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Built my dad a retropie on an old pi 3 with just aboot every nes and snes rom I could find on it. I think I struck Xmas gifting gold. (self.casualconversation)

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My father is not a gamer by any sense of the meaning. He plays the mobile game kinda platform style shooters here and there but that's it.

Was racking my brain for something to get him when for no reason I found myself digging up memories of being 4 or 5 years old sitting on his lap playing some flying shooter game. Him and my mom were 17 & 19 when they had me so I often forget how much of life they missed raising a little shitbrick that early in their lives.

So I really went out on a limb and felt like I was reaching with this present. Going so far as to get an extra Amazon card either for someone else if he liked it or for him if he didn't like it.

Holy shit did he like it. Took me by full surprise. As soon as I showed him the library he was like a kid in a candy shop. So many stories and anecdotes about this game and that game. Told me how the "idiots" at megaman made sequels 1-8, then for reasons before he could google them, they skipped megaman 9 and went to megaman x, megaman x2, and megaman x3.

Told me how when I was around 6 or 7 I was obsessed with tecmo bowl, tecmo super bowl and tecmo superbowl 3. Which I remember. But what I didn't remember was that I used to shut the Nintendo off anytime I (playing only as the Buffalo Bills) was about to lose the game, would quickly shutoff the Nintendo so not to ruin my perfect seasons. Then would throw a bitchfit tantrum over losing that my parents would have to take away the controllers from me cuz part of my tantrum would be biting the soft rubber controller cords. Which were not in their broke ass budgets at the time.

Anywho... that's all. What I thought was a risky Xmas gift turned out to be a wonderfully appreciated gift accompanied by an amazing walk down memory lane with the rents.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You don't need a special computer for it, any ancient computer laying around can do this. You don't even necessarily need a gamepad controller, the keyboard is a fine input device for any game before like playstation

[–] 11111one11111 1 points 1 week ago

Absolutely. Most of what I have been recommending tho was surrounded by the context that it was for a father aged 55+. My father thinks I made up the word "firmware" when trying to show him how to update the firmware on his cellular trailcams lol. He is not going to adapt well to using a keyboard to play megaman. Fuck he even bitched that he has to get atari style controllers because the games just aren't the same using the snes controller I bought him cuz it is able to be used with the atari, nes and snes games and those are his gaming stomping grounds.