Ibrahim Al-Nasser said he got tired of juggling plugs just to play his collection.

Lots of classic systems!

      • everett@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Now, if you feel that the bare minimum is enough, then okay. But some people choose to play four-player Smash Bros. and we encourage that, okay? You do want to play four-player Smash, don’t you?

        • The Pantser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Well I just doubled it. I don’t have the information on what each console’s ports are to do the real math… I guess over 1000 would probably be close since everything from the past 20 years has had at least 4 and some NES had 4 player as well with a adapter.

        • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Or 8 player, wii U is already retro 😄 (not vintage, but retro)

  • Etterra@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh jebuz the signal degradation jumping through so many connectors and adaptors…

  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Those of us who collect classic game consoles and computers (here’s looking at you, AI reporter Benj Edwards) know the difficulty of keeping all that hardware not just working but instantly accessible with a simple press of a power button.

    Meh, the answer is money. With money it’s easy.

  • Redkey@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I wonder when he last sat down and really played a game for an afternoon. Now that everything is plugged in and ready to go at the push of a few (spreadsheet-tracked) buttons, he has finally overcome all the difficulty of switching consoles and can now play through all the games he’s been wanting to play. Right? Right?

    • hswolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I don’t think he actually wants to play any game, I think the satisfaction comes from having all the consoles and making them all worrk together.

      It’s more a collectors high thand a gamer’s.

  • Haru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I think I’d rather deal with the inconvenience of hooking them up when I need, than the anxiety that I’m living with a fire hazard like this.

    • xycu@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I have a bunch of different old consoles and vintage computers (not “444” of course) and used to try to have them all hooked up, it was such a miserable rats nest of wires. I eventually settled on just using one at a time (I am only human, after all).

      Whatever I’m playing gets the prime hookup spot in front of the TV, everything else gets stored neatly on a shelf or in a box. Cables and controllers are in individually labelled zipper storage bags, in bin drawers, out of sight until they are needed…

      Of course, hooking them all up is a hobby itself… It’s easy to go down a rabbit hole of scalers and SCART switches and RGB mods and then you suddenly find yourself a couple thousand dollars poorer.