Yes, a nightmare I had as a child, many years ago (around 30ish). I was in a desert/beach…the air was dusty and orange-tinted. There was a gazebo made of wood, almost rotting or rotten, and a giant golem who trapped me in a wooden box. The whole thing was terrifying, and dry and hot.

Studio monitors (nothing too expensive, something I bought years ago), small USB-powered laptop speakers.

Synthpop, new wave, dark wave, cold wave, minimal wave, post-punk, goth rock…

…but like synthpop more than anything else. I gotta have those hooks. <3

A Blue Ocean Dream
a-ha
Alien Skin
Ashbury Heights
Beborn Beton
BlakLight
Blue October
Body of Light
Brutalist Architecture in the Sun
Camouflage
Cetu Javu
Children Within
Code 64
Conetik
Count to Infinity
Covenant
Dark-O-Matic
Depeche Mode
DeVision
Echo Image
Electro Spectre
Fantazja
Fragrance.
Korine
Lust for Youth
Mesh
Mind Machine
Molly Nilsson
Neuroactive
New Order
Null Device
NUN
Pet Shop Boys
Psyche
Riki
Rupesh Cartel
Sally Dige
Sea of Sin
State of the Nation
SWEEP
Tenek
The Bedroom Witch
The Mobile Homes
Torul
TR-ST
Veil Of Light
VH x RR
Wave in Head
Wolfsheim
Zynic

Happy to listen to lots of stuff though. Some others that come to mind right away: Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Kylie Minogue, Madonna, Moist, Technotronic, early Skinny Puppy, Gunship, Luis Ake…

Don’t be embarassed!

I hate to correct OP, but actually it was the 16-bit Genesis (Mega Drive) version of Sonic that was released first. The 8-bit Master System and Game Gear versions were released a few months after.

Picross 2 (1996; Game Boy) with the English translation patch is the tits.