{"id":110034,"date":"2020-11-11T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/i-miss-this-weird-easy-bake-oven-cd-rom-playset\/"},"modified":"2020-11-11T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:10:00","slug":"i-miss-this-weird-easy-bake-oven-cd-rom-playset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/i-miss-this-weird-easy-bake-oven-cd-rom-playset\/","title":{"rendered":"#I Miss This Weird Easy-Bake Oven CD-ROM Playset"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#I Miss This Weird Easy-Bake Oven CD-ROM Playset
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Growing up you wouldn\u2019t catch me dead with anything pink. Pink meant girly, and girly\u2014I was convinced\u2014meant weak. From a young age, I insisted on jeering at anything soft or sparkly. It only got worse when I started gravitating toward stereotypical male-coded hobbies, namely video game<\/a>s, which brought so-called \u201cgirl games\u201d onto my radar of things to despise. Except for one: the Easy-Bake Kitchen CD-ROM Playset. Hasbro released it in 1999 and it blew my fucking mind.<\/p>\n

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The late \u201890s and early 2000s were practically the golden age of funky children\u2019s gadgets and this bizarre amalgam of a traditional physical playset and PC game stands testament to that. You play the game by interacting with a plastic, miniature kitchen that you strap over your keyboard. Looking back, it\u2019s embarrassingly low-tech for how much it impressed me as a kid. Physically opening the oven or using the blender pushes out a plastic piece on the bottom of the contraption that strikes a particular key, triggering the corresponding action in-game. All its nauseatingly cutesy green-and-purple packaging does is disguise the fact that you\u2019re really just playing by hitting keys like you would in any PC game. <\/p>\n

As far as 7-year-old Alyse was concerned it operated on pure magic. <\/p>\n

The thing wasn\u2019t even mine, technically. My mom bought it for my little sister, who would have been around four at the time. And while I refused to touch a real Easy-Bake oven, I was mesmerized by this tiny kitchen that seemed to blur the lines between the physical and virtual worlds. My mom thanked me for offering to help my sister figure out how to play, but really I just wanted an excuse to get my hands on it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTurn your computer into a kitchen full of fun!\u201d the playset\u2019s box promises. \u201cNo Waiting! No Mess!\u201d<\/p>\n