I don't recognize that one, but madness interactive was great once you got used to it

I've played that one as well.

Very good games.

I remember fondly uppercutting people into the air by swinging the shotgun

I'm talking about late 90's flash games like this garbage

And once they were airborne, blowing them to bits.

Why are we talking about garbage all of a sudden

I mean damn

Why buzzkill on purpose

that first one you posted looked like it came from Newgrounds

Because it was amazing that there were FREE GAMES ON THE INTERNET

It didn't matter that they were bad

I learned of emulators long before I learned of newgrounds.

did ya'll fuck with BBS's?

Pokemon Pinball and Harvest Moon. I was seeing a guy play this ON A COMPUTER

And was like

"Wait. How."

"I WANNA PLAY POKEMON PINBALL ON A COMPUTER. SHOW ME HOW."

I'm too young to have really experienced BBS or MUDS and all that stuff

There were two games that I always SNUBBED at the rental store.

I saw Chrono Trigger "Nah" and Harvest Moon "...Nah"

Huge regrets now.

Like holy shit

I'd seen the Earthbound box at the rental store SEVERAL TIMES but it intimidates the shit out of you

man when we upgraded to our 14.4k modem i was so hype

Here's what they never talk about, with Earthbound not selling well

That fucking box is HUGE. You assume something's up

With the basic graphics in the screenshots

yeah when i was a kid i was not about HM, was like fuck is this a farming game? gtfo

NONE OF THOSE SCREENSHOTS INDICATE THAT ITS AN RPG.

It looks like an edutainment game

Most people I've talked to said that it was the big box that got them to rent it to begin with

And the size of the box leads you to believe there's a big stupid playskool-like peripheral inside.

And as a kid, alone in the rental store

You assume "Am I gonna have to ask the guy at the desk to go get something..?"

Shy kid, target demo of RPGs, not going to do that.

But yeah I had a friend tell me Harvest Moon was great but I didn't believe him, because why would I?

Very understated reasons for Earthbound's poor performance.