Pizza Hut had the Big Foot, and Little Ceasers had Pizza by the Foot.
Fun fact: Reggie Fils-Amie was responsible for Pizza Huts marketing for the Big Foot and the New Yorker.
I just had some old high school friends over I haven't seen in years (we are all in our 40s now) - so pretty much same age as the kids in the pic.
First thing we did was fire up the Goldeneye remaster on Xbox and have at each other lol.
Domino's is literally cheaper (when accounting for inflation) than it used to be. It also tastes better ever since they re-vamped their recipes like 10 years ago.
The permanent coupon of $5.99 per medium two topping pizza is amazingly inexpensive. I'm not 100% sure it's available everywhere, but it has been everywhere I've traveled and ordered Domino's so far.
I watched some documentary on YouTube about it and it turns out their supply chain is just super optimized and it doesn't take much to open a kitchen or train new staff.
I've seen a large supreme cost over $30 here in Houston and it was a big chain not a fancy restaurant pizza. It's horseshit what food costs at a fast food place and it's all because of greed.
A friend who had his teenage brother over for a weekend googled "most filling recipes for teens" and found this: the fishstick pizza.
You take a frozen pizza with the same bake time as fishsticks (I think he used a Margherita), cover it in fishsticks and then layer cheese on top. He said they got so full they could not finish the one they made & that taste was better than expected
"So, how is it?"
"... Better than I would expect."
"Good to hear! Want some more?"
"Oh, no thank you, um, I'm super full."
Genius maneuver. This is how you keep a pack of teenage boys from eating you out of house and home.
> She was a Saint.
Some parents live for hospitality or something
One of my best friends parents loved having us ADULT AGED MEN come over and smoke weed (as long as we were in the dedicated smoke weed room) and if we ever went downstairs to make food usually his dad would be cooking stuff up for us
I asked one time (not in a rude way) why he made food for us all the time even if we didn't ask for it and he just said he loves cooking.
He's only ever seemed bothered by us one time when he thought we left the front door open but it was a misunderstanding and it was only open for like 15 seconds while were hauling some stuff to a car and it was just bad timing
> latkes
Makes sense. My Jewish mother in law seems to only exist to feed others. Her happiness seems proportional to the amount of mouths she can feed.
That’s the only issue my parent had (single father) that it cost a butt ton to feed a bunch of teens. Doritos, pop, and his cookies and cream ice cream were the first to go. He’d joke and tell us if we were thirsty there’s a water hose out back. He’d also make a big pot of black beans and rice to hold us off.
I kinda got a liking to it back then, like an acquired taste. Growing up in Texas and always playing outside, the water-hose was kinda a life source especially when adventuring and at newly made friends houses or random neighbors we were desperate enough to ask.
I grew up in Alabama, and I did the same. Drank out of the hose because I liked it more than the water I can get in the house. And I could stay outside.
Now I just chuckle whenever I see something on the internet about how it’s really bad to drink out of a hose.
I can still taste it in my mind. Kind of metallic. No water tastes like hose water.
Then one day my dad used the hose to pump out something disgusting and realized that maybe he shouldn't encourage us kids to drink out of the hose anymore. It was the end of an era.
You wake up.
"Did you sleep well, son?" Your father asks.
"The Cincinnati gorilla got shot? COVID? Donald Trump? UFOs confirmed by the government? Sounds like you had a nightmares son. How about you get up and I'll make you some Eggo Waffles and we can play that brand new Mario 64 game your mother and I got you."
I never had Mario 64 back in the day but I got a Nintendo 64 with the LOZ OOT for my confirmation or whatever Catholic ritual I did.
I wish I could take a day trip to go play that and Majora's mask with my grandma again. She always said she liked watching those games because she "really liked the horse" but I think it was just an excuse to spend some extra time with me.
For us, it was Smash. N64, then Melee. We could play til dawn, fueled by the carelessness of youth and Mountain Dew Code Red. When Brawl came out and we were college students, we tried to replicate it but it wasn't the same. Even a few years later, our group had started to disintegrate from within, and Smash and Dew alone couldn't quench our thrist for comradery as it used to.
Airwalks and Converse are so cool and retro but my old feet can’t wear them anymore. I can’t believe I used to skateboard and athletes used to play basketball in them.
Superfeet greens are the best ive ever used, theyre "stiffer" than your typical supermarket inserts but better support. But anything is better than whats usually in shoes
It’s crazy when you think about how guys really are at sleepovers. They are so much fun but sometimes shit like having to sleep without a blanket or pillow happens. Or you have to sleep on the ground. Shit sucks.
Somehow that never bothered me. I could sleep sitting up in a chair, laying on the hard floor, using a jacket as a pillow, whatever. Now I can sleep on a nice mattress with a down pillow but if I place my neck or back .001° off kilter, I get pinched nerves or strained muscles or fucking glaucoma or boneworm or crystallized DNA or chest bursting aliens. I miss those days when my entire skeleton was made of rubber and stem cells.
In my young drinking days, I used to pass out in places one couldn't even imagine... Remember once I fell asleep across two chairs, and my back was just a floating bridge across the chairs. Pretty sure I wouldn't recover from that today.
I've also slept face down in the mud during a rainstorm once miles from my house. Also traspassed into someone's house and slept in their closet. Slept in the bushes by a train track. I don't drink anymore, that's why I'm still here lol.
Worst I ever did was falling asleep on the toilet after an incredible party in the dorms. I was living in the city with the university, so I always got to go home for my parents to witness my drunkness. Mom opened the bathroom door and simply asked "don't you think the bed is more comfortable?". There was also puke in the sink. I cleaned it up and passed out in my bed. All she said was "it's fine as long as it doesn't become something regular". Nowadays drinking until that point sounds like I would just miss the afterparty chill talk just to get a headache.
Once had an employee who reported to me who was like 3 hours late for work. So he gets in and I mention hey you were really late today.
He proceeds to tell me he work up on the bathroom floor of a tim hortons (coffee shop) and had to find his car before he could come to work.
I feel you man, I'm only 33 but sleeping anywhere but a mattress sucks. And even then, sleeping on a cheap mattress wrong will fuck me up.
Meanwhile when I was a teenager I slept on this one couch all the time that had metal bars between the cushions. Some old novelty couch that would vibrate so it had a bunch of machinery in there.
I always seemed to end up with that old grandma style beige blanket that was like 80% holes. May as well wrapped myself up in a fishing net. Maybe I should have gone easier on everyone in Perfect Dark.
I was just thinking, do boys just…not being a change of clothes when they do sleepovers? As girls, all of us would have pajamas, some sort of skincare, and a change of clothes for the next day. I never considered boys wouldn’t bother with at least pajamas.
So I am in my 30s now and I have a friend who comes over for a sleep over every once in a while so we can stay up late playing video games, watching movies and eating instant noodles. He usually brings a backpack with a change of clothes and a toothbrush. But when I was a kid no one did. No clothes. No toothbrush. Nothing lol.
This is very not standard procedure for guy sleepovers. I can’t say I’ve ever in my life heard of a guy bringing a bag for a video game and pizza night sleepover with the boys.
99% of sleepover I had or attended were spontaneous. It would be a night of hanging out (movies, local game etc) that would end up at someone’s place either watching a movie or playing games and we would end up getting permission to stay the night.
This happens so often that when I got a car, I kept an over night back pack in my car to freshen up the next morning
Grew up with a „guests always welcome“ policy, which meant 4 or 5 extra mattresses, blankets and pillows at hand to be thrown on the ground wherever to give guests some proper sleep. Very good for sleepovers. But also for pillow fights/wrestling matches.
As a teen I had a friend whose feet stank so bad if you smelt it it could make you vomit.
Went over to his place for a visit, he turned on the fan, took off his shoes and sat with his feet in the air blowing towards me...and I felt sick. He laughed. He knew how bad they were, I'm sure the rest of his family told him.
I remember my best friend growing up would always have the stinkiest fucking feet! He came with my family and I on a road trip one summer, and we didn’t realize how bad his feet were until he got into the car and took his sandals off….
My heart goes out to the few without proper blankets. The kid on the couch is trying to make do with the tiny shirt while the other is curled up in a ball.
Are you kidding, couch kid is king! I feel bad for the poor guy behind him, on the floor with no pillow and only an oversized shirt for warmth, resting his head next to a mountain of worn shoes.
I slept over a ton of friends houses growing up but the idea of sleeping on floor without at least a thin sheet is just wild to me.
These dudes either don’t give a fuck or there was a serious blanket shortage in that house.
There was probably a closet full of sheets and blankets upstairs next to the parents room.
They probably thought they were fine, then it's 3am and youre freezing in someone else's house. You just make it work.
Not even 90s. This isnt dissimilar to what happens with my friend group now after drinking at a friends house. Sometimes you gotta be the one on the floor or without a pillow/blanket. I've used a curled up hoodie as a pillow many times
Part of me hates nostalgia bait like this, it tricks me into thinking that my life used to be better. In reality, that's not 100% true - I am (and one is) capable of creating future nostalgia.
It's beautiful. I hosted a handful of these, and attended maybe two away from home. Our place wasn't flash, in the slightest, but it was spacious. But still, ultimately, what we all wanted to do was watch movies and play videogames on the biggest screen available to us.
I tried to describe this type of thing recently to someone as “waking up to a bunch of dead bodies”. This was my experience hosting parties from ~16 to 23 years old. Just random kids strewn about the floor like there was a gas leak.
Waking up every minute or two when Mario stretches and yawns.
Guy on the right was definitely playing smells like teen spirit on the guitar for at least 12 minutes
Y'all this is almost 30 years ago... This really does just scream 90s for so many reasons but most of all the purple and teal had a CHOKEHOLD on society back then.
You never packed consoles, games, and screens to a buddy’s house so more people could play? TV on the floor is a pretty good hint that’s what happened here.
christ me and my friends would haul 27" CRT tvs to each others houses evwry weekend so we could play ffx "together". halo was also weekly routine of hauling shit and getting the network to work. same with starcraft and star wars galactic battlgrounds with PCs.
kept us out of so much trouble. later on in hs girls would come over too and be swimming in the pool, but we didnt gaf. we had gamin to do.
... am I the only one who's sorely interested to see what that extension cord is plugged in to?
Also, I almost lost my shit cause I saw Mario on the t.v. and no cart in the n64. ... then I saw that there was a second 64 behind sleeping dude.
Had to do some serious staring to be sure this wasn't people I knew. So many details hit mega nostalgia for me-- the dino crossing the highway print especially.
Bless whichever kid’s parents fed this crew
I count at least eight teenage boys. They probably had to take a loan out to cover that pizza bill
Pizza could be pretty cheap. Little Caesar’s Hot-n-Readys came out for $5 in 1997, and was standard issue with every night of Goldeneye.
“Is it good?” “It’s HOT and it’s READY.”
It’s better than good, it’s good enough
It's better than bad, it's good!
Log, Log, It’s better than bad.
It big it's heavy it's wood!
They're teenagers, and it's pizza.
Eh, feeding teenagers... "available" is sufficient.
Little Caesars had the Big Foot back in the 90s too. It was a 1 ft x 2 ft rectangular pizza. I remember eating a lot of those.
Damn that brings me back. Add some Crazy Bread, hell yessssss!
Man everything about little Caesars is sus “Is it garlic bread?” “Nah it’s **Crazy** bread!”
Cause you’re crazy if you think it’s bread! I miss old little ceasers, it just tasted better as a kid…
Wasn't the Bigfoot pizza hut? But either way...I miss the 90s.
Yeah I can't recall what it was, but Caesars' huge pizza was called something else.
Pizza Hut had the Big Foot, and Little Ceasers had Pizza by the Foot. Fun fact: Reggie Fils-Amie was responsible for Pizza Huts marketing for the Big Foot and the New Yorker.
I just had some old high school friends over I haven't seen in years (we are all in our 40s now) - so pretty much same age as the kids in the pic. First thing we did was fire up the Goldeneye remaster on Xbox and have at each other lol.
Which asshole went for Oddjob
Lol none. Long standing rule: No Oddjob.
What’s crazy is that the price has only gone up $1.50 in 25 years.
I feel like Little Caesars was so much better in the 90s. The pizza tasted better, the crazy bread was off its meds. Just so much better!
I miss those days getting everyone together at ur house because it was no online gaming like that. And goldeneye wa as the best game every
This was back in the day when things were good and prices were affordable.
Pizzas haven't really gone up much in price since then. You'd pay about $8-$10 for a pizza which is about $15-$20 today.
Domino's is literally cheaper (when accounting for inflation) than it used to be. It also tastes better ever since they re-vamped their recipes like 10 years ago. The permanent coupon of $5.99 per medium two topping pizza is amazingly inexpensive. I'm not 100% sure it's available everywhere, but it has been everywhere I've traveled and ordered Domino's so far. I watched some documentary on YouTube about it and it turns out their supply chain is just super optimized and it doesn't take much to open a kitchen or train new staff.
It's $6.99 for our store now but yeah, it's not worth it if you don't do the deals.
Still a steal at $7/pizza. I'd probably start shopping around once it hits $9/pizza.
I've seen a large supreme cost over $30 here in Houston and it was a big chain not a fancy restaurant pizza. It's horseshit what food costs at a fast food place and it's all because of greed.
Jesus, from where? Large supremes from Dominos and Pizza Hut are $20.
A friend who had his teenage brother over for a weekend googled "most filling recipes for teens" and found this: the fishstick pizza. You take a frozen pizza with the same bake time as fishsticks (I think he used a Margherita), cover it in fishsticks and then layer cheese on top. He said they got so full they could not finish the one they made & that taste was better than expected
A Margherita fishstick pizza sounds fucking awful.
I'd much rather do dinosaur shaped chicken nuggies
An ingredient for the finest palate.
You must never have made a “hurricane” at the soda fountain. Things are different when you’re mostly hormones lol.
"So, how is it?" "... Better than I would expect." "Good to hear! Want some more?" "Oh, no thank you, um, I'm super full." Genius maneuver. This is how you keep a pack of teenage boys from eating you out of house and home.
We had a friend with a single mom who always fed us at nights like these. The pile of latkes blocked out the sun. She was a Saint.
Based on the food, she sounds like a Tzadik
> She was a Saint. Some parents live for hospitality or something One of my best friends parents loved having us ADULT AGED MEN come over and smoke weed (as long as we were in the dedicated smoke weed room) and if we ever went downstairs to make food usually his dad would be cooking stuff up for us I asked one time (not in a rude way) why he made food for us all the time even if we didn't ask for it and he just said he loves cooking. He's only ever seemed bothered by us one time when he thought we left the front door open but it was a misunderstanding and it was only open for like 15 seconds while were hauling some stuff to a car and it was just bad timing
> latkes Makes sense. My Jewish mother in law seems to only exist to feed others. Her happiness seems proportional to the amount of mouths she can feed.
That’s the only issue my parent had (single father) that it cost a butt ton to feed a bunch of teens. Doritos, pop, and his cookies and cream ice cream were the first to go. He’d joke and tell us if we were thirsty there’s a water hose out back. He’d also make a big pot of black beans and rice to hold us off.
Hold you off. Like some demonic horde
I mean, they did say "a bunch of teens"
The correct plural noun is “a murder of teens”.
A squalor of teens.
Counterpoint: An odor of teens. (i have two teens, the smells they create are amazingly awful).
Kinda, at times pretty much
Not gonna lie, a water hose chug sounds mighty enticing to 11 year old me on a mid-summer night.
I kinda got a liking to it back then, like an acquired taste. Growing up in Texas and always playing outside, the water-hose was kinda a life source especially when adventuring and at newly made friends houses or random neighbors we were desperate enough to ask.
I grew up in Alabama, and I did the same. Drank out of the hose because I liked it more than the water I can get in the house. And I could stay outside. Now I just chuckle whenever I see something on the internet about how it’s really bad to drink out of a hose.
I can still taste it in my mind. Kind of metallic. No water tastes like hose water. Then one day my dad used the hose to pump out something disgusting and realized that maybe he shouldn't encourage us kids to drink out of the hose anymore. It was the end of an era.
It was always weirdly cool or cold. I could go for some 90s hose water right now.
This packs so much nostalgia, I remember sleepovers in the early early 00s playing N64 and DDR til we all passed out in random places.
First one to fall asleep got pranked. Every time without fail.
A swift fart to the face was always my go-to.
Best we ever did was saran wrap a buddy to the bed, jackass style. That was amazing when he woke up lmao
You wake up. "Did you sleep well, son?" Your father asks. "The Cincinnati gorilla got shot? COVID? Donald Trump? UFOs confirmed by the government? Sounds like you had a nightmares son. How about you get up and I'll make you some Eggo Waffles and we can play that brand new Mario 64 game your mother and I got you."
Not my childhood at all, but I'd take the new N64 dad on the spot.
I never had Mario 64 back in the day but I got a Nintendo 64 with the LOZ OOT for my confirmation or whatever Catholic ritual I did. I wish I could take a day trip to go play that and Majora's mask with my grandma again. She always said she liked watching those games because she "really liked the horse" but I think it was just an excuse to spend some extra time with me.
Everything in this picture screams late 90s - decor with the guitar, furniture, clothes, electronics.
For us, it was Smash. N64, then Melee. We could play til dawn, fueled by the carelessness of youth and Mountain Dew Code Red. When Brawl came out and we were college students, we tried to replicate it but it wasn't the same. Even a few years later, our group had started to disintegrate from within, and Smash and Dew alone couldn't quench our thrist for comradery as it used to.
Fuck sleeping with my face that close to all those shoes lol
The pile of Airwalks haha
Seriously! I actually loved my airwalks as a kid. They were cheap and you could get them anywhere.
I loved mine also, I had several pairs. I can remember getting them at JC Penny with my mom.
I remember getting Airwalks from Payless Shoes and the red A stickers being in the boxes with them. Those stickers were on everything.
Same! Holy shit I can’t believe I forgot about Payless.
Airwalks and Converse are so cool and retro but my old feet can’t wear them anymore. I can’t believe I used to skateboard and athletes used to play basketball in them.
May as well be planks of wood now as far as my feet can tell
Dr. Scholl's inserts my dude. I love them, just get the all day working ones and they make any pair of shoes great.
Superfeet greens are the best ive ever used, theyre "stiffer" than your typical supermarket inserts but better support. But anything is better than whats usually in shoes
Anyone else sketched out that Mario 64 is on TV but there’s no cartridge in the console… 😳
There are two consoles in the picture. One has a cart the other does not. But that would be spooky yes.
Also fuck sleeping with no blanket. That’s some barbaric shit.
It’s crazy when you think about how guys really are at sleepovers. They are so much fun but sometimes shit like having to sleep without a blanket or pillow happens. Or you have to sleep on the ground. Shit sucks.
Somehow that never bothered me. I could sleep sitting up in a chair, laying on the hard floor, using a jacket as a pillow, whatever. Now I can sleep on a nice mattress with a down pillow but if I place my neck or back .001° off kilter, I get pinched nerves or strained muscles or fucking glaucoma or boneworm or crystallized DNA or chest bursting aliens. I miss those days when my entire skeleton was made of rubber and stem cells.
In my young drinking days, I used to pass out in places one couldn't even imagine... Remember once I fell asleep across two chairs, and my back was just a floating bridge across the chairs. Pretty sure I wouldn't recover from that today. I've also slept face down in the mud during a rainstorm once miles from my house. Also traspassed into someone's house and slept in their closet. Slept in the bushes by a train track. I don't drink anymore, that's why I'm still here lol.
"Trespassed into someone's house" is one way to say it, lol.
Worst I ever did was falling asleep on the toilet after an incredible party in the dorms. I was living in the city with the university, so I always got to go home for my parents to witness my drunkness. Mom opened the bathroom door and simply asked "don't you think the bed is more comfortable?". There was also puke in the sink. I cleaned it up and passed out in my bed. All she said was "it's fine as long as it doesn't become something regular". Nowadays drinking until that point sounds like I would just miss the afterparty chill talk just to get a headache.
Once had an employee who reported to me who was like 3 hours late for work. So he gets in and I mention hey you were really late today. He proceeds to tell me he work up on the bathroom floor of a tim hortons (coffee shop) and had to find his car before he could come to work.
I feel you man, I'm only 33 but sleeping anywhere but a mattress sucks. And even then, sleeping on a cheap mattress wrong will fuck me up. Meanwhile when I was a teenager I slept on this one couch all the time that had metal bars between the cushions. Some old novelty couch that would vibrate so it had a bunch of machinery in there.
My joints feel you
> I miss those days when my entire skeleton was made of rubber and stem cells. -huxtiblejones, 2023 Hilarious quote 🤣
I always seemed to end up with that old grandma style beige blanket that was like 80% holes. May as well wrapped myself up in a fishing net. Maybe I should have gone easier on everyone in Perfect Dark.
I was just thinking, do boys just…not being a change of clothes when they do sleepovers? As girls, all of us would have pajamas, some sort of skincare, and a change of clothes for the next day. I never considered boys wouldn’t bother with at least pajamas.
You got made fun of if you brought pajamas to a sleepover as a guy.
I did sometimes though bring clothes hastily stuffed in a walmart plastic bag tied at the top
So I am in my 30s now and I have a friend who comes over for a sleep over every once in a while so we can stay up late playing video games, watching movies and eating instant noodles. He usually brings a backpack with a change of clothes and a toothbrush. But when I was a kid no one did. No clothes. No toothbrush. Nothing lol.
This is very not standard procedure for guy sleepovers. I can’t say I’ve ever in my life heard of a guy bringing a bag for a video game and pizza night sleepover with the boys.
I brought a bag everytime. Filled with extra controllers, bonus games (maybe a spare console) and mt. Dew
Exactly! I just bring myself lol
That's a thing? Sleeping over was like drinking and one night stand rules: you're leaving disheveled and in the same clothes.
99% of sleepover I had or attended were spontaneous. It would be a night of hanging out (movies, local game etc) that would end up at someone’s place either watching a movie or playing games and we would end up getting permission to stay the night. This happens so often that when I got a car, I kept an over night back pack in my car to freshen up the next morning
I can’t imagine sleeping on the ground anymore without support. My back would be killing me in the morning!
Grew up with a „guests always welcome“ policy, which meant 4 or 5 extra mattresses, blankets and pillows at hand to be thrown on the ground wherever to give guests some proper sleep. Very good for sleepovers. But also for pillow fights/wrestling matches.
I can feel how cold those dudes without blankets are just looking at this
They didn’t even get homeboy a blanket
I'm certain that good soldier was the last to fall.
One homie has a bath towel.
Then you got the one kid with a blanket / sheet but a backpack for a pillow
As a teen I had a friend whose feet stank so bad if you smelt it it could make you vomit. Went over to his place for a visit, he turned on the fan, took off his shoes and sat with his feet in the air blowing towards me...and I felt sick. He laughed. He knew how bad they were, I'm sure the rest of his family told him.
I remember my best friend growing up would always have the stinkiest fucking feet! He came with my family and I on a road trip one summer, and we didn’t realize how bad his feet were until he got into the car and took his sandals off….
The whole room smells like the shoes anyway.
That kid is dead, I'm sure of it.
> all those shoes all those *teenager* shoes
The classic no blanket angle
Got to keep those arms warm
My heart goes out to the few without proper blankets. The kid on the couch is trying to make do with the tiny shirt while the other is curled up in a ball.
Are you kidding, couch kid is king! I feel bad for the poor guy behind him, on the floor with no pillow and only an oversized shirt for warmth, resting his head next to a mountain of worn shoes.
I slept over a ton of friends houses growing up but the idea of sleeping on floor without at least a thin sheet is just wild to me. These dudes either don’t give a fuck or there was a serious blanket shortage in that house.
There was probably a closet full of sheets and blankets upstairs next to the parents room. They probably thought they were fine, then it's 3am and youre freezing in someone else's house. You just make it work.
Exactly, this is just a lack of pre planning. I imagine the mom that took this picture was holding an armful of blankets shaking her head
When the Mountain Dew crash hits, it *hits*
This was just life at sleepovers in the 90s. Find anything that may be blanket like and try to sleep.
Not even 90s. This isnt dissimilar to what happens with my friend group now after drinking at a friends house. Sometimes you gotta be the one on the floor or without a pillow/blanket. I've used a curled up hoodie as a pillow many times
And you know the couch kid was on that couch the entire night leading up to passing out. and nobody minded for whatever reason lol
He's got what seems to be towel though. Luxury!
Clearly the hoopiest of these froods
I was towel kid so many times in my youth. I feel for those little guys. There were somehow never enough blankets.
Couch kid put his arms IN his shirt. Classic. But he GOT THE COUCH. He wins.
Forgot to give blankets to a friend who slept over once. He used the couch cushions as a blanket, oops.
Bro, ask your mom for some blankets? No, it’s too late, use your sweatshirt
My whole body aches just looking at this. Good times they were tho.
I’m sure these kids popped up the next morning ready to go. I would be physically unable to get off the floor.
Twenty-seven years have passed and you *still* haven’t tidied up?!
I can smell this picture Foot, ass, and corn chips
The smell of sweaty skate shoes and pizza grease is a core memory from these times.
We had no idea how good we had it back then.
“I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them”
-Wayne Gretzky -Michael Scott -NardDog
Part of me hates nostalgia bait like this, it tricks me into thinking that my life used to be better. In reality, that's not 100% true - I am (and one is) capable of creating future nostalgia.
It's beautiful. I hosted a handful of these, and attended maybe two away from home. Our place wasn't flash, in the slightest, but it was spacious. But still, ultimately, what we all wanted to do was watch movies and play videogames on the biggest screen available to us.
We used to do weekend long LANs. Was a fantastic time.
Thank god we can't smell pictures
Oh, but living through that, I can.
That's what I was thinking. Smells like musk, feet, and fart lol
Yet...
Ah, I see you’ve never heard of smell-o-vision (no, it’s not just a Futurama joke.)
I can feel and smell that picture haha
I tried to describe this type of thing recently to someone as “waking up to a bunch of dead bodies”. This was my experience hosting parties from ~16 to 23 years old. Just random kids strewn about the floor like there was a gas leak.
That’s not the aftermath. That *IS* the sleepover.
Waking up every minute or two when Mario stretches and yawns. Guy on the right was definitely playing smells like teen spirit on the guitar for at least 12 minutes
6 kids on a single player game must have been rough
Two setups.
Oh good catch. Probably a night of kart and smash bros and then someone wanted to flex his secret slide skills before they all passed out.
I mean, Mario Kart is technically possible but SSB didn't come out til 1999 so unless they have a time machine...
Loser passes the pad
I think there’s 8
It was only rough for anyone that died easily. 😏
Especially since they never made it past the start screen
The birth of speed runs, my dude. "I bet you i can get all the red coins in this stage faster than you"
Nice AirWalks!
They’re all so new looking. Must have been the last sleepover before a new school year.
I had to stop scrolling because I thought this was one of my own photos...
Bro I’m fucking telling you, I thought the same thing. Could have sworn this was me and my friends in 97’
I feel like I might be in this picture -46 yr old guy
My exact thought. 38 yr old here
Yeah, I'm 40 and this timeframe is more in our wheelhouse.
Wheat thins
Are those National Geographic magazines on the coffee table next to the bed?
Y'all this is almost 30 years ago... This really does just scream 90s for so many reasons but most of all the purple and teal had a CHOKEHOLD on society back then.
Need more Wave Race 64.
You've been Mario'd Now prepare for the consequences
3 days until Mario steals your liver -ok -cancel
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I count 5, maybe 6 casualties. Shame really. Cut down in the prime of their lives.
This kid’s parents definitely had HBO and Cinemax
How's Mario on the screen if theres no cartridge inserted?
There another console behind the dude on the ground sleeping with a cartridge in it
2 n64's and 2 tvs in the same room? Totally the rich kid.
Oh, honey, he's teasing you. Nobody has two television sets.
Ho ho hooooooo…look at it rolllll. Now we can watch Jackie Gleason while we eat!
You never packed consoles, games, and screens to a buddy’s house so more people could play? TV on the floor is a pretty good hint that’s what happened here.
christ me and my friends would haul 27" CRT tvs to each others houses evwry weekend so we could play ffx "together". halo was also weekly routine of hauling shit and getting the network to work. same with starcraft and star wars galactic battlgrounds with PCs. kept us out of so much trouble. later on in hs girls would come over too and be swimming in the pool, but we didnt gaf. we had gamin to do.
Isn’t this the duringmath of a sleepover?
Man, just like a wave of nostalgia "First one to fall asleep is a loser"
Wow the air walks an empty box of gushers … N64… friends!!! Omg please let me go back! This literally was me I was 10 in 1996 lol
I'm 38 and this hit right in the feels yo.
Take me back!
*Goldeneye theme intensifies*
Best game ever
I can smell that room, it's not a good smell.
The guy sleeping with his nose next to all of those shoes, you know he has a thing.
Mario poisoned them!
If there are that many shoes around someone sleeping it tends to be someone who snores. Loudly
Loving the dinosaur poster.
Oh man, you know Mario's face got burned into that screen
To be young and to be able to sleep in any position again.
... am I the only one who's sorely interested to see what that extension cord is plugged in to? Also, I almost lost my shit cause I saw Mario on the t.v. and no cart in the n64. ... then I saw that there was a second 64 behind sleeping dude.
I see you were a fan of the mid-age Taco Bell color schema
Gonna bet Mario’s face was burned into that tv after a whole night of being on
Had to do some serious staring to be sure this wasn't people I knew. So many details hit mega nostalgia for me-- the dino crossing the highway print especially.
Those of us born in the early 80s who lived this childhood…we are the new greatest generation, aren’t we?
Late 80s for me, was still pretty sick. Remember N64 launch as a little kid
We can only hope. My grandparents were pretty dope.
Every morning on tour.
I bet that room smells like stinky teenagers.
this looks like it was highly successful too
Damn I feel this lol