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We thought it could never get better than this

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • tunetardis@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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      • plm00@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It was a peaceful life.

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    • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • humanamerican@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We thought it could never get better than this

    And we were right

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  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The last 20 years was better and better browsers and web technologies, but the result now is a web that loads slowly and has tons of ads. Somewhere around 2008 was maybe the best, I dont remember exactly what year. But when the web was actually good and social media was not big yet.

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      • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I didn’t mind the early 2000’s web experience. You just kinda had to know how to get around, know what the fake download button looked like, not type your real name anywhere, have a little patience. The barrier to entry was slightly higher, which kept the masses away.
        I think it was great, even with all its problems. Way less corporate too.

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      • dropped_the_chief@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Get a pihole. No ads

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    • Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • hdnsmbt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • reptar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, hello! I made some beautiful stained glass are

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  • JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Neither came as a standard Windows game/app

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      • JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Dang it you’re right. Sorry.

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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Same here.
        High score so far was 10mil

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  • Alkimos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Loved the Road Rash demo back then
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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jezzball mothertruckers.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fuck yeah!

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  • negativenull@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wow, that’s ambitious. But I get it - it’s sooooo close already!

        That point when you’re zoomed in, coloring individual pixels with zero horniness, just all frustration and focus. Then you zoom out and your heart skips a beat. Ahh, those were the days.

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    • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • finley@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The rest of us had better jerk off a material

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      • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your parents did what?

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      • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You heard me

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s so cool how we all share this experience. It’s a bit like also knowing what life was like before mobile phones. No other generation will ever know.

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    • horsesaysweird@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There will be plenty of post-cellphone generations after the collapse.

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  • Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And it never did get better than that.

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    • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the true peak of pc gaming

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      • Dagobah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Damnit Beckyfear go take a bath!

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  • Chivera@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please take the Internet away

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    • silentjohn@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Please take the billionaire technocrats away…

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • reptar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh shit … Hover?

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  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Filling the mspaint camvas with the spray paint tool 🤗

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  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Coffeephilic@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Windows 3.5 was the apex of operating system design. There, I said it. Fight me, I dont care.

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think almost everyone started with ms paint, no? I have no idea what skifree is.

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  • Leviathan@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m in this post.

    Side note: I didn’t properly learn how to play Minesweeper until well after I got my first smart phone, it’s a real banger of a game. I highly recommend giving it a chance if, like me, you were too young to figure it out and just randomly pressed on squares until it blew up.

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  • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      DONT YOU SLANDER CHEX QUEST

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I really wish I’d been introduced to SC1 as a kid, I’ve tried playing it but after 2 1 just feels so janky

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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I grew up with internet and still played these.

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  • CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have memories from the early 90s playing a DOS version of Dig-Dug all day when I didn’t want to go to school.

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  • SilverJeyJey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What about roller coaster tycoon?

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • WanakaTree@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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