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Older consoles or handhelds that you regret sleeping on when they were modern
sworddude:
don't have much regret on sleeping on the psp as one of the few systems I didn't do much with at the time. Even moreso for ps vita
otherwise didn't really miss consoles when they where modern at the time either played at friends or owned em. from xbox to nintendo
ye know what now that I think about considering dreamcast released around the time of the cube and ps2. do regret missing that one, but since it discontinued that quickly and wasn't that popular it was probably a very ez system to miss at the time.
bikingjahuty:
--- Quote from: sworddude on March 23, 2026, 08:10:37 am ---don't have much regret on sleeping on the psp as one of the few systems I didn't do much with at the time. Even moreso for ps vita
otherwise didn't really miss consoles when they where modern at the time either played at friends or owned em. from xbox to nintendo
ye know what now that I think about considering dreamcast released around the time of the cube and ps2. do regret missing that one, but since it discontinued that quickly and wasn't that popular it was probably a very ez system to miss at the time.
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The Dreamcast really was a flash in the pan and I'm forever grateful I was there to experience it. I was hyped out of my mind leading up to its release and then pretty much for the entire duration of its life. My brother got one in November of 1999 for his birthday and I played it easily 10x more than he did. I regularly bought and rented games for it throughout 2000 and 2001. In fact, I didn't even realize the DC had been discontinued until the later part of 2001. With games like Sonic Adventure 2 getting released posthumously, it was easy to be oblivious to the fact that Sega had already pulled the plug on it. I definitely wish it had been able to hold on for longer, but for what its worth, it was am amazing couple of years that I remember extremely fondly.
sworddude:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 23, 2026, 10:48:03 am ---
--- Quote from: sworddude on March 23, 2026, 08:10:37 am ---don't have much regret on sleeping on the psp as one of the few systems I didn't do much with at the time. Even moreso for ps vita
otherwise didn't really miss consoles when they where modern at the time either played at friends or owned em. from xbox to nintendo
ye know what now that I think about considering dreamcast released around the time of the cube and ps2. do regret missing that one, but since it discontinued that quickly and wasn't that popular it was probably a very ez system to miss at the time.
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The Dreamcast really was a flash in the pan and I'm forever grateful I was there to experience it. I was hyped out of my mind leading up to its release and then pretty much for the entire duration of its life. My brother got one in November of 1999 for his birthday and I played it easily 10x more than he did. I regularly bought and rented games for it throughout 2000 and 2001. In fact, I didn't even realize the DC had been discontinued until the later part of 2001. With games like Sonic Adventure 2 getting released posthumously, it was easy to be oblivious to the fact that Sega had already pulled the plug on it. I definitely wish it had been able to hold on for longer, but for what its worth, it was am amazing couple of years that I remember extremely fondly.
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Heard it was kinda hyped at the time indeed, had no friends who had the console sadly nor did I see any of them games in stores. Some stories I've heard of it within my country is that all the big stores had some really heavy clearance bin discount of dreamcast consoles and games so it was probably gone pretty fast from most notable stores in the country when all that was sold.
Years later allot of the people I met who got rid of their sets where pretty uique characters and where often very passionate about the console. in the few times they didn't it was usually cause the mom got rid of their son's game stash and the og player was already long gone.
kamikazekeeg:
Probably the Dreamcast, I know I played it somewhere, though I can't 100% remember where (Can't remember if I rented the console or not, it's been so long, loved being able to do that back in the day), but it had cool games, even though it didn't last long, though I guess I don't regret it too much because it was so short lived and the PS2 released and that was sorta the only thing that mattered until I got an Xbox to play Halo with my buddies.
2ko:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 23, 2026, 02:22:15 am ---
--- Quote from: 2ko on March 22, 2026, 09:04:39 pm ---PSP and Vita I guess? It wasn't so much that I slept on them and more that I was a broke teenager lol Well, for the PSP anyways. I was in Uni and working part-time when the Vita was still "modern" but I just thought that it had no games lol
I haven't started to collect Vita yet as I am still collecting / playing PSP, but I do plan on getting to it eventually.
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I hope I come around to the PSP at some point. Funny enough, I recently just sold my Vita and the 10 or so games I had for it. I got a wild hair and bought one from a game store back in like 2014 or so. I played it a handful of times around the time I got it and it's literally been untouched ever since. I decided it wasn't going to get played anytime soon so I sold it. I still have a PSP and a healthy collection for it, however it's just never sparked much joy for me despite playing some pretty good games on it.
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I haven't dug that deeply into the PSP yet, but what I have played so far has been great. Monster Hunter is one of my favorite series so playing its early entries has been fun (if not a little annoying, cause the series has made a lot of improvements over the years lol). And it has a bunch of cool games you just don't see much of today outside of the indie scene like Patapon.
Vita I really don't know much about. There are a few standout games I really want to try like Gravity Rush, but other than that I know nothing about the system. Makes it kind of exciting to start collecting though as I have no expectations as to what I'll find lol
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