• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
      19·
      2 months ago

      It feels relatively new to me still! Although I’m sure it feels like an eternity to kids. All the consoles that came out through the 90s and early 2000s felt like distinct eras to me.

      • lugal@lemmy.world
        17·
        2 months ago

        I think Douglass Adams had this this categorization: what’s new in the first third of your life is normal and has always been there, in the second third is new and exciting and the last third the fall of civilization

      • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        9·
        2 months ago

        All the consoles that came out through the 90s and early 2000s felt like distinct eras to me.

        Because they were. Back then games changed drastically with more powerful systems. Today, you sometimes have the same game available for multiple console generations.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          6·
          2 months ago

          Hell the Last of Us is on every plastation system from the PS3 onwards, also Skyrim. There were also notable differences between PC and console games with random bits of overlap, now its a fucken circle.

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yup. NES to SNES - huge! SNES to N64 - huge! N64 to Gamecube - huge! Gamecube to Wii - ehh, widescreen is nice, graphics aren’t that much better otherwise. Wii to Wii U - more of a jump than Gamecube to Wii thanks to HD. Wii U to Switch - not really that different, it’s the system actually being popular and portable that makes it better more than the tech.

          Used to be that 5 years was enough time for graphics to be astronomically better. Now we have games approaching 20 years old that don’t look too bad by today’s standards.

      • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        2 months ago

        Think about the fact that an 11 year old who got a Switch at launch is a literal adult now. It’s bizarre for me to think about.

        And yeah lol I totally get that, the PS1 only came out like 5 years before I was born but it felt like ancient technology to me.

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            The first game beat I was 6 or 7. I wasn’t supposed to play it- it was “dad’s”. But that shiny, golden cartridge was too hard to pass up.

            (Yes I beat Zelda before he did. Also got caught when I told him how to beat water temple.)

            • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              My dad got really sick one time when I was a kid. He was at home for a couple weeks. He started playing Donky Kong 64 on our Nintendo 64. He beat the game, got better and went back to work, and never played another video game ever again. He wouldn’t even tell me how to beat it. It took me forever.

              • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
                31·
                2 months ago

                DK64?

                I’m so sorry you couldn’t have played the OG DK…. So much better….

                • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                  4·
                  2 months ago

                  Considering you have to play the original to complete DK64, they probably did.

                  (Not only that but you have to be really good at playing the original. With an N64 pad, too!)

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          5 years before you were born? You must be super young!

          does the math

          …fuck.

          The closest thing I have to a video game seeming old is black and white ones like Pong or Space Invaders. I’m old enough to remember when Pac-Man was current tech.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’m surprised that Nintendo has kept using it for so long. Looks like it’ll be 8 years old before they have a successor. It took so long that I got tired of waiting for it to be obsolete and went ahead and modded it after they pulled that Yuzu crap.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
    391·
    2 months ago

    This comic made me realise that my Gameboy Advance SP is now older than my students… Where can I report this comic for making personal attacks?

  • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
    15·
    2 months ago

    The Xbox 360 turns 19 years old in less than two weeks. 18 for the Wii and PS3 this year. You’re welcome.

  • Senseless@feddit.de
    10·
    2 months ago

    Talked with my gaming buddies about how awesome the original CoD was and how good he was back then. Then we looked at the wiki page and found out that’s it’s over 20 years old.

  • abbadon420@lemm.ee
    8·
    2 months ago

    My wife’s watching Six Feet Under, the series from 2001. Yesterday I overheard an episode where some kid got a present and went “Oh my god, yes! It’s a playstation 2” and we both just broke out in laughter.

  • VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    You can feel this right now considering anyone who hasn’t already homebrewed their 3DS is doing it now that nintendo services are discontinued.

  • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 months ago

    Guys definitely doN’T homebrew your 3DS! It isN’T super easy, and doesN’T allow you to side load the entire 3DS library and other cool homebrew projects. You definitely canNOT use Anemone to use custom themes such as that one really cool sonic theme I put on my 3ds! doN’T even try to get the 3DS gold source port and copy the files from Half Life to your 3DS and play the original Half Life natively on the 3DS!