Millennials are boomers now, apparently...

Definitely. I gave one to my mom for her birthday back then. She’s been a Tetris fanatic since I had my first game boy way back then.

Very, very few did, as you’ve pointed out, but I was lucky enough that my Dad was one of them. He wasn’t an avid gamer or anything, because he tended to work long hours, but he’d regularly sit down and play multiplayer games with me and my siblings when I was younger and used to live with him. I didn’t really realise how lucky I was at the time.

Many did, but stopped after the atari/namco era.

I'm a late millennial and I grew up with N64 and GameCube. I thought my cousin's SNES was cool and retro.

I saw a Sega Genesis at my uncle's house once and felt like I was rediscovering the secrets of the ancestors

Video games are all either gay or the devil, and there’s nothing you can do to convince me otherwise

There's a subreddit with that name (and a discord server with a similar one) that I bet would disagree with you.

Interesting, so being into ad-infested, freemium mobile games is okay, but being into real games that you can play straight through without interruptions is cringe?

I'm suddenly glad to be an adult.

The fact that they think like that is cringe in and of itself.

i am the youth, nobody thinks this and in fact playing with a game console versus a phone is in fact even a fashion or cultural statement that people think is cool

Why?

Its consider cringe by "the youths" to be out in public

FTFY

For a lot of young people, the cultural norm is that any kind of sincerity is cringe.

I was talking about this with a friend recently, but is there any culture for 13 year olds anymore? What music do they listen to? Because when I was a teenager, a mere decade ago, there was still a distinct youth subculture that I just don't think exists anymore.

None of this is to shake my fist at a cloud and say things were better back in my day. But I do think that Covid, the proliferation of algorithmic social media, and the death of third places, have all contributed to a generation of kids who think going outside and having a nice time is insufferably cringe, when they should be going to an all ages punk show, wearing stupid clothes, and having experiences

lol what. instead of what, looking at a dipshit taking pictures of strangers the entire commute?

Ironically, the real cringe is giving a fuck what anyone dictating what is cringe thinks. Especially kids to today that didn't have shit like lawn darts and unsupervised outdoor activity to filter out some of the dumbest ones and teach life lessons.

This must be devastating for the Switch which also happens to be nearly tied for best selling console of all time.

StreetPass, and I think all DSes could do it. Yes, it tracked steps, and it detected other DSes. If you both had the same game (or related games, such as Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl, I think was the twin game — I only had Diamond) and you both had your consoles sleeping (i.e. in low power mode), certain things could happen. If you didn't have the same game, it still registered the connection.

DS users could also anonymously chat with one another. Having a DS at an airport, hotel, or convention was a lot of fun because you'd have tons of people in the area, and if you were playing something popular like Pokémon or Animal Crossing, you were also getting a lot of contacts.

Mine was an R4, but I've heard of the Supercard. I don't remember the ARM7 patch but I've heard of it.

I do remember trimming games. The DS "Nitro" card held 32MB of storage, and every ROM was 32MB, even if the game didn't take up that much space. A trimmer would remove the junk data. Some games, for anti-piracy purposes, would detect the junk data, so you couldn't trim them. (If a game was less than 16MB, or 8MB, it would go on a 16MB or 8MB card, respectively; I don't think there were 64MB cards, but there might have been.)

Anon wants to get fertilized and then sat on by a chicken

wrong, it's cake