30+ gamer thread

i wish this trend never ended, it was really nice
i play MHFU these days

Take me back to the old days with my clear GBC and my Nokia phone with the transparent yellow faceplate.

Not that I've ever dealt with manufacturing, but could there be a reason why translucent colored plastics stopped being used for consoles and controllers? Maybe the material doesn't work as well with the heat given off by the console or something?

>>713925142
It's purely a stylistic thing.

>>713925142
It's all about chasing trends. Electronics only come in white and black now, just like how we have only a handful of car colors now and it's just all the same colorless shit. The cycle of, "Well, consumers don't want 'fun' designs because they don't buy them," but they aren't bought because they aren't even made in high quantities.

Plus, being able to clearly see the tech inside would embarrass the manufacturers who keep cutting corners with their iterations. Kind of like how the second-run of PS5s had a pretty substantial change to the heat sinks and they weren't too happy that people cracked open to console to find that out.

I have the purple translucent 8bitdo controller, a bit darker than i expected but still kino

heh

>>713923976 (OP)
This shit is 30+ now? I was in college when all this shit came out. You guys are all zoomers, fuck why is time moving so quickly?

I love my wife.

>>713926760
>Plus, being able to clearly see the tech inside would embarrass the manufacturers who keep cutting corners with their iterations.
I always assumed this had to be the case, figuratively and literal transparency would reveal how much objectively worse things have gotten

>>713923976 (OP)
I miss the days before the gays stole rainbows.

>>713923976 (OP)
Damn that aqua blue n64 looks sick. I used to have that purple gbc, I miss it.

>>713933674
>I miss the days before the gays stole rainbows
for me it's still the rainbow that lead to leprechaun's pot of gold