• LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    10 days ago

    Sorry, only Zoomers and younger refer to console generations by number. I don't make the rules, it's just because they learned all this stuff from Wikipedia rather than experiencegrillman

    • Owl [he/him]
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      10 days ago

      The console generation numbers always weird me out, because the start of time - console gen that was out when I was born - is considered "third gen" instead of first.

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        10 days ago

        I don't even know what separates the first two generations of home consoles - it's just an amorphous blob of Ataris and Collecovisons, and other shit I've vaguely heard about but never played.

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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            9 days ago

            So the old Pong and video pinball games were first gen, and the Atari consoles are second - makes sense!

            • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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              9 days ago

              Yep! The big advancement was general purpose cpus instead of purpose built logic that allowed swappable program roms

        • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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          9 days ago

          "bits" were largely marketing nonsense in the fifth and later gens. Though the N64 actually had a 64 bit cpu (unlike the Jaguar) but the Dreamcast in the following gen used a 32 bit cpu. 32/64 bit isn't as meaningful a distinction as it was in earlier gens

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      9 days ago

      I never remember the console gen numbers unless you're talking about the bit numbers like 16bit or 32bit.