OT: Hey gang

[PredsV82]

Not college. I'm thinking it's middle school. I remember when he was born--I met him in 2003 I guess, so I don't think he's older than 13 or so and Cabin Boy II (he had a name for him, too, but I can't remember it now) is around 11 from the pictures.

OK good I'm not as old as I feel :p

Seth is somewhat active on Twitter.
@slakepreds

Alas, aside from these boards I am a social media luddite (actually physicians are discouraged from having personal social media accounts)

 

[triggrman]

Not college. I'm thinking it's middle school. I remember when he was born--I met him in 2003 I guess, so I don't think he's older than 13 or so and Cabin Boy II (he had a name for him, too, but I can't remember it now) is around 11 from the pictures.

I don't think my son was born when we were all meeting out there, and he's almost 11.

 

[Adz]

I don't think my son was born when we were all meeting out there, and he's almost 11.

I remember when he was born, too.

 

[BluesConvert]

God I'm old...

 

[Adz]

God I'm old...

It's okay. I have at least one pair of glitter socks older than you if you were born after 1970.

 

[triggrman]

I've stayed the same age since we all played in Farmington

 

[BluesConvert]

It's okay. I have at least one pair of glitter socks older than you if you were born after 1970.

Great...I'm even older than the constraint Adz puts on a crack about being old.

 

[Adz]

Not by much.

I think I have all of you beat and I am fine with that...because "I'm still cute" (and if you get THAT reference you're old, for sure!)

 

[nomorekids]

Who remembers the old web chat room we used while watching games?

Was an interesting place in the 02/03 season, when we started the year 2-20.

 

[Adz]

I do. That was great fun. I think I got a virus or two from the site, but it was worth it.

 

[BluesConvert]

if you get THAT reference you're old, for sure!

You're not helping!

 

[Adz]

You're not helping!

Ha ha! I didn't think anyone would get that one.

Okay, you...win?

 

[Legionnaire11]

I do. That was great fun. I think I got a virus or two from the site, but it was worth it.

I hope you're talking about your computer

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

i am so old, that i remember when floppy discs were actually floppy

 

[PredsV82]

i am so old, that i remember when floppy discs were actually floppy

im so old I remember when computers were only in science fiction movies and Star Trek

 

[triggrman]

I remember punch cards....

 

[jstreet]

i am so old, that i remember when floppy discs were actually floppy

BUttface has died of dysentery

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

BUttface has died of dysentery

My first computer (a TRS-80 from Radio Shack), didn't even have a disc drive, it saved things on audio cassettes

 

[predfan98]

I remember punch cards....

Spent hours with those flippin things

 

[triggrman]

My first computer (a TRS-80 from Radio Shack), didn't even have a disc drive, it saved things on audio cassettes

But summer and winter games were awesome.

 

[BluesConvert]

But summer and winter games were awesome.

Oh my God...still some of my favorite video games ever made.

 

[Adz]

Pinball was my thing.

I have never been able to play video games except for Death Race 2000. I guess it was the combination of pedals and wheel instead of buttons. Great fun--the concept was running over stuff in your path--but it was racist and ageist. I think it was pulled after about 2 months.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

GOAT arcade game was//is Centipede (HM to Dragon's Lair, Robotron and Defender). When I Was a kid growing up in Greenville, I used to get $20 a week as an allowance. Every Saturday like clockwork, I would head to the bank and exchange the $20 bill for two fives and a roll of quarters, stop at 7//11 for a giant Slurpee and some form of snack food, then go dump all my quarters into the local cabinet.

It is still my dream to actually own one of the cabinets. I actually kinda feel bad for kids today. They will never know the joy of going to a traditional arcade. The dark, futuristic, neon lights, the smell of sweat mixed with the smells of fountain pop and various flavors of potato chips. The one high school kid who knew all the moves in either Street Fighter 2 or Mortal Kombat, who always had a crowd of grade and middle schoolers crowded around him, watching in venerated awe. And a host of other things, that would take too long to list. Man. Those. Those were the times. I'm 33 and I am almost too young to remember the real hay-day, but those days were awesome. I was lucky enough to have a subscription to Nintendo Power when I was young, and I was treated like royalty on the playground because of it

 

[Drake744]

GOAT arcade game was//is Centipede (HM to Dragon's Lair, Robotron and Defender). When I Was a kid growing up in Greenville, I used to get $20 a week as an allowance. Every Saturday like clockwork, I would head to the bank and exchange the $20 bill for two fives and a roll of quarters, stop at 7//11 for a giant Slurpee and some form of snack food, then go dump all my quarters into the local cabinet.

It is still my dream to actually own one of the cabinets. I actually kinda feel bad for kids today. They will never know the joy of going to a traditional arcade. The dark, futuristic, neon lights, the smell of sweat mixed with the smells of fountain pop and various flavors of potato chips. The one high school kid who knew all the moves in either Street Fighter 2 or Mortal Kombat, who always had a crowd of grade and middle schoolers crowded around him, watching in venerated awe. And a host of other things, that would take too long to list. Man. Those. Those were the times. I'm 33 and I am almost too young to remember the real hay-day, but those days were awesome. I was lucky enough to have a subscription to Nintendo Power when I was young, and I was treated like royalty on the playground because of it

My two best friends live near Tacoma, Washington and when I go up to visit we go to this place: http://www.dorkysarcade.com . It has pizza, more than 100 beers, and over 100 old school arcade games in their original form. It's friggin awesome.

 

[PredsV82]

GOAT arcade game was//is Centipede (HM to Dragon's Lair, Robotron and Defender). When I Was a kid growing up in Greenville, I used to get $20 a week as an allowance. Every Saturday like clockwork, I would head to the bank and exchange the $20 bill for two fives and a roll of quarters, stop at 7//11 for a giant Slurpee and some form of snack food, then go dump all my quarters into the local cabinet.

It is still my dream to actually own one of the cabinets. I actually kinda feel bad for kids today. They will never know the joy of going to a traditional arcade. The dark, futuristic, neon lights, the smell of sweat mixed with the smells of fountain pop and various flavors of potato chips. The one high school kid who knew all the moves in either Street Fighter 2 or Mortal Kombat, who always had a crowd of grade and middle schoolers crowded around him, watching in venerated awe. And a host of other things, that would take too long to list. Man. Those. Those were the times. I'm 33 and I am almost too young to remember the real hay-day, but those days were awesome. I was lucky enough to have a subscription to Nintendo Power when I was young, and I was treated like royalty on the playground because of it

and before Centipede there was Missile Command, the grandaddy of trackball gams.

went to high school with a guy who could drop one quarter into MC and play til the arcade closed(which of course pissed off the owners and the rest of us who wanted to play... so the arcade hired him to keep him off the games LOL)

I was good at Tempest and Tron. Decent at Galaga and Joust. Never could get the hang of Defender.


Like you I always wanted a game in my home, either Tempest or Galaga... or else the Flash Gordon pinball machine