Discussion Thread: Do You Miss The Pop-In And Play Gaming Consoles?

[Cloudman]

Ka-pi96 said:

vivster said:

kowenicki said:

Barkley said:

He means consoles that didn't really have an OS, they just boot straight into whatever game you have in the console at that time. Such as the N64.

one game.

we can now instantly start dozens of games.

But don't you miss the simplicity of getting up and walking to the shelf and taking the game out of the package, walking back to the console and just pop it in and play. And if you want to play a different game you just make a simple repeat of the same procedure.

Simple and easy.

Who says you can't still do that if you want to?

I guess the difference is you have to go thru an OS and menus before getting to the game, or all your games are downloaded, so you don't need to shuffle games.