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PS1 was released in North America in Sept. 1995, 30 years ago.
So the grandpa was born in 1967 to be 28 in 1995, which does make him 58 in 2025.
Still, it sounds more like the grandpa was buying the PS1 for his 8 year old son in 1995.
Grandpa definitely could have been a gamer who justified the purchase by saying it was for OPs father.
My dad got us the NES when he was 35ish and played Tetris more than any of us.
The PS1 was still more like older console systems at the time. You didn’t have to be a “gamer” to buy one, titles like Spyro and Rayman especially were for ostensibly kids.
PS1 might have been the end it’s that though. Tekken 2 and Gran Tourismo started to signal an older college age shift in those consoles. That’s when I got mine anyway.
definitely true! I'm just not sure it's the most probable scenario, and regardless it's helpful to clarify the man bought a PS1 when he was nearly 30 years old.
My dad was/is a gamer. We had every Nintendo system except the SNES at release. He's a little bit older than the grandpa in this scenario, but he still gamed on the old systems by the time I stopped speaking to them. Had a huge CRT in the garage next to the beer fridge and all that lol. My sibling and I had our own games that we could play, but we always had to ask permission because the systems were my dad's
Dude im 40. My grandma was playing tetris on the snes and prince of persia on the ps2. nothing weird about grandparents playing consoles. Also i'm a grandpa now.
statistically it is weird though, most boomers weren't playing console games.
games were more normalized for gen x and millennials by far. my gen x family play console games with their kids, our boomer parents never would do that.
The only slightly suspicious thing here is that both grandpa and pop had kids at exactly age 20. Not only is that a little younger than average, it's also a very convenient number for a made up but easy to calculate scenario.
On one hand it's suspicous, on the other hand it's a convenient number if your parents and grandparents were around that age but you don't want to put in their actual ages because you have a habit of not giving out personal information.
That's when the word "about" is useful. My grandpa is "about 60" and my dad is "about 40", he got the PS1 when my dad was a kid. My dad had me when he was "about 20"...
I don't think people tend to make up specific ages that are not accurate when they're trying to obscure someone's exact age.
Counterpoint: "20" is shorter than "about 20" and this is a short comment by a 4chan anon.
I'm the first person on my dad's side to not have a kid before 20 in 5 generation.
Shit does happen.
Do you know anybody else who had 2 generations like that? It used to be more common but even back in 1970 the average was above 21. These days it's above 27.
https://www.northwell.edu/news/the-latest/geriatric-pregnancy-increases-complication-rate
With every average there will be people above and below the average age. And since there are some people having their first child in their 40s, the median is actually probably below the average.
I found it more suspicious that both times the father was supposedly aged at the suspiciously round number of 20.
yes, poor people.
most people who have kids at a young age, are economically impoverished.
which is true for tons of parts of the USA.
The average age of marriage is like 10 years different, between blue and red states, for example.
people in utah get married at like 22.
That the math checks out only make me angrier
2 successive generations at 20 years isn't statistically typical in north America in the last 60 years.
The math checks out, but isn't a median representation.
Kids got two more years not to ruin the run.
it is for a poor shitty place.
plenty of the women I went to high school with all had kids by 22/24, and they had multiple. are probably grand parents already too.
and absolutely none of the people I went to college with had them until like 35+ and most of them had one or two tops. and they won't be grandparents until they are 70+
I don't get why people are so bothered by the passage of time. Y'all, you wouldn't believe the gaming hardware we have now if the ps1 isn't supposed to be far away (and it's even changed a very little bit since 2019).
the same reason people are bothered by so many other things.
they freak out at their lack of control and they wish they could control things. especially how they are perceived by others... hence being reminded you are OLD is offensive, because OLD is bad, and YOUNG is good.
and a lot of folks are so desperate for a sense of control they are easily conned by hucksters who sell them on the idea they can prevent cancer by popping expensive supplements or going on $15,000 yoga retreats.
a lot of our economy is built on preying on human insecurity and it's anxious need for perceived control of our bodies, other people, and our environments.