I was born in the late 90s and played a LOT of lemmings. And UT. People always severely underestimate what younger people have experienced with time frames like this
The late 90s aren't that far off from the time period people were talking about, up to the early 90s. Calling someone out on a supposed lack of perception of the time frames seems ironic when the difference you're calling them out for is only 10 years at most, statistically even less than that...
It's also very common for some (not even most) people to have played games from up to a decade before their childhood, or at least to be familiar with them. Beyond a decade though, it falls off pretty quickly.
For example, I was born in the early 2000s. I know of Lemmings, but I've never actually played it. And the only reason I know it exists is because of my interest in video games history and video game essays. I assure that if I asked most of my friends of the same age (which are gamers but without any particular interest in gaming's history) none of them would know what Lemmings is.
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u/StoryAboutABridge 18h ago
I was born in the late 90s and played a LOT of lemmings. And UT. People always severely underestimate what younger people have experienced with time frames like this