A ten-year old told me yesterday that kids like him these days have a much harder life than our 80's/90's generation did. Obviously he doesn't know jack shit about our generation, but it got me thinking: Do they?


We had the Sega Saturn, and the Commodore 64, and Goldeneye, and the Gameboy. Kids these days have the high-def Xbox 360 and the motion-control Wii and the PS3.

Kids these days have a superb Internet.

Kids these days can get porn anywhere.
But on the other hand, kids nowadays are in a downed economy.


So were we more fortunate than them as children?

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Also, share the memories that just made your childhood great.

I remember when I lived in Michigan, going sledding down these dangerous-ass hills made in the woods behind our houses. And my friend broke his collarbone once when he hit a tree, though we all hit trees on more than one occasion. I had this fast-as-hell sled that we used to grease the bottom with WD40, and we'd build these three-foot tall jumps that'd just knock the shit out of you if you didn't land right. Winter was amazing.

And then in summer, we had Super Soaker wars. Self-explanatory.

I had to walk 2 miles, uphill(both ways), in the snow just to pee.

Though, really, there was a recession at some point in the 80/90s. I don't think that when you are young (>12) material things don't matter, or shouldn't, as much as when you get older. When I was younger I could go for hours just making up a story and playing out in the woods.

I did like video games, but not as much as I do now.
Never even knew what the internet was until I was 10 or 11.

In all honesty I don't think the average western child has had it hard since the mid-'50s

although we did have to live through the horrors of Barbie Girl by Aqua

I'm only seventeen now, but when I lived in Maine, when it snowed I would build the biggest fucking snow fort in the neighborhood and I would play in that shit for hours. So much fun. I loved my Nintendo 64. I still think its the best console ever built. I mean, if the game didnt work, take it out, blow inside the cartridge, and stick it back in, and it would work flawlessly. The good ol days....:cool:

One of my favorite memories is my brothers, their friends, and my friends all coming home after school everyday and going over to my neighbors property and digging a big hole.

They used to get soooooo pissed it was awesome. I moved from that house like 5 years ago and over the summer me and my friend who helped dig it ran into the woods and low and behold she still stands (dips).

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Those memories of doing silly and engrossing things for absolutely no reason are the best part of childhood

me and a friend once spent two weeks clearing a huge pile of bricks from the front of a long-abandoned outdoor toilet in a field just so we could see if there was anything inside (there was nothing but immense satisfaction at a job well done)

Quality, good old SG thread.

Ah, childhood. I could write pages and pages about all sorts of crazy shit that I lived through as a child, but I won't as most of you lazy fucks won't probably read it. Mine was a happy childhood filled with events, actually. The 90's was an awesome decade to grow up. I had a NES, a SNES and a 64 in the later years of this wonderful decade. TV was actually worth watching; kickass shows and cartoons everywhere. I also had fun playing simple games; top, pogs, marbles (which I sucked at), hide and seek, futbol (soccer for americans), and that sort of outside things.

The best thing I remember were the trees and woods surrounding my entire neighboorhood. We always had a treehouse for summer and a place to play with snow in winter. There I discovered my love for different animals (no bestiality, sorry), my love for hiking and the wilds and my love for fire.

I also remember how fun it was to knock on someone's door and hide away, then do the same while leaving a burning paper bag with poop inside (cliche, I know), breaking windows and never getting caught, blocking the little streets with rocks and trash cans, and overall exploring every surrounding and inventing mythical and scary stories that "older brothers or guys" used to tell.

Sigh, it was an epic, happy and plentifull childhood.

pogs

Truly legendary

it was towards the end of my childhood but I also have fond memories of Tamagotchi

In all honesty I don't think the average western child has had it hard since the mid-'50s

although we did have to live through the horrors of Barbie Girl by Aqua

Hey, shut your damn trap about aqua if it wasn't for them them we wouldn't have the speedy mix of "Cartoon Heroes"(I prefer the long version).

I had to walk 2 miles, uphill(both ways), in the snow just to pee.


Wouldn't you just piss outside?

I had to walk 2 miles, uphill(both ways), in the snow just to pee.

Though, really, there was a recession at some point in the 80/90s. I don't think that when you are young (>12) material things don't matter, or shouldn't, as much as when you get older. When I was younger I could go for hours just making up a story and playing out in the woods.

I did like video games, but not as much as I do now.
Never even knew what the internet was until I was 10 or 11.



Fuck that 2 miles to take a piss. Where the hell was that? I'd piss wherever I was at.

I was born in the late 80's, grew up in the 90's.

-Our best cartoons were intelligently written and well animated, often with cutting edge CGI at the time
-Our Super Soakers were the biggest and most powerful
-Our Star Trek series were the best until DS9 ended

The only improvements I've seen are the goddamn Nerf guns.

Ren and Stimpy.

ahhhh yes, acting out scenes in the woods from the dinotopia book series.....


making boats out of spare tires and old tv sets to putter around my swamp....


finding atleast 2 huge colorful fuzzy caterpillars to take home a day. where the hell did those fuckers all go?


playing secret agent around the house knowing fully well my entire family could see me. (they ignored me out of pure love)




Jesus whered all the fun go. :(

finding atleast 2 huge colorful fuzzy caterpillars to take home a day. where the hell did those fuckers all go?


This. It has to be a conspiracy.

I can remember

-Underground forts
-Glove gun Wars
-Spud gun Wars
-Building BMX Jumps
-Building bolt bombs
-Stealing beer at 11 years old and thinking I was hardcore

-Our Super Soakers were the biggest and most powerful

I agree wholeheartedly and it is a shame that restrictive health and safety regulations mean that water jets capable of putting out an eye at fifteen feet are a thing of the past

one of my friends genuinely was taken to A&E in a supersoaker-to-the-eye accident and had to wear a kickass patch for a week

I'm only seventeen now, but when I lived in Maine, when it snowed I would build the biggest fucking snow fort in the neighborhood and I would play in that shit for hours. So much fun. I loved my Nintendo 64. I still think its the best console ever built. I mean, if the game didnt work, take it out, blow inside the cartridge, and stick it back in, and it would work flawlessly. The good ol days....:cool:

Fuck yeah I live in Maine now.

But yeah when I was smaller i was a hardcore sledder, I would make mountainous jumps and hit them as fast as I could. I distincly remember this one jump, it was like 4 feet tall, there was a launching ramp, and a landing ramp, and since i had no idea about how physics worked when I was 7, there was only like a 2 foot gap in between the ramps. I went down this hill, FLYING, on this P.O.S plastic sled. I fucking LAUNCHED off the first ramp....

I would say I got about 10 feet of air, fell off the sled, and landed directly on my back. I couldn't move for 15 minutes. Then I got back up and did it again, and again, and again.

And in 6th grade, there was this snowtubing trip that all the 6th graders went on. It was a shitty place, there were a couple jumps, more like bumps in the little "trails." I got bored of just going down these substandard jumps so I decided to mix it up a bit.

I wanted to start in one lane, and make my way to the one next to mine. I started running at a slight angle so that I could start in one lane and scoot over to the other. It worked perfectly, until I got into the middle, which I was too ignorant to observe was basically a sheet of ice about an inch thick with a foot of snow underneath it. I was on top of this ice sheet and I couldn't get into this other lane, so I was like "Sweet."

Then I saw a fucking ice drift coming.

I was flying down that hill my hat flew off and everything, I thought this ice drift wasn't that big but it was, like 2 feet tall and I was going probably 25-30 mph on this tube. I hit the ice drift and FUCKING FLY, some kids said I was like 10-15 ft in the air. I fly like 40 ft in the air and land in another ice drift, on my arm, breaking it in 3 places, not before I break one of those little wooden marking sticks with my fucking head.

I told the teacher in charge that I broke my arm, and I know what it feels like, because I've broken my arm / other bones before, the guy was like "no you didn't, just go sit down." So I went into the little clubhouse or w/e you want to call it and some nurse lady who was chapperoning made a shitty splint out of a pizza box.

The ride home, which consisted of poorly maintained roads and many bumps, was one of the most painful experiences of my life. When I got home I was like "I broke my arm." I went to the hospital and the doctor yells at my parents for a good 15 minutes about how I should have come in hours ago. Lulz ensued when my parents got that faggot teacher who said I didn't break my arm, when it was obvious I did, fired.

when I was a kid I'd steal other kids bikes and hide them in the woods. We'd fight each other for seemingly no reason and I had 3 channels that you had to stand up and manually turn. Our place didn't have a shower so I could only take baths and I'd go days without bathing and have dirt from previous days on me. We'd play hockey on a bog in the winter with boots as goal posts. There was many an argument over whether a shot "hit the post" or not.

Kids today are spoiled, sheltered and cynical yet somewhat savvy. I don't see them having any sort of a meaningful future.

I was born in 87...so the 90s (except for mid 90s I do not really remember). I do remember getting a SNES for Xmas, and I was soo happy, I went out and got beavis and butthead VG for it. I used to love watching Beavis and Butthead...I even had dolls where you pull a string and they did that hehehehhe shit.

Also remember when I was young, digging holes with those fence post things and getting worms and then cutting them inhalf to see them wiggle away *both ends would* then find some snails and have fun. Stealing some sips of beer from my dad, going to hockey games. Watching are you afraid of the dark in the dark and being scared. Also that show Space ...something on Nick. Full house, saved by the bell...

Yea growing up in the 90s was the shit wish I could have been a little older to enjoy it more...but musically it was the shit *metal, seattle music ect.)..EXCEPT SPICE GIRLS, and boy bands like NSUCK..

This gen has better technology but nah I wouldnt wanna be born in it cause everything else is going to shit.

SNES.

Building a den with everyone from round where we lived, it'd have couches chairs a floor a roof and even a porn stash!

Good times.

EDIT:Final Fantasy 7 & the 2 zeldas on n64.

We had it harder. But we made due (90's) Back then kid's were creative, and imaginative. Building things, taking them apart and making them 'better'. I can recall many times when we built forts. Literally forts in woods all over town. These things had walls, windows, roof, couches chairs tables. We even went so far as building escape routes in case the cops came. Some of them were pretty vicious, with traps. Some were pits, some were trip lines, and some were just misleading routes.

But kids these days, don't do shit. They sit at home on the internet and play video games and watch T.V. They have no lives, and any lives they do have, have been corrupted by drugs trying to be like the 'older kids'. It's such a shame :(

But kids these days, don't do shit. They sit at home on the internet and play video games and watch T.V. They have no lives, and any lives they do have, have been corrupted by drugs trying to be like the 'older kids'. It's such a shame :(

Do people still wonder why kids these days are so obese? The answer is obvious...

i was born in 90 (god that sounds gay) and remember a lot of stuff that we did, and holy fuck was it fun.
Having block wide water fightsv, We had a stupid "club" thing..called out self's "the phantoms" fucking gay ass shit, but god was it fun.
making forts in the desert for paintball was always fun and shit
when i was 8 or so me and my freinds started digging in the back yard and made this little underground base thing for about a week until we were forced to destroy it.
I remember game boys, they were really big for me..and the N64 just came out and i played goldeneye till midnight.
god do i miss that shit : (