I miss how much color there was back then

They still look good.

Forget colour. That generation iMac was incredibly repairable compared to today's Apple stuff. Two screws on the back panel and the whole internal tray slides out. Every major component's immediately accessible. And all repair parts were available.

Isn’t the 2DS from more than 10 years after most of these?

Unpopular opinion: Making shit out of translucent plastic was the single fugliest way to make a product, and I'm glad it's gone.

Glacier N64 is best N64

This was the only way to know if ants are living in your Nintendo and they’re going to fry a circuit somewhere.

It’s a wasteful we moved away from this design.

Gotta love that prison aesthetic.

This was Pavlov (or rather one of his many twins).

He was in my friends' dorm room in college.

His name was Pavlov because you had to respond to him when the bell rang.

Now color is used as a marketing trick.

"This generation of Iphones comes in new colours never before seen on an Iphone! So you better buy the latest one or people will think you are poor."

"More features? Why you'd need that? You got different colours!"

So in my eyes, it is yet an other good thing ruined by marketing.

Be the change you want to see. I've stopped EVER buying black, dark gray, or silver colored stuff unless there is no other option. It's great. Harder to lose, easier to find, rarely gets confused with similar products owned by coworkers, etc....

Yoooo shout-out to the new translucent purple 8bitdo controller I picked up recently!

I love the translucent vibe. It shows exactly what makes the device work which the nerd in me just can't get enough of. Nowadays it seems like tech companies are more and more trying to hide the actual electronics and technology aspect of their products and marketing them more as magic black boxes.

A transparent PS2 is all the rage I wish I had one at the time.

Retro Handhelds are helping to bring it back.

No, I think you miss neon.

Today's console gaming has plenty of color and style options. And computer gaming literally has an RGB culture obsession with putting flashing colors all over the place.

Also, this pic includes a 2DS which was only discontinued in 2020. What does "back then" even mean?

Unihertz Jelly Star, baybee!

you can do that with steam deck

I believe that colorfulness directly correlates with happiness.

Also, most of it was japanese AFAIK.

I loved those iMac colors. Our school computer lab had rows of them and it looked soo cool!

Cars, too. In most parking lots, grey, black and white account for 95% of the car colors.

Automobiles seem to have lost color, too, with various shades of grey in the standard offerings.

Please bring back this design language 🙏🏻

Take of your rose tinted glasses people.

I miss my transparent orange palm pilot. :(

Now we have colour in the form of RGB LEDs in everything instead.

Color can still be had.

To each their own.

When I look at these I think of cheap plastic trash. Much prefer current design.

I like these, but their removal kind of makes sense. You'd be hard-pressed to find many modern homes which are not primarily black, white or wood coloured. They just don't fit in there anymore. Even children's rooms kind of lost their colour over the past decades.

Of course, they should at least still make handhelds with these designs.

Colour was awesome, but the translucent stuff with pcb showing through just looked trashy to me.

Serious question, how were these enclosures made? Is it resin? Is it plastic? How were they shaping the plastic?

God, I fucking hated this trend when it popped up. So fucking ugly. I'm glad this died out. Not so glad it's apparently coming back.

Anything other than metal sucks

I know we are talking nostalgia but my God I love the Analogue Pocket ordered. I really loved when they sold the transparent pockets and was sad I missed out until I saw the transparent ones cracking.

I try to hold on as much of my old hardware as possible. We are really living in a very underrated golden age of hardware coming back up to play our retro games.

That N64 looks delicious.

Lol the 2ds

What is the device to the left of Dreamcast memory card thingy VMU?

Oh, I think that's a camera, now that I looked closer. But what is the small pink thing left of the GBA? Just a USB flash?

The 2ds slaps though

As the proud owner of a G4 Cube I agree with OP