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Multiple Console Households. Discuss.
| Internet-worthy lemon school cafeteria internal respiration | 07/11/26 |
| nudist idea he suggested principal's office | 07/11/26 |
| Zippy heaven | 07/12/26 |
| cowgod | 08/03/26 |
| michael doodikoff | 08/03/26 |
| cowgod | 08/03/26 |
| michael doodikoff | 08/03/26 |
| cowgod | 08/03/26 |
| Wildberries Mercer | 08/03/26 |
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Date: July 11th, 2026 10:24 PM Author: Internet-worthy lemon school cafeteria internal respiration People misunderstand Console Loyalty because they imagine it began with Taste. Usually it began with Scarcity.
A child who owned one Console had to believe in it. The purchase was too large, the Christmas too recent, the parents too difficult to approach again. Every exclusive became proof of wisdom. Every missing genre became unnecessary. Console Monogamy was not fandom. It was household balance sheet defense performed by children.
Multiple Console Households were different.
These were usually Prep households IME, sometimes high-tier Nerds, almost always with Bonus Rooms. The Genesis remained connected after the PS1 arrived. The N64 appeared at Christmas without requiring the older hardware to disappear. A Saturn might sit beneath the television for “arcade games.” Later, a Dreamcast entered almost casually, as though new Platforms were seasonal decor.
This produced Platform Optionality.
The Prep did not need Mario 64 to defeat Crash Bandicoot or Final Fantasy VII to humiliate Zelda. He could simply walk across the carpet and press a different Power Button. Exclusives were not tribal weapons because they were locally available. Console Wars sound less important when all belligerents are connected to the same Receiver.
The physical setup mattered. Multiple Consoles required Inputs. Sometimes an A/V switchbox. Labeled cords. A father who understood that yellow went into yellow and did not become angry when the television displayed static. This was Domestic Systems Integration years before the child encountered an enterprise environment.
By contrast, the Single Console child learned Ideology. If he had N64, CDs were fragile and load times were intolerable. If he had PS1, cartridges were childish and Nintendo had no mature games. If he had Saturn, the machine was secretly more powerful and Japan understood it. He spent years constructing arguments around whatever was already under his television.
Clique differences followed naturally. |
Date: July 11th, 2026 10:42 PM Author: nudist idea he suggested principal's office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5881891&forum_id=2/#49993660) |
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Date: July 12th, 2026 12:29 AM Author: Zippy heaven (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5881891&forum_id=2/#49993806) |
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Date: August 3rd, 2026 7:29 AM Author: cowgod I had multiple consoles iirc. If your family can’t afford a lot of Games or won’t give you a Ride, a $129.99 Genesis with Sonic included seems like a better present than $80 Chrono Trigger which required a Ride to a Mall that had a 25% chance of having it in stock. Likewise PS1 had cheap af greatest hits plus was like $100 by 99 or 2000. The real Aristocracy were the ones who actually bought Games for their Consoles instead of just amassing Hardware. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5881891&forum_id=2/#50042168) |
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Date: August 3rd, 2026 9:15 AM Author: michael doodikoff I'm trying to think of the times I owned and used multiple consoles plugged in the same time at once with a multiple adapter . I think it's like this
Nes/snes
SNES /n64 and probably started pc
N64/ps1
Gap
GameCube / ps2
Ps2 / 360 Wii
360/ps3 / Wii U
PS4/switch 1
Xbox series x / switch 2
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Date: August 3rd, 2026 9:21 AM Author: cowgod If you were actually playing NES you needed one of those BC SNES/NES combo systems. The actual NES was a POS that would barely work unless you knew how to exquisitely position the Cartridge.
My PS2 also sucked. Took 10 minutes of letting the disc sit in the drive before it started playing. That shit was a commitment. Never an actual Disc Read Error. Physical media sucks irl except if it’s in a Good System like slim PS3, SNES, or N64. |
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Date: August 3rd, 2026 12:49 PM Author: michael doodikoff My NES had a couple issues but it ran like a champ for a long time and it worked almost every time. I learned how to position the cartridge and blow on it properly, usually worked until the end
Never had any problems wiht my PS2 and I had the older model. Probably still works now |
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Date: August 3rd, 2026 2:09 PM Author: cowgod NES works regardless if you wedge a Dip Can such as of Skoal to keep the cartridge down. This was discovered by, of all people, the Xbox 360 fandom iirc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5881891&forum_id=2/#50042842) |
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Date: August 3rd, 2026 8:04 AM Author: Wildberries Mercer (Safari) Good premise but the AI cadence ruins it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5881891&forum_id=2/#50042207) |