writer / musician / thinker-about-stuff / weirdo on main
I'm!! around!!! and always like to brainstorm, world build, character create, and generally just love having new creative partners to bounce ideas off of (nsfw incl). Please please if you do wanna chat hmu with an ask or smth, i love to make new friends!
i have an AD here I should use...but honestly tempted to just be a freak on main here .... talk to me about TF and hypnosis and corruption and uhhhhhh lots more haha,
please enjoy zhis totally benign quote from wikipedia :3
A memory card is an electronic data storage device used for storing digital information, typically using flash memory. These are commonly used in digital portable electronic devices, such as Digital cameras as well as in many early games consoles such as the Nintendo Wii.
Your current avatar has the right kind of bastard energy for this post.
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... I have been alive for the entire history of the modern video game console (i.e., the invention of the swappable cartridge by Jerry Lawson, representing Black excellence in yet another field).
That actually makes me feel like living history, in a way. I mean, I was five months old, but I was alive.
I will not let the linear nature of time hurt me, I will not let the linear nature of time hurt me!
i mean, not to get upsetti, but this is.... not how i would use the word "early". 2006 may have been a long time ago, but it is still much closer to the present than to, what was it.. 🔍 1972. so
"old", sure. i have made my peace with that
Which was 1972? I couldn't think of anything earlier than the Atari 400 in 1978 that could save your game.
magnavox odyssey
e: which didn't save, sure. i just think "early" is the wrong word to use for a few decades yet. but it's not a big deal maybe i should've kept quiet lol
Yeah, that's why I didn't name it. But yeah, the history of computer games goes even further back than that, though by then you're no longer talking about consumer products!
H'm. Wondering if it was possible to save in Crowther and Woods' Adventure. That'd bring things back to 1972. I've only ever played the updated versions, which of course allow saving.
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I suppose when you get right down to it, the first video game in history was a version of Tic-Tac-Toe written in 1864 for a computer that didn't even exist. That would place even the earliest consoles within the last third of video game history, but it seems like it's really pushing it to cite an algorithm for the Analytical Engine as a video game.)
It's probably more reasonable to cite Tennis for Two in 1958 as the first "real" video game, since it was actually something you could play for fun instead of just a demonstration. (I mean, it was a demonstration, but it was actual electronics that I could see someone enjoying. Not so much true of earlier games.)
Tennis for Two would place the start of video games as we know them 66 years ago, which would mean consoles had been around for over two-thirds of the existence of video games. I think it'd be fair to define "early" as 1972-1975.
This dovetails nicely with the Fairchild Channel F debuting in 1976 as the first video game console with actual functioning cartridges. (The Odyssey's cartridges were just an over-elaborate select button, containing only a single jumper that chose which of the on-board games to play. Channel F cartridges contained circuit boards, additional cartridges were sold separately, and the game was actually ON the cartridge.)
but they weren't used on the wii, it was used on the gamecube, and the wii had them available for backwards compatibility!
...did any wii games use gc memory cards?
in that case they're still used, in the switch, so it's a weird sentence still
