{"id":178666,"date":"2018-05-17T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T09:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=178666"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:11:23","slug":"tbt-games-90s-kids-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2018\/05\/17\/tbt-games-90s-kids-played\/","title":{"rendered":"#TBT: What games 90s kids played"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Siblings would fight each other for a turn to play on their DOS computers, sometimes waking up early on the weekends to get to the PC first.<\/p>\n<p>In the 90s, games were played primarily using a basic keyboard and mouse (no gaming mouses here) and, if you were one of the lucky ones, you had a joystick.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Here are some of the games 90s kids played:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Ski Free<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This was one of the most entertaining games during the decade. Kids had a blast trying to dodge the abominable snowman.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-177093\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/05\/ski-free-2-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Doom<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Doom set the tone for many first-person shooter games that today\u2019s kids play.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-177084\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/05\/doom.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Scooter\u2019s Magic Castle<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This game starred a little elf like character taking players through his castle where kids got to do various activities. This educational game was sneakily disguised as something fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-177113\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/05\/J_ZyFy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Diablo<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Diablo was one of the first role playing games where players gathered weapons and potions among other items during their quest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-177121\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/05\/diablo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Eagle Eye Mysteries<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Kids got to play detective with twins Jake and Jennifer Eagle. Another educational game designed to get kids to learn while having fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-177122\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/05\/Eagle_Eye_Mysteries.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/177681\/tbt-90s-candy-forgot\/\" target=\"_blank\">90s&#8217; candy you forgot abou<\/a>t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/176900\/tbt-90s-series-everyone-glued-tvs\/\" target=\"_blank\">90s series that had everyone glued to their TVs<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='5f676381fd312833a2936533d2cfee04'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before there was FIFA, Need for Speed and Far Cry, 90s kids played pixelated PC games, none of which were online nor many that were more than one player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":178667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Carmen Norton","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686],"tags":[14967,14968,18855,11219,1714,18856,10129,18857,1200,18648,18858,1213],"class_list":["post-178666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","tag-youarenota90skidif","tag-90s","tag-90s-games","tag-computers","tag-diablo","tag-doom","tag-doomsday","tag-dos-games","tag-gaming","tag-growing-up-in-the-90s","tag-mysteries","tag-pc"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["#YouAreNotA90sKidIf","90;s","90s games","Computers","diablo","doom","doomsday","dos games","gaming","growing up in the 90s","mysteries","PC"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}