darkangel-212559
Banned
Yeah it's true, the world was a lot more fun and interesting back before everyone was constantly connected to some online device that allows you to look anything up anywhere. Like as a kid growing up in the 90's I remember how amazing it was to go to my local Funcoland, play the demo consoles, and check out all the games they had. When I first started going there all I had was a Sega Genesis, and I still remember how blown away I was the first time I was Virtua Racing playing on their demo Genesis, I actually bought the game right then with my allowance money I had saved up. I never even knew that game existed before walking into that store, and just watching the game doing it's demo look, amazed by how my Genesis could play 3D graphics.
That, and I think people forget how much more normal and grounded everyone was before the internet and social media culture took off. Nobody cares about all the crazy crap they obsess over these days, everyone had their own lives to live and they weren't constantly obsessing over everything/everyone else. I mean I was just a kid, but people hardly ever discussed politics, and social issues had awareness but they weren't obsessed over. That and people just seemed to be a lot easier to talk to, they weren't all locked into some device chatting with people somewhere else in the world.
Man I miss the days when you were at school as a young kid and there was a rumour that this one kid knew how to beat a certain boss or knew a certain cheat code for the SNES or Megadrive game everyone was playing. All while taking part in the great Nintendo VS Sega console wars, which were so far less mean spirited than they are today.
I miss waiting for the next video game mag for previews or being blown away at the arcades too.