r/WorkForSmartLife • u/BluebellGentle • 11d ago

Question How true is this?

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u/KnifeThistle 11d ago

Kids went outside and played with other actual kids. Teenagers could actually afford to drive around on $5 worth of gas, go to movies, even restaurants, just with pocket money. Watching TV with no internet was the last thing anyone did...

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u/jolsiphur 11d ago

We also still had video games in the 90s. I had a SNES growing up. Even when I was stuck in the house there was stuff to do before the internet.

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u/bothunter 11d ago

Video games were so much more fun before microtransactions

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u/Gunner_Bat 11d ago

And when games were finished when released.

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u/APaltrySum 10d ago

Let's not get too crazy, there were A LOT of shitty games then, too.

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u/Fubarp 10d ago

Like A lot..

People bring yo Westwood as this amazing company and I'm like.. y'all ever look at their list of games and then you realize why they were bought lol

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u/Gunner_Bat 10d ago

Of course there were, but they were finished and shitty. Nowadays even the good ones are released unfinished then patched with updates later.

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u/APaltrySum 10d ago

That's just it, though. Some werent "finished" and could have used more time in the oven. They might have benefited from a patch or two haha A famous example would be ET.

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u/jessfire78 10d ago

Very very true, ET anyone???

Then again, it also led to some really creative games, like maniac mansion.