Oh my god. My Wii will be old enough to vote in a few months. I got it a month or so after its release date.
I should set it up again and play some Metroid Prime Trilogy. The backported motion-control gun aiming makes the first two games a joy to play.
Some zoomer talks about Xbox 360 as retro games, NO ONLY 3RD TO FIFTH GEN
Sorry, only Zoomers and younger refer to console generations by number. I don’t make the rules, it’s just because they learned all this stuff from Wikipedia rather than experience
The console generation numbers always weird me out, because the start of time - console gen that was out when I was born - is considered “third gen” instead of first.
I don’t even know what separates the first two generations of home consoles - it’s just an amorphous blob of Ataris and Collecovisons, and other shit I’ve vaguely heard about but never played.
Second Gen was mostly defined by swappable cartridges instead of built in games
So the old Pong and video pinball games were first gen, and the Atari consoles are second - makes sense!
Yep! The big advancement was general purpose cpus instead of purpose built logic that allowed swappable program roms
8 bit -> 16 bit - idk more bits -> CDs
32 -> 64 (CDs is N64 erasure!)
It’s some nerd binary shit, so it doubles each time!
“bits” were largely marketing nonsense in the fifth and later gens. Though the N64 actually had a 64 bit cpu (unlike the Jaguar) but the Dreamcast in the following gen used a 32 bit cpu. 32/64 bit isn’t as meaningful a distinction as it was in earlier gens
I never remember the console gen numbers unless you’re talking about the bit numbers like 16bit or 32bit.
Why do they call them consoles if this image offers me no consolation??
can’t get any consolation because everything is too PC nowdays
Some Brazilian company has the right idea lol
Isn’t that tied into they have the rights to manufacture the Genesis in Brazil, and import fees make other consoles super fucking expensive?
Isn’t that tied into they have the rights to manufacture the Genesis in Brazil, and import fees make other consoles super fucking expensive?
TecToy used to be Sega representative in Brazil. They used to translate games in Brazilian Portuguese (very rare during the 90’s) and make some games/hack roms about popular Latino movie/comic/series characters like Monica (Popular Brazilian Comic series that started during the 1960’s about kids going in adventures, even have a Manga version) and El Chavo/El Chapulin Colorado (Mexican comedy Superhero, very popular all over Latin America). I think they were pretty much Sega of Brazil during this time (I believe nintendo simply didn’t give a shit about Brazil so it was a huge market for Sega and eventually Sony), and went on as far as give support for the dreamcast (theres a popular 2000’s copypasta about the guy in Brazil who really “liked” his dreamcast and asked tectoy for help after he spilled some suspecious thing into his dreamcast lol.)
I think they still release these cheap NES and Mastersystem/MegaDrive clones in South America to this day, mostly retrogamers buy these nowadays, since you can easily find and buy PS2, Gamecube and original Xbox in any eletronics selling place. I never heard about the Zeebo so no idea wtf is that. Nowadays it seems like videogames got cheaper (or the 1980 - 1990’s Gamer culture in Brazil are now all old and have jobs), enough for games to be dubbed and adapted for the Brazilian markets.
I’m not too familiar with it, but I imagine that sounds about right. I just think it’d be super dope to have people design new games for old hardware.
From what I’ve found on Wikipedia, it looks like they’ve moved more into other electronics, but still make plug-and-plays of the Master System and Genesis that have remained decently popular.
They’re also the company behind the Zeebo, which was a legendary mess of a console that has had somewhat of a second life from internet acclaim.
For anyone interested in digging deeper into the Tectoy rabbit hole: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectoy
I think nowadays they are still doing cheap retro games consoles since theres a market for this. They also created some exclusive MasterSystem games like some Woody Pecker game, Show do Milhao (Brazilian who wants to be a millionaire) and Duke Nukem 3D. They also did the Brazilian dub of Blader Runner (the game) and Starcraft 1.
The PS4 is ten years old now
Ps5 is 5 years old already
And it’s really no different from the ps4 in any meaningful sense. Planned obsolescence stays winning
This one speaks to an old like me even more
TIL I can legally fuck my ps3
It says insert disc. DISC.
Insert Dick In System Component
eventually you get so old that they’re both 18 years old
The PS3 slaps as a retro console. Lots of great games, the last good UI (Because it was before everything was advertising), cheap to get games for. Good console all around, just buy one and chuck in a new drive (an SSD can slightly improve things)
I’m still rocking my 25 year old N64 with the translucent purple controller. I have an older NES too, but it doesn’t get as much play time. Both are one owner!
If you don’t have too much stick drift on that controller it’s worth so much more than any solid color if you need extra cash at any point you could easily flip it into another controller and some money.
Random thought i suppose lol
I have had about a dozen controllers over the years, that purple one has always been the best and continues to be. It has outlasted them all and still is the only one I have that works flawlessly (I need to get at least one more good one). I can see why they are desired.
This just made me think of the ~2005 “viral marketing” ad for the Sony PSP. Some British chav doing a rap about wanting a PSP. One of the earlier astroturfing campaigns. Couldn’t find a link
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I remember hearing Take Me Out by Frwnz Ferdidand for the first time in a psp commercial
Edit: I’m not making any edit Frwnz Ferdidand is a way better band name
Anakin, you’re breaking my heart
