I honestly can't say I know a single person who still plays them. When I was young, everyone had them. Now, as far as I can tell, it's a retro niche for millennial hipsters.

You mean in ... Iceland? ;)
Do you know lots of families with kids?

I admit, living in Germany, the land of board games, might make a difference.

I shut my eyes hard and raise my hands and wipe the tears off; reading text on a budget 16 colour CRT hurt the eyes.

Deguassing. Lost in a breadth of a few years entirely.

LOL no, I mean in various places. I've lived all over the world, though never in Germany (only visited).

I wouldn't say a lot, but a fair few and I don't really know them so much as know of them. I'm at an age where the people with children are still kids to me themselves, so attempting to have friendships with them would be awkward.

OMG. You just triggered a memory. When I was very young, my dad got a new colour TV. It was extremely expensive and the first one I'd ever seen. He was very proud and protective of it, quite rightly. A couple of days after installation, I discovered you could make pretty colourful patterns on the screen using a strong magnet. Oh dear...

You can still do that, especially since you can now get one with an Arduino or other programmable microcontroller.

I remember seeing, in a catalog, a "retro handset", which looked just like the top part of the old phones, but missing the chord, and it felt like such handsets weren't that old at the time.

By the way, having a landline seems to be a lot less common these days.

True. And especially having a landline phone that doesn't need to be plugged into a power outlet because it has no display and no special functions. People who call me keep expecting I know who they are because my phone recognizes the number, or they say things like: "Great, now you have my new number on your display", but I'm sorry to say, no, I have no display, you still need to spell it out for me. XD

No way man, that was almost the best part :) I loved staring at my row of boxes in order of purchase. I think I still have all of mine somewhere, except sadly for my Unreal and Half Life 1 box which I know I lost.

I actually can relate to that, I just don't like other people staring at my rows of boxes, too, haha. And I always run out of space for physical items to store. Nowadays, I prefer less clutter.

Speaking of, a successful POST beep. I know many still do it, but (honestly I just want to steal the chord from an older iMac) it's starting to become silent startups.

This is how my phone looks like, not something you can use to call anyone using a single button push ;)

Oh, yeah, that's actually quite similar to mine! :D
Mine does have a few additional buttons for storing up to 10 numbers the old-fashioned way though. I'm not sure what those M1-3 buttons are on yours?

I do not know either, it did not came with the manual ;P

It’s actually a gift from a friend, that he brought to me when my previous phone died. I do not even remember when I last used a phone to call someone, it’s only there so I can receive calls (mostly from family).