Useless Ponko - Vol. 5 Ch. 38 - Adventure Ponko

[MangaDex]

 

[runrin]

emote for you. <3

really cute chapter! i wonder if that SNES was Grandpa's or his Kids'...

 

[hazzack]

thank you, i shall use it right now

 

[Viakana]

Very relatable.

 

[Midoriha]

That thing was brand new and even sealed.
Just how much could they have scalped it for?

 

[runrin]

@Midoriha i dont think it was sealed. if you look at page 12, you can see a clear protector box next to the cardboard box. a lot of game collectors put their nes/snes boxed games in boxes like that to keep them safe. (i have some) i imagine the store sold it that way.

 

[hanchobakery]

@runrin
Well this won't be accurate at all probably, but the time span between the first dragon quest and the latest one (11) was about 31 years, if we say it takes about an average of around 3 years per game, to get from 1 to 33 would take 99 years...
Yeah you know what, maybe this isn't an accurate way to tell how far in the future this is because if Grandpa was the one who owned the console, he'd be either really behind the times or he'd be super old right now.
Though I guess living in the boonies in Japan, they might not have had access to the latest games and consoles.

 

[tfwnosuccubusgf]

@runrin

I have no idea what year this manga is supposed to take place in, if it isn't some kind of alternate universe sort of thing. The old man grew up during wartime I think, but not WWII as one of the earlier chapters featured an unmanned fighter plane during his younger days.

 

[dsid2814]

@runrin Might be his kids'
This manga seems to have a normal past life, but at some point the technology jumped beyond us.

 

[ignaeon]

With Ponko, every run is Tool Assisted!

 

[runrin]

DQ1 came out on nes/famicom, not snes/super famicom, which is what their console roughly resembles, so its hard to make comparisons.

if it is in a very similar world to our own, but the timelines diverged about 30 years prior to the events of the comic, that would mean the snes and DQ game might be 60-ish years old, since we have yet to have the war they talk about happening "30 years ago". my best guess is that they are somewhere around 2050, so it could possibly be grandpa's childhood console.

 

[runrin]

@ignaeon LOL!

 

[Orenoname]

comfy

 

[UncleBenny]

I need Ponko to level my DQ11 characters.

 

[Luke_chase]

Wholesomeness 11/10

 

[Ced1106]

Great subversion of the trope. Thanks for the translations!!!

 

[Renan_Walheim]

What a comfy chapter.

 

[Felgard]

CHEATERS!!1! U USE BOTS!!!!11

 

[Tertium777]

The heck, Dat grinding...

 

[hugugun]

Ahh the grind! I remember the first time i played FF9 and grinded myself to level 30 in the first forest. I was so over powered in the first few chapters of the game.