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What is something you wanted as a kid and bought now that you're an adult with disposable income? (leminal.space)

submitted 9 months ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I really wanted a modded Xbox 360 when I was younger because I thought being able to play 'backed up' games and having a custom dashboard was really neat.

I ended up buying one last year to fulfill that childhood wish.

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[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mostly computer parts. Growing up, my father bought the family a computer (an 8088 Turbo XT. See my awesome 4Mhz power!) and in what can only be described as clinical insanity, he let me loose on it. Of course I discovered computer games and was hooked ever since. It also led me to a life working on computers, so that part of his plan worked. Thanks to that computer, I now have a comfortable income. And while my computer isn't on the bleeding edge of performance, I do keep it fairly modern. Last year I was having frame rate issues in some games and upgraded to a RTX 3080. Just recently, my wife's computer was having low frames so we bought her an RTX 4070 Super. The games have come a long way from Starflight on that old 8088, but the kid inside of me who fell in love with video games is still happy to play them.

[–] mortalic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Starlight was such a great game. My friends Grandpa made hand drawn maps for it.