on durable equipment
so because I’m a digital packrat, I’ve been carting my Australian PS2 and Wii around for the past seven-odd years, even though I was pretty sure they were both dead and we’ve long since upgraded our consoles. I mean, the last time I tried to plug either one of them into our old UK TV, the screen fritzed and glitched like a motherfucker, which seemed fairly conclusive, but then, I’m still hanging onto a bunch of old PS1 games which are literally nearing twenty fucking years old, I mean REALLY, I’ve got the four disc version of Final Fantasy VIII sitting right here. shit, my old GameBoy Colour with Pokemon Gold is down in the garage, and that definitely doesn’t work.
the point being, I hang on to stuff. the past two years, I’ve had the PS2 and the Wii just sitting in shopping bags in my office because I figured they didn’t work, so I didn’t exactly go to great lengths to pack them nicely on the trip back to Australia, but they made it here in one piece anyway. and, well, we have two TVs now, which is new, and seeing as how the new PS4 and the surround sound and BluRay players use HDMI instead of AV cables, I figured I should plug the old stuff in again, one last time, make sure it’s really broken.
it turns out they both work perfectly.
like. I just. I’ve had this PS2 since high school, okay? it was brand new in January 2003, an insurance-bought replacement for the one that was stolen in a break-in over New Year’s Eve, which means it is THIRTEEN YEARS OLD, but I’ve still got all my games and cords and controllers and memory cards, and when I put in FFXII, it started right up, no problem. I can play the original Spyro the Dragon if I want to, because the PS2 was backwards compatible. and the Wii isn’t much younger - my husband and I bought it with a David Jones voucher someone gave us as a wedding present in 2007, so it’s nine years old, and yesterday I used it to show my toddler how to play Wii bowling.
so I guess that means we have four functional consoles now: the original Wii, and three generations of the PlayStation (2, 3, 4) which can, between them, play games from all four versions.
the only console we haven’t hung onto is the old X-Box 360, purchased around the same time as the Wii, and which was dying a slow death even before we moved to the UK - the disc tray wouldn’t extend any more, you had to use a hairpin to push this tiny button in to make it open, and it still overheated and flashed red like, every third time you used it. if memory serves, we donated it to @theomniarch back in Bristol in the hopes he could get it working, but I don’t know if it was ever revived.
point being, when we were choosing between the PS4 and the X-Box One, there’s a reason I went with the PlayStation, even though it was more expensive. say what you want about Sony, but that shit lasts.
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