Be Kind, rewind!

[VisionofMilotic]

What old technology do you remember that isn't around much nowadays?

The title is a reference to none other than video tapes. I was born in a mythical age before Blu-ray, instead it was just DVD or video cassettes, and I even owned my very own video tape player as a small child, with some of the first videos I collected being Pokemon tapes. I also had lots of Disney movies too and muppets, and would play with the empty video cases by stacking them and organizing 'em into towers so I could make-believe it was a doll house.

I remember nano and gigapets too, and being able to carry them around as keychains or clip them on your bag or pocket, clothes and play minigames with that virtual pet. I had a little gold colored giga pet that was a cat, which I named Dinah after the cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I still remember when my mom bought it for me from Toys R Us for good grades.

I also of course remember the Gameboy games, particularly game boy color and the Johto games.

Share your stories of days long gone...

 

[Zeostar]

My family stores things into extra rooms instead of throwing them away.

So despite not being alive at all during the 1990's, I was able to experience VHS and some early-mid 90's game systems such as Gameboy Color and SNES. For some reason my family owns 3 different SNES systems. I've never inquired why. I play around with it from time to time but it's not like a dedicated pastime for me.

Since my family kept a gameboy color I ordered Pokemon Silver online and played it on a real cartridge.

As far as technology I grew up with, I was gifted a Nintendo Wii on my 6th birthday. I pretty much fell in love with the virtual console and it was all I used the system for. It's still plugged in and working, just looks slightly aged now.