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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What's the difference between 95-96 and 93-94? They all don't remember most of the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's the memes opinion. I'd shave off a couple years more. Roll it back to like 91. You don't get to be a 90s kid if you were only 6 or 7 when it ended.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was born in '90. Some of my most cherished memories as a kid are playing 90's video games: Donkey Kong Country 1-3, Super Mario World 1-2, and later, the revelation that was the N64. I didn't get to watch a lot of TV, but when I did I loved 90's cartoons like Dexter's lab and Arthur (and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing whenever I could catch it, though that was exceptionally rare)

I vividly remember people stockpiling for Y2K and my mom turning on a radio to listen to the reports of 9/11.

I'm definitely a 90's kid, and so is my brother who is a year younger than me ('91).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You sound like you're arguing against me and reinforcing what I said at the same time. I said roll back being a 90s kid to like 1991. You're saying you and your brother born in 90 and 91 are 90s kids. So did I?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Ah yeah I thought you were saying '91 isn't a 90's kid, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh God, Y2K. My dad was in the Air Force and his unit was responsible for a big base's networking. My dad had to go into work that night as they expected the entire base's network to just erupt. We were all so worried about it and then ... Nothing happened at all, he was home by 2am.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I don't really know what all the common folk were expecting. All that shit was being updated for several years to be ready for 2000. I think it was just a combination of the thrill of things possibly going haywire, along with still being a general ignorance among a large portion of people about computers and programming.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

OP was born in 93-94 and wants to still be included.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

What's the difference between 95-96 and 93-94

Time.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Old enough to play Ocarina of Time when it came out.

Or at least old enough to play it at your cousin's house and ask your mom for it for christmas because you really wanted it but she wouldn't buy it for you because she was in full 90's helicopter parent mode and thought it looked too scary. I'm sure that's a universal experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

A real 90s kid argued over Nintendo vs Sega.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

“No mom, it’s not scary at all!”

redead scream

Edit: ReDead! Took me a long time to remember what those scary mofos are called!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This

Still remember staying up till midnight on new years watching my brother play, he said I could have a turn in the morning. I did not get that turn in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've been playing it on a PC emulator recently and it's still really fun. The controls take a bit getting used to, but it's great other than that. If you never got a chance to get your turn growing up, I highly recommend checking it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Even better than an emulator is Ship of Harkinian, a full source port to modern PC hardware. It has tons of graphical and QOL improvements, built in randomizer, modern controls if you want.

And to the people that like to say "MM iS beTTeR", they just released 2 Ship 2 Harkinian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's actually what I'm playing it on! Sorry, I'm a nerd, but not enough of a nerd to distinguish between an emulator and a port. But yeah, the QoL stuff is nice. For example, you can have it respawn you where you left off rather than back at the starting area every time you continue your game.

I haven't seen anything for modern controls though. I might have to poke around.

Edit: This video explains some of the good settings to try out. Free camera is mentioned near the very end. https://youtu.be/IPFb5iCMaBY

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Works great on a hacked Switch, too! Sadly, 2S2H isn't ported to it yet.