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Author mentions being a kid in the Wii/PS3/Xbox 360 era

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Author mentions being a kid when the PS4 and Xbone were out

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[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When someone says "I liked fortnite when I was a kid" my back starts to hurt more

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely that person would still be a child

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You're back is going to hurt more, I'm one of them. I was in middle school. I have childhood memories of playing fortnite on my childhood nintendo switch with my friends.

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Childhood Nintendo Switch

This phrase is ageist.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I turned to dust

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yells-at-cloud

When we battled or traded Pokemon we had to hook up a USB sized 2 foot long cable between our gameboys and make sure not to jostle them even slightly or the game would drop. This of course meant you could unplug the cable at a certain point to duplicate your Pokemon during a trade. Now if you wanted to play in the dark your parent would have had to buy you a third party backlight peripheral that could drain a pair of AA batteries in about 12 seconds, which is what the gameboy ran on at the time. So to have a sleepover involving gen 1 and 2 (and more I dont think the gameboy advance had a backlight either) pokemon meant bringing a suitcase sized box of accessories and batteries and game cartridges.

What does this have to do with forknife you ask? I don't know

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

This of course meant you could unplug the cable at a certain point to duplicate your Pokemon during a trade.

A friend taught us how to do this and let us duplicate his Mew and Mewtwo. Before long everyone had like 10 of both

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me when people say New Vegas was a childhood favorite howdy-skull

It was, started playing it as a teen back in 2015 sicko-zoomer

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People in their mid 20s were starting high school when the PS4/Xbone came out lol, and grew up on the PS2/OG Xbox and PS3/Xbox 360 games...

I know, because I am in my mid 20s lol.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I grew up with an N64 and PS1 at the granddad's, PS2 and Xbox at the friend's place, Xbox 360 at the other grandparents', and PS3/Wii at home, and I was a preteen when the Xbox One and PS4 hit store shelves, verily my age is a finite number and yet I belong to no generation

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Growing up, I understood that there would one day be cultural references that make me feel old.

But I never quite grasped that it'd be another batch every decade, you know?

[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

I had no consoles during my childhood

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago
[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I remember renting a ps1 from Blockbuster

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I-was-saying hheellloooo

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago