PS5 Purchase Queue

A few months ago I registered with Sony to be put on list for PS5 and yesterday I got an email with link to get one. Started today at 2PM and I have been getting error message each time. Finally got in the queue 30 minutes ago. It's supposed to end at 7PM so no idea what is going to happen, the yellow bar is moving though.

oooooooooooohhh estimated wait went to 56 minutes.

Doh!

I have a Playstation 1 and had to put it away if I ever wanted to sleep so I know better than to ever get a 5! I bet that will be fun though, if you ever do get one.

I even had pong way back when and couldnt quit playing it, LOL

I even had pong way back when

I had to keep pumping up the kerosene pressure to keep it running

coalnewbie wrote: ↑

Thu. Mar. 17, 2022 8:56 pm

I had to keep pumping up the kerosene pressure to keep it running

Ha Ha! That was a LONG time ago!

Looks like we might be headed back in that direction W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

PS5,,,,,, I thought for a moment maybe you were buying a new car Then i figured it out

I’ve got a ps3 that has about 4 hours of use on it lol I attempted to get into gaming but quickly lost interest. It’s a pro at collecting dust.

I have been gaming since I was kid starting with an Atari 2600. My cousin comes over occasionally and we play hockey, drink beer and pretend it's 1990.

The only games I have been playing is longer more involved single player ones like Sky Rim, Fallout series and recently Red Dead Redemtion 2. I also play Gran Turismo.

I bought a 4k TV a few months back and I'm just waiting to hook the PS5 up to it. Keep in mind you would need to watch this on 4k monitor at 4K quality to really see how good it looks.



I haven't played any online games since the early 2000's except Rise of Nations which is a PC game. I was watching some youtube videos recently about Rust which is online survival games and the idea has piqued my interest.

I watched 2 min. worth then i had to stop it,,,,,, i could have got addicted to it real fast!!!!

I still have an Atari and a bunch of games. It’s been sitting in the closet unopened for decades. Maybe someday it will be worth something. I never had any interest. Guess I was an odd duck. I couldn’t stop riding, working on or thinking about motorcycles long enough to sit down to play games.

theo wrote: ↑

Sat. Mar. 19, 2022 8:53 pm

I watched 2 min. worth then i had to stop it,,,,,, i could have got addicted to it real fast!!!!

That's a real race track in Germany, it's around 13 miles long. They have about 20 or 30 tracks, Some are real and some are fake. For US tracks the only real track is Laguna Seca and they have "fakes" of Pocono and Dover named something different. They also have a handful of dirt tracks. That game has sanctioned events from a real racing association and they were even able to take top drivers from the game and put them in real race cars with immediate success on real world tracks.

Most of the cars are "real" cars ranging from a 60's Volkswagen bus to concept racing cars. There is an emphasis on using real world physics of the car and you can even have different setups for the suspension, gear ratios etc. . The computer assist is based on real world technology and adjustable. Traction control and ABS mostly. I set them both at their lowest settings, the triggers on the controller do a good job but they aren't pedals. If you are in high powered performance car and punch it in corner you will spin it right out.

It supports the VR helmet, If you get a seat they can vibrate and the steering wheel has real world feedback Other than the g-forces on your body it's pretty much like driving the car. I've caught myself more than once with my heart going into my throat before a crash and then laughing at myself.

fig wrote: ↑

Sun. Mar. 20, 2022 7:19 am

I still have an Atari and a bunch of games.

Unless it's brand new and unopened they are not worth much if anything. Serious collectors want it in unopened plastic, bonus if it has the original price tag. If you have some odd game with small run that could be worth something. Haven't looked but I'd bet the controllers or even special cables might be worth something.

First computer I had was Commodore C-64, the 64 was because it had 64K on memory which is a little more than the average sized thumbnail for images here. I wrote my first lines of code on that, I can even tell you what it did. It rapidly switched the TV screen from white to black making it a strobe light. I'm sure this did wonders for the life of the TV.

The controller ports on it were for a Atari joysticks. The ones I had were permanently bent forward from playing Pit Stop, the accelerator was forward.

Well there goes my retirement plan.