• @9point6@lemmy.world
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    63 months ago

    I guess mine’s a PC from the 90s or 00s

    Maybe PS1 at a push given the family computer didn’t really do 3D until we got a 3D accelerator a few years later

  • @ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Oh good. I’m now too old to be nostalgic.

    But what 32 year old has ever seen a caleco vision?

    • @Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

      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.

      • @ccunning@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        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 😅

    • I Cast Fist
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      83 months ago

      To me, that’ll be the Amiga 500 computer then. I don’t think it ever existed in Brazilian soil, but damn, talk about the best consumer hardware you could get in the mid-late 80s. Like many good things, (mis)management fucked it up. Ars Technica has a series of articles that explain its history very well

      • @Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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        43 months ago

        Atari and Amiga were sooooo good at the time. It’s a shame Microsoft and Apple won in the end. These machines were so much better technologically, power, and usability wise.

        I plaid lots of LucasArts adventures on these

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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    123 months ago

    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.

    • Druid
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      63 months ago

      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.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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        73 months ago

        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).

        • Druid
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          13 months ago

          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?

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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            23 months ago

            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.

        • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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          33 months ago

          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

          • @fishy@lemmy.today
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            33 months ago

            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.

    • @JayleneSlide@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      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.

  • Secret Music
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    3 months ago

    Sega Mega Drive for me. We had knock off NES consoles in my country with 100 in 1 cartridges but we just called those “TV games”. Nintendo never bothered with any non first world country back then, so pirates picked up the slack. I don’t think I even knew of the ‘Nintendo’ brand when I was a little kid until I started using the internet and collecting magazines.

    But Sega wasn’t quite as stiff upper lip and exclusive as Nintendo and had no problem with lowering themselves and selling their goods to us plebs in the 3rd world. So Sega was the premium brand here and “TV games” were just cheap shit in comparison in my eyes.

    We had a knock off NES when I was a little kid (called a Pegasus) but my first actual legit name brand console was the Sega Mega Drive.

    Wish I still had it. When I was about 13, I went through a really dumb phase for about 1 month total where I decided I was too grown up for this stuff and I sold my Mega Drive and comics for enough money to buy one CD, probably of a band that I don’t even listen to anymore. Regret it to this day.

    • I Cast Fist
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      43 months ago

      Brazil wasn’t much different in regards to being ignored by Nintendo and Sega picking up the slack and money, first with their Master System then with the Mega Drive.

      The thing with the infinite amounts of famiclones was that the original Famicom was fully made of off-the-shelf parts, that is, if you know how to solder stuff, you can make one by yourself if you buy the components. When Nintendo started considering the Brazilian market, they realized they were too late: our local famiclones were better machines, with some of them having slots for both western and Japanese cartridges.