Phoenix Arrow said:
Ok, so I just read through the first page of this thread and now I feel really old. Is this how it happens Escapist? I lose interest in the forums for a while and suddenly I'm old? I'm not even old ffs, this is a wind up.
But people posting Xbox and PS2 games... remember when the Xbox first came out? The PS2 has already been out for a while and already killed off the Dreamcast with a shovel and Microsoft decided they'd step up to the plate. I seem to remember noone I knew bother to buy one, they were more expensive and obviously untested. Noone really gave a crap about any of the release titles until my friend told me about this game called Halo and a whole new breed of fanboy was born.
I know I'm not the oldest by any means on here, but I do realize most our fellow escapees are late teens/ early twenties. I always find it kinda amusing when someone talks about playing games like Crash Bandicoot as a kid. I was playing it already out of college. The Dreamcast was in fact a huge drinking game system among my friends. PSX was our more serious system.
I remember saving up my allowance for the Sega Genesis when it still came with Altered Beast. Always preferred the Sega systems to Nintendo, plus my brother always got the Nintendo equivelances so we both had the best of both worlds available. I remember going into the game store and drooling over the Neo Geo when it first came out. Took me around four years to finally get one. And by then it was already dead, but I had always wanted one and found one fairly cheap at a garage sale along with several games.
I remember when Windows first came out. So annoying! Spent all those years typing everything I wanted to do, learning all the abreviations, just for some operating system to come out and change how games were made. I still tried to just stick with DOS for as long as I could. Moo.exe definitely got ran more than Win.exe!
I remember the day my uncle brought us our first IBM compatible machine. It did sooo much, sooo quickly! No more typing "run" on our old Commodore 64 and then going outside to play for an hour or two while the game loaded. No Superman nor Batman, IBM was definitely my hero as a kid.
Hehe, I remember playing Marathon on my father's Mac because it was like the ONLY game available on it. He never understood why I cried every time he'd buy me a new Might and Magic game. Never understood that meant I'd have to just read the manual for a month till it was time for me to go back home to my mom. He still has no idea.
But anywho... that's what age will do for ya'! Reminiscion for the win.
