The True Scary Realizations of a Nerd

[Original Sin]

Commander Keen, the original Duke Nukem (no, not 3d. Duke wasn't nearly as bad ass in the old days.) Wolfenstein 3D was the shit back then, but that all changed when Doom came out and rocked the PC world. Angles that aren't 90 degrees? WHAT DEVILRY IS THIS?!?!?!??!

[Blaze]

There are still people who consider the CD-ROM drive a cupholder. And mean it.

[Original Sin]

There are still people who consider the CD-ROM drive a cupholder. And mean it.

In this case, a shotgun can qualify as natural selection.

[x5060]

text based bitch!
old school is great, but I'll take HL2 over anything text based now haha.

I had text based games, i also had captain keen. and tank! Lets talk about 8 inch floppies, which i also have.

I used to play Comm 64 at my friends house.
He had a working one up until like 3 years ago. Not sure if he still has it or not, I haven't talked to him for a while.

A Comm 64 is nothin, remmember when you had to MAKE your own computer? Litterally go out and buy the Dram chips (which where expensive) and soilder the sockets to boards? All based on the VERY advanced IBM 8060 processor that did a WHOOPING 6 MHz.

And 5.25" floppies are nothing. The 8" one are what you want, topping the scales at a whole 255 KB (those where the high density ones, low density was 64K)

[sam]

i pirated my trs80 & apple II games off a IU bbs to an audio tape drive & countless floppies

another realization: mario is not the cool cat he once was

[Blacktop]

I used to use the Commodore, and the Amiga 500, too. I think I had a Supramodem of some kind...The good ol' days of Hack 'n Slash. =] I still look around for MUDs sometimes these days--there aren't very many good ones left.

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[Original Sin]

'Fun' in video games is being killed off by pretty graphics.
Every now and then you'll get a game that looks nice, AND is fun and addictive...though they're harder to find than they were in the good
'ol days.

[sam]

i think you guys fail to realize that when it was 2d we had quite a lot of crap as well. hell, when atari was huge even mcdonalds was giving out games!

[sam]

today my psu died and took the hsf with it. i had to go pickup a new one and being the poor ass i am i decided to go the cheapest 350 watt psu and cheapest hsf i could find. both have blue leds. now for my revleation:

the cheaper in hardware you go the more blinking lights it has

[Green Tea]

Commander Keen, the original Duke Nukem (no, not 3d. Duke wasn't nearly as bad ass in the old days.) Wolfenstein 3D was the shit back then, but that all changed when Doom came out and rocked the PC world. Angles that aren't 90 degrees? WHAT DEVILRY IS THIS?!?!?!??!

Commander keen and the original duke nukem series were the pinnacle of my childhood pretty much any apogee game (now that's a company you probably haven't heard in a long time) I was actually sent a large archive containing all the old games I used to love... I'm not sure if it's considered abandonware yet, since those companies don't really exist anymore, I think it is abandonware...

the commodore 64 is what I grew up on... EPYX's summer games and Pitstop II nothing will compare to the crazy button mashing known as summer games. Or the wonderful tractor feed dot-matrix printers weren't those a blast to work with?!

In my opinion, the best gaming machine of all time will remain as the commodore 64... I still have mine up and running when I need a break from the real world (and I don't feel like going to play DDR *GASP*)

Speaking of the old 5.25" floppies, that reminds me of an archaic "computer skills" class I took in 6th grade. The teacher the day before requested we brought floppy disks to store something on. A student came in the next day and said: "I couldn't find any floppy disks, all I had were hard disks" (obviously refering to the 3.5" floppy as hard disk and that only the 5.25" disks were floppy).

[Original Sin]

When I was a kid the floppy disk/vs. hard disk confused the hell outta me too. But, I got over that.
I was actually deprived of video games until I was in 6th grade. It sucked.

[SirPhobos]

sad realization: i've spent the whole day fucking with a single computer which is not mine. i need a beer.

[Ho]

There are people these days on the internet that have not, and will not ever hear a modem speaker dialing & handshaking.

Dude, I've used an acoustic coupler!

[LikeableRodent]

There are people these days on the internet that have not, and will not ever hear a modem speaker dialing & handshaking.

Dude, I've used an acoustic coupler!

The man has a point. There's a previous generation of computer nerds before yours that find it scary that nerds today have never done xxx or used yyy. Hate to break it to you, but you people trying to sound old school really aren't. You may be old school to your generation, but there's plenty of other people that go back even further.

[x5060]

There's a previous generation of computer nerds before yours that find it scary that nerds today have never done xxx

Yeah, cause all us old fogies have done lots of porn. What can i say, our brains really turn women on.

There are people these days on the internet that have not, and will not ever hear a modem speaker dialing & handshaking.

Dude, I've used an acoustic coupler!

I was soooooo exceited when i first discovered the wonders of the TCP/IP Stack.

P.S. acoustic couplers are fun! I might still have mine. =)
I liked freaking my friends out with it. they told me they had to make a phone call, and id run and put one end on the coupler and start the process. Then hand them the cordless phone (which was a brick at the time) and they would flip out and tell me theres something wrong with my phone. Ah, what it was like to be young.