8-Bit Brew with My Childhood Console

Background

This watch is the 8-Bit Brew, an 8-bit gaming themed version of the Brew Retrograph. 

I'm not quite boomer enough to have been raised within this era of gaming, but I am boomer enough to have nostalgic game consoles from my childhood. 

My first experience with a game console was with a Playstation 2, but I don't really feel nostalgia from that due to me not liking the games on it all that much at the time. 

The one after that was a Nintendo Wii, which I really enjoyed at the time, but the disk drive broke down and the console ended up being lost. This one is really nostalgic to me and I might buy an used one at some point.

The only console from my childhood that still remains with me is the pictured Nintendo 3DS. My parents got this for me somewhat close to the release, so it's about a decade old at this point. 

Currently I have hacked it so that it's region unlocked and I can run homebrew games on it. I mostly play games that I have bought with it, though. Pokemon and Mario games are most of what I play, but I also have other games like Animal Crossing, Zelda and Steel Diver.

The photos

As a way of randomly expressing my nostalgia, I have taken some photos of the watch. Attached are some of the better ones from what I took.

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The photos are taken with my phone with auto white balance disabled under a desk lamp on my black desk. The combination of these give the photos sort of a vintage feel, which feels appropriate for the nostalgia. The second photo is pretty close to how it looks in real life, whereas the other two photos have a purple hue to them. 

What do you think?

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I just bought this as a gift for my best friend. He's mentioned to me how much he likes this watch and would wear it, but with 3 kids, one being a newborn, he doesn't really have a lot of expendable income. So I decided I'm gonna treat him to it for his birthday this month! 

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jakaplan4

I just bought this as a gift for my best friend. He's mentioned to me how much he likes this watch and would wear it, but with 3 kids, one being a newborn, he doesn't really have a lot of expendable income. So I decided I'm gonna treat him to it for his birthday this month! 

Sounds like your friend is going to get one great birthday gift. 

It's a great watch and I think it does the theming really well without going overboard. 

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Pictures look great as foes the watch! I remember 8 bit gaming very well!

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I love it! But let’s get one thing straight: Those raised on 8-bit gaming like myself are NOT boomers, we are 100% generation X. We were raised by the boomers, and boomers simply didn’t have video gaming. 😉
 

Regardless, I think the watch is perfect. 8-bit gaming will always have a special place in my heart and having that celebrated by a slick watch would be so cool!

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I grew up with boomers saying video games were trash and the cause of everything bad.