IMO, this collage should add more R-rated movies like Robocop and The Terminator. Yeah, they're R-rated movies, but the kids definitely bugged their parents to buy the toys. Robocop, The Terminator, Aliens, Predator. Actually, now that I'm on full nostalgia mode, this is missing a lot of toys. I guess it's kinda hard to do toys since they're cross-generational although it would be pretty funny to see yo-yos show up in every other section. The Matrix not being part of Core Gen Y is also pretty bad. I remember everybody from The Simpsons to Shrek spoofing bullet time.
This is pretty male gendered. Like, girls did more than play Barbie for 60 years. No Lisa Frank artwork, no Bratz, no Hello Kitty. Also kinda weird how there's no pop stars. I can guarantee you as someone who lived during that time period that 6 year old girls were into Britney Spears and Nsync. Tell me with a straight face kids in the 80s weren't doing the thriller dance.
If I had to guess who made the collage, it's an early Gen Z dude who's watches too many cartoons and who's online too much but at least has the self-awareness to not flood the Gen Z part of the collage with memes.
i will firmly uphold there was something magical about video games in the millennial categories. Don't get me wrong, we're in a golden era of gaming availability and indie games, and maybe I was just a dumb kid, but it was magical watching the march of technology explode like that.
I'm not too blinded by nostalgia to demand you play on original hardware or that every game has aged well, but that whole 90s period was such radical change and transformation that hasn't been matched since. In 1990, the most advanced console you could buy was what, a Neo Geo? You were restricted to cartridges that could do sprite graphics. 3D games were strikingly rare, maybe if you were one of the few people who had a home PC. Game consoles using discs hadn't been invented yet. Hell it wasn't even common for game developers to get credited for the games they worked on.
By 2000 you could get a Dreamcast or a PS2. There had been such an explosion of technology that online games were common. Half-Life redefined how to engage with a story in games. Games with full voice acting were seen as normal. You could put a movie in your PS2 and watch it. Games had gone from displaying zero polygons to 16 million per second.
I'm still stunned at how quickly everything moved in that decade only for it to go stagnant. Half-Life came out only 5 years after DOOM. Super Mario 64 came out only 11 years after Super Mario Bros on the NES. The Resident Evil remake came out in 2002, only 6 years after the release of the original in 1996. The successor games are so much more advanced they make the previous one look like piddly little toys. It's ludicrous.
Maybe it's diminishing returns or what, but the only new thing in games that compares is VR, and yet the tech there is impressive, but doesn't feel like the sudden jolts and leaps I saw as a kid. Anyone else feel this way?
Nothing will ever rival the 90s in gaming. Whole gaming genres and subgenres were invented. FPS, RTS, 4X, 3d platformers, Metrodvanias, ARPG in the style of Diablo. The first modern fighting game was Street Fighter 2 in '91, and it completely laid the groundwork for what a fighting game is to the point where pre-SF2 fighting games like Karate Champ probably don't even register as fighting games for most people.
I cant believe i've watched damn near everything from the early boomer to late millennial stage back hen I was a fucking TV sponge. thats so much wasted time i couldve used for better stuff.
eh, this is just "what did i watch on tv when i was 8" plus us presidents.
I can relate to watching cartoons wayyyy too late. I watch it even now!
Definitely the whole millennial set, but the early millennial is the most powerful energy for me
The problem with charts like these is that so much of it quite easily crosses generational lines. I was born in 1999 but I played the n64 and original Xbox, watched all those shows. I have to go all the way back to the "early millennial" category before I start seeing stuff that I'm like "ok that's for old people"
In general I'd say the late millennial category much more closely aligns with stuff I think about when I think of my childhood. My age category contains a bunch of stuff I felt like I had outgrown by the time it showed up
:sicko-zoomer: rekt
(I was going to say owned but then I remembered I'm old and kids don't say that anymore)
I mean I was born after you and my first console was a SNES, because my dad still had his old one. You can experience things that weren't really "for" you.
Sure, but I think that's different from what I'm talking about. Like I watched the jetsons and pink panther as a kid too, but that's not the same as watching recess on normal TV and then talking to other kids my age who also watched recess and getting the impression that it is normal for people my age to watch recess. That's what I mean.
earlycore
Edit: I kinda wanna go through everything on the list, starting with the early boomer stuff lol.
@UlyssesT what are you?
Noooo
Is that the majority of this site? A bunch of mid-to-late thirty-somethings???
Sadge.
What would you say is the biggest difference between your twenties and thirties?
:side-eye-1: :side-eye-2:
It seems like we have more zoomers than anything to me.
I don't get any of this, is that Jojo on the last panel being targeted at 4yo children? I'm not sure if this is a based take or one of those stupid reactionary "they are making our children gay" takes.
Everything else is just pretty pictures, I think I saw Sailor moon in there somewhere. Anyway I don't care or know enough to bother deciphering so [insert relevant insightful commentary here].
it was like a cartoon variety show with a ton of different sketches and stuff on it
I had the extreme displeasure of living through the core zoomer media era, but I'm willing to bet that at least 40% of yall are core to late millennial though, in which case you had the somehow even worse displeasure of experiencing the 2000s
there’s some media overlap with the late millennial for me but my god that early gen z is scarily accurate, my childhood media consumption to a T
I may be a core millenial but theres some early millenial and early zoomer stuff that I fucking love
Lucy is GOATED. The cringy :grillman: tendencies aren't able to overshadow Lucilles clown energy. Super sexist? Yes. hilarious? Also yes.
Truly a great :sicko-fem: .
Also, the other thing is it's not like there's also not tons of stuff with Ricky being a tool/idiot. The episode where they switch gender roles is always a classic for him cooking 10 cups of rice or whatever.
I'm not going to pretend it's radical critique, it's not, but it clearly sees both sides of the rigid gender divide kind of silly.
Yeah the show rules.
Also gave me my official drinking song:
https://youtu.be/-KvedXo4Qdw
Operetta is low-key maybe one of the best episodes as long as you ignore the casual Romani slur (which is just aged horribly)
Whenever they sing the song :jesus-christ:
"Where do I go to get my teeth snaggled", however, is an amazing line delivery :sicko-pog:
