| curl-6 said: Yeah that's a good point, the world has improved in a lot of ways since then. Even when I grew up in the 90s and 2000s bullying and "you're so gay" was the norm. I guess this being a gaming forum I was thinking about it too much from the perspective of the games/movies/technology of the time. |
To say it bluntly, without video games as 'escape' the 80s and 90s would have royally sucked!
Like the most talked about book in school was Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, how depressing is that...
From the perspective of games/movies/tech it was indeed the best time to grow up.
Fun thing about Harry potter, one of my best friends from school lived in a cupboard under the stairs. Or rather his 'bedroom' was a bed on the landing under the stairs going up to the next level with a curtain as 'door'. Nothing malicious about it, they were Vietnamese refugees, whole family sharing a small house. The uncle slept on the floor downstairs between bookcases. My friend was the youngest. (His parents did well with the shop they ran and later bought him a house when he moved out!) As kids growing up we found it awesome, then Harry Potter shamed us in retrospect... So many epic nights at their house playing Risk and 1830 with the whole family!
Board games, movies, video games, the 80s / 90s had it all. People not being attached to their phone left tons of time to have fun together! And bullying at least stayed at school, no online bullying. In that sense we had it a lot better.
