I grew up with a a Windows 3.1 machine, so for me my game selection was Chip’s Challenge, Miser Mind (MasterMind), WinTris (Tetris), Atmoids (Asteroids), and JezzBall. Oh and SkiFree of course but somehow I never played it.
Chip’s Challenge was my favorite. To this day I still haven’t beaten every level.
3.0/3.1 user also… paint always felt like a downgrade from paintbrush.
Yeah you could set custom colors in Paintbrush, which was removed in Paint and I don’t think was ever restored.
Space Cadet.
TIL about my financial situation, I guess. What’s wrong with them?
What about winamp and windows media center audio visualizers. Trippy patterns
Have I got good news for you.
How would you acquire winamp without the internet?
It was bundled with the computer, my father won at a lottery.
I mean we did have internet, but in the beginning it was billed by the amount of data you used and being online meant that people couldn’t use the phone at the same time.
Kids and their fancy winders machines…
haha what a funny post.
Username is fitting
they could have at least made a loss meme out of it
Man this takes me back.
Encarta and Paint were where I spent most of my computer time as a younger teenager. The trivia games on Encarta were dope, I also spent a lot of time walking around the 3d castles and ancient ruins. And a lot of time in the ummm… Art section. Learned a lot about myself from Venus of Urbino.
Used to waste time by painting giant graphic and bloody battle scenes between stick figures in paint. Did it pixel by pixel! Good times!
Fucking encarta! I always am amazed that no one else my age remembers that. I don’t think I ever found the art section interesting… I don’t even remember it.
I just had a happy flashback into my pst of playing that pinball a lot.
I had totally forgotten that.
Thanks for triggering this memory :)
Loved old school paint. I used to try and recreate 3d renders of Nintendo characters that I’d seen printed in magazines and on my Gameboy pocket pouch by doing a kind of primitive dithering technique that 10 year old me thought up drawing 1 pixel blocks of specific colours in alternating patterns to try recreate shading or gradients of colour and I’d draw whole rows of them with the line tool which naturally had a staircase effect to it. Used to save it all on a zipdisk.
No love for SkiFree?
Well there goes the rest of my day, thanks.
Obligatory XKCD - https://xkcd.com/667/
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In paint be sure to make a bunch of random lines and then use the fill bucket to fill in random colors in the spaces.
I would do that with the spray paint, then select two colors on the bucket and fill them in alternating back and forth, slowly progressing outward, until the entire picture was one color. Good times.
Oooh I totally forgot that I did play with MS Paint! I invented cities, countries, or I just did what you described. Fun times!
I used pixel-level zoom and drew top-down Star Wars starfighters and then copied and pasted them to have battles.
Em spaint was always fun.
I’d fill the whole screen, then use the freestyle cutting and go wild with the mouse, then delete the selection, leaving a weirdly neat 2-color mosaic
How do you know?!?! This is one of the most laser precise call out to my childhood ive ever seen in an internet comment.
Not shown: my Amiga500
You forgot chess {or checkers, if you want to}
