>Never again you will start installing a new game on your windows machine, play outside because the whole process takes fucking forever, come back inside to check if it finished, only to find out the installation had some random error and you can't play the game and must endure sitting at your friends home and play it for 10 minutes at a time
Wasn't that just a screen saver?
Duke 3D,Putt Putt,Doom and Pajama Sam. I didn't need anything else.
>you will never be so bored that you decide to watch your computer defragment its hard drive
Hahahaha.
>play starcraft game with friend
>one of you get a phone call
>playing aoe2 online
>mom screeches at you from downstairs to get off the web so she can phone her new bf
Is this some Mandela bullshit? People always say this, but the dial up connection was functionally a phone call, and you don't get cut off from one call when another comes in, so why do people say it happened with a dial up connection? With me it was the opposite, where I couldn't stay on too long in case someone called and wouldn't get through.
it's been a long time since I had a single landline and dialup but I would guess call waiting having something to do with it
Most old modems were designed to prioritize phone traffic over web traffic and cancel the connection when a call request came in. If you had a different experience that's on your specific hardware.
Late millennials and zoomers will never understand
Not our fault. We were born when we were born.
>10 minutes later
>yuber420 logs back on
fucking dial up
Playing VR for the first time recreated this feeling for me, sadly I got used to it and, after all this years, VR still has no games.
the first pirating I did was through mirc
I have a weird as fuck nostalgia for install screens. Especially the ones with that dark blue-green background and super dithered images.
And music sometimes.
Fuck, remember that Indigo Prophecy install with all the serial killer facts?
windows pipes
For me, it's starfield.
(I have a weird obsession with that screensaver because the post-credits scene from FF7 with the stars made a weirdly big impression on me)
that was my favorite too.
Someone even posted just that starfield from FF7.
Could an argument be made that FF games stopped being good when they stopped having the prelude theme playing over stars?
Maybe... Maybe.
I have a Japanese original Orchestrated cd box set of ff7
See, this is pure nostalgia, but I prefer the PSX midi sound.
I like 'underneath the rotting pizza'
I really love Holding My Thoughts In My Heart, especially when it plays on the route to Corel.
And when On That Day, 5 Years Ago when you're standing on the unfinished road.
I hate midgar. the game gets good right after kalm
Oh, man. Are you me?
(I always try and stretch out the part where you play as Tifa as the lead, and do the Wutai sidequest then)
All my favourite moments are out of Midgar, like the scene with Bugenhagen in the City of the Ancients (that fucking music), which is a location I love. It is dripping in mystery, and anyone who could shed even the slightest light on any of it is long gone.
fuck yeah dude. tifa is the strongest character if you max her out. her limit break hits Harder than the knights of the round. she also breeds and races my golden chocobos. I trust my wife.
I do the downed Shinra ship. it's the perfect time if you have yuffies ultimate weapon, and a maxed out morph materia coupled by a master ALL materia. you can farm so many sources
sound track is top notch though
forgot pic
For me it's the FF6 starfield.
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>that feeling that you've just been on a massive adventure, and it's over
>but the journey through the stars implies there's more to come
it star wars warp speed for me. I think I renamed the screen saver as Han solo
>never again will you wait two minutes for a page to load, and half the images are compressed to shit by your modems built in "speed booster"
>never again will you spend 9 hours downloading a 64mb n64 rom
>never again will you have to avoid 320kbps mp3 files cause they take an hour to download for one song
>never again will you get your ass beat bright red by your dad for running up the phone bill
>never again will you look at a 200mb game demo and see it as a completely impossible download
FUCK the old internet
fuck you dude. there was no shilling, or prying by corporations, and advertisers.
>that growing anticipation as you installed a game with multiple discs
>the installer playing sovlful music and showing background lore & art/3D renders
>THICC manuals written with the same style/tone as the game
>no more big box pc games
>I have all the cds except for this one
>turn on lap
I miss color gradients being prominent in UIs. Minimalism really killed any sense of style.
to a zoomer its just a meaningless picture, but i was there, and going back to that memory is almost like an acid trip by itself