addison_v_ertisement]

Probably having a puzzle where it's only possible to solve it yourself. Either puzzles are easy to find the answer to online, or a puzzle requires you to search it up on the internet because the information you need is just too specific.

[gordonfreeman]

You guys will never experience a full game right out of the box, complete with all content, no subscription required, no internet needed, no BS.

Great times

[firewolfy_]

They will never be able to just play a game from a large developer. This is mostly because all the games aren't games they are just micro-transaction farms. Looking at you COD

[Sanbaddy]

*No saving:* Back then most games didn’t have a way to save your game without a separate device. It’s often why the first levels in games were often the best.

[Azhrei]

Here's one. Blowing into the cartridge to make it work again.

[dhawthorne]

Waiting 14 hours for that bootlegged copy of doom to download only to have someone forget they can't make a phonecall and make you have to start over.

[runikvarze]

You know, it's not just kids being deprived of all this. Can you imagine being a parent, watching your kid geek out and try to pack the entire computer to take to a friend's house, to show off their progress? Annoying in the moment, but hilarious in hindsight.

[gilded_lady]

Yep. All the nostalgia. I remember pouring over the manuals because otherwise you'd be effed because lack of tutorials.

[colleenmcbride]

11:59 I had a worm light. It was absolutely necessary! When I was a teenager, I bought a Gameboy Advance from a yard sale for $20. This thing was awesome! It was white with black foam on the back to make holding it more comfortable and it had a flip up light that shone on the screen. SCORE!!! I just feel bad for the kid who lost privileges and got their gba taken away and sold at a yard sale for $20.

[shivur]

Getting stuck on a game, walking to EB Games just to read the guide book, stopping at a family express for a big Kahuna, walking back and gaming all night. Thoze were the days

[kryw]

Also, I have game guides from the 1990s. I have looked up guides on my phone from time to time, including for some of the older games I have guides for because they’re in storage. There is information in those 90s guides that still hasn’t made it to the internet. And I’m just waiting to see if it ever does. I could put it out there somewhere myself, but it’s kind of interesting to have additional secrets and I do respond to people on Reddit and YouTube sometimes to give them a personal heads up. None of it is important info, none of it is game play related, just little easter eggs and stuff like that. But they’ve become lost to time and I remember. I Remember.

[ChrisJohnson-nvir]

Ooh ooh I got one play video games blindly and not having to worry about the internet telling you what to and what not to play