memes

My first game controller only had one button.

Let’s go one deeper… you couldn’t play games without sliding a switch

Drive-thru bank pneumatic box slot

Edit: ok so apparently everyone except me is somehow stuck in the 1980s. And presumably buying betmax players so they can watch Robocop

I was recently at a party with a SNES connected to a noisy channel-3 RF modulator because the TV couldn't switch to its composite input via the front panel buttons, and they didn't have the remote. I wandered the house until I found a universal remote, then programmed AUX to match the TV and switched inputs. Just things you learn in the '90s.

Coffee and cigarettes, indoors, at a cafe, on lunch break in highschool.

Loading games from audio cassette.

I still have a distinct memory of trying to get on the Internet and then hearing my dad's voice coming through the computer speakers. He'd been on the phone with someone.

Using floppy disks in grade 2, then dvd+r in grade 4 and finally flash drives in 6+

Somehow I just knew how to get to places. Idk how that stopped.

The best selling video game was all text with zero graphics; Zork.

Idkfa

Jumping between radio channels trying to find one that's playing the new hit song

not getting an answer to a question for days or more

"Mom I'm playing Starcraft don't pick up the phone!"

Saving up paper route money and begging my dad to drive me to CompUSA so I could buy blank CDs.

Type LOAD "", press RETURN, press PLAY on the cassette player, wait 5-10 minutes, enjoy.

Renting the never ending story so many times the store just gave it to us after a while.

I experienced the ashes of Mount St Helens

"Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"

Computer and console games came exclusively on CD before the switch to DVD. When you bought a triple AAA title for console,you didn't have to spend 3 days waiting for day 1 patches to install. You could probably fit the entire game library of your favorite console back in the day on a thumb drive nowadays.

Using pencils to manually rewind cassette tapes.

"video games" were mechanical, and you interacted with targets by manipulating a metal spherical pixel using, hand eye coordination, timing and physics. You were rewarded with multiple "pixels" if you were good enough.

They cost 20c to play and you only got 3 lives.

I saw "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" on TV.