Anyone else here grow up as a kid/teenager in the 90's? Do you think it's ever possible to live through that level of comfiness again? What was it about the 90s that made it so sublime?
Comfy 90's Thread
Jason Williams
Jack Evans
Justin Bell
Dominic Adams
Parker Jackson
These people are not in fear of having their face caved in by gangs of feral entitled niggers at the mall. Wonder what that was like.
Xavier Rivera
Jack Reed
Classic Taco Hell
Ryder Walker
I have vague recollections of it. I remember going to the mall as a kid down near Toronto (Scarborough), it was basically all whites. We had some Chinese but that was the extent of it. My grandparents would take my brother and I to the food court, and we could run off to the different restaurants to decide what we wanted to eat, then had to all meet back at the table we picked.
It was... safe.
Lucas Collins
Hopefully you got to experience the 90s Pizza Huts, with the big red cups and the sundae bars.
Brayden Myers
Fact that you were a kid.
Logan Jones
Oliver Smith
Rise of technology and information without every normie having access and no one had the internet in their pocket. You had a very clear seperation. Once you disconnected from dial-up, you were back in the real world.
Daniel Davis
>living before 9/11
>huge economic growth
>entertainment revolutionized in many ways
>video games were fun
>no social media
>not everything was so god damn political
>middle class still existed in America
Nolan Martinez
Why is mariokart in a goldeneye cartridge?
Jaxon Richardson
Brandon Thomas
Its crash team racing no? They are on the PS?
Henry Wright
And why is there a 2000s era buffy poster on the wall?
Andrew Price
AWWW YEAH GET ME TO THE JUKE BOX
CHEESEY STICKSSSSSS
Blake Clark
Zachary Diaz
Landon Rivera
Ah yes I stand corrected
Thanks dad
Mason Butler
It was a pretty innocent time. Mostly played the N64 with my nextdoor neighbor friend and played lots of rec sports. Parents didn't care about how long you stayed out or where you were as long as you showed up sometime over the weekend. Used to hide in the trees and shoot paintball guns at cars, that was really fun.
Isaiah Robinson
Just... just don't, okay? Just like, enjoy the thread. Or something. Jeez.
Kayden Garcia
The demographics of Zig Forums are a lot older than you think.
t. '89
Thomas Thompson
Even as a Norwegian, 9/11 and the ensuing wars clearly did something to how we viewed life and safety in the West.
Carter Howard
The first time I ever played a video game online was Diablo 1. Connected to my neighbours computer somehow through the dialup. I remember seeing him in the game, and he told me he could smell the fact I farted. I believed him, and thought "wow this is so cool"
Dylan James
The 90s was the peak of Western civilization. It is possible to live through it again but probably not in our lifetimes.
Jeremiah Harris
the 64 doesn't even have controllers in it haha, 90s movies pulled shit like that all the time because they had no idea what games were, just film a kid holding a empty game boy with no cartridge and edit bleeps on the sound track while he fake wrestle with it, that will do
Oliver Martinez
>No social media. You had to see your friends to talk to your friends about what's up.
>Activities we think of as mundane today were all novel experiences. Mindlessly letting Netflix autoplay you their next cookie cutter focus group movie vs. going to Blockbuster and browsing the shelves for the one tape to get you through the weekend. Playing Fortnite vs. riding your bikes to the park to play with cap guns or hide and seek in the neighborhood. Hell even video games were more unique and fun than the 12 battle royale clones you have to choose from today.
>Third world immigration hadn't taken hold yet. Your neighbors looked like you. Your neighbors were from there.
>The belief that what we think of now as civic nationalism was working and the right answer. KKK and reparations were equally memes.
Mason Mitchell
>Parents didn't care about how long you stayed out or where you were as long as you showed up sometime over the weekend. Used to hide in the trees and shoot paintball guns at cars, that was really fun.
Ain't that the fucking truth. Meanwhile, in today's world:
>redstate.com
Eli Powell
What's with the shops?
It's as if people are trying to recreate the version of the 90's they have in their head rather than the actual 90's.
David Turner
As kids, There were a few of us in the neighborhood that knew how to connect a TV to a car battery source and play Winning eleven on the PS1 in the nightime.
Benjamin Parker
>riding your bikes to the park to play with cap guns or hide and seek in the neighborhood
I couldn't find my friend one night, as we usually went over to their place after school to play hide and seek or tag, so i hopped on my bike and rode down the street to the local park, turns out he was hanging out with the girl I liked. I totally 3rd wheeled that fuck. Ended up just coming back with me and we got a bunch of people together to throw one of these bad boys around and ditched the girl there.
These fuckers would fly so high and whistle as they fell back down. Good times
Jordan Morris
And now that car has 4G LTE for your smartphones to mindlessly poke through Candy Crush 30.
Yes the NERF whistlers! Back when the boys were more important.
James Bell
does anyone remember these? they were cardboard notebooks
Blake Russell
Sebastian Sanchez
Cunts like you think they know something because maybe their mama used to rent them movies from Blockbuster.
I worked there. It was terrible. The pay was shit, everyone had late fees. The in store loop trailer tape was fucking maddening (for me the one that was the worst was the one that had the "Dude, Where's My Car" trailer) it almost drove me insane. I would toss on a new release tape, but my manager would bitch me out about it.
My manager was a stupid bitch, but I wanted to fuck her, and her thong undies were always showing. She was a stupid cunt though.
People would get salty at me for enforcing the late fees, but I had to do it. They would say shit like
>I'm going to start using Netflix!
I would tell them to go ahead, because Netflix at the time was lame, and only in the mail. People in store on a busy day would try to like, halfass revolt over late fees. None of these assholes could EVER get a movie back on time. The entire time I worked there, I only encountered one illegitimate late fee. Sometimes people would just put like a load of Kroger rental movies in the drop box. One time a woman did it to me while I was unloading the box, so I ran her movies out to her, and told her that these were not ours, and she looked at me like a crazy person. Holy shit, Blockbuster and Kroger rental are not the same.
One time my dumbshit slut manager hired a kid who on his first night forgave every single late fee in a whole night, thousands of dollars uncollected. He was fired the next day. I quit with no notice one day out of the blue because I got super annoyed that I was this dumb bitch's only reliable employee, and she refused to give me a raise. Then hired an old drunk woman who would rent from us at a 1.50 more than I was getting. I quit, and my manager threw a fucking fit. Still never offered a raise, and slammed her office door so hard all the movies fell off the New Release wall.
Nolan Cox
Cops were helpful
Brody Edwards
Damn I remember going the theatre was such a big deal. Or maybe it was because I grew up a poor fag.
Alexander Morgan
For me it was around mid 2000s. I was still in middle school and I was walking around a thrift store and found a game called StarCraft in there. I bought it for like $5 at the time. I took it back to play it on the old Windows 98 computer we had in the garage. Holy fuck thats what got me into Blizzard. It was funny because the computer didn't have speakers so I just read all the text to follow the story.
Elijah Sanchez
Chill with the boomer-tier schizoposting lol. I just liked renting movies and browsing the shelves, man. I never made anyone's life hell like what you're describing.
Tyler Bailey
Any of you fuckers remember these old MP3 players?
Christopher Harris
>N64 and Playstation
That's late 90's shit. Real 90's kids were playing NES, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, or DOS games.
Hell, we would bike down to the video store and rent Super Pitfall and Ninja Gaiden and play on a black and white TV drinking Crystal Pepsi and listening to Body Count.
Anthony Bell
Anyone?
Camden Miller
Yeah, in 2005.