That horizon passed a while ago. PS2 nostalgia is definitely a thing, and the Xbox 360 turned 17 today meaning kids that grew up with that are adults.

The console wars of the 90s-10s were insane, albeit tepid compared to the various vying powers of 80s. Crazy that modern hardware can emulate all that came before, but doesn't out of legal reasons.

And the 2600 before that.

With that one, I remember using the rotary controller to catch bombs in buckets of water. I had to defocus my eyes to watch the entire screen at once. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)

Yeah that’s at the edge of my memory. I recall a really cool space game that had planet landings too. To pick up fuel tanks.

Solaris, maybe.

Gorf as cartridge on C4?

That's it!