Calling All Pre-Generation X GBA'ers!!

I remember atari and this keyboard that plugged into it and a plastic sesame street cover on it that went with the game. and coconotes and bunchs of other games.

i do remember the sega master system and being pissed that it wasn't the 16-bit sega system when someone sold it to me. I returned it.

I remember prodigy, and not the type that smacks your bitch up.
I remember compuserve. and having to pay by the hour to surf the net at a 28.8 kbps modem.
I remember downloading whole movies, with shitty compression with 48.8kps modems and being impressed!
I remember when napster first started and didn't blow! same with limewire, bearshare...etc
I remember copying the weezer buddy holly video from the windows 95 cd.
I remember TOSing, punting, pinting, color bombing, chat room flooding on early AOL. </h3> lol
You don't even want to know how easy social engineering was back then....I had more phish then jesus could keep up with heh..
I remember sub7...back orifice, and netbus and all the people who had no clue why their mouse was inverted or printer was printing crazy stuff...

anyway...i don't remember some of those things he said...but what i remember is pretty damn funny =)

I remeber owning a Star Wars LED watch where you had to push a button to make the face glow to tell the time, does that count?

I also remember seeing Star Wars at the cinema and it had the dewback scene in it, does that count?

[quote name='TrolleyDave' post='2195052' date='Aug 17 2009, 04:10 PM']I remeber owning a Star Wars LED watch where you had to push a button to make the face glow to tell the time, does that count?

I also remember seeing Star Wars at the cinema and it had the dewback scene in it, does that count?[/quote]

Yeah, it counts. And I remember that watch, too. You were probably the envy of yer schoolmates!

Keep 'em coming guys, this is great stuff!!

OLD FARTS UNITE!! Let's teach these young whipper-snappers what life was like back then, for us...and what WE considered "hi-tech!!"
LOL!!!

EDIT: Who else here remembers the dot-matrix printer?? ROFL!!
Remember when Space Invaders was high-flying technology, folks?

I'm loving this...I FINALLY, after years of searching, think I have found something I can blog about. I'm having a good time!

OK...I'm loving it!!..and I remember when you didn't know that "me encanta" was Spanish for "I'm loving it" and "I'm loving it" didn't refer to McDonalds!! ROFL!!

"Where's the beef?"

Can't really say I'm as old as you, but I remember playing a lot of old games back when I was about 3 years old on a 286 with Windows 3.11. Among those games were titles such as Chip's Challenge, SkiFree, Space Invaders, Pipe Dream, Jezzball, Rodent's Revenge, Asteroids, Missile Command and Battlezone.

All these games are still among my favorites and I play them from time to time when I'm bored

[quote name='Minox_IX' post='2196763' date='Aug 18 2009, 10:10 AM']Can't really say I'm as old as you, but I remember playing a lot of old games back when I was about 3 years old on a 286 with Windows 3.11. Among those games were titles such as Chip's Challenge, SkiFree, Space Invaders, Pipe Dream, Jezzball, Rodent's Revenge, Asteroids, Missile Command and Battlezone.

All these games are still among my favorites and I play them from time to time when I'm bored [/quote]
A 286, huh? LOL.

I used to program in BASIC....on a Trash-80 (TRS-80)
I remember when computer programs were stored onto, and loaded from cassette tapes! And then the big 5 1/4 inch floppies that don't even exist hardly anymore...they actually WERE floppy.

Now, what they call a floppy disk...the 3.5 inch kind you stick in your A drive...those didn't exist yet....nor did mice. Both came later.

[quote name='TrolleyDave' post='2196753' date='Aug 18 2009, 10:01 AM']"Where's the beef?"[/quote]
You're doing it wrong.

It's, "Got beef?"

I remember when Sonic 2 was shown on Nick Arcade and the Turbo Duo (guess most have never heard of it).

I'm not nearly as 'old' as you guys and I also remember almost everything you said.

Zero Wing FTW!

[quote name='Cablephish' post='2197221' date='Aug 18 2009, 03:54 PM'][quote name='TrolleyDave' post='2196753' date='Aug 18 2009, 10:01 AM']"Where's the beef?"[/quote]
You're doing it wrong.

It's, "Got beef?"
[/quote]

Nope. He's doing it right...YOU'RE doing it wrong.

Google Clara Peller.

Here, I'll make it easy for you...
Clara Peller
Where's The Beef

"got beef?" No, you're confusing that with "Got milk?" and that's a 90's thing.


"Where's The Beef?" was from a Wendy's commercial from the 80's.

Speaking of which, who else here remembers MAX HEADROOM??

I watched the moon landing live on tv as it was happening actually.

You might recall the fall of Baghdad, maybe the fall of the Berlin wall even. I watched the fall of Saigon.

I recall when there was two ways to listen to music, and it was called AM or FM. There wasn't any other options.

I recall when records weren't retro.

I played Space Invaders when it was new.

I recall when phones when from dial to touch tone.

I remember when a bumper on a car was made of steel and often survived the crash.

I remember when changing a TV channel involved getting off your ass and changing it on the TV.

I recall when punishment was being confined to your room which was hell as there was nothing to do there but read a book or sleep.

I recall when 'kids' were people under 17.

Yep, I recall when the word game referred to something played on a table or out in the front yard.

I recall owning lots of toys, made of steel, painted in oil based paint, that would survive any level of physical abuse, and didn't require batteries to be interesting.

I recall watching the first video games, where the entire operating system was preloaded first off of a tape drive before you ran the game, and knowing DOS was required or you couldn't make anything run on the maching running it.

I do recall buying my first console, an NES. It was fun, but too many of the games were dumb and this was before game rentals fixed that.

[quote name='Panzer Tacticer' post='2198917' date='Aug 19 2009, 12:20 PM']I watched the moon landing live on tv as it was happening actually.

You might recall the fall of Baghdad, maybe the fall of the Berlin wall even. I watched the fall of Saigon.

I recall when there was two ways to listen to music, and it was called AM or FM. There wasn't any other options.

I recall when records weren't retro.

I played Space Invaders when it was new.

I recall when phones when from dial to touch tone.

I remember when a bumper on a car was made of steel and often survived the crash.

I remember when changing a TV channel involved getting off your ass and changing it on the TV.

I recall when punishment was being confined to your room which was hell as there was nothing to do there but read a book or sleep.

I recall when 'kids' were people under 17.

Yep, I recall when the word game referred to something played on a table or out in the front yard.

I recall owning lots of toys, made of steel, painted in oil based paint, that would survive any level of physical abuse, and didn't require batteries to be interesting.

I recall watching the first video games, where the entire operating system was preloaded first off of a tape drive before you ran the game, and knowing DOS was required or you couldn't make anything run on the maching running it.

I do recall buying my first console, an NES. It was fun, but too many of the games were dumb and this was before game rentals fixed that.[/quote]

LOL, you're probably closer to my mom's age, but I remember some of the things you are talking about...they were part of my youth, too.

Let's see here...

OK, I remember when AM radio HAD music....and when 8-track tapes were still around, cassettes hadn't yet been invented.
"Retro" wasn't even a word for us back then, and records weren't retro.

I, too, played Space Invaders when it was brand-new.
I remember dial telephones, and 4-prong wall jacks for the phones...not the neat little plastic jacks we have now.

I, too, remember steel bumpers on cars. I also remember 100,000 mile odometers that showed tenths of a mile. Now all cars seem to have million-mile odometers. Didn't used to be that way.

Yes, I too, remember when you had to get off your ass to change the channel...a whole lot less channel surfing went on back then! And we had 3, maybe 4 or 5 depending on your local market...channels to pick from on the TV...that's it.

We had ABC, CBS, NBC...no FOX...no cable, no satellite, if you were lucky and lived in a big TV market, you might have an independent channel or two, or maybe PBS, and that gave you maybe up to five channels to pick from.

Yes, I remember the room thing, too, but it wasn't hell for me because I liked reading.

I remember my brother's Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars...I think they were made of lead with lots of oil and mercury based paints. He survived.

I remember when computer programs loaded off a cassette tape...and programming stuff in BASIC on a Trash-80...and then feeling like I owned the world when I got a Commodore 64. I remember computers that didn't have mice...and the first of mine that did...an Apple II-e. I remember before floppy disks...and when floppy disks actually WERE floppy.

The first game console I owned, personally, was also an NES, and I still own it today. Also a SEGA Genesis.

Before that, we had an Atari2600, but I can't say I owned it, since my parents paid for it. We also had an Odyssey...remember when you had to put a piece of film over the TV screen to play games??

I remember going outside to play, and playing all day, and that, when the streetlights came on, it was time to go home.

That was childhood.

I'm far too young to "remember" most of this stuff but there is a lot i remember...
I remember when Star Fox games were great shoot em ups
I remember when Batman was cheesy but awesome

You know what I miss most from the late 70s/early 80s, telly that's actually entertaining! I remember when the closest things to reality tv was Ripleys Believe It or Not and That's Incredible!

[quote name='TrolleyDave' post='2209107' date='Aug 24 2009, 08:23 PM']You know what I miss most from the late 70s/early 80s, telly that's actually entertaining! I remember when the closest things to reality tv was Ripleys Believe It or Not and That's Incredible![/quote]

Ah, yes...I remember That's Incredible! was one of my favorite shows back then.

Do you also remember "Real People?"

I remember a (TRS-80).. damn that was way back i was like.. 4 or something?
oh and i remember i was sleeping over at my grandma's and i came back after a few days
and one of my bro's were playing MDK (murder dead kill ) which required a Pentium 1
and i was like WTF since when do we own a pentium 1? WE ROCK

omg now i feel old

Cosmo and Commander Keen anyone?