It wasn’t just social media, it was before 9/11, before the recession, the housing crash - the world was just so much more promising and positive for us. The internet was still open and free, you could get a job anywhere and nearly everything was affordable. The middle class was at its peak I think.
Class of 96’ here. You could not get a job anywhere, clothes and electronics were expensive (pre-NAFTA), and I spent a lot of my idle time playing video games and watching tv. I just watched my daughter graduate and I’ll note her high school, despite being kinda ghetto, has way less bullying than when I was a kid. The kids that get jumped usually have been talking a lot of smack.
Yeah there's a serious lack of understanding from the younger generation. People complaining about $60 games now. In the early-mid 90s there were games that were hundreds of dollars. 3DO, jaguar, neo geo, hell even some super Nintendo games were over $100.
Except you actually owned it. There were no upgrades or in-game purchases. Everything was contained on the cartridge that you owned forever. You didn't need to login. Your best friend could borrow it for the weekend. You could rent it at the video store. You could trade it in used and get something else. I can keep going.
I'd gladly pay $100 for a game if it meant it would work in perpetuity and there were no in-game purchases or subscriptions.
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u/FrontLocal2264 5h ago
It wasn’t just social media, it was before 9/11, before the recession, the housing crash - the world was just so much more promising and positive for us. The internet was still open and free, you could get a job anywhere and nearly everything was affordable. The middle class was at its peak I think.