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I turned on the PS5 to give people the business get my shit rocked in Marvel Rivals and a logo I haven’t seen in thirty years appears on the screen: the original PlayStation logo. The PS5 tells me that it’s been 30 years of PlayStation. At the moment of writing this, I will be turning 40 years old in a month. Thinking back to 30 years ago feels real “Let’s do the time warp again” but thinking about all the different iterations of the PlayStation over the years. I realize, it’s always been there at these different points in my life. From middle school through college, it has legit been 30 years of PlayStation always being in the entertainment set up waiting to be turned on. 30 Years of PlayStation Gaming The PlayStation first dropped back in ’95. When I think back to when I first saw the system, I’m 10 years old again. My older sister and brother have come to visit mom. My sister, Kece, is 20 and playing cards with mom (in an hour they goin to be going at it over somebody cheating). Travis, my brother, is 16 years old and the coolest guy in the world to me. He plops down this cardboard case in front of the tv and pulls out this gray boxed console from it. I remember figuring out we had to run the AV cables through my father’s VCR. I think the first game we played was Jet Moto. Why did they make a video game about folks racing on jet skis? Because it was the fucking 90s baby. Keep up. I can’t tell you the number of hours I’ve clocked watching my brother play single play games …
YOU’VE REACHED YOUR LIMIT
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Omar Holmon is a content editor that is here to make .gifs, obscure references, and find the correlation between everything Black and Nerdy.
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