Memories of ancient technology

Trollheart · 02-26-2015, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

My Walkman had a clip so I could hook it on the outside of my pocket.

I think Ki meant a Discman. Since he mentioned CDs. Walkmen were good because you could get small ones (I had one the size of about a pack of cigarettes, very slim and silver.)

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Originally Posted by grindy

My first electronic game device, a soviet knock-off of the Nintendo Game & Watch, where you had to catch eggs rolling down from four hen's nests.

Was the game "Worker vs Parasite"?

grindy · 02-26-2015, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Was the game "Worker vs Parasite"?

**Janszoon** · 02-26-2015, 07:08 AM

Since we're talking about handheld games, I had this bad boy back in the day:

Black Francis · 02-26-2015, 08:16 AM

^ I had a frogger one.

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Originally Posted by monkeytennis

Great thread. I did the CD player in pocket thing

. I remember around 1999/00 everybody had a Gameboy Color and played Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow, I never had one and used to play on my mate's ones. Always wanted to play that.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._System_II.jpg

This was my first games console, I got it about 1997, second hand. It had Castle of Illusion (Mickey Mouse) on it, and a game you didn't need a cartridge to play, called Alex Kidd.

I had this console too and i remember it having very few games locally available for it cause it was the sega master system 2 a transition console between the 1st sega and the genesis

It was sorta like owning a Jaguar when everybody had a snes, sure your console was more unique but there were barely any games for it.

RoxyRollah · 02-26-2015, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Since we're talking about handheld games, I had this bad boy back in the day:

How did you cart this arcade game with you.

Plankton · 02-26-2015, 08:55 AM

My first radio. I'd cruise the neighborhood blasting Super CFL and WLS.

As for handheld games, this was always my goto:

...I've lost my train of thought again...

FRED HALE SR. · 02-26-2015, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Plankton

My first radio. I'd cruise the neighborhood blasting Super CFL and WLS.

As for handheld games, this was always my goto:

...I've lost my train of thought again...

Hell yeah Mattell was where it was at. I had the head to head football game and also the Space Invaders version. I never had so much fun watching a dash/- run over a screen in my life.

**Frownland** · 02-26-2015, 09:46 AM

In fourth or fifth grade I used to have a friend who had a portable CD player and we would listen to albums I would bring while we rode the bus to and from school. I supplanted the headphone splitter, my headphones, and the CDs. After a couple of months of doing this I had a CD wallet filled with about 40-50 CDs. One day my friend didn't come on the bus so I didn't end up listening to any music and just put my backpack under my seat as usual. When I got home I wanted to listen to something on my little boombox and I reached into my bag to find nothing there. It had fallen out of the bag or some dirty little cunt (well, probably a rather large cunt to me at the time) of a high schooler had lifted it and were listening to all of my dad rock staples.

My dad was fucking livid, especially since he didn't know that I was borrowing his CDs. Probably lost about 400-600 dollars in CDs that he still hasn't replaced. At least he's actually buying better CDs in the meantime.

Key · 02-26-2015, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

My Walkman had a clip so I could hook it on the outside of my pocket.

Jealous.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 02-26-2015, 10:04 AM

This was my first ever video game so to speak.

It was a calculator with a game called digi invaders on it.

Basically you controlled the number on the left and you would scroll from 0 to 9 by pressing the . key. Then when that number matched one advancing on the right you pressed 0 to eliminate it. The little n's were like a bonus and appeared between 9 and 0 and would make a satisfying 'Pewwwwwww' noise when you got them. If the numbers advancing reached your 3 lines you lost a life.

I spent hours playing this.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	In fourth or fifth grade I used to have a friend who had a portable CD player and we would listen to albums I would bring while we rode the bus to and from school. I supplanted the headphone splitter, my headphones, and the CDs. After a couple of months of doing this I had a CD wallet filled with about 40-50 CDs. One day my friend didn't come on the bus so I didn't end up listening to any music and just put my backpack under my seat as usual. When I got home I wanted to listen to something on my little boombox and I reached into my bag to find nothing there. It had fallen out of the bag or some dirty little cunt (well, probably a rather large cunt to me at the time) of a high schooler had lifted it and were listening to all of my dad rock staples. My dad was fucking livid, especially since he didn't know that I was borrowing his CDs. Probably lost about 400-600 dollars in CDs that he still hasn't replaced. At least he's actually buying better CDs in the meantime. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	This was my first ever video game so to speak. It was a calculator with a game called digi invaders on it. Basically you controlled the number on the left and you would scroll from 0 to 9 by pressing the . key. Then when that number matched one advancing on the right you pressed 0 to eliminate it. The little n's were like a bonus and appeared between 9 and 0 and would make a satisfying 'Pewwwwwww' noise when you got them. If the numbers advancing reached your 3 lines you lost a life. I spent hours playing this. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.