The Good Ol' Days

[stompy]

Hey man, you're giving off negative vibes, they're harshing my buzz! But that might just be Code Chrono's great big glaring typo.

Ah, a hippy! Run!

But, uh, no, if I'm 'harshing you buzz' (bloody hippy...), go somewhere else, away from my bitterness. Because I'm bitter, and, well, too lazy to finish off the rest of this sentence...

- A procrastinator

 

[Hey Joe]

I miss the good ol' days when we sacrificed virgins to appease our gods. That was fun.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Ah, back in my days this was all just 1's and 0's.

I miss Kid's programmes being unintentionally naughty and not just toy ads.
I miss Pirate Radio.
I miss 7 minute waits to load a game from a dodgy tape recorder, whilst listening to this...
LMAO, this just sent my cat wild [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AmOd33jXqWM]
I miss halfpenny sweets, Texan Bars and 5p Tomato Snaps.
And the old Monster Munch.

I'm all depressed now. Frak!

Oh I really miss not being addicted to Nicotine and Caffeine as well.

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

I miss the days when completing a game meant waiting for the cassette to load the next level of "Sly Spy" or "Last Ninja 2" on the C64. (Awesome games BTW.) AND MY CRAPPY LN2 CASSETTE WOULDN'T LOAD PAST THE SECOND LEVEL THE MOTHERB-TCH!!!

 

[Duck Sandwich]

I miss the good ol' days when my friends weren't busy 24/7 / living out of town.
I miss good saturday morning cartoons like Spider-Man, Mega Man, and X-Men.

 

[00exmachina]

I miss the days when a trench coat was just a shorter version of a duster and not perceived as badge for the maladjusted.

I miss the days when I though a 20 mile round trip on a bicycle to get somewhere was 'no big deal', as well as The Tick (animated), Sam and Max (animated), and when the scifi channel's only break from scifi was on Saturday mornings when they played anime

 

[cleverlymadeup]

i miss the good old days when you could beat your kids for mouthing off to you
i miss the good old days when those damn kids stayed the hell off my lawn

i miss the good old days when you knew who was going to die in star trek based on what colour of shirt they had
i miss the good old days when the most fearsome entities in the universe could be stopped by a set of stairs

 

[Anarchemitis]

I miss the good old days when winning in a fight relied on skill, prowess, intelligence, ability and wit. Not (Quoth the Yahtzee) press tigger make mans fall down. That's why I like air combat games. Until the USA develops laserguns, there's still a method of fighting that relies on oneself being chivalrous and skilled.

Coincidentally, I miss the good old days when Flak was an effective method of Anti-Air.

 

[Saskwach]

I miss the good old days when winning in a fight relied on skill, prowess, intelligence, ability and wit. Not (Quoth the Yahtzee) press tigger make mans fall down. That's why I like air combat games. Until the USA develops laserguns, there's still a method of fighting that relies on oneself being chivalrous and skilled.

Coincidentally, I miss the good old days when Flak was an effective method of Anti-Air.

Perhaps you should join me in mainlining my drug of choice: defcrack- I mean defcon. Yes I'm recruiting, and it's because I miss the good ol' days when strategy games were about strategy, not hotkeys, and speed clicking.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I miss the days when there were only 3 channels but you could still watch something. Even if it was the creepy testcard.

Now I have 200 and still nothing to watch.

 

[Leonhardt93]

I miss the good old days when the only thing to do in case of war was to burn your draft-letter, light a joint and drive a VW!

I miss the good old days when children got what they deserved and when snooty teenagers did'nt exist!

I miss the good old days when it was standard practice to invite the mailman in for a beer! (I've actually tried this and he said: "Screw you, i have letters to deliver!" True story!

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I miss the good old days when the only thing to do in case of war was to burn your draft-letter, light a joint and drive a VW!

I miss the good old days when children got what they deserved and when snooty teenagers did'nt exist!

actually the former caused the latter

i miss the good old days when you could hose down hippies with a firehose and soap

 

[Sammich]

I miss the good old days when I had my brother around to do the tough bits in Super Mario Bros. 1 for me.
I miss the good old days when good cartoons used to be on TV.
I miss the good old days when I didn't have the knowledge said cartoons actually weren't that great.
I miss the good old days where I could spend weeks, no, months playing or replaying a game rather than a couple of hours.

...I feel old now.

 

[windfish]

I miss the good ol' days when there were less morons on the Escapist.

Don't you mean "fewer"?

I miss the good old days when we didn't have cellphones - when we just knew where we were going and when we going to be there, and if something unexpected happened, we had a "fudge" plan or a contingency plan or something. And there were some times when we couldn't be reached and could have some peace and quiet without people getting angry that you turned off your phone. I also miss being able to remember phone numbers, and names.

I miss the good old days when 12-year-olds didn't curse like sailors.

I miss ska.

 

[Saskwach]

I miss the good old days when we didn't have cellphones - when we just knew where we were going and when we going to be there, and if something unexpected happened, we had a "fudge" plan or a contingency plan or something. And there were some times when we couldn't be reached and could have some piece and quiet without people getting angry that you turned off your phone. I also miss being able to remember phone numbers, and names.

QFT
Mobiles are my bane for not only this reason but also because my father went from luddite to mobile phone addict who will call me for no reason at all a few times every day.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I miss the good ol' days when there were less morons on the Escapist.

Don't you mean "fewer"?

And if you look to your left, you can see a burn.

I miss rap having a sense of humor about itself and people who recognized that living in the ghetto and doing drugs and killing people was a bad thing, as opposed to a point of pride.

I miss watching Get Smart. It was my favorite show, and I don't like what I know about the upcoming movie. Max as a janitor? Come on...

I miss games that were so hard that no one ever beat them fairly.

I miss the old BBS days, back when downloading the Barney mod for Doom 1 was a few hours work. (1.62 MB mod, as I recall)

I miss when Oscar was allowed to be grouchy and Cookie Monster ate cookies and Snuffy was imaginary and I think I miss Mr. Hooper most of all.

I miss lawn darts and toy guns and rusty metal monkey bars over concrete, they helped kids not grow up so wimpy.

- J

 

[wilsonscrazybed]

I miss when Oscar was allowed to be grouchy and Cookie Monster ate cookies and Snuffy was imaginary and I think I miss Mr. Hooper most of all.



- J

RIP Mr. Hooper

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

You think 15 is too young to be bitter? You've seen nothing yet...

Oh, and I miss the good ol' days when innocence could be retained past the age of 5...

- A procrastinator

I miss the days when I was still innocent at 15.

 

[Arbre]

I miss the days of the Arcade. You're never going to experience anything like that anymore, until holodecks become real and remain very expensive for the average Joe.

I miss the days of deaths on the road. I don't know if numbers are tweaked when it comes to asphalt related casualties, but the speed limits are really becoming retarded, because some idiots can't behave themselves. Of course, these speed limits only apply to the people, not those who govern (they don't care about limitations, and change drivers as soon as they need to until the next one looses his/her driving licence, because he/she didn't want to loose his/her job).

I miss the 70s. There was much more snow during winter then.

I miss the days when I could say this is shite and not have a legion of dogooders telling me judging is morally bad.

I miss the days of Turrican II.

I miss the days of video gaming experience preceding the one above.

I miss the days when Hollywood seemed to deliver more original content, not prequels, sequels, remakes and other countless adaptations.

 

[Gigantor]

I miss the good ol' days when Gigantor used to pose as MGG to get attention.

I miss those good old days too! I don't think it'll fly any more, though, what with his having skipped happily off to pastures new.

I miss the good ol' days when I didn't have to shave. Honestly, it's such a bloody chore.