📼   90s KID //
The Movie

Be Kind, Rewind

Every post in the 90s Kid series is one gadget, one habit, or one sound from the decade. This one is all of them on a single rented tape: 3 minutes 29 seconds, pixel art, with original music and sound effects.

Press play and you get, in order:

  • Friday night at the video store, and the copy you wanted, all rented
  • A four-player N64 sleepover where someone is definitely looking at your screen
  • A Tamagotchi that needed you during math class
  • Saturday-morning cartoons, home-improvement TV, and the Weather Channel at 3:47 AM
  • Windows 95, then 98, and everything that came with a Start button and a blue screen
  • The sound of dial-up, and a website that was forever under construction
  • A base-building strategy game you stayed up too late for
  • The Hwy 50 Autoplex: my family’s car lot, two radio towers, and a room full of glowing tubes
  • Payphones, a hacker magazine, and a bumper sticker that said FREE KEVIN
  • A lightning round of floppies, pagers, and other things that fit in a pocket or a backpack
  • The night Y2K was supposed to eat the world

Go back to the full 90s Kid collection when the tape ends. It rewinds itself.

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