I definitely remember having rewound a cassette with a pencil... and yet I can't imagine why in God's name you would want to do that, apart from boredom when you could just press rewind surely? >_>
NightHawk21 said:
I was coming home from a day at the university and I saw these 3 kids in grade 9 so about 14 years old talking about how they had so much work to do because they had a test on equations of the line and a 1 page essay in the same week. After hearing that I couldn't help but realize that kids these days don't know what having real work is.
Could just be you get more work as school/education progresses.
NightmareLuna said:
Yeah, I feel a bit old when I am around my two smaller cousins. They really look up to me and call me when they need help with something but one day I showed them my old NES games because I knew they have never seen one before, and what did they say?
"What? Seriously, what the hell is this?"
"What awful graphics, only 2 buttons, I can't believe you played this shit."
"This is not fun, this is just boring."
Although I expected this reaction I was a bit stumped and old.
Kids nowadays.
In fairness though, it's easy to look back at some things in gaming with a modern perspective and realize that some things were ****ing absurd.
Like the Atari 2600 joystick. It is terrible. Just terrible. The stick is too stiff and the button barely even goes down IIRC. Mind you, it's been many many years since I played my 2600...
Also, the entire CONCEPT of using a JOYSTICK for games even into the early/mid 90s. People who used Amigas/Atari STs etc. will know what I mean.
What was the point? Maybe it's just being using to joypads for most of my life at this stage, but to imagine playing games like SWIV or even platforms that require some timing and reflexes with a Zip Stick is crazy. Joypads had already been well established by the NES at least so I don't know why sticks seemed to be so popular then.
Also, why the Amiga seemed to only ever have 1 fire button. Despite using the same controller ports as the Mega Drive, so it wasn't some kind of hardware limitation, it just seems that 1 button controllers must have been the focus for God knows what reason, even to the point of ruining Street Fighter II when they blatantly could have allowed 6 button pads. /rant.
Floppy disks were an annoying whore too. Sure, it was fine to have 2, but once it became 3 or 4 or more and you were switching disks every time you did anything it was a nightmare, even today on an emulator.
Scarim Coral said:
Anyway we were talking about stuff I do and I use the phrase "surf the net". He was baffle at that phrase and I said it's a phrase use to say you use the internet and that "what how people say it". He just reply back "who are these people you're referring to?". His comment make me think of which people who use that phrase but I keep getting blank realising that no one use that phrase anymore...
Y interweb no called Info Super Highway no more? ;'(
nikki191 said:
people dont say surf the net anymore? but.. they.. im so confused and old
Me too, I just thought they never stopped saying that
Maybe we're like, GENUINELY getting old and out of touch with "the kids"? =O
Batou667 said:
You pass an older man in the street, and instead of avoiding eye contact, he says good morning to you..
But... but... but... he's supposed to treat you with a mix of disgust, fear and suspicion
freakydan said:
Another cousin of mine saw my VCR sitting in my room, and asked me what the hell it was. I told him, and he asked me if I ever used it. I told him I did, on occasion. He asked me what kind of movies I still had on tape cassette, and I stopped myself before saying "Well, porn, for one," then realized that I didn't have to stop myself, because this young whippersnapper who had no idea what a VCR was actually 18
How can somebody not have used VHS tapes and be 18?... *Thinks* 2011 - 18 = 1993 if it happened this year. DVDs weren't exactly ubiquitous until some time in the early 2000s...
Did he live in a box until he was 10? :O
