>>20928658>Name one thing you even remember about the era other than video games.Well, this is a video game thing, but kids these days will never know the joy of using graph paper to make your own maps of discoveries you'd make in pre-Zelda games.
Also, non-video game stuff:
- Riding bikes; actually riding it not having a 800 lb. "e-bike" that does the work for you
- Doing tricks on bikes and skateboards at local tennis courts or parks
- Going to your friends house or vice versa for sleepovers
- Weekend movie nights were actually a big deal and going to the rental store once a week to pick out a movie or two was a treat
- Being given a $5 to go to the corner store to buy some candy or play the vidya (I know, vidya)
- Your parents telling you "You have a phone call, pick up the phone"
- Anime was a huge deal and just being discovered stateside
- Going to these things called "book stores" and picking out these things called "books" to read
- KB Toystores
- Having no plans for the day, walking around aimlessly, bumping into people from school and deciding to make a day of hanging out and going to random places, like your own real-life Earthbound RPG
- Japanese pencil cases
- meticulously updating your Trapper Keeper with stickers
- GI Joes
- Transformers
- rushing home from school to watch cartoons
- Saturday morning cereal with Saturday morning cartoons
- going to something like 6 Flags was actually a fun time for the Family
- Driving to your summer vacation instead of taking planes everywhere
- passing carefully crafted notes in school via a trusted network of intermediaries instead of texting every second (you actually had to think of what you wanted to say to someone)
- OP shirt craze
- Those green sour apple candies they used to make (like Lemonheads, but 1,000% better) but stopped
- Collecting Garbage Pail Kids trading cards
- Going on car rides & listening to the radio was actually fun
- Trying to figure out if Club MTV w/ Downtown Julie Brown was real
