My dad got us the NES when he was 35ish and played Tetris more than any of us.
The PS1 was still more like older console systems at the time. You didn’t have to be a “gamer” to buy one, titles like Spyro and Rayman especially were for ostensibly kids.
PS1 might have been the end it’s that though. Tekken 2 and Gran Tourismo started to signal an older college age shift in those consoles. That’s when I got mine anyway.
definitely true! I’m just not sure it’s the most probable scenario, and regardless it’s helpful to clarify the man bought a PS1 when he was nearly 30 years old.
PS1 quite famously singlehandedly changed the target audience of consoles from little kids to college-age people. Largely due to ‘Wipeout’ with its acid visuals by Designers Republic and the edm soundtrack, and PS1’s marketing, also with DR’s involvement, including game rooms in over fifty nightclubs in the UK alone.
The first ‘Wipeout’ mostly had original instrumental edm music by Tim Wright, aka CoLD SToRAGE, with just three tracks by Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, and Orbital. But the sequel ‘Wipeout 2097’, released a year later, had Future Sound of London’s ‘We Have Explosive’, Fluke’s ‘Atom Bomb’, an instrumental of The Profigy’s ‘Firestarter’, and the like.
In a gaming club near my home, the owner straight up put the ‘Wipeout 2097’ cd in the console and let it play the music like a stereo system. Which, by the way, is something PS1 could do but N64 couldn’t, because the latter still relied on cartridges.
Now imagine Nintendo 64 kids dealing with any of that for the first time.
My dad was/is a gamer. We had every Nintendo system except the SNES at release. He’s a little bit older than the grandpa in this scenario, but he still gamed on the old systems by the time I stopped speaking to them. Had a huge CRT in the garage next to the beer fridge and all that lol. My sibling and I had our own games that we could play, but we always had to ask permission because the systems were my dad’s
This is what it was like for me, too - my dad was a gamer and the gaming stuff was all his, not mine. My siblings and I all competed for time on the computer to be able to play (we didn’t have consoles).
Grandpa definitely could have been a gamer who justified the purchase by saying it was for OPs father.
My dad got us the NES when he was 35ish and played Tetris more than any of us.
The PS1 was still more like older console systems at the time. You didn’t have to be a “gamer” to buy one, titles like Spyro and Rayman especially were for ostensibly kids.
PS1 might have been the end it’s that though. Tekken 2 and Gran Tourismo started to signal an older college age shift in those consoles. That’s when I got mine anyway.
definitely true! I’m just not sure it’s the most probable scenario, and regardless it’s helpful to clarify the man bought a PS1 when he was nearly 30 years old.
PS1 quite famously singlehandedly changed the target audience of consoles from little kids to college-age people. Largely due to ‘Wipeout’ with its acid visuals by Designers Republic and the edm soundtrack, and PS1’s marketing, also with DR’s involvement, including game rooms in over fifty nightclubs in the UK alone.
that’s excellent context, thank you!
The first ‘Wipeout’ mostly had original instrumental edm music by Tim Wright, aka CoLD SToRAGE, with just three tracks by Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, and Orbital. But the sequel ‘Wipeout 2097’, released a year later, had Future Sound of London’s ‘We Have Explosive’, Fluke’s ‘Atom Bomb’, an instrumental of The Profigy’s ‘Firestarter’, and the like.
In a gaming club near my home, the owner straight up put the ‘Wipeout 2097’ cd in the console and let it play the music like a stereo system. Which, by the way, is something PS1 could do but N64 couldn’t, because the latter still relied on cartridges.
Now imagine Nintendo 64 kids dealing with any of that for the first time.
My dad was/is a gamer. We had every Nintendo system except the SNES at release. He’s a little bit older than the grandpa in this scenario, but he still gamed on the old systems by the time I stopped speaking to them. Had a huge CRT in the garage next to the beer fridge and all that lol. My sibling and I had our own games that we could play, but we always had to ask permission because the systems were my dad’s
This is what it was like for me, too - my dad was a gamer and the gaming stuff was all his, not mine. My siblings and I all competed for time on the computer to be able to play (we didn’t have consoles).