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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.
When I was very young, a friend of mine's parents removed the start and select buttons from the second controller to prevent Player 2 spamming pause. This sucked, because hella games used select as a necessary action for the game like changing weapons. So basically, if you were the guest player, you couldn't do everything you may have needed to do to actually play.
Double ugh.
Yes, needed to search for the signal every time
Hey, at least you got a console.
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, then 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
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.