Ahh, boomers…

  • plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    dude I remember this outrage. Kind of funny that we now expect some inter-generational compatability from our consoles. I guess it’s less scary for the platform holder now that most sales are digital.

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      1 year ago

      And emulation is so much easier, so if you don’t make legal access easy, you are stopping an easy revenue stream.

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      1 year ago

      To be fair, siege protectors with a ton of outlets weren’t a thing back then so it was a real struggle when you were already using your 2 outlets

      • plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        So I’m pretty sure that was meant to be surge protection, but for a minute there i was thinking I totally missed out on the part of the 90s console wars where they rolled out the trebuchets.