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Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 11 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    that's excellent context, thank you!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    The first ‘Wipeout’ mostly had original instrumental edm music by Tim Wright, aka CoLD SToRAGE, with just three tracks by Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, and Orbital. But the sequel ‘Wipeout 2097’, released a year later, had Future Sound of London's ‘We Have Explosive’, Fluke's ‘Atom Bomb’, an instrumental of The Profigy's ‘Firestarter’, and the like.

    This was a promo poster for ‘Wipeout’ made by Designers Republic, featuring DJ Sara Cox:

    In a gaming club near my home, the owner straight up put the ‘Wipeout 2097’ cd in the console and let it play the music like a stereo system. Which is something PS1 could do but N64 couldn't, because the latter still relied on cartridges.

    Now imagine Nintendo 64 kids dealing with any of that for the first time.

    By the way, ‘Wipeout’ was made by Psygnosis, who also played a large role in the development of the PS1 console — including iirc commissioning a dev kit based on a regular PC instead of a costly Sony workstation. Later on they functioned as a liaison for third-party developers, helping them with programming for the PlayStation. Sony thanked them by restructuring them into Sony Liverpool, and then closing them altogether in 2012.

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