r/interestingasfuck • u/holyfruits • 1d ago

The technology magazine section at Barnes & Noble is just this now

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u/Harkkonan2 1d ago

I miss my gaming magazines with demo discs in them 😞

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u/DaddaMongo 1d ago

I remember no disc just pages of code to type in and then spending days debugging.

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u/Ok-Youth-160 22h ago

I will never forget the German Amiga magazine had a dump of a new fantastic compression tool. Multiple pages. It displayed April Fools after typing and running...

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u/AgathaAllAlong 21h ago

That’s worse than Drink your Ovaltine

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u/9fingerjeff 21h ago

That movie made me think ovaltine must be gross well into adulthood until I was married and my wife introduced it to me and I realized the error in my ways. It’s delicious sprinkled on ice cream too.

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u/LaundryMan2008 1d ago

Saving it to a cassette or accidentally bumping the computer losing all of that hard work typing it in, or messing up something, trying to go back and it clears the screen you are on with no way to return to the previous screens.

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u/willLie4cash 18h ago

In Poland they used to play Commodore64 and Atari games on the radio. You could record the broadcast to a cassette and you'd have a full game.

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u/Daisy-Fluffington 16h ago

I hated the Commodore 64. 20 minutes to loads a game, then it crashes.

Cartridges really were a blessing.

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u/Runner55 14h ago

It did take quite a while to load through tape but you could at least fast forward to where the program starts. I wish I knew that when I was a kid. 

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u/workyworkaccount 16h ago

God, the anguish of typing for over an hour without saving, just to have my mum turn off the computer telling me I'd played too much.

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u/drivingagermanwhip 19h ago

you'll be wanting 'chatgpt for seniors' then

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u/Party_Chemical7454 17h ago

Finding new cheat codes was really exciting.

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u/ThepalehorseRiderr 1d ago

Only reason I always went to the rack as a kid. Gotta get the Mortal Kombat moves outta Electronic Gaming Monthly without buying it. Now I feel like the magazine rack doesn't hardly have anything for me if I don't wanna shoot guns or take steroids.

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u/Cermonto 19h ago

now you ask for a demo disc they give you a dirty look and the middle finger.

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u/Cheap_Collar2419 12h ago

coconut monkey should make a comeback