Gacha mechanics

Placebo from MGS1

I got a PS1 as a gift as a 6 year old kid but no games except a Demo Disc that came with the box.

The main menu was a grid of thumbnail videos for each game demo.
it had demos of Crash Bandicoot 2, Armored Core, Tomb Raider 2, Parappa the Rapper and a bunch of other games

It was all I played for a while and it became a cherished childhood memory.

Fast forward years later as a teenager I found the old demo disc in my old stuff and decided to pop it in my PS2 for nostalgia’s sake. Everything was like I remembered it but somehow I accidentally pressed R1.

The thumbnail icon rotated! I never knew you could do that. I thought to myself what a neat trick. Intuitively I tried spinning all of the thumbnails in the grid.

To my shock, 2 of the thumbnails had some kind of button combination code behind them. I tried inputting the codes and it blew my mind.

All those years I didn’t know there were actually 2 hidden game demos on the disc!! (Colony Wars and Fighting Force) i wished I could’ve told my younger self He would’ve had more fun.

Tetris

The way iOS performs is just more consistent and predictable.

I still don’t understand why Sony made the PS Portal so ugly. A Dualsense cut in half with a tablet shoved in the middle.

Okami and FF7 were already mentioned

So for me its Gravity Rush 2. When you see a faint silhouette in the clouds below and you try to get closer, holy sh!t.

Then just when you thought how huge Jirga Para Lhao it links up with the world of the first game.

I don’t have a Steam Deck (yet) but I love what this device has done for Linux gaming and how it further revitalized the demand for handheld gaming.

I also just love how those smug Android/iPhone fanboys who were proclaiming the death of handheld gaming in the early 2010s are eating their words now.

I hate it. It’s like one of those “futuristic“ concept fan renders of what a next-gen console would look like except now its real.

If you have a blind relative, iOS has very deep and configurable accessibility features from Voiceover, Rotor, to typing in braille.

Just Cause 2&3 are my go to brain hibernation games

You can spend hours exploring the huge map blowing up military bases, discovering vehicles, and coming up with fun ways to use the grapple hook system.

I barely even know what the stories are about.