Society & Culture Things that Make You Feel Old

[MatthewB]

While we always had colour, i remember having a remote control TV was a HUGE luxury.

It went Dial > push button channels > REMOTE. Then of course the flat screens years later.

we always had a colour TV, dad brought the first Philips model when it came out

i was the remote control until we got a Beta video player in the early 80's

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

+ Police Quest.

Sonny Bonds!

 

[Hawk Dork]

Kings Quest

 

[PT Bar None]

Secret of Bastow Manor - C64

 

[raskolnikov]

Qix FTW.

 

[Plugger35]

First thing in colour was ABC cricket,,,,obviously after Aunty Jack

All the shops just had the cricket on to sell the sets or the test pattern

There was this famous Aunty Jack episode which changed from black and white to colour when colour tv arrived here.

I was too young to remember it though and most people here probably didn't have a colour tv then to appreciate it.

 

[Willo_]

Went to the Sydney Test a couple of years back for Jane McGrath day, did it on the cheap with the boys... Meant stayed at a backpackers in Sydney..
Want to feel old, walk in during the evening aged mid 30s and see all the overseas early 20s guys and girls around drinking.

Told the guys * this, we all work full time, next time get your own accommodation sorted and I'm having my own hotel room, I felt like a creepy old man

 

[Willo_]

Also I saw a post on FB the other day that reminded us when we did "Typing" in year 7 at High School, it was on a type writer...

 

[raskolnikov]

My favourite shows when I was very young were these

 

[Hawk Dork]

There was this famous Aunty Jack episode which changed from black and white to colour when colour tv arrived here.

I was too young to remember it though and most people here probably didn't have a colour tv then to appreciate it.

we watched it in BnW

 

[Belushi Brassiere]

I played the hell out of Commander Keen, Red Baron, Wolf 3D and Aces of the Pacific.

 

[Shell]

Sonny Bonds!

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That chick he pulls over in the red convertible is hot af

 

[Shell]

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Secret of Bastow Manor - C64

This looks a bit similar to Castle Quest.

 

[Kram]

Also I saw a post on FB the other day that reminded us when we did "Typing" in year 7 at High School, it was on a type writer...

We had it for a double last thing on a Friday afternoon y8, some of the longest 90 minutes of my life.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Being able to remember some of what you did around the time the bulk of this year's draftees were born.

 

[Simon_Nesbit]

That chick he pulls over in the red convertible is hot af

Nostalgia trip...(Helen Hots)? Wasn't she the police chief's wife/daughter?



Almost looks like a guy in drag.

 

[Paul66]

I used to sit up on Friday and Saturday nights watching TV until the Epilogue came on around 11:30 to 12:00 before the channel closed up for the night.

On SM-G781B using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[74561347]

i remember when we got our first radiola machine it was nice for the family to listen to our favourite serials but then dad broke it when the war of the worlds was broadcast as he thought aliens would come out of the radio

 

[deanc]

My favourite shows when I was very young were these

Adventure Island. Liz Harris was my first TV crush. I was a little miffed when my older sister came home and told me she was in Alvin Purples movie a few years later..!

Where is Mr Squiggle, Miss Pat/Jane and Blackboard - 'Hurry up, hurry up!'...?

 

[Billy ray]

This radio talk reminds me i need to buy a small fm radio for the coming season to listen to radio commentary at the ground. Hard things to find!

 

[Scotland]

The first VCR we got had a remote control with the cable attached, we hardly ever used it though, we just used the controls on the VCR.

That was back before the big video store chains like Blockbuster and Video Ezy took off so we would just watch the same videos over and over again.

Our local was Video City f think.

School holiday staple - 10 weeklys for $10 for 10 days. Wore out the tape mechanism on Blackadder 2-4 over the years.

 

[Shell]

Nostalgia trip...(Helen Hots)? Wasn't she the police chief's wife/daughter?

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Almost looks like a guy in drag.

I only ever had Police Quest in black and white.

She looked better in black and white

 

[Plugger35]

Our local was Video City f think.

School holiday staple - 10 weeklys for $10 for 10 days. Wore out the tape mechanism on Blackadder 2-4 over the years.

The old 10 weeklys for 10 dollar special, you would pick out maybe 3 movies that you wanted to watch then about 7 movies that were total garbage,

The sort of movies that no one else would rent which is why they were part of the deal, s**t like Caddyshack 2 or a Pauly Shore comedy like Bio Dome.

 

[JackOutback]

Our local was Video City f think.

School holiday staple - 10 weeklys for $10 for 10 days. Wore out the tape mechanism on Blackadder 2-4 over the years.

Video City FTW.

I remember getting a second video recorder so we could pirate ‘classics’ like Highlander.

 

[Kram]

Video City FTW.

I remember getting a second video recorder so we could pirate ‘classics’ like Highlander.

It worked with a lot of tapes but many it didn't with some sort of security interference I think.