Redditor TolisKoutro wanted everyone to list their thoughts on the greatest of the great.
"What video game do you consider a masterpiece?"
I love you Ms. Pac-Man. Always and forever.
It's a Ride
video game physics jet GIFGiphy"Roller Coaster Tycoon 2."
Icy_Entrepreneur_859
"Loved RCT2. The canned child laughing sound and the chain lifts noise are permanently burned into my brain."
Career-Known
my whole childhood...
"Man I miss Valve... Their games were designed in a way many developers could only dream of, they were revolutionary in almost everything they laid their hands on."
johnbacosta
"Yeah that’s my whole childhood, still some of the best games… and actually playing HL- alyx for my very first VR experience was nuts. Loved it."
dub3ra
"They made a new game based in the Portal universe. It’s really short but it’s free and funny."
Advanced_Position_25
Better than Perfect
"Portal 2."
Natural-School5690
For real. The first one was absolutely perfect and then they somehow managed to make the second one even better."
Jack_Mackerel
"Portal 1's only fault is that it's very short. I just replayed it a decade since I last touched it and I cleared it in under 2 hours. Portal 2 had so much more room to add more mechanics, more puzzles, and more story. It's the perfect sequel."
YossarianWWII
Classic
"Half Life 2 was brilliant. After that I'd call out WoW Classic. It's hated now, but the first couple of years it was magic. It was a completely new experience exploring such a massive open world and nobody knew anything. So much fun on Ventrilo. Will remember forever. Championship manager in the early 90s. Maybe what I have played the most. I'll mention Fallout series, Witcher and Skyrim as well."
Joppe84
Simply the Best
Movie Raise The Roof GIF by Star WarsGiphy"Star Wars knights of the old Republic. KOTOR. Surprised it hasn’t been said."
gerbs650
"Absolutely! I played it as a kid and it practically taught me life lessons. KOTOR 2 is a little darker but quite good also."
Lensk
How can you even tell any of the Star Wars games apart?
FAVE!!
Episode 8 Mario GIF by Paramount+Giphy"Super Mario World. It’s perfect. I don’t think there’s a single thing about it that I would change."
AdevilSboyU
"That game is awesome. That and Mario 64. But I love the soundtrack from Yoshi’s Island."
HmGrwnSnc1984
Options
"Deus Ex the first one."
Funkyouup82
"At the time the open ended options and story presentation were both really impressive. You could really appreciate that the developer committed to that (e.g. you could physically destroy most locked doors). I think a lot of games stop short of doing that because they don’t want to allow brute force solutions in addition to more elegant ones."
NewKitchenFixtures
"Journey. Not as long and vast as many games here but an artistic masterpiece in my books. It’ll age much better than most games too because of the simplicity."
justthisones
"I absolutely love journey; the music mixed with the visual story telling is absolutely stunning. Also it has, imo, one of the most interesting multiplayer experiences of any game."
"It’s def one of my top three games, but Gris’ artwork and music are peak for me. Also if you really enjoyed the exploration of Journey, you’ll probably love Outer Wilds. Great game, it’ll leave you wishing you could forget it and play it all again."
SynnamonSunset
Play NOW!
"Chrono Trigger, if you know you know, and if you don't, go play it immediately."
sketchypoutine
"Definitely, I feel like some of the best RPGs came from the SNES and Sega era. Chrono Trigger, FF 6, Secret of Mana, super Mario RPG, Earthbound, shining force 2, Phantasy Star 4. Still some of my favorites that i try to revisit every year or so."
chrono_bound20xx
"Came here for Chrono. Time travel just makes for amazing stories, and I love how you can make the game different each play through."
anna1781
i can see your...
Master Chief Game GIF by HaloGiphy"Halo 3. Incredible story and thrilling gameplay. Hilariously fun multiplayer. Fantastic community. Nostalgia."
Current-Ad1250
Video games have surely come a long way from Atari.
What would you add to this list? Let us know in the comments below.
Redditor EzucraAaAa wanted to wax nostalgic about the good old days of technology and its humble beginnings.
"Redditors, what's something the internet was crazy about but is now forgotten?"
I miss the simplicity of not having a thousand apps. I'm simple.
Ah Memories...
"Search engines before Google existed. Alta Vista, Lycos, Web Crawler..."
deenali
the messengers aol GIFGiphyBad Downloads
"Downloading custom cursors for your computer. I gave my family computer so many viruses back in the '00s trying to click things with a lightsaber."
TW1103
"Amazing. I had totally forgotten about all the virusy stuff I downloaded to my home computer, purely so the cursor would disappear and reappear. My parents had zero knowhow with computers either, so likely had no idea wtf I was downloading. Cursors were cool though, despite all the malware."
AdderWibble
Collections
"During the early days of the web, when most websites weren't plastered with advertising... Website view counters."
over_clox
"Back in the day of counters, one day I went to my website and the counter was in the thousands. I just thought it malfunctioned and ignored it. Years later I learned that my website, which had a MIDI collection, was published in a newspaper in another country. I couldn't say for sure if that was true and whether it aligned with the counter change."
pupeno
The Look
"Yea the internet was simpler too, layout style I mean. I like old style HTML webpage layouts. I personally don’t like hyper modern logos and designs on interfaces. Something about old slightly pixelated designs about them home screens and app logos really made them satisfying. I’ve even went as far as seeing if I could install some extensions that could change the layout of sites, make them feel older, give them that 2000’s html look."
Original_Ad_1103
Found It
"Stumbleupon.com"
idont*uckwithstupid
"I used to waste so much time with stumble upon."
lilbroccoli13
Looking The Loud House GIF by NickelodeonGiphyWhat a strange and crazy place the internet was.
notification
"Poking on Facebook."
lamspartacus
"I had a friend that poked me and I never noticed the notification. He died. I now have this unreturned poke as a reminder that I’ll never be able to poke them back."
Klaus0225
Baby Love GIF by LINE FRIENDSGiphyPlaytime
"Flash games."
mc_mike810
"Many flash games are not dead. BEHOLD! The flashpoint project. They have saved thousands of the old flash games in a playable format. Go forth and relive your childhood Also paging u/The_Middler_is_Here"
Jayccob
I will find you...
"There was a rhythm game that I don't remember the name of that me and some friends would challenge each other in, and it had the song Guitar vs Piano 2 which introduced me to Envy, who was a pretty big newgrounds artist at the time. I wanna go check out their stuff again now, I'd completely forgot about them till now."
Silvervirage
GroupMeet
"Forums. There used to be so many, incredibly active and dedicated forums."
FromJavatoCeylon
"A lot of the forums I visited were ruined by photobucket when they decided they wanted paid a lot of money from their users. So many build threads and tutorials ruined."
jus_like_at
"IMDb had the best message boards back in the day. Chatting with your internet friends around the globe about every nuance in your fave movie. Man I miss that. Reddit is close, but nothing beats the olden days."
FeFiFoMums
Fun
"Do you guys remember those egg things that hatched little creatures after a while? You'd put one on your website and then the artist would update the source url with images of it hatching? There were all kinds of little fun things like that."
Sapiencia6
Egg Hatch GIF by The Roku ChannelGiphyThose were the days!
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I've lost count of the amount of times I've said to myself... "How is this still a thing in 2022?!"
Like... WHY?!
Season 9 Nbc GIF by The OfficeGiphy"Uploading your resume and then slowly typing in everything on your resume into forms…"
WildResident2816
So OLD!
"Fax machines, invented in 1840-something."
cszintiyl
I used to work IT for a clinical lab, and HIPAA is pretty strict on how I can send patient results. Usually, there is an online portal that they can retrieve it from, but if they were unable to get it there, I was only allowed to fax it to the requesting physician. So I would get patients and angry doctors yelling at me because I wouldn't email or text their results. They couldn't understand I would be breaking the law if I did."
draiman
Mary functions...
"There are lots of organizations and companies using tragically vulnerable computer systems and software to operate important functions. Everything from infrastructure to finance."
toughs**t
"I keep telling my students: The career to go into right now is cybersecurity. You’re gonna see a huge spike in growth over the next ten years as companies realize that trusting Mary the 55 year old middle manager to not open every email attachment is perhaps not a sound strategy for preventing incursions."
grammar_oligarch
Grandma's House
"My brown bathroom set."
sodpower
"My grandmother's house was built in the 80’s. Each bathroom had a matching color porcelain sink and toilet. My uncles shared a bathroom which had a brown set and the guest bathroom was a navy blue set."
"One vacation I was visiting and got an intestinal infection where I was shi**ing out blood for a few days. Only way I could tell something was really wrong was from the toilet paper… Otherwise the stomach pains just felt like really bad gas and you couldn’t see anything that dropped into the toilets."
PrincessPeach1229
Covers
toilet GIFGiphy"Those carpet looking toilet seat covers..."
t_boy7406193
"Other than my grandma's, I have never seen anyone else use any sort of toilet seat cover."
Seat covers should only be easy and made of paper.
just grinds up...
jim carrey screwdriver GIFGiphy"Flathead screws."
ICantRevealMyself
"Philips are worse. The screwdriver just grinds up the screw heads. Torx or Robertson are far superior."
WaterCluster
How to Record
"Cassette tapes. You can still buy them at the store for some reason."
Its_GameOver
"Tape is actually much more reliable and stable than pretty much any other storage medium for digital information. So if you want it to last a long time tape is a good choice. Especially if you don't have access to the internet to stream/download stuff."
"I know you're talking about music cassette tapes, but tape is still big in the IT world for large data storage because it's so stable, and for it's high capacity. You can get a 15TB tape cartridge for £60 ($71.50). https://www.scan.co.uk/products/quantum-mr-l8mqn-01-ultrium-lto-8m-12tb-native-30tb-compressed-data-tape"
The_lurking_glass
between 1987 and 1994...
"The LLV (long life vehicle) in the post office. I mean they were made between 1987 and 1994. They called them the long life vehicle and then only put 5 digits on the odometer. They don't have AC, they sometimes catch fire for no reason, they put out less than 100 horsepower when new, and are rear wheel drive."
bluebird0713
Payments Rendered
"Checks. They are so unbelievably not secure, your whole routing and account number just there for anyone to see. And if someone uses it fraudulently, there's nothing for it but to get a whole new bank account."
Vero518
"Not really, a check is payable on demand but requires your signature. You are not responsible for checks that you didn't write. You do have to let the bank know, when you get your statement that the checks are not yours."
ArtDouce
BEFORE
Teddy Bear Cartoon GIFGiphy"Still filling out physical paperwork at the doctor's office. Please go to digital so I can fill it out BEFORE my visit."
otherm0ther
"What’s great is when you fill it out online but they still insist that you write all the same information in pen on a form that is clearly a xerox of a xerox of a Xerox."
WaterCluster
Why so much paperwork everywhere? Makes no sense.