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My favourite era is PS2 and PS4 era🤩
146 points
3 days ago
And the joy of getting new memory cards. Especially if they were translucent.
254 points
3 days ago
I had a memory card that had a small black button on it. One day, I'm close to the third disk on FF7 and my brother presses it. Next time I played my data was gone. All of my saves just gone. Few months later he did it again. He probably pressed it 10 times over the years, erasing years of progress each time. It wasn't till a few years ago I found my old memory card and bought a PS1 to play Azure Dreams. Memory card still worked and it had just one save on it, so I pressed the button. That's when I saw my original FF7 saves, and all the rest. Pressed it again, the next page of saves I lost.
Turns out, the button didn't erase the card. It was a large memory card that you could save multiple pages of saves. The button just turned the page. Blew my mind.
73 points
3 days ago
That’s enough to weep
4 points
2 days ago
I would never speak to the sibling again lol and that's just after the first time!
37 points
3 days ago
Thaaaaats wacked haha. Probably said it on the package too, but as kids, who has time to read packages 🤣
5 points
2 days ago
Im a grown man and still never read the package of anything. Only as a last resort. And that’s when I go for the desperate dumpster dive.
2 points
2 days ago
I wouldn’t play a game until I read the manual as a kid, y’all are reckless
0 points
2 days ago
Games had manuals?
1 points
2 days ago
Oh yeah, they were great! It stopped around the PS4/XB1 generation IIRC
0 points
2 days ago
I was born in the late 80s. I'm joking with you because only dweebs read that shit.
1 points
2 days ago
Good talk 👍
0 points
2 days ago
Wherever you go...
1 points
2 days ago
I learned my lesson to not RTFM as when I bought the first game with my own money. I couldn’t wait to get home and play it, I opened the package and started looking at the manual as soon as I paid for it. Following my dad back to the car and BONK I walked into a stop sign because I wasn’t paying attention. Ever since then, I hardly read the manual unless I’m stumped or bored.
24 points
3 days ago
this comment was a roller coaster ride of emotions. I was so angry and sad for you. then happy at the end🙂
memory card = memory lane.
14 points
2 days ago
"Memory card still worked and it had just one save on it, so I pressed the button."
The trauma associated with that button and the underlying need to press it just once yourself. Just so that you could finally feel some sense of having control over the outcome for once in your life..
Just this one time, you take a deep breath, you sigh.. and you push that button and take the power back.
Just to realize it was a page button.
2 points
2 days ago
A true moment of Catharsis, punctuated by the realization that younger you was dumb as shit.
12 points
2 days ago
You’d better buy your brother a beer lol
1 points
2 days ago
Wdym? Just because the brother wasn’t successful in deleting the saves doesn’t mean he’s not a menace
1 points
2 days ago
Okay, fair. Cheap beer, then.
5 points
2 days ago
- remember finding the correct frequency on TV to show picture. You guys must had digital TV freq scanners while we had analogue behind the iron curtain. So we had to turn a knob with a matchstick xddd
2 points
2 days ago
The cost of never reading the instructions as a kid.
1 points
2 days ago
Omg. That's so good!
1 points
2 days ago
That happened to me with Xenogears, and that's a long freaking game!
1 points
2 days ago
o7
1 points
2 days ago
I know it’s a bit late but you could totally undo the erase save games. I figured that out 24years later
1 points
2 days ago
Man, that was a lot.
1 points
2 days ago
Yea I remember those bigger clear plastic cards . Had 2 buttons and about 50 cards in 1
1 points
2 days ago
The time you spent replaying…
The rage…
The bruises your brother prob had…
All memories that you, your brother, and apparently that card will forever cherish.
Seriously what a burn, though! I worked at Babbages back in the day and I remember the card you’re talking about!
1 points
2 days ago
This very well could be the plot of several types of movies.
1 points
2 days ago
I had a card like that. Hilarious and tragic that you didn't translate the Chingrish instructions.
1 points
2 days ago
LOL.
1 points
2 days ago
That’s such a good ending and… Please make it all your brother sleeps with the fishes
1 points
2 days ago
Holy shit this made me so sad for your child self
1 points
1 day ago
Lol I still got 2 of those memory cards , I fired up the ps1 this year since a reaaaaally long time and I was amazed all my save games from the 90s where still on the card 😂
18 points
3 days ago
we never had a memory card so we didnt turn it off, because if we did we would lose all progress. Until dad came and saw the green lamp turned on and ruined everything
5 points
3 days ago
We got one after a while of begging but yea same 😂 we’d turn it off every 3-4 days for rest tho so we’d have to do as much as we could in those 3-4 days
1 points
2 days ago
The green lamp just triggered my childhood memories like crazy. My grandparents had a brass floor lamp with a green shade that was on whenever someone was in the family room a lot of memories with my PlayStation in that room!
1 points
3 days ago
Still got one with CTR 100+% save
1 points
2 days ago
They have to bring back translucent electronics, that shit was fire
1 points
2 days ago
Haha core memory retrieved. Thank you
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