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The legendary PS2

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨titty_wizard@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I still have a 2600 and a Nes.

      The joysticks are 80% shot. the edge connector on the nes is about 15 min from wanting to play to getting it to play.

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      • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, the atari joysticks were garbage. Only my better third party joysticks held up, the official ones died when I was still a kid and the console was still being sold.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I had a neighbor with a colecovision, that still feels like a fever dream

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I am old enough to have some those things but my kids Grandparents have gone full MAGA so… No? They won’t have that experience. And even if they weren’t. My parents threw all of my shit out unlike my own grandmother who always has a room ready

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  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Generica@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In our day we had to walk seventeen miles down the beach to get into the deep end of the ocean

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      • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        around here the droughts are so bad that you need to walk much further

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      • AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So is that why you old folks f*cked up the planet so that ocean can come vist us 17 miles high \s

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  • littletranspunk@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And yet I’m old enough to have seen the release of the original PlayStation and old enough to remember it

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    • osanna@lemmy.vg ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m old enough to remember the release of the nes

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      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m old enough to forget everything.

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

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  • switcheroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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…

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I started on an Atari 2600.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        TI 99/A-4

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  • heliotrope@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Literally just walk into CeX (or any non-British equivalent) and there will be at least three on display.

    I did also briefly own a PS2 Slim, but my mum got rid of it because I didn’t use it enough (I still have my Wii to this day, though).

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  • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Me, old enough to have owned an Atari 2600 (…clone):

    • side eye monkey meme *
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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I still have mine. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get ready to lay down in my great pyramid.

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  • OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember when pong came out and Atari, those were the days.

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  • xav@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I still own a PS2.

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  • alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Still have my NES with the light gun and a CRT for duck hunt

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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).

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Of course, that’s the newest console I own!

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve got a working, modded PS2 in my garage right now that I’m judging to post on eBay.

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    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hey, me too! I just need to get a bracket to hold the hard drive properly. I just need to learn to use a 3D printer.

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I played Combat on a 2600 with the paddle controller.

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That sounds frustrating, it never occurred to me to try playing with the paddles.

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      • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The submarine/plane levels were good for it.

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  • SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sears Pong, anyone?

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  • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No, I only had a PlayStation

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  • AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Mine still works.

    (though these days I use PCSX2 and let the old girl rest)

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    flashbacks of smacking a yakow back into the farmer’s seaside pen

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  • lietuva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    that boot animation still haunts me lol

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    • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But it’s a still image, there are no animated boots … oh …

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  • MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My coworker once asked to me take out a loan so she could buy some kind of trinket, I told her no and gave her my old PS2 instead. Ever since then she gives me a real good Nantucket Narb Snarfie before bed every night. I’ve never ejaculated so much in my life. It’s a shame she passed away 54 years ago.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    FIFA 14 was on PS2. That person isn’t a teenager.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just Dance 2020 was released for the OG Wii.
      Fifa is the sports game version of that.

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      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The person in question is younger than 13.

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just remember the immortal words of Redman, as featured in the soundtrack of “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3” :

    My dress code is all black
    When I’m making the moves,
    Just like the new
    Playstation 2

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  • Zomg@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Flex on them, you experienced the golden age of gaming. Anyone would yearn for that kind of era of gaming where it wasn’t a wealth-extraction operation at every release.

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    • whereitsat@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      gen-z are not only dumber than their parents but less cool.

      they don’t even wear baggy jeans right. dudes are out there flexing cropped t-shirts with confidence like it isn’t a bad look even without any gay connotations.

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  • nailbar@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I really liked the PlayStation 2, the third place!" commercials for it.

    That said, I’ve always been team PC, so excuse me while I go play some Tapper and Alley Cat.

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  • mtpender@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m old enough that I played a SNES…

    My knees hurt…

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  • Starchildjohn@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have two in my closet and one downstairs in the TV Room, just in case one of them gives up. Plenty spare controllers as well. Made some of my best childhood/teen gaming memories with that console. Played it at the first sleepover i ever went to and at a boatload of family gatherings. It still gets use to this day for racing games when the family is here.

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  • 5in1k@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I made one with a hard drive and a TB of games on it as a Christmas gift for a friend and myself.

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