I feel mostly same, I think. Overall, I'm grateful for the little I had.
If I could, I would have spent more time being online, I guess, exploring CServe or the early internet.
My father always was a bit afraid of high telephone bills, so we didn't went online for amusement so often.
If I could I would have spent more time in magazine/video game stores or I would wave encouraged the family to go to VHS rentals more often.
Maybe go there with friends, borrow some video games or play them in a store. I always had been a bit shy here when it comes to such things.
Also, I should have gotten my own Mega Drive (Genesis) as second-hand back in early-mid 90s. The (S)NES was great, sure, but I've missed out on a couple of things without its rival.
To my defense, I had no idea at the time that the 16-Bit era would going to be one of the finest moments in gaming history.
Also, "you can't have everything" , people say..
Speaking of films, I would have spent more thoughts on VCDs and Laserdiscs, maybe.
It would have been fascinating to have experienced sci-fi series, blockbuster films or japanimation on such media when they were still fresh.
Maybe we should also have restored my father's amateur radio station much earlier than we finally did, so he could have had made new friends back then.
Aside from these things, I should have probably focused more on things that really mattered. Be kinder to my surroundings. Take more photos..
The years flew by with so many opportunities being missed.
I think it's such things that I sometimes regret when I'm standing in the garden at night, watching the few stars still visible.
Edit: Speaking of computers, maybe I should have had assembled a nice big tower PC from all the parts I had "laying around" at the time. A hot-rod 386 or a 486, maybe.
(I was collecting all sorts of old/broken PCs I've found at road side, I've also bought older ones being advertised in news papers.)
That being said, I'm glad for my humble old 286 back then.
The PAS16 with slow SCSI port and the weird Sony CD-ROM drive were fine in retrospect.
I would have kept them in a 386/486/586, even, if I had one.
The one thing I do regret a bit is that I didn't create myself a nice computer corner.
I could have made things much more usable and comfortable in retrospect.
Edit: Oh and I did miss out on the early emulation scene.
I should have gotten my hands on a SNES disk drive at the time and, err, try out some of those homebrew games..
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In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel
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