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I really wish I had an IRL friend that was into retro handhelds just like I am.

We could sit on the couch, hang out and play and show off our games and devices to eachother. Show how we've progressed in our games. Infodump about the weirdest facts related to Gameboys, DSs, emulator handhelds and so on.

But, I don't have any IRL friends who are at all interested in this stuff.

I'm sad :(

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[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

not very interested in those.

i used to be very much into pc hardware stuff when i was younger but now the only thing i care about is that i have a pc that can run what i want, which is a somewhat outdated gaming pc with a gtx 1070 and a ryzen 2600.

modern consoles never really interested me that much, there's not that many interesting things about them. you just put in the disc and play, or if it's digital, just press the button to boot up the game, and the games have felt really similar since the ps3 era when hd gaming became a thing.

i'm still stuck in the ps4 era anyway cus i haven't played almost anything from that era, and i'm not paying many hundreds of euros for a console, when i can just play older stuff that is just as good.

older stuff like the nes and snes is different though, as it's impressive what they could do with the limited hardware, so it's kind of interesting. the games are a whole lot different compared to modern ones too.