Now there’s a face that says “If you came down 60 seconds earlier, you would’ve seen me with my dick out”
Window too big… surprisingly not a basement!
I used to have one of those round chairs, iirc, they were cheap crap, sold as the back to school furniture. I think mine ended up breaking or falling apart in some way.
A lot has gotten better since then. A LOOOOOT.
But there’s also a lot of good we lost along the way…
If you asked me if I’d trade now for then, I don’t know if I could answer that question absolutely. Maybe there was a time between then and now that would be the best of both, but 2002 vs 2026? That’s a toughie. Maybe 2016 or 2015. But even then, there was some serious shittiness.
I want to re-invoke Picard’s Inner Light notion, and remind people to try to stay in the “now” and to treat now as the most important time, because “now” will never come again.
I didn’t really think of the Xbox as happening that long ago, but it really has been a few hasn’t it.,…
I had those speakers. I miss them. 😭
Pretty baller setup by the looks of it! Our console had to be living room based by parents decree, so they had more grip on our playtime. Ugh…
I heard tell of families that didn’t even keep their Nintendo connected to the TV. They would set it up each time they wanted to play it.
Double ugh.
Yes, needed to search for the signal every time
Hey, at least you got a console.
We were lucky indeed, but we were limited on ‘electronic entertainment’ overall and had to maintain a logsheet of use.
Yeah, we had that too. Also no sugar.
Very true, but 14yo me preferred 16h long gaming sessions. We even got that OG Xbox for Christmas, although my dad did have to prank us by first only putting the DVD remote under the tree and be like “yeah, so when you do get it, you have this upgrade already, isn’t that neat??”. Then he went up and got the final surprise gift: the OG Xbox. That actually might be the first time I remember being exhausted from hype. Wtf, me and my brother were so happy with it.
He never got to know this, but we already knew what was coming. We knew the secret gifts hiding spot they used, and took our time to professionally open and repackage that gift when our parents were out one night. We didn’t even need to really fake our surprise, we were so hyped to be finally able to play on it.
My parents only packed the controller for me and put it under the tree, the joked about getting the Xbox later (but of course I got it). I was so happy I cried.
I really-really wanted that console, not due to any marketing, but after playing on it during a weekend at my friends. I have been a PC player until that time, but the OG Xbox got me over to the console side, and I haven’t left since (though I play mostly on PS now).
It’s incredible to think how much Microsoft had to fuck up to go from that and the 360’s hype to whatever they are doing called Xbox today.
Wow, real jokesters our parents, lol. Pfff, I was so hyped for the same reason. Playing Halo at a friends house impressed me almost as much as playing Super Mario 64 at a relatives house did. I never really played Goldeneye so playing Halo felt like 3d shooters were finally a thing on consoles to me, and the co-op was hella fun too! And i liked the big chonker controller!
I remember when I finally scraped together enough dough to get a used XBox in 2008
Playing Elder Scrolls.
Nope, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4. That’s a skate ramp in the background.
gotta be morrowind, right? doesn’t look like oblivion to me. but it’s been a while
the background is confusing me. doesn’t look like that type of game.
Also this?
analognowhere.com/
That’s the term we used when I was a young one, looking through ancient scrolls of lore.
You mean Usenet groups?
What game is he playing?
I was trying to figure that out too. The background sort of looks like a halfpipe. Maybe one of the Tony Hawk games?
Number 4 specifically.
Maybe Deathrow? I only ever rented it a couple times, but I looks like a depressing arena so… could be 😆
Oh please. Who here hasn’t found themselves with a 1000 game console which was the same ten games with just their colors changed up over and over and you had to… scroll to find the version you wanna play?
