Thread 717863268

>Buy cereal and get a game

WE USED TO BE A NATION

genuinely the best version of pc monopoly too

Roller Coaster Tycoon mogged the ever loving shit out of all these other cereal games, it wasn't even funny.

>Free games all over the place
>Family uses mac
>Connectix Virtual PC too slow to game

>>717863268 (OP)
I remember there were PCs in my 1st grade classroom that had this gem on it

>>717864139
>Try to play the monsters inc platformer on PC
>Old ass compaq cant even run it

>Every kid at school has a console
>I'm stuck on Windows 3.1 playing Lemmings, Prince of Persia, Wolfenstein 3D, Alone in the Dark, and then a LOT of shareware

you guys remember how the school computer lab used to smell? i do
god, i miss that smell
that "beige" smell

>>717866890
Sounds pretty good

>>717863268 (OP)
That's actually kinda based. Full game for buying a box of cereal.

>>717863268 (OP)
THIS USED TO BE AMERICA

I got the first age of empires this way.
Everything before the 2000's was so unfathomably based

>>717864161
In other news.... AOL is actually finaly shutting down their 56k service on Sept 30th.
As to why some retards still paying for that... nobody fucking knows.

>>717868519
Hospitals and other institutions still used 56k to send data between each other in remote locations since it would only be a few bytes.

>>717864085
RCT was so good, i wonder why it seemingly fell off after RCT2, was it the charm of the original graphics? i dunno

I got the demo of age of empires 2 and motorcross madness from a yoghurt promo. I got the battlefield 2 demo from a pizza box. good times.

>Cereal

>>717863760
Now THIS is based.

>>717870370
>motorcross madness
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
BOOM

>>717870497
Cereal used to actually taste good and not like cardboard.

But if i buy cereal now i get like chex or mini wheats cause im old. The nature valley cereal is good.

Does cereal even come with toys anymore?

>>717868315
I got a Pokemon card this way, still have it.

>>717863268 (OP)
I specifically remember getting this game from one like that but idk of that's true I was an imaginative kid

>>717868315
I remember getting rayman 2 PC for free with some kind of food or thing so ubisoft must have really been in a dire situation.

>>717864161
The fucking GOAT

>>717871028
for me in my old age, its special k red berries

>>717863268 (OP)
My copy of sim city 2000 GBA is from scholastic but obviously you had to beg your parents to pay up for a game even if it was like 20 bucks

>>717871968
absolutely based and soulful times

>>717866890
>neighbor sells me his N64 for $10 cause he doesnt need it anymore

that was a good summer

>>717871817
Neat, lucky you

>>717871968
https://youtu.be/S8EvnM2XUTI

If you had the tiger poster then you are legally obligated to fuck bitches.

>enter grocery store
>unusual box at the entrance with random games
>get this one for 2.5€
One of the best finds i had.

>>717871968
I liked to buy cheat code books at the book fair. Even though I could just look them up on GameFAQs, it was fun to read the books and imagine what the games were like, sometimes with screenshots.

>>717871968
Most book fair stuff was cheap paperbacks. You really got lucky if they even had some quality hardcovers.

>>717863268 (OP)
Today is better in every way, u get more value for every dollar u spend in games,especially games of the decade like elden ring or breath of the wild,games that u take at least 80-120h to get all the content, this also applies to dlc's btw, y'all are just pink glass tinted nostalgiatards.

>>717867732
yes
there are a handful of smells that only existed in my life for a few years, but they were constant and pervasive.
the computer lab was a special fucking place when you were a 1st grader in the 90's

>>717872364
I think the huge world record or ripley believe it or not books were hardcover but i forgot.

>>717872306
i had a game genie code book for NES that sparked my imagination so hard

the absolute disappointment some of those games turned out to be when i rented them from blockbuster

>>717872392
The blockbuster carpet smell...

>>717872165
>Turn on TV at 3AM

https://youtu.be/JkxNLeKGr4M

TELL ME HOW I AM SUPPOSED TO LIVE WITHOUT YOUUUUUUU

>>717872497
>pre-owned movies
>blu-rays to buy
oh god it's when blockbuster was in it's death throes.
this is like remembering your grandpa by looking at a pic of him in the hospital in pain, you monster

>>717872497
By the 2000s those things were rank because nobody ever cleaned them. Also the TVs were ancient CRTs that were half dead.

>>717872426
They were

>>717872497
>Blockbuster with a flatsceeen

It's bizarre seeing this.

>>717872641
Imagine if they'd bought netflix.

>>717872063
Not quite, somewhere in the last 25+ years despite being kept in an old stamp book it's gotten a crease in it.

>>717871968
>starter pack
That thing needs something about how they would sell ANY kind of E-rated PC game at those things, even old ones and/or ones with barely any educational content besides, I dunno, the car showcases in older Need for Speeds.

>>717863268 (OP)
Those old Lord of The Rings games were pretty good

>>717872902
imagine if sears had just put their fucking catalog on the internet

>>717872663
>The shopping area id always go to as a kid used to have Blockbuster, Circuit City, an arcade, Pathmark, Carvel, Wendys and Quiznos
>Only the Wendys is still standing 20+ years later

>pizza hut moved to a small takeout only location across the street from the actual hut they used to be in, which is a liquor store now
i miss getting the lunch buffet for like, $12, and then not needing to eat for three days afterwards

>>717871968
>scholastic book fair
>2006
Holy fuck I forget how young some of you faggots are.

>>717873847
Most of that stuff applies to Scholastic Book Fairs throughout all of the late 90s-early 2000s, he just picked the 2006 world record book for whatever reason

>>717873847
Im the DUDE 90's kid they had scholastic back then too

>>717873137
>Dragonball z website being a simple html page with only 5 pages that linked back to itself
>Then one day it got a flash update and had sound effects and music that lagged the PC
>Fox Kids getting new flash games
Good times

>>717873847
What, under 40?

>>717873474
wtf is wrong with the shape of those Corn Pops

POSTOPIA CHADS RISE UP

>>717864085
Wanna know what's funny. The scenario people always talk about when competing with a rival park doesn't exist. You can launch coasters into a neighbor park and win, the whole thing is a lie.

>>717863760
I had the one with crash 3 on it and the d demo level was one of tree shitty scuba levels

>The Clue CD-ROM
Scariest fucking game I ever played.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4FuceR2pBQ

Hollywood Video was better than Blockbuster.

FACT

>>717863760
The Tony Hawk and Ape Escape demos were peak.

>Comes back for 1 month in 2023 never to be seen again

BRING HIM BACK BRING HIM BACK

>>717863268 (OP)
Where has my country gone....

Remember what they took from you

>>717863760
>but pizza they didn't put a demo disc in
>buy another pizza, they give you the same disc you already have

>>717871028
my body started rejecting milk when i turned 20. my stomach would ache and i would poop and fart a lot.

>>717867732
I remember running my hand over the CRTs and feeling the static, the weird tracer effect if you waved your hand in front of a mid 90s Mac, and most of all the CRT hum at the end of a Toonami block where it was silent. Literally the best sound in the world.

>>717871968
seperates the rich and the poor
>>717875381
actual beginning of the end

>>717873847
George Lowe died this year ;_;

>Playing wild world at night with a canadian friend i talked to on MSN
>Be amazed that we can play games online on a handheld

https://youtu.be/LMmPoA8BXgY?si=VJwTVWMTBxuHMZAp

Im going back in time

>>717872587
i had no idea this was 2 minutes long lol

>>717873137
>my mom getting mad at me because she missed her friend's phone call because i was online

>>717875345
expensive for a cheap plushie....

You now remember Youtube Live

I got Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 in a nutri grain box
My music taste was permanently effected and that game rocked

>>717875345
The Zubat looks happy as fuck

>>717864161
kino…pure kino…

>>717872165
I've watched my wife's cousins grow up from as young as 4 years old, and I can say without a shred of doubt that when they were the age of the kids in this commerical they would've thought something like Zoobooks was cringe as hell.
Where did the innocence of youth go?

>>717875345
>20 hot wings for $5.99

>>717875739
what is this? a training guide?

>>717877071
Im evaporating....

>>717876832
i was in iraq at the time so i basically missed a whole year of internet.

>>717867732
I know this post is like 4 hours ago, but to this day I sometimes dream about the smell of Blockbuster. My god what a smell, I would kill to know how they got it that way.

>>717877206
https://archive.org/details/youtube-live-2008-full-2hrs-long

Here you go friend

are we all jaded or were times really better back then

looking at it objectively, it seems like it absolutely was in every single area except modern internet's comfort and size

>>717877292
yikes

>>717877445
I think after the 2008 housing crisis is when it started getting pretty bad but then it really started declining in the 2010's.

>>717873474
They enlarged them to show texture, can't you read?

>>717873847
nigga I'm 30 and I remember buying from the book fairs that year

>>717875739
The Hilton Hotels had a similar thing for the PSP

>>717875739
unrelated but really liked Brain training

There was a point in time where i used to go on Stickam and join chat groups with youtubers like chuggaa or antdude.

I actually used to be antdude's friend when he was sonikdude and we stopped talking one day cause we fought about something on AIM.

Why isnt there cool shit in chips and cereal anymore? Did it get banned?

>>717878635
Considering the only ones still doing this are McDonald I imagine it's all about $$$

>>717878635
Can't pack in CD-ROM games when normies don't use CD drives anymore

>>717878567
fuck dude i miss stickam

>>717877560
From the perspective of the American Empire
First big decline would have been the oil crash in '74 dethroning american oil,
next would be Regan breaking workers rights over his knee in '81 by showing he can dissolve unions at any time.
then the death kneel was Clinton bringing in NAFTA in '94 and leading to the decoupling of Administrative and operational capacities of corporations which would enable easy offshoring. Everything after was just the corpse tremors.

>>717878745
Another reason why digital games are garbage.
But its not even just videogames. All the collectable stuff like tazos are gone too.

>>717878746
How many camwhores from stickam are even still alive

The age of 40 is in demand

>>717877284
I still think about the taste of those Blue Raspberry gummies I used to get at blockbuster 25 years ago. My childhood blockbuster was at a strip mall that had a Burger King, McDonald's and Pizza Hut nearby so I distinctly remember the entrance always had the smell of pizzas and grease in the air.

>>717879031
What happened to good old values

>>717863268 (OP)
nothing will ever top this
>>717864085
except this if it was a thing here

>>717873847
>young
i'm 32 and i bought the deltora quest first series through scholastic that same year
hell i still fuckin have them dropped it at the 6th book

>>717879158
One of the Pizza Hut's near me looked like this until 2011, even had the lunch buffet, was the last time I went.

https://youtu.be/VApLCYntRFw

Do you eat like a MAN?

>>717863268 (OP)
>early 2000's era
>got free hot wheels pc game in cereal box
>nice, i can't wait to play it on home pc
>install game disc (for some reason takes a shitton of time, even on school's new pc)
>can't play it because game was made on fucking java and runs like a power point
>home computer can run quake iii arena on 60 fps and emulate psx but somehow can't run this un-optimized piece of shit with low level psx graphics

>>717879158
>>717879496
Used to live by a Pizza Hut, now it's a Hospital.
I was too young for the PS1 Demo DIscs...

>>717863268 (OP)
I think I got a motorcycle game this way where the map was surrounded by a cliff but you could make your way up the cliff and then touching the invisible wall a bit past the top of the cliff would bounce you off it super hard sending you flying hundreds of metres if not a few kilometres

>>717880963
>an entire ass hospital stuffed into an old pizza hut

won't youtube it but i remember the captain crunch (raise a crunchling) had 3 games and one taught me the term catacombs

>>717863268 (OP)
>pick the dreadnought
>[ear raping intensifies]

>>717867118
>That r&b disc
It was a different time

>>717868519
Wild
Old people who never saw a need to change I guess

>>717863760
All the Pizza Huts near me shut down. The pizza was kinda weird though.

>>717871968
>my sister had all of the Goosbumps and Deltora Quests through a charity book drive
>I still have a lot of Horrible Histories stuff and a Guinness book of records from 1994
Looking back now things weren't that bad but I spent so much of my waking life just reading shit.

>>717881239
there was a year or so where the pan pizzas were always oily as shit and had a borderline fishy taste.
We had pizza hut as a special lunch at school and a handful of us kids were like "this tastes off". told my dad about it and he didn't believe me, a couple weeks later he orders pizza hut and it's so fucking oily and yeah, a slight, stale fishy taste.
same thing next time we went to the lunch buffet, and after that. didn't go back for a while and when i had it next, it was fine. bizarre.

breadsticks have not changed in the slightest for 30 years though. they're so terrible but also so good

>>717872497
>$8 for new releases and $3.50 for the week
These places were the OGs for those that couldn't afford much. Went through the Master System, PS1, PS2 and 360 libraries in places like this. Watching all of the old WWF matches right up until they switched from VHS to DVD. Then once DVD fell out of favor they dropped off the face of the Earth entirely.

>>717877445
You still had a chance back then. Only way you are getting ahead now is by forcing someone else to dip below you on the ladder.

>>717872587
Why is this like a knife into my soul

>>717869843
Speak for yourself, 3 had the best music ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YklszBMIEcc

>>717879397
Did you ever watch the anime?

>>717874092
American corn pops are an entirely different cereal compared to other country's corn pops

Did you guys ever try any of those "Enhanced CD" things where a music disc would have something extra on PC? I had a Saliva (band) CD that had the demo to Warcraft 3. Weird fucking way to get introduced to Warcraft, but I played that shit for hours. I don't remember anything about the band, but I vividly remembered the free demo.

>>717874554
>Sonichu...ahem..."lore" in Nintendo Power.
Why, Nintendo, WHY?!

>>717874554
I have to wonder what the staff thought when they got to this part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI024mCEykI

>>717882814
I remember one of Weird Al's CDs had a bunch of weird home movies if you explored it on a pc

>>717871968
I went to my son's book fair last year and it's the saddest shit now.

>>717878567
the first time i saw a girl masturbating was on stickam. i went on the site, saw a pic of a hot girl, clicked on her profile, and there she was with a brush handle in her puss.

>>717880882
I still have that car.
green color tho.

For me, it's G-TOK, which came with a Billiken Compu (not a cereal, but a magazine). I had that physical copy, but I lost it and could never find it again.

>>717879158
Pizza Buffet never made any sense and was doomed to fail as a business.

pretty sure i got spider-man (n64) for pc in a cereal box, it was sick as fuck

>>717863268 (OP)
For me it was playstation underground

>>717883074
I watched a girl shove a cucumber up her butt while I was in an online class in like 2008. Stickam was a magical place.

I tried making a game like this for Subway with some guy on IRC in 1998. I think he was lying about having connections. I 3d modeled a great subway sandwich player. Stupid ass hole

>>717873847
Anon everyone in elementary at that time is pushing 30 if not already there.
Time is a cruel mistress

>>717884161
do you still have the model?

>>717867732
I dug out an early 00's Samsung media center out of my garage, soldered some new condensers, and holy shit making it a part of my audio setup was the best decision i've made in years
Absolutely fucking crystal sound, built-in EQ with presets, deep bass, and that click of cassette actuators when i boot it up followed by steady analog hum is extasic

>it's yet another cringe millennial nostalgia wank thread
When are you guys going to grow up?

>go into Save a Lot with grandma as a kid
>see DVD rack like always
>notice they somehow have ps2 games now for sale
>wonder what the fuck this game was for $10 dollars
>buy it and still was confused

I never understood the random ass shit they threw in grocery stores.

>>717888027
>nooo you can't enjoy things from the past, you only have to like the new and hip things!
Frogposters are pathetic

>>717863760
You could get full games with pizza.
t. got Sims 2 and Battlefield Vietnam with pizza

>>717864139
At least you had that paper plane game right

>>717888312
Are you really sure it was Battlefield Vietnam?

>>717888150
It's okay, iphone generation are jealous they didn't grow up with anything cool.

>>717866890
100 shareware games discs were kick ass

>>717888571
Yeah I still have the CDs.

>>717888716
Huh... From where are you from?

>>717873682
The last time I ever went to an actual Pizza Hut buffet there was a kid just going HAM digging into all the foods and desserts with bare hands and nobody doing anything about it.

>>717888027
We're the last pre-internet generation, you're the last pre-AI generation. Enjoy it while it lasts.

>>717875706
That is a lie, you are simply fat. "Lactose intolerance" is a euphemism for fats to feel better about some other ((medical condition)) that afflicted them

>>717877167
>gaming and eating during the Clinton years
thanks you worhtless /pol/cels for ruining the good thing we had cuz you listened to a fat piece of shit

>>717866890
I was even worse, I was the MAC gamer
I only had RTS and puzzle games

Doomed to be a nerd from the start.

>>717889689
i've been underweight until like 26. before then i was 115 lbs at 5'9''.

>>717889794
food prices were rising even before the fat piece of shit

The culture we were raised on wasn't sustainable and simply lured us in by selling at a loss, we fell for the long con, once they bought up or killed the competition and were the only ones left standing with a loyal consumerbase, there was no longer a need to sell at a loss.

Because single companies own almost literally every food brand there is they can monopolize shit as much as they want, and during war times those prices will continue to hike up so they can continue funneling money into bombing the shit out of the middle east.

As a young train autist, this was a godsend.

https://www.mobygames.com/group/14031/games-bundled-with-cereal-boxes/
What were your favourites?

>>717864161
>50 free hours

What did this mean? I always saw grocery stores with piles of discs with "100 hours of free internet"

How did it work, and why couldn't you just take all of the cds

>>717867732
dude i played half life deathmatch and unreal tournament during computer lab sessions. that shit was amazing.

>>717889794
Things were nothing short of dire well before that. Cope better.

>>717891932
distinctly remember getting both of the RCT games, Freddi Fish and Amazon Trail which were all bangers
also the true GOTYAY forever, Captain Crunch's Crunchling Adventure™

>>717871968
I remember getting CivCity: Rome. I still have the disk on me.

>>717891764
I thought about getting a train from Georgia to Arizona, but I saw that it was a 3 day trip and decided against it. No wonder everyone rides planes.

>>717882993
I'm scared to even ask how bad that was. How bad?

>>717892002
>create new account
>put in cd/key
>connect to internet for 50 hours
>HEY SUBSCRIBE box pops up
>click no
>create new account
>put in new CD that you took from the grocery store
>50 more hours

>>717893071
In its current state, Amtrak long distance travel isn't about speed or convenience.
Outside of the North East Corridor (DC to NYC to Boston), taking the train is about the journey and the views along the way.
The trips are really enjoyable unless you get coach class seats. If you take coach, they won't even let you in to the diner car and you'll be stuck listening to crying Amish babies the entire trip.
8/10 would recommend unless you're poor.

>>717864161
Is that Doom but made for kids?

Asterix & Obelix Mega Madness, Pajama Sam, Spy Fox, to name a few. I've played so much of these demo discs.

>Mooooom, can we go get some tendies
>We have tendies at home
>But mooooooooooom there's a video game in it

>>717863760
This is arguably the greatest demo disk ever made. The Game Informer magazine demo disk that had SotC and Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam on it is a close second

>>717863268 (OP)
>give away full version of PC monopoly trying to ruin families
>only the nerd plays it, against the computer

neat

>pretty sure I Still have some of those CDs
>check my unsorted PC garbage box
>find a CD with Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Railroad Tycoon 2 and something called FLY
>no fucking idea if they are demos or complete games since I don't even have a CD unit anymore

>these are the current mcdonalds toys
lol

>>717901668
Is that a cubby? After the playplaces have been out of commission for over a decade now because of cultural enrichment?

>>717863268 (OP)
Games bundled with cereals were full of soul

>>717863268 (OP)
>>717863346
I played the shit out of this version of Monopoly as a kid, but now I can't find a working rom of it anywhere

>>717903648
there's a few versions on the internet archive, do any of them match?
https://archive.org/search?query=monopoly+general+mills

>>717904053
I think this is the one. I'll test it out, but so far every rom I've found hasn't launched properly on modern OS
https://archive.org/details/Monopoly_201905

>>717869041
people really don't understand that business don't like upgrading and for good reason. odds are if you go to your boss and ask what OS their internal servers is running on, assuming you don't get a "you're fired" or otherwise get told to shut up, you'll find out it's XP or older.

>>717881098
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GOgBHGDq6M
crunchling adventure was my jam as a kid

>>717901668
Not bad compared to the usual licenseslop they put out these days.

My all time favorite was the neopets plushies.

>>717896158
it's literally a doom WAD, yes