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!
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.
My last console 😢
Me sad, me nostalgic
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
No, what is unc core?
uncle hardcore
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.
It still ran when I gave it away a couple of years ago.
I still have one somewhere in the electronics graveyard
Played Tekken 3 with my friend and his brother on their PS.
Then we also played SW : RotS on our PS2.
The PS2 is still around somewhere, but its CD drive sensor is bad, so it doesn’t detect when it’s closed. And thus doesn’t read discs. That was long ago. I need to find it, I think I’m grown up enough to fix one sensor or find a replacement drive.
I suppose the old game CDs all have scratches too bad to play, so some tinkering is expected to make it work.
And while there was an officially supported Linux version for it, of what I’ve read about it, it wasn’t of much use even then and was an advertising move (if so, worked on my dad, I remember him mentioning that back then).
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.
Pong was my first, in Germany. I was so excited. I miss those days.
Uh, I’m not sure what you mean by “settling for Nintendo’s weak tracking method”. There were home DDR pads for the Wii, I know that because I still have one.
The WII is 20 years old, they all had dancepads 20 years ago.
The only ones still running ddr have camera or motion controllers. dancepads are mostly dead tech
FIFA 14 was on PS2. That person isn’t a teenager.
Just Dance 2020 was released for the OG Wii.
Fifa is the sports game version of that.What I wanna say is: What’s your point?
The person asking the question is younger than 13.
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 2I still own my PS2 and it works
Same, i even modernized him, bought a MX4IO and a 64 mb elf memory cards, two wireless controllers and a HDMI Adaptor who is powered by his own USB port
Same here… Over the years I even ended up with a modem and HDD for it. Great system.
For some reason I found a USB to ethernet network adaptor on my floor in my dorm room (no idea how it got there, just noticed it under the bed one day) at university and tried it with the PS2 I played using a TV in card for my PC and it just worked. Played some online Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 with it.
Contrast to today, where my PS5 supports Bluetooth but when I paired it with my Bluetooth headset, it didn’t recognize it and I’m sure that was deliberate to get people to buy Sony’s (or partners) headsets. Which is one of the reasons I probably won’t ever bother with a console again (though Sony has been generous and has provided me with plenty of reasons to not bother).
That’s good, take care of it and enjoy it. My Dreamcast GD-Rom finally gave up last year, but some day I’ll replace it.
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.
I’ll never forget the first moment in like 2010. I was out at the zoo, pulled out my phone and looked up a restaurant nearby instead of just going out and looking for one and then I was aware we were all fucked. Totally plugged in to the internet all the time anywhere anytime.
Hanging out with old people is fun anyway, I used to love doing that as a kid. Sat with them while they played bridge and learned a whole lot about life from them. Somehow I don’t think the boomers would be as kind to children nowadays, as a whole, but there’s still decent old folks left if you know where to look.
Did nobody visit their grandparents and play atari games? Did people stop hanging onto their old games and consoles?
I still have a 2600 and a Nes.
The joysticks are 80% shot. the edge connector on the nes is about 15 min from wanting to play to getting it to play.
I had a neighbor with a colecovision, that still feels like a fever dream
I am old enough to have some those things but my kids Grandparents have gone full MAGA so… No? They won’t have that experience. And even if they weren’t. My parents threw all of my shit out unlike my own grandmother who always has a room ready
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 😭
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?
I still have every Nintendo console sold (except for game cube) starting at Nintendo - switch1. I lost the cube to an ex but the wii plays it’s games so
I’m am amateur musician who has gotten into recording over the last couple of years, and I’ve been buying old recording tech from 20 years ago for super cheap. I’m buying barely used gear that was hundreds of dollars (or more) when it was new, for less than $50. This is gear better than classic albums from the 70s and 80s were recorded on, and now it’s sitting on my desk. I’m having a blast.
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.
