What makes you feel old?
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Many threads and people on this forum, surprisingly not this one so much (as there's plenty more "old" farts for balance).
Constant references to girls (not women?), losing virginity, weird teen trends, talk of school, rage at unrageworthy matters and the like make me feel so fucking old. I'm not even 30 yet you little shits, what have you done to me?!
Constant references to girls (not women?), losing virginity, weird teen trends, talk of school, rage at unrageworthy matters and the like make me feel so fucking old. I'm not even 30 yet you little shits, what have you done to me?!
Oh believe me, I know I have no right to feel old. My sister's best friend plays in the local community band with me and she says I make her feel old because she used to change my diapers while she was in high school.Grouchy Imp said:
I just can't help thinking about when I was in Kindergarten when I see my nephew running around enjoying himself.
I'll be 35 in a week, everything makes me feel old. But if I had to list a few specifics:
-Kids today will never understand that we had to go to dark, smoky, noisy arcades and drop quarters into primitive electronic machines to play the latest games.
-Dungeons and Dragons has gone through four editions and is working on a fifth.
-I saw Winona Ryder, the "it girl" of my generation in the new Star Trek movie, and she looked like the middle-aged woman that she is.
-"Classic rock" stations now play music from the 80s and 90s.
-And so do the PA systems at supermarkets and department stores.
-Kids today will never understand that we had to go to dark, smoky, noisy arcades and drop quarters into primitive electronic machines to play the latest games.
-Dungeons and Dragons has gone through four editions and is working on a fifth.
-I saw Winona Ryder, the "it girl" of my generation in the new Star Trek movie, and she looked like the middle-aged woman that she is.
-"Classic rock" stations now play music from the 80s and 90s.
-And so do the PA systems at supermarkets and department stores.
This seems to be such a popular topic everywhere. People reflecting things in relation to their past and now, which goes on for basically all of us. Nothing bad in it I guess. It's just an interesting phenomenon.
I'm 23. I'm not old and I don't feel old.
I'm 23. I'm not old and I don't feel old.
Generally it's realising that things that I thought of as being quite recent turning out to be 10-5 years old, film X being released in 1998 and realising that's 14 years ago. That always makes the passage of time hit home.
Also being on here and hearing all the young kids talk about classic bands or games of what have you, considered to be the progenitor of a genre and I realise that this was 20 years ago and I was their age when it came out. For example I was a young teenager and Nirvana and grunge was the new thing, the rave scene was at its height.
That's what really hits I think, hearing what was new when you were young being referred to as classic and being put into a social historical setting because it gives you a frame of reference for your own thoughts on older generations. I am to the younger generation what someone born in 1958 was to me. People who as young teenagers listened to The Doors, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest etc. Those were classic bands that, especially when I was a young teenager, felt like part of another era, old enough to be history...and now that's me.
Also being on here and hearing all the young kids talk about classic bands or games of what have you, considered to be the progenitor of a genre and I realise that this was 20 years ago and I was their age when it came out. For example I was a young teenager and Nirvana and grunge was the new thing, the rave scene was at its height.
That's what really hits I think, hearing what was new when you were young being referred to as classic and being put into a social historical setting because it gives you a frame of reference for your own thoughts on older generations. I am to the younger generation what someone born in 1958 was to me. People who as young teenagers listened to The Doors, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest etc. Those were classic bands that, especially when I was a young teenager, felt like part of another era, old enough to be history...and now that's me.
The escapist makes me feel old sometimes. And more problematically gaming culture in general has that effect.
I even include myself in that statement fella. If I dared to complain about being old my (older) sister would kick my ass!Redlin5 said:
As for feeling old, imagine how old you'll feel the first time your nephew comes out with "God I feel old...". See? I reckon you're now feeling positively sprightly!
Aside from the floppy disk and VHS examples that have been mentioned to death, I'd have to say that I feel old when I realize that I first played Pokemon Blue when I was 5, then Silver when I was 7. 12 years later, I'm playing a complete revamp of those two generations, with Pokemon I don't even recognize.
Still, Pokemon is the ultimate nostalgia fuel for a 90s kid, man.
Also, some gamer kids I meet these days don't know what a Nintendo 64 is, yet they play the remakes on the 3DS. Just try to wrap your mind around that for a second.
Still, Pokemon is the ultimate nostalgia fuel for a 90s kid, man.
Also, some gamer kids I meet these days don't know what a Nintendo 64 is, yet they play the remakes on the 3DS. Just try to wrap your mind around that for a second.
Hahaha indeed. I remember owning one of those... How that could ever be considered portable I'll never know. The thing was as portable as an house brick and took 4 AA's to power... Those were the days. I start feeling old when I play a PSP and I'm astonished with the graphics... Sometimes just not being able to get my head round it. Just looking back and remembering when portable graphics consisted mostly of sprites.AngloDoom said:
Also start feeling old when I here kids state (I grew up on the PS2/Xbox) or not knowing what a PSone is.
That or when I start mentioning films made in the mid 90's and up to be "relatively new". Or I think back and remember it's been 5 years since I left high school.
I'll take the size and added weight of those four AA batteries over what Sega Game Gear owners had to put up with. That thing would chew through batteries like nobody's business. I had a friend with one who never even bothered to use it without the wall adapter.Sovvolf said:
The GameBoy Pocket was pretty bad in the battery department too. Using two AAA batteries gave it a lifetime of like, what, five hours of game time? Maybe?
/sigh. I do miss my old gray brick GameBoy though. I think I still have it around here somewhere. Probably with all my other old game systems.
Though to be fair the Gamegear did have a large graphical advantage in comparison to the Gameboy. I'd dare say that the graphics were just under that of a gameboy advanced which for its time was incredible. The big problem was, as you said, it had no battery life at all (think 4-5 hours on fresh, out the packet batteries). Could only be played with an adapter (which would get steaming hot fast) and those not at all portable... At that point you might as well had just stuck your Master System and saved yourself/parents £150... They had pretty much the same games.Tuesday Night Fever said:
Yeah, graphically the Game Gear was pretty impressive. I remember watching my friend playing Sonic on it and feeling an overwhelming amount of envy. But in retrospect, I'm glad I had the GameBoy instead. It was less expensive to keep batteries in it, it was more portable, and let's face it... it had far more games. Hell, even just looking at the good GameBoy games, the GameBoy still had a significantly larger library than all of the Game Gear's games. And the games weren't as expensive, either.Sovvolf said:
I don't feel old.
I'm not on medicare, I don't have to pay a mortgage, I'm not planning out my pension or discussing with my wife where it may be best to retire.
Are you? No, didn't think so.
Quit yer' whining, you dern kids, and stop playin yer dern Backstreet Men and Milli Vaniller so gosh dern loud!
I'm not on medicare, I don't have to pay a mortgage, I'm not planning out my pension or discussing with my wife where it may be best to retire.
Are you? No, didn't think so.
Quit yer' whining, you dern kids, and stop playin yer dern Backstreet Men and Milli Vaniller so gosh dern loud!