1. 03-19-11 03:22 PM #1
    pavyracer
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    How many guys here grew up before Laptops, Internet, Cell Phones and Playstation?

    Maybe a handful.
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  2. 03-19-11 03:30 PM #2
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    IBM, pagers, sega genesis
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  3. 03-19-11 03:31 PM #3
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    me!!!!

    used to love playing Dr. J vs Magic on my commadore 64
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  4. 03-19-11 03:33 PM #4
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    etch/a/sketch was the only video game available.
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  5. 03-19-11 03:34 PM #5
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  6. 03-19-11 03:41 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by MBENZ View Post
    etch/a/sketch was the only video game available.
    I think I had the pong game in high school.
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  7. 03-19-11 03:46 PM #7
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    me...we had an Atari at home and a VHS to watch movies.
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  8. 03-19-11 03:48 PM #8
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    VHS--I had a betamax and a mattel electronic football game--also, 2XL, Lite Brite and various other 70's specials
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  9. 03-19-11 03:48 PM #9
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    who cares b/c all of us use it now
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  10. 03-19-11 03:49 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by RichardMoss View Post
    me...we had an Atari at home and a VHS to watch movies.
    this
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  11. 03-19-11 03:50 PM #11
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    Commodore 64 ruled because it was a computer yet we could copy games on floppy disks--Summer Games was good
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  12. 03-19-11 03:51 PM #12
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    I grew up with the C64 and Intellivision, still have my Intellivision to this day
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  13. 03-19-11 03:53 PM #13
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    Intellivision was great except their was no computer opponent. I used to have a controller in each hand and play baseball against myself
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  14. 03-19-11 03:53 PM #14
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    Quote Originally Posted by pokernut9999 View Post
    I think I had the pong game in high school.
    I remember playing a game in Jr. High called Oregon Trail.
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  15. 03-19-11 04:11 PM #15
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    Had a Vic 20. Colecovision was THE gaming system. It was all about the wood floor model tvs. We were big time. We had a remote without a wire, till my sister put it in a toy stroller and filled it with milk.

    I made a trade for a portable stereo with 8 track.

    Music videos were the thing. You would know about a Micheal Jackson video premier about a month ahead of time. You couldn't wait. It was like a movie.

    Internet? The only thing you hooked your computer to was a tape deck that would be for data cassettes.

    Internet? Later on there was dial up and BBSes. I remember downloading game that were 300 kbs and I would go to sleep while it was downloading. Had to do that at night so you wouldn't get a call that would drop your connection. I thought I was the man when I bought my 14.4 modem.

    My stepfather ran his business with a pager. I talked him into moving to a cell so he wouldn't have to leave the construction site every time he got a page. He still misses that brick phone.

    My first cell was the Nokia 100 when I was 16.

    My first car had a Kenwood Cassette deck that I put in.

    James
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  16. 03-19-11 04:13 PM #16
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    Quote Originally Posted by SamsNCharge99 View Post
    who cares b/c all of us use it now
    You never forget where you came from.

    James
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  17. 03-19-11 04:15 PM #17
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    We had VHS. I remember going to video stores and seeing a small section of Betamax movies. I think my first VHS player (4 head Panasonic) is still downstairs in the closet.

    James
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  18. 03-19-11 04:17 PM #18
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    very solid posts Flexy.

    I also had a coleco vision.

    played lots of qubert and had some sort of really cool driving game, that you had to have a steering wheel for...

    some name like Turbo Drive or Turbo force....
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  19. 03-19-11 04:18 PM #19
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    Have you all beat. Born pre color TV.
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  20. 03-19-11 04:24 PM #20
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    Atari, VHS, Tandy 1000, when I was in high school I was big time because I had a cell phone that was in a bag with a cord that looked like I was calling in goddamn artillery strikes in sector 4
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  21. 03-19-11 04:25 PM #21
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    How many people grew up here before manual typewriters, telegrams, phonographs and cup n ball???????????

    Not fukkin many of you i bet.
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  22. 03-19-11 04:25 PM #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by gafl View Post
    Have you all beat. Born pre color TV.


    wow.

    respect..... you are were around for the Dodgers and Giants in NY!!!!!

    i'm envious

    Ralph Branca, Duke Snider..... good times

    did you ever see a game at the Polo grounds?
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  23. 03-19-11 04:27 PM #23
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    Quote Originally Posted by gafl View Post
    Have you all beat. Born pre color TV.
    I hear ya,I was 12 before I knew what it was.
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  24. 03-19-11 04:31 PM #24
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    Atari 2600, scrambled cable porn.

    Sweet ass

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  25. 03-19-11 04:31 PM #25
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    Grew up at the north end of Manhattan. Favorite team growing up was the Giants. Saw alot of games at the Polo Grounds. Went to Yankee Stadium once in awhile. Ebbets Field once. Best baseball with Mays, Mantle and Snider.
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  26. 03-19-11 04:32 PM #26
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    Quote Originally Posted by THE PROFIT View Post
    a cell phone that was in a bag with a cord that looked like I was calling in goddamn artillery strikes in sector 4
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  27. 03-19-11 04:33 PM #27
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    MBENZ, good to have company.
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  28. 03-19-11 04:33 PM #28
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    scrambled porn.......
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  29. 03-19-11 04:35 PM #29
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    super nintendo donkey kong was the shit
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  30. 03-19-11 04:38 PM #30
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    i grew up when being inside was a punishment of the worst kind.
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  31. 03-19-11 04:41 PM #31
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    That's true. Always outside, no matter what the weather.
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  32. 03-19-11 04:46 PM #32
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    Quote Originally Posted by THE PROFIT View Post
    Atari, VHS, Tandy 1000, when I was in high school I was big time because I had a cell phone that was in a bag with a cord that looked like I was calling in goddamn artillery strikes in sector 4
    never heard of any of those products...



    ...just kidding saw them in a museum once.
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  33. 03-19-11 04:50 PM #33
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    N64, Gameboy, Sega Genesis
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  34. 03-19-11 04:52 PM #34
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    Me.
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    I was in Jr. HS when cable was introduced to families.
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  35. 03-19-11 04:53 PM #35
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    grew up with nintendo, didn't get cable where I lived till 95.
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