• CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I have memories from the early 90s playing a DOS version of Dig-Dug all day when I didn’t want to go to school.

  • Leviathan@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    3·
    10 hours ago

    I’m in this post.

    Side note: I didn’t properly learn how to play Minesweeper until well after I got my first smart phone, it’s a real banger of a game. I highly recommend giving it a chance if, like me, you were too young to figure it out and just randomly pressed on squares until it blew up.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    8·
    2 days ago

    It’s so cool how we all share this experience. It’s a bit like also knowing what life was like before mobile phones. No other generation will ever know.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      5·
      2 days ago

      The last 25 years was better and better browsers and web technologies, but the result now is a web that loads slowly and has tons of ads. Somewhere around 2008 was maybe the best, I dont remember exactly what year. But when the web was actually good and social media was not big yet.

      • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 day ago

        I didn’t mind the early 2000’s web experience. You just kinda had to know how to get around, know what the fake download button looked like, not type your real name anywhere, have a little patience. The barrier to entry was slightly higher, which kept the masses away.
        I think it was great, even with all its problems. Way less corporate too.

        • 1984@lemmy.today
          3·
          1 day ago

          Already running a dns ad blocker, but this wasn’t really a comment about how I personally avoid ads.

  • hdnsmbt@lemmy.world
    222·
    2 days ago

    Those of us who drew random squiggles in Paint and filled the loops using the bucket tool are just objectively better and healthier people. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Uhhh excuse me?

    Where’s Number Munchers?

    …or Oregon Trail?

    …or QBasic games like Gorillas?

    …and Nibbles (aka Snake)

    …and Wolfenstein 3D that some kid installed on the machines when no one was looking?

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      That tickles a memory of an actual game from around that time that looked like that. I think it was one of the ones MS made free, though you might have needed to specifically install the extended game pack or play it with the windows CD in or something like that. Not the most solid memory I have, but I just remember the screen saver looked a lot like that game just without the actual game part.

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
    10·
    2 days ago

    As a teenager, I got really good at drawing boobs from the side and the front in MS paint.

    Then we got the internet and my digital art career went up in smoke at 28.8kbs.

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      Enter teenage me trying to draw (in Paint!) proper exposed boobies on this image from Pools of Darkness. That’s about when I gave up on my aspirations for becoming an artist.

      • hansolo@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 day ago

        Wow, that’s ambitious. But I get it - it’s sooooo close already!

        That point when you’re zoomed in, coloring individual pixels with zero horniness, just all frustration and focus. Then you zoom out and your heart skips a beat. Ahh, those were the days.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 days ago

        Funny how it was Laura Croft’s triangular prism boobs that became so famous when there were better boob depictions in games with detailed pixel art.

    • Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      Funny that I had a similar skill. My drawings were all “under boob” pics. I focused on that. Tops of boobs are no big deal, but when a halter top is involved the tops are completely covered but a good portion of the bottom of the boob is exposed.