Now, when I was a young boy...

[BiscuitTrouser]

took me into the city... to see a marching band.

Sorry had to do that.

"When i was a lad we had to get up before we went to sleep and walk 10 miles to school in the snow while our fathers drove behind and yelled abuse at us. And we loved it"

 

[joebthegreat]

I'd say. "Damn kid, you want me to buy this game for you? No. You can play my old N64. I'm going to buy this new shiny console and awesome new game for myself!"

Then the kid would grow up to only like old games and our house would be one of constant war... with Nerf Guns and ammo caches all over the house.

ps i know HALO is not that realistic. but it had the elements of limited weapons and no health bar

Yeah, but limited weapons was a game balance thing, and the regenerating health was a story and gameplay thing. Absolutely none of it was really focused on realism.

Goldeneye was a grey/brown shooter with horrendous AI and based only on some vague
East European threat trying to "take over the world" or some crap. Clearly just British jingoistic masturbation with too much focus on realism.

/troll

Seriously though, your attacks against Halo are about as off as that attack against Goldeneye was. Halo is not at ALL the decent of the shooter into modern realism and grey/brown. You can put the original World War 2 shooters into that category, from well before Halo.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

When I was a kid we used to have violent videogames, but we had to think of the children and there gone

We use to drink alcohol, but we had to think of the children so it was banned

We used to play sports, but sometimes other kids lost so we had to get rid of sports because we had to think the children.

We used of have some much variety of food to eat, but some kids got fat, and now we eat dried vitamin tablets because we had to think the children.

And so on...

 

[TOGSolid]

When I was a kid, our games were torturous tests of skill and endurance and damnit, we liked it!


Also:

When I was a young warthoooooooog!

 

[antidonkey]

When I was a kid we didn't have these fancy rocket packs and teleporter........we had to drive to school!

 

[wrightguy0]

way back when i was knee high to a grasshopper, if i wanted to see an orange freak, i went to the circus, not my TV

When i was just a whippersnapper MTV actually played music videos

in my day Spam was a meat like product for people who were too poor for real meat, or felt that preservatives built character

 

[Pariah87]

When I was a lad, I ate four dozen eggs
every morning to help me get large.
And now that I'm grown, I eat five dozen eggs
so I'm roughly the size of a baaaaarge!

Bloody hell, Beauty and the Beast...sad that I recognised it.

When I was your age, Fags cost £3 a packet, the bus cost 80p to get into town, we could smoke in pubs. When we played war we did it with sticks whilst making machine gun noises, none of this K/D ratio, kill streak perk bollocks. We had music on the radio that wasn't dominated by X Factor. Alcopops were only just becoming fashionable. We had to rewind our VHS tapes after watching them and that could take forever. VHS tapes cost over £10 when new. It took half an hour to download a song.

When I was your age there was a Woolworths in nearly every town. Cadbury was still a British owned company. You were allowed outside when it was snowing, you could (and were actively encouraged to) play conkers. We only had 4 tv channels. Smacking badly behaved children was perfectly fine. Speed cameras didn't exist. I was 7 when we had the first national lottery. I remember going to the cinema to watch Jurrassic Park.

Yeah, if I can say this to 16 year olds now and have them give me blank expressions, imagine what I'll be like if I ever have grand children? :s

 

[Twilight.falls]

Back in my day, we had only 649 Pokemon, you kids today with your 1831 newfangled critters are spoiled, we had that 600 and we LIKED EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM. We only had Black and White versions, sonny. Those were the good days.

 

[D Moness]

Every time i read this topic title i keep thinking of this.

Yes my mind works in very weird ways

When I wasss a youngggg warthoooogggggggggggggggggggg

 

[Aethren]

I came to this thread expecting My Chemical Romance.

I am disappoint.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

ooo, *post picture*

Spoiler

Yay, I wanted to post that for so long.

 

[thylasos]

When I were a lad, we had 8 bits, and we were happy with it!

 

[El Poncho]

Back in my day politicians were lieing big cats! We had to survive on lies! None of your goodie two shoes politicians now a days.

[small] I can dream can't I!? [/small]

 

[Fujor]

When I were a lad all this was fields, and it were rubbish!

all I got for christmas was a bit of string and me dad used to wrap it round me neck.

add something about eating coal.

and ..... nostalgia.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

When I was a young lad, we didn't have DVD's or Downloadable versions of Movies! We had VHS'S, and Game Cartridges! And while they weren't heavy, they were rather big, and certainly stronger then your darn DVD's!

And the Anime when I was a young lad was A million times better then the Anime you wippersnappers have!

 

[TAGM]

Back in my day, we still thought Global Warming was a threat!