kids today will never know

[DJTiki]

Blowing on the catridge because Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt kept freezing every goddamn time I so much as tapped the NES.

Burning CDs in Windows Media Player and begging your parents to blast that shit in the car.

Actually utilizing local multiplayer in video games, instead of giving your online name away. You had to organize that shit with your friends! (*cough*SSB64*cough*Goldeneye*cough*Super Mario Bros. 3*cough*)

 

[Parivir]

90's cartoons. Like, can we just say that those were the best days ever? Does anyone agree? Not that I hate a lot of the stuff now but... none of it can ever compare to the 90's. I pretty much grew up with 90's cartoons.

THIS SO MUCH let me throw all my agrees at you

 

[Nolafus]

Splitscreen multiplayer

 

[Melody]

• Saturday Morning Cartoons - When you were nowhere near having any cable and the only oasis of programming that you enjoy is cartoons; these are especially nice.
• FM Radio
  Kids really don't appreciate this like they used to;

  Kids really don't appreciate this like they used to;
  sure they may listen to it when in the car, but they really don't get it. Back then the radio was the only way you could really explore new music. Doubly so if you weren't blessed with a reasonable cassette player or CD player and cassettes/CDs with the music of your liking.
• MTV/VH1/CMT - When these channels ACTUALLY WERE DEVOTED TO PLAYING MUSIC VIDEOS AND MUSIC ALONE!
• The Game Boy, GBC, and GBA
  These little portable consoles were an escape from the harsher realities of life.

  These little portable consoles were an escape from the harsher realities of life.
  While they were hungry little monsters; consuming batteries at a high rate during intensive gameplay. Good batteries could get you through a marathon session with no problem, allowing you to beat that game with plenty of energy to spare. Cheap dollar store batteries were always an option; especially if you had minimal allowance to spare, but there wasn't much life to them...you could only play about 6 hours on a set before they died off.
• Boybands
  God they were amazing.

  God they were amazing.
  They often had golden voices and were normally really easy listening. You could sit for hours and listen to them. As a teenager I often let the mellow sound of the Backstreet Boys melt away my troubles and take me to a happier place. Before I discovered anime and such things online, they were literally all I had. Notably, N*SYNC and Spice Girls were also bands I enjoyed...even though the last isn't technically a "boy band".
• Combination FM Radio/MP3 Players
  I owned a Creative MuVo and a Zen

  I owned a Creative MuVo and a Zen
  with a solid 256MB(MuVo)/2GB(Zen) of storage onboard and the capability to tune into the FM radio bands. This little player, powered by a single AAA battery (Rechargeable Battery on the Zen), was a reliable source of good music no matter what my mood was.
• Zune player - This is the same as above but was more advanced. I owned both a 1st Gen 30GB and a 32GB ZuneHD. I loved them dearly. The Zune absolutely DESTROYS the iPod in comparison...but Apple had the traction already. RIP Zune. You will be missed forever.

 

[Frozen Lotus]

90's Nickelodeon.

 

[Esper]

MP3 Players

There was a Kids React about this just today.



I also had a Zen. Well, technically still do. I guess the kids these days don't care for dedicated music players and want it all-in-one with their phones.

 

[DJTiki]

• MTV/VH1/CMT - When these channels ACTUALLY WERE DEVOTED TO PLAYING MUSIC VIDEOS AND MUSIC ALONE!

I'll never forget ;_;. RIP in pepperoni. Rekt by too many reality shows.

 

[Meganium]

"Hello?"
"Hi, may I speak to Roxanne?"
"Sure, one sec....ROXAAAAAAAAAANE? YO FRIEND MEG IS ON THE PHOWNE"

^Kids will never get to experience this. I have to go through my friends' parents in order to actually talk to my friend on the phone. These days we all have cellphones, so home phones are like...obsolete now.

oh, and emailing friends. this was before social media like myspace became a thing.

 

[curiousnathan]

 

[Ivysaur]

The Saturday (and Sunday) morning Disney cartoons :'( My childhood right there. Recess, Duck Tales, Pepper Ann, Darkwing Duck. Man I'm getting nostalgic just to list them haha.

Also the cool-ass GB games from back then. The Wario Land series, Gen I and II, the Zelda Oracles...

 

[Her]

Kinda on the contrary since they'll know more about it than we ever did as technology advances.

but they will only know it as the estranged bastard ginger child of the planets so who really wins

 

[Leviathan]

Myspace and custom profile pages were a thing back when I was growing up.

Basically me except replace MySpace with Bebo. Wow the amount of hours that I sank into that website was unreal. And it was still leagues better than Facebook. A shame that it has become a weird clone of twitter and some kind of simulator.

Oh my god I remember playing that at the library all the time. I really miss it. Apparently the maker of it got a C&D and had to take it down.

Ack, it did? Such a damn shame.

 

[Sir Codin]

Personally I'm just very saddened that my descendants will never know the god-given gift that is Crayon Shin-Chan.

Me too, except replace "saddened" with "happy" and "god-given gift" with "visual holocaust."

 

[Palkia]

Using twitter trends to gloat about their childhood being 'superior' compared to kids today.

 

[Parivir]

Me too, except replace "saddened" with "happy" and "god-given gift" with "visual holocaust."

these are not mutually exlusive

 

[R2J]

25 years of this system.

 

[Yukari]

VHS/Cassette Tapes. I still have a shit load of these and still use them all the time. Also having a landline phone.

I'm too young to to be posting here.

 

[Kikaito plush]

a little television show called top of the pops

 

[Shining Raichu]

Personally I'm just very saddened that my descendants will never know the god-given gift that is Crayon Shin-Chan.

That's not specific to your descendants.