Remember when.....

[Miss Sixxy]

Ugh. Remember typewriters and corrective tape??? Trying to type a paper without errors was excruciating.

 

[dragonrazor]

Remember when everyone looked forward to the SEGA Saturn's release, only to have it intentionally killed by the COO before it could hit its prime?

 

[Dr_James]

Ugh. Remember typewriters and corrective tape??? Trying to type a paper without errors was excruciating.

I remember that too. Then I remember getting my first Sony typewriter/word processor (It could hold an entire line!)

 

[Dr_James]

Remember when everyone looked forward to the SEGA Saturn's release, only to have it intentionally killed by the COO before it could hit its prime?

It was bleeding money and ran up against the PS2 juggernaut.

 

[dragonrazor]

It was bleeding money and ran up against the PS2 juggernaut.

Or how about when Lunar for the SEGA CD was the biggest, most expansive game to exist?

 

[Dr_James]

Or how about when Lunar for the SEGA CD was the biggest, most expansive game to exist?

I never went with Sega CD. I was perfectly happy with my Genesis and Madden football and a pretty decent Battletech game.

 

[dragonrazor]

I never went with Sega CD. I was perfectly happy with my Genesis and Madden football and a pretty decent Battletech game.

I loved my SCD. Mainly because it also worked with karaoke CDs (not that I ever did karaoke) but also because some of the best games of the era were released.

 

[Dr_James]

I loved my SCD. Mainly because it also worked with karaoke CDs (not that I ever did karaoke) but also because some of the best games of the era were released.

Wait a minute, Saturn was the console with the CD player and cartridge deck, right?

Dreamcast was killed by the PS2. Sorry.

 

[dragonrazor]

Wait a minute, Saturn was the console with the CD player and cartridge deck, right?

Dreamcast was killed by the PS2. Sorry.

Dreamcast was killed by SEGA's execs deciding to abandon it for software production instead. I got schooled on that recently by a friend of mine. I had been under the impression that the COO of the US SEGA division was solely responsible for it, but he was fired prior to it.

 

[Rayne_Clowd]

remeber when you use to be so excited christmas morning you would be up and out of bed and waking everyone else up at 5am screaming MERRY CHRISTMAS and because you where a child every adult smiled and was happy for you...but now days they just growl you woke them up...I dont know why.

 

[Drunken_Angel]

remeber when you use to be so excited christmas morning you would be up and out of bed and waking everyone else up at 5am screaming MERRY CHRISTMAS and because you where a child every adult smiled and was happy for you...but now days they just growl you woke them up...I dont know why.

I didn't dare wake my parents up, besides there were cartoons to veg in front of.

Remember when you wanted a bike but got a pogo stick?... oh wait, that was me *grins*

 

[monique_minx]

remeber when you use to be so excited christmas morning you would be up and out of bed and waking everyone else up at 5am screaming MERRY CHRISTMAS and because you where a child every adult smiled and was happy for you...but now days they just growl you woke them up...I dont know why.

Lol! My parents had a rule, we weren't allowed to wake them til 7am so we put the clocks forward every year two hours....my poor parents (we told them later and they couldn't get mad cause it was Christmas)

*Giggles* DA! Oh my god, you're lucky, my parents constantly mixed up the presents between me and my sisters! It was awful!

 

[Mephistophelily]

Since we're on the game roll...

...Blowing into NES games because "that made the damn thing work".
And if it DIDN'T, you felt screwed.

I had no idea what to do when I finally got a system without cartridges. "But... But how do I blow it?"

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

Remember the first time you ever tasted pumpkin seeds..toasted and salted and good?

Remember watching Friday The 13th with your friends on Halloween night and being scared to go to sleep afterward?

Remember finding out who shot JR?

Remember primetime cat fights on Dynasty?

Remember hearing a song for the first time ad calling your boyfriend/girlfriend to say..."I heard this song and it reminded me of us"?

 

[_Raven_]

Remember when there was typing class..with typewriters not computers?
Remember Mario Brothers (that game was the shizz) and Donkey Kong?
Remember making a tent with sheets in your room when friends came over and pretending to camp out?
Remember getting glass soda bottles out of a coke machine?

 

[sallythescorpian]

Remember when computers were this strange, new, almost alien concept???

I remember computer class in school, and it consisted of the class standing around watching a teacher operate it!!!!

Does anyone remember Wang computers?? They were these HUGE yokes with the keyboard attached to the screen? and they took floppy discs (things that looked like a 45 record ni a light casing????)

Then along came Apple Mac with drop down menus? and it did things without you having to press control + alt + about three other keys, utilising all fingers thumbs, elbows, and possibly a pencil held between your teeth!!

 

[sallythescorpian]

for the purposes of translation!!


Remember when twenty quid would bring you out for the night? drinks, nite club, and chips and curry on the way home at 3 am, having been out since nine? You'd even have a little change in your pocket!

Remember when Americans had no clue what fish and chips actually was....oh wait, most still don't

Chips are chunky french fries - cut from actual potatoe and deep fried - not made from processed stuff! UGH!

I am still working on the "quid" part...

Quid is slang for pound as in £20!! Like you use buck for dollars!

 

[TheGrind]

looked like a 45 record ni a light casing????

What's a record?

 

[sallythescorpian]

Remember the days before Economic and Monetary Union - the single currency?? Before the Euro?? Going to France with Francs, Germany with the Deutsch Mark, the Drachma, Krona, Pesata, and my personal favourite, the Italian Lire.

I was in Italy at one point in the 90s, and then there was roughly 2000 lire to one Irish pound - I gave the maid cleaning our room a tip, of what I thought was £5, it turned out to be £50!! The hotel staff stuck to us like glue for the rest of the holiday, in the hopes of more big payouts!!!!

 

[sallythescorpian]

What's a record?

Well, its a flat rock that we would grind with another rock, to make a screeching noise, while we decorated the cave walls, and stretched and prepared the hides of whatever wild animals our men folk could kill with their sling shots!!!!!!

 

[monique_minx]

Well, its a flat rock that we would grind with another rock, to make a screeching noise, while we decorated the cave walls, and stretched and prepared the hides of whatever wild animals our men folk could kill with their sling shots!!!!!!

*Spews coke from my nose*

Damn it Sally!

*Still laughing as I wipe my nose and eyes with a towel*

 

[dragonrazor]

for the purposes of translation!!


Remember when twenty quid would bring you out for the night? drinks, nite club, and chips and curry on the way home at 3 am, having been out since nine? You'd even have a little change in your pocket!




Chips are chunky french fries - cut from actual potatoe and deep fried - not made from processed stuff! UGH!



Quid is slang for pound as in £20!! Like you use buck for dollars!

*grins* The closest they have in the US is either steak fries (what the French actually eat, referred to by them as Steak Frites, pronounced stekk freet) or crinkle cut fries, what some idiot over here decided to dub French Fries a few decades or so ago. Then another idiot applied the same term to the fries produced by everyone else which are little more than oversized, not quite crisped shoestring potatoes. Everytime I had fish and chips here, they used crinkle cut. But I still prefer the hush puppies. Corn meal, seasoning, onions, rolled into a ball and deep fried or baked.


And on that note, remember when 99 percent of the gaming world was inane tripe, and suddenly out of an unknown studio came Myst, based on the Jules Verne novel, Mysterious Island, a point and click adventure in surreal surroundings, captured in visually stunning detail, using a system so simple the entire game could be navigated with just the use of one's tongue (if they so wished)

 

[zydrate]

Remember when this sound meant you were connected to the internet?

 

[dragonrazor]

Remember when this sound meant you were connected to the internet?

Remember when the cure to kids was Ritalin? I do, unfortunately *glares at school district still promoting the ZOMBIFIER drug*

 

[Rayne_Clowd]

Remember when this sound meant you were connected to the internet?

OMG EVIL.....almost as bad as the fax line buzz you get when you ring one.