The Commodore 64 – I know it’s not a console but it was used for “educational purposes” [gaming].
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The Sega Megadrive – bought in second year of university.
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The Sony PlayStation – Used to play Gran Turismo on my Landlord’s PS. Got my own eventually.
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The Sony PlayStation 2 – installed a network card, played Navy Seals online and hated it.
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The Sony PlayStation 3 – bought from an airport. The original had multi memory card readers and Super Audio CD capabilities. It died and I got a newer one which had none of those capabilities. It now lives at work.
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The Sony PlayStation 4 – This lives on the wall in the dining room. LAN connected rather than WiFi, obviously.
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The Sony PlayStation 5 – this takes pride of place in the lounge. Wired connections obviously and HDMI through 7.2 amp into 4K HDR television.
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Honourable mention goes to the Sega Saturn which I hired for a weekend in around 1994/5, possibly hired from Blockbuster.
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Phew
I’ve spent some time trying to work through the new Gran Turismo Licences that came in a recent update. Sometimes these are frustrating because I’m sure the demonstration video car has more front end grip than I do. I had a similar feeling when I looked at the Lewis Hamilton replays in a previous challenge. Anyway, assuming my times are distributed with a mean close to the Gold time I will eventually get Gold because of natural variation. Curiously if I’m a second behind I know there’s lots of room for improvement and I don’t feel despondent but if I’m close to the Gold time I get most frustrated because I’m continually close but not great. I can’t remember which particular trial I’m taking in the picture but I was very glad to get Gold.
