Me, old enough to have owned an Atari 2600 (…clone):
side eye monkey meme
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?
uncle hardcore
My last console 😢
Me sad, me nostalgic
My consolences.
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.
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).
I still have one somewhere in the electronics graveyard
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.
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
I 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.
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.
Yeah, the atari joysticks were garbage. Only my better third party joysticks held up, the official ones died when I was still a kid and the console was still being sold.
Damn, replacements are cheap af https://www.supremegamegear.com/products/retro-classic-joystick-controller-gamepad-replacement-for-atari-2600-console-system
Those aren’t official joysticks, but I am somehow doubtful they could be any less shitty than the real deal haha
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Maybe get a couple and put some pinball switches in them.
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
Not only do I know what a PS2 is, I know what a PS/2 is too.
Ohhh, I played soooo much PS/2. It was such a blast. Could do nearly anything. My fav game may have been Win95.
Only game I could seem to run was Driver.
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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.
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.
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.
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 😭
