Anybody remember the SHREK KETCHUP lolol
warcraft3.exe
GRAB YOUR SWORD, AND FIGHT THE HORDE! UNCLE LOTHAR WANTS YOU!
Millennial, here (1988) and this is just my early-to-mid teen years, which I consider part of my childhood.
Showed the meme to my GF who born in 1995 and she couldn’t even relate to half of this starter pack. Her era was Wii and DS, not GBA and PS2. Her first phone was an iPhone.
Weird, I’m only two years older than here and this image fits me perfectly. I had every version of gameboy, a GameCube, n64, I played the SHIT out of oblivion, and my back hurts.
I was born in 96. My first console generation was PSX and GBC, followed by GBA and PS2. I think your gf just wasn’t in to gaming when she was little.
This looks like born in 95 with an older brother starter pack…
True, haha. I’m the oldest and my youngest sibling was also born in 1995. She had all the things that 90s kids had, thanks to hand-me-downs. Cassette Walkmans, N64, Windows 95, flip phones with black and white screens + no camera, etc.
She got started late smh we were all playing GBA on the bus back in the day.
That’s a fair assessment. She is the youngest and her asshole siblings would never let her use their game consoles. She didn’t get her own until age 10.
But to be even more fair, I didn’t get my first console (N64) until I was 9. Some kids were lucky enough to have parents willing to buy them expensive electronics at a younger age. Neither of us were that lucky/spoiled. But my neighbor who was one year younger than me had a SNES and a PC. I didn’t get my own PC until 2004. Until then everyone except my dad had to share the living room computer, and it had the shittiest GPU in the world—GeForce4 MX 4000—which was basically a scam card. But it was good enough to run Driver and Spider-Man (the one based on the first Tobey film), so it was good enough for me. Half-Life 2 was out of the question, though.
Meanwhile I’m from 97 and started with a Gameboy color and Pokémon Red (although admittedly that was around the time Pokémon Ruby for the GBA got released, I just played on hand me downs from a cousin)
I am about your GF’s age and agree with the other commenters --the meme is spot on. I was just having an Emerald nostalgia trip before I saw this meme. I played Emerald on a DS lite; the generations weren’t that far apart. PS2 was my first console.
94 I started with my cousin’s old SNES and a GBC. Good times. The Donkey Kong Country Trilogy still has some of thr best soundtracks ever.
I’d like to be asked consent when my picture is posted online.
Had a similar phone, my gameboy was a couple of gens older, and I never played pokemon… But I remember when my friends got their ps2s and I listened to both albums on my commute yesterday… Wtf happened? 2005 was yesterday!
Where’s the mini-skirt made of snake skin? And who’s the other guy that’s singing in Van Halen? When did reality become TV? Whatever happened to sitcoms, game shows (on the radio?)
Really fucked up thing is, that song came out in 2004, and is about a woman remembering 1985, like we’re remembering 2005… It’s already been a year more for us than her.
Time spares no one, friend. Howl in defiance with me for just a few moments more.
There’s no way I’m older than you. You can’t do this to me!
2005 was lit! 2006 was probably one of the best years of my life, despite being relatively broke most of the time.
is that thing in the upper right a slice of cabbage?
Endoplasmic reticulum?
I came to the chat wondering what it was too. Look like an endoplasmic reticulum to me, but no idea why that would be there.
It’s a beyblade https://youtu.be/4twNH7WpGVw
Bayblades babyyyyy
Beyblades!
I thought they were much simpler back then, no?
back then
Oof, ow, ouchie
Idk what they are now, but they were just cool looking spinning tops with sharp pokey bits to topple enemy beyblades, or more likely, to cause bodily harm to your friends, especially the diecast metal ones that had some heft to them
The one in this picture matches my idea of what new beyblades looked like in 2005-ish, when I was getting over them because they looked so excessively bulky. I think the launcher also saw a revision?
Simpler plastic design I mean. I know that beyblades were always radical-goofy looking, but older ones you could still make out most of the shapes from a distance. Newer ones look like the one in the pic, 5 layers of different whatever just on the upper part. Maybe the plastic ones always looked like that and I’m just that old, ugh
newer ones are way simpler than the one in the pic
Half Life 2 where are yoooouuuuu. And I’m so sooorry.
Replace a PlayStation 2 with a early 2000’s computer and everything checks out for me.
I’m still looking for my GBA-SP! It’s the retro Nintendo version. I want to play Golden Sun without paying for it.
Hell yeah Golden Sun!
For extra fun: sing System of a Down in public and see who becomes confused and/or aroused.
My alarm used to be Chop Suey.
The hard part was converting then getting the cable to upload AMR files to my phone. Made me feel
PUUUUUUUL THE TAPE WORM OUT OF YOUR ASS!
I’m born 1990 and this pic was my childhood
Look at this photograph!
Oh God grandpa found the photo book again
I feel seen/attacked.
Zoomers are 97 millennials go all the way to 96
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/
