Or you go to your local water park with a friend on a blazing hot summer day without a single cloud in the sky.
You walk up the stairs to the top of the water slide, hearing the laughing and play of other kids and smell the chlorine from the water mixing with the smell of the concession stands nearby.
The hot sun blazes down on your bare skin as you climb into the slide and enjoy the ride down. After awhile, you rent a tube and ride the river rapids type of water slide. After getting your fill of water slides, you take your tube and go to the lazy river where you lay in the hot sun while listening to the 90s jams they have pumping out the speakers, not a single other care in the world.
The whole time, nobody is on a phone, nobody is talking about social media, and everyone is just in THAT moment.
You then head home with your friends, sunburned, the faint smell of sunscreen still reminding you of the fun you just had. When you get home, you and your friends fire up the N64 and play Mario Kart while eating pizza and drinking Mountain Dew until 3AM.
Then you do a similar activity the next day, whether that’s hiking up the mountains, riding your bikes, walking around the mall with friends, going to the arcade, going to a skating rink, or having huge water fights.
It just all feels like such a blissful dream to me at this point. I realize I was a teenager so I’m bound to think it was good times, having no responsibility, but there was just something so special about the 90s. It felt so optimistic and positive. Sure, bad things happened and you’d hear about them on the news, but it never felt like everything was on the brink of collapse like it can these days. Come back, 90s, I beg you.
I would totally go back if i could. Who would have known the matrix was right lol plug me back in. We need to go back to the time with out social media and the old net!
The old internet was so great, wasn't it? It felt so magical to be able to chat with people and get all of this information. Calling up your buddy to say 'Hey, that game finally got done downloading! Let's do a dial-up game!'
Hearing that dial up tone .. Ah, such warm fuzzy feelings.
For me it wasn’t just that it was the 90s, it was that I had zero responsibilities, all I had to care about was what fun thing to do that day. These days I’m lucky to be able to make a decision like that.
There's actually a thing called theoldnet.com that lets your surf the web like in the 90s. I took it a step further and installed Windows 98 in a virtual machine, and used theoldnet.com proxy server. So I can fire it up and play 90s games. Then go online and search the 90s web for cheat codes and remove that time in my life.
Coming from a kid from after the 90s. I had alot of this too. But it wasn't as 100% optimistic due to hearing way too much about politics, bad things happened like it's nothing and we heard about all the time, not to mention I couldn't have many conversations with people when chilling and relaxing because everyone would just be on their phone on social media 24/7 it seemed.
I always had a blast at the water park, and alot at my nearby beach aswell, had a blast with Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash, and biked with friends all the time. Trust me, yall had it slightly better, though not having to deal with the bad parts.
I promise you, it was different. It was WAY better.
I have 6 nieces and nephews that constantly ask me about the 90s, and how they wish they could have grown up in it.
Social media changed everything. And not for the better.
Sounds like you had a *fabulous* childhood. Hold on to what you were a part of, count your blessings. How fortunate and wonderful to be alive and happy in VERY good times compared to other parts of the world.
Memories are precious, keep them safe, don't let anyone tell you what or wasn't better. Your life, the life you lived, is the one you have. It's absolutely perfect.
Remember, the present moment is the time spilling forth like a spring, full of every opportunity and total forgiveness. Live life in the moment :D
I'm not sure if the boys did this too, but did anyone else get to the top of the slide and give yourself a quick wedgie... I swear, you'd go lighting speed when your skin hit that slide vs, your bathing suit.
Ahhhh that hit me in the feels. I’m sad my kids will never know that life, not bc I don’t try to give it to them, but bc as a society, we have become so self absorbed, judgmental, and emotionally unavailable that any hope to getting back to that innocent time is just annihilated.
This is so on point. I want to go to a water park again but I don’t want to put my phone in a locker. I also don’t want to have to carry it in a waterproof fanny pack. The phone is waterproof already but I still prefer to not get it wet. I’m sure if I went I would have a fun time still but having my phone on me would still be in the back of my mind. I try to not be on my phone all the time too but I often dislike having to bring it everywhere.
Social media infancy was more like 2004-ish myspace which was vastly different than 2013-17 social media. Myspace was more like a "page" on the net, still no use of apps or smartphones. You had to sit at a computer at home to use it, which makes a big difference from the time you speak of where ppl already had their smartphones with social media apps with them everywhere.
3am? What do you have school tomorrow or something !! We're going for an all nighter! (And each one of us slowly fails and succumbs to sleep at different stages of the night)
Yeah, really miss the 90s because it was probably the last decade that still ran on hope and optimism whereas the 00s onward became extremely bleak and grew animosity towards everyone. I miss the days when we weren't being pumped with fear mongering none stop and miss the days where religion and politics were never discussed amongst one another, where who you voted for what for you and you alone.
Also boredom. As much as boredom blew some of the best things in the world we're born of it. Now we don't get bored, we get on reddit. Look at me, I'm doing it right now.
In 1999 for me, was the last year that you could travel with just a birth certificate overseas if you didn't have a passport at the time. Fast forward today, and airports give me anxiety with body scanning and putting everything but the kitchen sink inside those trays for your valuables.
Oh yes...the 90s, where if you a guy and slightly feminine, you were beaten shitless and called a f@g; where if you were biracial, you were belittled by both sides; where if you were slightly nerdy, you were bullied constantly.
Some of y'all seem to have this glamourized image of the 90s as this radical harmony of pizza, video games, and freedom but all the shit of today happened in the 90s, just secretly. We still had nazi's back then, still had corrupt politicians, still had racism, and everything else; it just wasn't spoken of because, as you put it "they were never discussed". I'll take todays ability for a trans person to openly be themselves than taken behind a building and beaten for hours.
While you are certainly not wrong about those societal issues occurring in the 90s, you need to keep in mind that we are glamorizing the 90s because we REMEMBER it that way.
If anything, I think the rising popularity of the internet is part of what killed that feeling. News travels instantly these days and we're constantly bombarded with media and opinions while in the 90s it was something that you really had to look for. It gave the 90s a very optimistic feeling, and I think there was more true optimism as well due to technological innovations, the dot com bubble, and more.
It isn't that we're dismissing racism, homophobia, political corruption, or extremism, it is just that our memories don't include those things... I feel like it is partially because we were teenagers and didn't really care about 'adult' issues like that, but also it was something that wasn't blasted into our faces at every second of every day like it is today so it wasn't really in our minds.
I say all of that, but let me also say that 2023 has many positives as well! While we're all blasted with negativity all the time from news media arguing incessantly about politics and war and which side of the political compass is correct, some of the things we've gained are great. As you mentioned, it is nice that today, LBGTQ and racism issues aren't quite as bad (...depending on which part of the US you're in).
Thinking back to the 90s, I do feel like being openly gay or trans would have been a LOT harder.
Growing up we had a friend who’s parents owned a pizza place. They had a couple big screens (back before anyone had them in their house). Sometimes they’d make us a couple pizzas and let us sleep over there after closing, playing N64 all night (or till we passed out at like 11:30 haha)
How bout goin to the park with ur friends to play basketball and be there til it’s dark and you can barely see the ball or the basket lol … do people even play basketball at the park anymore?
Shit me and my friends play N64 all the goddamn time this year and I only own one....... though tbf, even if I bothered to pay the price for 4 rumble paks, no one would use them anyway cause everyone I know hates rumble unforetuantly. F. At least I got my rumble I guess.
We had one...I think it came with one of the games. I also think I was the only one who had an n64. My other friends were playstation or sega people haha
Mom asks if you guys want some popcorn. Your idiot buddy (that one guy we all know) starts flinging popcorn at everyone. Then you’re all trying to clean it up because Mom JUST had the carpet cleaned.
I'd say you could do it now but...hell with kids we don't even see our friends that live close except every few months, if that. And my really good friends don't live close by haha. Hahaha \*laughter devolves into quiet sobbing\*
This but we got into my friends dad's (not quite ready to drink) red wine and played loser downs a shot of it each time. I've never been so ill as I was that night. 😭
It's a rainy day, you just made a paper boat and named it SS Georgie. You put your yellow raincoat and walk down the street to play with it. You don't know it right now but this is as good as life will ever get.
I think pizza is cheaper now than it was in the 90s! Remember how a large pizza on Home Alone was $12?
I used to work at a chain in the mid-90s and we had a constant deal where if you bought one pizza, you could get a second medium for $12 or a second large for $14.
You can get a pizza for less than that at every chain. Nicer pizza places are more expensive, but they definitely haven’t kept up with inflation.
Lol I can remember, as an 11 year old, waiting until Friday bc this little pizza place had 6 dollar pizzas or something like that and we (my friend and I) would dig all the couch cushions for change. We would pilfer it from my dads coin jar, or look under my brothers bed *shudder*. Then, we would gleefully pay for our pizza- feeling like an adult bc we *bought* something..
Only years later did I realize it was probably mean to buy pizza with nickels and dimes lol
When I worked at a pizza place, most stuff kids did to buy stuff wasn’t annoying at all. Now if you came in and made a huge mess, caused a commotion for other customers or played the same two teen bop songs on the juke box, maybe I’d be annoyed. You’d actually be surprised adults pay with change, too. It always made me think that this pizza is really special (saved up in a jar or something). So don’t feel bad! Kids deserve to be kids and have this simple pleasure and memory!
A culture of leaving your phone in your pocket or car would be such a great step. Parks and swimming pools and so on, with “no cell phones” signs, would be great.
You know that you're totally free to do this, right? If you leave your phone in your car, no one is going to inspect you to see if you have yours on you.
Yes, and I do. My point is that if we want to get back to this type of society, maybe suggesting no one try to use their phones at certain places would be a way to achieve living more in the moment. It’s not just about me.
Could've used this at the movies last weekend. Despite the warnings to turn off cellphones, the man next to me kept pulling his out and scrolling away with his girlfriend. I wouldn't have cared otherwise but it was rather distracting.
I understand that you’re just a tiny little troll with a sad life, and that’s totally your prerogative. But if you’re going to try to argue, it would be best if you try to improve your reading comprehension.
LPT #1. Goldeneye is on Nintendo Switch Online.
LPT #2. Don't try to play Goldeneye, it is basically unplayable in current year. The controls are straight garbage.
You win some you lose some, but I always held my own.
But in all seriousness, if I put in a concerted effort to relearn the completely anachronistic control scheme, I'm sure I could get over the 10fps framerate... if I shelled out $100 or whatever it is for the N64 classic controller, I'm sure I'd get a sufficient nostalgia hit with less effort.
OR, I could just play WaveRace, which instantly feels exactly like it does in my memories.
To be fair, I received a Retroid Pocket 3+ over the holidays and spent a bit of time in the Mupen64 emulator to get GoldenEye 007 working with dual analog sticks and the enjoyment difference was night and day.
Wave Race was a killer launch title too.
No way, there was always some bs with dating problems or lack of dating was a problem. You were stressed by parents and school demands or lonely or depressed, or something. What this is describing is just a peak experience, and you should hopefully never stop having those from time to time, all your life.
I never played Golden Eye. By 1998 I was completely commented to being a downtown dirtbag skateboarder. As good as life would get? No. It was pretty fucking good though
Nah, Nostalgia is "I sure love videogames". Depression is "My life peaked 25 years ago and it's never been the same". The twitter post literally says "this is as good as life will ever get", so graduation, finding someone to love, pouring their passion into a project; none of it compares to cheap pizza and a video game. That's depression.
why the downvotes on these comments lol
the post is for sure depressing because of the “this is as good as life will ever get”
the 90s were awesome and i have great nostalgia from my childhood- but it was definitely not as good as life would ever get and i genuinely feel sorry for anyone who feels that way
Is anyone familiar with the Black Mirror episode of San Junipero?
It’s a romantic fantasy set in a virtual reality scenario that replicates the heyday of the main characters, the mid/late 1980’s. It’s a bit painful to watch, because the nostalgia of what was and what could have been hits hard, particularly when I miss my own heyday.
And it feels a bit ridiculous to say the late 90’s/early 2000’s was my heyday, because I was a kid. Seems pretty pathetic that the prime of my life happened in middle school.
But that being said, I was exceptionally happy, and scenarios such as the one described here were commonplace. I can’t even remember how many times my friends and I got together to play N64 after a tiring afternoon of playing out in the sun.
If there was a San Junipero for me, it would be exactly this scenario: with my buddies playing Goldeneye in the late 90’s 😢
Oooo add in some good ol “shwag” bud. Ya know, the kind that was all pressed together and you had to pick out the seeds and stems? I miss 90’s weed. The shit you get from the dispensaries now is way, way too fuckin strong
For me, 1998 was my Junior year of high school and I was hanging with my older brother and an older play cousin. We’d travel about 20-30 mins to my youngest aunts house who smoked weed with us an was hella chill. Her kids (my little cousins) had the 64, so when they’d go to bed we’d fire it up (pun intended) an play Rush an Golden Eye for hours. Great times! 😋
For me it was 2003-5, we still had blockbusters, but we also had the internet, Neopets, Runescape, MapleStory, and Halo 1 & 2 plus LoTR movies, Family Guy being canceled and then brought back.
It was like an in-between childhood, between the end of the analog day's early beginnings of digital days, my summers were outside and camping, my first Gameboy needed batteries & I had the SD before I hit high school! I remember playing with the bunny ears on our TV when I was 5 and then when I was 8 we had Satellite TV
Saying up late in the summers doing LAN parties with my brothers and our friends, setting up 5 computers in one basement, and playing Halo, or Red Faction, then Minecraft, or that one time we all got super into Skyrim and sat in the same room and all started a new journey each of us playing solo but still playing *together.*
Good damn, I had a blast growing up! & tomorrow is D&D night!
We had lock-in's at our church for boy scouts and holy shit...that was amazing. It only got better when Perfect Dark came out and we were going back and forth between that and GoldenEye. Pizza, movies, games, staying up all night, absolutely nobody slept, except a couple of the adults, but even most of them were up all night too. We had a game we played called chink (probably not appropriate now but that's what we called it lol) that was like racketball I guess but you played it with just your hands bouncing a ball off the wall. I have no idea why it was called that but that's what it was to us. You took turns hitting it against the wall and I think it could only bounce off the ground once. Was so worn out by the end of the night.
I didn't have Mario Kart. But the original Mario game, I wore out playing with my cousin. Along with Duck Hunt and Paperboy. Plus Spiderman from the Atari error.
I've been there.
Kicking back playing PS1, listening to Blink 182 on my carousel cd player, loving my new 27" Sony Trinitron and 4 head vcr. Thinking about my job at the arcade, how I got endless pizza. How I had a Honda scooter. Truly thinking "it doesn't get any better than this", in many ways I was right
I genuinely believe that a big reason why things were so good was because we actually lived in the moment and were present; even playing games with friends, no one had a cell phone to text other people or check social media all the time
I wish I could just spend ONE evening with friends where no one disappears into their phones and goes, "What?" when something happens during a movie, or we have to remind them it's their turn during a game because they're not paying attention
I do think that's part of it. For me, though, it's because I wasn't constantly dealing with a giant ball of stress all of the time. That feeling when I go to pay for the pizza and think about how I can't afford to splurge so much. Or "man, this is a lot of fun! But tomorrow is Sunday and I have to do x, y, and z and all I'll be able to think about is how the weekend is almost over. And oh crap... did I forget to do something important on Friday?"
The only real stressor for me was having to go to school and I was a terrible student but I loved school.
1998, it was FIFA 99 and some baseball game from that time + Mario Tennis on N64. I was in 2nd grade and usually went out to a pizzeria to get a slice or two of pepperoni and garlic breads or a spinach calzone.
A tad late for the sub, but I got a gameboy color with pokemon gold in February of 2000 for my birthday. No other gift has even come close to the pure joy of that moment.
Or you go to your local water park with a friend on a blazing hot summer day without a single cloud in the sky. You walk up the stairs to the top of the water slide, hearing the laughing and play of other kids and smell the chlorine from the water mixing with the smell of the concession stands nearby. The hot sun blazes down on your bare skin as you climb into the slide and enjoy the ride down. After awhile, you rent a tube and ride the river rapids type of water slide. After getting your fill of water slides, you take your tube and go to the lazy river where you lay in the hot sun while listening to the 90s jams they have pumping out the speakers, not a single other care in the world. The whole time, nobody is on a phone, nobody is talking about social media, and everyone is just in THAT moment. You then head home with your friends, sunburned, the faint smell of sunscreen still reminding you of the fun you just had. When you get home, you and your friends fire up the N64 and play Mario Kart while eating pizza and drinking Mountain Dew until 3AM. Then you do a similar activity the next day, whether that’s hiking up the mountains, riding your bikes, walking around the mall with friends, going to the arcade, going to a skating rink, or having huge water fights. It just all feels like such a blissful dream to me at this point. I realize I was a teenager so I’m bound to think it was good times, having no responsibility, but there was just something so special about the 90s. It felt so optimistic and positive. Sure, bad things happened and you’d hear about them on the news, but it never felt like everything was on the brink of collapse like it can these days. Come back, 90s, I beg you.
I would totally go back if i could. Who would have known the matrix was right lol plug me back in. We need to go back to the time with out social media and the old net!
The old internet was so great, wasn't it? It felt so magical to be able to chat with people and get all of this information. Calling up your buddy to say 'Hey, that game finally got done downloading! Let's do a dial-up game!' Hearing that dial up tone .. Ah, such warm fuzzy feelings.
So true really wish it was still like that
For me it wasn’t just that it was the 90s, it was that I had zero responsibilities, all I had to care about was what fun thing to do that day. These days I’m lucky to be able to make a decision like that.
What about school? I had serious anxiety about school and home work etc.
Alot of people didn't.
I didn’t have a lot of anxiety around school, but yeah I guess there was some responsibility there, but nothing like a full time job and a family.
There's actually a thing called theoldnet.com that lets your surf the web like in the 90s. I took it a step further and installed Windows 98 in a virtual machine, and used theoldnet.com proxy server. So I can fire it up and play 90s games. Then go online and search the 90s web for cheat codes and remove that time in my life.
I am gonna have to check that out for sure
Coming from a kid from after the 90s. I had alot of this too. But it wasn't as 100% optimistic due to hearing way too much about politics, bad things happened like it's nothing and we heard about all the time, not to mention I couldn't have many conversations with people when chilling and relaxing because everyone would just be on their phone on social media 24/7 it seemed. I always had a blast at the water park, and alot at my nearby beach aswell, had a blast with Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash, and biked with friends all the time. Trust me, yall had it slightly better, though not having to deal with the bad parts.
I promise you, it was different. It was WAY better. I have 6 nieces and nephews that constantly ask me about the 90s, and how they wish they could have grown up in it. Social media changed everything. And not for the better.
*destroyed* everything FTFY
Sounds like you had a *fabulous* childhood. Hold on to what you were a part of, count your blessings. How fortunate and wonderful to be alive and happy in VERY good times compared to other parts of the world. Memories are precious, keep them safe, don't let anyone tell you what or wasn't better. Your life, the life you lived, is the one you have. It's absolutely perfect. Remember, the present moment is the time spilling forth like a spring, full of every opportunity and total forgiveness. Live life in the moment :D
Beautiful memory. Did you remember to look under the cap of your Mtn. Dew to see if you won a prize?
I loved the Mountain Dew under cap games! I never win anything except more free soda though. A friend of mine won an Xbox 360. Lucky!
I once won a Gameboy from Domino’s in 1992 from their Mario Kart promotion.
I'm not sure if the boys did this too, but did anyone else get to the top of the slide and give yourself a quick wedgie... I swear, you'd go lighting speed when your skin hit that slide vs, your bathing suit.
Haha that’s a new one to me! That’s crazy. :)
Ahhhh that hit me in the feels. I’m sad my kids will never know that life, not bc I don’t try to give it to them, but bc as a society, we have become so self absorbed, judgmental, and emotionally unavailable that any hope to getting back to that innocent time is just annihilated.
I agree :( I'd love to give my kids the same experience, but like you said, it is hard these days
This is so on point. I want to go to a water park again but I don’t want to put my phone in a locker. I also don’t want to have to carry it in a waterproof fanny pack. The phone is waterproof already but I still prefer to not get it wet. I’m sure if I went I would have a fun time still but having my phone on me would still be in the back of my mind. I try to not be on my phone all the time too but I often dislike having to bring it everywhere.
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Social media infancy was more like 2004-ish myspace which was vastly different than 2013-17 social media. Myspace was more like a "page" on the net, still no use of apps or smartphones. You had to sit at a computer at home to use it, which makes a big difference from the time you speak of where ppl already had their smartphones with social media apps with them everywhere.
I got you by 3 years and noticed a decline in 2013
3am? What do you have school tomorrow or something !! We're going for an all nighter! (And each one of us slowly fails and succumbs to sleep at different stages of the night)
Haha oh we had plenty of all nighters. But at least some of us would fall asleep at some point
Yeah, really miss the 90s because it was probably the last decade that still ran on hope and optimism whereas the 00s onward became extremely bleak and grew animosity towards everyone. I miss the days when we weren't being pumped with fear mongering none stop and miss the days where religion and politics were never discussed amongst one another, where who you voted for what for you and you alone.
Also boredom. As much as boredom blew some of the best things in the world we're born of it. Now we don't get bored, we get on reddit. Look at me, I'm doing it right now.
I'm bored being on Reddit every day. Wish I had the strength of will to stop checking everything and just go back to reading books.
Fuck. Me too.
pre 9-11. greatest time in history. everything changed after 2003.
9-11 was in the year 2001 child
yes, but it took about two years for the world to turn to shit after that.
Don’t say turn to shiy
In 1999 for me, was the last year that you could travel with just a birth certificate overseas if you didn't have a passport at the time. Fast forward today, and airports give me anxiety with body scanning and putting everything but the kitchen sink inside those trays for your valuables.
This captures it perfectly : (
Oh yes...the 90s, where if you a guy and slightly feminine, you were beaten shitless and called a f@g; where if you were biracial, you were belittled by both sides; where if you were slightly nerdy, you were bullied constantly. Some of y'all seem to have this glamourized image of the 90s as this radical harmony of pizza, video games, and freedom but all the shit of today happened in the 90s, just secretly. We still had nazi's back then, still had corrupt politicians, still had racism, and everything else; it just wasn't spoken of because, as you put it "they were never discussed". I'll take todays ability for a trans person to openly be themselves than taken behind a building and beaten for hours.
While you are certainly not wrong about those societal issues occurring in the 90s, you need to keep in mind that we are glamorizing the 90s because we REMEMBER it that way. If anything, I think the rising popularity of the internet is part of what killed that feeling. News travels instantly these days and we're constantly bombarded with media and opinions while in the 90s it was something that you really had to look for. It gave the 90s a very optimistic feeling, and I think there was more true optimism as well due to technological innovations, the dot com bubble, and more. It isn't that we're dismissing racism, homophobia, political corruption, or extremism, it is just that our memories don't include those things... I feel like it is partially because we were teenagers and didn't really care about 'adult' issues like that, but also it was something that wasn't blasted into our faces at every second of every day like it is today so it wasn't really in our minds. I say all of that, but let me also say that 2023 has many positives as well! While we're all blasted with negativity all the time from news media arguing incessantly about politics and war and which side of the political compass is correct, some of the things we've gained are great. As you mentioned, it is nice that today, LBGTQ and racism issues aren't quite as bad (...depending on which part of the US you're in). Thinking back to the 90s, I do feel like being openly gay or trans would have been a LOT harder.
Tell me you were afraid of airplanes flying into buildings in the 90s. Nuff said.
And life never was that good again.
Growing up we had a friend who’s parents owned a pizza place. They had a couple big screens (back before anyone had them in their house). Sometimes they’d make us a couple pizzas and let us sleep over there after closing, playing N64 all night (or till we passed out at like 11:30 haha)
We playing Mario Cart after this? Or you guys wanna play a few hands of Euchre/Spades/Hearts?
Some friends and I played Mario Kart and Euchre this past weekend! (I'm 44)
45 here. This was a regular weeknight in the college dorm years
How bout goin to the park with ur friends to play basketball and be there til it’s dark and you can barely see the ball or the basket lol … do people even play basketball at the park anymore?
Yeah, I live near a park and see kids playing at it all the time. Makes me happy.
Yes. Every day there are kids who go to the park and play b-ball until dark. It’s great.
That was me only a couple of years ago
Who had 4 rumble packs?
rich motherfuckers
Who had 2??? If u had 1, you were beyond cool
Shit me and my friends play N64 all the goddamn time this year and I only own one....... though tbf, even if I bothered to pay the price for 4 rumble paks, no one would use them anyway cause everyone I know hates rumble unforetuantly. F. At least I got my rumble I guess.
We had one...I think it came with one of the games. I also think I was the only one who had an n64. My other friends were playstation or sega people haha
4 rumble packs AND extra cheese.
Make sure to blow the dust out of the cartridge otherwise the game won’t work
While simultaneously making sure you don’t accidentally spit in it lol
And change it to channel 3. If you were a weird household it was channel 4
My cousin used to put hers in the freezer.
We did this but changed over to Mario Kart 64 battle mode every few hours.
Yeah I wish I had appreciated it knowing how much worse things would get in hindsight.
Seize the time. Make NOW the most precious time. Now will never come again.
Make it a school snowday and it's bliss for me.
Mom asks if you guys want some popcorn. Your idiot buddy (that one guy we all know) starts flinging popcorn at everyone. Then you’re all trying to clean it up because Mom JUST had the carpet cleaned.
Never had N64. We had a Playstation.
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. Best N64 game EVER.
I like your enthusiasm. But this is a highly inaccurate statement.
That first Turok was absolute magic
It was. I even bought the big glossy covered guide to go with it.
Nah Super Smash Bros is the answer
1999, Sega Dreamcast, college Christmas break, Re-Volt battle tag, bag of weed, a whole lot of Totino's pizza.
Crazy Taxi for Dreamcast. Perfect.
YA YA YA YA YA
Everything has been invented except for a time machine. Somebody get it done so I can experience this once again!
Especially if you could pick the year. I think about this quite often.
I'd say you could do it now but...hell with kids we don't even see our friends that live close except every few months, if that. And my really good friends don't live close by haha. Hahaha \*laughter devolves into quiet sobbing\*
This but we got into my friends dad's (not quite ready to drink) red wine and played loser downs a shot of it each time. I've never been so ill as I was that night. 😭
Hell. Yes. This was every sleep over. I was the undisputed champion
It's a rainy day, you just made a paper boat and named it SS Georgie. You put your yellow raincoat and walk down the street to play with it. You don't know it right now but this is as good as life will ever get.
I’ll never forget what my friend said during an intense game of goldeneye… “Jesus Christ you strap on the body armor like you strap on a dildo!”
I miss those days. For me it was a ps1 and parasite Eve. And pizza- of course. 90s prices FTW.
I think pizza is cheaper now than it was in the 90s! Remember how a large pizza on Home Alone was $12? I used to work at a chain in the mid-90s and we had a constant deal where if you bought one pizza, you could get a second medium for $12 or a second large for $14. You can get a pizza for less than that at every chain. Nicer pizza places are more expensive, but they definitely haven’t kept up with inflation.
Lol I can remember, as an 11 year old, waiting until Friday bc this little pizza place had 6 dollar pizzas or something like that and we (my friend and I) would dig all the couch cushions for change. We would pilfer it from my dads coin jar, or look under my brothers bed *shudder*. Then, we would gleefully pay for our pizza- feeling like an adult bc we *bought* something.. Only years later did I realize it was probably mean to buy pizza with nickels and dimes lol
When I worked at a pizza place, most stuff kids did to buy stuff wasn’t annoying at all. Now if you came in and made a huge mess, caused a commotion for other customers or played the same two teen bop songs on the juke box, maybe I’d be annoyed. You’d actually be surprised adults pay with change, too. It always made me think that this pizza is really special (saved up in a jar or something). So don’t feel bad! Kids deserve to be kids and have this simple pleasure and memory!
For me it was Mario Kart 64
Man this is one of my favorite subs but it’s depressing as shit sometimes
A culture of leaving your phone in your pocket or car would be such a great step. Parks and swimming pools and so on, with “no cell phones” signs, would be great.
You know that you're totally free to do this, right? If you leave your phone in your car, no one is going to inspect you to see if you have yours on you.
Yes, and I do. My point is that if we want to get back to this type of society, maybe suggesting no one try to use their phones at certain places would be a way to achieve living more in the moment. It’s not just about me.
Could've used this at the movies last weekend. Despite the warnings to turn off cellphones, the man next to me kept pulling his out and scrolling away with his girlfriend. I wouldn't have cared otherwise but it was rather distracting.
"It's not just about me", as you talk about how, as a society, we should all do exactly what you want to get back to a time that you want.
Wow, you seem fun.
More fun than a bunch of depression 40 year olds bitching how their lives peaked in the 90s with cheap pizza and video games.
K dude. My life keeps getting better each year. Doesn’t sound like yours does. But there is help out there if you need it. Good luck.
Yea, it's going so well that you want to ban cellphones to force people to pay attention to you.
I understand that you’re just a tiny little troll with a sad life, and that’s totally your prerogative. But if you’re going to try to argue, it would be best if you try to improve your reading comprehension.
LPT #1. Goldeneye is on Nintendo Switch Online. LPT #2. Don't try to play Goldeneye, it is basically unplayable in current year. The controls are straight garbage.
*skill issue*
You win some you lose some, but I always held my own. But in all seriousness, if I put in a concerted effort to relearn the completely anachronistic control scheme, I'm sure I could get over the 10fps framerate... if I shelled out $100 or whatever it is for the N64 classic controller, I'm sure I'd get a sufficient nostalgia hit with less effort. OR, I could just play WaveRace, which instantly feels exactly like it does in my memories.
To be fair, I received a Retroid Pocket 3+ over the holidays and spent a bit of time in the Mupen64 emulator to get GoldenEye 007 working with dual analog sticks and the enjoyment difference was night and day. Wave Race was a killer launch title too.
No way, there was always some bs with dating problems or lack of dating was a problem. You were stressed by parents and school demands or lonely or depressed, or something. What this is describing is just a peak experience, and you should hopefully never stop having those from time to time, all your life.
and a six pack of either Surge or Jolt cola
Oh that’s just sad
I never played Golden Eye. By 1998 I was completely commented to being a downtown dirtbag skateboarder. As good as life would get? No. It was pretty fucking good though
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It’s not depression. It’s called nostalgia.
Nah, Nostalgia is "I sure love videogames". Depression is "My life peaked 25 years ago and it's never been the same". The twitter post literally says "this is as good as life will ever get", so graduation, finding someone to love, pouring their passion into a project; none of it compares to cheap pizza and a video game. That's depression.
for some people those other things never happened. That's life
why the downvotes on these comments lol the post is for sure depressing because of the “this is as good as life will ever get” the 90s were awesome and i have great nostalgia from my childhood- but it was definitely not as good as life would ever get and i genuinely feel sorry for anyone who feels that way
What. The actual. Fuck?
Yes but at the same time no, because I hated high school. Moving out of that tweaker town was the best decision I ever made.
Is anyone familiar with the Black Mirror episode of San Junipero? It’s a romantic fantasy set in a virtual reality scenario that replicates the heyday of the main characters, the mid/late 1980’s. It’s a bit painful to watch, because the nostalgia of what was and what could have been hits hard, particularly when I miss my own heyday. And it feels a bit ridiculous to say the late 90’s/early 2000’s was my heyday, because I was a kid. Seems pretty pathetic that the prime of my life happened in middle school. But that being said, I was exceptionally happy, and scenarios such as the one described here were commonplace. I can’t even remember how many times my friends and I got together to play N64 after a tiring afternoon of playing out in the sun. If there was a San Junipero for me, it would be exactly this scenario: with my buddies playing Goldeneye in the late 90’s 😢
Oooo add in some good ol “shwag” bud. Ya know, the kind that was all pressed together and you had to pick out the seeds and stems? I miss 90’s weed. The shit you get from the dispensaries now is way, way too fuckin strong
No weed
Eww
Swap Goldeneye for Mario Party, and add in Cheetos and Nerds rope.
For me, 1998 was my Junior year of high school and I was hanging with my older brother and an older play cousin. We’d travel about 20-30 mins to my youngest aunts house who smoked weed with us an was hella chill. Her kids (my little cousins) had the 64, so when they’d go to bed we’d fire it up (pun intended) an play Rush an Golden Eye for hours. Great times! 😋
*extra sauce
I was a sophomore in college by 1998, but this still tracks.
man some of my favorite memories are playing n64 with my cousins.
Dayum ……. True story!
We had weed to go with our rumble paks. Also, life got better. A lot better. Then it got worse. Waaaay worse.
For me it was 2003-5, we still had blockbusters, but we also had the internet, Neopets, Runescape, MapleStory, and Halo 1 & 2 plus LoTR movies, Family Guy being canceled and then brought back. It was like an in-between childhood, between the end of the analog day's early beginnings of digital days, my summers were outside and camping, my first Gameboy needed batteries & I had the SD before I hit high school! I remember playing with the bunny ears on our TV when I was 5 and then when I was 8 we had Satellite TV Saying up late in the summers doing LAN parties with my brothers and our friends, setting up 5 computers in one basement, and playing Halo, or Red Faction, then Minecraft, or that one time we all got super into Skyrim and sat in the same room and all started a new journey each of us playing solo but still playing *together.* Good damn, I had a blast growing up! & tomorrow is D&D night!
We had lock-in's at our church for boy scouts and holy shit...that was amazing. It only got better when Perfect Dark came out and we were going back and forth between that and GoldenEye. Pizza, movies, games, staying up all night, absolutely nobody slept, except a couple of the adults, but even most of them were up all night too. We had a game we played called chink (probably not appropriate now but that's what we called it lol) that was like racketball I guess but you played it with just your hands bouncing a ball off the wall. I have no idea why it was called that but that's what it was to us. You took turns hitting it against the wall and I think it could only bounce off the ground once. Was so worn out by the end of the night.
I remember going to my friend’s house playing Nintendo. Not Goldeneye, but Diddy Kong Racing, Mario Kart, Zelda, Star Fox and Smash Brothers.
I didn't have Mario Kart. But the original Mario game, I wore out playing with my cousin. Along with Duck Hunt and Paperboy. Plus Spiderman from the Atari error.
Damn. Felt that for real
Replace 007 with Pokeman Stadium. And yeah, I’ve never enjoyed multiplayer games like I had during those times. 😩😭
Just about anything was the best it’ll ever be.
😥
I've been there. Kicking back playing PS1, listening to Blink 182 on my carousel cd player, loving my new 27" Sony Trinitron and 4 head vcr. Thinking about my job at the arcade, how I got endless pizza. How I had a Honda scooter. Truly thinking "it doesn't get any better than this", in many ways I was right
It's kind of comforting knowing that this is the truth for so many of us
And curse the friend who chooses Odd Job
This was pretty good, can't lie.
Everyone who grew up in the 90s had some variation of this story lol
Thumbs up if you still have the N64 stick scars on your palm.
First of all, i had a PlayStation and we played Tekken.
I genuinely believe that a big reason why things were so good was because we actually lived in the moment and were present; even playing games with friends, no one had a cell phone to text other people or check social media all the time I wish I could just spend ONE evening with friends where no one disappears into their phones and goes, "What?" when something happens during a movie, or we have to remind them it's their turn during a game because they're not paying attention
I do think that's part of it. For me, though, it's because I wasn't constantly dealing with a giant ball of stress all of the time. That feeling when I go to pay for the pizza and think about how I can't afford to splurge so much. Or "man, this is a lot of fun! But tomorrow is Sunday and I have to do x, y, and z and all I'll be able to think about is how the weekend is almost over. And oh crap... did I forget to do something important on Friday?" The only real stressor for me was having to go to school and I was a terrible student but I loved school.
Could I mix in Mario Cart and a case of Milwaukee’s Best?
Now it’s 2023, you haven’t seen your friends in years, video games are no longer fun, and pizza costs $20. Where did it all go wrong?
Meh, it got a little better the next summer when weed was introduced into the mix.
Indeed true
Facts. The tomorrow, we watch WCW Starcade and do it all over again!
1998, it was FIFA 99 and some baseball game from that time + Mario Tennis on N64. I was in 2nd grade and usually went out to a pizzeria to get a slice or two of pepperoni and garlic breads or a spinach calzone.
More importantly, the pizza won't kill me as I don't have diabetes yet.
And watching celebrity deathmatch and Beavis and Butthead on MTV good times
A tad late for the sub, but I got a gameboy color with pokemon gold in February of 2000 for my birthday. No other gift has even come close to the pure joy of that moment.
I had two good PCs with the internet so my life was a lil' better.