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Excellent reference.

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@oldyzach Pulling up with the crew. Lol

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@exQUIZitely A taste of my childhood.

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@exQUIZitely What a badass. I remember thinking "Alice in Chains???" While playing DooM/DooM II ...what a smilemaker. Rest in Peace 🙏

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@ApexSeeker_ Competition.

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@bowtiedfarmer Failed lithium ion charging unit

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@BlastTrooper3D @exQUIZitely Simple...you didn't good sir! Nam'sayin? Lol

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@exQUIZitely Dude I JUST posted this meme below 🤣

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@TheFoxBard @exQUIZitely It was elite!

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@CuriosityonX Don't bother coming here. We are sorry to have wasted your and everyone's time pretending to be an "advanced" species. Please have mercy on our leaders and powerful individuals in our society, for they are truly blinded and lost. Have mercy on us for being ignorant worker drones.

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I often think about why games from the 80s and 90s hold such deep emotional power for me, while most titles after the early 2000s feel mostly forgettable.

It's not one single factor, but a mix of them.

First, nostalgia naturally filters our memories - we cherish the best parts of the past and downplay the rest. This happens with movies, music, and more.

Second, those older games existed in a quieter world. With few TV channels, no internet, no smartphones, and no social media, they offered genuine escape.

Their simple graphics forced your imagination to fill in the gaps, creating a personal, almost magical experience - like diving into a great book. You read about them in magazines, built anticipation, then bought the physical copy. That ritual made them special.

Third, today's gaming is a massive corporate industry driven by microtransactions, endless content, and addictive loops. We're bombarded by streaming, constant connectivity, and AI-generated noise, with more games available than ever on platforms like Steam or Roblox (or whatever else I am forgetting now). Our brains simply can't form the same deep bonds considering all the overload.

Ask me about any pre-2000 game and I can talk for hours about what it meant to me. Ask about anything newer, and I usually draw a blank.

How about you? What time was the most formative for you - and do you feel similar about the moder era or gaming?

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@SandyofCthulhu THIS is how I know you are and were always one of the good'uns.
Also, I *still* have yet to see Commando despite my love for Arnie.

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@hyrpowered80 @vangoghmuseum Is it real? Okay I love it! Is it "fake"? Okay I hate it!

You self professed "Artists" can't see the forest for the trees. I weep for your psyches.

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@exQUIZitely This was one of the most visually vibrant and beautiful games ever made. In Costco (or rather "Price Club" back then) every single computer being sold would have this loaded if possible to showcase the latest in visuals achievable at the time. Everyone stopped to look.

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@SandyofCthulhu @colonizer_69 True story. My character in GW2 is named Im Your Huckleberry. Loved that game. A lot more fun than WoW too. I wonder if my character still exists!?

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@exQUIZitely Wtf is this!?!? Way cool and had no idea it existed before your post. Uncanny Contra resemblance. Super cool memory lane post and informative. Thank You.

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@FrankRundatz @exQUIZitely Oh my lord. BBS memories. That plus Compuserve and does anyone eventually remember "The Microsoft Network"?

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@exQUIZitely Brb need to edit my config.sys and autoexec.bat yo

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@exQUIZitely R-Type and Gyruss were amazing. I forgot about Gyruss though before your wonderful mention.

Keep up the good work, good sir.