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▲ 10 r/windows95

What were THE kids game(s) of the Windows 95 era? Was there one at all?

I could easily give an answer as I was a kid at the time, but I have a feeling people will think I'm wrong, so I wanted to ask you. Did Windows 95 have any defining games for kids, and if so what were they?

After Windows 95's release, kids games became a big deal on there. I recently read an old edition of Billboard that said that while teen/adult-aimed software were flat or declining in sales and revenue, the kid computer game market exploded, peaking right around the time Windows 98 released. Companies wanted to license their characters for Windows instead of consoles, unlike the eras before (SNES/Genesis) and after (PS2) where every kiddie franchise got their own console game.

Yet 30 years later there doesn't seem to be a consensus on what the kids games for Windows 95 (or 98) were in the same way that the N64 and PSX did. I made a meme in another sub a while ago with "which ones are you choosing?" with 20 kids PC games, and yet despite the ones I selected selling hundreds of thousands of copies at the time I don't think anyone who answered remembered more than 2-4 of them (and it seems they all remembered different games).

Is the actual answer just the free games that were bundled with Windows?

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u/SeparateLawfulness53 — 12 hours ago
▲ 509 r/popculturechat

Hollywood actors descended from signers of the United States Declaration of Independence

A guide to each picture:

George Read (Delaware) was an ancestor of the celebrated James Brolin (Westworld, The Amityville Horror, etc.) and his even more famous son Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, etc.).

William Ellery (Rhode Island) was an ancestor of Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) and her daughter Sosie Bacon (Smile).

Carter Braxton (Virginia) was an ancestor of Zach Cregger (one of The Whitest Kids U' Know and the director of Weapons).

John Hart (New Jersey) was an ancestor of Saturday Night Live alum Kyle Mooney.

The famed Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania) was an ancestor of Jack Coleman, who has had recurring roles on shows like The Office and Burn Notice but is best known as "HRG" on Heroes.

Lewis Morris (New York) was an ancestor of Emily Rutherfurd, "New Christine" on The New Adventures of Old Christine. Rutherfurd is also a descendant of Levi P. Morton, Vice President of the United States from 1889 to 1893.

Honorable mention: William Floyd and Philip Livingston (both New York) were ancestors of the late David Crosby, a rock music legend who didn't act much but who cameoed in a lot of movies and TV shows in the 90s, most notably Hook (which his photo is taken from).

The photos of the signers were taken from an 1876 lithograph by Ole Erekson. It can be downloaded from the Library of Congress.

It is worth noting that all the highlighted signers except Ellery were slaveowners.

u/SeparateLawfulness53 — 2 days ago
▲ 2 r/Scoobydoo

WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE: A SECRET HISTORY-Mystery Inc. (a funny history/parody of the gang I read in elementary school in the 2000s, which claims among other things that Scooby was the owner of Mystery Inc. and Shaggy has the same metabolism as his uncle Captain America)

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u/SeparateLawfulness53 — 9 days ago
▲ 20 r/90scartoons

Gadget Boy's Adventures in History (1997) pulls off a remarkable feat: it takes an iconic character and puts them into an educational show without making it too babyish or involving too much moralizing. I don't think I've seen that kind of thing happen ever again.

u/SeparateLawfulness53 — 10 days ago
▲ 55 r/Letterboxd

What made "Heathers" so popular on Letterboxd (and, presumably, in the last decade-ish in general) compared to other teen movies of its era?

I graduated high school over a decade ago, and during that time I don't remember any kid caring that much about Heathers. Unlike the John Hughes films, particularly Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller, there were never house parties where all my classmates watched it, nor were its moments referenced in conversation. It had a big internet following but that following mostly consisted of those who were actually teens in the 80s or early 90s. To those my age, it was seen as something your geometry teacher would enjoy.

Flash-forward to today and it has a staggering 1.2 million views on Letterboxd. It would be unsurprising given that the teens of recent times are children of 80s teens, with their parents introducing them to it, except it's a lot more popular than most other teen movies of that era. I'd have guessed it would be around the level of Say Anything or The Lost Boys - other movies beloved by Gen Xers that those my age shrug at - but Heathers has around six times the views of Say Anything and three times that of The Lost Boys. It even has more views than The Karate Kid!

I feel like the reasons are (1) the musical and (2) the two leads being in hot recent TV shows. But is there another reason why the younger Letterboxd crowd is so drawn to Heathers today?

u/SeparateLawfulness53 — 11 days ago