the 90s were kinda dark for me. I grew up in Moscow russia with my grandparents. It was a time of democracy, lawlessness, black capitalism and pyramid schemes. i didnt know much about that stuff back then and neither did i care but looking back i realise that everyone was a lot poorer than now. Almost everywhere was a slum including near my apartment where it was littered with abandoned rusted cars.The only thing that saved my grandparents and me is they were pretty wealthy to begin with so they were better off than most people on pention.
thats enough about that let me remember some good stuff about it. I liked watching TV a lot (that must be why i started getting very nearsighted since 8 years old, watched too much TV) I watched an hour of disney cartoons every day after school. My favorite were the "Darkwing Duck" and "Bonkers". At that time especially to kids, everything that was foreign was cool so noone really liked any of the russian TV or russian anything. it was old and boaring. Some other shows i liked were "air-wolf" (i still love that show) it was a show about this awesome badass high tech prototype helicopter gunship that was stolen by some rouge mercenaries and and they used it to fight bad guys.
Then there was the A team. also about rouge mercenaries who built really cool stuff and helped out people in need and took down bad guys. (i always wondered how they managed to fit all those tools guns and supplies in their van, they couldnt possibly carry everything theyll ever need in it and somehow, whenever they need to build a trap or mod a vehicle, they coincidentally have everything they need)
so what else was there. Me and my friends constantly modded our bikes. It was considered cool to stick as much look shiny bells and whistles. i had mine covered in stickers and a bunch of reflectors. (my bike wasnt as cool as the other kids)
Also how can i forget about gaming consoles. I had this thing called Dendi which is pretty much a chinese clone of NES and like everyone had them. i had a bunch of games but the one that sticks to me the most was Contra 2 (i could never even get past the first boss and my friends could all beat the game in 1 sitting) My freind even got a Sega, and because Dendi (NES) wasnt cool anymore because everyone started getting segas, and of course my grandparents didnt buy me one so i went to my friends to play mortal comabt 3, racing games and there was this really fun 2-player game where you are this fighter plane and you can make units and you need to use them to defend your base or send them to attack the other guys base and you can also attack the base and enemy units, so it was like this 2 player strategy game.
speaking of consoles! year 1997-1999 NO INTERNET! We used fat videogame manuals to look up cheats and special combos
there were even some as big as a phonebook!
Then i moved to the states around 2000 and in a few years i finally realised that computers were awesome and around 2003, it was good bye childhood.
I do wish i had a PC in the 90s from the looks of the PC gaming was reaaly awesome!
dont hate people who rip you off,cheat and get away with it, learn from them
