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I don't know how to break this to you. You'll probably want to sit down before you read any further. Someone born when the Neo Geo came out is 25 years old tod
by csixty4 12y ago
I don't know how to break this to you. You'll probably want to sit down before you read any further.
Someone born when the Neo Geo came out is 25 years old today. They've probably graduated college. They might be married. They might have kids. Around here, they might even be CEO of a company.
It was weird for me to realize there were people who practically had an NES in the cradle and have never seen an Atari 2600.
For those youngsters, the Neo Geo is probably a fascinating piece of history. It's a system as old as they are, with capabilities beyond anything else out at the time. But, it's relegated to a footnote in history.
Just wait until they discover the Atari Lynx.
- kayamon 12y agoBut surely this is "Hacker News" - the whole point of news is that it has to be new to _everyone_. Otherwise it's just facts, not news.
- csixty4 12y agoIt definitely bugs me that the entire submission was a link to Wikipedia and...that's it. No "Ask HN" about this historic console, and not a link to a blog post about how cool it was to finally play this mythical home system or on the technical challenges it overcame. Just..."here's a wikipedia article".
- m0skit0 12y agoThe Lynx is crap like everything Atari did since the VCS 2600 :)