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Parents Finally Cave And Buy 33-Year-Old Son PlayStation 1

Having refused to purchase the video game console since its introduction in 1994, local parents John and Melissa Gionda confirmed Thursday that they had finally caved in and bought a Sony PlayStation 1 for their 33-year-old son, Daniel.

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GentlemenRUs3807d ago (Edited 3807d ago )

I found it quite funny :P

But... The Parents look like snobs... Snobs are the worst of people...

EDIT: I think there might be a little Satire built in to this article...

Ezz20133807d ago

best time i had with gaming was with ps1
Dino crisis,RE,FF,Silent hill,007,Syphon filter,Crash etc
damn i miss those days
but ps3 did awesome job and ps4 look like it will bring the ps2 era

so i can't complain :)

UltimateMaster3806d ago

Bad parenting, just bad.
Where the hell can he find PS1 games?
On PSN for PS3, fail.

Skate-AK3807d ago

The Onion makes satire articles.

FunkMacNasty3807d ago

Of course it's satire!! It's The Onion-have you never heard of them before? If not, check out their website and lookup some of their printed publications. They are a completely satyrical news agency and their stuff is hilarious!

Back-to-Back3807d ago

PS1. One of the best systems ever. That system was littered with awesome jrpg's.

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Anon19743807d ago (Edited 3807d ago )

This article is from the Onion so it`s probably not true, but thought I`d share.

My parents would never purchase games for me after my Vic-20 which they bought for me and my brother when I was six or seven. When they eventually picked up a Commodore 64 for us, instead of buying us games they would buy us a copy of Compute`s Gazette magazine which often included game code and say "If you want a game, enter the code" so I spent a good part of my childhood entering and debugging code on a C64 and figuring out how to modify the game when I grew bored. We picked up a used Atari 2600 at some point at a farm auction that had a few games but my sibling didn`t have a game console until I bought them a TurboGrafix 16 for Christmas when I was away at my first year of university. Today I`m retired from the brokerage industry and attempting to make my way with a game studio I started.

The point of my story is my parents were cheap bastards.

Ripsta7th3807d ago

I had to cry to get pokemon Ruby back in the days, is not that my parents were cheap is just that they would never buy me video games. They had gotten brainwashed by the media

Anon19743807d ago (Edited 3807d ago )

There's always that too. Video games were just as bad as Heavy Metal, D&D and Rap Music for corrupting the youth. It's funny that many still think that despite all the evidence out there to the contrary. And by funny, I mean depressing. I don't care if they thought that in private and left the industry the hell alone, but they've always got to harsh our buzz, man.

On a side note, my parents bought us a 1541 disk drive for our C64, only to pawn it a year later and promise to buy us a new one which they never did..you know...because they needed smokes. Looking back, I'm amazed we had a Vic-20 or C64 in the first place. They were cheap bastards. Ah, a trip down white trash memory lane...

B-radical3807d ago

Lol that sucks lucky for me my dad is a pc gamer so he always knew the importance of video games he still plays command and conquer to this day

frostypants3807d ago

"Probably" not true? C'mon people...

Salooh3807d ago (Edited 3807d ago )

My parent were ok with gaming since the 90's :) . They didn't see anything wrong with it as long we commit to study and pray.

Actually , i think that gaming was a tool for them xD. The more we sit in home the less they are worried lol .

CalebZachary84113807d ago

Lucky SOB. I'll trade him my PS4.

Kevlar0093807d ago

I want my N64 dammit

Had to wait from SNES to GC. Child abuse I tell ya (jk)

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The 5 best video game adaptations of popular board games

Discover our top video game adaptations of popular board games, from Bloodbowl to Wingspan & get your board game friends into video games!

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Giblet_Head21h ago(Edited 21h ago)

As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.

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Indie hit Dredge is getting its own movie adaptation

Rob Webb of KnowTechie writes: We're still waiting on the details, but this video game adaptation promises to be seriously creepy.

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