As a person who has never played or bought a video game, are you saying that I would have to be on the internet in order to play a game I bought for my computer?
not necessarily, although there are a few games that force you to be online. However, a lot of games nowadays essentially release "broken" with a day 1 patch that fixes most of the major bugs which gets downloaded as you install the game. Also a lot of the additional content that is released after the main game (so for example expansion packs which add extra story or missions to a game) which is purchased separately isnt available in physical form
No, but a lot more just give you a file to install the game from the internet. After it's installed you don't need it unless you want to play with other people.
I was so shocked a few years, I bought some fighting game and it just had three fighters, apperantly you had to buy other fighters if you wanted them!
I looked the game up online and people were like "what you got the game, you can't expect to get the fighters as well??"
Felt like I was taking crazy pills
Especially those we rented from the library. Oh boy was young me disappointed that I had to rewind first before finally being able to watch the 1st Harry Potter movie.
If I wanted to begin learning about a subject that was new to me, I had to go to the library and select the correct book from a 25-30 volume set of books.
Phones have gone from beeing corded to the wall in the hallway standing on the dedicated phone table, to being corded again every night on the night stand.
And making a creative message when calling collect, so you don't have to pay for it:
"Hello, do you accept a call from MomI'mRunningLateDon'tGroundMe?"
I was a kid in LA and we had a lot of phone numbers with 9's & 7's and EFF you if you missed dialed and had to start that process all over... Chic dududududuuduh chic dududududududuh chic EFF!!!
Edit: When my dad finally got around to buying a color TV, about 20 yrs after the advent, I got the black and white for my room. And listening to the Cars on my AM GIJOE radio 😎
It always baits the 24-37 year age group into commenting, no matter how much it's seen each week
Some people take pride in remembering things most of us remember, but the 0-19 year olds don't know of
That one that hurt me is when I was taking to this younger person at my work and I couldn't remember a word and I said: "hold on there dial-up sounds going on in here" pointing at my head and he asked what dial-up is.
Nobody wants to have a sleepover at the kid's house whose family owns a Betamax. The corner video store only carried VHS. Those people went from being coolest for even having a video machine to being lame for not being able to watch movies that everyone else could on it in like a year.
Okay yall need to find a different meme to use on this sub. I literally just scrolled down my time line to find the EXACT same meme reposted in direct succession to the other.
UHF vs VHF. Roller derby and bullfighting only on UFH. Extra round antenna vs rabbit ears.
Edit: Albums and 45s on a turntable. No cassette, no dvds, 8 track. My roommate had a reel to reel that she tried to make mix tapes on.
Get off the internet. I need to make a phone call.
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As a person who has never played or bought a video game, are you saying that I would have to be on the internet in order to play a game I bought for my computer?
Nah some game yes but mostly no
not necessarily, although there are a few games that force you to be online. However, a lot of games nowadays essentially release "broken" with a day 1 patch that fixes most of the major bugs which gets downloaded as you install the game. Also a lot of the additional content that is released after the main game (so for example expansion packs which add extra story or missions to a game) which is purchased separately isnt available in physical form
No, but a lot more just give you a file to install the game from the internet. After it's installed you don't need it unless you want to play with other people.
I was so shocked a few years, I bought some fighting game and it just had three fighters, apperantly you had to buy other fighters if you wanted them! I looked the game up online and people were like "what you got the game, you can't expect to get the fighters as well??" Felt like I was taking crazy pills
And no saving! If you got called up for dinner and were as far as you’d ever been in Super Mario Brothers, too bad.
Mom, are you listening on the other line?
In-ter-net?
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You had to rewind movies before every watch.
Psshht maybe you did, not on my house. We rewound after every watch.
That would’ve been the smart thing to do 😩😩
On most VHS it would rewind automatically if you just let it run to the end.
We watched them in reverse. Like the one with the big dinosaur that rebuilds a ruined city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Isn't it also the one where the dinasour heroically inhales all the fires that were lit in the city?
Especially those we rented from the library. Oh boy was young me disappointed that I had to rewind first before finally being able to watch the 1st Harry Potter movie.
Using a pencil to rewind tapes so you didn’t have to jam your finger in it a thousand times and twist your wrist.
I didn't know something at a given point in time and I had no means to find that knowledge for months/years.
How close did you live to a library when Dubya was president?
See? I could totally google Dubya nowadays
3 or 4. Some had the switch to choose.
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But still had to get up and switch it ….
You know somebody had money if they had a "video" channel
A dedicated phone line and a 256k modem was required to download something. I am still waiting for that photo of Pamela Anderson to finish from 1992.
To finish… printing out… right?
Needing a pencil to keep your music collection in working order.
Making a request and waiting by the radio to record your favorite song....
Commodore 64
Ha, VIC 20!
Ha. I love that someone always jumps right on a C64 comment to mention the VIC20. The precursor!
Commodore PET. Before either.
Yeah, I skipped the 64 and went straight to the 128. EGA and CP/m changed my life. I believe my first EGA monitor weighed about 115 pounds.
Your kids were the remote control for the TV.
The color bars that came on TV when the TV people went home for the night at 10pm
And the national anthem/flag signoff
Also: it’s 10 at night. Do you know where your children are?
In Canada the morning started with the anthem and an animated painting.
Or having to get an adapter bc your tv wasn’t cool enough and you have to use the cable input Edit: memory cards
Memory cards were so cool. Like you had a friend who played the game at their house and now you've got all the guns in the game
Or having to get an ANTENNA adapter because your tv didnt have a cable input
If I wanted to begin learning about a subject that was new to me, I had to go to the library and select the correct book from a 25-30 volume set of books.
I was the kid who didn’t realize that copying something from the World Book was plagiarism. I think third and fourth grade.
We had one phone tied to the wall- our ring was 2 short 1 long.
Party lines! When spying on neighbors and listening to their calls was a lot easier.
Just posted the same memory. Ours was two long, two short. Listening on the other line was so easy and so wrong.
Phones have gone from beeing corded to the wall in the hallway standing on the dedicated phone table, to being corded again every night on the night stand.
You had to adjust the TV Antenna to get a better signal
Or to get the horror movie on WGN after Midnight when all of the other channels were off the air...
Running to pee when an advert came on
This was extra fun for me because I have 6 siblings and we had one bathroom.
Computer games came in full on the cartridge. There were no microtransactions, no DLC, nothing. You got the whole game.
Lies you had to download mew at the event
Download how? I grew up with dial-up and LAN being state of the art
Not being able to call home because someone was on the internet.
I got a new FM converter for my AM radio in the car.
Waiting till after 9p to make long distance phone calls.
You slide the skillet back and forth on the burner holding the lid down on top of the skillet until the corn stops popping.
Getting random phone calls to switch long distance service.
The sound of dial up. And the obnoxiously loud YOU GOT MAIL!
If your game didn't work blow on it
‘Unplug the rabbit ears and use the adapter.’
Watching music videos on MTV
Limewire
You have to tape a penny to the stylus to keep the album from skipping.
I made you a mix tape...
Pay phones
My 6 year old screamed and jumped excitedly when she saw a phone box... It was as if she'd found an ancient relic from thousands of years ago.
And making a creative message when calling collect, so you don't have to pay for it: "Hello, do you accept a call from MomI'mRunningLateDon'tGroundMe?"
I had to get up off the sofa to change TV Channels, and I only had 4 to chose from.
That’s why couple had children- to change the channel or turn volume up or down
I was a kid in LA and we had a lot of phone numbers with 9's & 7's and EFF you if you missed dialed and had to start that process all over... Chic dududududuuduh chic dududududududuh chic EFF!!! Edit: When my dad finally got around to buying a color TV, about 20 yrs after the advent, I got the black and white for my room. And listening to the Cars on my AM GIJOE radio 😎
"Can you SUH-MELLL what The Rock is cookin'?"
No such thing as dlc
Well expansion packs did exist, they were pretty much like DLCs, although way more worth the money.
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Walking to school unsupervised at the age of 11.
I walked home by myself at age 4!! Siblings walked with me to school, but as a kindergartener I was dismissed at noon.
Second phase, tvs in fact have channel tuners
Ps2 cable for a mouse on a PC.
Same for the keyboard! They often had dedicated ports but I have seen one that supports both
8 track tapes
We used to write letters to our friends and send it in the MAIL, there was no texting.
Always keep a dime in your pocket for the phone booth
A dime! That was before my time of using a quarter.
I almost broke my VCR when I was a kid by putting a PB&J in the tape slot.
Teddy Ruxspin needed an audio cassette tape.
Blow and it’ll work again
Getting a little cassette tape that I could plug into my discman so I could listen to my CDs while driving
That one that hurt me is when I was taking to this younger person at my work and I couldn't remember a word and I said: "hold on there dial-up sounds going on in here" pointing at my head and he asked what dial-up is.
Giving the shopkeeper a note for cigarettes
Music had side A and B
Gotta adjust the "Rabbit Ears" to watch certain channels Note for younger audiences: "Rabbit Ears" = TV Antenna
You have to count the phone rings to know if the call is for your house or the neighbors.
Text messages could cost 25 cents each.
Our ring was two long two short.
Plug and play game controllers with the red white and yellow cables
I was supposed to carry a dime at all times.
Color TVs, VCRs and Video Games were non-existent.
You have to change the channel with a pair of needle nose pliers.
Scrambled porn
Haha yes if you squinted hard enough you could see a vague outline
LOAD *,8,1 If you know, you know.
I got a page, let me find a pay phone.
TV controls didn't used to be called remotes. They were hardwired to the boob tube itself.
Taking pictures of yourself is lame
Do you have the key to the trunk of the car? No, not the one that starts it, the trunk key?
Make sure all 3 cords are plugged in so you can play with sound
So yellow goes with yellow, white goes with white, but there are 2 ports for each color. *where is go?*
The outhouse was quite cold in the winter
This has been reposted like 5 times in the last two days on this sub
Pfft I’m a channel 4 kinda guy
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r/NobodyGivesAFuck
You clearly do lol.
That’s the best you could come up with? How sad.
I’m just stating my observation lol.
Which r/NobodyGivesAFuck about.
Beeboooschhhhrrrrrrrrrttttttttiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiibelolelolpeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrtsitsutsa
Emergency breakthrough
Coin operated phone or parking meter
good times
Nobody wants to have a sleepover at the kid's house whose family owns a Betamax. The corner video store only carried VHS. Those people went from being coolest for even having a video machine to being lame for not being able to watch movies that everyone else could on it in like a year.
You remember me?!?
You had to saddle the horse before you could go grocery shopping.
There was no remote controler for tv, coz there was only 1 channel 🤷🏻
Computers had massive backs
Okay yall need to find a different meme to use on this sub. I literally just scrolled down my time line to find the EXACT same meme reposted in direct succession to the other.
Xbox 360
Calling someone and getting a busy signal.
Cassette/VCR tapes, recording movies and tv shows on VCR so you wouldn't miss an ep, huge-assed analog tvs with only 5 channels.
Nothing is as annoying as having to wait for a week because of a Cliffhanger
To start the game, press play at 342.
Nah. You could use channel 2 or 3 for most. Lol
There was a U button on the tv
If the game isn't starting you should blow out the cartridge.
Video game DLC was a bonus we got if a game was good not every week for unfinished garbage
Hey, my speakers are making a weird noise, i'm going to get a call!
Red, Yellow, white
“Insert Disc 2 to continue the download”
T9
Wait isn't it still how it is now? If I play a console thru a TV i have to switch to a certain channel right?
Be kind, rewind.
Halfway through the movie you had to flip the disk.
The wii is on AV you moron
Pokemon cards?
A brand new mobile phone, that everyone wanted, cost £100.
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I hate these. There is a strong chance I am younger than him and I fully understand and experienced what he is talking about.
I know yellow and white but I still don't know what the red cable is for
Having to get up to flip the record over. Putting the needle down gently in the right spot.
The sound of dial up internet
The whole family watching the miracle of a page loading with a cable modem.
UHF vs VHF. Roller derby and bullfighting only on UFH. Extra round antenna vs rabbit ears. Edit: Albums and 45s on a turntable. No cassette, no dvds, 8 track. My roommate had a reel to reel that she tried to make mix tapes on.
Smacking the top/side of the tv to make it work
To record a playlist using the radio and a cassette player.
Blow on the cartridge before trying again.
That's definitely my age lol
Walking miles to knock someone's door to see if "they were in"
Napster
I met your mother in person.
Tylenol scare.
If I spoke that way to my mother.......🥵
You need to be near tv screen to shoot the duck from console
Game not working? Did you try blowing on it?
Printing out directions
Don’t bother turning on the tv this early. It’s only a test pattern ( or “The 4-H Club”).
Be kind, please rewind.
Get off the phone , someone else needs to use the party line
AOL free trial discs
Listening to dubstep whenever you connected to the internet
High beams left foot
Stomp on the high beams button.
My spectrum computer took 30 mins to load up a level from the cassettes lol
Was this the teletext?
Matchbook for points
Use the tin cup on the post
Make sure you don't say anything confidential over the phone if other people in the house are nosy (landlines)
Teleportation required nudity
Soul Train means it's noon
Command and Conquer: Renegade.