I have two answers for you.
1: I have acne I’m too old for and gray hairs I’m too young for.
2: I have the depression of a millennial and the uninhibited madness of a zoomer.
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I recently found a couple old PC games I used to play as a child and thought was part of one or more “1000-in-1 Games” discs. They were 3-D Ultra Minigolf Deluxe and 3-D Ultra Radio Control Racers.
One of my absolute FAVORITE edutainment games was Franklin the Turtle Clubhouse Adventures.
I got to experience having shelves of VHS tapes alongside a drawer of them, and also having DVDs at the same time. Hell, my family even has netflix back when they mailed DVDs and I think we used to still have one or two of them from back then for a long while, but they probably got lost when we had to move.
I can remember my family renting games from Blockbuster.
Edit:
Pretty sure we had all or most of the 3•2•1 Penguins DVDs since my parents, like most every parent who let their kid watch it, loved VeggieTales and thought that Big Idea would have another big hit. VeggieTales is by far basically the only Christian cartoon I could ever recommend and I’m pretty sure I saw every one of the originals on VHS.
About as old as [joke redacted] was
263660769 - that’s a number that people could use to talk with me in a specific way when I was 14. Neither my parents nor anyone in my school had that number and the vast majority of them would not know what it was either.
But that’s only true because I lived in a very small town in the middle of nowhere in South America. For a similar experience somewhere “more modern”, that number would have had to have at least one less digit.
Uh oh!
If I’m right you are late 30s to early 40s. Either Elder Millenial or the last vestiges of Gen X. A Xennial if you will.
9 digits = definitely still in their 30s
ICQ?
Can vaguely remember the Berlin Wall falling. All the adults seemed to think it was really important.
Maaaaan somebody reminded me this existed last week and I had to bust these out and give em a spin
Real talk, if you have young kids and DosBox or something, soooo many of those old games hold up.
Mine loved the OG Carmen San Diego games, though there were a couple short history lessons to understand some parts. Didn’t quite clue into the ‘use the dossier* to determine matches for warrants without a time penalty’ trick that earned me a pizza party back in the day, lol.
*I don’t remember what it’s called, the file with all of the VILE agents
I still love gorilla.bat.
I played Super Mario Bros on a table arcade in a pizza restaurant.
My pizza place had a sit down Mrs Pac-Man, a stand up Galaga, Tempest and Centipede, and a western themed pinball machine.
Equal parts lead and microplastics.
That’s a really good one.
Tiny me’s first computer game ever played:
I am slightly older than the North American release of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
I have long Hulkamania, and PacMan fever destroyed my grip strength.
i played the shit out of duke nukem 3d. I was a tad too young though
My dad had to remove me from the cinema when we saw Toy Story on release because I found Sid’s vivsected toys too frightening
I saw Star Wars at the theater in its first run.
Here’s my seat on the bus.
Came home and the family was all excited, asking me about it. 6-yo me, “Meh. It was OK I guess.” Went on to become a fanatic.
Bionicle.
