How many of you were in this exact scene?

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skinnyminnesota@reddit

That pile of Airwalks did NOT smell good...

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PvtHudson093@reddit

I dont see how someone could sleep with the head right next to the pile of Airwalks

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frecklemimus79@reddit

I once slept under the corner of the rug

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silentknight111@reddit

Well, in my situation I had stayed wake playing games for like 30 hours before finally crashing.

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Floundering_Dad_43@reddit

After the Mtn Dew wore off, you didn't care. I think I fell asleep ON a Stratego board once. With the pieces still on in

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OtherAcctWasBanned11@reddit

Teenage boys can put up with a lot of stink.

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JanthonyGo@reddit

Hahaha. Came here to say the exact same thing.

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Over-Percentage-1929@reddit

I have questions about those two sleeping next to the shoes, like HOW? and WHY?.

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onyxcaspian@reddit

Truth is they smell even worse so the olfactory overload takes care of it.

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holy_butts@reddit

I had the vinyl Airwalks in ‘96 and they smelled absolutely horrendous. They looked cool as fuck though.

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Omg, I had a pair of Airwalk slip-ons in high school I ended up having to throw away because I could not get the funk out of it. All I’d have to do is slip my heel out during class to release a god-awful smell and have classmates asking who shit their pants 😆 🤢

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IceSmiley@reddit

Mario looks too well rendered. Did they have N64 in 1996?

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musashi-swanson@reddit

I was that kid using his t-shirt sleeves to stay warm on the floor

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Juls_Santana@reddit

Reminds me of me and my HS friends when I had a sleepover soon after Mario 64 released.

Man we spent SO much time literally just playing with that menu screen and exploring the outer castle area.

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Hootinger@reddit

Yep. Those are my shoes. They are even laced correctly (with the laces going straight across).

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SaveusJebus@reddit

That poor friend that doesn't have a blanket.

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Xjadebones@reddit

Better question: what were the movies and video games you had going in this scene? I’ll go first. Star Wars, species and the hobbit. And we were playing parapa the rapa and Spyro.

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TiEmEnTi@reddit

Not nearly enough empty Coke cans, but otherwise accurate

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lizziekap@reddit

God this used to be so normal.

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latebloomer2015@reddit

I was a junior/senior in 1996…so nope. We were out at a party or out with our friends. My brother born in 1983 would’ve had this party. But my 1979 self was too busy for the video game. lol

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KetaMina81@reddit

Not me…very jealous if you had this! My mother was very strict and didn’t let me have any friends, couldn’t even go ride my bike around with a school friend. I remember her mom coming to my apt and begging my mom like I’ll be riding with them! Nope.

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thewalruscandyman@reddit

Not I.
I was meticulous about order and organization as a kid.

I'd freak out on friends who got my movies and games out of alphabetical order.

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squish042@reddit

Oh man, sounds like my son. So…uhhh…how did you turn out?

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thewalruscandyman@reddit

You might not like my answer, but pretty antisocial. Prefer being on my own in my own place. Not quite agoraphobic, but close. I can go out, and do, I'm just unhappy and uncomfortable to do so- like I have a ten day vacation with some of my favorite people coming up that I am dreading as much as I am looking forward to it.

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LatinOso85@reddit

Your poor friends. Lol

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thewalruscandyman@reddit

...yeahhhh...you're not wrong. 😅

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Master_BROshiii@reddit

Missing about a dozen half drunk soda cans and a couple empty pizza boxes strewn about, but other than that it's spot on.

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TheDukeofArgyll@reddit

That one asshole who always got the couch every single time.

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squish042@reddit

That’s the kid that always got his hands in warm water while sleeping or the shaving cream with a feather trick.

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bragsdale80@reddit

I’m literally in that exact scene! On the floor behind the couch.

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esocharis@reddit

Would've been a few years earlier for me, I was a senior in HS in 96 and we weren't really doing sleepovers by then lol

Make this 92ish with Final Fantasy 2(4) or Street Fighter 2 on the SNES and you got it though lol

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theRestisConfettii@reddit (OP)

Yoga Flame

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VVrayth@reddit

NBA Jam and Street Fighter II Turbo, but otherwise checks out.

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Emannuelle-in-space@reddit

For me it was bomberman that kept us up til sunrise

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Impossible_Rain_3065@reddit

1080, Tony hawk, 007...

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Dr-McLuvin@reddit

Diddy Kong racing

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Tall-Introduction414@reddit

Yeah, this was more like 1992 for me.

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LatinOso85@reddit

I remember trying to stay awake after everyone else fell asleep just to play video games uninterrupted

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frecklemimus79@reddit

We had an Atari at home, so having unfettered access to an n64?! I was awake until someone’s dad went to work.

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frecklemimus79@reddit

The kid with no blanket, that was me lol

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whoisbill@reddit

So many Sundays spent exhausted from not actually sleeping over my friend's house haha.

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Charger2950@reddit

There was rarely ever any sleep involved, aside from maybe 3-4 hours. It was always up until 3:30am-4am. Lol.

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Careless-Ad-6328@reddit

This is why we always brought our own sleeping bags and pillows to sleepovers. You never knew what would/would not be provided (and honestly how many people have spare bedding for an extra 6 people?)

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doloresgrrrl@reddit

I still have that futon.

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_MadGasser@reddit

96 was my graduation year. That was not me.

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slippedintherain@reddit

Ha ha me too - sometimes in this sub I’m reminded of the divide that still exists between those of us on the 1970s side of the Xennial span and those from the 1980s!

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absentlyric@reddit

Its the worst about being from a transitional generation, because depending on the weather, you were either a Gen X or a Millennial, but not both.

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smoot99@reddit

96 for me too but this would have been a little earlier

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Some-Bullfrog-4768@reddit

Yeah a few years later and we were still tripping when we woke up.

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_MadGasser@reddit

If we slept at all!

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Some-Bullfrog-4768@reddit

Just laying there pretending to sleep, afraid that it will last forever, and bittersweet when it goes away.

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Vaguely_vacant@reddit

Always one kid with a towel or something as a blanket

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ImmaDrainOnSociety@reddit

"You left the TV on all night!? Do I look like I'm made of money, young man?"

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DrippyTheSnailBoy@reddit

Nobody because it's AI dogshit.

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pxFloof@reddit

Eh but stirs memories either way... but ya... its a bit... wonk

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SpecialistDevice4115@reddit

Thank goodness I'm cutoff from this group as an 85 baby. Sleepovers sucked. Being 11 years old sucked. Other kids sucked. Now that I'm an adult all I do is tell people to fuck off and it's awesome.

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pxFloof@reddit

I'm an 85 and I had loads of these... XD

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JWWBurger@reddit

It was usually Goldeneye or one of the WWF wrestling games. Pizza and Mountain Dew were stables.

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pxFloof@reddit

Omg I loved making horrible looking characters to fight as.

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Ok-Training3941@reddit

This music plays in my dreams

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TrapThem@reddit

Sick repost, OP.

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P-Otto@reddit

Shirt sleeve as blanket floor as blanket

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XyzzyPop@reddit

I remember that poster, because it was on door to the furnace room.

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dbwedgie@reddit

Airwalks and Vans everywhere. I miss the 90s.

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Spartan04@reddit

I was in high school in 96 so sleepovers didn't really happen anymore for me since they just didn't appeal to me or my friends anymore at that age.

When we were younger though we did have them and would set up sleeping bags in the living room. Best part was being able to stay up late and watch TV or play video games.

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Fredwood@reddit

One year later and it would have been Goldeneye.

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Traditional_Isopod80@reddit

I loved that game!

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Yes. Most people I know did not N64 until they played Goldeneye.

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Heavy_Pin7735@reddit

Love it!

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smoot99@reddit

oh hell yes

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AlissonHarlan@reddit

mario 64 was released in 1997. That's not 1996.

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lothartheunkind@reddit

I was always the last one awake and having to find something to use a a makeshift blanket.

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NurseCait@reddit

Yup! This looks VERY familiar. 😅

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E-2theRescue@reddit

Yup.

There were 6 of us, and we were like The Sandlot, but with video games. We'd scrounge up some money, buy snacks at our favorite rental store (family owned and the owners were amazing), then head over to someone's house. Sometimes, it wasn't even a weekend. We all took the same bus, so there was no problem if it was a school day. Run back home, grab your school bag, then stay the night.

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magomra@reddit

mario kart, goldeneye and magic the gathering games until the sun came up

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SMUHypeMachine@reddit

Man it’s a shame kids nowadays rarely get stuff like this. In elementary school in the early to mid 90s basically every birthday party ended up as a sleepover and we’d stay up watching movies and playing Bloody Mary and such.

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MydniteSon@reddit

I remember, senior year of HS, we all crashed at my friend's house one night. We were up till about 6am playing D&D. Must have been 10 of us passed out on the living room floor. I remember looking up as out friends father was gingerly stepping over our bodies, around 7:30am. He just looked at me, shook his head and said, "Its like Jonestown...the day after."

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Silly_Lavishness7715@reddit

Ha! My Dad except he said " what is this, an opium den?"

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whiterock73@reddit

Take it back to 86. We’d still be out running the streets

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Silly_Lavishness7715@reddit

Keg in the dunes

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DPTDubbs@reddit

Maybe a few years earlier with some wicked games of ping pong and time on the hot tub. Besides, Mario 64 wasn’t multiplayer.

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LassieDear@reddit

My college dorm room sleepovers t the time looked like this but with many more people

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flyzapper@reddit

The late night Mario Kart battles were EPIC.

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Texas_Kimchi@reddit

YUP! We were computer geeks though and played Papyrus Indycar Racing and other LAN games. Me and my friends didn't have a lot of money so we would go dumpster diving at Electronics stores and then go to Radio Shack to find stuff to fix stuff we found. We then resold it to the same computer stores we dumpster dove from. We spend all our money on computers and skateboards. All 4 of us are in IT currently too.

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ThatEvanFowler@reddit

Just add an overflowing ashtray to the table and yeah.

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AlchemistMustang@reddit

You don't even know what sleeping between a dresser and bed feels like with Twisted Metal still on and plates of chips and cheese

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Different-Local4284@reddit

So whack. A stack of games everyone has beaten. Nothing on tv because appointment television. Can’t be loud cause parents are asleep. Also waiting around for parents to pick up the kids and no one knows how long it will take for them show up. Lets not forget. Lets not forget grainy vhs tapes, played on a dirty vcr, of movies that were absolutely terrible when they were new. Breakfast in the morning would be cheap cinnamon rolls that smell and taste of melted plastic.

I would trade all the friends and sleepovers to enjoy the modern era

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