You know you're getting old when...

[LibraryLady]

I grew up watching Rocky and Bullwinkle. Actually, Jay Ward's grave isn't too far from where I live, I visit it sometimes.

Coincidently, Greenwood Cemetery, here in Brooklyn has a plot with the inscription "Bullwinkle".

[marlovino]

I still have, somewhere, my Magnovox Pong system (played pong, handball, hockey) it even had one or two player ability.

I also have a color trs-80 (grey- doesn't work and a white that does work)

I didn't have the mattell ones, I had the radio shack knock off baseball and football games.

[Dark-Star]

BTW, does anyone remember the various versions of "Adventure?"

Remember? Heck, I have Adventure on my PC right now. Along with dozens of other text-adventure games. If you haven't played the Zork trilogy, T-Zero, or anything by Emily Short, you owe it to yourself to go find them.

[Merriweather]

Yes, he was... but does anyone remember his appearance on "Happy Days"?


And then there's video games. Someone brought down an old Atari to our gaming club that got endless play by young 'uns that have never seen one like it before...

Yeah, both Mork and Laverne & Shirley were spin-offs from Happy Days. And speaking of Happy Days, there's of course the mystery of the vanishing Chuck......

As for video games, I remember seeing my first one, a pong game that was actually a little table for two in a bar, LOL. First video game I owned was a pong game (no cartridges, played pong and pong alone) that I won for high sales at a Tupperware party, of all things.

[Merriweather]

I guess I'm old.....

Join the club, LOL.

My first console video game was PONG. It was a console that just played PONG. (1977 or so).

Same here, and played pong that doubled as a table for two at the bar.

I liked Battlestar Galactica.... when Starbuck was a dude.

And don't forget the little dog

Our TV was made of wood... REAL wood. It was a piece of furniture with upholstered speakers and feet that were turned on a lathe. It was made in the USA by Curtis Mathes.

Sounds like ours when I was growing up. I remember going with my dad to the drugstore when a tube went out, you got little stickers and put matching numbers on the tubes you took out and where they came from, went back and tested them at the store, bought what was bad, and went home and knew where to put them back by the stickers.

Got my first colour TV after I was married, first one in my family.

We were the first folks I knew that had a microwave oven. It was BIG, stainless steel, and glass. The control was a dial knob. (no digital display at all) This was in 1976.

Got my first one maybe a year or two earlier, after I'd been married a couple of years. But I remember a home ec teacher in 7th grade coming back from a kitchen trade show, and going on about the new machines that could bake a cupcake in a couple of minutes - felt like science fiction

I watched the first moon landing on TV.... LIVE.

One of my big regrets, had to settle for listening to it live on the radio, cause my Dad had vacation time, and nothing would stop him from driving from the west coast to the east to see family (and we never stopped early in the evening enroute).

My first computer had no internal storage. You could save data on a cassette tape. (Commodore 64).

I had a Texas Instruments TRS-80 (is that right? - no, TI-99, oops, the TRS-80 was Radio Shack, used that at my first job after college, with dot matrix printer, huge floppies, and a modem you had to put the telephone handset into), then the Commodore 64. Of course, by that time I was using mainframes at work. Still remember the Amiga, and how amazing the graphics seemed after all the black and white (or green) screens.

I saw Jesus Christ Superstar at the Movie Theater when it opened.

Had the soundtrack from the broadway version on vinyl, played the darn thing to death.

OMG, I REALLY AM OLD!!!!!!!! When did that happen???

[EricKei]

Oh gawd. Trash-80's. I had one of those, a TRS-80 Color Computer. I guess I'd been trying to hard to put that memory out of my head >_<

[Primer]

And speaking of Happy Days, there's of course the mystery of the vanishing Chuck......

Didn't he (and his basketball) go off to college early in Season 1?

[EricKei]

It's been so long since I played text adventures. I love 'em.

InForm is a good source for them as well (it's a free utilty thaqt you can use to make 'em)

[mikoyan29]

I know the last two, can't remember who sings Tainted Love, but I remember that Sweet Dreams was done by The Eurhythmics. And I'm only 18

Does that make me old?

And you're really old if you remember that Tainted Love was done by someone other than Soft Cell

[Pagan]

And speaking of Happy Days, there's of course the mystery of the vanishing Chuck......

Kind of like a couple of characters on "Days of Our Lives". One of the Horton kids (I think) went upstairs to do homework....and was never seen again. And Don Craig went out to mail a letter and never came back, that was in 1985.

[Geek King]

Oh gawd. Trash-80's. I had one of those, a TRS-80 Color Computer. I guess I'd been trying to hard to put that memory out of my head >_<

Hey now, that was my first programming computer. I spent most of a summer and a stack of Memorex cassette tapes working through the Learning BASIC Programming book.

[Jack T. Chance]

So, tonight I went to a local pizza place to get a couple slices for dinner. While I was eating, I couldn't help but notice that somebody was on a "Late '80s hair band" kick... I heard Whitesnake, then White Lion... and this brought back memories of listening to those songs back when I was in high school... and then I thought about how long ago that was.

And then, right as I was finishing up... Rick Astley came on! I got "Rick Rolled" in the pizza place!

[jiarby]

It's been so long since I played text adventures. I love 'em.

This was really my first intro to computers... playing a civil war re-enactment text game. You had to spend your money, buy bullets, buy food, etc.. and see who wins the battle!

[Aethian]

How come no one has mentioned Danger Mouse, Mighty Mouse, and MST3K?

For some reason...I had a crush on Danger Mouse...*coughs*

[Racket_Man]

How come no one has mentioned Danger Mouse, Mighty Mouse, and MST3K?

For some reason...I had a crush on Danger Mouse...*coughs*

*sniff* but but MST3K was not all that long ago

I miss Turkey Day all day Thanksgiving day on Comedy Central when they had it

and the original Mighty Mouse was a Terrytoon theater cartoon (like Heckle and Jeckle and Casper) from the 40's and 50's.

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