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I miss console ads being this weird (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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[–] RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 months ago (4 children)

PS2 is retro now? Damn, getting old really does sneak up on you.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ps3 is starting to be referenced as retro now....

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That one does hurt

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 5 points 5 months ago

But also, people wondered why our generation loved taking drugs and being weird fucks....

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

When ‘next gen’ (eg. PS5) becomes the new ‘current gen’, then the old ‘last gen’ becomes retro.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

It looks so pristine. 😭😭😭

[–] smaximov@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

It has been for a long time.

[–] 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean, it's over 24 years old. it's been allowed to drink beer for 8 years.

[–] RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Cognitively and logically, I understand.

But emotionally, it's just another one of those little reminders of the passage of time that hits unexpectedly hard.

I think it's because my only memories of it are from when I was young. Quake 3 Arena was released almost a year before the PS2, but I've never really stopped playing it, and still sometimes get in-person LAN parties together to play it. It feels just as old as I am, and I associate it with good memories from every age.

But I haven't touched or even thought about a PS2 in decades. So when it suddenly jumps to the front of my mind, only old memories come with it. Then you start to think about the friends you played it with, and everything that's happened to you all between them and now. Kids, marriages, divorces, houses, bankruptcies, jobs earned and lost, deaths, etc... Some are doing great, some not so great, but most you just don't know because you've lost contact.

So yeah, it seems silly on its face, but sometimes random thing just pull you into the past unexpectedly, putting the present and the path between them both in stark contrast. This just happened to be one for me this time.