• village604@adultswim.fan
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    6 months ago

    Grandpa definitely could have been a gamer who justified the purchase by saying it was for OPs father.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      My dad got us the NES when he was 35ish and played Tetris more than any of us.

      The PS1 was still more like older console systems at the time. You didn’t have to be a “gamer” to buy one, titles like Spyro and Rayman especially were for ostensibly kids.

      PS1 might have been the end it’s that though. Tekken 2 and Gran Tourismo started to signal an older college age shift in those consoles. That’s when I got mine anyway.

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      6 months ago

      definitely true! I’m just not sure it’s the most probable scenario, and regardless it’s helpful to clarify the man bought a PS1 when he was nearly 30 years old.

      • FoxyFerengi@startrek.website
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        6 months ago

        My dad was/is a gamer. We had every Nintendo system except the SNES at release. He’s a little bit older than the grandpa in this scenario, but he still gamed on the old systems by the time I stopped speaking to them. Had a huge CRT in the garage next to the beer fridge and all that lol. My sibling and I had our own games that we could play, but we always had to ask permission because the systems were my dad’s