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1990s nostalgia
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The difference is there’s no guilt involved as a kid and there’s no responsibilities or bills to pay to get in the way.
ID: h1bgtg1ID: h1bxxc7Why am I being attacked?
ID: h1bvt2mIs all about responsabilities and the undeniable fact of needing money to survive and also keep buying more expensive videogames
ID: h1c09odSo true. I remember being told that when you grow up you can be anything you want to be. Well, that was a BIG FAT LIE!
ID: h1c996rIt wouldn't be very nice to tell you you're gonna waste the best years of you life in a cubicle
ID: h1c6ohzIts perfect, when he's a kid it's a poster on the wall and when he's an adult it's a clock now.
ID: h1b92zsThis.
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It's funny because in a sense the kid that grew up is doing the same things. There is an interesting thing to get from this when you're young everything is fresh and new but as you get older the experience changes since you had already done it or been in it many times. I think sometimes the opprotunity is better as older.
ID: h1akrw7what I see when looking at this is the things the pic isn't showing: the adult needs to spend most of his time at work (that he probably hates) and worrying about bills, this is just a snapshot of one of his weekends and the earlier panel could have been just about any day, and school for many is just "lame" not something body/soul crushing
ID: h1bmb9nExactly. As a kid I thought school was so onerous and homework was the worst ("why do I have to take work home, isn't that what school is for!?")
Now I look back and realize I probably only did 2-3 hours of chores per week, most homework could be completed in an hour or less a night, and school got out at 2:00-3:00 p.m. (in high school, as a kid my mom sent me to a shitty private school that ran until 5:00 p.m., I'm still bitter about it), at which point we would all just head to a friend's house and chill and play video games (mostly Goldeneye, it was the 90s) and do fun crap for hours.
That's a far cry from working late into the night, and often on weekends, and then getting the occasional time to sit around and play some video games.
Childhood was the most free most of us will ever be, we just don't understand that as children.
And when I have kids I am going to make sure my kids have that kind of fun, free childhood. They will have chores and I will make sure they get good grades, but I'm not going to cram all their waking hours with extra-curricular activities.
Kids should get to have that period of freedom so that their souls can be properly crushed by adulthood, like mine was.
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The big difference for me was in the kid version there were several friends in the picture with me.
As I get older that's harder and harder to pull off.
Between internet gaming, people having jobs and careers and life just getting more complicated, for those who still enjoy social gaming as a past time it's just not the same.
ID: h1bn6qiand then the single player games are GREAT but like, I don't have hours to sit down and play some dope RPG where I have to spend the first 30 minutes reorienting myself to the map/quests, then walking 45 minutes to talk to some NPC, to go collect 10 frogs for an hour, walk 45 minutes back, and then get a sword that I realize I already have.
ID: h1bfks7Honestly my discovery of twitch and private discords has made it a social event which wasn’t something I had growing up.
ID: h1bg90bSee I'm the opposite.
I had the social aspect and twitch just isn't the same
I guess I was a rare extroverted game nerd
ID: h1bz6aaYet, we're all here lamenting, and most of the conversation is centred around whether you're red team or blue, right or left, pronouns or not.
It's harder to make friends when your own self identity is defined by the exclusion of others on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, or indeed political affiliation, class or ideological disposition.
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Can't speak for non Americans, but there is more to it than that. Good economy, worst political scandle at the time was bill Clinton getting some head, not only was rock music still relevant to the mainstream, but it was a decade defining genre. some of the most iconic cartoons dropped. Most importantly, it was an era before mainstream internet.
ID: h1anz0dAnd at that age you don’t have the stresses and responsibilities of adulthood.
ID: h1aqmyuHaha that too, though for me adult responsibility isn't the stressful part. It's dealing and relying on other adults to be team players.
ID: h1b93ozworst political scandle at the time was bill Clinton getting some head
I suspect it probably only seems that way because you were a kid and not keeping tabs on politics.
ID: h1bjwq5Well that and 24 hour news cycles were just becoming a thing. In the past 20 years we've had a ever increasing dosage of "if it bleeds it leads" jacked into our veins and sensationalized to drive profits.
ID: h1beri4Pre-9/11...
Also when you're a kid, the world is new and you're experiencing everything for the first time, and that's much more powerful emotionally than doing the same shit when you're an adult.
ID: h1b4rvsI mean the whole Rawanda situation was pretty horrific during the Clinton administration but we didn't have the same flow of information back then and the tv liked to focus more on the sex scandal stuff.
ID: h1c8ytaYeah the West had just managed to win the Cold War and was stupidly pretending that the world wouldn't get scary again. If you were an adult in the 90s and didn't realize it then, this was the 90s feeling—pretending history had ended.
ID: h1bymhkMostly the internet I'd say.
We were all main characters in the American dream. Now there are many other narratives across the globe, many of whom cast us as side characters at best, or villains at worst.
It's harder to have an heroic sense of self when you're beaten down daily by the expectation that not only is there not a pinnacle, but reaching it will most likely be met with derision.
ID: h1bmq51I remember that kids started getting pagers and MAYBE the first really basic cell phones that could fit in your pocket when I was in high school.
I can't imagine growing up with social media and not being to escape all that stupid shit and other kids even when I left school.
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I can't even imagine how I would respond to playing the game from Today when I was a Kid 20 years ago.
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This feeling hit me today at work and I almost cried cause I miss coming home from school and waiting for the boys to hope on so we could play battlefield 3 together. It may not be 1990's nostalgia but it's my nostalgia.
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I never have time for gaming, if I put how much time I spend on reddit vs time spent gaming i'd be very sad.
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‘eat pant’ on the wall there
ID: h1bs40nGod dammit it’s the first thing I thought.
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I prefer current times tbh, there's a lot of annoyances that were in consoles and games in that time that i'm glad we got ridden of. And we can still play 90s games anyway so why would you want to time travel back to that decade? Would be dumb.
ID: h1b7iyzMore joy experiencing games as a kid for the first time compared to replaying an outdated game on a console that wasn't designed to function properly on a modern tv.
ID: h1bzimqNintendo needs to purge the asset flippers. Mobile needs to purge the micropayments.
Nothing saps joy quite like being preyed upon.
ID: h1bf0p8For me it's other people.
As a kid I had in person gamer friends.
As an adult in this internet she that's so much harder to pull off
ID: h1b8kbsIf anything, I have these reverse-nostalgia moments where I get all warm and tingly realizing that I'm doing so many of the same things I was in the 90s but it's all upgraded...especially as far as video games and owning my own home go.
90's-Me would shit himself if he got to experience 5 minutes of PS5 while smoking dabs...
And like you said, there's so many ways to play these retro games anyway.
ID: h1bmw1uHa yo 90s me doing a dab and playing ps5...that shit would seem like fucking MAGIC.
I agree with this take though. I got switch for the sole purpose of reliving my smash bros glory days, and you know what, I don't ever play it. I no longer am surrounded by friends who want to play 4 player games constantly. The ways I get joy in gaming have changed. Now I am pretty much playing any split screen offline coop games (yeah not many so mostly COD Zombies), but that's what the wifey likes so gaming has adapted and grown while still gaming.
Also beat saber and ring fit have actually helped me stay in shape during COVID - Imagine telling someone in the 90s you would lose weight playing video games.
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Nope. In the 90s we went outside and played with friends. Video games were for rainy days and nighttime.
ID: h1bakghPretty sure I was playing games
ID: h1bf4ctMy greatest day was when we hard a garage sale and I set up my super Nintendo outside.
Best of both worlds!
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Life huh?
Genius.
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Exactly how I feel
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from what i can see, the problem is you started drinking.
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The Bart Simpson poster meant a lot to him...
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This is kinda dumb. Doing the same shit or not, as a kid you were free and just doing it because that's what you wanted to do at the moment.
You're not playing games as an escape from some soul crushing existence of bills debt and death.
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How you gona have a portrait of Bart Simpson on your wall tho
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I dont think we really miss the 90s, I think we actually just miss not having adult responsibilities.
ID: h1c0cy9Seriously. The same scene without Bart or the video game still rings true.
Remember when soda was the greatest thing in the world?
Ya know, rather than just a diabetes ticket, adult acne and feelings of guilt and shame for not exercising enough to balance it out, followed by YouTube binges about the evils of sugar and the evils of soda companies, pollution etc etc etc.
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Didn't know what self loathing was back then
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Yeah the problem is what's outside of the panels, not what's in them.
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You don't miss being a kid in the 90s. The 90s was terrible. We had Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock, the 1993 Chevy Camaro and 1994 Ford Mustang, and politicians bitching about games like Night Trap that were less provocative than a lot of 50s sci fi movies. It was a stupid, stupid time. Not as stupid as the 80s, but close.
You miss being a kid, period. You didn't have to worry about politics and Fred Durst and deliverables and paying bills, you could just be a kid. School let out, you came home, and you played some games. Then you ate dinner, did your homework, and went to bed.
Now, you drag yourself home from work, pay some billionaire assholes your last penny so the lights don't go out and then flop down in front of the TV, exhausted and angry, and try to mimic what you did as a kid to recapture some fleeting sensation of what it was like to be free to stay up late drinking a two liter bottle of soda and scarfing pizza while trying for the 40th time in a row to beat Mega Man 3.
It doesn't work though because everything always hurts and your phone keeps ringing and that fourth beer is when the fatigue starts to set in and you start to lose focus and get frustrated with Gemini Man and quit. Then you just plop down in front of the TV and flip through Netflix and Hulu menus until the next thing you know it's 11:45 PM and you're almost done with the second six pack, get up, eat 1400 calories of leftover Chinese takeout even though you're already overweight and fall asleep hoping tomorrow isn't the day you get fired.
Anyway, how's your day goin'?
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You take that back about Freddy D
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No, I got yelled at by my boss for going to my car and listening to music on my break and I can't get past the first stage of Samurai Showdown anymore even though I used to be able to play for an hour at the bowling alley on a single quarter.
It's all Fred Durst's fault. It has to be.
Although, no matter what else you can say about Fred Durst, he can always rest soundly knowing he isn't Bob Ritchie.
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The cords weren't that long. Had to sit on the floor.
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It’s true. We didn’t have clocks in the 90s.
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Didn't have to worry about all the bullshit going on in the outside world backward then.
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BARM
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Yeah but in the 1990s things were cheaper
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So is the Bart Simpson picture just to date the comic, or did the artist really have one of those?
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Yeah but I didn't get the shits when I ate junk food back then.
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I only had two worries as a kid in the 90s - maintaining decent grades and not getting caught watching scrambled porn by the parentals
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Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?
引用元:https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/nwqde8/1990s_nostalgia/
"I am probably dead in 30 years tops, I feel like there is something else I should be doing but I don't know what it is and if someone told me, I'd have no motivation to do it, so here I sit playing these games"