Gaming in your 30s
When Your Favorite Game Is Now Retro #gaminginyour30s #gtavicecity #gaming #shorts #retro #funny

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@stux just wait until you reach your fifties, heh
@Wintermute_BBS @stux like Paradroid, Manic Miner and IK+ you mean?
@Pheebe @stux exactly!
@Wintermute_BBS @Pheebe @stux You ask for retro gaming, they give you PS2. You ask for Atari, they stare blankly and ask if that's a Nintendo game.
@stux One of the first times I felt old was when I asked the clerk at GameStop if they had any NES games and he pointed me to Super Mario World.
@stux Me, talking to my students, every time
@stux I’m definitely not hitting my mid-30s exactly in the middle of this week. Nope. Nope. Nope!
@stux tfw my dad was talking about pong 25+ years ago
@stux this had to hurt to make lol. Us millennials are feeling it. We will get thru this 🙏

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There's a faithful recreation of Sonic and one of Pacman on Roblox. My children love it!

@stux I feel this in every cell of my body

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Sometimes it seems like the video games that drew me in during my youth were crafted by highly skilled artisans who chiseled out pixels the size of boulders.

@stux Try gaming in your 40s... I want my original Elite: Dangerous experience back, bitches!
@stux I game in my 60s 😎
@stux It's ok coz the young guy will get old too 😉
@stux From about the late 1990s to the early 2010s, the hardware capabilities of computers really exploded, which is, in my view, also the era in which video games as a technology matured the fastest. Consequently, games from this era have aged a lot faster and less gracefully than in any other—and it really shows my age when I say that I once looked at Half-Life 2 and thought it was the pinnacle of graphics.

@enoch_exe_inc @stux Do you remember this weird tech-demo "game" called "Incoming"?

Insane ;)

@hackbyte @stux @enoch_exe_inc No. My parents didn’t let me have the latest video game consoles when I was a kid, so I wound up playing all of last generation’s games on my cousin’s old NES, my uncle’s Super NES, and my friend’s N64 and PS2. Also, SimCity 2000.
@stux Try being a gamer in your 50s. In addition to the photo, anyone remember Star Control II? M.U.L.E. on Atari? The original Zork? Dungeons and Dragons on Colecovision?