definitely true! I’m just not sure it’s the most probable scenario, and regardless it’s helpful to clarify the man bought a PS1 when he was nearly 30 years old.
PS1 quite famously singlehandedly changed the target audience of consoles from little kids to college-age people. Largely due to ‘Wipeout’ with its acid visuals by Designers Republic and the edm soundtrack, and PS1’s marketing, also with DR’s involvement, including game rooms in over fifty nightclubs in the UK alone.
My dad was/is a gamer. We had every Nintendo system except the SNES at release. He’s a little bit older than the grandpa in this scenario, but he still gamed on the old systems by the time I stopped speaking to them. Had a huge CRT in the garage next to the beer fridge and all that lol. My sibling and I had our own games that we could play, but we always had to ask permission because the systems were my dad’s
This is what it was like for me, too - my dad was a gamer and the gaming stuff was all his, not mine. My siblings and I all competed for time on the computer to be able to play (we didn’t have consoles).
Grandpa definitely could have been a gamer who justified the purchase by saying it was for OPs father.
definitely true! I’m just not sure it’s the most probable scenario, and regardless it’s helpful to clarify the man bought a PS1 when he was nearly 30 years old.
PS1 quite famously singlehandedly changed the target audience of consoles from little kids to college-age people. Largely due to ‘Wipeout’ with its acid visuals by Designers Republic and the edm soundtrack, and PS1’s marketing, also with DR’s involvement, including game rooms in over fifty nightclubs in the UK alone.
My dad was/is a gamer. We had every Nintendo system except the SNES at release. He’s a little bit older than the grandpa in this scenario, but he still gamed on the old systems by the time I stopped speaking to them. Had a huge CRT in the garage next to the beer fridge and all that lol. My sibling and I had our own games that we could play, but we always had to ask permission because the systems were my dad’s
This is what it was like for me, too - my dad was a gamer and the gaming stuff was all his, not mine. My siblings and I all competed for time on the computer to be able to play (we didn’t have consoles).