Comment on Cable and movie rentals was probably the optimal amount of digital media for a functional society. Get rid of commercials and that was probably peak.

• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  On a DVD Disc, Yes.

  I guess they put a program on a disc that the dvd player was able to read off of it. Idk how that shit works, don’t have it anymore. Like its not a normal dvd player… it has a ports for 2 controllers… and it being a portable dvd means it had an internal battery and a screen.

  I think it had a lot of Nintendo games on the discs.

  I remember there was a Kirby… I remember we brought it with us to the US, and I remember playing a Kirby game for a while but like you know… electronics eventually wear out… I think it stopped working within 4 years…

  My most memorable game is probably Tank 1990

  Like I remember we had 2 discs, one was a normal size dvd, the other one was a smaller dvd… like it’s half the normal diameter… idk why those “tiny dvds discs” even exist lol…

  I think they had like over 100 games probably

  I did a quick search and the DVD thing looked like this:

  Image

  Example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JzkQzl6qc (you can skip forward to see it in action)

  The one we had, you can rotate the screen left and right like this:

  Image

  (Besides the “DVD Player” thing, I also remember game cartridges… I remember my brother blowing into the connectors to clear the dust… but I can’t remember what the machine looked like… maybe the dvd thing has a slot for cartridges? or maybe rhat was a separate thing… idk cant remember)

  This was in 2002-2010 btw

  source

  • whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh, I see. It has a built in Nintendo emulator, that’s how it works.

    source