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.
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
Pong was my first, in Germany. I was so excited. I miss those days.
Let me show you my original Nintendo game & watch young one…
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!!!
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).
Did nobody visit their grandparents and play atari games? Did people stop hanging onto their old games and consoles?
I had a neighbor with a colecovision, that still feels like a fever dream
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 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
When I was growing up, I met older people who had seen the Beatles perform live, had seen Jimi Hendrix perform live, and had gone to Woodstock (and hated 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.
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.
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.
I never really cared about history until I started recalling it as a lived experience, and I expect to stop when I no longer can.
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’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 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 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.
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
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.
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).
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 😭
Flex on them, you experienced the golden age of gaming. Anyone would yearn for that kind of era of gaming where it wasn’t a wealth-extraction operation at every release.
gen-z are not only dumber than their parents but less cool.
they don’t even wear baggy jeans right. dudes are out there flexing cropped t-shirts with confidence like it isn’t a bad look even without any gay connotations.
Seeing how old a youtube video is makes me feel older than this. Like I see 16y on a YouTube video I was watching literally 16 years ago and I feel old from that.
This though, it throws me into a nostalgia loop of man I do miss plying ps1 games on the ps2, spending time with my brother, buying accessories for it like the memory cards and the controllers with extra vibration or the ones with the fans in the handles. Man those were good times. Playing dbz budokai 2 and soul caliber 2. Awww man the THPS games were fuckin’ sick on that. The Matt Hoffman bike games!!!
Yea it was truly a legendary system.
recently i was chatting with some colleagues, i know i was the oldest, bit didn’t expect on how much oh a gap there is. so we talked about some topic and i asked, who still remembers the release of the starters prequels… the answer was that not a single one of them was alive at the time… that moment i grew even more gray…
Oof
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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