Funny

Whenever people mention Space Cadet pinball, I HAVE to recommend the reverse engineered open source version on github (source ports for almost every type of platform).
It's also available on flathub.

In paint be sure to make a bunch of random lines and then use the fill bucket to fill in random colors in the spaces.

All I see is four badass apps with no ads and no dark patterns.

Kids and their fancy winders machines...

It's nice to know that even without internet, they still had Balatro ❤️

You didn't have diskettes or CDs in your neck of the woods?

What about winamp and windows media center audio visualizers. Trippy patterns

No love for SkiFree?

I played the hell put of Freecell back in the day. Started going through the seeds in order, and over the course of about 2 years I made it through 1500 or so.

I should pick that up again. Only got about 30000 or so games left to finish the whole thing...

Encarta was the internet

'Member when you bought a magazine and got a FREE floppy or CD with a bunch of (shareware/demo) games? I played the same 2 demo maps of Age of Empires to death - the game had 3, but the 3rd one was too hard for youngster me.

Space Cadet.

MS paint used to have a spray paint tool. I spent a lot of time using that tool to fill the entire canvas.

skiifree was also a solid choice

Loved old school paint. I used to try and recreate 3d renders of Nintendo characters that I'd seen printed in magazines and on my Gameboy pocket pouch by doing a kind of primitive dithering technique that 10 year old me thought up drawing 1 pixel blocks of specific colours in alternating patterns to try recreate shading or gradients of colour and I'd draw whole rows of them with the line tool which naturally had a staircase effect to it. Used to save it all on a zipdisk.

Had dialup from 1994, still spent hours playing Space Cadet and Solitaire.

I mean we did have internet, but it was billed by the amount of data you used, and being online meant that people couldn't use the phone at the same time.

What is this fancy shit? I had to launch my games with MS DOS commands.

Man this takes me back.

Encarta and Paint were where I spent most of my computer time as a younger teenager. The trivia games on Encarta were dope, I also spent a lot of time walking around the 3d castles and ancient ruins. And a lot of time in the ummm.... Art section. Learned a lot about myself from Venus of Urbino.

Used to waste time by painting giant graphic and bloody battle scenes between stick figures in paint. Did it pixel by pixel! Good times!

Don’t forget Hover!

I just had a happy flashback into my pst of playing that pinball a lot.

I had totally forgotten that.

Thanks for triggering this memory :)

I grew up with a a Windows 3.1 machine, so for me my game selection was Chip's Challenge, Miser Mind (MasterMind), WinTris (Tetris), Atmoids (Asteroids), and JezzBall. Oh and SkiFree of course but somehow I never played it.

Chip's Challenge was my favorite. To this day I still haven't beaten every level.

Your computers had games in colors?

Holding shift and dragging the selection box around in paint was like 60% of my computer classes.

I had internet, I used all those a bunch...

Not shown: my Amiga500

And this was fancy stuff. Command prompts on an Apple IIe was my first computer experience.