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

side eye monkey meme

Seen a PS2 buddy, I still have a PS2. It's chilling next to my TV collecting dust until I get the urge to play need for speed underground, cabelas outdoor adventures, 007 or sims 2 castaway again!

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

PS2..Pffft. I had a PlayStation. The indestructible grey box from the before times. I played Final Fantasy VII, Driver, Silent Hill, Tekken 3, Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, and Grand Theft Auto. Unless the power was out, you could pop in a disc, read the booklet, and play to your heart's content. Hell, if we are going to be talking old, how about playing Jeep Command or Pac-Man on the Commodore 64? I need to go back in my dusty coffin and have a nap. AND GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

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

Not only do I know what a PS2 is, I know what a PS/2 is too.

Come now, child, it's time to commune with us, the deep ones. We who witnessed the 8088 and Apple II's in the computer store, the Commodores, the Ataris, the Coleco visions, we who played Pong on the Atari Home Pong console.

These children haven't even danced on a home DDR pad, settling for Nintendo and Microsoft's weak tracking methods.

don't be sad that you're old enough to have played on a real life ps2, or even ps1-- be glad that 9/11, 2008, covid, and 2 diaperman potus terms aren't the most significant core memories of your childhood

I still own my PS2 and it works

Ok got it lemmy is unc core now

My last console 😢

Me sad, me nostalgic

My friend brought over his PS2 to play guitar hero last year. Im not even 30 what did the tiktok attention span do to the kids 😭

Do people actually toss away their stuff the moment an add for the next generation rolls out?

I grow up with a lot of technology much older that me because people still had it. Typically, a elderly house would have older stuff than people the age of my parent. I had new toys and stuffs from the last generation and plenty of older hand me down from older siblings and oncles.

It blows my mind to see some young people so uneducated about the very recent past. You didn't live this time but the majority of the society in which you take part did. How could this be so exotic to you?

I was there, 3000 years ago when PlayStation was first born. When we rewired the circuits to play CD's we burned as tribute to ensure our 1MB memory cards would not fall to corruption.

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

That's just the way it is now. Humans used to go generations with minimal change. In this alien existence we've created things change drastically in just a decade or two. That said a lot of things still never change like human behavior or motivations. There's still a lot of wisdom about life someone can gather and pass down as they see fit. As they say, the more things change the more they stay the same.

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.