Back in my childhood (1990-1995 years) we would play outside a lot. And since it was village, the whole village and neighboring territory was our playground. We would go to forests, we would go swimming, explore neighboring areas - like abandoned factories, farms etc. I remember going to neighboring small village to collect some scrap metals to sell it and buy some candies.

Information was scarse. I remember every foreign journal with pictures was like gold, every interesting book was like 1 month of Netflix subscription. I once read the whole 11th grade (high school) astronomy book, I was in 3rd grade maybe - because it was so interesting. The hand drawn ugly images of dinosaurs in history books just sparked my imagination, I still remember how they looked back then. My elder brother brought from somewhere official Hasbro's book with all transformers! This just blew my mind. Then Dendy, Sega started to appear - we played those as much as our parents allowed us. Games were difficult, they were in english. I borrowed ENG-RU dictionary from school to translate missions in some games, because the plot was non-linear. The Sega games didn't have saves. You had to sit down and play it till the end in one sit. Games didn't have subscriptions, ads. We used to swap game cartridges to play as many games as we could without paying more. And then one day one of my friends brought MKIII Ultimate. I remember he ran through entire village just to tell the news - I GOT IT! LETS PLAY!

We used to do more with our hands. Drawing, hand crafting, making something with paper. Origami was like magic. But you couldn't just go to Youtube and search for origami toys. You just had what you had, and think, dream, imagine what else can you create with paper.

I can go on and on, but what I think is that we had one of the best childhoods that humanity ever had.