Nostalgia for the 90's and 00's
- Thread starter Jer
- Start date
I've got a lot of nostalgia for video rental stores, especially once I started renting games. One thing missing from today's gaming is renting a game, starting a save file, and then renting the same game maybe a month later only to find that someone progressed your save file a little further. Almost felt like a co-op experience in that way.
90s baseball too. Used to go to games a lot on the weekends as a kid, and I was always upset when my parents made us leave early because they wanted to "beat traffic" at a minor league stadium. I don't think I realized how often it just meant that the team was losing. I just wanted to be able to stay until the 9th inning, dammit!
Compared to my kids today, who can't wait to leave games early, have dozens of games at their disposal over Game Pass, and will never know the pleasure of browsing the movie selection at Blockbuster.
90s baseball too. Used to go to games a lot on the weekends as a kid, and I was always upset when my parents made us leave early because they wanted to "beat traffic" at a minor league stadium. I don't think I realized how often it just meant that the team was losing. I just wanted to be able to stay until the 9th inning, dammit!
Compared to my kids today, who can't wait to leave games early, have dozens of games at their disposal over Game Pass, and will never know the pleasure of browsing the movie selection at Blockbuster.
Born in the mid 80s
Taking the top and doors off the Jeep and jamming to some 311 on the way to the disc golf course
No smart phones
No social media
The early Call of Duty games
Freddie Couples golf on Game Gear during road trips
Renting Conkers Bad Fur Day over and over again because renting an inappropriate game was OK but buying wasn't for some reason.
Living that Jackass/CKY life
Affordable concerts
On a more serious level -
The hope that having a financially stable or thriving adulthood is easily attainable
Taking the top and doors off the Jeep and jamming to some 311 on the way to the disc golf course
No smart phones
No social media
The early Call of Duty games
Freddie Couples golf on Game Gear during road trips
Renting Conkers Bad Fur Day over and over again because renting an inappropriate game was OK but buying wasn't for some reason.
Living that Jackass/CKY life
Affordable concerts
On a more serious level -
The hope that having a financially stable or thriving adulthood is easily attainable
It’s not just nostalgia, Pizza Hut pizza took a massive slide in quality in early 2000s, I remember being shocked at how gross the cheese tasted, like it almost wouldn’t melt.
In-person multiplayer gaming as a whole. Online multiplayer, even with the same people, just doesn't do it for me.
People legitimately arguing whether Super NES or Sega was the better gaming platform was a thing at one time.
I had a serious desire to rage at the Louvre when I think I was the only person looking at the Mona Lisa directly and not via taking crappy cell phone photography. That was 14 years ago, I’m sure it’s even worse unless they made a rule.
Cruisin' USA. I loved that game as a pre/early teen.
What PC games did you play?
My wife played SimCity and Lemmings a bunch.
I had an AstroRock CD I played until Windows advanced to a point where it wouldn't run on PC any more.
Those
Godfathers express places aren't the same pizza. The crust is more like Pizza Hut pan.
Probably around 95 or so a couple of my buddies and me would always go to the library during study hall to use the computers.
My buddy is downloading an inappropriate pic and it freezes up on him just as the librarian is coming around to check on us. She totally bought his story that he clicked on something and some random picture of a naked woman just appeared.
Domino's has changed recipes like three times over the last 15 years.
