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[K@th]

We weren’t helicoptered ... but pur parents also didnt have roving SJW patrols looking to turn them into the state if their kid was at a park for an hour alone.

Seems to align with the time when Adam Walsh got murdered and we starting having a bunch of movies about kids being abducted.

[SuburbanFarmer]

We weren’t helicoptered ... but pur parents also didnt have roving SJW patrols looking to turn them into the state if their kid was at a park for an hour alone.

Seems to align with the time when Adam Walsh got murdered and we starting having a bunch of movies about kids being abducted.

Yep. Reader's Digest was apparently a snuff rag about kids dying in weird ways. My mom would always be especially paranoid, after reading that.

[The Conservative]

My older sibs were 8 and 10 years older...

So seeing them as in a different culture makes some sense.

They didn't use PCs... they had no gaming systems of any kind... where I grew up with Atari and it's spin offs.
They weren't slam marketed for toys and breakfast cereal in quite the same way.
There was a different cultural gestalt among the youth of their cohort...

Not really sure why they are both such egotists... that probably has more to do with subtle changes in our family over the years.
Mostly where my mom and dad were at... My Dad was a lot busier when they were kids... and my mom was probably less stable...
They weren't helicopter parented, that's for sure.

Oh fuck, I didn't get a gaming system till the 90's... only reason we had a computer was because my father was a programmer, but we weren't allowed to touch it. We played till the street lights came out, or school bell my mother had was rung for dinner. We didn't ignore it or we were rung instead.

[The Conservative]

Actually, there is an exact year... what makes a difference between what a whole generation is "stereotyped as" is how they are raised.

Sorry, no. A person born in '66 is not a whole separate generation from a person born in '65. They are generalities, not exacts.

Yeah, at home that may be true, but what you are taught in school changes, that is where the ideas and views change...not home haven't you figured that out yet?

[DrYouth]

Oh fuck, I didn't get a gaming system till the 90's... only reason we had a computer was because my father was a programmer, but we weren't allowed to touch it.

Well what you could do with a PC was pretty limited... you had to enter written commands on the keyboard.
They started having some decent "simulator" games... in the mid 80s
Atari, Sega and Intellivsion started having some playable games around the same time.... then came Nintendo.
But still... relative to today... video games were a tiny part of life.
If you were glued to a screen... it was because something was misfiring in your life.... nowadays it's hard not to be.

[K@th]

My dad was an EE who built our first PC. It had two 8" floppy drives; one for the OS and one for the software. If we needed to save something, we had to take out the software disk, insert a new disc and save to that.

This was approximately 1978. I was creating my own computer games using basic by 1980, as a freshman in HS. I've never been without a PC, since.

And Atari was the bomb. Absolutely loved that system.

[DBTrek]

Commodore64 + Ultima III

The beginning of a life long gaming habit.

Had the Atari, but the games weren’t as captivating. Yars revenge was ok.

[The Conservative]

My dad was an EE who built our first PC. It had two 8" floppy drives; one for the OS and one for the software. If we needed to save something, we had to take out the software disk, insert a new disc and save to that.

This was approximately 1978. I was creating my own computer games using basic by 1980, as a freshman in HS. I've never been without a PC, since.

And Atari was the bomb. Absolutely loved that system.

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[Okeefenokee]

I was outside playing with a stick.

[C-Mag]

I was outside playing with a stick.

And
Mud, water, defenseless animals, rock fights..... it was awesome