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4 player split screen multiplayer was actually a short lived trend in gaming

Peaked on n64 and was largely gone just 2 gens later. Why?
Woah Cr friend!
  04/14/26
everyone games from home now and nobody ever goes outside, l...
irl White person
  04/14/26
I think (((they))) saw the power young white men had playing...
Woah Cr friend!
  04/14/26
cr
irl White person
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Surfeando las estrellas
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obviously because of the Online noone has "friends&q...
OYT and the Indie Reprieve
  04/14/26
These trends were already manifesting. The country took a we...
cowgod
  04/14/26
Also a thought occurred to me recently In 1999 it was lik...
cowgod
  04/14/26
Cr I was watching a 2026 coachella set on YouTube recently a...
Woah Cr friend!
  04/14/26
is this offered on all the platforms after n64? switch you c...
non stop prop op from israel
  04/14/26
my HS friend group was really into timesplitters 2 on ps2.
dupa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
Woah Cr friend!
  04/14/26
fuck yeah
Der Krieg
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System Link? Multitap?
cowgod
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i don't know what that means. We would hang out in his room ...
dupa
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PS2 had 2 controller ports bc Sony did not deign to support ...
cowgod
  04/14/26
180 and same actually
non stop prop op from israel
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it was notably laggy because the game had to render the game...
nude astronaut
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Yeah I remember one christmas in the 2000s we hooked up the ...
Woah Cr friend!
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This was actually fun iirc. Like just seeing your irl friend...
cowgod
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Woah Cr friend!
  04/14/26
that T rating was rather odd. you could go all license to ki...
OYT and the Indie Reprieve
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There are people who will argue with me about this. I think ...
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Ovlov - Really Bees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAbmu...
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College sophomore year, running a bunch of Cat 5 cable all o...
Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III
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Date: April 14th, 2026 11:18 AM
Author: Woah Cr friend!

Peaked on n64 and was largely gone just 2 gens later. Why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816630)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 11:19 AM
Author: irl White person

everyone games from home now and nobody ever goes outside, let alone visits other people in their own homes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816632)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 11:27 AM
Author: Woah Cr friend!

I think (((they))) saw the power young white men had playing Halo System Link and had to shut it down

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816638)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 11:42 AM
Author: irl White person

cr

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Date: April 14th, 2026 6:19 PM
Author: Surfeando las estrellas



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Date: April 14th, 2026 11:19 AM
Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( )

obviously because of the Online

noone has "friends" anymore

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816633)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 12:23 PM
Author: cowgod

These trends were already manifesting. The country took a weird dark turn at some point. Kids with gelled hair could sit on AIM in 1999 and carry on extemporaneous communication

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816741)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 12:27 PM
Author: cowgod

Also a thought occurred to me recently

In 1999 it was like holy shit my life/town/city suck, imagine living in a city with good phenotypes. Like the PLACE mattered

In [current year] it’s like who gives a fuck, why would I care, I have Games. I have a Trailer. If I want to get laid I can get pussy through the Internet or something idk. Like yeah a Rave with only white people might be cool but that’s not happening. Every club is URM and every bar is just One Clique or something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816752)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 1:10 PM
Author: Woah Cr friend!

Cr I was watching a 2026 coachella set on YouTube recently and loling at myself for actually paying & going there in the past, I had a 100% better experience watching it on my ipad in bed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816870)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 11:28 AM
Author: non stop prop op from israel (gunneratttt)

is this offered on all the platforms after n64? switch you can play with four players in marko kart, smash bros, etc.

they fell out of favor generally because of online. 4 player goldeneye on one screen kinda sucks. it was only big because of few other viable options

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816640)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 11:45 AM
Author: dupa

my HS friend group was really into timesplitters 2 on ps2.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816674)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 11:53 AM
Author: Woah Cr friend!

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816687)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: Der Krieg (πŸΎπŸ‘£)

fuck yeah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816707)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 12:09 PM
Author: cowgod

System Link? Multitap?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816712)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 1:20 PM
Author: dupa

i don't know what that means. We would hang out in his room and play 4 player deathmatch on a 25" tv. I was by far the worst.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816899)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 6:09 PM
Author: cowgod

PS2 had 2 controller ports bc Sony did not deign to support local muntiplayer. He must’ve had a Multitap.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49817591)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 12:58 PM
Author: non stop prop op from israel (gunneratttt)

180 and same actually

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816847)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 12:11 PM
Author: nude astronaut

it was notably laggy because the game had to render the game world 4 times at once. goldeneye and perfect dark were laggy at the best of times in single player but multiplayer was like a slideshow if you got some grenade explosions going.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816721)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 1:11 PM
Author: Woah Cr friend!

Yeah I remember one christmas in the 2000s we hooked up the n64 to play goldeneye multiplayer again and we were like wow this fucking sucks, it was unplayable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816874)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 12:13 PM
Author: cowgod

This was actually fun iirc. Like just seeing your irl friend trying to Slap as Oddjob who was made a midget bc the actor is 5’8 plus he’s azn and it was the 90s. It’s not about the gameplay it’s about Killing your friends. I enjoyed when games bled into irl such as when re-enacting Fatalities. Pretending to show my buddy his beating heart as he Dies. A triumph. Only western games got re enacted. No one tried to do zangief’s spinning pile driver irl.

As for goldeneye, it got off easy with a T rating. And it couldn’t be Modded. So when Columbine happened, no one blamed Rare. Its contribution to the undoing of the millennial generation came in the segue it provided to Xbox, which was the true successor to the western N64

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816723)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 1:16 PM
Author: Woah Cr friend!



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816888)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 1:39 PM
Author: OYT and the Indie Reprieve ( )

that T rating was rather odd. you could go all license to kill on "innocent" scientists in the Facility and riddle their bodies with bloody holes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49816961)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 2:20 PM
Author: cowgod

There are people who will argue with me about this. I think the rating itself colors people’s perceptions. Same people will insist that Halo needed an M-rating because you see alien monsters DECAPITATED. Yeah ok, I made Ganon Bleed with an E rating. Microsoft WANTED an M rating. Nintendo WANTED a T rating. Nintendo Published goldeneye and used their soft power to get a T rating

Jet Force Gemini, cartoon space game: T rating

Perfect Dark, M

Both published by Rare. No soft power.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49817054)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 4:29 PM
Author: Surfeando las estrellas

🀯🀯🀯

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Date: April 14th, 2026 5:28 PM
Author: Juan Eighty

Ovlov - Really Bees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAbmu30M2hk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49817468)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 6:04 PM
Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III

College sophomore year, running a bunch of Cat 5 cable all over the south side of the dorm, five stories up, through the windows to network four Xboxes together and host a tournament over a three day weekend when building management was gone and the RAs were asleep at the wheel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5856948&forum_id=2Firm#49817580)



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Date: April 14th, 2026 6:19 PM
Author: irl White person

180000000000

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Date: April 14th, 2026 6:19 PM
Author: Surfeando las estrellas



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Date: April 14th, 2026 6:27 PM
Author: Juan Eighty



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Date: April 14th, 2026 6:27 PM
Author: Surfeando las estrellas



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