I'm in this post.

Side note: I didn't properly learn how to play Minesweeper until well after I got my first smart phone, it's a real banger of a game. I highly recommend giving it a chance if, like me, you were too young to figure it out and just randomly pressed on squares until it blew up.

I have memories from the early 90s playing a DOS version of Dig-Dug all day when I didn't want to go to school.

We thought it could never get better than this

And we were right

We thought it couldn't get better than this, and in fact it didn't get better.

Those of us who drew random squiggles in Paint and filled the loops using the bucket tool are just objectively better and healthier people. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

If you don't have Space Cadet Pinball on your PC right now, then please re-evaluate what you're doing with your life.

Edit: also on every other platform

This, but all your games are shareware/demos you constantly replay

Jezzball mothertruckers.

Relive the dream:
https://online-pinball.com/play/space-cadet-pinball/

https://playminigames.net/game/skifree

Uhhh excuse me?

Where's Number Munchers?

...or Oregon Trail?

...or QBasic games like Gorillas?

...and Nibbles (aka Snake)

...and Wolfenstein 3D that some kid installed on the machines when no one was looking?

As a teenager, I got really good at drawing boobs from the side and the front in MS paint.

Then we got the internet and my digital art career went up in smoke at 28.8kbs.

This is also life with internet when your parents come in your bedroom

The first PC I had in my bedroom didn’t have internet, in fact we didn’t have internet in the house at all, but when bored I would still click the internet E xplorer logo sometimes to see if it would magically work.

It's so cool how we all share this experience. It's a bit like also knowing what life was like before mobile phones. No other generation will ever know.

And it never did get better than that.

Please take the Internet away

I got bored during a particularly slow period at work once and wanted to just play minesweeper or solitaire and found I did not have that option on modern windows without download some bullshit "app" from the "app store" that was full of ads...

Watching the maze screensaver on windows 98 like a damn tv show

Filling the mspaint canvas with the spray paint tool 🤗

If you replaced MS Paint with SkiFree in that picture, you'd achieve perfection.

I grew up with internet and still played these.