You know you're an old gamer when...
By
Absinth_Incubus,
Posted on: 2006-03-24 05:32 in Player Guides
When company comes over you say "Another Visitor! Stay awhile....STAY FOREVER! A HA HA HA HA!"
You are scared of sea horses because they look like that darn dragon from Adventure.
Despite having owned an NES, SNES, Playstation, and Dreamcast, you still think of gamepads as "them new-fangled controller thingies" and miss the days when all you needed was a joystick and maybe MAYBE a paddle.
You wish there were more games with vector graphics.
You see an arcade machine and wince at the fact that you can almost never find one that costs less than 75 cents to play, and certainly never find one that still costs a quarter.
I play on Virtue and have all 12 slots full and I'm tired of listing them all here so NYAH!
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When company comes over you say "Another Visitor! Stay awhile....STAY FOREVER! A HA HA HA HA!"
You are scared of sea horses because they look like that darn dragon from Adventure.
Despite having owned an NES, SNES, Playstation, and Dreamcast, you still think of gamepads as "them new-fangled controller thingies" and miss the days when all you needed was a joystick and maybe MAYBE a paddle.
You wish there were more games with vector graphics.
You see an arcade machine and wince at the fact that you can almost never find one that costs less than 75 cents to play, and certainly never find one that still costs a quarter.
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Ahh.. good old Impossible Mission....
I can recall the days of loading games on tape (cassette tape)...
I barely recall the day Mom and dad brought home our Pong machine.. dude.. talk about killer graphics!
I loved the days of going to swap meets to copy c64 software..
yes.. I am an old gamer!
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Sirata, I could explain it all to you but it would take awhile. If you find the DVDs and sit through the whole thing you'll learn a few things. Some interesting things about Rhinox for one. you'll also learn why Megatron kept his beast form and the others didn't...
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Ya, those are just some of the numerous episodes from all the series that I missed when they first aired. I'll get them and catch up, I'm not worried. You deffinately re-invoked my interest in the series though, for this, I thank you.
And since I can't think of anything from "back in the day" to post here anymore...I'll keep silent for now.
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When company comes over you say "Another Visitor! Stay awhile....STAY FOREVER! A HA HA HA HA!"
You are scared of sea horses because they look like that darn dragon from Adventure.
Despite having owned an NES, SNES, Playstation, and Dreamcast, you still think of gamepads as "them new-fangled controller thingies" and miss the days when all you needed was a joystick and maybe MAYBE a paddle.
You wish there were more games with vector graphics.
You see an arcade machine and wince at the fact that you can almost never find one that costs less than 75 cents to play, and certainly never find one that still costs a quarter.
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I couldnt play anything with the gamepad for the longest time...
Did you ever have to put a heavy object(I used a big book) to press down on the controller input where it went into the Atari to get the joystck to work again?
Did anyone get a calus on their hand from playing "Decathalon"...you had to move the joystick back and forth as fast as possible to make the character go fast.
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Did anyone get a calus on their hand from playing "Decathalon"...you had to move the joystick back and forth as fast as possible to make the character go fast.
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OMG!! My group of friends had a running contest to see who could get the biggest blisters from playing that game! We also played Summer Games like mad on the C64 with the same results.
Gawds... I LOVED my C64 to it's death. I loved that thing so much, I had two! 
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When you can remember what BBS's were? HINT: You used a 1200 baud modem to play ANSI games online and chat with your friends.
LOL I was a sysop for a few BBS's, and even created some door games that were popular locally. . .
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When you can remember what BBS's were? HINT: You used a 1200 baud modem to play ANSI games online and chat with your friends.
LOL I was a sysop for a few BBS's, and even created some door games that were popular locally. . .
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Sure do, I actually ran an 8-line BBS here in the Pittsburgh, PA area and for a while it was the biggest one in this area. Started out with 2400 baud modems on all 8 nodes and then began switching to 14.4 one by one. Caused quite a commotion at that time, some folks would ONLY log into a 14.4 node and would call for hours unitl one was free.
Ahh the good ol days
...you didnt even have the option to buy a 5 inch floppy drive for your Commodore 64.
...when your Dungeons and Dragons game didnt have dice, but cardboard punch-outs instead.
...when you fondly remember playing the Radio Shack version of Pong (TV Tennis).
...when you remember that your Bard D&D character started out as a Fighter(till lvl 10) then became a Priest(till lvl 7) then a Thief(till lvl 7) just to get to Bard Level 1!!
...you know what a cradle modem is from having to use one.
...you remember playing the Text only Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy game.
...you know that Battle Droids by FASA became BattleTech four years later.
...you spent hours on end looking for stray/missing spaces, comma's, periods and numbers in lines and lines and lines and lines of Data commands to get the crappy PuckMan game you copied out of the Compute Magazine to work, until you tried to turn PuckMan, which then locked up your Commodore 64 and you had to do the fixing all over again because you didnt save onto the Tape Drive before you ran the program.
...you were envious of the rich kids and theyre Atari 2600 Consoles!!
...you owned the 2 Editions of the Dungeons & Dragons Deities & Demigods hardback books because the 1st edition had the Melnibonian(Elric of Melnibone, Stormbringer), Cthulu(H.P Lovecraft), Lankhmarian(Fafhrd and Grey Mouser) mythos which were removed from the 2nd Edition printed 2yrs later (the Authors/Estate of the Author(s) didnt give permission to TSR to use them and began litigation).
...you watched BattleTech cartoons (Blood of Kerensky series) ALL 8 (if i remember correctly) of them.
...YOU DAMN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!! 
Has anybody mentioned "Tales of the Gold Monkey" yet? I loved that show!!
Old is only a state of mind. 
I remember all of this, and have had plenty of good times with most of the subjects mentioned.
I remember when 40K Rogue Tader was worth the money. The small black and white book, Chainmail. The first Dr.WHO. Black and white TV. SWAT, MEGO, GiJoe, the Lone Ranger, Sam Cobra, Judge Dredd as a group. Punk, Mods, and the birth of every music spawning off of the early seventies.
What do I miss?
1. Old school Marx army men sets.
2. Micronauts
3. Sgt Fury and his Howling commandos
4. Wierd War Tales, and the Creature Commandos.
5. The first incarnation of D and D that I started buying my own. the red book.
6. Vincent Price movies.
7. MEGO
8. Cheap, five and dime prices for everything.
9. Independent RPG's, without massive Corporation BS.
10. Araura monster models, and Ratfinks.
and on a side note, the saturday morning line up of cartoons, Sid and Marty Kroft, and war down the street with the naborhood kids, Space 1999, 3 3/4 inch scale death and destruction.
Somewhere along the line, I was cheated.
racing home to see the vampire/horror show "Dark Shadows", or the show "I dream of Jeannie", or when the tonight show was on 90 minutes and from New York before it moved to LA, for the record I'm 49,or the show wild wild west, or watching roy rogers or sky king
Fluffy Bunny 1 Person SG
Rabid Bunny 1 Person VG
Both on Pinnacle
Hobbit's Hole 1 Person SG
Spider's Web 1 Person VG
Both on Freedom
..you had lincolin logs instead of legos.
..you thought "The Last Starfighter" and "Krull" were and are still cool, and SFX intense.
..you have the OLD VERSION of Star Wars, on VHS.
--you have seen the Muppet Show when it aired in a weekly evening prime-time slot.
--arcade games were HARD! Like Defender, and Star Castle, and Qix (nobody's mentioned Qix yet? Great game!) By the way, what was that maze game with the walls that killed you, and the bouncing ball of death if you took too long to clear a screen?
--Aahhh... Intellivision. Remeber the "voice module"? That thing ROCKED! Especially with Space Spartans...
--you watched those awesome Pippi Longstocking movies -- dubbed from Dutch or whatever.
--your greatest memory was getting the HUMONGOUS "Jetfire" Transformer for Christmas, and you remember when the Transformers started getting silly with "Dino-bots" (but they were still sooo cool to have!).
--you remember "Conjunction Junction... what's your function?"
--and OF COURSE having the computer with the tape drive, and waiting for that game to load.
By the way, I HATED that stupid Wumpus. "Your arrow has missed the Wumpus, and has ricocheted off the wall and killed you. The End" dogGONNIT!
I guess this is for the ~30 age group. I know this is ancient history to some "ancient people" here on the forums. I'm not old if there's someone older I can make fun of! <ahem>
Old enough to have a 14 and 10 year old in the house playing with me and their mom. It was funny explaining to her that the average age for MMO's / Computer games was 26 over all.
You had pong when it was new.
You played PacMan before it became popular.
You first computer was a commodore 64
and you thought programming it was fun.
When Quake (1) came out you thought you were too old to play computer games but thought (hey why not).
You used to mud. (and therefore know the real meaning of the word mob).
They still used punch cards for programming when you were in collage.
You favorite game of all time is still a board game (mine is pente).
The last time you smoked pot was over 20 years ago.
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You had pong when it was new.
You played PacMan before it became popular.
You first computer was a commodore 64
and you thought programming it was fun.
When Quake (1) came out you thought you were too old to play computer games but thought (hey why not).
You used to mud. (and therefore know the real meaning of the word mob).
They still used punch cards for programming when you were in collage.
You favorite game of all time is still a board game (mine is pente).
The last time you smoked pot was over 20 years ago.
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LOL your old. I'm 34
I'm to afraid to smoke pot anymore. prob get to wierded out lol. Was fun up untill 7 years ago :-O
Ptt I still have 2 comadors.....sitting in a box somewhere heh.
You know your a old gamer when you can relate to everything that is said on this thread 
Hey Zorro, Its nice ya have a cool dad.
My mom and dad play this game also...heh they are both 50 They are the ones that got me into this game heh.
Wow. This is the first thread that I felt I had to comment on. I love you guys!
Trying to put this in semi-chronological perspective...
-I remember HR Puffnstuff, Dr. Shrinker, and Sigmund and still get snippets of theme songs running through my head
-I had Mego action figures of Mr. Spock, Spiderman, Captain America, and several "Planet of the Apes" figures (FYI Spock in a Gorilla Guard costume made a great villain)
-I remember "Planet of the Apes" minus Marky Mark
-I had a number of 12" G.I. Joes. One had a pullstring to talk ("Medic! Get that stretcher over here!") a couple had Kung-Fu grip and that creepy hair stubble stuff, and I had a few odd ones like The Atomic Man, Bullet Man, and The Intruder
-I remember being able to call a character "The Intruder" without feeling dirty
-I had a Spiderman/Captain America Ricochet Racer set that you couldn't market today because it looked like a sniper rifle
-I'm thinking of making a reptilian character called "Sleestak"
-I stayed up late to watch Evel Kneivel hurt himself a number of times
-I had Evel Kneivel action figures and vehicles ( I loved the dragster with the drogue chute)
-Six Million Dollar Man figure with various playset/accessories including the then-hi-tech crystal radio backpack? You know it
-I couldn't sleep after seeing "The Death Probe-Part One"
-I remember being able to say "Death Probe" without feeling dirty
-"Sinbad" once meant "cool movie with animated skeletons and Shiva staues" and not "Jingle all the Way"
-I saw "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" at a DRIVE -IN. Same with "Star Wars", "Empire", and "Jaws"
-I'm still afraid to go back in the water
-Nicholas Hammond is Spiderman
-The original Battlestar Galactica was cool (Total crush on Maren Jensen). Manimal, not so much
-Pong console with woodgrain finish? Check. Atari 2600 with every game I could beg, borrow, or steal? Check. Media blitz and waiting in line when Pac-Man was released? Check. Kick your butt at River Raid? Check
-ROM: Spaceknight
-I remember the first time I tried AD&D. I was so excited that instead of being just a "Fighter" or an "Elf" I made an "Elf Fighter-Magic User-Thief" With a halberd, of course, because it did d10 damage
-All my friends had AppleII's and I had a C-64. Sure I couldn't play "Aztec", but i got "Jumpman", "Sword of Fargoal", and "Temple of Apshai". WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?
-Villains and Vigilantes. The basis for almost every character I've made on this game.
-Marvel Superheroes RPG. The legend continues
-WWF Raw for Playstation. Learn to make cheesy characters in a videogame.
-Present day. Coh/CoV addicted
-When on a team and I hear someting like,"I'll pull" followed by,"I'll Tank" I have to add," And I'll form the Head!"
Thanks to all of you for the trip down memory lane. remember, maturity is just knowing when you can act immature.
"After watching Spiderman 3 I see that Super Reflexes is working as intended. Seriously, did his Spider-sense go off once?"
KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!
MAN!....Reading all this makes me wish we could have a old timers gaming convention lol.
BTW I have a toon named Sleestak lol. Good old Land of the lost hehe.
Now that song is running thru my head
Oh haha BTW I play guitar and I had a funny ideah for a amplifier. You know the Martial stacks?...Make a amp called Slee...so when someone ask you what kind of amp you have you can say ...I have a Sleestack lmao.
Saturday morning roll call! 80's child here. (29) This isn't too long ago, but I feel old thinking about when you had to pay for the internet by the hour!
Taleeee Haaaaawk! Damn that intro still gives me goose bumps. I miss the old intros.
Oh, and learning most of your morals from the He-man outro lol.
*laughs as he finally catches up on this thread*
Wow... suddenly.. and thankfully...I don't feel -that- out of place.
I'll just say I was born in the 'Year of the Droid.' and leave it at that.
You know you're an old gamer when you once owned a TV that had a UHF setting... and actually watched a UHF TV show.
Oh, a postscript. I'm typing this while watching my 24" Zenith console TV. Woodgrain finish, the channels on the DIAL go from U1 to 13. Thing's over 20 years old and still going, but you should see the mess of cables in the back required to accomodate the DVD, Digital Cable, and PS2.
I didn't want to be the one to bust this out, but "They don't make 'em like that anymore"
"After watching Spiderman 3 I see that Super Reflexes is working as intended. Seriously, did his Spider-sense go off once?"
KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!
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Oh, a postscript. I'm typing this while watching my 24" Zenith console TV. Woodgrain finish, the channels on the DIAL go from U1 to 13. Thing's over 20 years old and still going, but you should see the mess of cables in the back required to accomodate the DVD, Digital Cable, and PS2.
I didn't want to be the one to bust this out, but "They don't make 'em like that anymore"
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What are you doing in my office? ::hisssss::
You remember seeying a PC and wondering why the keybord was not part of the unit, like in an Apple computer.
You saw a comercial for the Lisa and stayed awake all night trying to figure out what the advantage of a mouse was and had no clue of how it worked.
You thought an Osborne was the ultimate in computer portability.