My Love-Hate Relationship with the Consoles

[ZyroXZ2]

SvennoJ said:

@Conina That's awesome! Thanks for sharing.

My Grandfather used to have a pinball machine which stayed at our house for a year or so. Tons of fun to play around with it. Such mechanical wonders. Of course as kids we couldn't resist taking the glass off and playing with the bumpers etc. The inside was fascinating, as well as the back with the mechanical score counters. Sadly my grandfather eventually sold it.

It was from the 70s but I can't find the actual design. It was up to 4 players and when you hit bonus a ball would bounce up and down visible in a little window in the middle above the flippers. It had a stopper between the flippers which you could activate and a little side gate you could open to return the ball to the start through the right hand side escape. I'll recognize it instantly when I see a picture but just can't remember any names on it :/

This style, but not it


Awesome collection btw, don't let anyone ever convince you to throw anything out!



@ZyroXZ2 While we're not blowing on cartridges anymore, nowadays we deal with having to charge controllers, lengthy installs, lengthy updates, having to manage disk space and if you have internet like me, plenty "You have been disconnected" while playing online :/

I also wonder whether quick resume is bugged on PS5. Today again, I turn it back on to continue where I left off "The license cannot be verified right now, try again later". I was connected, psn, internet all fine, but no resume and can't start the game. Cycling the internet connection worked this time but again, it would have been faster just to turn the console all the way off instead of using quick resume. Maybe it only works correctly on the primary PS5, timing issue, game tries to resume before PSN connects.

Conversely, modern controllers last quite awhile (well maybe not the Dualsense which averages 6-7 hours) in which you're highly unlikely to have it "die" on you in one sitting unless you do the oh-so-healthy marathon gaming thing.  The second part, yea: if your internet sucks, then you really are going to have an extra layer of troubles.  But again, that's all tradeoffs: we like to pretend everything old worked perfectly, but anyone with time spent literally knows otherwise.  N64 controllers drifted like crazy because those analog sticks became loose like kite in the wind if you played a few nights of Mario Party or Smash lmfao

As for the rest mode, here's the funny thing: I ALWAYS turn my consoles OFF.  I never use suspend, quick resume, rest mode, sleep, none of that, not even on the Switch.  The irony is because, well, it's a waste of electricity to me.  Newer consoles boot up so quick that I can simply turn the console on, and by the time I've finished turning on the TV, sound system, and switched the input to the correct console, it's already at the log in screen.  This has the added benefit of me never having to deal with those types of issues.  At the same time: you need to set your PS5 to remain connected to the internet while in rest mode.  There's a literal setting for that lol