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It's a bit ostentatious (media.piefed.world)
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[-] renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Personally owned as an adult? PS2. They were so hard to come by at launch, but I justified the purchase as it also doubled as a not so good DVD player, which was also starting to catch on in popularity.

This would be my nephews first console experience as kids. Then the PS3 delayed launch, so I got the XBOX 360. Many 360’s later (red ring of death) and availability of the PS3 slim, I switched back. Also had a Wii. Multiple PS3 slim, PS3 super slims and lots of teen gaming sessions leading up to PS4’s and the kids now young adults migrated to PC gaming instead.

[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

The original fat PS2 had a compartment you could store your drugs in. My friend knew someone who kept their tabs of acid in there.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

ah yes, "your friend"

[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I swear, officer, those drugs were in there when I bought the damn thing. I could tell there was drugs in the system because the laser kept scratching all my games.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

ps1, but i was so young i barely remember it. i have more memories with ps2. my dad skipped ps3 because he found out the 2nd gens werent backwards compatable with ps2 games so he got an xbox 360 for us instead. never had 4, but bought a 5 for me and my siblings a year or so ago

[-] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Put a few drone shaped holes in those and you got yourself 2026 Dubai cityscape

[-] Francislewwis@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

The PS2 era really felt special. So many iconic games and memories from that generation.

[-] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago

Probably because a ridiculous amount of games were produces for the PS2. I don't think any console, ever, has had that many games made for it.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

i think the last official game made for ps2 was in like 2014 or something crazy

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I hate when they stand the psone on its side.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

I hate that they didn't rotate the logos on the 2 and 3.

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 12 hours ago

None of the above, I started on the PSone.

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 12 hours ago

PS1 but had Master System and Mega Drive before that.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

AND!

Lucky bugger.

[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 hours ago

Hardly. I grew up in a terrible household, just material possessions were provided but you had to tolerate decades of trauma so 🤷.

Also, contrary to the comments in here it doesnt mean we were rich. We lived on a council estate and my dad worked in a warehouse as a picker.

[-] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 4 points 16 hours ago

Rich kids had ps2, but I only owned ps4.

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago

The one that's missing in the picture

[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago

PSP?

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 12 hours ago

prolly the PSone

[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

Ding ding :)

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Did you have that goofy little flip-up LCD that attached to it?

[-] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

I went to my rich friends house for the PS2. EyeToy and Spy Kids 3d was the coolest thing ever.

[-] orochi02@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago

U still Friends w him?

[-] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I wish... 3 countries on, I haven't even been in the same town as him since I think 2006 at the latest. Don't even think I had access to the internet at that time.

Personal Rant Time

Looking back, I think he grew up with a single parent. My parents split up after I finished school/reached adulthood.

Chatting to others who had 'less than optimal parents' I noticed that even though some had parents who split up at one point, its different when you are 6-8 years old, and you learn to live with it.

And when you are 18-20 years old, getting ready to move out, and then you learn your entire childhood was a lie.

[-] red_tomato@lemmy.world 111 points 1 day ago

Placing PS1 that way is atrocious

[-] criticon@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago

PS2 also developed laser issues if used that way, I can't recall PS3

[-] numanair@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

PS3 originally had drives that failed anyway. Had to bake my OG, as well as replace the bd drive.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ps2 developed laser issues regardless. i've tuned and cleaned so many of those. should have charged but i liked my friends.

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 12 hours ago

do you know if there was a way to fix the Dreamcast laser? I was like 19 when mine started failing and I think I just kept turning up the voltage pot a teeny bit to fix it for a while until it eventually burned out.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I do not know, but I learned the ps2 method by searching on the internets. I hate to recommend YouTube and reddit, but those are probably your best bets.

If the laser itself is not salvagable, there's always replacing the laser. I don't know if it's plugged or soldered in, but if it already doesn't work, what more can you do to it?

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 8 hours ago

I gave it away years ago once dreamcast emulation became a thing, I was mostly just curious!

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 2 points 14 hours ago

We had one that had to be cleaned every 3 months or so. The laser would begin sticking on the guide rails and have to be re-lubricated.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I'd just refocus or whatever that white knob did, and clean the dust off the lens

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[-] yuri@pawb.social 22 points 1 day ago

i’m still impressed by the ps5 design, i never would’ve thought a console could look pretentious

[-] hamid@crazypeople.online 15 points 1 day ago

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 52 points 1 day ago

Dubai in the early 80s.

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[-] jpostma@mastodon.clusterfucks.nl 1 points 18 hours ago

@The_Picard_Maneuver somehow I expected a beard trimmer in between there.

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Dubai architect: They’re on to us!

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[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

This angle really highlights that PS4 was the best design by far

[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 1 points 13 hours ago

It's the most bland one.

[-] yuri@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago

there’s a slim ps2 knocking on your door right now

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[-] artifex@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago

I love the industrial design of the PS2 so much. It has all of that optimistic futurism look of the late 90s/early 2000s.

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[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Alright, they fucked up the scale on the 4, no way it's smaller than the 1

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