Hackers is the most 90s and AWESOME movie ever. How have I not seen this sooner?
Angelina Jolie is intensely hot, they toss around "elite" as a compliment, and the bad guy RIDES A SKATEBOARD. Yes yes yes please yes.
The whole move actually made me wonderfully nostalgic for my high school days. Back in the mid-90s, when getting on the Internet was sort of expensive (AOL! "You've got mail!"), my friends and I relied primarily on local BBSes for our online fun. My handle was RabidRat. It was, quite simply, glorious. I miss ANSI graphics.
Thinking about the old boards also makes me miss eating junk food and playing AD&D in my friends basements, staying up late to read Dragonlance novels and eat Doritos, and heading to the comic book shop. Other fond memories include cruising The Avenue in my 1986 Ford Tempo (Complete with "Proud to be a Democrat" sticker - which got my car branded the Liberal Wagon. In fact, we named a lot of shit. My friend's escort was the Jesusmobile - because "if you looked at it from the right angle, it looked our Lord the Christ."), sucking down pots of coffee at Village Inn, and long, cold bus rides to speech tournaments. Those were good years, and they were most defined by friends I met online. It made high school into a really glorious time for me, filled with friends and great times. And, you know, Hackers brought it all back. 31337.
Angelina Jolie is intensely hot, they toss around "elite" as a compliment, and the bad guy RIDES A SKATEBOARD. Yes yes yes please yes.
The whole move actually made me wonderfully nostalgic for my high school days. Back in the mid-90s, when getting on the Internet was sort of expensive (AOL! "You've got mail!"), my friends and I relied primarily on local BBSes for our online fun. My handle was RabidRat. It was, quite simply, glorious. I miss ANSI graphics.
Thinking about the old boards also makes me miss eating junk food and playing AD&D in my friends basements, staying up late to read Dragonlance novels and eat Doritos, and heading to the comic book shop. Other fond memories include cruising The Avenue in my 1986 Ford Tempo (Complete with "Proud to be a Democrat" sticker - which got my car branded the Liberal Wagon. In fact, we named a lot of shit. My friend's escort was the Jesusmobile - because "if you looked at it from the right angle, it looked our Lord the Christ."), sucking down pots of coffee at Village Inn, and long, cold bus rides to speech tournaments. Those were good years, and they were most defined by friends I met online. It made high school into a really glorious time for me, filled with friends and great times. And, you know, Hackers brought it all back. 31337.
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There's rumblings every once in a while of someone starting up a game again, but it never happens.