• socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    121·
    7 days ago

    Do people really remember that much before age 10? I have a few core memories but general cultural awareness is pretty lacking and mostly based on hindsight.

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      7 days ago

      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.

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
    473·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • goatbeard@lemm.ee
      10·
      7 days ago

      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.

    • GoosLife@lemmy.world
      7·
      7 days ago

      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.

    • Harvey656@lemmy.world
      5·
      7 days ago

      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.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
      1·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 days ago

        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.

      • Anivia@feddit.org
        2·
        6 days ago

        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)

      • Psythik@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        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.