Feeling Old

[xPrometheusx]

This is in date enough to be relevant.

I've not had that yet, but it's coming like a freight train

...You're a terrible person. Seriously. I saw Finding Nemo in theaters when I was 7 or 8. Back when my family actually went to see all the Pixar movies. Ah the memories... jeez, they haven't made a movie that was interesting enough for me to consider seeing in years. I think their movie next year is a prequel to monsters inc, though. Monsters university. Looked funny, maybe I'll see that.

But in all seriousness, I'm still adjusting to the fact that its 2012. My mind says it's still 2008. Doesn't FEEL like it's been 4 years...

*Edit: Someone brought up cartoon network cartoons. Great example. Fosters Home and Megas XLR are both like.... 7 or 8 years old now. So is Teen Titans. Man... old cartoons. At least they're getting good replacements though, with the exception of spongebob, which looks like is just going to keep struggling forward until it dies. Adventure Time and Regular Show are definitely some of the best cartoons ever made. And Avatar the Last Airbender, though that's not as old. Season 2 is, I guess. Wut was up with the 2 year gap there? Lol. Wonder if there's going to be a good american anime replacement to it sometime soon.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

The first video game I ever played was for a device that has been obsolete for nearly a decade (Pokémon Gold Version, in case anyone's wondering.)

Jaysus Chroist.

 

[shrekfan246]

The first video game I ever played was . . . Pokémon Gold Version . . .

Jaysus Chroist.

Back in my day there were only 151 Pokemon, and only 150 were legally available in the games!

Damn whippersnappers!

Spoiler

Seriously. My first post in this thread was mentioning how I own a copy of Pokemon Red that's literally almost older than some of the people posting on these forums.

Thank you, for making me feel even older.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Well, from a gaming related point of view, someone on these forums once remarked that Halo was the first FPS they'd ever played when they were a kid.

The first FPS I ever played was Wolfenstein 3D, which came out in 1991. I was 11 years old at the time.

Ouch.

Yikes. Even I had played Doom and Star Wars: Dark Forces/Dark Forces II long before Halo was released.

Also, Shadowcaster. Nobody ever talks about that game. Or Betrayal at Krondor. I technically shouldn't even remember those, myself, but I do! Mostly because my computer isn't ancient enough to actually play the old disc of Betrayal at Krondor that my dad owns.

I never did beat that game...

My first FPS was probably Goldeneye, but that's likely due to that fact that I didn't have a pc to play games on until 2000ish. I was a little young for Doom during the 90's anyway.

Yup, another 29 y.o. Wolf 3D and Doom player here. I also watched my older brother play Eye of the Beholder, and thinking this is some crazy format of RPG, they managed to turn what people do with polyhedral dice into a video game, what genius!

Going through the list over at GOG.com and checking their release dates will make you feel pretty old, especially the old Sierra adventure games, Descent, Planescape, X-Com, etc.

 

[RedLister]

22years old. Few months time will be 23.

All those mentionings of Doom and wolfenstein. I remembered i ran it on MS DOS when i was a lad. My father somehow custermised it into a blue menu of somesort with a list of programs to run (like D for Doom1, E for Doom2 etc) Made it easier for me because i couldn't remember all the commands.

That makes me feel a bit older.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

The first video game I ever played was . . . Pokémon Gold Version . . .

Jaysus Chroist.

Back in my day there were only 151 Pokemon, and only 150 were legally available in the games!

Damn whippersnappers!

Spoiler

Seriously. My first post in this thread was mentioning how I own a copy of Pokemon Red that's literally almost older than some of the people posting on these forums.

Thank you, for making me feel even older.

Glad to be of service.

If it makes you feel any better, I was born in 1995, and the original Red/Green versions weren't created until 1996. Red and Blue didn't leave Japan until late 1998, so I'm roughly three years older than your cartridge. In fact, I'm older than Pokémon itself!

...

Urgh.

 

[Autumnflame]

Git oof me internet lawn yer young whipper snappers.

i am 29 and i am a crotchety old man

 

[alandavidson]

Probably the fact that when I play very physical sports I tend to play "old man game" (I used to have a reputation for being reckless and pulling crazy shit on the field). Also, getting out of bed hurts.

And my niece can talk to me. Sort of.

Captcha: Face the music.

I have, Captcha. I have.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

Oh you think that's bad, next year, I'm going to be spending time knocking people born in the year 2000 out of my way at school!

Yea, I got nothing.

 

[Avalanche91]

Listening to pop music makes me feel old.'Seriously? this is what the kids today are into? Back to my classic rock cave.'

 

[Fasckira]

I keep finding grey hairs in my hairline and beard. Im only 28 so thats a bit meh. I wish it would go all grey at once though, so I can adopt a sophisticated appearance as opposed to a mottled cat look.

 

[Easton Dark]

If you watch old Cartoon Network commercial bumps.

And see them saying a new episode of one of your favorite shows was up next.

And then realize that it was cancelled years ago.

That makes you feel old.

Ed, Edd, and Eddy in case you were wondering.

 

[Rack]

Things that make me feel old...

Elijah Wood is now 30, he was 18 when he was in The Lord of the Rings.

God DAMN you. I was okay with everything till that, but I thought I was basically the same age when that film came out as I am now.

 

[loc978]

People born in the 90s who can legally drink in the US. People in their early 20s feeling old. Goddammit, I'm 31 and I often make other people feel old.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

Was there any moment that stopped you in your tracks and forced you to look at your old withering form? Here I was minding my own business when I realized that there are people who use these forums now that are younger than the N64... holy shit, I couldn't wrap my head around this concept. It's easy to feel like time exists in a vacuum until things hit close to home like that. Gives perspective to the whole aging thing.

So yeah, I've been told 23's a good age but never really felt like I had aged at all in the last few years until just the other day. Has this happened to anyone of you?

Also, sorry if the whole "kids here are younger than the N64" thing caught any of you off-guard and triggered this phenomenon. I feel you bro.

... Oh, and The Matrix came out 13 years ago. Fuck.

I'm 40 and I have a 16 year old daughter. So yeah, you just described my everyday. Now get off my lawn.

 

[Reaper195]

I'm 22. I'm not, nor will I feel old, until I'm well into my sixties. Sure, a movie came out sixteen years ago. THat's not old, that's only sixteen years ago. King Kong came out three quarters of a century ago. That's old.

 

[Blunderboy]

Hmmm this is a well timed thread considering I've just turned the ripe old age of 26 today.

It happens now and then but even when I was a teenager I never really understood other teenagers. I've been an old git since I was about 14.

 

[Frybird]

It's possible that people watch "The Ring" and never watched a film on VHS...or more likely, clicked on the "Save" Button of a program without really knowing what the little disk icon stands for (and for me, that wasn't even the oldest kind of disk i used. I remember Floppy Disks being Floppy).

But more funny/disturbing/depressing to me than those "Remember that movie? It's 20 Years old!" is when movies that are set in "the present" as well as the future/past feel weirdly nostalgic.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I'm 31, going on 32. And the one thing guaranteed to make me feel old, more than anything else, is hearing people a decade younger than me bemoaning how old they feel.

 

[Bertylicious]

You're not old until time starts slipping away. You wake up on Monday and on Friday you can't remember getting there. Whilst you're thinking a month has passed and you wonder when your birthday is, your cousin/niece/friend's kid who was born on Tuesday reminds you that you'll be 30 tommorow whilst asking you what secondary school is like.

That isn't so bad in and of itself as long as you've developed a specialism instead of useless potential, got a mortgage instead of living with friends, gotten married rather than persue selfish pleasure. Otherwise the whole wretched business rapidly descends into a meaningless slog through a barren vale of tears.

On the positive side you can stay up as late as you want and buy all the video games you like.