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I think video arcades qualify even if they're technically still around. There used to be one in every mall and even free-standing ones, and now they're so rare. Same goes for convenience stores, gas stations, movie theaters, and pizza parlors having a handful of arcade machines.
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# ? Jan 29, 2016 03:03 |
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AA is for Quitters posted:Discovery zone and it's kin. We had an awesome local one that was like 3000sq ft of tubes and slides and ball pits and foam poo poo to climb on.... Hey I used to love discovery zone until the time I got stuck behind a guy with smelly-rear end feet in the tube network for like 10 minutes and then I went down a slide that had a puddle of piss at the bottom. Man, being a kid was fun. MisterGBH posted:Wimpys. Wimpy's is still going, I ate at one just a month ago! Frankston has a new favorite as of 23:45 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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Frankston posted:Wimpy's is still going, I ate at one just a month ago!
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:56 |
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skander posted:Do they give you until the following Tuesday to pay for it? It's weirdly expensive now, cost me £6 for a cheeseburger and fries.
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# ? Feb 11, 2016 00:03 |
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Thin Privilege posted:Also lack of social media, especially Facebook. That whole proto-internet, really. Before Wikipedia, Youtube, halfway-decent search engines. If you needed to find something out you had to loving look for it. And if you're like me and that thing was about a video game, you were about to learn some weird and interesting poo poo. Some of it was even true! The way people learned about and shared info on video games in general was really neat, actually. These days people have really sophisticated tools to dissect and understand a game, and then you'll find out what they've found in a central location; people found out what changed in Undertale's latest patch in less than a day. Back in the 90s? Good loving luck. You looked through the wilderness of message boards and fansites hoping to find some inkling of an answer to your question, and there's no guarantee that one actually existed. Sometimes that answer wasn't gonna become clear for years, sometimes there was never an answer, both times you'd get stuck sifting through a dozen people trying to bullshit each other with tales of their uncle who works at Nintendo. And then occasionally someone strikes gold and finds some actual, fantastic little morsel of information, either within the game's code or through some outlandish external source, but you'd need to strike gold just to find THEM striking gold.
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# ? Feb 11, 2016 09:18 |
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Frankston posted:It's weirdly expensive now, cost me £6 for a cheeseburger and fries. There's one in my town it's mostly frequented by single mother's, they do a pretty good Coke float though.
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 19:33 |
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This is news to me. Think I'll find one for a nostalgic treat.
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 20:41 |
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this is so old of me but i miss .25c subway fare when i was a kid costs me $3.25 now city life
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# ? Feb 13, 2016 20:47 |
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Cleretic posted:Games I used to go to the public library to print out walkthroughs for games like Final Fantasy and Baldurs Gate from message boards, then later GameFAQs.
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 17:50 |
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My entire neighborhood including the elementary school I attended for five years.
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 18:19 |
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joshtothemaxx posted:I used to go to the public library to print out walkthroughs for games like Final Fantasy and Baldurs Gate from message boards, then later GameFAQs. Jesus those things were hundreds of pages. I'm sure the library loved you
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# ? Feb 14, 2016 19:23 |
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 05:49 |
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Man they didn't even try to make those breakfast squares not look dry and mealy as gently caress
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 05:54 |
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I wonder how long they were able to milk the idea of repackaging survival rations before people wised up.
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 06:53 |
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Antagonist Inc. message boards on AOL. The N64 Rumor Mill was effectively my GBS before I knew what Something Awful was. Before SA existed, even. There were a handful of really good (for the time) game-specific message boards with fairly tight communities, too.
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 07:22 |
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Cleretic posted:That whole proto-internet, really. Before Wikipedia, Youtube, halfway-decent search engines. If you needed to find something out you had to loving look for it. And if you're like me and that thing was about a video game, you were about to learn some weird and interesting poo poo. Some of it was even true! This was the magic of discovery I had as a kid rummaging through info about Pokemon and Everquest (especially about Kerafyrm).
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 07:33 |
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Aesop Poprock posted:Jesus those things were hundreds of pages. I'm sure the library loved you This was before the days of logging in with your library card. Paper log and honor system. I was not a very honorable kid.
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 07:44 |
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Cleretic posted:That whole proto-internet, really. Before Wikipedia, Youtube, halfway-decent search engines. If you needed to find something out you had to loving look for it. And if you're like me and that thing was about a video game, you were about to learn some weird and interesting poo poo. Some of it was even true! Yeah, hard to maintain a sense of mystery. It's why I appreciate people making elaborate hoaxes.
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 07:48 |
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Tunicate posted:Yeah, hard to maintain a sense of mystery. The only two games I know that have managed to recapture it in recent years are ones that specifically set out to: Dark Souls and Undertale. Dark Souls added red herring items and leads that went nowhere (and being on consoles at the time were a bit tough to file-dive into), and Undertale specifically made content that only the file-divers could get access to. The old tentpoles of all this sort of stuff, though? They didn't even have to try. Ocarina of Time's greatest stories stemmed from a decal on the status screen, Pokemon's from flavor text, glitches and visual flairs on the map. Final Fantasy didn't even go that far, people built up insane theories and plans out of literally nothing.
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 08:10 |
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Previa_fun posted:Antagonist Inc. message boards on AOL. The ANT Final Fantasy VII board was probably my first online message board. Also, Final Fiction, which I'm sure was utterly terrible, but the idea of fanfiction was a novelty then.
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 08:15 |
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 16:37 |
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We had my almost 2-year-old kids watch one of his episodes on Netflix just for the heck of it. They were hooked. Watching Mr. Rogers is now the "just got home from daycare and mommy/daddy needs to cook dinner" time in our household, so he's definitely still around in some form.
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 19:15 |
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Pendragon posted:We had my almost 2-year-old kids watch one of his episodes on Netflix just for the heck of it.
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 19:31 |
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Pendragon posted:We had my almost 2-year-old kids watch one of his episodes on Netflix just for the heck of it. This makes me happy. Also, they got Mr. Rogers on Netflix?
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# ? Feb 16, 2016 20:40 |
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Also, they got Mr. Rogers on Netflix? Netflix has about 20 episodes, but Amazon has over 80. It's cool watching those as an adult because you realize 1. how much ad-libbing went on with that show, and 2. how good of a person Fred Rogers really was. Guy is amazing. Side note: watching those episodes has filled in various faint memories of musical jingles or catch phrases that would randomly bubble up in my brain without knowing where they came from.
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# ? Feb 17, 2016 20:30 |
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:This was the magic of discovery I had as a kid rummaging through info about Pokemon and Everquest (especially about Kerafyrm). I remember warpcore.org, an enormous Descent webring (remember those?) that had just about everything that was ever known about or made for Descent in the 1990s. I am sure nothing is left 20 years later.
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Woolie Wool posted:I remember warpcore.org, an enormous Descent webring (remember those?) that had just about everything that was ever known about or made for Descent in the 1990s. I am sure nothing is left 20 years later. Hell yeah I remember webrings! That's the late 90s/early 2000s equivalent of Wikipedia diving (ie clicking on the next random article that enticed your curiosity from the previous article). I also remember visitor counters at the bottom of the page, Angelfire made webpages, and guestbooks to sign after you visited. The Internet was a smaller, quainter place then.
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 08:47 |
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queserasera posted:Junk food nostalgia best nostalgia.
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 13:44 |
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Do "things that weren't around anymore and suddenly came back" count? They've started selling Surge again. It looks and tastes just like I remember it. They even used the XXXTREME '90s packaging design instead of the later one.
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 20:52 |
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Never ate it but loved the commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be77gKd55q4
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# ? Feb 18, 2016 21:40 |
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While we're on cereal
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 05:21 |
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om nom nom posted:While we're on cereal My friend absolutely loved these and we found a box of them around 2009/2010 in a discount store in our neighborhood that were still good somehow. He was loving ecstatic
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 09:41 |
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owl_pellet posted:I think video arcades qualify even if they're technically still around. There used to be one in every mall and even free-standing ones, and now they're so rare. Same goes for convenience stores, gas stations, movie theaters, and pizza parlors having a handful of arcade machines. Yeah arcades still exist but they really aren't the same. They're sort of on the way back now though since the hardware is cheap and plentiful and there's a whole generation of kids raised by YouTube gaming personalities that wants to play classic games but has no way to get them. The pricing setup is very different now and you can drink in most of them, but little by little I've started to see more Arcades pop up around me. I also think that right about now is when you could probably open a new Video Rental store in some major metro area. Enough people who grew up in the golden age of video stores now have kids that you could probably keep a mom and pop rental place rolling as long as it was authentic as gently caress. It would need to look and feel like walking back in time, and most importantly it would need to cater to the kind of films Redbox/Netflix never has, IE old classics, B movies, direct to video stuff, etc if you wanted to get really crazy you'd have a video game rental section filled with NES/SNES/Genesis/N64/Playstation games and a popcorn machine would obviously be required.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 10:32 |
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Usenet before the Eternal September.
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# ? Feb 20, 2016 19:41 |
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Yeah arcades still exist but they really aren't the same. They're sort of on the way back now though since the hardware is cheap and plentiful and there's a whole generation of kids raised by YouTube gaming personalities that wants to play classic games but has no way to get them. The pricing setup is very different now and you can drink in most of them, but little by little I've started to see more Arcades pop up around me. I also think that right about now is when you could probably open a new Video Rental store in some major metro area. Enough people who grew up in the golden age of video stores now have kids that you could probably keep a mom and pop rental place rolling as long as it was authentic as gently caress. It would need to look and feel like walking back in time, and most importantly it would need to cater to the kind of films Redbox/Netflix never has, IE old classics, B movies, direct to video stuff, etc if you wanted to get really crazy you'd have a video game rental section filled with NES/SNES/Genesis/N64/Playstation games and a popcorn machine would obviously be required. Dr.Mrs.The Monarch has a new favorite as of 21:35 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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