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I kid, I kid… actually I am obsessed with konsole
Konsole sounds like the name KDE would use for a home gaming device, or their terminal emulator :3
Thats the joke :3
I can’t believe I threw away my Dreamcast. I’m such an idiot.
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
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.
I’m obsessed with the OG xbox and 360, oh how the mighty have fallen.
Never forget my first but slightly going in reverse…… those SNES games just hit hard.
never owned a snes, had a gamecube before I first emulated snes games. Chrono Trigger fucks.
So good, maybe too good. Soundtrack just slaps, always triggering a moment playing the game.
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.
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.
Phillips CDi? Oh no!
Think that still beats out the Virtual Boy.
My first console was an Atari 2600. Well that was my family’s first.
My own fist was the original NES. Saved up my paper route money to buy it.
My first was the 5200 and my favorite game was Joust. Killing the pterodactyl was the highlight too.
The 5200’s was the best home version of Joust.
The real question, did you play paperboy on it?
Oddly enough, I did not.
Intellivision 👾
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.
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!”
Oh good. I’m now too old to be nostalgic.
But what 32 year old has ever seen a caleco vision?
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.
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 😅
Hey, do you want like 400,000 more copies of E.T? They’re just sitting there. In some landfill.
Aw, this is what I get for not paying attention to what instance I was posting in.
For me, it was always consoles I never actually got. Dreamcast for a while (VMUs were so fucking cool), then the GP32.
Gameboy gang rise!!
In all it’s shades of green 💚
