You will never be a teenager in the mid/late 90s on summer break finishing up your friday night shift at Blockbuster, getting into your 1990 Volkswagen Golf, speeding home to your parents place which they bought in 1980 for $60,000, heading quietly down to your wood-paneled bedroom in the basement and firing up your Pentium 166mHz with 32mb of ram installed and booting up Diablo to play online over Blizzard's Battle.Net service using your 56k dial-up connection.

Oh but I will. Now hand over the time machine.

>>717564018 (OP)
for me? playing cs1.6 on my dad's windows 98 work computer while my friend next to me operated the mic calling people faggots and niggers

nostalgia slop image

>>717564226
Alice would never

>>717564352

>>717564018 (OP)
I miss genuinely looking forward to new games coming out. And that feeling when you finally got your hands on it and popped the CD in the drive to install it.

my CD tray destroyed by copy of WC3 and that was the only time that has ever happened.

>>717564018 (OP)
You know? I don't even want to go back anymore. I want to stop. I want to muster the courage to quit all this, but I can't even do that right. I am in limbo. Living is my personal hell.

>>717564018 (OP)
>online
fuck off

Maybe you wont.
LAMOWIN @ UR LIEF

A PC with 166MHz neevr had 32mb ram, you moron, these things had 8-16. That was the Standard, The first gamre who actually needed 32mb was Blade Runner.

When you larp as a 90s kid, atleast do it right.

>>717564018 (OP)
Friday nights used to feel like pure magic. Grab some Hot Pockets, dim the lights, and hope mom doesn’t pick up the phone while you’re in the middle of a Baal run. The whirr of the CD drive spinning up was the sound of a whole weekend disappearing into clickfest bliss. God I miss that weird, dusty warmth.

>>717564534
OP here. I agree with you, anon. I'm constantly questioning myself whether that's just nostalgia or being a lot younger and more inexperienced in things you tended to be happy just for the novelty of the new experience.

>>717565361
No need to larp, I was there. Truth be told, I hadn't the slightest clue what my pentium 166 had as far as ram, so I just looked up the diablo 1 sys requirements and doubled it. So fuck right off faggot.

>>717564018 (OP)
I'm okay with that, I enjoyed that moment in time but time must march on, and I with it. To sit and dwell on the past is madness.

>>717564018 (OP)
Why don't you just play Diablo IV wait no... why don't you just watch Matrix Resurr-god no don't do that... why don't you just watch modern South P-umm... why don't you play a newer popular casual RTS instead of AOE2, like AOE2 for ins- I give up.

>>717564018 (OP)
I don't need to I did already. I can always revisit my old favies.

Old ass Heretic, Doom, Doom 2, Diablo, Duke 3d and Dwango were good shit back in the day.

>>717564878
Oh shit the old Altec Lansing.

>>717565472
The Diablo autorun sound was the best.

>>717564018 (OP)

Oh, but I lived it one time. I saw the glory days of humanity.
Zoomers have never seen it. Zoomers are born into a world that's entirely evil and shitty. No wonder they have mental health problems.

>>717564018 (OP)
So you saw this tweet https://x.com/chrissyxchi/status/1953511310122971595
and went on /v/

nostalgia is fucking crazy dude i remember gaming in the 90s and early 2000s on pc and it fucking sucked. yeah the games were kinda cool but the hardware? the internet connection speeds? holy fuck it was abysmal. Im so fucking glad to live in a time where i can have 100 mb/s download speeds, 32 gigs of ram, a 7900 XT and a 4k oled monitor because not only can i play new games i can play older games perfectly and seamlessly. Anyone who tells you that pc gaming used to be better than it is now is lying to you whether they realize it or not.

>>717564018 (OP)
>You will never relive
Maybe not, but I lived it and that's more that most will ever get

>>717564018 (OP)
Cringe image clearly made by zome retarded zoomer

>LAN PARTY SATURDAY sticker

I'm a millennial and I hated how SLOW old computers were. Computers didn't get good until this point.

>>717568223
I don't know what you're talking about.

>>717564018 (OP)
I'm literally replaying my childhood copy of Pokémon yellow on an analogue pocket, literally the best way to experience it now. I've even got coworkers playing other versions with me and we are all having a blast. Sometimes you can enjoy what you had in the past, improved in the future.

>>717564018 (OP)
>being forced to wageslave over your holidays
do mutts really?

I still get excited over good indie games. Waiting for the free expansion for Echo Point Nova.

>spent my teens drinking, fucking, and playing D2 and WC3 with my mates
>had the absolute best time of my life between ages 13 and 19
>now i'm a sexless corporate drone that manages to see his one remaining friend once a year
My life peaked way too early bros...

My memory of this time period lies mostly in Chrono Trigger and other SNES games I played at the time. I wasn't fortunate to be born into a family rich enough to own a computer that had Windows installed. I had to buy my own in 2006, and probably didn't play D2 on it until the year after that I really don't remember all that well.

>>717568223
I honestly don't know if computers were that slow or if I got more impatient dealing with slower computers every time I had gotten used to a faster one. It feels like in my memories about my own computer it never felt slow but whenever I had to use another that was older it felt so slow it was annoying to use.

Nowadays the slowness of windows file explorer drives me crazy.

>>717568648
it's not over yet, buckaroo

>>717564646
I feel you. I'd blow my brains out if I wasn't such a coward. There's nothing to live for or look forward to. We've passed the peak.

>>717566179
lmao faggot

>>717564018 (OP)
I had that same Compaq

>>717568020
another faggot here. The low tech is GOOD. restrictions is GOOD

>>717568020
My dad used to hit me because I used to get on the phone line to use the PC and if he picked it up and heard the tone he would go nuts.

>>717571297
damn cool story anon

>>717567936
I'd rather play bf2 on a nice pc...

This nostalgia shit is kinda gay ngl

>>717564018 (OP)
>relive
lol
lmao

I have a boomer monitor in my mom's basement, is it worth hooking it up?

>>717572305
>I have a boomer monitor in my mom's basement, is it worth hooking it up?
Yes if you retro game. Anything gen6 and older looks great on it

>>717565361
You also didn't have a 56k modem in the mid 90s and the game showed in OP's pic didn't come out until the 2000s. Are these posts really made by larping zoomers?

>>717568223
factually wrong
a pentium II with enough ram (for the time) and a voodoo 2 card was a mfing BEAST
could play any game at any resolution any high end monitor could render
i had tons of fun end of 90s and beginning of 00s thanks to that
also CPUs could take MASSIVE overclocks if you knew what you were doing, and you had MASSIVE gains in FPS, could have a BEAST computer for relatively cheap
that was definitely the best time for pc gaming, and nobody even knew it at the time
could emulate any PSX game with bleem, and EASILY emulate any previous gen consoles, could play ALL THE GAMES of ALL TIME with ease

The only downside was having to carry your 20 kg monitor around for the lan parties

>>717564018 (OP)
>>717564878
>LoD
>WC3
>mid-late 90s

I randomly found this game called Riptide GP: Renegade and even though it's only ten years old, it looks and plays just like something out of early 2000s. Racing and doing tricks like this takes me back.

>>717564018 (OP)
I don't think people who were borne around '85 realise how blessed they have been. Experienced most of the evolution of video games, every new generation was a marvel. The choice of games was insane, people were still experimenting with formats and gameplay. Even witnessed a world without internet.

Compare with people who were borne 10 years ago, all they experience is stagnation and technology as absolute scam fest, where everything new basically just serves to extract as much money from your pokets as possible while serving as little value as possible.