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Anonymous Wed 17 Nov 2021 22:17:26 No.48753208 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>48753433 >>48753872 >>48753914 >>48756709 >>48757724 >>48758179 >>48758191

>how were you supposed to know how to do this as a kid?!?!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Nov 2021 22:18:36 No.48753226 Report

Quoted By: >>48753252

do what

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Nov 2021 22:20:28 No.48753252 Report

Quoted By: >>48753570

>>48753226
He's pointing out that guide books existed, and THAT'S how you were supposed to figure it out really weird shit as a kid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Nov 2021 22:34:00 No.48753433 Report

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>>48753208
I had the Prima guide and always wanted to get the Nintendo Power for comparison

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Nov 2021 22:46:23 No.48753570 Report

Quoted By: >>48753651 >>48755880 >>48755905 >>48756744 >>48756891 >>48757441 >>48757489 >>48757545

>>48753252
is this what zoomers really believe? that the internet didnt exist in 98-99 for Red and Blue? or in two thousand fucking five either? or that word of mouth couldnt spread because there wasnt twitter

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Nov 2021 22:53:09 No.48753651 Report

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>>48753570
Internet being available and internet being in every home are two different things. There was still poors and tech illiterate parents to take advantage of in 2005.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Nov 2021 23:15:26 No.48753872 Report

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>>48753208
was there anything you needed help for?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Nov 2021 23:19:40 No.48753914 Report

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>>48753208
i kinda feel like zoomers are trending the other way.

when i was a kid i used game faqs if i got stuck or wanted a cheat code but it's been dead for years. obviously if you get stuck in pokemon there's 12000 ways to find out how to proceed and the game seems easier now, but if you get stuck in some indie game with no documentation i can imagine that would get frustrating since i don't remember the last time i even saw a guidebook was in the wild.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 02:17:07 No.48755880 Report

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>>48753570
retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 02:19:34 No.48755905 Report

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>>48753570
internet wasn't really common in households until late gen 2

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 04:00:50 No.48756709 Report

Quoted By: >>48757519

>>48753208
It was 2003, and by that point, I knew about GameFAQs.
Buying guides was for suckers.
was kinda mad at myself around that time too, because I had bought a few guides

>>48755905
A bigger issue is that looking shit up in 1998 fucking sucked.
I was so fucking glad when I first found out about Google in maybe 2000 or 2001.
Yahoo, AskJeeves, and one other fucking search engine I can't remember anymore fucking sucked ass, and they were all I had.

>>48755905
The people I knew without internet were also sort of people who didn't have a GBA because their parents were cheap/broke/luddites.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 04:03:24 No.48756744 Report

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>>48753570
I didn't use the internet until 3rd gen. I was probably in 4th or 5th grade

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 04:16:25 No.48756874 Report

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>>48753651
>got a computer in ~2004
>didn't get internet until 2009
We had to beg our parents for internet when school expected us to do online research outside of class.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 04:18:02 No.48756891 Report

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>>48753570
Adding to what others said, good parents didn't list let their kids use the computer for whatever they wanted. Sure pokemon is innocent, but they probably didn't want to supervise their kids looking at pokemon guides (which were probably on forums) when they could just tell them to play the kid's game without the internet.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 04:29:40 No.48757003 Report

Quoted By: >>48757021 >>48757492

i figured regi puzzle without internet or any kind of guide

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 04:31:34 No.48757021 Report

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>>48757003
same, i was a turbo nerd that remembered i saw braille in a dictionary

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 05:23:58 No.48757441 Report

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>>48753570
>person screaming about the "zoomers" reveals they don't know anything about the past
Every time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 05:30:39 No.48757489 Report

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>>48753570
tfw your parents get mad at you for printing off an entire gamefaqs walkthrough

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 05:31:56 No.48757492 Report

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>>48757003
>>48757021
Didn't gen 3 cartridges come with a braille chart? At least I remember having one.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 05:35:46 No.48757519 Report

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>>48756709
WebCrawler

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 05:38:20 No.48757545 Report

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>>48753570
The Internet was BARELY seeded at that time and was most certainly not user friendly enough for children to easily navigate. Most kids wouldn’t have even thought to use a computer. Funny how you call people zoomers yet you were likely born after 2000 and just looked up “what year was the Internet made available?”

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 05:47:42 No.48757603 Report

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>>48757545
it heavily depends on where you lived, where you went to school, whether your parents were hip and with it (my family got AOL in 1996, so I've lived the vast majority of my life with internet access)
but yeah, finding shit on the internet sucked dick until Google came out

and even though I lived in middle of nowhere PA when I was in elementary, we had high speed internet, rows of machines running NT4 (and then later Windows 2000), the projects in our classes expected kids to look shit up online, etc
was really weird when I moved away and met people who didn't get on the internet until deep into like 2005 or some shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 05:50:18 No.48757616 Report

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>>48757492
They may have mentioned braille, but I’m sure there wasn’t a chart in ruby and sapphire’s instructional booklets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 06:09:04 No.48757724 Report

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>>48753208
Not only did we have the guidebook), but IGN, Serebii, and the Internet at large still existed, zoomie

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 07:38:39 No.48758179 Report

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>>48753208
Be thankful that there is such a great source of information on the internet nowadays. In the past you'd get shit like "press A on the white rock 6 times on a rocket launch day to go to the moon and get Jirachi" or "if you surf to the truck you can get Mew" or "Dragonite can evolve into Yoshi if you beat the game in a certain way". I don't see that happening anymore.

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Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 07:42:17 No.48758191 Report

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>>48753208
gamefaqs

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 07:42:41 No.48758193 Report

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>>48757489
Oh I remember those fucking days. Thank god for smart phones nowadays.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 18 Nov 2021 09:11:35 No.48758584 Report

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>>48757616
There was in Europe, but not in the US

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