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[Wolf Akela]

Cheat codes

 

[HueyFreeman]

Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment

Hard to believe this was spawned by the same game that spawned the term "quick time event" (ie Shenmue). One really stuck around.

 

[Aquamarine]

"Do you have an Action Replay / GameShark for your console?"

"I'm going to rent a game from Blockbuster / Movie Gallery / Hollywood Video."

"I bought a screen light for my Game Boy."

 

[B-Genius]

"Press Start"

That's funny. I see this almost every day when firing up Dark Souls 2.

 

[N.Domixis]

I bet in the future we will be looking back and remembering "pass the charger for the control". Wireless electricity will get rid of the cables one day.

 

[Mr. RHC]

Low Battery.

 

[Sobriquet]

Actually, the reasoning for this was because the system was originally called the Playstation Experimental project. The original developer abbreviation was PSX. It stuck with those of us who weren't 5 at the time, so you see a lot of us old geezers still using that abbreviation.

I was 20 when the Playstation came out. I'd never heard "PSX" until I started reading GAF.

 

[Xisiqomelir]

Speaking of Dota, I preferred when it was 'pawned' and not 'pwned'. Pawned actually makes sense because you kill someone and pawn their head for 300 gold. That was the original concept. I guess enough people just didn't understand that and thought it was a typo for 'pwned' and it eventually got changed and now makes no sense.

Who ever said "pawned"? The etymology is owned->pwned.

 

[Bishop89]

L33t

 

[cantona222]

Memory Card.

Great one

 

[cantona222]

RF cable

 

[Toski]

This reminded me of configuring IRQ channels.

Or plugging a joystick to the freaking sound board.

Good old days.

I was going to say this! Damn IRQ7 conflicting with IRQ3 or some shit. I remember X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and Wing Commander saying you need "x" amount of Expanded Memory, and it wasn't to be confused with Extended Memory.

 

[MrCunningham]

I was going to say this! Damn IRQ7 conflicting with IRQ3 or some shit.

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.....

I still have a few of these boxed up somewhere.

What is this mythical game I keep hearing about where you can buy invincibility and infinite ammo and stuff?

I don't actually know. I was just going along with popular opinion.

 

[Brakke]

Gibs.

 

[Atomic Airplanes]

Full Motion Video

Spoiler

(Come Back)

 

[redcrayon]

Autofire/quickfire/rapidfire, back when some joysticks sometimes had the option to automatically keep triggering the button. Usually sold as a 'pro' feature for playing shoot 'em ups etc. Made the game much, much easier, but saved wear-and-tear on the button and probably wrist sprain too!

I think the NES Advantage is one of the best known, but I had one for both an Amstrad 6128 and the Amiga as well.

Didn't some of them have 'slow down' sold as a 'feature' too?

 

[redcrayon]

Do games still thank the player at the end?

It's a shame this has almost died out. I remember this as part of a more polite era when the gamers and publishers didn't despise each other quite so much, and the developers were grateful that you'd bought and stuck with their game, and wished you well until next time. Rather than seeing it as a portal to beg you for more money for their crap DLC on the title screen.

 

[ShiroAmakusa]

[...] I've never heard anything but "mule" in FFXI.

I guess it strongly depends on where a game's community derived from.

Actually, the reasoning for this was because the system was originally called the Playstation Experimental project. The original developer abbreviation was PSX. It stuck with those of us who weren't 5 at the time, so you see a lot of us old geezers still using that abbreviation.

Its more a Western thing since in Japan it was simply PS. It was more game magazines and whatnots back then pushing the whole PSX tag in the US.

This! It was impossible to read gaming magazines in the 90s without reading PSX when the Playstation was referred to and without knowing where this term comes from. It was explained quite often back then.

 

[Rikkun]

Low Battery.

I guess you just play with mouse and KB, batteries are low every 5 minutes on PS4 and WiiU.


I'd say.. we might be out the "HD edition" era and just entered the "complete edition" one.

 

[Into]

"L2P"

It was frequently said to anyone who complained about any given game, offered any balance discussion for any online multiplayer game. Its almost extinct now

The only place you may still find it, is on World of Warcraft forums, the WoW community has always been 5+ years behind on whatever jargon, memes or jokes. Hell Chuck Norris facts might still be relevant for that community.

 

[genbatzu]

cheatcodes (it's DLC now)

is "camper" still around?

 

[MrCunningham]

is "camper" still around?

Go play some BF4. Camping and the phrase "camper" is alive and well, I assure you.

 

[dr guildo]

Sprite

 

[Emulated Hype]

"Check the Manual/Booklet"
Back when tutorials were still in their infancy.
"Gaming Hotlines"
I never used one to begin with.
"Cheat Devices"
Who doesn't miss the Game Genie, Gameshark & Action Replay?
"Rentals"
I haven't heard the phrase "I'm going go rent a game." in over 3 years. Sure, there's Gamefly, but I haven't used it & I don't know anyone who has.
"Secrets"
For all intents and purposes, everything is documented anymore. If you find yourself stuck in an area, need help with a boss, want to find out what a combination of items does before spending resources, find out how to unlock a special tier of vehicles or characters in racing & fighting games, or just finding hidden collectibles/areas for that 100% save file; the answers are just minutes away rather than hours or days.

 

[CyanideFuse]

Azimuth head alignment.

 

[sunofsam]

L33T skillz

 

[xDUMPWEEDx]

This! It was impossible to read gaming magazines in the 90s without reading PSX when the Playstation was referred to and without knowing where this term comes from. It was explained quite often back then.

Yep. If you followed the industry back in those days you knew what PSX was. If you never heard of it, you didn't follow the industry as much as you think you did.

 

[NekoFever]

I was 20 when the Playstation came out. I'd never heard "PSX" until I started reading GAF.

It's definitely not a GAF thing. I picked it up from magazines in the 90s. Hell, there were magazines that used PSX in the title.

 

[Cygnus X-1]

During the late 80s and early 90s people were not playing videogames. They were playing Nintendo.

 

[Opiate]

And then they came back and now they're called "cinematic shooters".

I'm intrigued by the phenomenon: people have a visceral dislike of games that actually use real camera footage (e.g. the Sega CD games), but are actively impressed by games which do the exact same thing but then "polygonise" those models (the best example of this would be LA Noire).

 

[Cymbal Head]

Credits sequences that end with "...and You"

 

[Scottiths]

I will never understand how people called levels in a game "boards".

Because they could be laid flat like a board.

 

[Y2Kev]

I think game shark is a good one. I can't even believe what I used to have activated via game shark. So cool.

Controller port is another.

 

[Ricky 7]

Saying you clocked a game when you completed it. I still use clocked though.

 

[Futaba]

FMV
Lightgun
RF unit
Press play on tape.
Datasette
Floppy
Link cable
Megatape
Joystick
Com1
Novaload
Syntax error ready
Loading music
Referring to cheats as "Pokes"
"Alignment tool" (Small screwdriver stuck in your C64 tape set to adjust during loading screens, because getting the lines as thin as possible is a good thing)
"Dub me a copy"
Cheetah (Specifically, "The bug")
Quickshot
Oh, and "Action replay"
Ahh Commodore 64, lovely memories.

But most notably....

Color manuals.

 

[King Mac of Furry Frog]

Coding to the metal and 16GB.

 

[BurnOutBrighter]

Live action cutscenes

 

[TheD]

Also, back in my day you had to overclock from BIOS. Nowadays these whippersnappers do it quick and easy from the desktop. We had to dig through BIOS menus we couldn't comprehend to switch values we didn't understand...and hope we didn't burn the house down.

By "back in my day" you mean today? Because most CPU overclocking is still done in the "BIOS".

The real "day" had you overclocking by flipping DIP switches on the motherboard.

 

[mikeebi3]

2-player! haha

it's only co-op now

 

[Futaba]

By "back in my day" you mean today? Because most CPU overclocking is still done in the "BIOS".

The real "day" had you overclocking by flipping DIP switches on the motherboard.

*shakes fist* in my day we had to solder a bridge between points on the motherboard and put a fan on the processor heat sinc. (not kidding).

But that does remind me of some more PC oriented stuff.

pIRCH
Netscape
Macromedia

 

[Joqu]

I still use PSX I guess I'm out of touch

 

[Cymbal Head]

I still use PSX I guess I'm out of touch

 

[ys45]

Sorry if some of these has been said :

Bragging about how much MB/MEG the game is
Save on cartridge feature

 

[BouncyFrag]

Sorry if some of these has been said :

Bragging about how much MB/MEG the game is
Save on cartridge feature

One of my early memories as a Sega Genesis console warrior. It also bothered me that the SNES hardware supported scaling/rotation.

 

[BouncyFrag]

-Only caring about games that use a flight stick (Wing Commander, X-wing, Red Baron, etc)
-boot disks
-Razzle dazzle root beer

 

[Omnii-chan]

speaking of... how many "bits" would PS4/X1 be?
Does it even apply any more?

I think PS2 and Dreamcast were classified "128-bit". Not sure about Xbox or the 'Cube. I remember seeing a catalogue when PS2's first came out and it stated it was a 128 bit console, probably to lure the people who still counted bits.

I'm not sure if it applies today either and would like to know out of curiosity.

 

[RangerX]

If you look at UK magazines from the 90s, they all refer to fighting games as beat-'em-ups and actual beat-'em-ups as scrolling beat-'em-ups.

Thats because in this part of the world, Uk and Ireland, they ARE beat em ups. Streets of rage and the like is a side scroller. It was only when I started posting onlne that there was any confusion about what genre I meant. Everyone I know still calls fighing games beat em ups.

 

[Munin]

The one that really mystifies me as to why it disappeared is frag/fragging. I thought it was established because people clearly wanted to distinguish competitive first person shooters from murder simulators in which it's all about "killing".

Well now every game and gamer just freely uses the term "kill". I guess it doesn't matter anymore.

 

[DryvBy]

"Frag" is a word I wish would come back. I still use it and people never have any idea what I'm talking about. I also miss "gibs" but there's too many care bears in gaming now. Gore = Immature now.

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

Is shmups still being used? Feel like I havent heard it in years.