If you could be born in any year from 1950 to 2010, which one would you pick?

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Hi everyone, I'm Roman, the maker of Retrolife, launching here on November 9.

Retrolife is a life sim set in real history: you're born in the USA, West or East Germany or the USSR and live a whole life one year at a time, with that year's news and prices.

So here's a question I'd love your answers to: if you could be born in any year between 1950 and 2010, which would you pick, and which moment would you want to live through, again or for the first time?

A few that come up in the game:

  • July 1969, the whole family up past midnight to watch people walk on the Moon

  • 1977, a kid soldering a computer kit on the kitchen table

  • a Saturday at the mall in the '80s

  • November 9, 1989, the night the Berlin Wall opened, from the East or from the West

Mine: I grew up in the Soviet Union and was a small kid when it fell apart. I still remember August 1991, when there was nothing but ballet on every TV channel. I'd love to live that year again and finally understand what the grown-ups were whispering about in the kitchen.

If one of these moments is yours, there are free postcards of them you can send to someone who remembers:

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