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[–] GoAskErin 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

No Millenial Fair.

I played Chrono Trigger, and it had a spectacular Millenial Fair. I figured, all right, awesome! The year 2000 is coming up, people are going to be super psyched and pull out all the stops, just lose it and go utter ape shit with happiness and candy and rides and undiluted joy at being able to experience this magical time.

Instead, there was hardly anything, and what was going on was rinky-dink and just plain apathetic. I spent the next several months in the pure resentment of all adult humans other than my grandmother, who drove me around looking for celebratory things to do and consoled me after.

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[–] HorseSizedDuck 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I just wanted you to know that is my favorite game ever, and I can understand the disappointment.

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[–] GoAskErin 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I knew there probably wouldn't be silver points, but I wanted it so badly. I couldn't understand what was wrong with everyone that they weren't going batshit insane over it.

CT was my first RPG I fell in love with. It literally blew my mind and opened up an exciting world of adventure so awesome that I could not handle it. Much of my school day was spent daydreaming; I even wrote fanfiction for it before I knew what fanfiction was. The music is what I still hold closest these days, too; one of my goals in life is to be able to play some of Zohar's piano arrangements for this game.

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[–] cool_and_froody 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Probably all those shitty plastic toys and games that looked so amazing on TV, but which were brittle useless half broken pieces of un-fun shit in real life. That crap cost my parents so much money just to disappoint me

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[–] wuziwu 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

adults

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[–] NotAnUndercoverCop 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The year the Play Station came out I asked for one for Christmas.

So what does my mom do? She steals my NES and it's 32 games. Sells them at a pawn shop for next to free (ten bucks for the NES and a dollar for each game). Then for Christmas buys us a.... Super Nintendo. With 1 measly game.

We didn't want a Super Nintendo. We wanted a Play Station and certainly didn't want to get rid of our NES and it's 32 fucking awesome games we'd collected for it over the years.

Now all we had was a console from the previous generation and only one lousy game for it.

We never did get any more games for it because we didn't even want it in the first place.

We spent that entire year pretty much video game-less. It wasn't until the next Christmas she actually got me the Play Station.

When I think about how much that NES and all those games are currently worth it still makes my blood boil.

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[–] Jarmey 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago 

not having a dad around.

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[–] paradigmx 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I was always told I could be anything I wanted. Growing up I had to learn the hard way that I couldn't be everything that I wanted.

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[–] UnicornMuffin 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Wally World wasn't an Amusement Park.

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[–] ReanLu 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

For no apparent reason whatsoever, my mom chose to call Walmart "WallyWorld" ...

I had never seen the move and hated shopping so I'd often complain about having to go to to Wallyworld on the weekends. A classmate of mine who had seen Vacation a few times begged me to take her with us, so we arranged to pick her up on the way...I'm sure my mom thought that an odd request, but anyways.... The look of disappoint on her face when we pulled in at the mall and not an amusement park was so real, I wonder if someday I'll bump into her in one of these threads.

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[–] UnicornMuffin ago 

This is why I have trust issues.

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[–] ttyy ago 

That is amazing :)

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[–] Weedaholic 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

As a child, i wanted that fuckin cool mickey mouse drum set so bad...one day, my biological father was going to pick me up for the weekend and he told me he had a surprise for me from his Business Trip he recently did...i was excited as fuck,rocking this badboys in my mind...i was so disapointed when he proudly handed me this over as "the surprise" (he was in bavaria for his Trip)

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[–] kjelle 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

What type of cane is that? It's certainly not a Mickey Mike drumset.

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[–] Weedaholic ago 

It's called "wanderstock" in German, so i guess you could say wander/walkingcane...see that badges on that? You can buy mostly in small villages in the alps...they increase your badassness on the hiking trails (assuming you're 60+)...would i buy a thing like that as a surprise for my 6yo? Absolutely not :)

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