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For the old farts out there...
You guys might have seen this one before. I got this forward from a friend and it made me pee my pants laughing. Maybe I should have been crying instead, it made me feel so old....
"When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious
diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up;
what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill
both ways through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger
siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they
maintained a Straight-A average despite their full-time
after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35
cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to
death. And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there
was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on
kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it.
But....Now that I've reached the ripe old age o f twenty-nine, I
can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've
got it so fuckin' easy. I mean, compared to my childhood, you live
in a goddamned Utopia. And I hate to say it but you kids today, you
don't know how good you've got it. I mean, when I was a kid we
didn't have The Internet-- we wanted to know something, we had to
go to the goddamned library and look it up ourselves. And there was
no email. We had to actually write somebody a letter--with a pen.
And then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it
in the fuckin' mailbox and it would take like a week to get there.
And there were no MP3s or Napsters. You wanted to steal music, you
had to go to the goddamned record store and shop lift it yourself.
Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the
DJ'd usually talk over the begining and fuck it all up . We didn't
have fancy shit like Call Waiting. If you were on the phone and
somebody else called they got a busy signal. And we didn't have
fancy Caller ID Boxes either. When the the phone rang, you had no
idea who it was - it could be your boss, your mom, a collections
agent, your drug dealer, you didn't know... You just had to pick it
up and take your chances, mister. And we didn't have any fancy Sony
Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics. We had
the Atari 2600. With games like "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids"
and the graphics sucked ass. Your guy was a little square. You had
to use your imagination. And there were no multiple levels or
screens, it was just one screen forever. And you could never win,
the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died. Just
like LIFE. When you went to the movie theatre there was no such thing
as stadium seating. All the seats were the same height. A tall guy
sat in front of you, you were screwed. And sure, we had cable
television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there
was no onscreen menu. You had to use a little book called a TV
Guide to find out what was on. And there was no Cartoon Network.
You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning...D'ya hear what
the fuck I'm saying?. We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little
bastards. That's exactly what I'm talking about. You kids today
have got it too easy.
You're spoiled, I swear to God. You guys wouldn't last five
minutes back in 1984!"
*sigh*
...sad but true...
haahahahahaha
love it! i remember the good old atari days... still have mine too 
Loved the Atari though... with the cop and robber game... and the little tarzan one.
ahhh yes... kids these days have it a lot easier 
And the guy forgot to mention the atrocious hairstyles we had to go through in the 80's and early 90's 
at least atari made qualitiy games!!
atari >> ps2
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| Originally posted by Resnick at least atari made qualitiy games!! atari >> ps2 |
Re: For the old farts out there...
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| Originally posted by Arcticboy "And there was no Cartoon Network. You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning...D'ya hear what the fuck I'm saying?. We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards. That's exactly what I'm talking about. You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled, I swear to God. You guys wouldn't last five minutes back in 1984!" |
Weird Al has a really funny song called "When I was your age"
check it out if you got time
sorry peeps, there is no club mix of that one
Re: For the old farts out there...
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| Originally posted by Arcticboy And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died. Just like LIFE. |
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| Originally posted by Resnick at least atari made qualitiy games!! atari >> ps2 |
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| Originally posted by TrueToTheCrew Pitfall was my favourite of them all. Swinging from a vine over a pond just so the aligator wouldnt eat you. |
stupid side steps. completely dumb. shoes were cooler too.
Pumps, or Air Jordans (LA Gear was played out).
Good thing I missed out on the MJ.
Interesting fact:
My dad's brother invented Caller ID.
******s here at Bell and Rogers should give it to me free. 
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| Originally posted by tatgirl Interesting fact: My dad's brother invented Caller ID. |
Invented caller ID??? Wow, then maybe your dad's brother can give you some of the millions he should have made off this so you can pay Bell for the service.
As for old video games, back in 1978 when I was 8 and living in this tiny town in Virginia (Reston, VA), the only entertainment in the area was this bowling centre, which also had a pinball room. And in that pinball room, there was this new state-of-the-art game, SPACE INVADERS!!! Man, it was SOOOOO cool! I would spend my allowance for the whole month playing it each time we went there! Of course, there was no winning, just like life, LOL. Oh the memories....
As for cartoons, going back even further when I was living in Iran, I remember I'd wait all fuckin week for one lousy Batman cartoon that came on Wednesday afternoon, but then every now and then it would mysteriously not come on, with no advance notice, despite a whole week of anticipation, probably cuz some religious figure or other was either born or died a thousand years earlier on that day......fucking religions!!!
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| Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the begining and fuck it all up |
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| Originally posted by Rocco sure but did he buy a patent? the only way u don't allow people to steal ur ideas is that if u keep them in your head |
atari??? i remember how amazed we were at video pong on the old black and white t.v. and i remember taping episodes of m*a*s*h on a "portable" tape recorder the size of a greyhound just to be able to listen back to it...vcr's were'nt around yet......
ahhhh, good times...
hehe remember those?
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| Originally posted by LoCa hehe remember those? |
Man this whole thread rocks. I remember when I still had an 8-track player in my room with cartridges of Cheap Trick and Boney M. The mechanism was louder than the music and you could only fast forward in sections of four blocks......essentially you had to listen to the whole thing. I also remember before my hometown (Sudbury) got FM radio....got to love that AM GOLD
"If you like Pina Collada's, and getting caught in the rain......"
hahahaha
FF
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| Originally posted by Crazy Serb HAHHAA! I remember the days as well... the good cartoons being on only on the weekend. |
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| And does anyone remember Jumpman on the Commodore 64? |
Lol.
Anybody remember using morse code to send messages to your relatives far away?
God. Those were the days..
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| Originally posted by rabbitjoker Lol. Anybody remember using morse code to send messages to your relatives far away? God. Those were the days.. |
Talking about Atari, in '84 when I was living in Madrid, Spain, I had an Atari 16 (16K memory!!) which also took cartridges but those were expensive though I loved my Donkey Kong and Defender games....
So, I bought the Atari tape player for loading games in. Remember those? Before the times of floppies. Would sit there and make fax machine noises for an hour to load in a game (and you could see the welcome screen forming line by line) and if something went wrong half way, you had to start all over!!!
Oh, and I later bought a memory UPGRADE to 64K, so now I had the biggest, baddest Atari on the block...
HaHa, I also remember our Sony beta VCR with a corded remote....what a pain in the ass!
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