Post something from your childhood in this thread that younger generations wouldn’t get.
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A lot of games I played if you didn't have the manual you couldn't play the game anyway because you'd have to input a random word or letter from a specific page and paragraph to get past the rudimentary DRM
and it would get ruined by the DJ talking over the entire intro...
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Holy shit this.
It was all over the place back when I was a small kid, and I remember wondering why dog poo also came in white. At some point I even thought someone was painting shits during the night.
Found out after Hurricane Sally the only radio in the house sucks (20 year old boombox battery eater) so I got a nice little shortwave radio to replace it. There's still folks broadcasting on shortwave. In the age of the internet I was surprised it wasn't completely dead. Though it is overrun with serious crazies (not the regular right wing talk radio crazy but end of the world crazy).
Can pick up Radio Havana, Nashville, Maine and very rarely a Japanese station (that seems to be broadcasting from France) at night from N/W Florida with just the basic whip antenna. Gonna get a cheap roll up wire antenna to string up just to see what I can pickup for fun.
Shortwave radio - Wikipedia
The internet:
"This one lists Adolf Hitler as a fairly stable veteran of the Great War!"
"This one describes the light bulb as a charming theory!"
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The power going off in the house suddenly and putting an actual 50p in the meter to get it back on again.
Oh I thought that was a picture of a weird cassette player lol.
I remember this one time the image was so "clear". It even had distinct colors. Usually it was just blue people.
Is that what they were saying?!?! All these years later and I still have that in my head but never the right words...
YOU'LL GET CAUGHT UP IN IT!
Damn, that Funcoland list got me good!
Anyways, the general excitement I got going to a retail store like Walmart, Kmart, Target, Toys R Us or the mall to look through all the new gaming magazines and try out the demo kiosks. There was EGM, Nintendo Power, Gamepro, PSM, etc... It's how I got most video games news in the 90s and how to try the newest games.
Now in 2020 I hate having to set foot in retail especially working in retail for years.
Reddit - nostalgia - Playing game demos in Walmart while your mom shopped https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/g0q6of/playing_game_demos_in_walmart_while_your_mom/
Anyways, the general excitement I got going to a retail store like Walmart, Kmart, Target, Toys R Us or the mall to look through all the new gaming magazines and try out the demo kiosks. There was EGM, Nintendo Power, Gamepro, PSM, etc... It's how I got most video games news in the 90s and how to try the newest games.
Now in 2020 I hate having to set foot in retail especially working in retail for years.
Reddit - nostalgia - Playing game demos in Walmart while your mom shopped https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/g0q6of/playing_game_demos_in_walmart_while_your_mom/
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My family used to have a milkman make regular deliveries, he would leave it in an insulated box on our front porch.
I was still using a mouse with a ball until about 3 years ago. Turns out they don't work well in fps games with low sensitivity, as they can't keep up with fast movement.
And the act of placing them on the arcade cabinet to reserve your turn.
this just makes me sad
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It was a good day when it would come in clear as day for 10 seconds
Didn't Pizza Hut(or some fast food place) have a promotion once with a game or demo on a cool looking floppy disc?
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How was I supposed to know you called? The tape was full!!
Before everything was 7-11.
You'll give me how little for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?! On that note, surprised to see Beckett's still seem to be a thing.
How old are you? 7-11 has been a us thing since the late 60's when they invented the slurped and got bigger the 70's