What savages would use Paint without AI???
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What about winamp and windows media center audio visualizers. Trippy patterns
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skiifree was also a solid choice
And Chip's Challenge.
TIL about my financial situation, I guess. What's wrong with them?
And this was fancy stuff. Command prompts on an Apple IIe was my first computer experience.
It's nice to know that even without internet, they still had Balatro ❤️
Don’t forget Hover!
'Member when you bought a magazine and got a FREE floppy or CD with a bunch of (shareware/demo) games? I played the same 2 demo maps of Age of Empires to death - the game had 3, but the 3rd one was too hard for youngster me.
First Mount&Blade for me. It was hard capped so you straight up can not play after some level (?). I wonder how many times I rolled a stone on top of that mountain, only to gleefuly repeat the process after it felt back.
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No matter what it says about my game time on Steam, XBox, etc. I still think Space Cadet has given me the most hours on record (albeit unrecorded).
Holding shift and dragging the selection box around in paint was like 60% of my computer classes.
Encarta was the internet
Was Encarta the one with a trivia game? Or was that Britannica? Cause I remember my antisocial young self playing it to death.
I still got some useless facts stuck in my head, taking up valuable space.. I can't conjure any of them on demand; but someone could randomly mention a species of frog and I would go, "oh yeah, they're native to Madagascar!"
Iirc encarta was an encyclopedia software
My Encarta 97 CD-ROM had a game where you went through rooms of a castle answering trivia questions to move on.
I stumbled onto this at a library as a kid and couldn't get enough! This library was a big one and it wasn't near us, so I selfishly tried to squeeze in every moment I could.
I did feel guilty, knowing my grandmother was stuck waiting for me, but the game was too compelling, my nerdiness too severe, and my grandma too gentle. I was powerless to do anything but press on.
Years later I realized...my grandma was a librarian, and this was an unfamiliar library to her. She had the better time by a mile, and must have counted her lucky stars that I was content to just stay in one place (AKA safe and behaving myself) for hours on end. I can remember her coming to check on me every so often, and each time I couldn't believe I got to play even more.
Thanks for the memory :)
Yeah that's the one!
No love for SkiFree?
Whenever people mention Space Cadet pinball, I HAVE to recommend the reverse engineered open source version on github (source ports for almost every type of platform).
It's also available on flathub.
Ahh, my nostalgia. Thanks!
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Not shown: my Amiga500
What is this fancy shit? I had to launch my games with MS DOS commands.
and everything was green
> qbasic nibbles.bas
Your computers had games in colors?
Had dialup from 1994, still spent hours playing Space Cadet and Solitaire.
You didn't have diskettes or CDs in your neck of the woods?
500 games on 10 CD-ROMs 👌
(485 of them are shareware demos you can only play for 15 minutes at a time, but still)
I was going to say, I didn't have Internet until college we still had CD-ROMs, game consoles, and of course the public library for Internet when needed. Not that these options aren't excellent free entertainment.
In paint be sure to make a bunch of random lines and then use the fill bucket to fill in random colors in the spaces.
How do you know?!?! This is one of the most laser precise call out to my childhood ive ever seen in an internet comment.
Em spaint was always fun.
I'd fill the whole screen, then use the freestyle cutting and go wild with the mouse, then delete the selection, leaving a weirdly neat 2-color mosaic
Oooh I totally forgot that I did play with MS Paint! I invented cities, countries, or I just did what you described. Fun times!
I used pixel-level zoom and drew top-down Star Wars starfighters and then copied and pasted them to have battles.
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You forgot chess {or checkers, if you want to}