For me it’s the Myst series and the Submachine series
this late ‘90s classic:
I love Myst! I think the most obscure favorite game I played was Primal- your character turns into four demon forms and she has a gargoyle pet voiced by Andreas Katsulas (G’Kar from Babylon 5 )
My brothers and I spent HOURS playing the Star Trek BASIC ascii pictured – text game waaaaaaay back in the 1980s. I can’t tell you how revolutionary it was to be able to play an interactive game BY YOURSELF. It’s not hyperbole to say that it literally changed the world.
Have….have people…not eaten shredded wheat before? The regular sized ones?
You put it in a bowl and pour milk on it (with sugar + cinnamon if you’re not some lunatic fiber satan who just wants to eat wheat strings) and let it soak a bit before breaking it up and eating bite sized portions with your spoon.
DO PEOPLE NOT KNOW THIS?!
NONE OF US KNEW THAT
WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO EAT A FUCKING MOIST BALE OF HAY.
Plain shredded wheat is my life. I just finished a box and got a new box today. Please don’t hurt me like this. ;_;
Also, I thought everyone knew shredded wheat came in 4 sizes:
I’m still laughing my ass off at “lunatic fiber satan”
Oh, see now, I’m actually old enough to predate the mini-version shredded wheat. So I grew up eating the full sized “hay stacks.” (We actually did call them that, then.)
Best way to eat them, imo? HOT MILK AND HONEY! (But really quickly before they turn into mush.)
Without revealing your actual age, what something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn’t understand?
Staying up late waiting for the really good shows to come on is more emotionally rewarding than being able to watch whatever you want whenever you want.
Having to be on Channel 3 to play videogames.
Rewinding a VHS tape and watching the characters jump about crazily in reverse to rewatch a show, instead of restarting like a DVD.
Begging your parents to get cable so you can watch high school musical on disney channel and stop being a social outcast at school
Not being able to watch Doctor Who because BBC America only showed the specials and SyFy only played Series 4 on a loop, so having to watch it in pieces on YouTube quickly before YouTube found it and took it down.
Being able to fill my tank for $5.
Passive-aggressive AIM away messages.
Also? Napster. So much Napster.
Not being able to watch Doctor Who because PBS was running a FUCKING PLEDGE DRIVE, and they moved it to 0200 Monday from 1600 Sunday.
Getting hooked on All Creatures Great and Small (and Peter Davidson as Tristan) as a consequence.
Only being able to watch cartoons on Saturday morning – that animated opening for Soul Train meant they were over for the week!
Missing an episode of a show and not knowing when or even if it would be repeated.
Video rental stores with $50 annual membership fees (on top of rental fees).
Friday Night Videos.
The excitement of being connected to the Real Internet and not just a local BBS.
The feeling of talking to your crush on AIM when someone else in the house picks up the phone :l
Waiting for that song to come on the radio with your fingers over the play and record buttons of the tape deck, just hoping that asshole didn’t talk through the ending.
Having to mess with the turntable speed switch to get music to play right.
Those cool binocular-like things with little discs of images, you hold it up to the sunlight to see the pictures, and press a little lever to change the image.
Turning a dial on the TV to change the channel and there were only 13 of them.
Hearseeno 