Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Dylan8]

I got second place in a super mario 3 competition at the Windsor Gardens movieland. The prize was a Rowe and Jarman gift card that I used to get a Larry Johnson warm up singlet. I actually feel sorry for kids with their Netflix who will never get to experience getting 1 new release and 2 weeklies for 6 bucks.

I reckon I caught a good time to be born. I understand basically everything early 90s like tapes, casettes, Blockbuster, dial phones, video games without internet and all that shit. But I'm still 100% tech literate and down with this generation's lingo. Shit, maybe I'm not, no one says the word 'lingo'.

 

[edgie]

I got second place in a super mario 3 competition at the Windsor Gardens movieland. The prize was a Rowe and Jarman gift card that I used to get a Larry Johnson warm up singlet. I actually feel sorry for kids with their Netflix who will never get to experience getting 1 new release and 2 weeklies for 6 bucks.

Used to hire games and movies on Saturday. The video shop was closed on Sunday. Run them back at 8 or so in the morning on Monday before opening and slip in the hatch, an extra night for free.

Like, how boring is it to just click something and have it instantly?

 

[powermacs]

Used to hire games and movies on Saturday. The video shop was closed on Sunday. Run them back at 8 or so in the morning on Monday before opening and slip in the hatch, an extra night for free.

Like, how boring is it to just click something and have it instantly?

They'll also never experience the elation of finding the 1 copy that's left of the new release or the desperation of 10 yo me as I walk to the counter hoping that someone has just returned a copy of TMNT.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Ah mid week Rage on ABC3 you get to see rare videos like Davey Granby and an all shiny pink suit.

 

[powermacs]

I reckon I caught a good time to be born. I understand basically everything early 90s like tapes, casettes, Blockbuster, dial phones, video games without internet and all that shit. But I'm still 100% tech literate and down with this generation's lingo. Shit, maybe I'm not, no one says the word 'lingo'.

I'm happy that the original Nintendo was the last console I owned because I reckon I'd waste a shit load of time on modern games. Give it a few years and my kids will feel like Kenny when their friends ask where is the Super Nintendo.

 

[Janus]

I reckon I caught a good time to be born. I understand basically everything early 90s like tapes, casettes, Blockbuster, dial phones, video games without internet and all that shit. But I'm still 100% tech literate and down with this generation's lingo. Shit, maybe I'm not, no one says the word 'lingo'.

Until you've experienced the joy of downloading Roomlord for 3 days on your 300 baud modem (that's 300 bits, so 37.5 bytes per second) through Viatel and Microtex 666, you can never fully appreciate how good you really have it today. The people who went through that shit can understand anything tech, because everything is infinitely easier to use.

 

[tribey]

Haha, I thought of that when I watched it. About how R-Rated films can't even be displayed with other movies any more in SA.

Speaking of vidya gaems. Get down to Kmart, fam.

"Most excellent!"

Makes me want to play Altered Beast then go for a bite at Fast Eddies. Anytime.

 

[Dylan8]

Until you've experienced the joy of downloading Roomlord for 3 days on your 300 baud modem (that's 300 bits, so 37.5 bytes per second) through Viatel and Microtex 666, you can never fully appreciate how good you really have it today. The people who went through that shit can understand anything tech, because everything is infinitely easier to use.

Well if you're gonna turn it into a pissing content

I still scoured for unmetered content, lived under vicious data caps and spent nearly all of my pre-teen years staring at this ugly shit UI

 

[tribey]

Until you've experienced the joy of downloading Roomlord for 3 days on your 300 baud modem (that's 300 bits, so 37.5 bytes per second) through Viatel and Microtex 666, you can never fully appreciate how good you really have it today. The people who went through that shit can understand anything tech, because everything is infinitely easier to use.

Jeez. I thought I had it bad downloading a bootleg copy of Championship Manager overnight circa 2001 at 4kb/s.

That moment where you wake up and turn the monitor on hoping it didn't drop out/crash.

 

[StuMan]

I do like how everything is easier to access these days with streaming, Steam and alike.

However, I do miss some of the romance of going to Movieland and Civic video, and I especially that feeling when I'd walk out of Target/BigW/ToyWorld with a new Mega Drive or GameBoy game, studying the the box back front and back on the way home.

 

[Janus]

Jeez. I thought I had it bad downloading a bootleg copy of Championship Manager overnight circa 2001 at 4kb/s.

That moment where you wake up and turn the monitor on hoping it didn't drop out/crash.

Well, I was around 3 at the time so it's not like I didn't have other things to do The worst part was...my brother managed to erase that game with a C64 utility called Scratch Disk about a week later.

A blast from the past - if you're driving down Marion Road and head over Oaklands/Daws Road towards Hamilton Secondary College...on the left hand side there is a little group of shops. I think it's an Indian place now (before that it was a lawnmower shop). That used to be Marion Home Video. Two memories I have from my childhood - coming back from there with Ghostbusters on VHS as a new release (and playing the game on C64) and Michael Jackson's Thriller video clip playing in that store on a large (at the time) rear projection television.

Speaking of which...does anyone remember what Super Cheap Auto was before it was Super Cheap? I've been trying to remember this for ages but it's like its been permanently erased from my memory. It went Rocca Brothers > blank > Super Cheap Auto.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

I do like how everything is easier to access these days with streaming, Steam and alike.

However, I do miss some of the romance of going to Movieland and Civic video, and I especially that feeling when I'd walk out of Target/BigW/ToyWorld with a new Mega Drive or GameBoy game, studying the the box back front and back on the way home.

This guy was way before his time, all he needed was fast interwebz

 

[Dylan8]

While we're talking about old things

Who thought it would be a good idea to release a Warcraft movie now? Not when the game was peaking 9 years ago? Wasn't their entire target audience found dead in an internet cafe 6 years ago?

 

[LukeSA]

While we're talking about old things

Who thought it would be a good idea to release a Warcraft movie now? Not when the game was peaking 9 years ago? Wasn't their entire target audience found dead in an internet cafe 6 years ago?

Maybe... sounds plausible.

 

[LukeSA]

Holy shit... Triple M are playing Alice in Chains.

 

[Dylan8]

Holy shit... Triple M are playing Alice in Chains.

Triple M playing old rock hoodathunkit

 

[CrimsonRaven]

While we're talking about old things

Who thought it would be a good idea to release a Warcraft movie now? Not when the game was peaking 9 years ago? Wasn't their entire target audience found dead in an internet cafe 6 years ago?

Wouldn't have done well. Only in recent years since Marvel movies have taken off has it been considered cool to like previously nerdy stuff. A least these days people who weren't fans may go see it, good luck doing that circa 2006.

 

[Dylan8]

Wouldn't have done well. Only in recent years since Marvel movies have taken off has it been considered cool to like previously nerdy stuff. A least these days people who weren't fans may go see it, good luck doing that circa 2006.

You're probably right but man, I reckon people would have trucked to it anyway. LOTR did alright didn't it? Warcraft was huge nearly a decade ago.

 

[edgie]

I was in an ADSL blackspot, I never had broadband internet until 2007, and even then it was expensive wireless on a 2GB download limit.

You're probably right but man, I reckon people would have trucked to it anyway. LOTR did alright didn't it? Warcraft was huge nearly a decade ago.

LOTR had a different audience make up the numbers though. A combination of older people, people who just like good movies, and nerds. Being a nerd, I was one of the very few to see it in the movies in high school. Same with the Star Wars prequels (minus those who like good movies). WarCraft was huge, but again, only with nerds. It was one of those rare things that united the so often divided nerd community. Except me, cause you know, the above.

The general audience for TFA midnight screening in the cinema was at least a decade younger than when I was at the Episode III premiere, and still came up younger for the next 4 odd times I went compared to the same amount for Sith. It was gobsmacking how many people under legal drinking age were there. Even comparing the Hobbit movies to the original LOTR trilogy was still a noticeable difference in demographics.

 

[edgie]

I do like how everything is easier to access these days with streaming, Steam and alike.

However, I do miss some of the romance of going to Movieland and Civic video, and I especially that feeling when I'd walk out of Target/BigW/ToyWorld with a new Mega Drive or GameBoy game, studying the the box back front and back on the way home.

Box art and game manuals. Jesus, just looking at old school game manuals full of colour and information gives me a nostalgia chubby.

 

[PepeSilvia]

 

[StuMan]

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Mine came back online about 25mins ago.
I thought I was going have to do something crazy, like go to bed at semi reasonable time.

 

[Janus]

Box art and game manuals. Jesus, just looking at old school game manuals full of colour and information gives me a nostalgia chubby.

The manual for the game Strike Commander was a work of art. They did it in the form of a magazine annual with ads for guided missiles that you could buy like "Put it through a window!"

 

[Steve Dore]

...... on your 300 baud modem (that's 300 bits, so 37.5 bytes per second) .......

My first modem was 300 baud. Upgraded to a 2400 baud modem after a couple of years and it was sooooo fasssst. Eventually upgraded to a 14.4K modem and I remember thinking "could it possibly get any better than this"

Now I complain to my ISP because I can only get 9Mbs, that's 9,216K or 9,437,184 baud

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Big red wine night last night.

Big red night.

I may die.

If anyone is looking for me I'm under my desk.