OMFG!!!

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-02-23 01:32am

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote: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.

Ahh I forgot the NES and the even more unbelievably fun SUPER NES! At least now I have a buncha Nintendo ROMs... Ninja Turtles was kool too but Power Rangers? Uucchhh...

EDIT: Forgot... the SKATE RINK!!! W000t! It's still there on the West Bank but I live across the river in Nawlins now... Although last time I went there I got hit on by some really Extremely aggressive girls none a day over 16 (I was 18 and as queer as they come so I wasn't interested LOL) I learned a valuable thing that night: Spandex on a guy makes teenage girls spaz and give chase... At least I got a really good workout... LMFAO. Next morning I felt like I wrestled a bear. I think I'll stick to ice-skate rinks from now on...

Shaka[Zulu] · Post by **Shaka[Zulu]** » 2003-02-23 01:55am

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote: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.

you're forgetting about the sleeting/hailing/snowing storms, hip deep snow, total lack of adequate clothing etc... and of course, no celphones!

come to think of it, anybody remember that first generation of motorola celphones... the black bricks?

Post by **AdmiralKanos** » 2003-02-23 01:57am

Ha! How many kids today even know what a fucking rotary-dial phone is?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-23 01:58am

AdmiralKanos wrote:Ha! How many kids today even know what a fucking rotary-dial phone is?

I'm 17 years old and yes, I know what that is. Even used one several times once.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-02-23 02:00am

I remember the Loma Prietta earthquake back when I was kid. And I remember playing Super Empire Strikes Back in the stores, back when the SNES was still alive and kicking. Man, I'm old.

Rotary phone? Isn't that one of those phones with the numbers arranged in a circle and you had to spin the damn thing? My folks used to have one, I think.

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2003-02-23 02:07am

AdmiralKanos wrote:Ha! How many kids today even know what a fucking rotary-dial phone is?

heh, we use them at work on our internal lines, brings back memories, I tell you. Just one of the quaint oddities of working in a museum.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2003-02-23 02:46am

Darth Utsanomiko wrote:EDIT: Of course I remember 8" floppies; the computer my parents bought in 1994 had one as its B drive.

That would be a 5.25" floppy drive. 8" drives were obsolete, long, long before 1994 and wouldn't physically fit in cases of that era (or this era, for that matter).

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-23 02:53am

AdmiralKanos wrote:Ha! How many kids today even know what a fucking rotary-dial phone is?

I know, and I know few people stupid enough not to.

Cap'n Hector · Post by **Cap'n Hector** » 2003-02-23 03:04am

I remember my first computer: a Mac Plus with a thirty meg hard drive in 1988...

I remember finding a Java version of SpaceWar...

I remember the Berlin Wall falling...

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-02-23 03:08am

Enlightenment wrote:
Darth Utsanomiko wrote:EDIT: Of course I remember 8" floppies; the computer my parents bought in 1994 had one as its B drive.
That would be a 5.25" floppy drive. 8" drives were obsolete, long, long before 1994 and wouldn't physically fit in cases of that era (or this era, for that matter).

*Whaps forehead* Oh duh, should have picked up on that one. Damn american measurements.

Actually, A friend of mine in highschool did have an 8" floppy drive, and he brought it and a disk to school to show some of his friends. The disk was fucking huge and the drive was about the size of a thick laptop.

Also, before '94 the only comp we had was some IBM from the mid-80s. don't remember what exactly what it was, but it didn't even have a harddrive, and in order to load up a program, you had to insert a DOS 5 1/4" disk, do a Ctrl+Alt+Del warm boot, and insert the disk of the program you wanted into one of it's two floppy drives once the C prompt came up. Quite tedious.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2003-02-23 03:23am

I'm probably of about median age on this board, so don't expect me to remember extremely old stuff. Lesse, I remember playing the Atari 2600, the San Fran earthquake of '89, the high interest rates of the Reagan Era (real estate loans were like 12.5% then)

, listening to the Beatles on LP... that's about as far back as it goes. My first computer was a 16 MHz 386 with 1.5 MB of RAM and a 40 MB HDD, 5.25" floppy and DOS 5.0. Ah, the good old days of blue-screen WordPerfect, where different fonts would still be the same size and shape, but colored strangely instead of actually looking like they were supposed to.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-02-23 03:45am

AdmiralKanos wrote:Ha! How many kids today even know what a fucking rotary-dial phone is?

We were the first family on our block to get a push button phone. That was went the phone company still owned the phone. It was heavier than a brick.

I remember the Loma Prietta earthquake back when I was kid.

I was fresh out of high school when that happened. I remember seeing the street roll like a wave, it made me feel sea sick to a certain extent. I also remember actually driving up to the Loma Prieta summit a week or two later to play paintball at field a few miles from the epicenter. There was one point in the road where it lifed up 3 ft. and they just made a ramp from one side to the other with blacktop.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-23 03:55am

I remember Going in to see the Disney flic we told our parents we were going to see, and then just not leaving our seats when it was over, and "Starwars" came on. My brother and I disassembled our Lego "Enterprises" and started work on Lego Falcon's and ISD's

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2003-02-23 06:02am

I remember having a Sinclaire ZX Spectrum.

The very first time I used a phone was a rotary dial phone that was sitting on the kitchen bench. I called Dad at work...I forget why.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-23 07:03am

Lets see, I remember living in Canada (pre-1986).

I remember watching the Chernobyl disaster and Challenger disaster on TV.

I grew up using an Apple ][e.

I used to have the disney book on RECORD stuff.

I remember when ALF was first aired, and I had the TAPE book of some of those.

I used to have a big collection of SW figures back when they didn't have any joints and weren't worth a damn thing.

I remember rotary dial phones. I even remember my cat getting one hell of a fright when he decided to try and chew through the cord.

I remember when beta was the shit. I also remember when VHS blew it out of the fucking water.

Yeah, all that and lots more. Hell, I'm only 20 and already all you whipper-snappers are making me feel old.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2003-02-23 07:07am

I used to have an Alf toy, where you stick a tape in his back and it makes him talk.

Perinquus · Post by **Perinquus** » 2003-02-23 07:11am

I remember Pong when it first came out in arcades. I remember 25 cent comic books. I remember seeing Jaws in the theaters, and lining up for Star Wars when it premiered. I remember television before cable existed or remote control TVs were owned by anyone other than rich people. I remember watching Space: 1999 on television when it was originally shown.

I remember all these things and I feel old.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-23 07:18am

i remember not bein allowed to drink milk because of chernobyl.

i also remember that i got huge packages from my aunt in the usa around the same time with a whole bunch of toys you wouldn´t get here such as these children books with pictures in it which smell of what they depict when you rub them. totally unknown here.
also the big packages of tinker toy and licoln logs as well as the big ass steal tonka trucks. BWAHAHA, with them i was the pimp of the block.

and i remember making the neigbors girl cry at that age by insisting that god might not exist because there´s no proof. ( i had come home from kindergarden where the teacher(?) had told us about satan and i was scared to hell. my parents then told me that satan probably didnt even exist, nobody had seen him. i projected my new knowledge on god and the neighbors girl started crying. HEHEHEHEE!!!

MAHOK!

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-02-23 07:26am

My earliest memory is playing the Empire Strikes Back on my old Atari 2600. It was an awful game but comprised of straffing atat's with a show speeder.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-23 07:31am

I remember when arcade games had trackballs!

I also remember when roller-SKATES were still cool.

And lets not forget, truly showing our ages here - I remember when TMNT were cool.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-02-23 07:36am

Shit i can remember when Kylie Minogue looked like a geek with big teeth.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-23 07:38am

weemadando wrote:I remember when arcade games had trackballs!

I also remember when roller-SKATES were still cool.

And lets not forget, truly showing our ages here - I remember when TMNT were cool.

What is TMNT?

btw, does anyone remember "The Masters of the Universe"?
i always wanted to have them but my parents would always refuse to buy me some.

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-02-23 09:21am

TMNT isn't cool anymore? *goes to find video copy of the movie*

Masters of the Universe is actually trying to make a comeback. They have a new saturday morning cartoon.

I find it funny when you hear a song on the radio that kids think is so great and new and all you can do is shake your head, realizing that it's a remake of an 80's song that's actually a remake of a song from the 60's.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-23 09:26am

Mark S wrote:TMNT isn't cool anymore? *goes to find video copy of the movie*

Masters of the Universe is actually trying to make a comeback. They have a new saturday morning cartoon.

I find it funny when you hear a song on the radio that kids think is so great and new and all you can do is shake your head, realizing that it's a remake of an 80's song that's actually a remake of a song from the 60's.

so, what is TMNT?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-02-23 09:27am

salm wrote:
Mark S wrote:TMNT isn't cool anymore? *goes to find video copy of the movie*

Masters of the Universe is actually trying to make a comeback. They have a new saturday morning cartoon.

I find it funny when you hear a song on the radio that kids think is so great and new and all you can do is shake your head, realizing that it's a remake of an 80's song that's actually a remake of a song from the 60's.
so, what is TMNT?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...TMNT.

Oi...I remember collecting them.

Then again I have the entire original Star Wars Action figure....urgh.

Stop looking at me that way