You know you're an old gamer when...
By
Absinth_Incubus,
Posted on: 2006-03-24 05:32 in Player Guides
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-When you are playing an new AT for the first time and an 11 year old has to tell you that you are playing it wrong!(Nothing against 11 year olds, but at 34 its hard to take a lecture from anyone that young).
-When your newbie teammate says its not really his game, his Mom just lets him play hers.
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Hehehe my wife plays a bubbler on my sons account, he is 9 years old, and he constantly corrects her, no mom your supposed to use a snipe for that, no mom you forgot your bubbles, no mom let the tank taunt and go around the corner, etc...
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... you know who Thomas Covenant is and couldn't wait for the second book to come out.
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Unbeliever! I got white gold wedding band for a reason, it wasnt insanity!
When you have nightmares of playing ball and the jacks.
(thats what we call ball and the jacks)
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The song still runs thru my head 
... going to the movies meant you didnt have to deal with commercials.
... movies didnt include 'product placement'
... Melanie Griffith played the daughter, not the mother. (some movie preview )
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My dad plays, and he's 52. Whenever people are talking about their ages, it's like he has an automatic 'I win' button.
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Damn that was funny. 
I'm not that old, but I remember secret squirrel.
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And Star Wars.
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And Batfink.
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.. Dammit I am old. 
Antaean
Proud to fight alongside:
The LEGENDARIES & SAFE HARBOR
I'm a medium old timer.
I thought the PDP-11 was overkill.
Complaining, when I worked on a star trek game and a 10X10X10 grid was completely unrealistic (still have the paper tapes).
"Oh Lance!" - Those monkeys still make me laugh.
Magilla Gorilla records playing bedtime stories.
Those cute little girls singing on the Banana Splits.
Kimba was an afterschool religion. And Speed Racer.
* Freedom -
PlanetStar - 26 Earth/Kin
Mary GoldThorne 18 Corr
* Infinity -
BoltStar - 28 Blaster
PlanetStar - 24 Earth/Kin
Tempest Howl - 30 Def Son/Son
...you watched all the Match Game 74 Episodes when they originally aired.
-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
Ah, Whiteseeker and EvilRat--you two rock for necroposting this. I couldn't remember where it was, because...well, you know. 
A couple others I remembered:
...if you remember when a college buddy drove you out to some far away computer store to show you this latest Apple Mac that was just released and you marveled at the salesguy demoing the paint program.
...you rejoiced last year when this FINALLY came out on DVD so you could verify you remembered all the songs correctly.
...and more rejoicing, since long before a heavily armored recreational vehicle could be used for picking up chicks in Minsk, one could also be used to save the future
My kids were truly horrified by both DVDs. 
President of the Arbiter Sands fan club. We will never forget.
An Etruscan Snood will nevermore be free
I used to play a great game called THE BARD'S TALE on my APPLE IIC. It was a blast. I would enter one part of town in the game and have to exchange floppy discs. I never owned the Atart 2600, but I had Coleco then the Atari 5200 (which pwnz). I bought the steering wheel for pole position and suddenly had more friends than I knew what to do with.
I remember the Superfriends. I remember Spiderman and his Amazing Friends (Iceman and Firestar). I remember Voltron(the lions and the original which was 15 vehicles, not lions). I remember running home from school to watch Robotech: The Macross Saga and but I preferred the third season witht the Envid (spelling may be off).
I am not the oldest gamer out there by any means. I have played with husband and wives and talked to them on Ventrilo and I know there are many people older than me. But I think I still qualify as an old gamer.
Anyway, I plan to one day be retired in a nursing home sipping tube feeds through a PEG(feeding) tube and mildly demented, but I will still be gaming. Hey, it's not a bad way to go.
Sigh. I must be getting old. I remember Space Ghost, Blue Falcon, Marvin and Wendy et al. I remember being very excited by Pong. I have the original D&D game, and I have misty memories of my Commodore Vic-20 (we were cutting edge in those days - we had the ultra-rare memory expander that gave us 6k!!! Until my friend got his TRS-80 and his 17k, curse him!). Ahh the olden days of yore... Temple of Apshai, Archon. Defender, Vanguard, Venture. Yie Ar Kung Fu, Wizard of Wor, Defender of the Crown, Pole Position! What heady days...
I was actually at a big fancy club the other night and they had a cutting edge arcade. I was wandering through the shooting games, the dancing games, all the driving games, and there, like a haven in a strange land, was a collection of four old-style consoles in a cluster. My eyes moistened as I saw the names...
Space Invaders
Donkey Kong
Centipede
Missile Command
>snif<
Have to go... now...
Keyboard getting ....wet.....
you might be old if you remember when your neighbor invented the wheel! j/k but that would be crazy, MC hammer, Zubaz, Aerosol Hairspray, cfc's in fridges, roller skates (pre-rollerblade), the 1st day MTV aired, the fall of the berlin wall. while i'm not as old as most of you but i've seen a few things. -grass
LOL, 60 yrs old here. When I was a kid I watched black & white TV, when we finally got one. I watched Hopalong Cassidy, The Cisco Kid, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger. As you can see, cowboy shows were the rule. Also Life of Riley, I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners.
Oh, and I was a grown adult with kids when I got my Mattel Intellivision, and I still have it!!!
Been playing CoH since beta. Love this game
I still remember the field trip to JPL. My introduction to a computer, which was a keyboard with a paper printout, excited me beyond Saturday morning cartoon levels. Imagine my joy when the tech loaded up a Star Trek game where the bridge crew asked for instructions and I provided them. The printout was then torn from the machine and handed to me... it's in a box somewhere.
Pong and then Atari never spun my wheels.
Intellivision, however... oh my.
And then there was Wizardry.
I finally bought myself an Atari 800XL as a teenager. Played a game called Universe, that I loved. Anyone else ever try it?
http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/.../universe.html
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Believed it when someone said that 640K would be WAY more memory than anyone could ever need
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And of course the corollary that the average computer user didn't need static storage, and that a power user could spend $1200 for a 5MB hard disk drive that he'd *never* be able to fill up.
Gee, feeling nostalgic for my old 128K Mac and 'Strategic Conquest' - now that game rocked. Nearly cost me a year of college.
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Kimba was an afterschool religion. And Speed Racer.
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Yep, with all these pages, somebody had to beat me to it!
Am I old?
I got my first real kiss after taking my date home following the premiere of Star Wars.
Yeah, I'm old. 
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I finally bought myself an Atari 800XL as a teenager.
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I saved up for months to pay $899 for my Atari 800 with 16K RAM. I could only afford a cassette tape drive for $129, two games and Atariwriter, the word processor. My next big purchase was a daisywheel printer, so I could claim that the computer was used for graduate school. (I was one of the very few with a word processor in those days!)
It took me six months to save up another $399 for a single sided, single density 5 1/4 in Floppy -- and I had to have the original Zork. Those disks held 90K -- 88K after being formatted with DOS. And $89 for an additional 32K to get up to the max of 48K.
Taught myself Assembler on that machine, and wrote some pretty good programs. Missle/Object graphics and 4 sound channels! When this new service called Compuserve came out, I got an accoustic modem, 300 baud, to hook up at $4/hour.
I wish my In-laws hadn't thrown it out!
LOCAL MAN! The most famous hero of all. There are more newspaper stories about me than anyone else. "Local Man wins Medal of Honor." "Local Man opens Animal Shelter." "Local Man Charged with..." (Um, forget about that one.)
Guide Links: Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control
I date back to DOS.. but im not as old as yall .
I still have my "geez am I that old?" moments though.
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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 knew it not a single person that has read this thread since I posted even responded to this...why? the never heard of the Vectrex that's why.....
By the way I am old...I had most of the Transformers from the original series [I think I still do], I also had an Action Jackson doll [the GI JOE competition way back when]......I'm 46
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I'm only 23, but I've actually played a Vectrex. My grandfather owned one - and yanno, that thing is still pretty entertaining.
I'm only 16, and I feel old >_<
By the way...
"I would gladly pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger today."
Do I win?
Characters!:
Pinny - Scrapper
Shadewing - Defender
@Pinny
Lol. Alas, there are no winners in this game....
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- you can finish the quote: "I will gladly pay you Tuesday..."
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"...for a hamburger today."
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- you are used to playing computer games with a pad of paper, a pencil, an eraser, and a straight-edge next to the keyboard.
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Or graph paper to map the areas.
- you remember Fireball XL5
- if you never questioned why Superman stood there, arms akimbo, while being shot at point blank range, only to duck when the villain threw the empty pistol at him.
- if you remeber Jose Humanez, Charo, and Lamb Chops from their debut appearances and can name they show they were on.
I'm 50.
Check out the Repeat Offenders network of SGs! You'll be glad you did.
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Does anyone remember a fantastic sci-fi game called Traveller?
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I still have the boxed set.
Some time after GDW folded, the main designer of Traveller started it up again as a world set for GURPS. You might want to check it out.
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Traveller...I also still have the original boxed set and several of the expansion books. There was nothing quite so fun as spending 2 hours creating a character only to have it die before you even get to play it! (If you know the game, you know what I'm talking about.)
In the new GURPS version, they make reference to this, saying that if you REALLY want to have this feature, then after you create your character roll one 6-sided die. If you roll a 6, the character dies! Throw it away and start over.
When people don't get your bug toon named "Weevil Knievel" nor his buddy "Weevil KINevel"
You remember wathcing any of the following shows and people get all "[censored]?!?!?!?" when you talk about them...
Voltron
Robotech
Exo-Squad
Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars
Biker Mice From Mars
Bonkers
Tail Spin
Chip And Dale's Rescue Rangers
Darkwing Duck
Quack Pack
Duck Tales
Thunder Cats
Air Wolf
Knight Rider
The A Team
Buck Rogers (beedu beedy beedy, That's all Buck!)
Late Night with Greg Kenier
The Nintendo Power Hour
Land Of The Lost
Growing Pains
Family Ties
I could go on for days, but I think I'll stop there...
Man the 80's were awesome. =)
Also, my first computer, an Apple II
My first game systems was an Atari 2600.
Later on a got both the 5200, and 7600.
I remember begging my parents for months and getting the first Nintendo the day it hit American Shelves. It had a 2 in 1 game cart (Mario & Duck Hunt).
Ever try asking a kid on here if they remember doing the 99 lives trick on world 3 level 2? Bouncing on the shell on the steps? Or the first time they lost the game doing it because they WERENT paying enough attention and got 100 lives on accident?
Talk about confusing a kid. oi
Alright, done ranting now...
when you're asking a 14 whats a bind ? macro ? wheres my geritol?