this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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I don't think an ad with this kind of imagery would fly today
These were made for the UK market to promote the PSP.
If ads were interesting and creative, I might have turned off my adblockers to watch them.
Aww damn, I definitely thought it was real and in some video game magazine
I find this funny, since I used to hide drugs like mushrooms inside consoles. I figured it was the one place literally no one would think to look. Just unscrewed them, put a baggie inside in one of those empty spaces (there's always a spot), and put the case back together.
PS2 is retro now? Damn, getting old really does sneak up on you.
I mean, it's over 24 years old. it's been allowed to drink beer for 8 years.
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.
I found my Green game boy Pocket and saw the 1989-1996 copyright.
It looks so pristine. 😭😭😭
It has been for a long time.
Ps3 is starting to be referenced as retro now....
When ‘next gen’ (eg. PS5) becomes the new ‘current gen’, then the old ‘last gen’ becomes retro.
That one does hurt
But also, people wondered why our generation loved taking drugs and being weird fucks....
Can someone make a version of this photo, but its acetaminophen and the girl is just up-aged to how old she'd be now?
thyroid medication
SEGA!!!
I heard this.
On the switch you can get the same rush of the times of yore
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