You know you're an old gamer when...

Celestiel · 03-29-2006 02:55 PM

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plain and simple..your old if you saw the orginal star wars at the drive in's

*rasies hand* I DID!

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So did I!

Hagis · 03-29-2006 03:13 PM

Actually, I made a big booboo on the shuttles and couldn't get back to edit the post. D'oh!

Enterprise (Atmospheric testing only, prototype...wonder if it's in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum?)
Columbia (R.I.P.)
Challenger (R.I.P)
Atlantis
Discovery
Endeavor
(In no particular order.)

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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_Uun_ · 03-29-2006 03:22 PM

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You know you're and old gamer if you can identify this quote, 'Trisle, Trasle, Trosle, Trone. Time for this one to go home.'

I dare ya.

I double-dog dare ya!

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I am old enough to have watched it, but I confess I couldn't remember which cartoon it came from and had to look it up. I won't post the answer to give others a chance.

flipside · 03-29-2006 03:27 PM

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- When I reminisced about Fraggle Rock, and once again, no one knew who or what it was.

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Yup, it's sad when no one in my generation knows of Fraggle Rock or the little Doozers that built their little towns which the Fraggles loved to eat. Pretty horrible way of living if ya ask me, but those Doozers were cool. As a kid, I was dishevled to hear they were actually controlled by people who wore helmit devices that were connected to the Doozers. The show was never the same after that...

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Sigh, I miss Doozers....

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Cuppa_A61Sun · 03-29-2006 06:24 PM

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plain and simple..your old if you saw the orginal star wars at the drive in's

*rasies hand* I DID!

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*raises hand!*
I saw JAWS in the drive in, too!

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-you remember drive ins!
(and all yer buddies hiding in the trunk)

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MrNoj · 03-29-2006 07:29 PM

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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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I remember where I was, I was in 5th grade, they brought a TV into the classroom for us to watch the launch. Right after it blew up the teacher walked calmly up to the TV and turned it off, everyone else was completely speachless. I remember the teacher's voice shaking slightly when she said 'Well, I guess we should get back to work'

Celestiel · 03-29-2006 07:45 PM

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plain and simple..your old if you saw the orginal star wars at the drive in's

*rasies hand* I DID!

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*raises hand!*
I saw JAWS in the drive in, too!

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-you remember drive ins!
(and all yer buddies hiding in the trunk)

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I actually still go to the drive-in in the Summertime... There are still a few of them around.

FierceRabbit · 03-29-2006 08:25 PM

Can't remember the character off-hand, but the cartoon was about a turtle who would time travel because things looked better. He would always get into trouble and the wizard would use the chant to bring him back.

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shizaru · 03-29-2006 10:48 PM

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You know you're and old gamer if you can identify this quote, 'Trisle, Trasle, Trosle, Trone. Time for this one to go home.'

I dare ya.

I double-dog dare ya!

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Tooter the turtle? Thats an obscure toon there, up there with The Kingdom of Could-Be-You and Hector Heathcote.

Andrax · 03-30-2006 06:04 AM

when you are clogging up the computer and your kids want to play.

when you fall asleep in the middle of a battle, only to wake up and find that the mission ended an hour ago.

when you talk about Atari and what a great game Adventure was and Pit Fall was the best.

Glory_Bound · 03-30-2006 10:03 AM

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You might be an old gamer...

If you ever thought 64k of RAM was awesome.

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Heh...well...my first computer had 16K of RAM and that was advanced because most others only had 8K at the time!

It was a TI-99/4A, and the only storage it had was audio signals to a cassette tape recorder. Can you imagine fiddling with your treble/base settings to properly save data??? Lol, it's true!

**Edit: Looks like quite a few others remember the audio tape days as well....

Tazhyngarth · 03-30-2006 10:10 AM

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Actually, I made a big booboo on the shuttles and couldn't get back to edit the post. D'oh!

Enterprise (Atmospheric testing only, prototype...wonder if it's in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum?)
Columbia (R.I.P.)
Challenger (R.I.P)
Atlantis
Discovery
Endeavor
(In no particular order.)

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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I was gonna mention Challenger when I posted, but I remebered the other 4 first...then I went back to trying to remember the name of the game I mentioned and basically forgot. I am unsure if the Enterprise is in any of the museums or not, haven't heard of anything since It was first tested..

Glory_Bound · 03-30-2006 10:11 AM

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You owned an Amiga 500

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The 500 was actually the 2nd Amiga to come out...the original was the Amiga 1000, and I bought that one as my 2nd comp after the TI-99/4A (see my previous post - wow, 16K RAM!).

At least that one had a built-in floppy drive, but no hard drive. I bought the external floppy drive as well, and had some killer boot disks that I created using programs that compacted other programs so they'd all fit on the one disk.... Man it hurt when one of those disks went bad!

Knightsedge · 03-30-2006 10:29 AM

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Actually, I made a big booboo on the shuttles and couldn't get back to edit the post. D'oh!

Enterprise (Atmospheric testing only, prototype...wonder if it's in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum?)
Columbia (R.I.P.)
Challenger (R.I.P)
Atlantis
Discovery
Endeavor
(In no particular order.)

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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I was gonna mention Challenger when I posted, but I remebered the other 4 first...then I went back to trying to remember the name of the game I mentioned and basically forgot. I am unsure if the Enterprise is in any of the museums or not, haven't heard of anything since It was first tested..

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I am pretty sure the Enterprise is run as an exhibit by the Smithsonian, it is not on the mall, but at a seperate facility.

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Tazhyngarth · 03-30-2006 10:38 AM

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I am pretty sure the Enterprise is run as an exhibit by the Smithsonian, it is not on the mall, but at a seperate facility.

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oooooo, I shall have to check it out.

Knightsedge · 03-30-2006 10:41 AM

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I am pretty sure the Enterprise is run as an exhibit by the Smithsonian, it is not on the mall, but at a seperate facility.

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oooooo, I shall have to check it out.

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Here ya go
found it
On Sept. 20, 1985, Enterprise was ferried from Dryden Flight Research Facility to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On Nov. 18, 1985, Enterprise was ferried from the Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C., and became the property of the Smithsonian Institution. The Enterprise was built as a test vehicle and is not equipped for space flight.

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Glory_Bound · 03-30-2006 10:41 AM

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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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I remember where I was, I was in 5th grade, they brought a TV into the classroom for us to watch the launch. Right after it blew up the teacher walked calmly up to the TV and turned it off, everyone else was completely speachless. I remember the teacher's voice shaking slightly when she said 'Well, I guess we should get back to work'

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To me, it's the kind of generational event that many have described JFK's assassination as being. I had so many hopes and dreams tied up in the space shuttle, and used to save every newspaper article about them that I could find. As crazy as it may sound, that still chokes me up.

Knightsedge · 03-30-2006 10:45 AM

And here is the link, the center opened in 2003.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=897

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Severe · 03-30-2006 10:46 AM

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plain and simple..your old if you saw the orginal star wars at the drive in's

*rasies hand* I DID!

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*raises hand!*
I saw JAWS in the drive in, too!

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*hand raises for jaws*

also i saw cannonball run at the drive in's too

Tazhyngarth · 03-30-2006 01:39 PM

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And here is the link, the center opened in 2003.

Enterprise

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Thanks for this, at work I don't have much time to search for things, thanks for making it easy

EvilRat · 03-30-2006 03:22 PM

when you first saw Return of the Jedi. your first thought about the Ewoks, was WHAT THE... (had a feeling that Lucas had lost his mind right there)

Neuberg_Crowley · 03-30-2006 04:33 PM

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when you first saw Return of the Jedi. your first thought about the Ewoks, was WHAT THE... (had a feeling that Lucas had lost his mind right there)

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Little did you know that Jar-Jar Binks would be coming down the pipeline...

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Bunny_M · 03-30-2006 04:39 PM

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How about Kimba the White Lion, or Marine Boy with the oxygen gum.

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Ahhhhh! So I'm *not* the only person on the planet to remember that kid with his oxygen gum and his folding electric boomerang?!?

Damn, some of these comments bring back memories. Of course, being an Aussie, the Challenger disaster isn't as good a generational marker as the night we won the America's Cup. Was damn near declared a national public holiday.

Dammit, and now I've gotten the Hong Kong Phooey theme stuck in my head. *bops*

JohnELaw · 03-30-2006 06:24 PM

You still have screenshots of the original Rikti attack at the end of CoH Beta and you can't bring yourself to delete them...

MrNoj · 03-30-2006 07:54 PM

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You still have screenshots of the original Rikti attack at the end of CoH Beta and you can't bring yourself to delete them...

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I had a few that got deleted on accident... I was mad. I still have the 'end of the world' video that someone composed from the beta ending on either my computer or my wifes.