You know you're an old gamer when...
By
Absinth_Incubus,
Posted on: 2006-03-24 05:32 in Player Guides
The true test is if you can name the Go-bots too.
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-You remember the game Adventure on the Atari 2600 (nothing better than your char. being a large pixel)
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go here for some free Adventure.
http://www.simmphonic.com/programming/adventure.htm
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Bonus points if you know where the micro dot is, Who Warren R. is and could make the duck looking dragons kill themselves by putting the arrow looking sword in the middle of the room and getting them to chase you. Double bonus if you ever realized you could use the magnet to move the bridge and simply move down from screen to screen or used the Bat stealing behavior to win the game by making it fly into the golden castle for you.
Sleestak give me the creeps.
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You remember Starbuck as a man.
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And that both persons got there name from the novel Moby Dick
In the same vein... when you team with somene named John Smith and they don't get the lines" He's on the Jazz" or "I love it when a plan comes together..."
Also you know youre an old gamer when you can remember when Battletech was an RPG, NOT a click GAME....
"Well, there's going to be some light music and a short note of apology saying, 'The universe ended last week, we're really sorry, we don't know what you're doing here, didn't you get the message?'"- Steve Moffat
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Had the old D&D boxed set (the white box), then went to the AD&D sets.
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You remember that Chainmail was the rule set that the Grayhawk books where taken from and those would be made into AD&D then back into the boxed sets.
You look at the boxed set play testers list and know some of those folks. 
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Champion was the first Superhero RPG game you played - I was introduced to that in college... and the reason why I joined the Champion server....
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I remember being excited about GURPS and the GURPS Supers additions.
What about the Arduin Grimoire (sp?) books with their lovely critical hits and fumble charts
99-00 you cleave your opponent in half. 
The Avalanche has already started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
Blue Spot, Son Spot, Cyan Siren, Polar Gale, Scarlett Fury, Stygian Warlock, Lady Lilac, Elsbeth (villian), Furious Squirrel (villian)
Infinity server
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I knew I wouldn't get my five points...
But have you seen _the_ doctor in a Sinbad movie? (Golden Voyage in this case) My dad took me to all 3 of the Harryhausen Sinbads in the theater. Wasn't until years later I realized it was the doc. Tommy plays a great villain.
And once again, the old gamer thread comes back to haunt me...
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"From the land beyond, beyond, past all hope and fear, I bid you Genie now appear."
Damn AirWulf, your memory recall is way better then mine. I have all those names and more stuffed in my head somewhere, just trying to pull them out is like trying to find a 3 eyed Bee in a Bee-Hive....if one existed. Anyway, major kudos to you for that, hell I own Devastator and can't recall their individual names....so depressing.
Don't think I ever paid mind to the City-bots, and my friend knows the Aerial-bots. Oh man, now I have to go pull out my seasons and watch them all.
I know from one of the movies there was Hot Rod who became Rodinus Prime (reading Ultra Magnus' name brought that to mind). I can't recall those Transformers that they ran into in that movie though...on the garbage planet, and who could forget the massive Unicron lol.
Oh ya, I only asked ya for the names of those from the series...not the movies...oh well, consider them bonus material 
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The true test is if you can name the Go-bots too.
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Even though the Go-bots came first, Transformers was way better...until they went all Beast Wars back on Energon, the very last series of Transformers to have existed before they came up with the Energon saga. I hate Go-bots.
Good Guys
Leader-1
Scooter
Turbo
These were the three main ones on Earth. The ones they ran into on Gobotron I have no hope of recalling.
Bad Guys
Cy-kill
Crasher
Cop-tor
For the Transformer movie... One of my favorites:
HotRod/Rodimus Prime
Ultra Magnus
Blur
Springer
Arr-Cee
The previously named Dinobots
Cup
The Junkions (planet of Junk) led by Wreck-Gar
Galvatron
Cyclonus
The Swoops
If you want to get into the later series...
You have the earliest Predacons that combined to form Preda-king.
Aerial-bots... Hmmm. Formed Superion. There were 5 that if I recall. Silverbolt
Air Raid
Fire Flight
Skydive
Sling Shot
Beast Wars I happened to like because it tied in the origanal series so much. I actually have the entire series. The others, Energon, Armada, Cybertron, and the Combiners series I've kept abreast of but didn't really watch. I just love the old cartoons. I'm surpirsed I recalled all the names I did.
OH YEAH! Omega Supreme
The Stunticon
Combaticons
Damn you! Now I'm thinking of more! Brain...melting...morphing...*erie transformer like sound*
Ahhh damn. I'm a TV.
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When you still have an Atari 2600 and a Vectrex that still work....and most people won;t even know what a Vectrex is....
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I own BOTH (including a FULL Vectrex Collection, all games, all attachments, but in storage somewhere).....and my age? Let's just say ALL my toons are younger than me if one equates a year with a level....hehe
What exactly was the purpose of female Autobots?
They had to do something with the narrow guage piping and the curvy bits of metal...
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
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... one and a hole puncher was a computer accessory tool.
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I laughed my butt off when I read this, I'd forgotten about that. It was the first thing I did - 2 for the price of 1.
As for trackball games - it was a little later but Marble Madness, now there was a high tech game.
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The Internet was dial-up only BBS's. 2400 baud with text compression was the bomb. That sometimes you had to switch the modem to function as a rotary dial phone and needed a handset adapter.
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I actually setup my own 8-line BBS and had people calling me from all over America to find out how I, at that time (late 80's early 90's) set up an 8 line BBS using 1 PC with only 4 serial ports. This was pre-email days and I was just starting to incorporate e-mail from the internet (another amazing process for that time) onto my BBS. A combination of my ex-wife and I buying a house and the emergence of the World Wide Web killed our, and most other, BBS's.
BTW, I'd also like to say that at 48, I'm probably one of the older members of this thread, but I am enjoying it immensely. The memories!
Has anyone thought of maybe starting a Super Group of "mature folks"? The Elder Statesmen or something like that? We could have chapters on each server...
have ever played any of the Zork games or recall them even . . .
still have in your possession a Vic 20 or a Commodore 64 . . .
remember the show Space 1999 or ever owned some of the toys like Moonbase Alpha or the Eagle? . . .
remember getting your 12" G.I. Joe's "hair" wet and having it all fall out? for the Joe's with the fuzzy hair that is. . .
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When you still have an Atari 2600 and a Vectrex that still work....and most people won;t even know what a Vectrex is....
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I own BOTH (including a FULL Vectrex Collection, all games, all attachments, but in storage somewhere).....and my age? Let's just say ALL my toons are younger than me if one equates a year with a level....hehe
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I'm glad someone else would admit that they know what a Vectrex is. I don't have anywhere near a complet collection, and no additional attachments [except a 2nd controller].
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remember the show Space 1999 or ever owned some of the toys like Moonbase Alpha or the Eagle? . . .
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Heck, I have both the toys and the show (on DVD) now! And UFO!!
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AirWulf, name ALL of the transformers from the original series, Dinobots and all lol, I dare ya.
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This is just from memory at the moment with no googling...
Optimus Prime
Jazz
Bumble Bee
Cliff Jumper
Iron Hide
Ratchet
Wheel Jack
Sun Streaker
Mirage
Brawn
Hound
Perceptor
Blaster
Ultra Magnus
Hoist
Prowl
Sideswipe
Trailbreaker
Huffer
Grimlock
Slag
Sludge
Swoop
Snarl
Thats really all I can recall from the origanal series. There might be more, like the Aerial bots and the City-bots, but its been so long that I think those were part of G2.
Decepticons:
Megatron
Star Scream
Soundwave
Rumble
Ravage
Ratbat
Laserbeak
Thundercracker
Shockwave
Skywarp
Ramjet
Insecticons:
Kickback
Bobmshell
Shrapnel
Venom
Constructicons:
Formed Devestator
Long Haul
Mixmaster
Hook
Scavenger
(one or two more. Can't think of the names)
Thats it. My brain is now sufficiently fried. I haven't had to think about Transformer names like that in a long time. Was fun. Can anyone add any without googling? I know there are a bunch from season 3 and on but this is all I could recall of the first season or two.
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Wow. Please admit that you googled this. I'll sleep better.
Repeat Offenders
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you know your old when you reference the old superfreinds cartoons
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Gleek FTW!!!!!
Ya know, he was around long before Banananator and those other Rikti monkey knockoffs!!!
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I really wanted to strangle Gleek.
Repeat Offenders
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37 here, and about to retire from 20 years in the Navy. I still freak guys out on the ship when I mention I had a PONG game with the paddle controller.
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Roger that!
Repeat Offenders
...you find you are able to wait patiently for an update like I7. It gets here when it gets here. In the mean time, Im still mainly having fun on the hero side and I have all this content left on the villain side I havent gotten to yet as Im only lvl 14 as a villain. There's still got to be 4 or 5 zones in CoV I havent ventured into yet.
-Largo
Founder of A.G.O.N.Y. Supergroup on Victory
Member of Thought Sanctum VG on Victory
Member of St0rm Batallion SG on Guardian
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You know your old when you know Texas Instruments made a computer and got pissed when hearing someone else say they got a TI99... Forgetting to put the /4a at the end..
OR...
You got the damed expansion box and after 3 hours of entering freakin "extended" basic programing language. bumped the "foot" and lost everything!
Or got a "new" IBM computer and were consered "L33T" cause it had 16 megs(Ya.. I know my watch got more) of ram!
Dam I remeber when you used to mess the school computers up with Peek and Poke comands.. And for you youngsters it has nothing to do with illegally lookin in windows or touching somene..
DAM.. you kids got it easy!..
Now wheres my freakin WALKER!
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Im only 25 and I remember getting so psyched up when I upgraded to 2 megs of ram