memes

pulling over at a gas station to ask for directions

& optimizing emm386 & himem.sys

My first game controller only had one button.

Sundays were awesome because you got to read comics!

"I know accounting needs this on the 2nd Floor but that pile of papers is too big to fit in the tubes in one go"

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.

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.

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

Loading games from audio cassette.

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

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

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

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

Idkfa

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

not getting an answer to a question for days or more

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

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

I experienced the ashes of Mount St Helens

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

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

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

"Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"

"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.

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.