Computer and console games came exclusively on CD before the switch to DVD. When you bought a triple AAA title for console,you didn't have to spend 3 days waiting for day 1 patches to install. You could probably fit the entire game library of your favorite console back in the day on a thumb drive nowadays.

"Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"

"video games" were mechanical, and you interacted with targets by manipulating a metal spherical pixel using, hand eye coordination, timing and physics. You were rewarded with multiple "pixels" if you were good enough.

They cost 20c to play and you only got 3 lives.

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Or 4. And every time you're setting your console up on a different TV, you're not sure if you're on the wrong channel, or if the coax cable is loose

dot matrix with stereo sound

I saw "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" on TV.

I had a game destroyed because the recorder ate the tape.

"Slave drive" maybe.

I mean, they'll think it means something totally different.

I'm older than that, but it's definitely something a zoomer wouldn't understand immediately.

There were red pages in the phone book that had a number you could call and enter a four-digit code to hear movie showtimes or the Joke of the Day.

Or 4..

IRQ 5, DMA 1

I had (and still have) a Teddy Ruxpin.

I caught 4, maybe 5 channels with a coax cable taped to the wall, in just the right position

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Oh, you have satellite tv? Let's see what's on...
Channel 113, 114, 115, 116, 116West, ...
The 19ft 📡 in backyard: wrrrrrrr rrrr...
...117, 118...