• dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    PS1 was released in North America in Sept. 1995, 30 years ago.

    So the grandpa was born in 1967 to be 28 in 1995, which does make him 58 in 2025.

    Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.

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      4 months ago

      Grandpa definitely could have been a gamer who justified the purchase by saying it was for OPs father.

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        4 months ago

        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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          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