LMAO IS THIS TRUE?
>>719398261
>>719398261nah I had sex in 2012, that was better
I don't have any friends
>>719398261I wasn't born yet
I was the kid who would pick Oddjob.
>>719398261no, it's not 1998.
>>719398261Yes. Zoomers and later gens will never understand
>>719398261lol imagine peaking when you were 10.
>current year>still buying nintendoslop>you and your friends all trooned out
>you just ordered pizzaWith who's money as a child?
>>719398974>mentions trannies out of nowhereobsessed
>>719398261I don't know if I should pity or despise le childhood nostalgia faggots. Thank god I'm not one of them and always find new things to enjoy.
>>719398261No one had four rumble paks
>>719398994your parents money you dense retard
>>719398261family was too poor to order pizzatoo many kidsI'd have to share it with my siblings if my friends came over and at that point there'd have to be pizza for 14 peopleThe only nostalgia I have is when I finally got my own room and could ignore the yelling and arguing and screaming from the younger ones and just tune out to Harvest Moon or FF7fuckin malcom in the middle ass childhood
>>719399017ywnbaw
>>719398348it's been 13 years anon you should let it go alreadyeven if it was your one and only experience, there's no use in living in the past
Any time someone expresses nostalgia for the 90s, it's always nothing but consumerism.That's all 90s culture really was. It was all based around how many products you had. Buy this, buy that, oh, you don't have PRODUCT? Get with the times, dude. Man, PRODUCT is so rad.Name one(1) good thing about the 90s that didn't involve buying something.
>>719399883watching good tv shows and listening to good music on the radio>B-b-b-butI didn't have to pay for these.
>>719399883The optomistic vibe that the cold war was over and living in a world that wasnt crushed by the terror wars
>>719398261Zoomers experienced this in 2010 with their brother's old console btw
more like playing Micro Machines v3 with 4 players across 2 controllers
The Matrix movie was right. Life peaked in the 1990s
>>719398974Reminder there are multiple ps5 titles where you literally play as a transsexual lesbian. I wonder how many of these titles are on switch? Oh yeah, zero.
>>719399883You are fairly right but you see having the thing was easy back then and people were generally looking forward to the future
>>719399883Having a CIA director subject to many conspiracy theories surrounding assassination attempts on JFK and Ronald Reagan as president.
>>719398261>4 rumble packsget a load of uncle pennybags over here
>>719398261>this is as good as life will ever getmillennials...
>>719402896theyre even getting pizza. no kid I knew had parents who would buy pizza they wouldnt get to eat themselves
>>719398261Can't say I ever think much about when I was 8. Basically don't think I have much memory of it all. Be a bit weird if it was the peak of my life.
>>719398261>extra cheesei don't want to eat my pizza with a fucking spoon
>>719398261Funny thing is I remember how boring being a kid was most of the time. Remember school and how much time homework took to do if you actually bothered to do it? I honestly wasn't truly happy until I was an independent adult.
>>719399883Consumer internet was new and exciting. It was amazing you could chat with random strangers in foreign countries on the other side of the world in AOL chat rooms. Email was new and novel way of communication. It was (is) basically the printing press 2.
>>719398261Kind of. Ive made millions and had threesomes. Yet those were short peaks, this was pure awesomeness for hours you could count on week after week.
>its 2025. Yous be laying in a dark, wet room. Only light is yous chinese sweatshop phone with a the brightness turned to 11. Yous be watchin skibidi tik toks, scrollin for last 8 hours. No new messages, no friends, no nuffin...Only scrolling and rolling from one side of the bed to the other
>>719398261>>719398328This shit is the equivalent of a boomer saying he took a road trip with his friends to go see Jimi Hendrix while they were all high on acid.Did it exist? Yes. Did most people experience it? No. Do they have some small, fleeting memory of something that happened like once or twice? Yep. Was it more akin to "Johnny you let that weird kid down the block play Mario 64 with you right now!" More often than not.
>>719403391>I honestly wasn't truly happy until I was an independent adult.This. People who miss childhood are the ones who can't handle simple adult tasks.
>>719398261>GaytendoSorry, but I was a based kid and grew up with the better console.Pic related.
>>719400056This, and the doomers on here will never get how sick they are.
I didn't even know europe was an actual thing and not a fairy tale place until I saw eurotrip when I was like 12 or something.
>>719403789imagine being old enough to remember those times and still unironically typing 'gaytendo'
>>719403789How many games even used that dumb thing?
>>719403805The funniest thing about that image, is that the author of that post won't be able to visit the place on a photo, because it's probably some private resort for rich child rapists in Switzerland.
>>719403789Who didnt have both?
>>719399883I miss cigarette ads. I don't even smoke, but I miss it. And smoking in restaurants. It's the freedom. I'd rather get lung cancer from second hand smoke than live in a society that bans this stuff. But I guess that's PRODUCT too, so fair enough.>>719403202I used to order extra cheese, but at some point I realized the pizzas were exactly the same. Maybe it's just my city, but when you order "extra cheese" here, they don't actually add extra cheese, they just charge you more. Every pizzeria.
>>719404031looks like it's actually just the rockies and anyone can visit at any time they want
>>719404091one of those weird childhood memories. The restaurant waitress will never ask again if we want the smoking or non-smoking section.
>>719404031Yea no... literally anyone can go to Banff. Im doing a river surfing lesson there tomorrow. Its a wonderful world bro, don't let the vatniks at pol distort it.
>>719404091Extra cheese is probably an extra sprinkle when they barely use any to begin with.
>>719398261I think about those y2k infinite 3D horizon images. They just made it feel like anything was possible with computers but now with modern minimal solid color design it feels like being surrounded by walls on all sides
>>719404031Its a national park you retarded faggot.https://travelandhikewithpcos.com/driving-the-going-to-the-sun-road-glacier-national-park/
>>719404278Fuck man, I know EXACTLY what your talking about. The 3D rendering really did trigger the imagination in ways that nothing does today.
>>719404458What are up you, stupid? Can't you see all the children getting raped in the bushes.
>the best time of your life is the time where you have no responsibilities yet and every experience is newwoah dude
>>719404725Is there a more faux intellectual response than this?
>>719399883You could go outside and there would be white people
>>719399883Someone always comes along to make a post like this, coming from someone that thinks they're enlightened and not like the others. "WAKE UP SHEEPLE! You're excited for products! Not me, though, I spend my time in a cave carving things from wood and meditating and that's why I'm on /v/."
>>719404725I miss the friends. Everyone I know is time poor, I see them once a month so they can bitch about work, wife, and the toddlers.
>>719398261this has "coworker who wears a deadpool shirt and has five kids" energy to it
>>719405207You're doing that thing again, where you invent fake scenarios to get upset about. I made no claim to be anything in my post. You're just upset you can't think of anything cool about the 90s other than PRODUCT.
No Ive been in a pussy, that was better than all that shit
>>719398261>rumble paksyuppie shit
>>719399883wooden playgroundscheckmate atheists
>consoomer thread
>>719398261Yeah, millennials are just that embarrassing.
>>719399883Having friends.
>>719399982you watched and heard adsyou were the product
>>719403716Pretty sure most people played the N64 with their friends
>>719399883>>719404725Why do these responses make chuds so mad?
>>719399883>Any time someone expresses nostalgia for the 90s, it's always nothing but consumerism.capitalism only existed in the 90s?
>>719399883>The things you own end up owning you.Fight Club tried to warn us.
>>719399212First of all this.>>719398994Why the nirvana shirt
>>719406115kek wtf is that indian doing there
>>719399883>Name one(1) good thing about the 90s that didn't involve buying something.What a fucking retarded demand. You live in a capitalist system, your entire life revolves around buying and selling. Every fucking moment of your life you're being charged for something.
>>719403716>Did it exist? Yes. Did most people experience it?Most people played multiplayer N64. That was the beauty of genuine couch multiplayer. Even if you didn't have the game, if just one of your friends did, you could all play.
>>719406404N64 millennial here, we played it alone with no friends.
>>719406891nobody tell Dale over here
>>719406115how sad is your life that you see something as innocent as a father bonding with their kid and your first thought is "heh, so cringey!" you should really go outside more, i have hope for you but the change has to come from you not some random anon.
>>719406404nobody had an n64 when i grew up, only playstations and gameboysthe one kid who had the adapter to allow a third and fourth controller to be connected to the playstation was treated like royalty
>>719407250It's pretty fucking cringe for your dad to be proud of you for beating a bing bing wahoo boss. His peers are outside scoring goals, learning how to play instruments, actually learning useful skills and interacting with the real world, and this failure of a parent is stunting his child's development.
>>719403716>This shit is the equivalent of a boomer saying he took a road trip with his friends to go see Jimi Hendrix while they were all high on acid.literally everyone I grew up with went to multiple phish/disco biscuits/moe/umphrey's mcgee shows in various groups to do psychedelic drugs>t. 34
>>719399883in our defense, the products were good
>>719407250You sound like a fag
The 90s was also great because people were not brainrotted by the internet yet outside of an ultra small group of people who were already outliers anyway. no smartphone society. there are many aspects of today that suck that if you follow the trail of breadcrumbs eventually leads to mass adoption of the internet which the population wasn’t ready for.
>>719399883- great economy- western world was mostly at peace- technology was booming with new and exciting things like internet and impressive computer graphics- as kids we still ran around outside playing all over the neighborhoodThe 90s were peak
>>719399883for starters, children could actually go outside and play in the park without getting kidnapped or abused by a mystery meat immigrant
>>719406115Kid's hair looks black-coded
>>719398261Until I had sex for the first time.
>>719398261>it's 1998goo goo gaga
>>719407587i dont really care>>719407398i think your dad being proud of you for anything that took effort is a good thing. it could be cleaning your room and it could be finishing a painting. i think praise should not be something thats gatekept on acts that are solely beneficial for the person doing them. it sets a bad precedent that the only way to receive praise from your parent (which should be unconditional btw) is by achieving great task regardless of effort. if a kid works hard, then it doesnt matter what they did or what theyre doing, they put in the effort and that alone is a victory. I hope that your father gave you the time of day as you needed and didnt hold back praise based on what you did, im assuming its the only reason you'd think this way.
>>719399883What else would we share in a video game board? People express this shit because it's something other can relate, no one can relate to the girl I liked in middle school giving me a kiss on the cheek or the stuff my grandma used to cook.
>>719398261wtf is a rumble pack?t. born in 1991
>>719399883The Yugoslav Warshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DIDokGpzag
>>719408005It made the controller rumble like Dual Shock, giving vibrating feedback for impacts. The og N64 controller or PS controller didn't rumble, for N64 you needed rumble pak and for PS you needed to buy Dual Shock controller
>>719407745The extended virginity period for males has been utterly catastrophic. It's where all this weirdo shit is coming from, all of it. We need a surplus of females, a major one, and a purge of all social media content. Everyone will normalize in like 3-5 years.
>>719398994I had an allowance when I was a kid and saving money was super easy back then.
>>719408539a surplus of females would just expand chad's harem
>>719399212Nah, some of us did. Among our friends group we had designated "hosters" because some of our friends lived in run down crack houses or trailers and couldn't afford much so we always had extras.
>you system linked 4 xboxes to play 8v8 on Coagulation with your 15 friends>this is as good as life will ever get
>>719398261>console fag copelolHad much more fun with bros at 200 people+ LAN parties.>nooo my games are small and only support a few peopleEmbarrassing.
>>719403789Sorry, I was a based kid and had both. N64 absolutely smoked the ps1 as far as GOOD 4 player games went, but ps1 won on its quantity of good 1-2 player games and how inexpensive they were. Plus modchips blew open the doors or being able to play whatever you wanted.
>>719400056That was the worst part. I mean, I don't hate genuinely naive pacifist type people but that era's peace optimism especially made them easy fodder for the fifth columnist types that wanted to decrease military spending (and general anti-warrior pro-docile sentiment) so they could spend more on social security bums or some retarded shit. Many minds in Russia's border regions were only cured from that damage by the Ukraine war.
>>719409081Give me one (1) better 4 players multiplayer over Crash Team Racing or Quake. I'll wait.
>>719409182>some retarded shitLike low taxes and infrastructure?
>>719407939are you a woman? only woman needs this level of constant external validation.you are your dad's own flash and blood, of course he'd be proud of you. did he abuse you? did he kick you off the house at 18?my dad never said he's proud of anything i've ever done, but he put up with me for over 18 years and if the old man needs anything, he'll just tell me. note: not "ask", just outright says "after work i need you to do X". and i'll gladly do it, and we'll never say anything throughout the whole process. most of our communication is toned grunts. when we're done, he'll just say "we're done. you can go". no frivolous shit like "please" or "thank you". and he always asks me for help instead of my useless sister with an adult daycare "job" whose hobbies are sleeping and scrolling on tiktok. some things simply require no words to be said.
>>719398261Nah, once you hit late 20's to early 30's you're at peak income and kind just kind of do whatever you find fulfilling. Shit's hella cash.
You are no longer the target audience for these things any more.Deal with it.
>>719409639what is this gif supposed to convey?
>>719399883And? People reminisce on events and associate things with those events.
>>719398261This, Mario kart and Star FoxIt was great >>719398348I had a ton of that back then, even more than today. One think doesn't stop the other.
>>719399883>go outside>play at playground>playground isn't some lawyer approved safe shit and actually has fun equipment that could crack your head open if you fuck up>go to school >read some books>not have to worry about white people reeing because book said slavery bad>turn on tv>watch funny jokes>everyone laugh at funny black guy, gay guy, or sexy women(you) missed out.
>>719409721Ash should know what a fucking Koffing is by now.
>>719399883Easy>People weren't assholes to each other because of politics>No constant validation, so you could actually have a normal conversation with anyone.>you had a chance with the cute neighbors or colleagues since there wasn't many optionsBasically the lack of social media made any human relationship more real and present. It was the last time in history the world was truly in peace, until 2001.I feel bad for those who never lived or will live those times.
>>719398261It was pretty awesome yeah, but "as good as life will ever get" isn't true. Though similar experiences (spending good times with your bros and your family) are arguably the best parts of life.
>>719407939I'm not saying to emotionally neglect your children but I was that "smart" kid in advanced classes that received praise for every tiny thing he did and it just made me bored and unfulfilled. Remember to find the perfect balance. Give your kids praise when they really deserve it. Too much praise either gives them an inflated ego or makes them disillusioned. Too little praise makes them feel neglected and resentful.
>>719410289This, so fucking this.
>>719403718>>719403391When you are actually able to get your own money, a space of your own, and manage your time. Childhood becomes something that was nice but doesn't compare to adult freedom.Only people I know who want to go back either fail at the above or too fucking stressed on something.
>>719410225Okay, but James' Koffing evolved pretty early into Kanto, before Mt. Moon I think. It doesn't seem that unreasonable to me that he simply needed a refresher. He's like 10, remember?
>>719409571Whoops forgot to get a good job and now im 30 living in my parents basement
>>719403716>Did it exist? Yes. Did most people experience it? No. Do they have some small, fleeting memory of something that happened like once or twice? Yep. I had brothers so we played Goldeneye and Mario Kart together daily. I got to play with friends too sometimes, and multiple birthday parties back then had N64 with multiplayer.>Was it more akin to "Johnny you let that weird kid down the block play Mario 64 with you right now!" More often than not.Had this happen too, sadly. Very awkward, the kid alternated between being my friend and enemy but our parents still made us hangout. I feel bad for him and understand his situation in hindsight, his parents were divorced and obviously he had issues at home.
>>719399883>>719399883>Any time someone expresses nostalgia for the 90s, it's always nothing but consumerismNot really, even this thread is as much about gathering together with friends as it is about the games. People miss the world before the internet consumed everything.
>>719410641You'd still seem pretty retarded to not remember one of the pokemon the international terrorist group used to harass and assault you for years with. Especially when pokemon is your bread and butter profession.
>>719411038Yes, all 10yrolds are rerarded.
>>719409721That he's a 10 year old who still watches Pokémon and he thinks you're old.
>>719411038you realize this is ash we're talking about here?the kid who got most of his kanto badges out of pity or sheer fucking asspull? who deliberately sends out mons with type disadvantages and hopes for anime asspull bullshit to happen?
>>719409956>go to the library during the summer>they have a rewards program where if you read a bunch of books you get a bunch of free shit like pizza and bowling and movie tickets from local businesses>downtown library is fucking huge, like 4 stories and has a cool as hell interior, cool to just get lost in>get to check out a bunch of books about military planes and indulge my autismSOVL overload
>>719409526Hell no. Parties that are anti-military would never lower taxes nor spend extra change on cool stuff like bridges that people who actually go to work would get use of, they'd give it all to bums. I'd take a cartoonishly loyalist president cult party that blew it all on golden statues of great leaders past and present over that.
>>719398261>nintendo 64 with goldeneyeAn N64 with a rented copy of Goldeneye>your friends are coming over1 or 2 of them>four rumble paks1 rumble pak and 1 tremor pak, and 1 off-brand controller>this is as good as life will ever getuntil system-link Halo 2 on Xbox in 7 years
Never invited to a god damn thing, always excluded, always the outlier in every situation being a kid was absolutely fucking miserable you people are insane to want to go back
>>719398261These memes make you think that the N64 was popular when it sold like shit and most people never even saw one working in person outside of a department store
>>719398261Are they playing on Complex?
>>719399883Playing “kick the cam” with 20 or so neighborhood kids in the summer til like 12:00 am. Small town life as a kid was amazing.
>>719409558Then why don't you keep it to yourself.
People have so much nostalgia for the 90s and then you ask them to watch a single episode of Doug and they go completely silent
>>719398261>that kid that memorized the invisibility cheat
>>719399883Having the potential to buy something without breaking the bank
>>719409956you can still do this today
>>719404174 Why do you even post profane shit like this?
>>719417483Have you seen playgrounds? Most dangerous thing on them is toddler seats.Book police have gone berserk to point we're removing classics and pushing slavery is better than dead.Comedy is a culture wars bullshit where jokes get burned hard if they don't go with group think. Ya missed out but you can always watch recordings.
>>719417483NTA but not really. modern media in general is pretty neutered, politics took complete control of schools and crime is so bad these days that nobody plays outside anymore
>>719403716me and my friends played N64 sleepovers all the time, every birthday party fr.
>>719417483Chances are an old style playground doesn't exist near most people any more. People can bring their own books to school but depending on where they live they could get in trouble for it.With both the books and TV, the issue is less that "you can't do that any more" and more that you have to intentionally seek it out, so if you don't know non-globohomo media exists in the first place then you'll forever be stuck in Plato's cave. The parent should guide their kid here but a lot of the reading I did when I was younger was just picking random shit at the library. If you homogenize the books, then you take away seeds of curiosity.
>>719398261Order a pizza and play Goldeneye right now. You just want to be a kid with no responsibilities. Grow up.
>>719399883Steroid era baseball
>>719401126Why poop on corn?
>>719399883I mean, we just won the Cold War. It was going to be a decade of celebrating capitalism.
>>719418906God that shit was so good. Why did we have Congress investigate it? It was fun as hell to watch. Now baseball sucks.
>>719418107i don't hang around playgrounds and i hope you don't either but as a kid playgrounds were just hangout spots where you'd fuck around with your friends and talkno kid is reading classics lol kids can watch george carlin on youtube for free
>>719408005nigga shut upt. 1993
>>719418885I don't think it's the lack of responsibilities that's the appeal, it's that you long for a time where life hasn't worn you down.
>>719410641Ash's entire journey was only a year in-universeLiterally no excuse.
>>719419237Did any of you even have kids yet? Maybe you're worned down because you haven't grown up to be anything and instead rotted away after peaking in childhood.
>>719419316My mate did and he regrets it, having children doesn't fix anything in life.
>>719414782I hope that's a typo and your name isn't Cameron
>>719398261>get rid of couch co-op>every multiplayer game is online only slopwe're have gotten more and more anti social because of this
>>719419482I hate that. How hard is it to add split screen again? Just add it as an option even if most people play online.
>>719419590Everybody has giant TVs now too, you practically have separate full sized screens
>>719409192turok 2
>>719409192WWF No Mercy
>>719419590games are barely optimized for one playerimagine modern devs trying to do split screen, it'll tank the performance
>>719398261>IS THIS TRUE?If you're a sad incel who peaked in primary school, probably yeah.
>>719398261>me>nintendo 64>friendsLMAO no it's not
>>719399883>it was all basedCorrect
>>719419316I have kids. Its awesome, I love being a father. It has been nothing but a blessing in my life.
>>719407398this is the vidya board, you know
>>719420656I love being a father too, it's the wife I could do without
The only people who disagree with the OP image never experienced it. Being a kid in the 90s was the perfect synthesis of technology+vidya and the pre-internet world. Boomers (literal) who grew up in the "throw rocks at other kids, go to church, yearn for the coal mines and le hecking bootstraps" era and zoomers and beyond will never understand what was lost.
>>719398261Yes of course.
>>719413487I remember eoing this too. Kino times
>>719420969My wife is amazing, I love her so much. She does so much for me and supports everything I do. I can't understand this feeling at all.
>>719413487>my library had a manga section>got to read neon genesis evangelion>grow up with a fetish for bossy redheads
>>719421153not having friends in the 90s must be one of the most depressing thing i could imagine. it was the peak of bonding with others
>>719399883The world didn't feel like it was about to end, for one.
>>719408962Even StarCraft could only support 8 players at once anon. What the hell were you playing that had 200+ players at a point in time before the internet was fluid enough to support it?
>>719422432Nothing. He's a coping modern pcvck.
>>719421678At least I had acquaintances
>>719406404Nobody gave a fuck about the proto nogames station.Everyone was to busy actually playing games on the ps1.
>>719406404The n64 had all the best games of those years, minus a very small few like SotN
>>719405810Those products were cool.
>>719421621MARIOMARIOMARIO
>>719418918it's spaghetti alphabet
