Well, I was born in 1995 and, despite being a 16-year-old in the modern age, sometimes I feel like that too (also, because a lot of my age-mates are pricks). I used to watch reruns of 90s and even early 00s cartoons and up until about seven or eight, I mainly played my siblings? old Mega Drive and original Game Boy games (the first game that I?d ever gotten bought for myself was Wario Land 3 for the Game Boy Colour I was getting from my fifth birthday). And I used to have VHSs of old Disney films, Only Fools and Horses, all that stuff. Often, if there was a programme on TV that we really wanted to watch but had to go out, we?d record it on video. Sometimes, we?d stay in on a Saturday just to watch a programme, because there was so much good stuff on telly.
But when I look at how kids are growing up nowadays, with just the absolute lowest common denominator filth, with role models such as Lady Gaga and freakin? Amy Childs, it makes me feel a bit sad. My role models were Michael Jackson and?actually, I didn?t have many role models. But you know how I was saying that people in the 90s would stay in on a Saturday if there was a really good programme on? Do that nowadays, and it?s pathetic. Passing up a trip to town because you want to fry your brain cells on The Only Way Is Essex makes you look like a douche. And because I?m pretty much out of the gaming loop now, I can?t say much about that, other than the whole online and Call of Duty stuff intimidates me a bit.
And freakin? 7-year-olds with iPads and mobile phones! When I was a kid, my gadgets were a Tamagotchi and the aforementioned Game Boy, a grey, 8-bit brick.
I?d give anything to relive those days again, maybe even do a couple of things differently. Not much, though, because I loved my childhood. By the way, I?m defining childhood as ?before 13?. After that, everything just turns to shit.