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I remember when I was a kid, some of my classmates had handheld game consoles in school and played some mario kart games with each other, and I just watched them play and felt jealous and sad... (sh.itjust.works)
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Pretry sure it was a Nintendo DS/3DS or something like that. I never actually had a game console until recently. I now have a Nintendo Switch 2 (never got the v1, so might as well get the v2 since its released).

But I don't have friends so I guess I'm just gonna play with randoms online... 🤷‍♂️

The Zelda Games are kinda fun, still not finished with them yet.

In school, I overhear conversations about their Wii's, thei Xbox'es, their Playstations, and kids be like "Ooh I just got the latest one", and basically the entire socialization was revolving video games, and some were PC gamers but they had an actual gaming rig, not some potato laptop like I had.

So I realize that most of my childhood, I may have been basically been sort of socially ostricized because I don't know about what the kids were doing, so I didn't fit in.

And on top of that, maybe my introverted personality just make people not like me even more.

And I think one of the biggest problems was I spend the first like 5 years of my life in the United States (I arrived in the US on an immigration visa when I was a kid as part of my family) basically trying to readjust my brain to learning English so that few years of not speaking the language was probably enough to erode my self esteem and thus spiral into the mess I am right now.

I wonder if this chain of events is why I have depression.

Now every time I hold my Switch 2, I remember the childhood that other's got to enjoy but I never had. Kinda make me wanna cry.

Did y'all have games growing up. (Like actual games, not pay-to-win games running on a potato)

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hmm. I'm a bit older and I don't think we were allowed gaming consoles either. And it took us way longer than some of my friends to get a good internet connection. We had an old computer when I was a kid, though.
So we played point and click adventures and whatever that old machine would run. And I started to learn programming when I was a little kid since that was possible on the old potato. But we had a plethora of other hobbies and things available. And I'd fetch my bicycle and head off to friends with better PCs. So I was mostly alright?! I had that feeling of missing out at times. But it wasn't that bad. And someday when I was a teenager, we got broadband and a fast computer. Still no Nintendo, but that was alright. At that point I had become interested more generally with computers and gaming was just one aspect of it.
Today, I sometimes play Super Mario 64 or some of those games I never got to finish since I never had them at home and it brings me some (fake) nostalgia.