Comment by ericd
11 days ago
Yep, with video games, we started with SNES and have been slowly moving higher fidelity. We've got a VOIP landline for the kids, as well as a CD player. It's been working pretty well. For computing, they have a desktop Raspberry Pi 400 running Raspbian, terminal-centric setup.
I wouldn’t trade the hours I spent with a group of friends in front of a n64, and a handful of multiplayer games (shooter, fighting, and racing). It was us 4 to 8 kids for 2 controllers. While I play a handful of PC games and have a console, there’s nothing better than a good living room session.
Yeah for sure, we've been mostly focused on couch co-op as we've started adding a few Steam games to the rotation - Brotato and Castle Crashers are big favorites, along with the more modern Minecraft Dungeons, a really simple couch co-op action RPG. It's been awesome, the neighbor kids drop by whenever, and it's been making some great memories as they pull through by the skin of their teeth.
Also got an Analogue 3D recently, it's been awesome digging out my old n64 collection and showing them the classics, while still having new controllers without stick slop, and HDMI so I don't have to fiddle with a bunch of converters.