>>10517472>You Americans were spoiled as fuck when it came to games in the 90sNot our fault your country is so shit, wanting to censor and tax everything for your "safety"
>>10517515Brah, by the mid-90s, there was no excuse to be left in the dark.
There's no way you didn't get video game magazines in your small town and there's no way you didn't get a hundred million AOL disks giving you a billion free hours by 1998, because AOL was packaging their disks with every jug of milk, polybagged video game magazines, and packs of Marlboros.
As a 90s teen, i was chatting it up with rednecks living in the middle of the woods in oklahoma, while a Gamepro writer/editor talked shit about some cosplaying ghost lover, because her atheist BF was a rich asshole who wanted to move all the important chat regs to a private chat room because he didn't want his ideas stolen by the media.
And what fucking backwards permently-frozen-in-the-1930s city did you live in that didn't even have an arcade? They were metaphorical gold mines that sucked in billions worth of quarters every year, and arcade machines were found in every single pizza parlor, ice cream parlor, 711, grocery store, laundromat, bar,candy store, comic shop, mexican food restaurant, drug store, music store, movie rental store, gas station, casino, cafeteria, hotel lobby, amusement park, mall, stripmall, oil changing garage, tire store, bowling alley, skating rink, kmart, walmart, sears, montgomery wards, woolworths, disneyland, boardwalks, movie theater, aquarium, state fair, church fundraisers, ...