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The robot never did shit- he would just start a few fires then sail away. Hurricanes were more deadly.
I remember we used to play SimAnt and spent ages running ants into the powersockets.

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Originally Posted by Wigmund (Post 1034147)

When I was in school, we played Oregon Trail to leave inappropriate names on the tombstones for later players to find.

"Here lies Sunovabitch, drowned while trying to float across that last fucking river"

"Here lies diarrhea."

Every time I get nostalgic for Oregon Trail I fire up Let's Go Find El Dorado.

Also, Excitebike!

I found a copy of number munchers for my kids to play at one point.

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Originally Posted by Terex4 (Post 1034049)

You mean those box things that looked like a vectrex? I remember playing Oregon Trail on those things. That and the really old apples with the 6 inch floppies that had games made entirely of green pixels.

The modem noise takes me back, sitting there listening to see if it connected or if I got a busy signal. Then trying to figure out why it was always busy at 5pm.

Man, I hated Oregon Trail. I wasn't even trying to kill my characters and they'll all die anyway. I tried playing it again like 4 months ago just to see how it went, and it went pretty much flawlessly, so apparently I just sucked at it back then.

We had the Apple IIes until I was in like 5th grade; I remember when the old Macintoshes that came after them seemed pretty sweet in comparison.

Anyway, this is off the original topic of the ridiculousness of mid-90s AOL. I remember a time when I was totally ready to jump into chats / message strangers and have a random-ass conversation with someone I'd never met. Mostly it wasn't that interesting, but occasionally you'd find someone who was completely down with it and it would be awesome. Naturally, the fact that this probably wasn't the best course of action for a 13-year-old girl never occurred to me.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot, AOL users always had to click a dialog box to accept messages from AIM users; for all I know, they still do, but nobody uses AOL anymore so it doesn't matter.

I remember back in the olden days I had to get log off windows and boot up DOS to be able to play Duke Nukem 2. Also my Windows 3.11 machine where the only song I'd play was a MIDI of The Entertainer.

You had The Entertainer? All we had was Canyon.mid.

Man, that takes me back.

We still have our 1996 Pentium down in the basement. It runs Windows 98. I've considered rounding it out and installing like, AOL and Microsoft Bob and making it a shrine to 90s terribleness, because I have kind of a warped sense of humor.

AOL in 94? I played on Moosehead SLED II, as far as muds go. Best game I've ever played, hands down.

And when that wasn't quite enough to hold my interest (usually when there was nobody on to kill at about two in the morning), I'd cruise the chatrooms, firing up various punters, and kicking people's lame asses offline. Pepsi, Oreo, Assassin, MiB, Bolt, 1-IM, I had dozens upon dozens of programs all specifically made to ruin someone else's day.

1994.. been so long...

stumbling into chat rooms devoted to fantasy settings, thinking it was some kind of game, and then later finding out it's mostly an excuse for people to use the /roll command and cybersex

blowing people's minds by running MSIE (or, later, Mozilla/Netscape) instead of the IE-branded clone inside AOL itself

being super happy when modems that channeled their sound through the PC speaker came out so that I could stealth-login late at night

making fun of Earthlink

initially, learning the difference between the various AOL-spawned "pages" and places within their program and network and the actual World Wide Web

Before that, there was some Prodigy something or other that we dialed into on our IBM PS/2. Oh man wacky things like mad libs and other pages of text awaited our family!