Without saying your age, what's something from your childhood that a younger person wouldn't understand?

[ObsidianJones]

I remember our cable box having an analogue ticker that you had to slide back and forth to change the channel.

I remember watching porn through a fuzzy screen (we obviously didn't own the channel) and getting all giggly when we could actually make out a boob.

I remember getting in trouble because my cousins and I racked up a substantial bill from The Box, an ancient music television service that played music videos 24/7, and you could pay money to pick what played next (well, to put your choice into the queue.) One night we'd played "Ice, Ice Baby" from brand new phenom Vanilla Ice like 20 times.

Oh, Damn! Boobs! I remember those. They were on these other type of humans, called women? Occasionally on guys? God, I miss those.

On women. Not the boobs on guys.

And Holy Shit. I think I remember you saying you were from Ohio originally? We got the Box in New York.


I remember praying that people would pay for "Here Comes the Hotstepper"

 

[Xprimentyl]

I remember praying that people would pay for "Here Comes the Hotstepper"

Shoulda asked us; we'd have played it for ya' and took the subsequent grounding for the team.

 

[thebobmaster]

Forget RGB cables. I remember when hooking up a system involved plugging it into the wall...and then screwing in the RF box.

 

[Chimpzy]

Forget RGB cables. I remember when hooking up a system involved plugging it into the wall...and then screwing in the RF box.

My Mega Drive had one of those. Until it broke and got replaced with a scart cable, and I was all amazeballs at how much better the games looked.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I remember watching porn through a fuzzy screen (we obviously didn't own the channel) and getting all giggly when we could actually make out a boob.

I remember dem squigly ol' tiddies.

 

[Cheetodust]

I remember when Dwayne Johnson was the least cool person in the world.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I remember dem squigly ol' tiddies.

To be honest, I'm not even sure why were were doing it; we saw so little so infrequently, most of our time was spent looking over our shoulder hoping our parents didn't catch us. Dumb little perverts we lot were.

 

[CastletonSnob]

I remember when Dwayne Johnson was the least cool person in the world.

Back when he was a bland babyface?

 

[Casual Shinji]

I remember when Dwayne Johnson was the least cool person in the world.

I too remember when Dwayne Johnson was shaped like a human being.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

When I was a kid one peso was also worth one dollar.

 

[BrawlMan]

I remember when Dwayne Johnson was the least cool person in the world.

"Rocky sucks! Rocky sucks! Rocky sucks! Rocky sucks!"

Remember that from the WWF days?


Having to go to the TV guide channel to figure out what was coming on next or have the booklet. Those used to come in the mail every couple of weeks. Those things weren't always accurate, schedules could change on a whim, or they put the wrong show in. I'm so glad those days are over.

Reading instruction manuals for console or PC gaming. Password save systems.

Swapping discs to get to the next part or to select another character.

 

[SilentPony]

I remember long car rides with the family and trying to use passing street lights to light up my gameboy color and play Pokemon.

Also I remember when the first DLC ever came out, the N64 expansion pak that unlocked new content in games.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I remember not only watching movies that were broadcast on TV, but taping them on VHS. I also watched these movies so many times that I knew when the commercial break was going to hit, and which commercial would be the last before the movie started up again (and I'd have to stop fast-forwarding).

 

[Xprimentyl]

I remember when The First Legend of Zelda game came out and was heralded as the first cartridge game to allow you to save progress using an internal battery that could purportedly last up to five years.

 

[Dalisclock]

Reading instruction manuals for console or PC gaming. Password save systems.

Swapping discs to get to the next part or to select another character.

Swapping Discs always sucked and some PC games were horrendous about it. I think The Pandora Directive came on like 6-8 CD-ROMS and you'd have to switch them quite a bit.

And I didnt remember Password Saves being much of a thing until I started watching the AVGN and SNESDRUNK but man, apparently almost every game had them and worse, they were often long and overly complicated the the point of being obnoxious. I get why a lot of older games needed passwords but why make them so long and annoying?

 

[BrawlMan]

Swapping Discs always sucked and some PC games were horrendous about it. I think The Pandora Directive came on like 6-8 CD-ROMS and you'd have to switch them quite a bit.

And I didnt remember Password Saves being much of a thing until I started watching the AVGN and SNESDRUNK but man, apparently almost every game had them and worse, they were often long and overly complicated the the point of being obnoxious. I get why a lot of older games needed passwords but why make them so long and annoying?

I don't know, make you work for that cheat code or password? Add an additional challenge to an already challenging game? I know most games on the Sega Genesis usually offered short or medium length passwords. My older brother and I used cheat codes anyway, whenever you wanted to get back to a part of a game we died on or quit on. Or just have fun.

Also, I remember when cheat code books and strategy guides were thing. Outside of dedicated hard covers of course. I know they stopped making cheat code books around 2006 and 2007ish.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Remember that from the WWF days?

Speaking of: Remember when the WWF was the WWF, before it lost a lawsuit to a panda?

 

[SilentPony]

Speaking of: Remember when the WWF was the WWF, before it lost a lawsuit to a panda?

I remember going to Babbage's and picking up WCW vs NWO WORLD TOUR for $60, and thems was '97 dollars!

 

[BrawlMan]

I remember going to Babbage's and picking up WCW vs NWO WORLD TOUR for $60, and thems was '97 dollars!

Shit dude. My bro and I got shirts like that for $15-20. You got ripped off hard.

 

[SilentPony]

Shit dude. My bro and I got shirts like that for $15-20. You got ripped off hard.

Oh no not shirts, the N64 video game