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Recently got asked by a youngster whether I know Pokémon.
Kid … I was there, 3000 years ago at the beginning.
me when kids explain minecraft history to me
me when kids explain weird-ass minecraft lore to me when i’ve been there since it was a browser game
My kid is getting into Minecraft and it’s so hard to not stop their excitement by being like “yeah, I know, I’ve been playing this for longer than you’ve been alive” because I love how excited they get learning about how to make basic shit (and they’re playing ATM10,so there’s a TON of shit they haven’t even come close to seeing) and sharing that with me.
Reminds me of a time when my nephew was playing vintage Super Mario Kart and started trash talking me about how long they had been playing and that I didn’t stand a chance.
“I was playing this since before you were born kid”
i prefer vintage story
“Kid you don’t even know what Alpha means…”
All these zoomers thinking I’m a manosphere chud because I said I played minecraft alpha version 😣
Was it Youngster Joey? Did he show you his Rattata?
I sent him to the tower of souls same as I did with Gary. Never stop training
it took my mom and I half an hour to figure out how to leave the house when we first booted up pokemon blue
I was 22 when Pokemon started becoming popular in the US. You really feel being a Gen Xer in a Millenial nostalgia world!
Okay xoomer, I bet you don’t get spongebob references either, do ya!
Not directly! Only if they’re repeated a lot online.
What a sad, depraved life… 😔
(/jk)
yeah, i’m an older Xennial and my younger sibling was not allowed to watch anime for reasons. My first handheld gaming console was my first smartphone in 2014? I don’t understand pokemans at all.
Started getting popular… The original release of games in 1998 was an enormous success here in the US, Pokemon was popular from inception; when are you referring to?
Son, I remember when people were confused about Mr. Game and Watch while I was fondly reminiscing about my first handheld while looking at my childhood through R.O.B colored glasses.
Bro. Blackjack on the studio II.
"Kids these days"TM don’t get any references before Pokemon…like McGuyvering, Voltron…so I resent Pokemon because of that…😬
I thought mcguyver was a simpsons thing for about 25 years until I learned the truth
You had to be born in the mid late 80s To truly appreciate the 90s
GenX hates this one thing…
Thats not true, they hate most things.
Fuck you
This is what x, y and z can agree on
Meh (as a standard gen x answer).
I would argue mid-late 70’s actually. It’s when we were in high-school.
If you weren’t young enough to watch gummy bears, you just weren’t there, man lulz
ikr, just kinda bouncing here, there and everywhere.
79, I feel the same.
mid 70s. i am a 90s kid because all my highschool and vollege was in the 90s… no one cares about a grunge 10 year old
Xelenials unite!
You underestimate just how long the 90’s stuck around in some parts.
I was born in the 90’s molded by the 90’s, I didn’t see the 2000’s until I was already a man, and by then it was nothing but blinding.
90s ended for everyone on September 11th, 2001. From there on it’s all been heartless shit, in lametta.
Being a “__s kid” means that’s when you had your childhood. (From 5 or 6 to preteen-early teens) Even someone born in 97 isn’t a 90s kid.
So me being born on the very tail tend of the 70 is an 80s kid? Tbh I feel more like a 90s kid as that’s when I was a teenager
Being a kid doesn’t start when you’re a teenager.
I have a memory of getting annoyed because I kept writing 93 instead of 94 on my school work after the Christmas holiday was over
I was born 95, but I was the youngest kid. I was exposed to a lot of 90’s stuff that I probably wouldn’t have been if not for that, like the snes felt really crusty and old by the time I would have been old enough to get my own console, but I grew up mirroring the excitement of my older peers for stuff like SMW and Plok. I miss a lot of stuff from the 90’s and I was only ever 4 or younger in it hahahaha
I was born in '91 and a lot of what I associate with the '90s actually are things from the early '00s. I think part of it is because we moved around that time so memories of my old house and things that were from the actual '90s sort of faded in my mind.
Time shifted childhoods are a thing. Especially when you have no internet and live in the middle of nowhere.
people will form tribes for just about anything
90s kid here. i dont get it.
The one person was born in 2000 and the other person complains about how young they are. It turns out that the complainer was born in 1999, and therefore is only a year older. Thus making the complaint a bit silly.
I like to think he was born on 12/31/99 to make it extra ridiculous.
As that aging adult who was born on 12/29/99, it is extra ridiculous because 90s kids laugh at you and 00s kids think you’re already a corpse.
Technically a 90s kid!
We grant you a seat on the council but do not grant you the title of 90’s kid.
thanks :)
ngl, now i feel a little silly for not having gotten it.
Its okay. Only 80s kids can appreciate the joke.
I thought the joke was they were both both before the start of the new millennium. Awful lot of people started counting with 0 instead of 1 in 2000.
I think of it like this. They’re a 90s baby, not a 90s kid.
90s kid would be more like born in the mid 80s to mid 90s so you have actual memories of the 90s.
I was born in 89, so remember a good portion of the 90s. It was a much simpler time but obviously we tend to romanticise the fun memories and quietly ignore how vastly more inconvenient daily life was.
Mobile phones were not really a thing yet so getting in touch with your friends required a combination of patience and sheer luck.
The internet was a different place entirely and was experienced in 30 minute chunks of time, just long enough to download a song or two before being kicked off for tying up the landline.
Daily entertainment was 4, maybe 5 analogue TV channels, plus a collection of VHS tapes which are all degrading by being rewatched constantly.
Every piece of life admin that you would normally do online today was instead done with pen and paper.
Honestly, I’m amazed we ever got anything done.
Cable tv existed in the 90s. I remember when DVR came out so you could record tv shows automatically and watch them later. You could even fast forward through the ads! No more doing the bathroom break speedrun to avoid them.
Cable wasn’t as much as a thing over here except in specific areas, but if you were flush you might have satellite TV. Nothing so bourgeois for me though!
yeah i consider myself a 90s kid bc i was born in the 80s
same. i existed in the 80s, but i only really remember calvin and hobbes and some baseball games. i grew up in the 90s.
Bro misses the ‘90s like he had rent to pay back then 😭
Wait so he was the baby from Eraserhead?
In Heaven
Everything is fine
Try being Gen X, lol.
No, thanks. You’ll always have better cultural references and more ironic detachment than my millennial folks, but we killed the most industries.
Oh, I don’t know about that. The best gaming came out during the millennial’s time. Gen X may have got the gaming ball rolling, but the 90’s and early 2000 really saw things take off in that department.
