You know you're an old gamer when...
By
Absinth_Incubus,
Posted on: 2006-03-24 05:32 in Player Guides
You remember assembling your first computer from components using a badly photostated wiring diagram.
You remember spending hours punching in binary so that you could watch the display (all 8 led's of it) flicker backwards and forwards.
You have ever realised that all of your favourite games are smaller than the icon for the game you are currently playing.
You have ever had to "park" a laptop drive
You have ever though "hah i remember having to do this to keep my fingers safe" whilst parking a laptop drive
You remember seing a 640x200 16 colour demo and wondering how it was possible to get such high resolution images out of a computer 
You can remember a magazine article about a company that had produced a 1 meg hard drive, and laughing along with the writer wondering who could ever fill 1 meg of disk space
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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.
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You got me beat Bruthaman. Remember oldies like the original Gumby, Crusasder Rabbit and Ruff and Reddy? Roger Ramjet?
I have vague memories odf them but you've got about 6 years on me.
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you watched Pink Floyd's the wall, and realized that it made NO sense straight.
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It sure didn't. But I remember in the 80's I had a really painful breakup with my fiancee' (the dreaded evil Molly) and my mother wanted to cheer me up. She called me at work and said she left me a cheer up gift at my house. Not knowing what was what in my taste of music she just grabbed the Wall. And left it on my table with a bottle of Jack Daniels. My buddy that was with me, who knew I was really really broken up and depressed by the girlfriend thing looked at me and said 'Sh**, she might as well have left you a pistol with one bullet'.
Hey she met well, but depression, JD and the wall is dangerous.
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...when you try to explain what a "fraggle" is by referencing the muppets, only to find you have to explain what a muppet is
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munumanum do do dododo.. munumanum do dododo 
"look a postcard from my uncle traveling matt"
"you are now in the presence of the all knowing all powerfull trash heap.. nyah!"
ok wish i had gotten in the starblazers one.. but how about the first computer drawing program for the Apple called Logo or Turtle graphics?
Roatary phones anyone?
Someone mentioned 321 contact.. how about Electric Co.
and for the 80's how about StarCom with all the magnetic toys or Sky Commanders the bane of adults anywhere.
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You know you're old when you can remember watching the Apollo space landing on the moon.....as a live broadcast.
I was a kid at the time though. Only reason I remember it is because my mother was watching it and wouldn't change the channel for me ( I was not allowed to touch the channel knob since I had a tendancy to crank it hard as I switched channels *GASP!* no remote!).
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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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The reason no one mentioned it is because All Your Base is not even 10 years old. To us old fogies, that was merely yesteday.
Here are some other good ones:
The Marvel Superheroes cartoon, with possibly the worse animation ever (if you don't count Space Angel)
Speaking of cartoons, how about Phantoma, Shadow Boy, Rocket Robin Hood & Johnny Quest?
Remember when Banana Split was more then an ice-cream (1 banana, 2 banana, 3 banana 4)
Anyone remember National Kid?
Ok, have to go now...feel very, very old and while remembering all this, forgot to take my meds 
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You wonder why people wear baseball hats backwards
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doesnt that have to do with a bad Stallone movie?
you remember when Scrappy Doo first showed up, and realized Scooby was going down hill.
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I remember when Scooby Doo first showed up! 
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You know you're old when you can remember watching the Apollo space landing on the moon.....as a live broadcast.
I was a kid at the time though. Only reason I remember it is because my mother was watching it and wouldn't change the channel for me ( I was not allowed to touch the channel knob since I had a tendancy to crank it hard as I switched channels *GASP!* no remote!).
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I remember that only because I was on "tv restriction" for somethin I had done and my Pops allowed me to watch because it was History in the Making!
o and Pong!! OMG!! almost forgot about that!! LoL
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well im def in the gold club lol...i have both coh/cov..my 13/8/4 all play.. of course i had an orig. lavender/purple boxed D&D game..the basic rules set..:P
also i remember Shazam & Kaboobi as a cartoon and not the tv show Shazam which i watched alot as well and the other cartoon Shazam/Isis which i also watched..sat morn cartoons were real good bak then..sat morn you would wake up with out the alarm clock or a parent trying to make you get up..it was "SAT MORN" is here and up and to the tv you went lol
yes i loved thundar/ the Hurculoids/ and of course Hong Kong Phooey, 
i also enjoyed wathcing Space 1999 tv show even tho i was a youngun..but just so yall know i am ONLY 39..
who remembers " HR Puffnstuff "
i find that most detailed and thought out Bios on some toons are from the older crowd tho there are alot of creative players out there of all ages..i love this game as well..of course i had the Champions Boxed pen & paper game and the Marvel super hero pen & paper Boxed game as well..
and yes 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" other than that he loves the Master Mind archtype in cov..he loves those Helpers..
alos i did have a collicovision but i also had a console "PONG" game..it was black and had 2 dials on it..me and my sister would play it.. loved that black box...and also we had the Atom computer..i called it the Atom Bomb since we had it a cpl weeks then dad just took it back because it wasnt working right tho i learned the long way to write programs..entering line by line..to get a pixle "ski slolum race" i loved that comp. it was our first.
well im sure most are tired from readin all this but figured i would post..
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HR Puffnstuff!!!! Holy socks batman. Nobody and I mean nobody know who I'm talking about when I reference "Witchypoo" and the golden flute
Replies to various posts. This should show that I wouldn't be alive in a "Logan's Run" world.
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If you ever thought 64k of RAM was awesome.
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I told my mom "nobody will ever need 128K" when she upgraded to that much on our Apple 2.
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if you ever owned a collecovision(sp?)
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No, but I owned an Intellivision. Most of the games for it too. Even those needing the voice module.
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you still have the original boxed set for D&D (ok I got it used I'm not that old)
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If you do, you have a very valuable item. That's at least $200 in good shape.
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who remembers "HR Puffnstuff"
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I do (btw, it's pufnstuf). Did you know that the character that played Jimmy died about 10 days ago?
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You owned an Amiga 500
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Nope, but I had an Amiga 1000.
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You know who Big Jim was
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I take it you are meaning "Big" Jim Shooter. He of the notable quote "We'll trick the little f***s".
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You watched The Green Hornet
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Batman in the late 60's. First run too. My mom says my first words were from that show.
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You know what an 80 column punch card is.
You ever programed in basic.
You nearly fainted the first time you saw an RGB moniter.
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Yes to all of them. The first time I used a computer it was through an old IBM dumb terminal. It would print at 10cps. It used the yellow roll paper. It even had a paper tape reader on it.
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Not only did you watch HR Puffenstuff, but also Sigmund and the sea monsters
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And the Bugaboos, and Lidsville, and Land of the Lost. (theme here? you betcha!)
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You used to get up at 7am on a Saturday morning just to watch Robotech
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I used to get up at 7am Sunday morning to watch "Battle of the Planets". That's at least 10 years before Robotech.
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When your heroes are Elektra Woman and Dyna Girl
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Whoah momma! Gotta try to find them on video!
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There were no VHS recorders (see DVDs).
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VHS? I remember when my parents got their first BETA VCR.
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There was no Cable TV, and thus, among other things, no 3-minute movies with rock bands, boy bands, girl bands, or thugs trying to be actors.
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Now this is unlikely. Cable has been around since the mid 50s. Anybody remember Spectravision? Anybody watch it even though you didn't have a reciever? Late at night?
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You own the LOTR Board Game...the first one...
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You mean SPI's War of the Ring? I have that now.
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To this day, you can't get rid of your turntable, because you just can't imagine life without a turntable.
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What would I play my records on if I got rid of my turntable?
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You remember when you first heard of cable TV, and you thought, "who in the world would pay for TV?"
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That's my parent's view. I knew that cable=good from the first moment I heard of it.
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The TRS-80 was super high-tech
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umm... no. Even when it came out we knew that that machine was garbage. It's nickname was TRaSh-80. The cassette drive was true junk.
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You remember the words to the Spiderman song
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/e humm to myself "Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can..." Yes I remember it all.
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you wondered what life would be like after Nixon wasn't president anymore
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Biggest headline I have ever seen. The words "Nixon Resigns" took up half of the front page.
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You've hunted a Wumpus
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On the 10cps terminal mentioned above. Played Oregon Trail too. Had to type BANG to shoot the gun.
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You remember when SNL didn't suck
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With the Not Ready for Prime Time Players.
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If you remember who killed Fritz, the dirty yellow rotten [persons]
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It's out on DVD now. Never thought that the end was too good.
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Speed of lightning, roar of thunder
fighting all who rob or plunder.
Underdog."
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The best eps were his fight with Overcat.
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you remember watching Star Blazers on TV and loving it.
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And why do you think I have this name and avatar?
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You know you're old when you can remember watching the Apollo space landing on the moon.....as a live broadcast.
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The launch of Apollo 11 is my very first TV memory.
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Remember when Banana Split was more then an ice-cream (1 banana, 2 banana, 3 banana 4)
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UH OH! TONGO!!
You might be an old gamer if...
...your first D&D campaign was played from the Chainmail rules and 5 notebooks of mimeograph copies.
...you kept game-save files on an 8" disk.
...you had a CLOAD subscription.
...you lost computer privileges at school when no one could stop the secretary's daisy wheel printer from spewing out random Villains & Vigilantes characters when you miskeyed and ran 1000 iterations instead of 10.
...if you know what a daisy wheel printer is without having to ask an old gamer.
...you've ever hand-wound RAM (OK this was extra-credit for an engineering class).
...the first harddrive you ever used had 40 pounds of refrigeration gear built in.
...and you saved a D&D campaign setting on it.
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you have to explain the 'jumped the shark tank' reasoning to everyone
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Actually, I think it's just 'jumped the shark', from the unfortunate stunt in Happy Days when, for no reason that I remember clearly, the Fonz jumped a shark while waterskiing. Saw that episode first-run on TV
Love this thread *giggle* Reminds me of when somebody mentioned wanting to find a SG with members mostly in their 30's...at first I thought he was talking about levels, but nope, he wanted ages. And I admitted to being the oldster in our group, at 39. I'm quite sure he looked at me strangely after that...here I was playing China Doll, in her schoolgirl outfit, baggy socks and scarf... I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up!
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you have to explain the 'jumped the shark tank' reasoning to everyone
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Actually, I think it's just 'jumped the shark', from the unfortunate stunt in Happy Days when, for no reason that I remember clearly, the Fonz jumped a shark while waterskiing. Saw that episode first-run on TV
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It was a season ending clifhanger. They were trying to get back the tension that happened when Fonzy was in a motercycle jump clifhanger a couple of seasons before. The ratings for the second half of the shark jumping eps was truly abysmal.
The phrase "Jumped the shark tank" now stands for any TV show trying to put on some kind of ratings-boosting stunt that fails to get good ratings. (fyi, Fonzy wasn't jumping a shark tank, he was jumping in water skis over a fenced in shark in the ocean)
Ok, I'm only 21 and I'm addicted to the CoX games. Although, I actually know and have seen most of the things that all you *youthly challenged* folks have posted here. I have a ton of cousins that grew up in the 70's and 80's (I know that's not that far back) and they've informed me on a lot of stuff. Not to mention that growing up in the 80's myself I've seen the old school animes like Robotech and Ronin Warriors (also Thundercats, Skeleton Warriors, etc.) plus the mentioned Hanna Barbara cartoons (such as the original Jonny Quest and the original He-Man).
Boy do I miss those days sometimes. Atari, Intellivision, me being the remote for the TV...O_o, yup, I miss them hahahah.
...you wake up and body parts ache from sleeping!
...you have to log off on a Saturday afternoon for a nap.
...you remember watching Johnny Quest, Spider-man and the Fantastic Four cartoons on Saturday morning.
...you got a dollar from your mother and could buy 10 packs of baseball cards.
...baseball cards had gum inside the packs.
...you bought Hot Wheels when they first came out.
...you needed a skate key to attach your skates to your shoes.
...you walked 10 miles in the snow to school (ok I made that one up).
...Jack Kirby and Stan Lee were part of your weekly reading.
...you played outside every chance you could.
Oh dang I miss the good old days!
Anybody remember The Thunderbirds as a first run show? Or any of the other Gerry Anderson puppet shows, like Captain Scarlet?
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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Anybody remember The Thunderbirds as a first run show? Or any of the other Gerry Anderson puppet shows, like Captain Scarlet?
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My first post and I'm gonna talk about how old I am. >.<
I loved Captain Scarlet - member of Spectrum ("It's easy to be brave when you are invulnerable - loosely quoted from Lt. Green I believe). How about Kimba the White Lion, or Marine Boy with the oxygen gum. And my all time favorite the Go Go Gophers back when it was ok to be politically incorrect.
When you start talking about best rock songs of the 1970s....
You talk in proper "mature" English and not teen speak.... There was a 17 year old who figured me out that I was a "grownup" playing this game...
When you start to get hair where you don't want it and lose it where you want to keep it....
you remember Florence Henderson as an actress ( or the Wesson lady), not as a reality tv star.
Scrappy-Doo ruined Scoobie-Doo
Favorite cartoons of all time Bugs Bunny (before they went edit crazy and Mel still did the voices) Dick Dastardly and his Flying Machines, Wackey Racers and the Hillbilly Bears. hehe loved the way 'Paw' Bear talked. Kinda like Boomhower on King of the Hill.
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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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That's why Harvey Birdman is so funny...
You remember BLIP!
You remember saying to your friend when Pac-Man came out "Who'd waste a quarter on something as stupid as a game?"
You remember thinking the D&D gold box games had AWESOME graphics.
You remeber being the ONLY female gamer in your entire school, and this was in NY!
Hoo boy...
"Exit, Stage left!"
You know you're an old gamer when...
-....you remember when floppy disks were floppy.
-...you can remember when there were four shuttles in the NASA fleet, plus the prototype named Enterprise..and you can name them all.
-....if "Kill de Wabbit, kill de Wabbit, Kill De Wabbit" makes you smile
-...you grew up wondering if the tricked-out black Pontiac Trans Am could outrace the orange and blue General Lee
-.....you look for a certain logo on the side of every red semi truck you see in CoH
-....you were around to see JR get shot
-....you remember a time when the cartoon about Bart and Homer wasn't on the air
-...your kids are playing with your old Tonka trucks
Chekmate PI- FF/Psy defender, Virtue
(lvl 50 12/18/07)
Hagis- Inv/War Mace tanker, Freedom
(lvl 50 12/19/08)
Brigid Huntress- Arch/Elec blaster, Freedom
And you never get hit
When your back's to the wall
Gonna fight to the end
And you're taking it all!!
-TF:TM, "The Touch"
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You wonder why people wear baseball hats backwards
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doesnt that have to do with a bad Stallone movie?
you remember when Scrappy Doo first showed up, and realized Scooby was going down hill.
you have to explain the 'jumped the shark tank' reasoning to everyone
you remember watching Star Blazers on TV and loving it.
you watched Pink Floyd's the wall, and realized that it made NO sense straight.
when you say "if (toon name/hostage name) had gone straight to the police, none of this would have happened" and all you get is ???