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crispix posted:be careful mebh it may be the work of sick cyberpunks and/or digital ne'erdowells You think someone itt did it??
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I won't release the sameful secrets held within //user/miftan/food/favourite/choc_orange_final(1).xls in exchange for one (1) interesting fact.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I literally did this, we had a Pong-clone console from before I was born. My grandmother bought me a "tv boy" which was basically an extremely fat joypad with one button and a D pad that plugged into the TV and came loaded with about 250 atari games.
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I had a late-70s Ingersoll multigame Pong clone, might have been called "TV Sports" - 6 games, including 2 which were lightgun-only (so 4!) and you chose them by means of a large circular flat selector switch. 2x paddles, which were recessed either side of the top of the unit for storage. To this day I have never found a picture of this thing on ~*~*~* THE INTERNET *~*~*~
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OwlFancier posted:My grandmother bought me a "tv boy" which was basically an extremely fat joypad with one button and a D pad that plugged into the TV and came loaded with about 250 atari games. I got one of these one year, in roughly the mega drive era. I enjoyed it all the same because we were poor and our first console had been a hand me down 2600 that we were still playing into the early 90s, so once I worked out which of my original games the renamed games were it was a handy replacement that meant I didn’t have to swap cartridges around in our admittedly sweet romscanner that we also had with it.
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History Comes Inside! posted:I got one of these one year, in roughly the mega drive era. Oh yeah same I played it a bunch, and yeah everything was renamed. There were also a bunch of ones that didn't actually work and I assume were like, early builds or something.
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I remember my dad getting a tv console pong thing from the local flea market, except when we plugged it in it immediately stank the room out with the smell of burning electronics, and then a few years later we got an atari 800, because one of my dad's friends from work knew how to copy the discs
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Glass Onion very good and has good politics.
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I thought Glass Onion was pretty average tbh. Ed Norton and Kate Hudson were great in it though! It's not terrible or significant enough to go off on one writing an upset tweet thread about, that's for sure.
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Dec 27, 2022 19:27
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Bobby Deluxe posted:it immediately stank the room out with the smell of burning electronics Honestly, that's just one of those smells that fills me with nostalgia and sets me at ease.
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Dec 27, 2022 19:32
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I remember playing Lego DC Supervillains and I was playing as the Condiment King and he was just rambling on with his ambient dialogue and at some point he was complaining about a customer who refused to leave tips. "FOOLS! Condiment King pays his workers a LIVING WAGE!"
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HopperUK posted:I remember playing Lego DC Supervillains and I was playing as the Condiment King and he was just rambling on with his ambient dialogue and at some point he was complaining about a customer who refused to leave tips. "FOOLS! Condiment King pays his workers a LIVING WAGE!" No wonder the billionaire wants to beat him up
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Glass Onion is anticapitalist maybe but not socialist. I would have got more out of it if I were not already convinced Musk et al are idiots
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Shocking lack of taxes paid recently.
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Only Kindness posted:Shocking lack of taxes paid recently. i keep a library of one billion cat pictures locked up in an encrypted server in the caymans. i earned them
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I swear im reading about a gas explosion in the news every other day at the moment.
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Tesseraction posted:Those old games had a lot of care put into making them fun and look as good as possible with the limited palettes they had back then. There was something to be said that for a period after the turn of the millennium as graphics got better there was a focus on style over substance, specifically about having kicking rad graphics even if the gameplay is dogshit. That's also one of the other reasons I'd my kid to get introduced to them chronologically. I swear that my hand eye coordination is as good as it is just now because of all the gaming I did as a kid on games that, well, didn't really hold your hand at all. Like you said, there was a lot of thought put into gameplay on the old stuff because cinematics weren't really a thing. It might sound snobbish, and I know there's plenty of hard games out now, but I just think there's a lot to be said about an old game having 0 save states and limited lives. It kinda drove you to be better at the game than give up and move onto another one. But other than that I was born in 83 and I've been fortunate enough to see a lot change over the years tech wise. These days things kinda seem more iterative than innovative, so I hoped that by staggering the introduction of old games to new, my son would be able to have his mind blown going from NES to SNES, then to 3D in N64 and PSX, before graphics go mental from the PS2 era. Same with the portables (I've got a version of every mainline game boy). If it wasn't for the switch being so handy to play the old stuff on I'd love to see his face light up each time he boots up a new console for the first time.
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I wonder how this will fall when the civil service start thier strikes? Because the grapevine at work has even the bloody British museum ready to strike.
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Kin posted:I swear that my hand eye coordination is as good as it is just now because of all the gaming I did as a kid on games that, well, didn't really hold your hand at all. When I was your age we had to rescue Peach going uphill both ways and we did it all on one life 
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Dec 27, 2022 20:49
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If you were going to do the retro timeline thing, I'd think doing it as a Sunday afternoon activity with your kid would be about the best way of doing it. Like I think there were also things in OP's post that suggest they knew it would be weird (6 months would be an agonisingly long time for a kid, for example), but just setting aside a Sunday and going "OK, this is hovver bovver, now this is dizzy," for a few hours etc.
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Grey Hunter posted:Because the grapevine at work has even the bloody British museum ready to strike. 
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It's been nice watching my kid and his cousin bonding over roblox for the past month after a year of Minecraft. They talk about scammers, being scammed, and scamming like its fully part of the experience which is kind of good I guess? No way are they ever getting cc details or download permissions tho. I tried throwing older stuff at my boy but of course only stuff that captures their interest, not my nostalgia, will stick. So far that's been emulated skylanders and regular trips to CEX, kung fu panda smash bros, and a power rangers street fighter. They know what they like and that's fine.
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Kin posted:I swear that my hand eye coordination is as good as it is just now because of all the gaming I did as a kid on games that, well, didn't really hold your hand at all. I loving lolled at this. Remember being ten and insisting to my mum that it was actually good that I played so much Sonic because it improved my hand eye coordination. Really helped me out in the rest of my life that did.
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Tetris was extremely useful in the years I moved around a lot and had to pack a van myself.
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Shyrka posted:I loving lolled at this. Speak for yourself but these days if I drop all my coins I scoop those fuckers up in a nanosecond thanks to my ring-recovery training. No not that kind of ring recovery.
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learnincurve posted:Tetris was extremely useful in the years I moved around a lot and had to pack a van myself. (Insert line about moving around darkened rooms eating pills and listening to repetitive electronic music here) Also, you didn't have better hand eye coordination 25 years ago because of the specific games you were playing. You were just young 
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I spent about an hour yesterday playing LittleBigPlanet 3 with my 5 y.o. god-nephew and it was super wholesome The look on his face when he figured out how to grab a rope swing and use it to jump across a pit was priceless. Great fun 
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Shyrka posted:I loving lolled at this. Laugh now sure. But I bet you in 20 years there will be studies done on how us the boomers of that time have above average reaction times and alertness than previous boomer generations. All down to twitch shooters and such we have been playing now for decades.
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When we're boomers we'll be stuck with strategy games and turn based RPGs as the only things we can still play
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*looks at retroid pocket 3 with about 150 jrpgs on it* I SURVIVED THE BLITZ YOU KNOW
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Rarity posted:When we're boomers we'll be stuck with strategy games and turn based RPGs as the only things we can still play Ah yes "when we are boomers"
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Rarity posted:When we're boomers we'll be stuck with strategy games and turn based RPGs as the only things we can still play You say this as if I don't exclusively play mapgames and football manager already.
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sebzilla posted:You say this as if I don't exclusively play mapgames and football manager already. Have you heard the good word of Dominions 5.
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happyhippy posted:Laugh now sure. While all the 95 year old surgical consultants are bemoaning that butterfingers brain surgeons these days didn't grow up doing mandatory needlework and grand piano.
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I play video games all the time and my reaction times, reflexes and hand eye coordination suck rear end
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Shyrka posted:I loving lolled at this. I don't think you're wrong tbh. Back in the dim and distant days of the late 80s before Windows & mouse operation, everything was command line prompts. I was the first person in the office allowed a Windows (3.1) pc with a whole 130MB hard drive (partitioned naturally! I always wondered why I only seemed to have access to 40MB because we didn't know about partitioning and didn't find the other partition for a couple of years!) BUT they wouldn't let me have a mouse because 'only people playing games need a mouse' (this was long before trackpads) so the benefits of a GUI passed me by somewhat! Well eventually they relented and let me have a mouse. I got plenty of practice with it on minesweeper and solitaire. When others in the office began to be allowed pcs with Windows instead of MSDos3.3, those who never played games were incredibly slow using the mouse. I even argued with the boss that people should be encouraged to play games (in their breaks) to improve their mouse control. (I also used to be a touch typist at 90WPM+ - I think piano playing had a lot to do with that).
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Dabir posted:I play video games all the time and my reaction times, reflexes and hand eye coordination suck rear end You will be the one that we get to make the tea in the old folks home we will all be in.
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