Console Nostalgia

My PlayStation 3 ended up in my garage, not my loft. This is probably why it still works. Things I put in the loft tend to break. We got it out today and fired it up and were immediately transported back fifteen years or so. Mine is the first version of the machine, which means that it has memory card sockets, four usb connections and will run PlayStation 1 games. I think that PS3 was my favourite PlayStation iteration. It has a lovely glossy finish with just the right amount of black and shiny bits. The PlayStation 3 was the first thing we got with an HDMI connector, so it works just fine on our TV. Not sure what I’ll do with it, but it is nice to know that it still works. And Super Stardust is as awesome as ever.

To round off our nostalgia-fest we popped an XBOX 360 disk into number one son’s Xbox Series X. This just worked too. I think the game disk is just used to authenticate the download of a specially tweaked version of the software, but the experience was just splendid. Within a few minutes we had Dead Or Alive 3 running in what looked like very high resolution and even HDR. It was still extremely playable and a hoot. It’s interesting that the cut scenes now look much more dodgy than the in game action. I guess they can’t do much with the video, but with the game they can improve the textures and dynamic range.

Great fun.