It’s so cool how we all share this experience. It’s a bit like also knowing what life was like before mobile phones. No other generation will ever know.
There will be plenty of post-cellphone generations after the collapse.
Filling the mspaint canvas with the spray paint tool 🤗
We thought it couldn’t get better than this, and in fact it didn’t get better.
The last 25 years was better and better browsers and web technologies, but the result now is a web that loads slowly and has tons of ads. Somewhere around 2008 was maybe the best, I dont remember exactly what year. But when the web was actually good and social media was not big yet.
I didn’t mind the early 2000’s web experience. You just kinda had to know how to get around, know what the fake download button looked like, not type your real name anywhere, have a little patience. The barrier to entry was slightly higher, which kept the masses away.
I think it was great, even with all its problems. Way less corporate too.Get a pihole. No ads
Now they have AI, and micro transactions if you want to buy more balls/cards.
If you replaced MS Paint with SkiFree in that picture, you’d achieve perfection.
Windows 3.5 was the apex of operating system design. There, I said it. Fight me, I dont care.
I think almost everyone started with ms paint, no? I have no idea what skifree is.
Watching the maze screensaver on windows 98 like a damn tv show
That tickles a memory of an actual game from around that time that looked like that. I think it was one of the ones MS made free, though you might have needed to specifically install the extended game pack or play it with the windows CD in or something like that. Not the most solid memory I have, but I just remember the screen saver looked a lot like that game just without the actual game part.
Once Internet came, downloaded demos on bboards and then happy puppy. Had content for a while although short lived.
Jezzball mothertruckers.
i miss that game so much. I should try to find if someones made one for linux.
edit
Icebreaker on flatpack, even has a jezz-like skin. huphup
Fuck yeah!
They had games like this before the Internet with no DRM or anything? :O
If you wanted to put in the time you could finder power ups!
I’ve got a Dungeon Master’s guide
I’ve got a twelve sided die
I’ve got Kitty Pryde
And Nightcrawler too
Waiting there for me
Yes I do
I do
deleted by creator
It was a peaceful life.
before Swifties
Uhhh excuse me?
Where’s Number Munchers?
…or Oregon Trail?
…or QBasic games like Gorillas?
…and Nibbles (aka Snake)
…and Wolfenstein 3D that some kid installed on the machines when no one was looking?
Neither came as a standard Windows game/app
We thought it could never get better than this
And we were right
This, but all your games are shareware/demos you constantly replay
Loved the Road Rash demo back then
Those of us who drew random squiggles in Paint and filled the loops using the bucket tool are just objectively better and healthier people. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
If you don’t have Space Cadet Pinball on your PC right now, then please re-evaluate what you’re doing with your life.
Edit: also on every other platform
I have that shit on my phone right now, it’s a great time killer
Same here.
High score so far was 10mil
As a teenager, I got really good at drawing boobs from the side and the front in MS paint.
Then we got the internet and my digital art career went up in smoke at 28.8kbs.
Enter teenage me trying to draw (in Paint!) proper exposed boobies on this image from Pools of Darkness. That’s about when I gave up on my aspirations for becoming an artist.
Funny how it was Laura Croft’s triangular prism boobs that became so famous when there were better boob depictions in games with detailed pixel art.
Damn, now I understand when exactly I stopped doodling, with both the pencil and the mouse.
Funny that I had a similar skill. My drawings were all “under boob” pics. I focused on that. Tops of boobs are no big deal, but when a halter top is involved the tops are completely covered but a good portion of the bottom of the boob is exposed.
I got bored during a particularly slow period at work once and wanted to just play minesweeper or solitaire and found I did not have that option on modern windows without download some bullshit “app” from the “app store” that was full of ads…
