Why is there so little nostalgia for retro PCs compared to retro consoles? (2024)

>games you didn't mention at all

>retro pc gaming is so niche

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Wolfenstein 3D, Half-Life, Quake, Doom, and Starcraft are gaming institutions at this point. What the frick are you on about?

>Wolfenstein 3D
>Doom

Are you fricking brain damaged?

How many kids that are in their 30s now had access to a machine that could play DOOM or Wolfenstein before '95 compared to those that could play Super Metroid or SMB3 in their living rooms? I guarantee that most people nostalgic about those early FPSs didn't play them until the '00s or '10s.

>How many kids that are in their 30s now had access to a machine that could play DOOM or Wolfenstein before '95 compared to those that could play Super Metroid or SMB3 in their living rooms?

"up to 20 million people are estimated to have played it within two years of launch."

>The Commodore 64 out-sold the Master System
And most people bought a C64, played around with it for a week, then shoved it in a closet to collect dust. Same with old Macs. Maybe they printed a grocery list as a novelty or tried making a budget in a spreadsheet for a month before forgetting. Computers were boring novelties and status symbols in the early years for actual normal middle class people. Also, adults didn't care about games and kids tended to associate computers with school and Oregon Trail and digital jigsaw puzzles instead of as a fun, new toy to learn. The 90s brought edutainment to kids, but it was still a dumb novelty, and it wasn't until 3D games and sh*t like MSN that normal, average young people cared about computers. Even if they had an email or downloaded some shareware, it was still just an expensive novelty you used when it was raining outside and none of your friends were around and there weren't any chores or homework and the boardgames were missing pieces and you had beaten all of your old SNES and PSX games. Computers were a last resort for 99% of people until marketers worked for well over 10 years to convince normalgays that they were cool and awesome and life wasn't complete without one. Even then, they were STILL barely used until smartphones, as evidenced by the glut of moronic phoneposters infesting the internet since 2007.

This is the most laughably inaccurate moronic comment I've ever seen posted about the Commodore 64, seeing as the Commodore 64 had more games developed for it than the NES, SNES, Genesis, and Master System combined, which wouldn't have been possible if "they bought it and then shoved it in a closet", you frick-tarded braindead moron, lmao.

>Maybe they printed a grocery list as a novelty or tried making a budget in a spreadsheet for a month before forgetting.
Or maybe it gave birth to the demo scene, which became an active training ground for people getting into technology like graphics and music development, considering the SID's chip was groundbreaking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6581

>Together with the VIC-II graphics chip, the SID was instrumental in making the C64 the best-selling home computer in history,[2] and is partly credited for initiating the demoscene.

You're so painfully unaware and uninformed on the topic, it's giving me an actual migraine.

>Computers were boring novelties and status symbols in the early years for actual normal middle class people.
Except for the fact that the C64 was literal the reason for the advent of the growing popularity of home computers you frick-wit.

>Even if they had an email or downloaded some shareware, it was still just an expensive novelty
God, you're such an obvious LARPing zoomer, it's unbelievable.