Not me and the homies browsing deviantart together 😭
.Damn good game. I can hear all the sound FX now.
someone reverse engineered it :) https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
you can play it here: https://pinball.alula.me/
We did competitive high scores, essentially we had pinball at home. Up to seven different people used the same computer. That poor device has seen more virus(es) than dottor house. I have tales worthy of it and tech support. Like that time a trojan duplicated itself up to 14 times in a few minutes. I solved that issue because I wouldn’t be able to play flash games otherwise, you see very important things. You might remember ‘this copy of windows is counterfeit’. Or whatever the message was. Nobody ever paid for the old office package. We had it.
I remember being 10 and we’d head over to the one kid who had a computer’s house, ask their mom if it was okay to use the internet (her phone would be unavailable during this time), and somehow we’d manage to find Newgrounds. We’d spend hours watching videos of stickfigures killing each other to the LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR song.
Or videos where Pokemon violently killed one another.
Stickdeath.com was wild, I loved it. I rewatched some recently and did not remember how racist they could be though.
So much racism. I think the rational was that it was ‘fine’ because they were making fun of ‘the bad ones’ and not regular minorities (Thanks Chris Rock)
Newgrounds was an amazing treasure trove of creativity and games.
I threw house parties every other week for years when I was just post college. There ended up being three rooms almost every time: People watching weird movies in the living room, people cooking and drinking in the kitchen, and people group surfing the internet in the computer room. It was amazing.
Old enough to remember a world that smelled like an ashtray. Old enough to have played sonic 1 on a Japanese cart on release. Old enough to remember the wild west days of the web, before it became a corporate wasteland.
Remember when nobody had any computers and we would just go over to each others houses and get kicked out by their parents because there was nothing to so we’d ride our bikes around on roads that were too busy and go places we shouldn’t be?
I do 😅 I guess we’re the same amount old
Old enough that game consoles don’t exist, but young enough to be protected by child labor laws.
I climbed a water tower at an abandoned warehouse and got attacked by wasps at the top. Good times!
Not a thing to do, but talk to you.
Ooow! Yeah!Exactly 👌
I took for granted that the internet only existed in libraries and wealthy friends’ houses
Who had a CD ROM drive and a sound blaster? Doom was a whole new dimension with it. It was real and very scary!
I saw a yt vid I can’t find right now of someone doing a comparison between sound blaster and this other high end speaker (also available at the time) that I didn’t even know existed, and now cant remember the name of. Apparently a lot of those dos games had really deep music scores that those of us with just sound blaster never got to hear.
Edit: I think this is what I saw https://youtu.be/wUtWbb8hAh8
I sank hundreds of late night hours and doubled my bladder size while being completely enthralled on that very setup. cd D:/, doom.exe
CD-ROM with lots of shareware programs. First two levels of Doom, before I got it from somewhere else. Had a few original bought games but most was pirated. Before LAN parties, you came to a friends house with your computer, monitor, everything, and connected via serial cable and parallel cable - first mentioned to play games, second one to copy files.
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I remember being 10, and the closest thing to the Internet we had was when we got a VCR.
I’m from the UK and the closest thing to the Internet to me was teletext. I loved it. My parents were baffled as to what I was doing.
Yep, this exactly. You could even read news and weather on it. Some channels had the ability to send an SMS and it would show up in a teletext chat! I checked every channel if it had teletext and CartoonNetwork had amazing pixel art on it.
This was a time before youtube.
I remember typing in code from a gaming magazine because there was no storage. You turn off your computer and it’s gone.
Worst part was when your triple checked everything and it still wouldn’t run only to get the corrections in the magazine next month.
Remember when you were ten and went to a friend’s place who had a Commodore 64 and they just got a new game on a floppy from his uncle’s friend. And the game was just an animation of a pixelated naked cartoon lady who took a piss on to the ground. And you’d laugh your ass off for the rest of the day. Remember? No?
Yes, but it was a cassette. Loading programs took ages, but we watched TNG on broadcast tv in the meantime.
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Young enough to have experienced school going virtual due to covid
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I remember installing programs with several consecutive floppy disks on my dad’s computer
This is just the Millennial version of reaction video Tiktoks.
Bruh, i still do it. Just get pizza and go to my friend and we eat while searching funny/interesting stuff.
Keep keepin’ it real
