Me, old enough to have owned an Atari 2600 (...clone):
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I still have mine. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get ready to lay down in my great pyramid.
My first computer was a VIC-20 lol
Still have my NES with the light gun and a CRT for duck hunt
Seen a PS2 buddy, I still have a PS2. It's chilling next to my TV collecting dust until I get the urge to play need for speed underground, cabelas outdoor adventures, 007 or sims 2 castaway again!
i have an maintain my PS2 for god of war and marvel vs Capcom 2
Ok got it lemmy is unc core now
Wut?
a teenager at work asked me if I was old enough to "have seen a C64 in real life" and if anyone needs me I will be quietly walking into the sea¹
¹millennial humor; often self-deprecating, dramatic
I had a Spectrum ZX81 as a boy
how was it? i'm curious about the zx81.
No, what is unc core?
My last console 😢
Me sad, me nostalgic
My consolences.
PS2 was the last game console I ever owned, and I have no regrets.
Me too
I don't get gamers
I am yet to meet one who isn't a fucking loser
that's just cuz your're winning too much, mate
I still game, just not on console.
PS2..Pffft. I had a PlayStation. The indestructible grey box from the before times. I played Final Fantasy VII, Driver, Silent Hill, Tekken 3, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, and Grand Theft Auto. Unless the power was out, you could pop in a disc, read the booklet, and play to your heart's content. Hell, if we are going to be talking old, how about playing Jeep Command or Pac-Man on the Commodore 64? I need to go back in my dusty coffin and have a nap. AND GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
Your PS1 was indestructible? The optical drive on every one I've ever seen had some sort of significant issue.
My PS1 lasted for 10 years of heavy use, but it still wasn't indestructible. That's a term I reserve only for the Atari 2600. I dug mine (I actually own two) out of the ashes of my house that burnt down. Only the atari, a few carts (2600 and NES) and my doc martens survived that fire. Its hilarious that they still work.
edit: the irony is that the infamous E.T. game remained unscathed. You can't kill pure evil.
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Come now, child, it's time to commune with us, the deep ones. We who witnessed the 8088 and Apple II's in the computer store, the Commodores, the Ataris, the Coleco visions, we who played Pong on the Atari Home Pong console.
These children haven't even danced on a home DDR pad, settling for Nintendo and Microsoft's weak tracking methods.
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Did nobody visit their grandparents and play atari games? Did people stop hanging onto their old games and consoles?
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That's just the way it is now. Humans used to go generations with minimal change. In this alien existence we've created things change drastically in just a decade or two. That said a lot of things still never change like human behavior or motivations. There's still a lot of wisdom about life someone can gather and pass down as they see fit. As they say, the more things change the more they stay the same.
It's hard to explain to young people how much the world changed just about 15 years ago, when the Smartphone was first released. That was an invention on par with the TV.
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My friend brought over his PS2 to play guitar hero last year. Im not even 30 what did the tiktok attention span do to the kids 😭
I was there, 3000 years ago when PlayStation was first born. When we rewired the circuits to play CD's we burned as tribute to ensure our 1MB memory cards would not fall to corruption.
Do people actually toss away their stuff the moment an add for the next generation rolls out?
I grow up with a lot of technology much older that me because people still had it. Typically, a elderly house would have older stuff than people the age of my parent. I had new toys and stuffs from the last generation and plenty of older hand me down from older siblings and oncles.
It blows my mind to see some young people so uneducated about the very recent past. You didn't live this time but the majority of the society in which you take part did. How could this be so exotic to you?
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Just remember the immortal words of Redman, as featured in the soundtrack of "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3" :
My dress code is all black
When I'm making the moves,
Similar to the new
Playstation 2
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