Nothing is stopping you from this right now

Lots of things stopping me from doing this:

I am currently 36 years old, I will not be 38 at any time during the year 2024.
I do not own a copy of Wrestlemania 2000.
I finished my pizza rolls yesterday.

Sounds more like you're not trying hard enough
- I agree. He just needs to smoke a carton of cigs and drink a bottle of whiskey and he will feel older the next day for sure!
I'm also going to bed at 10:30

As a 42 year old woman with no work tomorrow, eating takeaway pizza and drinking wine whilst contemplating zelda on the DS I bought over Covid vs a cheesy movie on Hulu this made me smile. :)

Why not both. Having a movie or show on the second screen while I game is my lifeblood.
Sounds like you were living the dream.
- It's not bad I grant you

I had pizza rolls and played Borderlands 3 last night, but was asleep on the couch at 8:00. I’m 39.

Oh yeah goin to bed at ten

Such a rebel, might even sleep till 730, who knows!
- I wish I could sleep in, stupid body

Nothing is stopping you from this right now

Except the cost of the console and games. :(

Also, Beetle Adventure Racing > Wrestlemania

Your phone has enough power to emulate an N64 and roms are free. Ain't nobody making royalties 25 years later on Wrestlemania.
- Argggh the seas of piracy are calm and rife with plunder
- Well, yes, I have a gaming PC as well. (and a steam deck) It just ain't the same without the OG controller. Need to get a USB one eventually but I'm poor.
  I do still have some of my original carts as well. Same with a bunch of NES carts I got from my previous job. Been eyeing those modern consoles that work with NES carts because that would be nice to have in the living room.
They are pretty cheap. Around 50 bucks. With the box around 150. SNES is expensive compared to it. Also, Diddy Kong racing > beetle adventure racing.
Ahhh beetle adventure racing! Brings back memories. I found a legit "cheat" way to play by doing something like turning and then clicking handbrake? A few times and it would take super sharp turns depending on how many times you click handbrake no matter the speed you were going. Allowed be to beat the game and unlock all cars pretty easily.
- Did you find the secret level?

This is very close to how my weekend went actually : ) Just with BG3 instead of Wrestlemania, and the wife was out of town instead of no school. Haha.

Taking turns playing Doom 64 while drinking Mtn Dew Code Red and eating Buncha Crunch. Everything was downhill after that.

WCW/NWO Revenge, or nothing.

Ha! Jokes on you, I’m not 38 until… next week. Guck!

(I meant to type “fuck” but “guck” works just as well.)

This honestly needs to be a lemmy insider only word. Replace all reference of fuck with guck going forward.

no mercy for me bro

No Mercy is the pinnacle of N64 wrestling games, but the glory started with WCW vs NWO World Tour.
The only problem I had with No Mercy is my save files kept disappearing.
- WCW vs NWO was the best game on the N64!

I don't think I can be 38 right now unless we want to really break physics. I wouldn't mind shaving a couple of years off, though.

And I'd have to use that weird-assed controller shudder.

That said, y'all have fun and enjoy it! :)

Never understood the love for N64. That controller was an abomination.

Never understood the dislike for the controller. Have you ever used it?
- Yes, I hated it.

Pretty sure a N64 can be emulated on a raspberry pi 5.

Granted it's probably easier to get a N64 than a pi5... but still. For those folks that want to play... It's possible.

Also I hear steam deck is a great way to emulate it...

Hell, I get 60fps in 1080p on a Raspberry Pi 3b playing Mario Kart 64.
- Haha that's awesome! I didn't know that!

I remember the hype of getting chairs from the audience in this game!

We rented this one a lot.

It's Saturday night, I have no date, just a roll of quarters and a 2 liter bottle of Shasta. Let's do this.

I think you mean "the alcohol cabinet is stocked and so are the retro games". Legend of Zelda, here I come.

A few things are stopping me from that actually.

I have to work tomorrow :(

But other than that, let’s swap to wcw vs nwo and your on!

39 yrs here. I got my kid a gaming laptop for Christmas, but then I bought all the old Halo games for it for myself. I just got an Xbox controller for it this weekend and it has been a wonderful experience.

I resemble that remark.

I used to love playing this game with my friends.

The dream is within reach

Not having an N64 or a copy of that game stops me.

This and the other WWE games on N64 is why I went through so many controllers... A lot of them had you spinning the stick to get out of stuff and it would wear down the springs until the stick was worthlessly flaccid. 😩

the stick was worthlessly flaccid.
Sounds like the title of the world's saddest sex tape.

Not being American, thus no pizza rolls is stopping me. I do want some though.