• TenThumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    7 days ago

    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!!!

      • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        6 days ago

        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.

    • belochka@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 days ago

      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).

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • deus@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        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

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    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!

  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      6·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        7 days ago

        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.

    • Malyca@lemmy.zip
      1·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • nullspace@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 days ago

    Did nobody visit their grandparents and play atari games? Did people stop hanging onto their old games and consoles?

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    4·
    7 days ago

    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).