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It was the summer of 1991 and I was freshly out of the ninth grade... Things had been AWESOME. I was gearing up to play high school football in my tenth grade year. All my best friends lived right down the street from me and we were all playing the almighty Sega Genesis in our downtime: things couldn't have been any better.

>> No.7755965

I want to forget, I would pay anything to not remember, and I drank myself to black out every night of my 20s to stop the memories. I don't want nostalgia.

>> No.7755967

Cut to 92. My older brother, the guy I idolised was a crack ridden monster. I was only in the 10th grade but thanks to PSAs and reminders from William Sessions, erstwhile FBI director - I knew drugs were wrong. My older brother however, was totally in the thrall of crack cocaine. At first, it was the TV. I had to take my genny and SOR 2 over to my friends house to play. Then, one fateful afternoon, my genny was swiped too. My brothers sneering face, by now warped by addiction was unusually animated as he repeatedly denied selling it for another hit. A year later, my bro was clean and we had a super Nintendo. Shit was so cash

>> No.7756052

>>7755967
>My brothers sneering face
Formerly chuckling

>> No.7756169

Wake up with blurry eyes to my uncle still playing ff8 around 3 a.m. Ask him where he has gotten to and he says "I'm in a haunted water temple." Try to keep my eyes open to watch his battle, but with every blink my eye lids get heavier. Fall asleep and dream of exploring such a place with my party.

Never have I played ff8 since. I don't want to ruin the mysticism. I just looked up "haunted water temple" and the thing that comes up is the Tomb of the Unknown King. Does that accurately describe it?

>> No.7757751

>>7755953
had my dick sucked while playing yoshi island

>> No.7757881

>>7755953
>>7755967
>Summer
>92
The year Kevin Nash was raped. There's even a game called "Streets Of Rape" featuring him on the cover.

>> No.7757904

>>7757881
yeah not interested in your forced gay fanfiction

>> No.7757956

Back in elementary school we had to tell class what we wanted for that Christmas and I said I wanted a Dreamcast. The teacher thought I wanted a "Dream Castle" and exclaimed it, which prompted everyone to laugh at me. I was called Dreamboy by everyone for the rest of the year.

>> No.7760113

>>7755953
'95 baby here. Tell me anons, what was it like growing up in a decade where the economy wasn't in shambles?

>> No.7760205

>>7755953
I could only afford my SNES in 94. MK2 was the first game I owned on that console. Before that I had a famiclone and rented games like Ninja Turtles and Ninja Gaiden. In 91 I had an atari clone instead. At that time I could only watch others playing cool beatemups like Final Fight that I couldn't afford at the arcades. Final Fight was the most played game in the arcades back then

>> No.7760392

Sometimes when I close my eyes I see memories of walking through the electronics department with my brother and seeing N64 and PS1 games behind glass screens. Harvest Moon, StarFox and the greatest hits label of FF7 pops out to me. The sound of the cashier wrangling his keys to open up the locks. The demo station already occupied by others. It was the place to go to kill time while mom was shopping.

>> No.7760412

>>7755953
Man, I'm lucky I don't have diabetes and still have my teeth....

One summer in the 90s, my cousin and I killed a 12 pack of Faygo Moon Mist in 2 days. The whole time we were playing through Abe's Odyssey.

Played a lot of video games with my cousins and older brother growing up. We taped cardboard to the TV and got rid of the radar in Goldeneye.

>> No.7761397

>>7757904
It's not "gay fanfiction". It really happened. I feel sorry for what happened to Kevin Nash during the summer of 92.

>> No.7761420

>>7756052
underrated post

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>>7760113
>Uber cheap cars
>Cops enforced the law
>Times Square was clean and safe
>Even the poor has 2 cars
>NAFTA hadn't gutted American jobs
>UK was still UK
>Games were more expensive overall
>Kids rode bikes and played without adult supervision all day long
>Common for group to form if kid in neighborhood got new popular game
>Neighborhood watched out for each other
>Food not basedbean oil and textured vegetable protein
>MTV played music mostly
>Comedy was non-partisan
>Homosexuals were shunned

>> No.7761790

>>7761781
why can't we go back

>> No.7762082
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>be me summer vacation sometime in the mid to late 90s
>really have the itch to game but it is absolutely gorgeous outside
>lightbulb.jpeg
>haul my 19" crt and Genesis to the back deck outside and play Comix Zone
All in all it worked out fantastic

>> No.7762141

>>7760412
You drank 6 cans of pop in just two days. Whoa slow down there you maniac! Seriously though I bet the average soda consumer drinks more than 3 cans a day. Seems everyone I know who drinks pop only drinks pop.

>> No.7762225

>>7755953
Wasn't that story told by that Sega Lord X guy?

>> No.7763427

>>7761790
>why can't we go back
You can. Move to a small town. Even in my shithole country our small cities are very safe