> The ads were EVERYWHERE and people I knew who had never even owned a games console were buying the PS1.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/06/the-sucking-or...

“When we saw the first commercials for the Playstation — glitzy, MTV style affairs that spoke to the sort of people we weren't — we began to worry. They were selling our heritage to the same fucking guys who used to beat us up in P.E.!”