Gammitin (Ben) 💾Sep 19, 2025
SilverStone has officially announced another retro design PC case: the FLP02 mid-tower:
https://www.gdm.or.jp/pressrelease/2025/0919/604937
Show threadTim 🎮

@Gammitin I don't think I understand the point of this case. IMHO nostalgia points at specific things at a specific place and time in our lives, and this is just... someone else's old 90s PC clone.

It's not the old PC I played Wolfenstein 3D on as a kid, it's not an actual thing any of us ever saw in the home office at any point. It's just a fake retro facade, with early 2000s style fake drive bay covers for some reason. What part of this am I supposed to connect with?

Sep 19, 2025 at 11:36amWeb
Show threadHakan BayındırSep 19, 2025

@timixretroplays @Gammitin

I, for one, see a useful, nice looking PC case when I remove the fake bay covers and replace them with optical drives and other 5.25" goodies like drive cages.

Show threadprokyonidSep 19, 2025
@timixretroplays @Gammitin early 2000s?
Show threadTim 🎮Sep 19, 2025

@prokyonid @Gammitin that's about when they started putting fake drive bits on cases and I associate things like that with that period. Moulded 3.5" floppy slots, bay covers that look like actual drives, things that flipped down to let you get to your CD drive but mostly just got in the way.

It's just a design choice that particularly fails to resonate with me.