If somehow someone sent you a Playstation 3, 20 years ago

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nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
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Man, my Nintendo blew my mind when I was playing Zelda and Metroid, I can't imagine what I would have thought of a PS3.
 

Mrfrog840

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Oct 7, 2000
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Originally posted by: andylawcc
Originally posted by: mattocs
Not be able to connect it to my old ass TV?

hahahaah...

it's like saying, someone in the future send me an Octacore Intel Pentium 8. even with the motherboards, ram, and PCI-express-3.0 video card, Operating system that would run it, and games that could play on it and take advantage of the architectual benefit. they would be no use. I can't play multiplayer with anyone if i am the only one with Quake 10

 

natto fire

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Jan 4, 2000
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I find it hard to believe that everyone that responded to this thread was cognitive enough to do what they are saying 20 years ago. As for me, when I was 5 years old, I mostly enjoyed playing in the mud, and didn't have much knowledge/respect for electronics.
 

mjrpes3

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Oct 2, 2004
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I would sell it to the U.S.S.R. for nuclear testing, with the hope that the Cold War would extend into the 21st century.
 

mobobuff

Lifer
Apr 5, 2004
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I would be two years old, and would probably just ignore it and go play with blocks.

 

LordMaul

Lifer
Nov 16, 2000
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I would claim I built it and wait for the cheesy "young genius" movie scripts to be written about me, star in them, and become a famous actor. Then, being rich and famous, I would grow up and totally pork Jessica Biel last year.
 

So

Lifer
Jul 2, 2001
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Originally posted by: daveymark
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: ShadowOfMyself
"Where do I put this round disk thingy?"

How old are you? CDs had been around for 25 years .

it's not a CD.

Well, DUH, but people could pretty easily infer how to use it given the similarity.
 

LtPage1

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Jan 15, 2004
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I'd make a video of me playing some of the prettiest games on it, send copies to every major corporation in the PC business, and start the bidding war.
 

sao123

Lifer
May 27, 2002
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Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
What would you do? For argument sake lets say you had a bunch of games, controllers, etc...

I'd still be playing my NES.
 
Jun 14, 2003
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Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
I used to have dreams like this.

It's 2000 years ago. I'm standing in the town center of a beautiful, serene village that is 5 minutes away from being torn down & pillaged by rampaging hordes. I stand tall, smoke a cigarette, give a gut-wrenching speech to my townspeople in a language they don't understand and pick up my BFG9000....


i used to have dreams about being at the battle of hastings with a JCB that had a couple of those guns from a A-10 attached.

a JCB with guns and rockets lol! what the hell was i smoking.
 
May 31, 2001
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Originally posted by: Train
Originally posted by: Alone
Sell it to Microsoft.

Exactly what I was thinking

Imagine the phone call to Bill Gates: "Well... it's really good at Folding@Home... crap, that won't exist for years. Um... want to see the James Bond movie of the future?"
 

UberNeuman

Lifer
Nov 4, 1999
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I'd destroy it. You wouldn't be a free person very long when discovered with this advanced technology....