Hardware Relics

[Spastic Hamburger]

I had to pack up the Wii and PS2 yesterday to make room for other stuff. Sad but I hadn’t used them in a few years.

To be fair, most of the games I have for them have been getting remastered so it’s not that big of a loss. Just makes me sad.

• This reply was modified 4 weeks, 1 day ago by Spastic Hamburger.

[DeVaultSetter]

Haven’t seen SACDs or the players over here much at all, mostly because of a slightly limp impetus to go looking. Don’t recall them occupying the prime spots in any of the shop display windows either, funnily enough. They might have benefited from an ad campaign of Coca Cola magnitude geared really set the market on fire, and as things have turned out in latter years, likely to have set a lot off punters to the wall no doubt. 😛
It’s good they are in a cupboard, safe and sound and if the cupboard remains in good nick, soon to be collector’s items. A pleasant prospect for future fossickers. Termites decimated the cupboard in the top shed here, which necessitated ordering in replacement shelving, and if you have to ask, yes, metal. 😛

[Spastic Hamburger]

Yeah, they never did really take off in the stores. Now, you have to find them at online specialty shops (even Amazon only has a few) such as this one. My new Blu-Ray player supports SACD for whatever reason so I may pick one up at some point and give the format a whirl. See if it’s all it’s cracked up to be 🙂

I still have my GameCube even though the Wii is backwards compatible. Haven’t even used it since I got the Wii in 2008 😛

Ouch. That happened to my grandmother’s shed. Carpenter ants got in and ate the floor out and we didn’t find out until I was cleaning it out. We did spray but, alas, it was too late and collapsed the next year.

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