You know you're an old gamer when...
By
Absinth_Incubus,
Posted on: 2006-03-24 05:32 in Player Guides
All this talk about "old" gamers reminded me of this quote:
"People don't stop playing games because they get old, they get old because they stop playing games."
If this is true, then I'll never get old!
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Has anybody mentioned "Tales of the Gold Monkey" yet? I loved that show!! 
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Yep. Page 24...
1.) Peter Cushing ROCKED as Van Helsing...
2.) You know that David Prowse played MORE than just Darth Vader
3.) You think Ingrid Pitt and your mouth waters like Homer Simpson
4.) You remember Goldarr, Silvarr and the lame third robot...
5.) You've plotted the assassination of the two teenagers on "Superfriends"...the dog, however, was mildly OK...
6.) You remember seeing Cathy Lee Crosby getting her shirt wet on "That's Incredible"...
7.) You remember Bernie Kopell from "Get Smart"...
8.) You smile when you hear "I know NUTZING...!"
9.) Horshack...and the bad memories that go with that name.
10.) Your sister worshipped Leif Garrett...
11.) Bay City Rollers --- 'Nuff Said.
12.) You thought Susan Dey was hot AND cool
13.) You saw David Hasslehoff as "Nick Fury"
14.) You thought it was cool that "Electric Company" had Spiderman...
15.) Madonna & Cyndi Lauper would alternate weekly with no. 1 hits...
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--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?
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Berzerk with Evil Otto!!!! "Intruder Alert, Intruder Alert!!!"
Kyle Al'Mordu - Lvl 50 MA/SR Scrap
Fusion Force!
TRIUMPH
All hail the big red ball. 
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Any of you veterans have any other good stories?!!!
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OKAY! I admit it! I had SUCH a crush on HER! She has to be THE superhero babe of ALL time.
Anyone know who that is? Does this help? "Oh zephyr winds which blow on high, lift me now so I can fly." (BTW, "zephyr" is Greek. They had to import wind to Egypt, back then.)
Here is her page. Note that it has a mailing address and says she enjoys hearing from her fans! Everybody write her and tell her we want her to come join us in CoH!
Liberty Eagle on Virtue
Power Play on Guardian
Hey Cookie Monster, if "C" is for cookie, what is "N" for?
Golden Age & Early Silver Age Heroes (RPers) Wanted!
Batman PWND by The Insidious Termite!
The Internet
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Then I must be ancient at 36.
you know your old when you reference the old superfreinds
cartoons ( remember the wonder the twins )
or the old hanna barbera(sp) like secret squirl, el Kabong,
ricochete rabbit, hong kong fuey and no one your team knows what you are talking about.
So up and atom........
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I'm 22 and I know all that... what the heck does that make me? <,<
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Someone once told me that the destruction of the Challenger is a generational hallmark. If you were old enough to remember it, you were on one side of a generational divide, and if you couldn't, you were on the other side. Dunno if that's true, but I can sure tell you where I was when it got destroyed.
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in am moment that has to part of the Definiton of Irony I was on my way to American History class in my Junior year of high School
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Heck, long long ago I could make the Dr. Who fans mad by implying that their show was just the Tomorrow People with a _little_ bit more budget... *ducks*
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Never....insult...THE DOCTOR!
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EXTERMINATE!!!!
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I haven't seen anyone say anything about good ol' "Bunny & Claude". IIRC, it was edited after the line in the theme song "a story bout a bunny and his broad" was considered non-pc.
At least the girl wondertwin could become something cool, the guy was usually a bucket of ice water or a wet sponge or something lame like that.
I will gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today.
Buddy of mine has the red and blue boxed sets of D&D still I think. I haven't played pen and paper in years. I miss the actual RP. Of course we had made all the rule changes ourselves by the time TSR ever got around to them.
I used to remember getting up early to watch Robotech at 6am before I went to high school.
There is a cartoon network called Boomerang that shows some of the older toons now and again.
What I don't understand is how the cartoons nowadays have worse graphics then what I watched 25 years ago, and worse plots but people watch them <shrug>.
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What I don't understand is how the cartoons nowadays have worse graphics then what I watched 25 years ago, and worse plots but people watch them <shrug>.
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Well all I have to say about that is...ppl have been dumbed down lol...not raised as smart as they used to be.Or, the artists are lazy...good possability.heh.
AD&D I played just about 1 year ago for the hell of it.(pen/paper). I still have all the 1978-1985 books and my cha's lol.
Ever cheat and give your CHA's all 16-18s on stats lol 
When you've played/betaed more MMORPGs then your entire team combined.
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At least the girl wondertwin could become something cool, the guy was usually a bucket of ice water or a wet sponge or something lame like that.
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For our 5 year anniversary, my wife and I bought cool matching rings at a place in Maine. From then on we did the "wondertwin power thing", but she always gets pissed off at me, since she always forms as some cool animal, and I always do "bucket of ice" ala useless Zan
Ok, here goes, arcade stand up and other references...You know you're an old gamer when....
-You remember all the Zorks'
-You remember the original Wolfenstein, not the 3D version.
-You played Warlords and Kaboom til your eyes popped out of your head.
-You licked your fingers before doing the sprint/hurdles on the arcade version of "Track & Field" cause cutting down on the friction of the button helped you run faster. Nevermind that the 1,000 players before you had done the same thing. HARD...CORE....EWWW
-Body Blow, Body Blow
-You don't just still own a head to head football handheld, it's in your nightstand or next to your easy chair
And a shoutout to some of my favorite stand-ups: Marble Madness, Q-Bert, Joust, Cliff-Hanger, Rally-X and numerous pinball's I can't remember 
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....when people you are playing with go, 'There was a Battlestar Galactica before this one??'
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I refuse to watch the new one because:
1)where the hell is Muffet?!
and 2) STARBUCK IS NOT AN ASIAN CHICK!
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Actually, its pretty darned good. You should give it a try, Mirra.
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It's actually great. I watched the orig as a kidlet religiously. And this show is so well done all across the board-writing, acting, music, FX. Definitly give it a shot if you haven't checked it out. The fact that Starbuck and Boomer (not Bomer, sorry Mirra) are women don't mean squat, it rocks hard tasty Abs washerboard style!
Actual Location: Inside the system itself.
"When the most exciting thing about Mace is AceMace's avatar, then it's time to get realistic."
Shield Guide
The only thing anyone in this game is "supposed to be doing" is having fun. Everything else is negotiable. -Jet Boy
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Damn you are old!!!
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I resemble that remark.
I'm not old, I'm youth-challenged.
You might be an old gamer if.....
You ever owned an Intellivision.
You know the game "microsurgeon"
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Atari 2600 was older and I had one but even before that we had a Texas Instruments "computer" that hooked up to any black and white TV and you could "program" musical notes via syntax to make it play songs.
I remember SpaceRace showing up at the Pinball Arcades
I Remember Pinball Arcades
Play by mail (snailmail) games- 1 turn a month
It was a toss up between D+D , Tunnels+ Trolls or Empire of the Petal throne as to which would rule the RPG world
The first 20 sided dice were such soft plastic they would only last about a month before they were spheres
Running home after School to catch "Dark Shadows"
Wondering what happened to the classy Dr Who, and who was this new goof Tom Baker
Seeing Man Land on the Moon
Being disappointed by the First StarTrek movie and not liking StarWars at all
Bionic Woman!!! WooHoo!
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Blueside Tank-1:: Blaster-1::Scrapper-1
You remember starting with PONG and then Atari 2600
You remember Pinball Arcades
You remember watching in awe when you first saw Asteroids
You remember being anxious for the next episode of the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman series. (lets face it that show was NOT watched for the acting or wonderful FX and scripts....)
You remember racing home from school to watch the old Marvel Super Heroes cartoons with the truly poor animation. (yet they were still fun to watch)
You remember racing home to watch the original Ultraman series (still a classic) and Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot (may that show never return)
You remember the beauty that was the Bionic Woman
You remember wondering how the original stud of the Universe, James T Kirk, would save the day each episode of Star Trek despite seeing every episdoe many times.
You remember at 8 sitting in a theatre in 1977 as STAR WARS appeared for the first time
You remember many Early geek discussions over whether Vader really was Luke's father.
Okay you all stop right now !!
Now I feel old...
Electra woman and Dyna Girl ...
Sigmund the sea monster .....
HR PuffandStuff ....
Tran Zor Zee ...
Voltron ....
Shazam and Isis ...
and somebody knew all team names from laugh Olympics
Captain CAAAAAAAAAAAVE MAAAAAAAN !!!
Harvey Birdman was a hero and not a Lawyer.
Just stop it before I start to get wrinkles!
...you thought Pong was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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*Pong*
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*Pong*
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"[my] 4yo is pretty good he knows the concept of hlpin others and tries to hlp tho he usually pulls agro to the one he wants to hlp which i have had to keep an eye on..i usually run with him, you will know it is him if the toon is unchanged from the initial pallet and his names is something like this "sdgfehfie"
I think I teamed with sdgfehfie one day. He was a bit of an aggro magnet and when we tried to advise him he would ask for a cookie. We adapted and a good time was had by all.
if you played pac man on Atari 2600 with that awful sound and square dots.
Pitfall anybody ? ...I still wanna aligator jump !
<ul type="square">[*]You remember fondly playing Omega Race, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Vanguard, Defender (not that wussy Stargate clone), Pac Man and Robotron at the first arcade that opened in your city/town
[*]Played Pong before you ever laid eyes on Space Invaders
[*]You know the "double-shot" cheat for Space Invaders for the Atari 2600
[*]You learned to write interpreted Basic on a Vic20 (cf-You thought 4K was a lot of memory)
[*]You thought the best feature of the Commodore 128 was the "Go 64" command
[*]You thought it was great and suspected no ulterior motive in your Dad's willingness to watch Wonder Woman with you
[*]You know what hero a "Beta Capsule" is associted with and simultaneously can identify another hero from this snippet--
"...Hear the Flash like a flame, Faster than a plane, a mystery with the name, ________!"
[*]Have a clue what I am talking about when I start yelling, "Help Giant Robot!" into my flip-top wristwatch.
[*]Played online and at one time thought that a ping of 150 was too smokin' fast to compete with
[*]Know of Kali as something besides an Egyptian myth or a CoH forum poster
[*]Can identify which superhero's normal ID was repeatedly referred to as weak-kneed and a milksop
[*]Had a modem that interfaced with your phone via a cradle designed to hold the receiver
[*]Did numerical analysis work with Numerical recipies in Fortran, b/c that was the way things were going to work in the future
[*]Believed that Levenberg-Marquardt was impractical in all but trivial cases b/c of the prohibitive amount of time required for a computer to crank out results and that Gauss-Newton and an educated guess would always be faster
[*]Believed it when someone said that 640K would be WAY more memory than anyone could ever need[/list]
Paddles was the way to play games when I was a little kid.
Mind you, I was more in the joystick generation. An older game I liked the Genesis game (pre-Sega) with the four heroes in a fantasy game where you had to run around a maze. The point was to get a key to get to the next level while dealing with the monsters that wandered the maze.
There was a wizard (used sleep spells on the monster), a warrior (had a magic sword that would destroy the monsters and randomly teleport other heroes to another part of the maze; my brother's favourite), a thief (I forget what he could do, but I think it can either use something like a placate power or could just get out without the key), and my favourite, the fantom (I believe it was spelled with the 'f' rather than the 'ph'; I named my first (Basic) D&D character after that one; his power was to phase through walls).
Of course, this game was in the day when it was at least mostly monochromatic and you had little stick-figures to play with.
The blaster you're teamed with group tells you, "Hey Dad, I need $100 for a Chemistry textbook."
he...my step-dad plays at 32 and well... i thought that was old.
but i guess i like it when there are older people cause i have more adult type of humor... not in a bad way