I miss 90's gaming magazines. So much so, that I tried recreating them for my game reviews.

A lot of things! I truly believe that Infancy is almost lost now, rarely anyone plays outside, kids have movil phones (not that I'm against, I had Gameboys in my infancy but I have a lot more restrictions), TV I don't watch TV since 2010 when everything start to change to reality shows. Cartoons while there are some good stuff out there, is far from the 90s and early 2000 glory.

I lived in the Netherlands at the time

1992 Cargo plane into building


1993 and again in 1995


1998


1998


2000


Current terrorists are amateurs compared to little accidents while disasters have become a lot less frequent.

Even with driving a truck into a crowd, traffic has never been more safe


That's why there's so much time to complain about immigrants nowadays :p

Reading up on it, there really has been great progress since the 90s on many fronts.

HIV has gone from being practically a death sentence to sufferers being able to live an almost normal life with medication, Hepatitus C has gone from incurable to curable, polio and guinea worm have gone from widespread to almost extinct, and survival rates for cancer have increased. The percentage of people living in extreme poverty has decreased globally. Not a single country in the world allowed same sex couples to marry in the 90s, now 22 countries do. The ozone layer is recovering.

The 90s were cool and all, and I have a lot of nostalgia for them myself, but on the whole I don't think the world is worse now than it was then.

I was born in the early 80s, and "grew up" in the 90s, entering my teens in the mid-to-late 90s. I feel in that way that I got, basically, the best of both decades, because I was old enough to enjoy most of the good stuff in the 80s, and I really started growing up and maturing while taking in the 90s. So yes, there are many things I miss from the 90s.

I am of the opinion that the early to mid-90s were a far better time than the late 90s, for pretty much everything, from clothes, to music, to gaming, to movies, etc. The social and political climate even started to get much "Darker" as we neared the looming "Y2K". But in general, most of the 90s stuff that I find myself looking back fondly on, is from the early or mid-90s.

For one thing, I got my NES later than most, growing up fairly poor, so I finally got one in late 1990, once SMB3 was already out. So I "grew up" with the NES, even though by that point it was getting "old", even though it was fairly new to me, and I absolutely loved the thing. It was similar with the Game Boy and SNES, as I got a new Game Boy for Xmas 1993 or so, and didn't get a hand-me-down SNES from a cousin until Holidays 1995. But that was still a great era of gaming for me. The NES is my fav. console of all time, though for RPGs, the SNES is king as far s I'm concerned. Just about all of my favorite RPGs are SNES games, with maybe a couple of exceptions.

I think, touching back on my earlier comments, that in general, the mid-to-late-90s felt more "Hopeful", for sure. It was nearing the end of a century, and a millennium. There was that dumb saying "Hey, it's the 90s", which looking back seems silly, but that's also kinda how young people felt at the time, like we were on the cusp of a whole new world. It really felt like things were getting better, not worse, and that the future was bright. And then 2000 hit, and I was 18, and W happened, and then 9/11 happened, and terrorism and pollution and the general socio-political climate all just took a sharp nose-dive. It was shitty, because it felt like as soon as I entered adulthood, things just got a lot darker, a lot colder, and a hell of a lot more uncertain and unfriendly.

So yeah. I certainly miss the 90s. They weren't perfect, and I certainly remember hating various things and trends back then. But I'd gladly take all of that, now, over what we have at present.

I doubt that will ever happen they more then happy to have the NFL instead (Sunday Night Football).

The rise in popularity of rap music, Tupac, Notorious B.I.G., Eminem, Dr Dre and many others.
Tupac versus Notorious B.I.G. rivalry. East coast versus West coast.
Both Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. are still alive in our hearts and their legends live on!

I miss my matte black 1980 Buick Riviera. I even painted the bumpers and grille.
The engine crapped out on me in 1993 so I dropped a 455 in it. Total beast!
I had to sell it at the end of the 90s to get something more practical.

I used to miss everything and right now I appreciate the present.

Grunge/90's rock, 80's/90's movies, no mobile phones, married with children, less political correctness, baywatch and you could smoke indoors.