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It's official. I'm extremely old (and Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale is an OAP)
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01-08-2012 3:59pm#1I just watched this video on the BBC and shed a tear at the naievety of today's youth.... then cried in to my tea as it just dawned on me how exospherically OLD I actually am.
It's all over. This is the end.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-190557073
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Maybe someday other truths will dawn on you, like for instance the fact that Darius is a poor mans Gradius :P
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Hey, I resent the old jokes!
I'm hip, down with the youff!
I listen to the rap music, I like hipputy hop, stock aiken and waterman are the bomb so they are!
Wrong! It's all about looking as non human as possible and swearing repeatedly while not making any sense these days.
Aside from that I'm glad I know about retro stuff and not just playing COD or Halo or whatever.0 -
atavan-halen wrote: »Aside from that I'm glad I know that Darius is better than Gradius and Salmonhamburger.
FYP.
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I just watched this video on the BBC and shed a tear at the naievety of today's youth.... then cried in to my tea as it just dawned on me how exospherically OLD I actually am.
It's all over. This is the end.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19055707
Yep, I bought Buggy boy and Last Ninja 2 way back when. I have to say Last Ninja still looks amazing when you consider the power of the C64.
I seem to have blocked out any bad memories relating to failed loads. (Although I'm sure they happened offten) but I do recall having to bring my tape deck in for repair to have the heads realigned every now and again.
I'm off to play Barbarian on Vice and listen to the ocean loader on repeat for a few hours. Damn I love that machine.0 -
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I don't think I ever had a load fail error. Usually the game would just get stuck at the loading screen indefinitely, although that might just be because the game has terrible load times, or else the game would load horribly glitched although this sometimes brought it's own hilarity like when Street Fighter 2 loaded for me once and everything was fine except every time I hit the enemy the would split into 6 sprites and fly across the screen as if they exploded. I that was pretty much the only enjoyment I got out of that game.
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Anyone remember the ad for Game Over for the C64, featured a wardrobe malfunction that was then covered over by either a box out or a bit of air brushing!
Here's the censored art,
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Even though I had a C64, I was always under the impression that, aside from Commodore Format, Spectrum magazines on the whole were better and had better cover tapes.
I never bought any obviously as I never owned a Spectrum, but flipping through them in WH Smiths on a Saturday morning made me think so anyway...
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That's the thing that gets me. The reaction from the children, it really does make you feel infinitely old (well, not as old as Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale who is nearly dead
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It's hard to believe 1990, for example, was 22 years ago. Feels like yesterday. 0 -
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Some one from boards I was talking to was talking about the great old days of Sega. I mentioned the C64 to him. 'What the hell is a C64'....
The worst thing is that most Europeans think that the NES was the big 8-bit machine that defined our generation thanks to all the US gaming coverage. The Master System had a bigger foothold in Europe than the NES and even then it was nothing compared to the home computers.
Actually the same person I was talking to above never heard of the 2600 and thought the NES was the first ever games console.
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That's the thing that gets me. The reaction from the children, it really does make you feel infinitely old (well, not as old as Adultappleflavouredbeveragemale who is nearly dead).
It's hard to believe 1990, for example, was 22 years ago. Feels like yesterday.
Ah no it doesn't, not unless you've been in a coma since. Only thing I remember from 1990 was the World Cup - Packie Bonner's penalty save against Romania and you lot getting dumped out by the Germans on penalties again. :pac:
/Edit: You're Googling for a '66 Bobby Moore pic aren't you?0 -
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Ah no it doesn't, not unless you've been in a coma since. Only thing I remember from 1990 was the World Cup - Packie Bonner's penalty save against Romania and you lot getting dumped out by the Germans on penalties again. :pac:
Pfft! Shuddup you!
It's a genuine indicator of being super old though, when you look at Italia 90 being 22 years ago and remember watching it on the telly vividly. Heck I even remember Shilton leaping to save that free kick and stubbing my toe on the coffee table in a furious rage!0 -
Haha, now that I remember, my cousin got the speccy around the same time Italia 90 was on. They kept kicking us off the tv so they could watch matches!
Remember we hung the Irish flag outside the house back when the entire street did the same. We went in to Dublin airport to see the team come back - was incredible the amount of people there and seeing the team on the open top bus (well it was for a youngster anyway).
Speaking of the Speccy - only remember one chap in school that had one. Seemed fun, kind of, rubbish compared to the C64 anyway. 0 -
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Pfft! Shuddup you!
It's a genuine indicator of being super old though, when you look at Italia 90 being 22 years ago and remember watching it on the telly vividly. Heck I even remember Shilton leaping to save that free kick and stubbing my toe on the coffee table in a furious rage!
Em, he didn't save it though.
Actually I remember Mexico '86. Brazil losing on penos to Platini's France I think. Oh and a certain Argentine magician, didn't work out too well for you guys that time either. 0 -
Retr0gamer wrote: »Some one from boards I was talking to was talking about the great old days of Sega. I mentioned the C64 to him. 'What the hell is a C64'....
The worst thing is that most Europeans think that the NES was the big 8-bit machine that defined our generation thanks to all the US gaming coverage. The Master System had a bigger foothold in Europe than the NES and even then it was nothing compared to the home computers.
Actually the same person I was talking to above never heard of the 2600 and thought the NES was the first ever games console.
When Atari brought out the 2600 compilation for the PS2 a few years back, I bought it for the kids(and me). I put on the Formula 1 game and the kids looked at the screen, frowned, then looked at me. They wanted to know what the big block with the other smaller blocks at the corners were and what the funny noise was. When I told them that they were the cars and the car noise, they looked at me like I had two heads, in that 'Dad, Seriously?' way.0 -
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Oh and a certain Argentine magician, didn't work out too well for you guys that time either.
Yeah well he was a midget buttpedaller, f**k him.
Still doesn't take away from the fact England won a world cup and Ireland haven't.
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Remember we hung the Irish flag outside the house back when the entire street did the same. We went in to Dublin airport to see the team come back - was incredible the amount of people there and seeing the team on the open top bus (well it was for a youngster anyway).
There really was an amazing buzz around that world cup. It's one of those cases where it's not just nostalgia speaking either, everyone was literally on a high from it.
I doubt it's something we'll ever experience again in our lifetime!Speaking of the Speccy - only remember one chap in school that had one. Seemed fun, kind of, rubbish compared to the C64 anyway.
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Yeah well he was a midget buttpedaller, f**k him.
Still doesn't take away from the fact England won a world cup and Ireland haven't.
We haven't won the world cup, it's true. But we're Irish and not English so will always be winners in that sense:D 0 -
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You need to qualify for a World Cup first.
MEOW!
And as long as French men have hands, we never will
Hah, on the subject of that, a cousin of mine was so angry after that match that he decided to burn a picture of Thierry Henry.
The mistake he made was videoing it and uploading it to youtube.
The thing ended up getting millions of hits. It was even shown on CNN over in the states.
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Wow , 1990 !
I remember us Dutch barely beating the Irish two years before that in Germany but we ended up becoming European champions, for some strange reason I somehow remember the Irish being led by a Giraffe that tournament .
Dunno why
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