I was born in 2000 but between having an older brother, frugal parents, and older cousins/family friends I got to enjoy even a sample of these things and it makes me feel very fortunate. It probably doesn't make sense to anyone older because this had to have only been an incredibly short timespan where generations overlapped, but the happiest I remember my family was regularly going to a shopping strip near where we lived that had pizza hut and blockbuster on the weekends. we only got game rentals if my parents went out on a date because they were overpriced otherwise. There's a lot of little things like getting used gameboy color games in little jewelry boxes for christmas, and we used to get ps2/gamecube games for cheap from the bargain bins well into the wii/360 generation. once we moved in like 2007-8 there was a younger family near us that realistically the kids were only a year or two younger than me but I remember thinking it was fucked that they didnt have anything prior to the wii and I hated that aesthetic even though I wouldn't be able to articulate why. we got internet around 2008 too and from then on everything kind of blurs together in my brain technology wise and nothing creates as much of an impression and it comes and goes the same way. sorry if it sounds gay and retarded and like posturing, I mean it mostly that I'm happy I got a taste of these things while they were around and I had a fun childhood