Author mentions being a kid in the Wii/PS3/Xbox 360 era
Author mentions being a kid when the PS4 and Xbone were out
When someone says "I liked fortnite when I was a kid" my back starts to hurt more
You're back is going to hurt more, I'm one of them. I was in middle school. I have childhood memories of playing fortnite on my childhood nintendo switch with my friends.
When we battled or traded Pokemon we had to hook up a USB sized 2 foot long cable between our gameboys and make sure not to jostle them even slightly or the game would drop. This of course meant you could unplug the cable at a certain point to duplicate your Pokemon during a trade. Now if you wanted to play in the dark your parent would have had to buy you a third party backlight peripheral that could drain a pair of AA batteries in about 12 seconds, which is what the gameboy ran on at the time. So to have a sleepover involving gen 1 and 2 (and more I dont think the gameboy advance had a backlight either) pokemon meant bringing a suitcase sized box of accessories and batteries and game cartridges.
What does this have to do with forknife you ask? I don't know
This of course meant you could unplug the cable at a certain point to duplicate your Pokemon during a trade.
A friend taught us how to do this and let us duplicate his Mew and Mewtwo. Before long everyone had like 10 of both
People in their mid 20s were starting high school when the PS4/Xbone came out lol, and grew up on the PS2/OG Xbox and PS3/Xbox 360 games...
I know, because I am in my mid 20s lol.
I grew up with an N64 and PS1 at the granddad's, PS2 and Xbox at the friend's place, Xbox 360 at the other grandparents', and PS3/Wii at home, and I was a preteen when the Xbox One and PS4 hit store shelves, verily my age is a finite number and yet I belong to no generation
Growing up, I understood that there would one day be cultural references that make me feel old.
But I never quite grasped that it'd be another batch every decade, you know?
hheellloooo