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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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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Remember colecovision <prolly mispelled it>.. PONG
And you know you are old if you remember the TRS 80 a.k.a Trash 80
Victory:
Staggerin Drunk 50 fire/axe/fire Tank
Mass Burn 50 Fire/Kin/Fire Controller
Complex Napolean 50 Fire/Ice/ele Blaster
Massive Nasty 50 Inv/SS Tanker
Seismic Squall 50 earth/storm/fire
Patty Whacked 41 ele/ele Blaster
DayTripper 39 ill/emp controller
Vaudville 38 DB/regen scrap
Not quite a golden gamer just yet (getting there), but there have certainly been a number of times when I've felt my age out there. Such as...
-Having to explain to someone who Pac-man is.
-Someone mentions, "the actor from the Punisher movie", and your first thoughts are of Dolph Lundgren.
-Having to explain to someone who Dolph Lundgren is.
-You've ever considered Ranma to be a blatant take off of Turbo Teen.
-You still consider cell phones to be something of a novelty.
-You've ever "had a hankerin' for a hunk of cheese".
-Often find yourself telling other players, "and knowing is half the battle".
-You fondly recall inviting your friends over for a riveting afternoon of Combat, on your Atari.
-You fondly recall demanding to have the three jets instead of the big bomber on Combat.
-You can sit through an episode of MST3K and get every reference they throw.
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-Often find yourself telling other players, "and knowing is half the battle".
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Heh. I've never said that, but I really should sometime.
I'm more prone to come out with "Reading is Fundamental!", myself.
One drawback of the internet is how it has trained so many people to think that one day is a long time.
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You are thoroughly familiar with Telix, and the SALT scripting language.
Your phone book in Telix had 10 or more BBS phone numbers, and you used each of them every day to play your turns for Trade Wars, Global Destruction, and Legend of the Red Dragon.
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[cough, cough...] Perhaps I am showing off my ignorance, here, but are you referring to "Telex"? As in Telex/TWX?
I programmed a Telex, using punched holes in paper tape as the input medium. As a matter of fact, I even made paper tapes to control the forms spacing for our company's computer printer. How many people can say that? (It worked a bit like a piano roll...)
I worked on a computer with a big, red "Stop" button on the front of the console. If a program got into a loop, you hit the button, which stopped the entire CPU, and then you queried individual memory locations, and typed the corrected code in directly from the console's keyboard, and hit the "Run" button to have the program continue at the point at which it stopped. :-) Sure made it easy to debug programs.....
I'll [i]almost certainly[/i] be happy with I7....."SOON(tm)"
Too bad "Maturity" isn't an Enhanceable power.
Anybody with a bow is okay in my book. ;-)
@Linuial
Starfire/Hellfire
Liberty, Infinity & Protector
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-You've ever "had a hankerin' for a hunk of cheese".
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Ah Timer, you freakish little sentient lemon! I remember getting in trouble for implementing his brilliant "stacks of snacks" gambit (the ice tray tipped over and made a mess 
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Also:
- You remember going to see the first nightmarish Lord of the Rings movie that ended in the middle of the story and thought it was cool and sucked all at the same time. 
- Can remember the follow-up Return of the King cartoon (and now have that "Frodo of the Nine-Fingers" song stuck in my head )
- Almost hung yourself at age 8 when your cape/towel got hung up on the fence
- Took the live-action Batman show totally seriously - almost as much as the original Star Trek show.
- Lost all of your D&D stuff to the early 80's "D&D is satanic" hysteria 
(I saw a ratty 1st ed MM going for $120 on e-bay last summer -- man I kept mine so pristine )
- Coveted your brother's ginormous Space1999 Eagle space ship that he got for Christmas ( I think it was almost 3 ft long!)
this just happened recently. someone was asking if the pumpkin king was around in Croatoa, another player replied he saw the Great Pumpkin.
response was ?????
I felt old then.
-If you remember who killed Fritz, the dirty yellow rotten [persons]
-If you can use a magic arrow without skewering yourself
-If you tried using the command /xyzzy when you were lost in the middle of Perez Park
-You don't want pirate MM's because they might steal the coins you needed for batteries!
-You can tell I'm not actually old, I just like the 'retro' feel of losing myself in a twisty maze of passages, all alike...
Yep, thats old. But you're REALLY old if you know this theme song: *answer at bottom*
Theres a prehistoric monster
That came from outer space
Created by the martians to destroy the human race
The FBI is helpless, Its thirty stories tall
What do you do, who can you call?
Chorus: Call (hero name)
Call (hero name)
Faster than a rocket faster than a jet
He's a mighty robot, he's the one to get
Chorus: Call (hero name)
Call (hero name)
Quick, call (hero name) the mightiest robot of them all.
Tobor the 8th Man. Yep, I'm old enough to remember seeing this show on TV in Black and White. I'm also old enough to know what toon is referenced with the phrase "Bigger than big, taller than tall, quicker than quick, stronger than strong, made to fight for right against wrong".
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My wife and I have a pair of Illusion Controllers who use that as their battle cry!
Who remembers this line from a cartoon? "My wings are like a shield of steel!"
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Good Lord!!! Bat-Fink? I thought I was the ONLY person on the planet that rememebered Bat-Fink!
You know when you are an old gamer when..
Leet speak makes you teeth hurt.
You owned a Radio Shack TRS model 80
You wonder why people wear baseball hats backwards
You have to leave a mission to put in your eye drops because you have glacoma
You cant see well enough to check a dictionary to see if you spelled glacoma right.
You remember watching watching the original Howdey Doody
You know that the person who played Clarabell was also the person who became Captain Kangaroo.
When Captain Kangaroo came on you were to old for it
You remember when gasoline sometimes sold for 10 cents a gallon.
Anyway age here is 60.
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-You can sit through an episode of MST3K and get every reference they throw.
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No one gets everything. The show is designed so that only mold on rocks being pumped TV 24/7 could possibly get everything. If you think you got everything, you're fooling yourself, watch it again with someone new, and there will more than likely be things you missed. Even if you accounted for every line they said in the entire episode and deemed that you 'got it, I wager they threw something in subliminally that you missed, that's how sneaky they are. :P
"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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You are thoroughly familiar with Telix, and the SALT scripting language.
Your phone book in Telix had 10 or more BBS phone numbers, and you used each of them every day to play your turns for Trade Wars, Global Destruction, and Legend of the Red Dragon.
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[cough, cough...] Perhaps I am showing off my ignorance, here, but are you referring to "Telex"? As in Telex/TWX?
I programmed a Telex, using punched holes in paper tape as the input medium. As a matter of fact, I even made paper tapes to control the forms spacing for our company's computer printer. How many people can say that? (It worked a bit like a piano roll...)
I worked on a computer with a big, red "Stop" button on the front of the console. If a program got into a loop, you hit the button, which stopped the entire CPU, and then you queried individual memory locations, and typed the corrected code in directly from the console's keyboard, and hit the "Run" button to have the program continue at the point at which it stopped. :-) Sure made it easy to debug programs.....
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Ack. That's even further back than I was referring to. I was talking about the Telix terminal emulation software for dialing into BBS's. I'm an old-timer, but even Telex is older than me.
-= TANSTAAFL =-
Adar - Lvl 50 Emp/Elec/Psy Defender on Guardian (411 badges)
Itsy Bitsy Slicer - Lvl 50 Kat/Reg Scrapper on Guardian
Flying-Tiger - Lvl 32 Sonic/Energy Blaster on Guardian
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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 
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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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Wonder Twins? Young whippersnapper, how can you omit Wendy, Marvin and the dog who's name I cannot remember because of my advanced years.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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How about no one recognizing
"When In this world the headlines read,
of those whose minds are filled with greed.
Who rob and steal from those in need.
To right this wrong with blinding speed comes
Underdog!
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Speed of lightning, roar of thunder
fighting all who rob or plunder.
Underdog."
What? Yes, I have 2 DVDs. So what?
Being old isn't all bad. We're up early on the weekends and have entire zones all to ourselves.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Tobor the 8th Man. Yep, I'm old enough to remember seeing this show on TV in Black and White. I'm also old enough to know what toon is referenced with the phrase "Bigger than big, taller than tall, quicker than quick, stronger than strong, made to fight for right against wrong".
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Yep, I reckon I know that one too
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Wendy, Marvin and of course. Wonderdog 
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Or what about the early D&D pc games like Pool of Radiance and the others. Those games were huge! and took months to complete. These were the days before eye-candy and video cards, when games were made or broke by the quality of the writing and the depth of the games, not by how many relections you can see in a characters bald head!
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For a HUGE game, how about Captive? I think it had something ridiculous like 9,999 levels and it all fit in a single DD/DS floppy. I remember playing that game for years in the Amiga. I think I myst have gotten to lvl 200 or so because it was bugged and one of the combinations you needed was behind the door which it was meant to open.
I only have one thing to say:
"All your base are belong to us"
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Your first experience with modding a game involved using BASIC.
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Gorilla.BAS for teh win!
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I only have one thing to say:
"All your base are belong to us"
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Pffffffffft....
If you think that is old then you probably haven't even reached legal drinking age yet.
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I have a Villian named Momma Cass, and only one person knew who she was....until then, I didn't think I was old, just cultured...*sniff*
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Look out for a hero named "Chickenbone"
EveryNighters:
Tar Heel Lvl 50 Inv/SS Tank
Knight of Purgatory Lvl 50 Fire/Ax Tank
Kilmainham Wall Lvl 50 Stone/Stone Tank
Re-Fridgerator Lvl 50 Ice/Ice Tank
Yankee Doodle Dandy Lvl 50 Will/Eng Tank
Teen Tar Heel Lvl 50 MA/SR Scrapper
EvilNighters:
Tar Heel Dead Lvl 50 DD Brute
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I only have one thing to say:
"All your base are belong to us"
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Pffffffffft....
If you think that is old then you probably haven't even reached legal drinking age yet.
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The point was classic memories of games now forgot, and I just couldn't believe noone mentioned the above classic.
And if you must know, I'm 23. No I'm nowhere near old enough to fit into the category everyone else is claiming in this thread, but I'm sure as heck not 11.
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-If you remember who killed Fritz, the dirty yellow rotten [persons]
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That's such an awesome movie. Now I have to see if it's on DVD.
I turned 48 2/16
I remember Pong.
Who remembers the original Railroad Tycoon? Or better yet, the first time that head bobbed to the surface of the cauldron, in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark the game?
I had a Commadore Amiga 2000.
I played Ms. Pac Man in the Pinkly Pub in the basement of Hunter College
I also used to watch Tobor The 8th Man, Gigantor and Astroboy. I remember Space Ghost as a hero.
I used to watch the Winchell Mahoney Club fer cryin' out loud.
Krazy Kat and her nemesis Ignatz.
I remember when Heckle and Jeckle as well as Buzzy the Crow were part of the Harveytoon line-up. Before the precursor to 'Political Correctness' relagated them to the bargain bin.
I never played and D&D with pencil and paper. Because I was waiting for this game. I always knew it would get here eventually.
I've played; EQ, WoW and Shadowbane. But once I discovered that it was possible to create and play with the type of comicbook heroes that I still read and love, I was a goner.
I'm only laughing on the outside
My smile is just skin deep
If you could see inside, I'm really crying
You might join me for a weep
My Roster
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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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Feel ya there and since we mentioned atom dun forget Atom Ant
Victory:
Staggerin Drunk 50 fire/axe/fire Tank
Mass Burn 50 Fire/Kin/Fire Controller
Complex Napolean 50 Fire/Ice/ele Blaster
Massive Nasty 50 Inv/SS Tanker
Seismic Squall 50 earth/storm/fire
Patty Whacked 41 ele/ele Blaster
DayTripper 39 ill/emp controller
Vaudville 38 DB/regen scrap