asphalt,

Are we becoming boomer now? I certainly feel like it

Zorg,
@Zorg@lemmings.world avatar

Smaller kids still love playgrounds, even if they also want/love screentime. Heck, it is not infrequent there are a group of younger teenagers at the playgrounds we frequent.

Sestren,

These things were NEVER fucking left open at the park near me. Could wait there the entire day and the same fucking kid would be using it the entire time, completely oblivious to your attempts to get him to move.

I swear, I probably only touched the thing once when i was a child. I came back with my daughter a few years ago and nobody was giving it a second glance. Used my kid as an excuse to finally get to play with the thing…

Kolanaki, (edited )
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

FYI: As an adult, you probably could have taken that kid in a fight. Possibly even if he used the crane as a weapon.

AFC1886VCC,

Hahaha you and I had the same experience. Always watching, never actually getting a chance to use because of some kid hogging it the whole time you were there.

ramenshaman,

I’ve never seen one, do they have these for adults?

Kattail_,
AdrianTheFrog,
@AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world avatar

These sand things just don’t exist where I am in the US. I remember when I was staying in Europe as a kid the setups with sand and water pumps being the most interesting part of a lot of playgrounds.

dharmacurious,

Best fucking toy out there. Me and my friends used to throw pennies into the sand and bury them, and the kid on the machine would dig them up.

Thcdenton,

I’d fuckin fight kids for this thing at the park back in the day lol

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Kids in my generation:

“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”

ZILtoid1991,

A girl in my class: proud owner of a PS1, plays Spyro and Medievil constantly.

Same girl as an adult: “I don’t even knew what a video game was, I played outside.”

Squirrel,
@Squirrel@thelemmy.club avatar

Unless you had a GameGear (or, heaven help you, a Nomad). Then it was, “Mom, I need more AA batteries.”

TheFriar,

“12, to be exact. I have to beat scorpion and then I’ll get to face Goro and I can’t risk running out of batteries now.”

can,

I must have driven my mom crazy because I ended up with one of these.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0e664758-886f-4849-8e9f-844e35b33684.jpeg

Schadrach,

I had something similar. Mine claimed 14 hours on Gameboy or 4 hours on Game Gear. Got the Gameboy for my birthday along with Tetris and FF Legend II, but got it a few days early because I went into the hospital the Saturday before.

The present I got on my birthday was finding out I could go home the next day.

germanatlas,
@germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Same but with NDS

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Kids asking for an entertainment device back basically exploded with the Atari 2600 and never died down.

SternburgExport,

I remember opening parts of the blinds so the street lights would brighten my Gameboys display for some quality past bedtime gaming

mastod0n,

Rock and Stone!

Senseless,

Diggy Diggy hole

arymandias,

Core memory resurfaced from the playground near my late grandma’s house.

Smorty,

Still yearning

Psychodelic,

And here I needed instructions just to play with Legos! I remember wondering how others had such active imaginations

x4740N,
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

Where you a child during the industrial revolution

ToastedPlanet,

No, an even ‘ironically’ darker time. The 90’s and the unpronounceable 00’s.

SzethFriendOfNimi,

The ‘aughts?

Smc87,

Naughties

variants,

The zips aka the zilch aka nadas

mydoomlessaccount,

The Absolutely Nothings

Riven,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Let’s call them the zeds.

lugal,

The kids yearn for the mines

v4ld1z,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

Child labour in Frostpunk intensifies

Track_Shovel,

Is that why they play Minecraft?

lugal,

Always has been

Sabre363,

These were the shit growing up

xlash123, (edited )
@xlash123@sh.itjust.works avatar

I did not use one, but now I’m jealous

OsaErisXero,

They still are

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