Sacred Haven of Debauchery

And in Battle Toads, I didn't even know I was almost at the end, and as far as I understand from the video, this level is much, much easier to complete than the final level in Battle Toads Double Dragon. Battle Toads Double Dragon was really tough. I only managed to beat it once, with my last bit of strength, on the very last attempt!

I don't even remember fighting her, maybe I just didn't get that far. I remember that you had to destroy her spaceship or something like that... In general, I didn't often get very far, I struggled for a long time during the scooter races, and in the end, everything was remembered and completed, but it took a certain amount of time, and of course, you need good reflexes.

What about MMOs?

WoW was definitely one of them, but for some reason, no one played it, and I didn't either... Usually, everyone played GTA and CS, and less often other shooters.

Which console is this? There are three versions for the Dendy, one regular, then Super, and Force. I played all of them, but I liked the last one the most, even though it had 10 FPS, which I only realized relatively recently. And of course, I played the Sega version of Counter-Strike, which might be the best. One of the versions also had one HP instead of three, by the way. I have a cartridge like that at home right now, maybe my neighbor had this version when I was a kid.

I had two cartridges, Contra 3 and Super Contra. I only played the Sega version at a friend's house because I didn't have a Sega myself, but not very often. As for which one was better, I'm not sure, but I definitely know that playing any of them with a friend was more fun, although playing alone wasn't boring either.

Computer clubs are another childhood wonder of the average child of the 2000s that I didn't experience. In the end, just paying 100 rubles per hour when you have a whole ton of games on disks at home (2/3 of which I don't even know what they are, because I didn't even open or install them. But all of the above was definitely there, and I even played the third Quake myself). But, if you believe my husband and some other acquaintances, there was something special about these clubs that I will never understand.

You could say that it was mostly a pastime for a group of friends, as already mentioned. In general, I sometimes went alone, but usually, if we couldn't get together, I would just go home and play Dendy/PlayStation, whatever I had at the time.

I remember that in the year it came out, my dad brought home a disk with Morrowind and started playing it actively, and I somehow said that it was some kind of ugly game. It's a little embarrassing now, years later.

Well, to be fair, when I looked at its screenshots after many hours in Oblivion, which is how I got to know the Elder Scrolls series, I didn't feel like playing it anymore. After all, the leap in graphics between the two games is quite significant.

My husband just said that the computer club cost 15 rubles per hour for a computer and 5 rubles for a PlayStation. Frag seems to be overpriced.

I think it depends on the time and place. In our area, there were few of them, and they were very popular. It was rare for less than half of the computers to be occupied. I remember a couple of places, that's it. Moreover, they were located in not the most obvious places, one in a basement, the other in a community center (!).

Computer clubs are for those who were restricted from playing at home, and for whom no one controlled where the child goes after school. I had the opposite. Well, also for fans of CS, of course, but in high school, the computer science class started to compete with it.

That's true, at first, I was only allowed to use the computer for an hour and a half, after which I was kicked off. And then I peeked at the password and started playing secretly when no one was home. In our school, computer science was a favorite subject for many because at the beginning, they gave us a task, and then the teacher would do her own thing for the rest of the lesson and not pay attention to the fact that we were all playing CS the whole time, and 5 minutes before the end, we would all quickly copy the solution from the nerds