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This is what happens when parents don’t vaccine. When you are very young, you can get vaccinated with computer gaming. You can absolutely still enjoy consoles and the great games that come out on them, but you have a certain protection against obsessing over a specific console.
For me it was Commodore 64 I was vaccinated with. This also let me enjoy a future of DOS gaming right along side NES and Genesis gaming.
In some places, the ZX Spectrum vs Commodore 64 war was epic. Likewise for Amiga vs Atari ST. Magazines for one fanbase would regularly mock the other. And I don’t know what the TRS-80 was going up against, but I’ve seen it called the “Trash-80” more than a couple of times.
What can help proof someone against this excessive dedication to one platform isn’t which platform you start them on; it’s starting them on multiple platforms as soon as possible. Getting them interested in the individual games rather than the fan club nonsense.
As human beings we naturally oversimplify things. So when our entire experience has been A, and the people around us frame the world as a choice between A and B, we’re naturally going to defend A with our life. That’s because without really thinking about it, we’ve bought into the idea that A is either right or wrong, with no middle-ground, and we hate to be wrong.
I really liked my GBA
Never had a console growing up. PC all the way. Started with a ZX Spectrum clone, then a 286, then a Pentium 100, and so on. I got my first consoles as an adult, first the Xbox One, which I never really played anything other than Just Dance on, then a Switch, which I couldn’t really get into either and ended up playing more on Ryujinx than on the actual switch. Bought an old 3DS at one point and its also just sitting in a drawer. Guess I’m too much of a PC gamer to get into consoles.
Dreamcast was the best.
Aw, this is what I get for not paying attention to what instance I was posting in.
You’ll never guess mine.
That is just inviting people to start throwing out names of lesser-known systems. Can we narrow it down to Western (including South America), Eastern European, or South-east Asian before we start?
N60?
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GBA SP here.
Phillips CDi? Oh no!
Think that still beats out the Virtual Boy.
You see this CDi port of Street Fighter 2? https://youtu.be/CdZzhAkmX7M
Atari Jaguar. No one I knew had one and the only place to play one was a single game store in a mall that you had to pay to play. I paid twice to play and was in love.
PolyStation. I’m from center Europe, so Famiclones were a big thing in the 90s.
I hated those things because of how easy it was to scam unaware parents. “Your kid asked for a playstation? Oh, sure, it’s this polystation, they must’ve said the name wrong, it’s this one, for sure!”
I can’t believe I threw away my Dreamcast. I’m such an idiot.
Right there with ya, except I gave away all my consoles. Original 2600, 5200, Intellivision, NES, SNES, Game gear… on up through my two 360s. There were since esoteric ones in there, and some real stinkers: CD-i, 3DO leap to mind.
There’s a few on ebay for like a hundred bucks, or there’s always emulation
https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/dreamcast/flycast.html
I ran NES emulators on my Dreamcast, lol.
Gonna have to dig it out over the weekend…
Didn’t know they were that versatile. I never had one but I’m into retro gaming so I’ve played a little, but I tend to put more time into nes or snes to try to relive my childhood haha
At this point nearly any device with a screen can emulate SNES games and the consoles that came before it. I have a cheap Chinese retro game handheld from Ali Express and it’s honestly so refreshing to play games that aren’t begging me to spend extra money.
Also, playing fan translations of games that weren’t released in the west like mother 3 and dragon quest monsters is so cool. 10 year old me would be so jealous.
Honestly got to hand it to my PS4. I’ve had it since the early days of dating my wife, and she gifted it to me when I was a broke uni student. It’s still serving Armored Core VI, indie games, and movie nights to this day. I’ve pulled it open several times over the years to dust it out and it’s got an external fan add-on to help with cooling. I won’t know what to do with myself when it gives out someday.
Base PS4 or Pro? If the former, a Pro could be a pretty good upgrade. Also not super expensive compared to the base model.
A PS5 is, of course, also nice if your budget allows it. Been happy with mine since its release. Feels like a real step-up compared to the entire PS4 line, even if you’re only interested in PS4 games.
Also, check the firmware of your PS4 in case you haven’t updated it recently. You could potentially jailbreak it and unlock heaps more potential. Emulation and stuff, for example.
It’s a base model. I’m going to keep using it as long as I can as-is, I don’t really have the spare mental bandwidth to tinker (nor the budget to rectify any mistakes), but it’s cool that they can be jailbroken.
Whenever I’m finally done with it, it’ll probably be time for a Steam Deck (probably some time after the release of the SD2, knowing me).
I hear you. Took me some time get it working myself, but there’s also a plug-and-play solution as well. Got it for like 20€ off AliExpress for convenience’s sake, so I don’t have to connect a PC to run the jailbreak every time.
Ooh, cool! I see the appeal, but apart from my teen years, I haven’t been much of a PC gamer. Or rather I never bought any games on Steam which I could run on a SD. You probably have a big enough library? And will you be getting the dock too?
I don’t know if mine counts as a big library, I’m fairly patient and choosy with my games but it’s ended up being a couple dozen over the years. I prefer to appreciate games as art but I also do it to bond with my kid. Trying to get him more into emulators and retro stuff.
Atari 400 ✋
I had an 800. Had the cassette tape media drive and some game for it, but could never get it working.
Also had that awful ET game.
I recall writing a screensaver in basic and letting it run overnight.
Hey, do you want like 400,000 more copies of E.T? They’re just sitting there. In some landfill.
The 800 was the better machine but god damn the 400 is so sexy 🥵
The idea of writing anything on its awful membrane keyboard is inconceivable though 😅
Ngage, what is this even?
Loved the Wii but it definitely wasn’t my first (NES) but have fond memories with all the consoles my friends owned when I was.growing up
