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Guess I'm Officially Old Now

Cosmonaut79Cosmonaut79 Member UncommonPosts: 175
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM

Well it finally happened.  Remember as a kid seeing those ads on TV or in a magazine saying "This ain't your daddy's (insert product here)"  Well on this site, I just saw an ad for this glove that's supposed to play MMO's without a keyboard or something which states "Not your daddy's powerglove".  Wait a minute.  I had a power glove.  But then that would mean.... NOOOOO!!!

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  • XxSyCxXXxSyCxX Member Posts: 29

    i saw that ad as well, made me die a little inside.

  • drbaltazardrbaltazar Member UncommonPosts: 7,856

    yep good old nintendo!we are that old !welcome to the club!grin!

  • Goatgod76Goatgod76 Member Posts: 1,214

    Nintendo?!? Hell, try Atari 2600 or even the Commodore 64, THAT is old my friends.

  • arcdevilarcdevil Member Posts: 864

     I have a zx spectrum that I will probably ebay in 50 years

     

    wait, will ebay exist in 50 years....? 

  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630

    Old is going to an arcade with a pocket full of quarters. :)

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  • MrBum21MrBum21 Member UncommonPosts: 405
    Originally posted by XxSyCxX


    i saw that ad as well, made me die a little inside.



     

    ahh but the reality of owning a power glove made you die a little inside too.  every one thought it would be the greatest thing in the world!!  well people thought Mourning would be awesome too....

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  • Tenbwen1Tenbwen1 Member UncommonPosts: 50

    Nintendo?!? Hell, try Atari 2600 or even the Commodore 64, THAT is old my friends.

    Pfft try pong or wait i remember when video games didn't exist.

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  • illanadanillanadan Member Posts: 314
    Originally posted by Amathe


    Old is going to an arcade with a pocket full of quarters. :)

     

    OMG SO true!

    I went to the mall a few weeks ago and thought I would have some fun playing the old Marvel vs. Capcom (love Warmachine in this one :)) and NONE of the machines take quarters or dollars! I had to go buy some stupid prepaid card! Then again I am from Vegas and remember actually using Quarters to gamble with lol.

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  • NovaKayneNovaKayne Member Posts: 743

    meh...

     

      I had the original pong , big a$$ console with 2 knobs and a switch to select 1 or 2 players! 

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  • LIOKILIOKI Member UncommonPosts: 421

    I remember when you played games........outside

  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630
    Originally posted by LIOKI


    I remember when you played games........outside



     

    Yes. Including ones that were later banned. Lawn darts for the win!

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  • NovaKayneNovaKayne Member Posts: 743
    Originally posted by LIOKI


    I remember when you played games........outside



     

    Without the need of a Defibrilator and Air Conditioning breaks.

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  • IceStorm203IceStorm203 Member Posts: 3

    56k was fast and AOL was standard.

  • LIOKILIOKI Member UncommonPosts: 421

    I always looked at lawn darts and thought to myself, WTF were they thinking?? then we would see how high up we could throw them until one hit the roof of my moms car...

  • just1opinionjust1opinion Member UncommonPosts: 4,641
    Originally posted by NovaKayne


    meh...
     
      I had the original pong , big a$$ console with 2 knobs and a switch to select 1 or 2 players! 

     

    LOL!  Sadly....I remember that "console!"

     

    OMG....I am one of the uncool. :(

     

    I even remember when I read BOOKS as a child. Yes...a CHILD...reading BOOKS....for RECREATION!  Oh the horror of it all! And when we used to go downstairs into the basement and pretend we were the Partridge Family and I was Laurie Partridge playing piano and singing....

     

    "I think I love you...so what am I so afraid of....I'm afraid that I'm not sure of....a love there is no cure for...."

    "I think I love you...."

     

    Oh shit. I've disclosed too much, haven't I?

     

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  • IceStorm203IceStorm203 Member Posts: 3

    >_>

  • just1opinionjust1opinion Member UncommonPosts: 4,641
    Originally posted by Amathe

    Originally posted by LIOKI


    I remember when you played games........outside



     

    Yes. Including ones that were later banned. Lawn darts for the win!

     

    w00t....and BADMINTON!  Wait...is that how that word was spelled back when it actually meant something? 

    Oh...lawn darts were FUN!  I got in SO much trouble for throwing those at my sister....

    ACCIDENTALLY (of course)....bwahahahahahaha!

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  • Tenbwen1Tenbwen1 Member UncommonPosts: 50

    sadly i must admit i sung that song myself

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  • just1opinionjust1opinion Member UncommonPosts: 4,641
    Originally posted by Tenbwen1


    sadly i must admit i sung that song myself

     

    hehehehe!

     

    Hey and do you guys remember when an 8 G hard drive was....HUGE?!  I was so proud of my 8 G hard drive!  That was one bad ass machine.  I could put several adventure games on it at ONE TIME....like Grim Fandango and Pandora Directive even!  Oh....and the whole Gabriel Knight series! 

     

    Wait a minute....I don't think I put them ON the hard drive....I think I had to run those from discs....and each game had like 10 discs (only a SLIGHT exaggeration, actually, as some had 6 and 8...remember Black Dahlia?) or some shit.....

     

    I don't know.  My memory is getting kind of cob-webby.....

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  • malrodmalrod Member Posts: 87

    OLD!! OLD!! LOL, well i remember when there were no PC's.oh wait i remember when you needed an antenna to watch your black and white TV and snow was not only the frozen white kind.

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  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630

    In the pre-videogame era, I once supplemented my chemistry set with a few items from my Dad's lab. That led to this dinner conversation:

    Mom: There is an odor coming from the basement.

    Me: Sorry.

    Mom: What are you doing down there?

    Me: Making stuff.

    Mom: What stuff?

    Me: Combinations of chemicals.

    Mom: WHAT chemicals?

    Me: Sulfer, charcoal, potassium nitrate

    Mom (long pause) Ok.

    Me: May I leave the table? (exits)

    Dad: Honey, that's gunpowder.

     

    So when I see people say that videogames make kids dangerous, I have to shake my head. Better that then the crazy stuff we used to do.

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  • just1opinionjust1opinion Member UncommonPosts: 4,641
    Originally posted by malrod


    OLD!! OLD!! LOL, well i remember when there were no PC's.oh wait i remember when you needed an antenna to watch your black and white TV and snow was not only the frozen white kind.

     

    Rabbit Ears FTW!

     

    And I....was my father's remote control.  "Change to channel 9 please. Wait....no....channel 41, I Dream of Jeannie is on."

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  • Cephus404Cephus404 Member CommonPosts: 3,675
    Originally posted by Goatgod76


    Nintendo?!? Hell, try Atari 2600 or even the Commodore 64, THAT is old my friends.

     

    No, try Pong.  The original, hook-up-to-your-TV machine that did nothing else.  Then you're old.

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  • MMOman101MMOman101 Member UncommonPosts: 1,787
    Originally posted by LIOKI


    I remember when you played games........outside

     

    Some of us still do.

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  • Toquio3Toquio3 Member Posts: 1,074

    I remember playing pong when I was a toddler. Didnt know what video games were. I just liked playing ping pong on the thing. then I went over a decade without consoles. But I was there when it all started =D

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