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[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I’m old enough to have been an engineer of a pre-PS2 system. All I’m going to say.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 16 points 23 hours ago

Just rolling through here like "Do not cite the old firmware to me Witch. I was there when it was written."

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ooh, was it the Colecovision‽ It's the height of the art for me.

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

best

Christmas

ever

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

They said pre-PS2, so there was also Dreamcast, N64, PS1 in the years before.

But 3DO was a really neat device at the time. I remember standing in Service Merchandise watching the demo graphics play and wanting one sooooo much. Then the PlayStation came out a few months later and I feel like that was it.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Don't forget the Atari Jaguar. Pre-ps2 would also include all the sega systems, NES, SNES, NeoGeo, the older Ataris. Leaving commodore and Apple out because they were more PCs than consoles. I think that's all of them but could be missing some rarer ones.

Jaguar, 3DO, and NeoGeo were like legends that in hindsight I'm glad I never got because they would have been disappointing most likely. None of them really blew up so only had a handful of games. Iirc most of the 3DO games were those live action ones that were more like choose your own adventure movies. Jaguar claimed to be 64bit but it was because of a technicality that was a bit of a stretch (something like it was capable of 64-bit math but it usually refers to the address width). NeoGeo was a system to play arcade games, so that might have been kinda cool, other than arcade games being the OG P2W platform because so many games were tuned to extract quarters rather than for fun.

There's a retro games store I go to every now and then that fulfilled a childhood dream of seeing a sega genesis with both the sega CD (the bit above that might have applied to the 3DO definitely did apply to the Sega CD) and the 32x (which I think was decent but didn't get popular).

The Sega CD might (this is more speculative than the rest so don't take this as fact) have even caused the PS to exist because Sony and Nintendo were working on a joint console that was going to be CD based but then Nintendo backed out and made the N64 instead. Sony, not wanting to abandon the work entirely, then pivoted and just made their own console. It wouldn't surprise me if the combination of Sega CD flopping plus their games not being very good and CDs adding annoying load time are what made Nintendo back out. It probably also helped Sony direct game markers towards better ideas than FMV.

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Holy shit, Service Merchandise... Oof, I just aged another few decades remembering that store!

[–] kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Played it at my cousin's as a kid. Some motorcycle game.

But I've also got an og TurboGrafx16

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

(drops to knees and bows down in engineer)

We are not worthy! But thank you for inspiring the next generation of us.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Have you actually used an IBM PS/2?

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

I learned to type on one.

[–] Ertain@feddit.online 3 points 23 hours ago

Whoa, you were there when the console was forged. Amazing.

[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

you are my elder, I bow down to you 🙇‍♀️