Ask Lemmy

My life began at the end of history.

I played Super Mario Bros on a table arcade in a pizza restaurant.

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 vividly remember seeing a show on TV very young, in a hotel room. It just happened to be on. When I saw it again, older, I realized it was the TNG pilot.

I am slightly older than the North American release of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Super Mario World was the first video game I played.

I recently bought "Sonic the Hedgehog" a third time.

Bionicle.

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.

I was in high school on 9/11/2001. I remember another teacher ran into my classroom and told my teacher to turn the news on just as first period was ending. The tv was already on in my 2nd period class. I watched both towers fall on live tv. It was... an experience, that's for sure.

Side note, my physics teacher was in the Navy Reserves and was called into active duty. My physics class was "taught" with varying degrees of success by substitutes for the rest of the semester. That was an interesting class, and for the wrong reasons.

I'm still waiting for my hoverboard, but at least I'm unlikely to live to see the collapse of civilization?

I groan when I get up and my back pops when I lean a certain way. I'm way too young for those.

Younger than Star Wars but older than the first flight of a concorde.

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.

1. when I was a kid we didn't come home until dinner or fear the belt from dad

2. the song I lost my virginity to was Lady D'Arbanville, it was an older lady that was almost 30 years older than me. she wouldn't stop speaking French the whole time even though she knew English.

i played the shit out of duke nukem 3d. I was a tad too young though

I had the newest MTV Hits on a casette.

My favorite BGS game is Oblivion.

In the year 2000 I was half the age I am now.

Was a little kid when lawn darts were still legal/available.

Sweet leaded gasoline

Eldest Millenial.

🎶Teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage mutant ninja turtles, turtles in a half-shell, turtle power!🎵

Gameboy Color

My rollerskates had 4 wheels and looked like tennis shoes. A cartoon named Thundarr helped develop my lifelong love of post apocalyptic media. Mtv played music videos, all day. I watched the pilot of my favorite t.v. show ever after work one night. "You exist here"

@leadore@lemmy.world is old enough to be my grandfather