"Do you remember when.."

[dogenzakaminion]

do you remember when they announced duke nukem forever?

Actually no, I don't...

Do you remember when game info wasn't available on the web, so people bought gaming magazines?

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

Pffft. Do you remember when all you had were 3 lives to get you through the entire game? None of this regenerating health malarkey or checkpoints, it was use them up and bam, back to the beginning of the game.

The number of times my old Amiga joysticks nearly got thrown through windows during Gods, Zool, Rainbow Islands...

Good one XD

Do you remember when walkthroughs were extremely hard to find and you could take years to finish a game, with entire nights looking for the gawd damn button that opened the door to the secret passage, or trying to find the weakness of that annoying boss.

Captcha: oonste leacock

 

[Squilookle]

Do you remember when a new game came out- complete and not needing any patches, and as you looked through it at all the features, you were satisfied that everything that should have been included in the game was, and then some? X-Wing and TIE-Fighter come rushing to mind.

 

[The_Yeti]

Do you remember Intelligent Cube.

Yeah, I went there.

 

[Durananrananrananran]

do you remember when you had to make a bootdisk with a different autoexec.bat to free up enough RAM to run a PC game?

 

[Realitycrash]

Do you remember when the community on the internet was still reasonably civil? That's all gone to hell now...

You mean when the "internet" was a dozen webbased-bulletinboards that only a handfull of true nerds understood and used? Where you more or less HAD to be civil, or you would get banned from said board, and thus you had no "internet"?

Yeah..I actually do.

 

[Safaia]

Do you remember doing research for school without the internet?

 

[Shymer]

Do you remember trying to get Thorin to carry you so you could climb through the window of the goblin prison?

Do you remember the loading music for Ocean games on the C64?

Do you remember trying to tape a game using audio leads?

Do you remember 'programming' games by typing in commands printed in magazines?

Do you remember UUCP, UUEncode and email before MIME?

 

[Xyphon]

Do you remember when game manuals weren't just there to tell you the controls? Remember when they actually had info on the story, character bios, weapon info and/or statistics and were 20-30 pages long instead of 4?

 

[Deus mortuus est]

Do you remember the time before browsers when using the internet was hard as hell?

 

[Realitycrash]

Do you remember doing research for school without the internet?

Yeah, I used the Encyclopedia Britannica for everything. Worked like Wikipedia, but shit-load slower.

OT; Do you remember having to leave a video-game on during the night when you went to sleep, because there was no save-function?

 

[Kiltguy]

Do you remember: Press play on tape..?

Yeah, dos where the days...

Before you started run in the rat-race...

When everything had a slower pace...

And loading screens meant you could go out and play...

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Do you remember wanting a Powerglove and luckily never getting one?
Do you remember the Fury induced by Wings of Fury? ( after hours i managed to start and land, i tried again a few weeks again and had no chance)
Do you remember playing with a Joystick? And ruining them with Winter/California/Summer Games?
Do you remember playing on a PC with several people?
Do you remember blowing into cartridges?

Do you remember when games came in big lovely designed boxes.With 1-3 Manuals and booklets, huge maps and little gimmicks?

 

[Realitycrash]

Do you remember when we had to swap disks throughout the game?

Several RPGs have that nowdays as well, though. Well, okey..Fallout 3 still do (but "several" from Fallout 2 have gone down to just two options), but Dragon Age and others kinda don't. It's all either "bad option" or "good option".

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Most importantly, do you rember the third word in the seventh line of page 53 of the Manual?

 

[Xerosch]

Do you remember when we still had healthmeters?

And this a minute after I finished 'Quake' for the 100th time!

Do you remember when you played your favourite game for the first time?
Do you remember when you had to Dial-A-Pirate and mix cocktails to get into a game?
Do you remember hearing iconic game music for the first time?

 

[Shodan1980]

Do you remember fiddling with the volume control on a tape deck to try and make a game work?

Do you remember when a joystick was an essential gaming peripheral? (shoosh flight sim fans)

Do you remember when the Lucasarts logo used to be a sure sign that the contents were solid gold?

Do you remember hearing about hard drives and thinking "why would I need that? I've got floppies for my saves"

Do you remember Amiga vs Atari?

Ninjaed on joysticks

Do you remember that I'm selling these fine leather jackets?

 

[Purplecoyote]

Do you remember when install screens were just bright blue with the title in a cheap font on the left?

 

[Realitycrash]

Do you remember when we still had healthmeters?

Do you remember when you had to Dial-A-Pirate and mix cocktails to get into a game?
?

..And I was just about to say this;

Most importantly, do you rember the third word in the seventh line of page 53 of the Manual?

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Do you remember the days we had non-stop Mac VS PC discussions? And people used Southpark avatars? Those days were. . . Utter shit. Just like now.

='(

OT: Remember when the only way to play multi-player was for someone to move their ass to the other's house?