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20 something years ago you ask your parents if you can get a really cool futuristic game called Deus Ex and suddenly you’re grounded because they heard “day of sex” |
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fast forward a couple years and you’re sweating bullets wanting to get a game called SSX |
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May 9, 2020 17:33
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you’ve been playing red alert 2 for the past year at your best friend’s house because his dad is a tech guy and set up multiple computers. christmas rolls around and you end up with your own copy. you’re playing the allied campaign and having fun with it, but decide to change over to the soviet campaign. your mom walks in on you watching the cutscene for the first mission and some angry russian dude yells “destroy the pentagon!!!” 9/11 was just a few months ago |
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May 9, 2020 17:37
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back in my day i had to scrounge for double a batteries so i could play dynamite heady on my game gear for 5 minutes. whipper snappers with their "rechargeable" devices, bah!
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May 9, 2020 18:09
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You little shavers don't appreciate that there Nintendo Switch for the miracle that it is. Let me tell you a story about a little company called Tiger Electronics...
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May 9, 2020 19:23
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Heather Papps posted:back in my day i had to scrounge for double a batteries so i could play dynamite heady on my game gear for 5 minutes. 6 batteries good for approx. one car ride's worth of sonic triple trouble. the battery monster
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May 9, 2020 19:50
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I remember bringing my Gameboy on family holidays and trying to avoid the sun. I also remember trying in vain to catch the lamplight during the return journeys too. It brought a whole new level of challenge to Tetris. |
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May 10, 2020 00:27
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I had something similar to this, it was rad. Lights and a magnifying glass, and it only added a pound while eating 4 AAs? Hell yeah!
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May 10, 2020 14:50
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you’re 10 years old and want to play doom, but your parents refuse because the game is “satanic”, fast forward four years and quake comes out, complete with pentagrams and a bonus that gives you 666 health |
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May 10, 2020 16:13
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Walking uphill both ways through 6 feet of snow to put a quarter into an Asteroids game at the arcade until I could get good enough to max out the score (without flipping it) with a bunch of extra lives on deck. Then Donkey Kong happened... |
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May 10, 2020 16:25
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nowadays doki doki is a joke(y), but in my day it was a panic
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May 10, 2020 17:58
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we didn’t have posting, if you wanted to be lied to about hidden finishing moves in killer instinct you had to talk to the kid who smelled like lunchables
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May 10, 2020 17:59
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The ol' 64, now that was a console. Cartridges, and simple ones too- some of 'em couldn't even save! Why I remember renting Quest 64 at the mom & pop video store- that's how we usedta try out new games, you see. This was before Blockbuster took over and that was before Blockbuster went bust, but the point is, it was Quest 64. Not Quake mind you, Quest. Wunnadem R P Gs with the free bread and the sword techniques, and there weren't no map! Least not one that wouldn't getcha turned all around and suddenly you're walking to the last town not the next one! And there was this island you could get stuck on by saving without enough pick-me-ups... but that was the trick, you couldn't save at all without the memory card! Dag-blasted Super Nintendo carts could save but not Quest 64, nossir. Nossir. Now my pappy, he only rented one game at a time, and god save you if it was Quest 64 and you didn't have no memory card, you'd be tryin' to beat that there RPG in one sitting, and that just made it more likely t' get lost on that there island! You could get yourself into a corner on that island and there ain't no save to go back to, it's just stuck! Dag blast map getting you all backwards too, sometimes... [continues for eight hours}
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May 10, 2020 19:43
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We had to write our OWN games, and we were HAPPY for it! 10 INPUT "What is your name: "; U$ 20 PRINT "Hello "; U$ 30 INPUT "How many stars do you want: "; N 40 S$ = "" 50 FOR I = 1 TO N 60 S$ = S$ + "*" 70 NEXT I 80 PRINT S$ 90 INPUT "Do you want more stars? "; A$ 100 IF LEN(A$) = 0 THEN GOTO 90 110 A$ = LEFT$(A$, 1) 120 IF A$ = "Y" OR A$ = "y" THEN GOTO 30 130 PRINT "Goodbye "; U$ 140 END |
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May 10, 2020 19:50
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Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:We had to write our OWN games, and we were HAPPY for it! You joke, but my parents told me about how they used to buy magazines and the magazine would have the source code for a game and if you wanted to play it you had to type it all in. Gross Dude fucked around with this message at 20:24 on May 10, 2020 |
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May 10, 2020 20:22
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Gross Dude posted:You joke, but my parents told me about how they used to buy magazines and the magazine would have the source code for a game and if you wanted to play it you had to type it all in. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-in_program |
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May 10, 2020 20:24
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Gross Dude posted:You joke, but my parents told me about how they used to buy magazines and the magazine would have the source code for a game and if you wanted to play it you had to type it all in. Oh, I'm not joking... https://i.imgur.com/QKTkerO.mp4 |
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May 10, 2020 20:42
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Only 90s kids will remember the begging their parents for Smokes on Sega, the game that came with a pack of menthol marlboros |
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May 10, 2020 21:48
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Gross Dude posted:You joke, but my parents told me about how they used to buy magazines and the magazine would have the source code for a game and if you wanted to play it you had to type it all in.        Pick one and I will "Upload"* the programs in it *By taking a photo of it |
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May 11, 2020 07:36
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This one rocks |
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May 11, 2020 07:57
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Here is the homework checker And the casette recorder   And hell yes here is the first installment of Commandos   THERE IS A COMPUTER CALLED THE DICK SMITH WIZZARD  
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May 11, 2020 08:34
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king gizzard and the dick smith wizzard |
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May 11, 2020 18:37
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Jaguars! posted:Here is the homework checker I love the idea of programming something to do simple math for you to see if you did it right but not to tell you the answer, when you could just type the equation in and get the right answer. |
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May 11, 2020 21:20
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a BASIC programming cartridge
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May 11, 2020 21:29
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programming sold separately
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May 11, 2020 21:29
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Jaguars! posted:
Throw back a bottle of beer |
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May 12, 2020 01:04
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dick smith wizzard (wizzard!) throw back a bottle of beer dick smith wizzard (wizzard!) i got your book of code right here
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May 12, 2020 02:53
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my father tells me a story about tripping and dropping a box of punchcards and them getting all scrambled whenever i complain about any aspect of modern technology
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May 12, 2020 13:55
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Macnult posted:king gizzard and the dick smith wizzard
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:I remember bringing my Gameboy on family holidays and trying to avoid the sun. I also remember trying in vain to catch the lamplight during the return journeys too. It brought a whole new level of challenge to Tetris. I saw your username and I immediately thought that Papers Please would make a kickn' rad gameboy game if you really tortured the user interface enough
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