I bought a 3Dfx graphics accelerator so i could play Final Fantasy VII on the PC when it came out. It was more expensive than a PS1 would have been but i was a cool PC gamer, of course, not some console peasant. I’m a bit older than OP’s grandpa in this story. And now get off my lawn, damn kids!
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dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
PS1 was released in North America in Sept. 1995, 30 years ago.
So the grandpa was born in 1967 to be 28 in 1995, which does make him 58 in 2025.
Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I had an ATI 3D Rage Pro. Fucking loved that thing. I used that all the way up to 2006. Man, MechWarrior 3 looked so good on that.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.
Sure, like how my parents bought “me” a computer when I was 4. Before windows 3.11 was a thing.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
kids my age were playing console games by the time they were 6 - 8 years old easily - 8 years old is not like being 4 years old; still, I think parents often do buy things for their kids that are really for themselves and this could clearly be an example
rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.
Could very well be the other way around. My dad was born in 1967 and gamed on the PS1. I still have his Resident Evil strategy guides.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
thank you for the reality check
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Yeah, but that doesn’t gut punch annon; which is primarily what I’m here for.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
If you ever need a thought that confirms that the world is a sick and pathetic place, we are right on the precipice of a person being born whose grandparents were not alive for 9-11.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Fuck, I’m forty and I was alive for 9/11! Then I realized that I’m actually within the age range to be a grandmother, but just barely.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 19 hours ago
That’s going to take a little while. If we assume that both parents got their first child at 18, that shouldn’t happen before 2037. While it’s technically possible to have children at 13, it’s so far removed from the norm in developed society that it makes me wonder if they even had access to a TV that would have let them perceive 9/11 if they had been alive and old enough back then.