How many guys here grew up before Laptops, Internet, Cell Phones and Playstation?

[shari91]

Yes.

I remember having a laser disc machine to watch movies on. Not sure if that was before or after Beta.

But the movie 'discs' were the size of a small pizza box.

And yes, being inside was definitely the worst form of punishment.

[Flexin]

Yes. I remember having a laser disc machine to watch movies on. Not sure if that was before or after Beta. But the movie 'discs' were the size of a small pizza box. And yes, being inside was definitely the worst form of punishment.

It was after Beta.

James

[doublej95]

Yes.

I remember having a laser disc machine to watch movies on. Not sure if that was before or after Beta.

But the movie 'discs' were the size of a small pizza box.

And yes, being inside was definitely the worst form of punishment.

My brother got a laser disc player for xmas one year when I was a kid. the disc where huge.

[Chandler]

Laser Disc came like a good decade or more after Beta....

Beta and VHS were in competition in the mid 80's I think

[Metalspined]

Born in the 70s...grew up in the 80s with the big hair and boys with makeup played metal :P...in any case Commodore 64, Mono VHS players, and PCs without windows but DOS 3.0 was great..:P

[FuzzyDunlop]

The discs were huge and there were like 4 to a movie, both double sided. Goonies took 7 flips.

[shari91]

Wow, that long after Beta?

I remember having a Beta machine but I think most of us born in the 70's or earlier would remember having one, but it's the laser discs that always stuck in my head. Not sure why.

[robmpink]

I did, but had atari in 82ish.

[luvtogamble]

worked most of my life as a sales rep and liked it a lot better before cell phones, email, and fax machines. people were willing to wait a day or two to get their info and now everyone wants it in a hour. was just as productive if not more so before the modern equipment.

[stevenash]

worked most of my life as a sales rep and liked it a lot better before cell phones, email, and fax machines. people were willing to wait a day or two to get their info and now everyone wants it in a hour. was just as productive if not more so before the modern equipment.

I hear you, when I was in Little League, I had to wait until Thursday of every week to get my updated MLB stats from the Sporting News, which was then the most reliable and fastest.

[jbrent95]

I was born in '73. We did not have cable or video games at home, and since I live on a farm, I wasn't able to go to a neighbor's home either.

[Flexin]

Wow, that long after Beta? I remember having a Beta machine but I think most of us born in the 70's or earlier would remember having one, but it's the laser discs that always stuck in my head. Not sure why.

Not many around here grabbed on to Betamax. I know the sections were small in the video stores. I knew one person that said they had one at one point. Laser disc was something that didn't take off really well here. I think I was in one house that had one. The cost was too high from what I remember. I used to stop into the one store that I knew that sold them and check them out all the time. I used to want one. I was young so by the time I could afford one they were even harder to come by. I was born in 75'.

James

[FourLengthsClear]

Yes.

We got a VHS player when I was about 9. I had the Atari console too but the ZX Spectrum was my first 'computer'.
48k RAM lol.

[lcscanada]

NES Excite Bike, Castlevania, and Baseball Stars ate up thousands of hours.

Had an IBM 486 SX 25 mhz and was so mad all the time cause i didn't have a math co processor chip (DX2 66) and couldn't play so many games. However, I could play X-Wing. X-Wing PC game was by far the best thing of the 90's, until I lost 30lbs and discovered vaginas

[MexicanStallion]

Not me. This is pretty much all I know. I didn't get a cell phone until Freshman year. Now I see 5 years old with cell phones.

[Reno Paul]

Had an 8 track player in my car.

[nyed1010]

some old f*cks here at SBR. Definitely much younger than most of you here, but I am old enough to say my first internet connection was this:

[mvp123]

8 track player and asteroids my fav game lmao

[NYSportsGuy210]

I remember Atari....used to play Burger Time and Donkey Kong back in the along with some racing car game. Also Q-Bert. Internet and computers were the rage when I turned about 15. I remember the home room in our freshman HS class telling us how the "internet" was gonna be the "new rage" lol.

Loved it when Nintendo first came out with Duck Hunt Super Mario Bros. and the first game called Baseball. Played it for hours on end sometimes.

[paco]

U guys are ancient.

[TobiasFunke]

What's a VHS?

[excel]

How is this even possible?

[KKoz9]

me!!!!

used to love playing Dr. J vs Magic on my commadore 64

Hell Yes, C64 was the sh!t, way ahead of it's time.

Archon, Beach-Head, many good games...

and surfing on compuserve.

[paco]

[excel]

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[sweethook]

in 1973 or 74 i busted up my older step bro,s 8 track tapes with a pepsi cola bottle , yea he beat my ass - but it would be the last time he could or would ever do it . because i told him id put that bottle up side his dam head went he went to sleep - guess he took my word for it

[Flexin]

NES Excite Bike, Castlevania, and Baseball Stars ate up thousands of hours. Had an IBM 486 SX 25 mhz and was so mad all the time cause i didn't have a math co processor chip (DX2 66) and couldn't play so many games. However, I could play X-Wing. X-Wing PC game was by far the best thing of the 90's, until I lost 30lbs and discovered vaginas

I had an IBM 486 SX 33mhz. I had the same problem. I bought an upgrade chip but from what I remember I had to return it because it didn't work for some reason.

I remember buying a Sound Blaster CD Rom kit. This gave me a CD player, sound card (no more stupid beeps) speakers and some software. I also bought some ram. I had 4 mb of ram and I believe it was 8 mb that I bought for it for $200. If I remember right I could run both sticks of ram. The Sound Blaster kit was $400. I was so excited that day to come home and install all of that by myself (and paid for it all myself). Life was good (would have been better with a DX but anyway).

James

[MBENZ]

U guys are ancient.

Maybe so,but we will have something you youngsters will never have.Imagination.

[The Madcap]

I just got done playing some Mike Tyson's Punch Out on a friend's Nintendo WII. Man did that take me back. Can't believe that game came out almost 25 years ago. Makes me feel so damn old. And we couldn't get past Sodapopinksi. That Commie fuk.

[thezbar]

Don't own a cell phone. Never played video games. Main reason for purchasing a computer was gambling. I chose to keep things as simple as possible.

[soli]

I'm guessing if we had all those electronics to deal with back in my day, it would have kept some of the guys I dealt with out of trouble.

[Brewers in 7]

Intellivision was great except their was no computer opponent. I used to have a controller in each hand and play baseball against myself

The newer versions of the games had computer oponents, baseball and football anyway.. Loved the Golf game on Intellivision and horse racing is still my favorite, nothing like betting on the Blue Horse

[capitalist pig]

I grew up without and of those things, playing games back then meant going outside and being involved in something that required physical activity.

later

[falconticket]

Good old porn on VHS.

[TheBettingMan]

In the 1970s, it was hand-held electronic games such as this baseball game from Mattel: