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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Niteowl on August 30, 2004, 11:34:55 AM

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Niteowl on August 30, 2004, 11:34:55 AM

YOU WOULDN"T LAST FIVE MINUTES!! (http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/wiwak.htm)

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Niteowl on August 30, 2004, 11:43:23 AM

AND ANOTHER THING!!
-when i wanted to play MULTIPLAYER PC games, i had to boot up scorched earth and take turns taking MIRV shots at each other while playing ping pong between turns
-our "GAME BOY" was some idiotic hand held with , honest to god, BLINKING LIGHTS. LITERALLY. little freaking lightbulbs that blinked on. or off. and apparenlty that's bloody football, or space invaders, or whatever.
-WE HAD TO LOAD OUR BLOODY games on our DAMN C64 for a loooooong time, i'm talking, 15-20 minutes listening to that godforsaken floppy drive make that irritating sound.
-FORUMS?!?! YOU GOT BLOODY FORUMS?!?!? i had BBSes, where you dialed up on some rich geek kids PC and played some wierd game or posted. but only ONE PERSON AT A TIME ON THAT THING PLEASE :/
-i lived in a time that GnR was COOL, and so was BON FREAKING JOVI.. ergh..
-CD's?!?! we had incredibly FLOPPY floppy disks, those hells spawned 5 1/4" that would turn to dust or be unreadable at the faintest breath or temperature change.
-when i wanted to play MP quake, i had to dial into my friends computer and play HIM! no playing with freak ass strangers from europe with their funny accents and their bizaare ideas!!

yearghs!!!

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Dubbilex on August 30, 2004, 11:51:17 AM

but Bon Jovi is STILL cool D:

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Niteowl on August 30, 2004, 01:23:01 PM

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but Bon Jovi is STILL cool D:

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oh.. you are SO living on a prayer.  just looking forward to going down in a blaze of glory eh?

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Clashen on August 30, 2004, 01:40:30 PM

i think i'm downloading the article as mp3... or something  o_O

YES I AM!! INDEED!


Actually try to download it as mp3, it's pretty awesome!

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Post by: Diablus on August 30, 2004, 01:42:30 PM

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oh.. you are SO living on a prayer.

by far, the funniest quote by niteOwl...EVAR

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Post by: rad4Christ on August 30, 2004, 02:15:14 PM

Or spending 3 days typing code into your tandy 1000 just so a line that changed colors would scroll up and down your screen, then error our halfway through because you messed up on ONE line of code out of 1200...

So you retype the WHOLE thing to see that stupid line.

Or constanlty having to make dos boot disks so you could play your games with enough convetional memory (640k), and running memmaker every three days.

Or actually riding your bicycle or skateboard and getting bloody knees and elbows instead of mastering kickflips and other tricks on your PS2.

Or connecting long distance to AOL on your 2400 BAUD modem to download a 11KHz mono 8 second stream of the Terminator 2 theme and taking 4.5 hours to do so (240k was ALOT).

Cable TV didn't exist where you lived and you got 3 channels on your bunny ears, and two of them were public television.

Multiplayer was playing Battle Chess on the computer with your classmates.









... ahh, memories.

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Magmatron on August 30, 2004, 02:48:42 PM

Oregon Trail on the Mac. Fun stuff. It was high tech at the time, anyway :(

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Post by: Grimm on August 30, 2004, 03:52:33 PM

Oregon Trail was fun. I remember playing it and some other "educational" games once a week in the computer lab in elementary school. One computer lab for 6 grade levels, and the computers were the really old ones that had screens that, granted were in color, were only in shades of green. Absolutely great for playing games like "Which of these three squares is orange?".

My house still doesn't have caller ID, my parents consider it a waste of money to get a phone with the screen and pay for the service.

I don't have a cell phone either; I don't receive enough calls from friends at my house anyway, and I'm not out all over the place very much, so there isn't a great need for a cell phone.

There wouldn't be a computer in my house, let alone one in the living room and my own in my room, both with broadband internet, had I not pestered the hell out of my dad for the entirety of Freshman year and most of Sophomore year. Although I did have an advantage at the time because my parents got me the 1.8 ghz Pentium 4, so I had a bit of a jump start over most of my friends. Although now it's kind of outdated since I've had it for a bit over two years now.

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Post by: Satiagraha on August 30, 2004, 07:29:39 PM

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rad4Christ,Aug 30 2004, 04:15 PM]
Multiplayer was playing Battle Chess on the computer with your classmates.

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Lol! I loved playing that game on my IBM PC Junior. Unfortunately, the only person I had to play it with was myself. My brother wasn't much of a computer person, or a chess person. I always thought the rooks were cool, because they were towers that morphed into beasts.

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and then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the f***ing mailbox. And it would take, like, a WEEK to get there.

Damn, a week to get to a mailbox, where'd you go? Across the country in your vintage Volkswagon Beetle with the flip tank instead of a gas guage? *whistles*

Edit: Silly language in quote :p

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Post by: Malevolent on August 30, 2004, 07:32:51 PM

I remember playing Oregon Trail when I was younger on the nice green screen Macs. Good times.

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Post by: Dubbilex on August 30, 2004, 08:20:01 PM

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but Bon Jovi is STILL cool D:

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oh.. you are SO living on a prayer.  just looking forward to going down in a blaze of glory eh?

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Lay Your Hands on Me or on my musical nostalgia and I'll go Wild in The Streets, I will.  :D

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: SgtFury on August 31, 2004, 04:58:10 AM

I remember having a Spectrum 128k (Yes a whole 128K) and waiting 2hrs for Daley Thompsoms Supertest (which was about the only 128k game at the time except for Neverending FREAKING story) to almost load from tape and then get an error message. While watching freaky colours up and down the screen.

Ooo and having a Kempston Joystick plugged into it via a doohicky at the back which had the worst design ever. If you jogged the interface at all, the whole computer got burned out...... Grrreeaaatt.

Got through a 48k Spectrum and a 128k spectrum due to that.

Got to the point that I kept playing Dan Dare Pilot of the Future over and over again because it only took 10 minutes to load  :D

Ah those were the days.... NO THEY WEREN`T!!!

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Niteowl on August 31, 2004, 09:54:36 AM

wow.. a spectrum.. those were way before the vic20.. which was our first. er.. 'PC'. and oregon trail on MACS?!?! when i was playing oregon trail, there was no SUCH THING AS STEEENKING MACS!!! YAR!!

and sati, yes uphill, both ways, in the snow, and blazing heat, and hail the size of small basketballs, barefooted, while suffering from dysentry, polio, AND malaria, while surviving on one crust of moldy bread!

and yes, fury, those were NOT the days. yeesh!

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Satiagraha on August 31, 2004, 04:16:55 PM

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...while suffering from dysentry...

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Ewww...




I miss DOS... :(
(No crashing! [sometimes])

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: -Lancer- on September 01, 2004, 09:22:52 AM

wow, all these are waaayyyyy before my time. First system I ever got was the NES. I spent countless hours playing mario world 3. I think that mw3 is teh best game to ever come out on any system.


EDIT: except for bon jovi. He is DA MAN!!!!
(http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/features/si50/states/new_jersey/essay/lg_bonjovi_ap-01.jpg)

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Asal on September 01, 2004, 09:41:00 AM

.....Lancer, you can't be much younger than me, I played the games listed above.....what's wrong with all that?

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Post by: Doobie Dan on September 01, 2004, 10:01:47 AM

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-FORUMS?!?! YOU GOT BLOODY FORUMS?!?!? i had BBSes, where you dialed up on some rich geek kids PC and played some wierd game or posted. but only ONE PERSON AT A TIME ON THAT THING PLEASE :/

Don't forget the REALLY rich geeks who had TWO PHONE LINE BBS's so you could have two people online at once and... OMG MULTIPLAYER TRADEWARS!

-Making Doom maps to modem-deathmatch with your friends :)

-Having a separate DOS boot disk for every game you had.  Tie Fighter, anyone?

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Necrosis on September 01, 2004, 10:39:29 AM

I wub my Speccy.

It is sitting beside me even as I type. It still works, and I still have hundreds of games.


Ah yes, the glory days of copy protection - enter the code on row 5 column 4 of the manual...

Title: Kids These Days!
Post by: Mr.Bill on September 01, 2004, 10:48:08 AM

"what is the name of this monster/track/character/item ?" :)

I always lost my commander keen manuals, it reeally sucked. :-D