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We thought it could never get better than this

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Submitted ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Once Internet came, downloaded demos on bboards and then happy puppy. Had content for a while although short lived.

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  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We thought it couldn’t get better than this, and in fact it didn’t get better.

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    • Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now they have AI, and micro transactions if you want to buy more balls/cards.

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  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you replaced MS Paint with SkiFree in that picture, you’d achieve perfection.

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  • bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      garage

      I’ve got a Dungeon Master’s guide

      I’ve got a twelve sided die

      I’ve got Kitty Pryde

      And Nightcrawler too

      Waiting there for me

      Yes I do

      I do

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    • tunetardis@piefed.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They had games like this before the Internet with no DRM or anything? :O

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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        If you wanted to put in the time you could finder power ups!

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    • sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You could at least tell something about it instead of just putting a picture of a new concept without commentary… some people are just ignorant

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      • plm00@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It was a peaceful life.

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Watching the maze screensaver on windows 98 like a damn tv show

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That tickles a memory of an actual game from around that time that looked like that. I think it was one of the ones MS made free, though you might have needed to specifically install the extended game pack or play it with the windows CD in or something like that. Not the most solid memory I have, but I just remember the screen saver looked a lot like that game just without the actual game part.

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  • humanamerican@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We thought it could never get better than this

    And we were right

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  • JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Uhhh excuse me?

    Where’s Number Munchers?

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    …or Oregon Trail?

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    …or QBasic games like Gorillas?

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    …and Nibbles (aka Snake)

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    …and Wolfenstein 3D that some kid installed on the machines when no one was looking?

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Neither came as a standard Windows game/app

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  • hdnsmbt@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Those of us who drew random squiggles in Paint and filled the loops using the bucket tool are just objectively better and healthier people. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jezzball mothertruckers.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i miss that game so much. I should try to find if someones made one for linux.

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    • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fuck yeah!

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  • Alkimos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This, but all your games are shareware/demos you constantly replay

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    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Loved the Road Rash demo back then
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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you don’t have e Space Cadet Pinball on your PC right now, then please re-evaluate what you’re doing with your life.

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    • MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have that shit on my phone right now, it’s a great time killer

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Same here.
        High score so far was 10mil

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I had the Internet well before that pinball game existed. Windows 95 wouldn’t even exist for almost a decade when we got Internet. IRC made me the lifelong pirate I am today.

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    • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was expensive in most parts of the world, though.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My dad convinced his work that he needed it. No clue how much it cost. It was 1986

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As a teenager, I got really good at drawing books from the side and the front in MS paint.

    Then we got the internet and my digital art career went up in smoke at 28.9kbs.

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Enter teenage me trying to draw proper exposed boobies on this image from Pools of Darkness. That’s about when I gave up on my aspirations for becoming an artist.

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      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Funny how it was Laura Croft’s triangular prism boobs that became so famous when there were better boob depictions in games with detailed pixel art.

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn, now I understand when exactly I stopped doodling, with both the pencil and the mouse.

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Funny that I had a similar skill. My drawings were all “under boob” pics. I focused on that. Tops of boobs are no big deal, but when a halter top is involved the tops are completely covered but a good portion of the bottom of the boob is exposed.

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  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I got bored during a particularly slow period at work once and wanted to just play minesweeper or solitaire and found I did not have that option on modern windows without download some bullshit “app” from the “app store” that was full of ads…

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  • SilverJeyJey@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What about roller coaster tycoon?

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Those ones above were all included with windows back in the day, like installed from the disc when you installed windows, then they’d be discoverable in Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Games (other than paint, which was in accessories) IIRC. Eventually they moved it out of the accessories folder, then later on they changed which games were included, eliminating some, though these ones I believe remained the longest until MS started instead advertising games they had on the windows store.

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  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The first PC I had in my bedroom didn’t have internet, in fact we didn’t have internet in the house at all, but when bored I would still click the internet E xplorer logo sometimes to see if it would magically work.

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  • negativenull@piefed.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Relive the dream:
    https://online-pinball.com/play/space-cadet-pinball/ https://playminigames.net/game/skifree

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    • lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can just open my 486 laptop running win2k and play it, Still booted 5 years ago.

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  • WanakaTree@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to play rodents revenge on my dad’s wori computer all the time

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  • Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I grew up with mine sweeper, but now with internet there’s triple A minesweeper.

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  • Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And it never did get better than that.

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    • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the true peak of pc gaming

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      • Dagobah@lemmy.world ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Damnit Beckyfear go take a bath!

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  • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is also life with internet when your parents come in your bedroom

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    • finley@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The rest of us had better jerk off a material

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      • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        None of the girls at school could live up to the Queen of Hearts

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    • Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Your parents did what?

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      • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You heard me

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still remember when the prize at the bottom of the cereal box was a CD-ROM for (mostly terrible) computer games

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    • Sc00ter@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      DONT YOU SLANDER CHEX QUEST

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I remember once getting a demo CD for strategy games (not a cereal box one but one they had for like $5 beside the cash register at computer stores). It set a trajectory on my life that resulted in my later WoW addiction.

      That disc had Dune II on it, the first RTS game I ever played. I was instantly hooked. Then I tried Warcraft II (also on that disc) and it was even better. I mentioned it to a friend at school and he had just gotten SC:BW, which meant he had two play discs and let me borrow the SC disc first, then the BW disc later and we played a ton of StarCraft. Somehow, on battle.net despite using the same key (my assumption is they screwed something up in early manufacturing and duplicated some keys, which meant they couldn’t just limit it to one player online at a time per key for some set of keys that included my friend’s).

      That eventually led to me discovering the StarCraft modding community, which defined my later high school years. Funny enough, I wasn’t even into modding that much, I was more fascinated with the tools that enabled it and the reverse engineering process involved in building those tools.

      It also led me on my path to D2, WC3, SC2, and finally WoW (uh, might have the order wrong for SC2).

      I wonder how things would have gone for me without that demo disc.

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where is the OG Prince of Persia, it below on that list

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I grew up with internet and still played these.

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  • Chivera@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Please take the Internet away

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    • silentjohn@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Please take the billionaire technocrats away…

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The C64 and Amiga 500 Plus had no internet. At least back then.

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  • Jiral@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What starter pack has Dune II and California Games?

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s the “I don’t know how to install games onto the PC” starter pack.

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