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Time is an illusion, yo.
That the math checks out only make me angrier
The only slightly suspicious thing here is that both grandpa and pop had kids at exactly age 20. Not only is that a little younger than average, it's also a very convenient number for a made up but easy to calculate scenario.
On one hand it's suspicous, on the other hand it's a convenient number if your parents and grandparents were around that age but you don't want to put in their actual ages because you have a habit of not giving out personal information.
That's when the word "about" is useful. My grandpa is "about 60" and my dad is "about 40", he got the PS1 when my dad was a kid. My dad had me when he was "about 20"...
I don't think people tend to make up specific ages that are not accurate when they're trying to obscure someone's exact age.
Counterpoint: "20" is shorter than "about 20" and this is a short comment by a 4chan anon.
Countercounterpoint: this is a short comment by a 4chan anon, so it's probably a lie.
Fakeness in 4chan no way?
Dude im 40. My grandma was playing tetris on the snes and prince of persia on the ps2. nothing weird about grandparents playing consoles. Also i'm a grandpa now.
PS1 was released in North America in Sept. 1995, 30 years ago.
So the grandpa was born in 1967 to be 28 in 1995, which does make him 58 in 2025.
Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.
Grandpa definitely could have been a gamer who justified the purchase by saying it was for OPs father.
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.
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
This is what it was like for me, too - my dad was a gamer and the gaming stuff was all his, not mine. My siblings and I all competed for time on the computer to be able to play (we didn't have consoles).
I bought a 3Dfx graphics accelerator so i could play Final Fantasy VII on the PC when it came out. It was more expensive than a PS1 would have been but i was a cool PC gamer, of course, not some console peasant. I'm a bit older than OP's grandpa in this story. And now get off my lawn, damn kids!
I had an ATI 3D Rage Pro. Fucking loved that thing. I used that all the way up to 2006. Man, MechWarrior 3 looked so good on that.
Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.
Sure, like how my parents bought "me" a computer when I was 4. Before windows 3.11 was a thing.
kids my age were playing console games by the time they were 6 - 8 years old easily - 8 years old is not like being 4 years old; still, I think parents often do buy things for their kids that are really for themselves and this could clearly be an example
thank you for the reality check
Yeah, but that doesn't gut punch annon; which is primarily what I'm here for.
If you ever need a thought that confirms that the world is a sick and pathetic place, we are right on the precipice of a person being born whose grandparents were not alive for 9-11.
That's going to take a little while. If we assume that both parents got their first child at 18, that shouldn't happen before 2037. While it's technically possible to have children at 13, it's so far removed from the norm in developed countries that it makes me wonder if they even had access to a TV that would have let them perceive 9/11 if they had been alive and old enough back then.
Fuck, I’m forty and I was alive for 9/11! Then I realized that I’m actually within the age range to be a grandmother, but just barely.
And for an actual answer, it depends on the games you have and if you have the proper peripherals (memory cards, analog controller for the few games that require or greatly benefit).
Even getting it connected to a modern TV requires an adapter, and while you might be able to get a "good enough" one for cheap online, it's kind of a shitshow with unreliable cheap crap all over too.
Honestly if anyone is interested in PS1 amd doesn't already have the "setup" of a decent CRT and the hardware, they're probably better off emulating on their PC, maybe using a CRT shader.
If you want the "experience", you're better off getting a PS2 and soft-modding it. I wouldn't even know where to start with trying to find a modchip and the right burnable CDs and drive to burn with for the PS1. Modded PS2s are backwards compatible with all but like one very obscure PS1 game, and they can load from an internal hard drive, network, or USB depending on the hardware model.
Could also get a PS3, depending on how you feel about its settings for displaying on LCDs. That way, you have a console, but it has an HDMI port.
first mistake was taking advice from 4chan
Several steps happened before taking the advice
Tell OOP that in less than 10 years, he'll be almost 30.
*Bannon
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2026
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