Looking back, were the early 2000s that bad?

Looking back, were the early 2000s that bad?

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Whats the name of that old maze game, not scary maze but it was older, cant remember the name

Maze?

>Maze game
you're going to have to be a little more specific

The sex and or masterbation was a lot better back then.
Likely because the porn want soo intense

encarta mind maze?

* porn wasn't soo intense

playing house with my younger brother and scattering dish rags around the kitchen to make an 'ocean'
good memories

the picture is a screensaver from win95 or 98

also try this
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Aw, shit, nigga that was my life ages 8-11.

Where can I get the software for that?

Wumpus?

>born in 92
People seemed happier, though 9/11 caused a lot of fear for a while. Didn't hear as much about politically correct bullshit like fags, trannies or BLM - it was probably there just not as prominent as today.

>right in the nostalgia

shining in the darkness?

Nope. Life pre-2009 was pretty fucking sweet.

I would give anything to go back..

Yes it was, because the only good forum at the time was the SomethingAwful forums, ajd you had to pay 10 bucks to get in, and you'd get banned for pointing out the lead admin was shilling mangosteen.

But at least playing Counter Strike was better back then.

It sure seemed that way at the time.

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Fucking this

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I need to know the name of this game right now

its called Maze Game 1988, or thats how i found it

i think, fuck idk now

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You guys should have been there for the 90s, we had arcades. I know it probably seems stupid, but you could go to a place to play new games and actually meet new friends. Magical places, arcades.

Yes this is it, wow
arcades now have 1 game out of 20 that are fun, like time crisis or anything like that, or maybe that snowmobile game

You are not thinking of Hover are you?

I love Hover.

To be blue pilled again

I was born in 1999

:(

This

Doesn't that make you 17?

Dark Alliance and SH2 were my shit

you know the drill mods

OUT OUT OUT

it was a good game!

>CAUSE IM IN TOO DEEP

People weren't addicted to phones, ISIS wasn't real, and Osama Bin Laden was being made fun of on TV without offending Muslims.

SLAYER!

When I was young playing at home, every time I died and got the "Continue? 10..9..8..7.." it felt like I just got a free game. Felt good

Fuck off dale

No, it was great. Feminism was a dirty word to women. We were still riding high from the end of the Cold War and the tech revolution. And fucking Diablo 2 was the bomb.

the 90s were absolutely haram

fucking leaves man even their music is shitposting, except rush of course

>want PS2
>parents refuse to buy it for me because they are dicks
>start mowing lawns to save up money for one
>finally get it
>get this hot new game Metal Gear Solid 2 because everyones talking about it
>its badass
>friends and I play it together a lot, we lose our shit when we have to play as Raiden
>eventually start having fun with it again, even though have no real idea whats going on with the story
>alone by myself one night, decide to finish the game that night
>mfw

>People weren't addicted to phones
I miss this most of all.

>tfw you realized leafs ruined everything

Yeah, the early 'oughts really were p great.

It's been a bad couple of years since then lads, but the late twenty-teens will be the pendulum's back-swing, and the roarin' 20's are going to be amazing.

No but only because we were naive.

The Red Pill is tough to swallow and being ignorant would be blissful at times.

I'd rather know the truth than grow up into a man child liberal that thinks the world is perfect and not totally fucked.

>>parents refuse to buy it for me because they are dicks
I hope you never reproduce

pls halp

>tfw you will never watch 2000s WWE ever again

>pre-2009

Try pre-2001. Saw a blurb on the news about Chandra Levy and that really took me back.

Aside from the months after 9/11 and before 2008 it was still felt like a mini-90s compared to today

2006 was the most comfy year ever
>youtube.com/watch?v=1ZB4e4-2io0

Aldo's Adventure?

youtube.com/watch?v=QZCzHYMEIeo

>WWE
You mean WWF

>stone cold coming out on a beer truck
that was entertainment

This.

Fucking panda hugging hippies.

2000 was okay. Russia started to make a comeback when Yeltsin pulled out sikrit-weapon Putin to redeem the Motherland.

Clinton was now out of the woods with the media hysteria that was Monica Lewinsky and Ken Starr, and everyone forgot about the shit he pulled with NATO in Eastern Europe a year earlier.

People were making bank off of stawks like Pets.com and other empty dot.coms.

Gore wasn't a front runner for the dem nomination until the media made everyone think Howard Dean was a crazy nut because he was capable of showing vivid emotions.

McCain was more popular than Bush until it was decided Bush would be the guy to win the white house.

Anyone with half a brain watching the elections that night saw Florida go from blue to red (for Bush) after it was declared. It was blamed on the media, and the Supreme Court decided Bush would be president "to heal the nation".

9/11 basically killed off all the chill 90's vibes.

The end of phone booths around 2003 basically sealed the deal, at least in my mind.

oddly enough...
this

>its a "Triple H pretends to be Kane having sex with a corpse" episode

o shit senpai
there's a name I haven't heard in years

>never actually read the questions
>just picked a random answer and progressed

mr. pac and watch

Reminder that Gore didn't win a single recount in Florida, and it was a massive case of ass pain.

All the Supreme Court did was stop the recounts after Gore kept losing every time. They didn't declare a winner.

>ywn play halo 2 all night with your friends again

El Rato confirmed

No, you run away from these yellow pirahna things and you got an umbrella to safely fall and escape with

The mid 2000s still felt like a stable era
>Internet wasn't centralized
>Smartphones weren't around
>Social media / SJWs weren't everywhere
>God-tier tv shows (The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm)
>Race relations were much better thanks to the Chappele Show and The Boondocks
>Everyone loved bashing Bush
I admit its no 90s but still felt like a more comfy era

2001 heralded the start of the dystopian society we all live in today.

Bush angered China with a spy-plane incident and was quickly forgotten because China, newly a member of the WTO, didn't really have the economy yet to back up its threats. It was only March 2001 and Bush had piss-poor approval ratings that would continue to sink until the wave of patriotism that would come in the Fall.

By late spring and summer, there were rumors of some terrorist shit going down and aspects of the government were put on alert but the average civvie had no clue and was content to keep laughing at the tired Jewish joke of arabs hijacking airplanes.

The laughing stopped in September and was replaced by flag-waving and chants of USA. Bush's approval rating skyrocketed to 90% because ... propaganda is strong and the internet back then for most people was basically AOL.

Enron imploded though nobody made the connection to the energy crisis in California the years before. Before he would testify and shed light on the connections between Enron and the 'energy crisis', the head of Enron, Ken Lay, died under suspicious circumstances.

By the end of 2001, the US was in Afghanistan, while the American government pushed towards becoming a police state with the recent passing of the patriot act. And suddenly, out of nowhere, the rhetoric became about invading Iraq.

Shrek ketchup

This

you mean mid 90's wwf and the ruthless agression era e.g. 2002 till about the pg era when the rating went from tv-14 to pg after chris benoit death.

that shit was always disgusting to look at

Clerks did this right, great movie

Chappelle Show was one of the best ever made, it was racist, BUT IT WAS FUNNY AF

never again

>You will never call your friend a faggot for camping with the sniper rifle in Ascension again

>You will never blow someone up with a boomy-barrel in Lockout again

>You will never jump on the giant wheel in Zanzibar again

Oh so it's the shifting of the "The XXs were great..." that used to be the 90s and has been transitioning to the 00s.

I can't wait until people are waxing nostalgic about how pure and innocent the 10s were and how everything in the world went to shit once the year 2019 was over.

It's Moraff's Escapade by Steve Moraff
archive.org/details/MoraffsEscapade

I have a huge nostalgia boner for mid 90s pc games that had shareware/demos but at least I can admit it.

or spend hours doing that banshee jump glitch

i remember the friend i played this with did literal chimp screams in the middle of class, yes he was black, i died of laughter everytime

those were the days

Imagine if that would happen while Sup Forums existed... We will get wet of the happening

thank you

>playing house with brother
Whoever lost ocean got pegged in the ass didnt they?

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>mfw old enough to remember putting porn textures on the walls

>you'll never plough your way through Diablo 1 with a buddy again
>you'll never spend nights playing ranked Starcraft matches just to boost your stats for braging rights again
>you'll never make lvl 9 / 18 / 30 duel characters to fuck about in Diablo 2 with your friends again
>i'll never make a lvl 49 fireclaw werebear druid full of fire facet jewels and a full set of shape shifting GCs one-hitting high lvl hammershits with a 8k fire dmg swipe they never expected

i miss these times quite a bit

hahahahahaha

In 2002 there were two main media themes: Iraq and global recession.

The global economy went to shit after 9/11 for (((reasons))) and major economic players with serious accounting issues started to an hero while clearing the way for brand new monopolies. MCI WorldCom, for example, simply vanished whereas the previously-broken up "baby bells" reformed into Verizon (which also absorbed parts of the assets belonging to WorldCom).

Also adding to the recession was the tech stock bubble bursting. The dot-com bubble meme was recognized by now and a lot of people lost money because they foolishly invested in companies that operated in the red. This is actually happening again today in current year and although unemployment was rising then, it was nowhere near as bad as it is in current year.

When it became obvious that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 to even the trashiest of white trash, the Bush admin switched gears and made it about chemical weapons that his own people sold to Saddam.
>rumsfeld-handshake.jpg

People around the world started to dislike Americans, partially because of their perspective on Bush, but also because of how fucking stupid Americans seemed to be to them. Propaganda for the Iraq war was on full blast by now and it was no longer a matter of if but when, despite popular opposition from both the world and Americans that were capable of critical thinking. This was the year of things like Freedom Fries and Yellowcake and the next year would see things only getting worse.

OH WHAT

d1/d2 were the peak of online games for me, chilling in trade games, spacing out doing some meph runs, pvp, never found anything else like it

>finish it alone

I did that... So fucking scary as a kid lol. It pretty much turned me into a skeptic semi-conspiracy-theorist. A lot of the stuff about context and societal control I didn't get, but as I get older, it makes sense.

I had a level 15 mage that coud kill anything but barbarians up to level 45.

Log back in after being gone too long, all my charactrs still there in full gear "locked"

Was a sad day. I really missed talking mad shit and killing high level toons.

Corpse camping someone 3x your level was hilarious. Loved it when they would go get a level 99 and i would blow them out of the water again with my 70's

One of the earliest red pills for people growing up in that era

kek my very first redpill

No, the real red pill came the year before in September. It's both embarrassing and telling that the codec chat in the duodenum was more of a redpill to most than the somewhat obvious coup de tat of 9/11

>SHUT OFF YOUR GAME RIGHT NOW

dude that shit scared the shit outta me i gotta say.
>I actually did

>dude 9/11 was a conspiracy
t. blue pilled faggot

I did too, I thought I had to as part of the game

Fission Mailed, bro