So was Sponge Bob, but that was years later and I eventually got it. God, all these years of spongebob and fairly odd parents at 4PM
G4TechTV Canada was the shit, they had their own adult swim programming with a lot of stuff from adult swim, NEW stuff too and they completely one upped the other lazy channels, and they had a bunch of other cool shit and anime
When the channel died the rest of Cable TV was practically dying anyways
Nobody cares about some DEIslop western cartoon or similar; but a lot of normies are hyping up Severance. I have not watched it. I have no idea if it's good or shit. All I know is; it's the hype right now.
You basically end up watching the same stuff if you aren't forced, like you did for TV
Having an always playing TV was super kino for playing JRPGs and stuff. Without it, I don't want to set something up that I will only half-watch. It's a me problem, but with TV, it was playing whether you liked it or not. No pause, no nothing. So you took what you get
Also content was limited, so you got what you'e got, and people around would have watched the same thing you did
@coolboymew @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I feel like that was more due to being a kid and living with other siblings who were watching TV while you were on the computer in the same room or something like that. I was never a TV person, but all my TV nostalgia comes from what my siblings were watching while I was in the same room.
@coolboymew @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I kind of liked watching TV while being on the computer as a kid. I am pretty nostalgic for a lot of cartoons, but it wasn't really something I did exclusively.
Most of the flash and shockwave games I played as a kid were from Nick (Jr) and PBS Kids. So there's that.
@coolboymew@shitposter.world @ElDeadKennedy@shitposter.world @PurpCat@clubcyberia.co @nyanide@lab.nyanide.com @ooignignoktoo@shitposter.world @xianc78@gameliberty.club I would go on websites like these all the time as a kid. I'd go to official ones like for CN, Nick, Disney, Barbie/Mattel etc. But I'd find ones that would host a bunch of flash games ripped from other sites.
The official sites had cool collectibles like coloring pages to print out or desktop buddies to download too.
I just liked how it's this whole presentation with endless pages of content and rabbitholes.
@PurpCat @weeble @nyanide @coolboymew @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo At first I didn't know what you were talking about, until I looked it up and realize that it was rebranded as "Burger Tycoon" which I did play on AddictingGames. I was too young to care about politics so I didn't even knew it had anti-capitalist themes. But then again, I didn't really like the game because I always feel like tycoon games needed a save feature which that game lacked.
@PurpCat @weeble @nyanide @coolboymew @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo Well I did remember the same group also making a game about running an oil tycoon. That game was a lot more political because you bribe governments and manipulate elections in the game. But I was also way too young to understand it and the concept of running an oil company was way too boring compared to something like a burger restaurant or an amusement park.
I even remember PETA games being on other websites. Everyone thought they were just funny, gory parodies of Cooking Mama when in reality, they were originally meant to promote "animal rights".
My wife downloaded a great NASA coloring book. One of the pages is Richard Nixon talking on the phone with the astronauts on the moon
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>But I'd find ones that would host a bunch of flash games ripped from other sites.
I remember a bunch of sites on Google Sites that hosted a shit ton of flash games.
Hosting them on Google Sites was a genius idea because Google Sites didn't really have custom domains or even subdomains (they were hosted on directories, much like many personal websites on ISPs use to do) and schools didn't block Google Sites because a lot of teachers hosted their sites (for hosting class syllabus or homework assignments if you were absent) on there. So those sites allowed you to play those games at school when other sites were blocked.
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@coolboymew @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I was like 3-5 years old playing Blue's Clues games, but I can't remember what exactly I was playing. I think one of them was a shockwave game. You could fully explore Blue's neighborhood in first person. It was pretty mind blowing for a flash game.
I think most of the games allowed you to print something after completing them and I was really attached to the printer as a little kid. It was a tangible reward for something.
@coolboymew @PurpCat @nyanide @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I bet NOBODY is preserving the little kid games and there doesn't seem to be much effort to preserve Shockwave games as there is for flash games.
I think there were also some pure HTML games (something like text-adventures with links) and even JavaScript games (pre-HTML5, just text and variables or changing the src on an image element).
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Humongous_Entertainment/Games#Blue.27s_Clues_games
Because they were ex-lucasarts the devs had a modified and extended version of the engine which they extended the shit out of to make sports games, strategy games, and more with; similar to what Japanese VN devs would do with their engines as time went on.
@PurpCat @nyanide @coolboymew @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I always found it mind-blowing that the 2D Backyard Sports games ran on SCUMM, something that it wasn't remotely intended for.
@PurpCat @nyanide @coolboymew @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I think people want to include minigames in their adventure games so maybe SCUMM already accommodates for that.
@PurpCat @nyanide @coolboymew @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo So no wonder they were able to use it for Backyard Baseball.
It makes me wonder if anyone else is using it as a general purpose game engine much like how a lot of people make non-RPG games in RPG Maker.
Elf made a point and click game on it; and Alice Soft would make some crazy RPGs on their engines. Both used it for the same reason SCUMM was used but they came to the same conclusion independently: there's a ton of 8 and 16 bit micros; why not be able to share code?
@PurpCat @nyanide @coolboymew @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo People making games in engines that were totally unintended for fascinates me.
Same with people writing games in languages that are totally unintended for games. I would love to write a full-length game in such a language. Right now, COBOL seems like the best candidate.
@PurpCat @nyanide @coolboymew @ElDeadKennedy @ooignignoktoo I played those too. Those were the only full versions of HE games we had besides Backyard Baseball.
YTV in Canada had some sort of robot thing you dressed up with unlockable codes you found on the site or were given on TV
Teletoon french and english had this massive awesome flash site with many, many games