I haven’t played video games since the Atari 2600. You kids don’t know!! Back in my day I had to walk ten miles in the snow for a hit of ecstacy
In our day we had to walk seventeen miles down the beach to get into the deep end of the ocean
The Awakening (2026)
I’m old enough to have been an engineer of a pre-PS2 system. All I’m going to say.
Just rolling through here like “Do not cite the old firmware to me Witch. I was there when it was written.”
(drops to knees and bows down in engineer)
We are not worthy! But thank you for inspiring the next generation of us.
Have you actually used an IBM PS/2?
you are my elder, I bow down to you 🙇♀️
Ps3 came out in the end of 2006, but the ps2 was such a good console that it outshined the ps3 and 4 for a long time, arguably into the early 2010s. Let’s say 2011.
To have seen a real one in real life, I’m not going to give them the benefit of the doubt, and say “seen” means seen and not owned or played. I’ll say that means “been around one in use by a friend or family member”. Kids as young as 5-7 years old can operate one of those.
So, in 2011 (yeah we’re playing with huge averages and assumptions) a kid would have to be let’s even say 6 years old, and so therefore born in 2005? Making the youngest person whoever this anklebiter accepts as relatable or human or whatever, to be now 21 years old.
Which like, yeah, that’s a fuckin weird way to guage things? But to be fair, after going over the years, from a child’s perspective, yeah it’s an old console.
The counter argument is, though, that while the graphics aren’t that great anymore, the gameplay and experiences are still top tier in the best ~100 or 50 or so ps2 games. That’s a shitload of good games that, even compared to now, with the indie games’ renaissance, have incredible value and influence.
Also, games in the past 20 years really haven’t progressed as much as the 20 years prior. Graphically, maybe, but graphical fidelity is not the game part of the game, and 99% of the time, it isn’t the experience, either.
Tell that little shit to go read a book.
Was recently talking to a working student at $DAYJOB about LLMs and wanted to make the point that the pay-per-use model shows they’re still a relatively new/immature technology. So, I likened them to mobile phone calls, which would generally cost you per minute in the early 2000s.
Yeah, she had no idea what I was talking about.
I owned a sega Genesis.
Actually I still own a Sega Genesis. The same one. It’s downstairs in a box. Now then, someone find me my walker so I can take a mid afternoon nap before my three o’clock dinner…
I started on an Atari 2600.
TI 99/A-4
Man, I remember playing Camel and Parsec as a kid.
You know, last century, back in the 1900s when music was either carried around on massive flat disks you scratched with a needle to listen to, or very long rolls of magnetic plastic film very expertly wound, and commercial internet wasn’t quite available yet.
I got stupidly lucky. My dad was/is a computer programmer consultant, so he needed to upgrade his machine every couple to few years. We had the Internet at home by Aug of 1986, and hand-me-down computers as kids.
I still have my first US gen PS2 (fat boy, not the slim one) and it still works fine. Doesn’t look good on modern tvs though
My boyfriend is 34 years younger than me, and he asks me questions like this all the time. It doesn’t make me feel bad, quite the opposite, actually. It makes me feel like an immortal witch.
Your boyfriend is 24‽
Well actually I guess that’s consenting adult range, carry on.
Um…how old is your boyfriend?
Oh,ok. Thats fine. I was getting concerned he was like 8. I was gonna be like “FBI? Yes, this post right here.”
Why? Is it just like the best pussy ever?
Of course, that’s the newest console I own!
I played Combat on a 2600 with the paddle controller.
“Are you old enough to have seen the console that had the most units produced over the longest lifetime of any other console, and which is still made in some parts of the world today?”
I want a brand new ps2 with all the old ps2 games. I bet it exists, eh?
I was in college when it was released. We put the couch in the back of the truck and put it in front of the Best Buy. We camped all night with everyone else and it was quite a party. We were also the few that had one for a while.
Mine still works.
(though these days I use PCSX2 and let the old girl rest)
Born 2005 but I had one, and I had seen plenty in my life.
I trashpicked four PS2s, so that’s five different PS2s I’ve seen.
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
