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[p_xavier]

While cleaning up water damage goods, I found my old minidisc player. Changing songs felt so good with the remote attached to your belt. (same model pictured)

What were your small enjoyable moments.

 

[Allforce]

Discussing a topic without someone grabbing their phone to look up a fact or detail.

 

[Con_Z_ǝdʇ]

I go even back a bit further and mention tape walkman. Had one from Sony with a shine metal case. It was quite heavy and felt really good and sturdy. I don't know why but i don't need portable music in my live anymore and i miss this somehow. Just talked about this today at work.

 

[Pagusas]

I miss old PC's, miss doing the pencil trick to unlock my old Athlon Processor. Overclocking was fun and actually gave legit rewards and insane performance gains.

 

[Sidney Prescott]

MSN Messenger.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Arcade rooms.

 

[poodaddy]

I kinda miss fucking with my VHS player's tracking thing to get the picture right for some reason. Don't know why, just something about being able to adjust things with analog switches and what not, it just appealed to me. I had a job for a few years in photo development, garnered a real appreciation for film as well, and just how intricate the chemical washing process is and the beauty of dark rooms. I miss when there was more to producing a good photo then just getting a good shot and fiddling with photo shop for a few hours. Even the act of producing the photo took a certain degree of skill and knowledge, and it was easy to destroy your paper if you exposed it to light, so there was a real care to the whole process.

 

[Catphish]

I really miss Yahoo voice chat around the year 2000. Met all kinds of people from around the world, talked about all kinds of stuff, and then the xxx bots moved in...



And I really miss AoL. I don't miss the overhead and the slow gaming connections, but the sense it gave you of connecting to an online community, and the fun you could have in chat... peerless.

 

[Sybrix]

 

[MastAndo]

Way back when I first started working, I used to look forward to grabbing a newspaper in the morning to read on my subway commute. It was just one of those simple things that made the morning grind a little more enjoyable.

 

[NeededSleep]

No social media.

 

[Quasicat]

Pizzaria chips.
They were sold off to another company who sold them under the TGIFridays brand for a while. They obviously did not sell enough and they became exclusive to Dollar Tree. Then they were discontinued outright. I would love to see them again.

 

[Mossybrew]

Videogame magazines.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I wish I could go back to this time, In Blockbuster Mexico, I went in search of each establishment to find video games that were difficult to obtain. I got Fatal Frame, Haunting ground, God Hand, Silent hill 3, among other very difficult games to get for 10 dollars.

People did not know about games and bought rare and most value games, it was not the same since then and with a lot of experience they knew the value of the games they found.

 

[JimmyRustler]

Video and game rental stores.
When the internet and gaming were geek territory.
No social media.

 

[p_xavier]

Discussing a topic without someone grabbing their phone to look up a fact or detail.

Also I remember family members not talking for months because they were argumenting and both parties didn't want to say they were wrong because of the impossibility to validate a fact. For me it's a positive.

 

[Facism]

Icq

 

[Rival]

I miss how when I was a kid a few hours could feel like days, the anticipation of things like summer vacation or an upcoming birthday. I miss knowing all of my friends phone numbers by heart which I still remember to this day as if they were my own.

 

[Billbofet]

Recently took a road trip with my family.
While my wife was on shift for driving, I dug through my glove box and found a map booklet of all 50 states. I just went page by page and was looking up and discovering where cities I have never been to are located.
I did that a lot as a kid.

 

[jason10mm]

Having to remember directions or use a map instead of offloading all that work to a GPS. Same for phone numbers.

Seasonality for tv shows or films, nothing was immediately on-demand.

Having to schedule times to call someone or be available to accept a call, you weren't on the clock 24/7.

Meeting up with and banging a random girl and she couldn't immediately track you down for a paternity te......oops

 

[Billbofet]

I also miss going to movies pre-internet and genuinely being blown away by trailers and almost more excited to see them than the actual feature.

One of my favorite memories was seeing the teaser trailer for Jurassic Park - the one with the just mosquito stuck in amber and the logo - and being so excited.
I had finished reading the book a few months before that and wished it would someday be a movie.

Nowadays there are trailers for trailers and on-set leaks and photos and endless discussion and critiques months before any movie actually comes out.

 

[Whitecrow]

Good health mostly

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[Frank Horrigan]

Minidisc player. It was so easy to transfer music from PC to the minidisc, a revolution over my old CD player.

 

[AJUMP23]

We still have a Pizza Hutt with a lunch buffet around here.

 

[The_hunter]

Video and game rental stores.
When the internet and gaming were geek territory.
No social media.

My city still has video game and rental stores, was magical going there and getting some (still awesome) ps3 games for dirt cheap.

 

[Roxkis_ii]

Bike riding with a group of friends. Haven't had that much fun since the 90`s.

 

[p_xavier]

We still have a Pizza Hutt with a lunch buffet around here.

Same, I still enjoy it. I would kill the chickens myself for a KFC buffet though.

 

[Fools idol]

late 80's to late 90s' PC gaming. It was honestly bliss.

No microtransaction bullshit, no toxic communities, no social media... consistently good games and more importantly, devs that actually gave a shit.. different time indeed.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I kinda miss fucking with my VHS player's tracking thing to get the picture right for some reason. Don't know why, just something about being able to adjust things with analog switches and what not, it just appealed to me. I had a job for a few years in photo development, garnered a real appreciation for film as well, and just how intricate the chemical washing process is and the beauty of dark rooms. I miss when there was more to producing a good photo then just getting a good shot and fiddling with photo shop for a few hours. Even the act of producing the photo took a certain degree of skill and knowledge, and it was easy to destroy your paper if you exposed it to light, so there was a real care to the whole process.

you reminded me that game martha is dead

 

[AJUMP23]

Same, I still enjoy it. I would kill the chickens myself for a KFC buffet though.

We have one of those too, but it is only on Sundays.

 

[Ailynn]

Carefree Saturday mornings with cartoons and a good bowl of cereal.

 

[Frank Horrigan]

CS:S Office 24/7 on a 'private' server. Campers, Spammers, Griefers Banned! GG'ers, good players and friendly banter welcomed.

Man I must have wasted weeks, if not months, of my life playing the same level. No kill streaks, no perks, no P2W, no MTX or DLC. Just one life and a pants-shittingly scarey run and jump across a corridor. And people say gaming is getting better? SMH

 

[-Minsc-]

Not this but I'm using this thread as an excuse to post this video.



In simplest terms, my pick would be not having to provide for myself. Oh well.

 

[Patrick S.]

I miss it when a lettuce cost €0.39 two years ago, and not €1.49-€1.79 like it does today.

 

[p_xavier]

Not this but I'm using this thread as an excuse to post this video.



In simplest terms, my pick would be not having to provide for myself. Oh well.

I miss Zellers toys' section. It was a kids wet dream.

 

[eddie4]

Coming home in the evening, connecting to the internet(dial-up), logging onto AIM, MSN, ICQ, IRC, and chatting with friends and randos. No drama, no bs, just a good time.

Video and game rental stores.

I remember going to Blockbuster with my parents, renting SNES, N64 games, and trying to beat them in a week before I had to return them.

 

[Rival]

Recently took a road trip with my family.
While my wife was on shift for driving, I dug through my glove box and found a map booklet of all 50 states. I just went page by page and was looking up and discovering where cities I have never been to are located.
I did that a lot as a kid.

When I was a kid my dad always bought a new atlas every year. I used to love studying it for some reason.

 

[G-Bus]

The feeling you'd get at the start of summer break.

 

[strange headache]

LAN parties.

 

[lachesis]

Waiting, and anticipating a new release of the weekly manga magazine for the latest episode of Slam Dunk & Drangon Ball.

Taking that thing home with some snack from convenience store, reading it cover to cover, multiple times - and talking about it in the following day with my friends, speculating what's going to happen.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

LAN parties.

I can smell this picture. I miss lots of things. One of the foremost on my mind lately is my hair.

 

[Artoris]

Gummi Bears thunder cats and Conan and being young enough to appreciate them

 

[Neff]

Magazines

 

[mindfreak191]

Videogame magazines.

These were my favorite thing to get every month, too bad once internet caught up they kinda became obsolete since you end up reading month old news by the time they publish a new issue. :/

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Talking to someone who can sustain eye contact for longer than 1 second without them twitching or feeling like they need to reach for/look at their phone.

(I mean in general; thankfully I still get to experience that with my very close -- but very small -- group of friends and family.)

 

[mitch1971]

Age

 

[Billbofet]

Going to the photo mat with my parents and picking up four to six months' worth of pictures.
We would actually make a night of it going through the photos from holidays and vacations when we picked them up - sometimes even have neighbors and family over if it was after a big trip.

I always laugh now when I see somebody taking and retaking a selfie at a restaurant, traffic stop, or point of interest while making that ridiculous duck face.

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Going to the photo mat with my parents and picking up four to six months' worth of pictures.
We would actually make a night of it going through the photos from holidays and vacations when we picked them up - sometimes even have neighbors and family over if it was after a big trip.

I always laugh now when I see somebody taking and retaking a selfie at a restaurant, traffic stop, or point of interest while making that ridiculous duck face.

Yeah this is a good one.

In my family we used to go through the photos and laugh at the fact that in half of them, someone would have their eyes closed, or be in the middle of making a funny face, or something else

 

[InfiniteCombo]

Videogame magazines.

Yup. I have lots of anecdotes of me "looking for something to buy" at a grocery store after school, when in reality I was just reading Tips and Tricks or Electronic Gaming Monthly or something. (Reading it in the store so I wouldn't have to pay for it) Once the store owner got a hold of what I was doing, he'd angrily rush my way and I had to run out of the store. Good times