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Message: [QUOTE="qw90700, post: 316075, member: 660650"] Back in my day existence of consoles wasn't known due to my country is a country not many people would know exist so most of world's development pretty much reached us few decades late unless if the shit is that popular there was at least a decade or at least 5 years delay. To make you understand this okay I can say just before people got to enjoy PlayStation 2 we just got to learn PlayStation 1 exist when Sega Genesis was still that popular. Me randomly learned PS1 exist from a guy went to Japan -> buying it from Japan a year later and a year later than that PS2 released which I didn't hear until few years later. First time I get to know internet exist and then connected to internet was in 2005 when my country bothered to invest in it. If my mother didn't had work in a hospital I wouldn't know computers exist until 2005 too. We didn't have a tv but we had radio which was the most advanced technological device for our entertaintment that I grew up with. Later on arcade places got popular yet you couldn't find them everywhere, I personally had to ride my bike for 20 KM to reach the nearest arcade place and had to learn it exist just because a kid from my school told everyone about it and most of us didn't believe something like that can exist, and then they openned one that is 10 KM closer so I was walking that distance instead of taking a bike ride because I dislike to sweat biking all around so walking for me is better. So when I was around early state of my puberty, a kid died due to rollerskate accident which made parents in my street unite and have a formal meeting on "dangers of playing on street". A parent who had a TV while most of us having radio remembered something called "Atari" on TV as an advertizement which she refer to Atari 2600. They made a plan that locking kids into home by buying Atari, so no more kids die playing on the street because rollerskate and skating craze was a huge thing and relatively way dangerous than bikes so parents started to take action. I still remember that day, that the kid died and my mother asking me if I would play Atari. I knew about Atari from posters in arcade place so I was like "are you kidding? of course" lol. So this is when, thanks to that kid I got to have Atari and for me to play it and we also found an old TV from the hospital my mother works so no more "real need" for going to arcade places, unless some hot game was dropped. After few years one day my uncle bought me some fake NES which I had no idea it's fake, it only had Duck Hunt on it and of course its gun to play it which I had no idea games can be changeable but I was amazed for what kind of "electronic gun magic" is this alien tech is lol. It turned out my Atari 2600 was fake too that my mother bought from a guy selling carpets and shit (WTF right? lol), so my Atari 2600 never had a way to insert a game but it had many games in it. By just restarting the console it started a random game in a random order. So after I played Duck Hunt for a while a kid in my school learned I have a "new Atari" (we called NES an Atari too which no one cared if even same company produced these or not, we just had no concept of "video game" back then so anything relate to gaming was an Atari lol) and while we were talking with the kid he mentioned he has many games for NES and I was like "dude mine has 1 game so how???" he was like "dude you buy games and insert to it", "I was like no way!!! show me!!!". So after school he brought me to his home which the home was clearly some shit that only rich people have. His "NES" was different but later on I'll learn it's also a fake but I noticed my NES was similar too. That day for hours he let me play some games and he even let me borrow some games. He taught me that the Duck Hunt picture I see on my fake NES is what I can something pull off. So when I got back home I was scared I could broke the console like "what if this device is part of the console and I can't actually change games" but it worked as how his console was. Then I tried the game I borrowed from him. He also told me where in only places in the whole city sells these games. He drew me a map that had many places I had no idea but was useful to find the landmarks that I had to ask many people to finally reach to that shop. And that shop had a "welcome" but also "WTF you doing here kid" vibe, yet the shop owner was glad that I'm a new customer like I joined a cult or some shit which would be the shop I would go for like a decade and then eventually start working there and even learn the ropes on console repair for customers. That day that I went to the shop for the first time was scary though, for I had to get into the part of the city I never knew it existed. On my way I kinda got lost but I found my way back home. Whenever I got lost I always found my way, even in a jungle which one I was lost. It's like my superpower to always find me way!!! lol Anyway, that's my "ancient gamer story" lolol. [/QUOTE]

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