Thread 11975553

You DID fill out your game registration cards right?

>>11975553 (OP)
I might have done one or two but I didn't see the point of it really.

>>11975553 (OP)
I filled one that came with playstation one and two. Got registered users demos.

>Sony PS-X
uh oh

>>11975562
it was for the dev/publisher internal analytics. so they could get a better idea of the sort of person who plays their games, and what they'd like to see in future games. You had to register your individual copy so that people wouldn't print up thousands of fake cards and send in bullshit responses.

I've done it once or twice, not this one though.

I was maybe 10 or 11 years old and I remember saying that one of the most important thing for me choosing a game was the screenshots on the back of the box because I didn't read many magazines then. Then, games started having false advertising on the back of the box with screenshots that embellish what the game really is like.

It was all my fault.

>>11975553 (OP)
Not even once.

>>11975553 (OP)
>DOS or CD-ROM

>>11975553 (OP)
>prodigy internet
sovl

>>11975553 (OP)
kek

>>11976135
Nothing funny about using Sony's official acronym

>>11975675
>>11976135
>>11976137
but 4chan told me zoomers invented that acronym...

>>11976137
>swastika
im just going to use that symbol to refer to the playstation one from now on

>>11976140
The swastika (卐) specifically represents "PS", and the first chingchong symbol after it (堭) represents "-X". That's what you get when you try to read "PS-X" written in plain ASCII as if it were little endian UTF-16. Short explanation is they're two different ways to represent text, where ASCII uses one byte per character, and UTF-16 uses two bytes per character. So trying to read ASCII text as UTF-16 can lead to wacky garbage like that.

>>11975553 (OP)
>*mails reg card in and kills the value of your cib ebay listing*

>>11976140
>>11976197
OMG, Secret Nazi PS!!
https://youtu.be/JsAISp5C8CE?t=47

>>11976139
You have it backwards. It's typically zoomers seething at millennials and Gen Xers for saying PSX

>>11976314
I was jesting. Usually xillennials get unreasonably mad about the PSX thing and start accusing everyone of using it of being zoomers. Insecurity and projection.

>>11975623
same here.

>>11975553 (OP)
Nowadays your computer OS just does this for you

>>11975553 (OP)
I will never register as a gamer .

>>11975553 (OP)
I field them out like this

>>11976728
>Sex: male
>not Yes please

one job

And people get confused why they suddenly start receiving spam in their mailboxes.

>>11975553 (OP)
>mags I read regularly
>no PC Zone
Cunts.

>>11976763
Cut him some slack. He put Playboy down in the Other slot of magazines. He's a man of culture. Because Playboy unironically is about the articles.
>And the centerfold.

>>11975553 (OP)
>Third world
Couldn't. People where I live don't read, write or follow instructions very easily.

I've always wondered what would happen of you sent in one of these like 25 years after the fact

>>11977128
it would show up to a dead address or PO box

At best the current residents of that address would remember who was there before and send you back a funny response

pic related is the current view of the old interplay studio

>>11976763
If it wasn't before Austin Powers and it was
>Sex(m/f): __
maybe I would have still wrote it in but I was like 7 or 8 when I filled these things out and stole my grandma's stamps and envelopes to send them in.

>>11976101
CDROM was obviously only for Windows, duh

>>11975553 (OP)
No, but i wish i had done more Nintendo Power contests. I did win a chain chomp soccer ball from one of them.

>>11975553 (OP)
Is it too late to?