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Ok, watching G4.... they're showing Starcade, that ancient arcade game show from the 80's... one of the games they are playing is STAR WARS!!!!!!!!!!


man, I feel old.

Awwww. Kelly, you're so cute.

When it comes to things that make me feel old, the fact that the song "Jump" by Van Halen was released almost 20 years ago does the trick for me

As for me, I remember the hype for The Poseidon Adventure. Begged my parents to take me to see it, but I was too young.

No, it's when I load up "Nethack" into my computer, and one of my friends drops by and asks where I bought that from.....

On another front I now have my Girlfriend's kid addicted to Nethack & X-Com: Enemy Unknown....

Damn, I remember...

Atari "Pong" was new and cool; a can of soda at a machine cost .25 cents, a stamp was a dime and when the movie theater jumped prices from $3.00 to $3.50, we were convinced they were gouging us because it was Star Wars. The Commodore 64 was a "miraculous breakthrough" and debate was raging on TV-- "BattleStar Galactica, better than Star Wars?" I remember when Michael Jackson was considered cool & sexy, and Madonna was recognized as a cheap ripoff of Cyndi Lauper.

It generally hits me when I see an actor or actress that was once super popular and considered "hot" and I realize, "Damn, s/he's gotten old" and I ralize, well, I'm not exactly regenerating either.

*scratches head, starcade sounds familiar but I cant remember it*

I remember when Ultima IV was brand new and state of the art.

I remember seeing a few news brodcasts of the closing years of the viet nam war when I was a kid

earliest memory of the news for me is when the ussr fell.

I remember lining up to see Star Wars when it came out the first time.

I start feeling old when the kids haven't played a PS1. And don't know what Quake 1 was.

Kids asking what a vinyl is... *shudder* Hearing music on the radio and remembering I used to have a 45 of it oh so long ago.

Kelly Antilles wrote:Kids asking what a vinyl is... *shudder* Hearing music on the radio and remembering I used to have a 45 of it oh so long ago.

"This records great, its got some of their best tracks and damn good b-side too."

"Whats a b-side"

*me moves into retirement home*

The whole record thing gets me every time too...

Kelly Antilles wrote:Kids asking what a vinyl is... *shudder* Hearing music on the radio and remembering I used to have a 45 of it oh so long ago.

Really? Maybe it's me knowing DJs and stuff, but I would think a lot of kids would know what vinyl is.

I wish I was old enough to have been part of the personal computer revolution when kids like me were making our own compies and stuff from raw parts. Le sigh.

I'm young enough that my memory of Kosovo is foggy.

Bwahah! I'll outlive you all!

HemlockGrey wrote:I'm young enough that my memory of Kosovo is foggy.

Bwahah! I'll outlive you all!

Unless you're beaten and left for dead in a dark alley somewhere.

Kelly Antilles wrote:Kids asking what a vinyl is... *shudder* Hearing music on the radio and remembering I used to have a 45 of it oh so long ago.

Hell, that made ME feel old.

I made the mistake of asking some HS freashmen if they remembered the Challenger explosion and they went "Huh"?

Remember POGs?

remember Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80's? 8-inch floppy disks? 20Meg hard drives the size of you typical tower case???

those were the dayz...

Um, I remember when Super Mario Brothers 2 came out and when the Gulf War started.

EDIT: Of course I remember 8" floppies; the computer my parents bought in 1994 had one as its B drive. 500MB harddrive and 66MHz of processing 'power'. What a piece of crap.

I think I remember seeing either TNG or DS9 while it was actually running.

I remember playing the NES, as well as POGs, the Power Rangers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Damnit, I wish I could grow up right now, so I could tell people how I had to walk 20 miles to school as a kid both ways uphill.