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Posted December 20, 2012
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tinyE: I can't say that I remember the 70s, because if you remember the 70s, you weren't there.
People who were below 10 years old remember the 70s fine. And Mormons, they probably remember the 70s too.
Posted December 20, 2012
I remember Disco Duck on the Radio! Disco Disco Duck!
Posted December 20, 2012
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WhiteElk: i'm so old that Jack Lambert and The Steel Curtain were my idols growing up.
I am sorry but I can never forget the 75 Super Bowl - Your Steel Curtain and Bradshaw up against my Purple People Eaters and Fran Tarkington. Now that was football. ;-)
Posted December 20, 2012
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Lou: I am sorry but I can never forget the 75 Super Bowl - Your Steel Curtain and Bradshaw up against my Purple People Eaters and Fran Tarkington. Now that was football. ;-)
Indeed ! The 70's WERE NFL Football ! No other era i've lived has it been so good as then. i've re-watched those games of the 70's a few times in my adulthood. Is time to go back for some more !

i was only 5 when the Steelers and Vikings battled it out in Superbowl IX. But those games had big impact on me. Each year my excitement for the game increased. The Steelers were my team. Still are, through thick and thin. In high school i relished the position of defensive nose guard. Memories of The Steel Curtain inspiring my play. Full Tilt Boogey at its best !
Posted December 20, 2012
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Coelocanth: I remember playing board games. For fun. True story.
Many of us still do. :)

http://boardgamegeek.com/
Posted December 21, 2012
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Lou: I am sorry but I can never forget the 75 Super Bowl - Your Steel Curtain and Bradshaw up against my Purple People Eaters and Fran Tarkington. Now that was football. ;-)
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WhiteElk: Indeed ! The 70's WERE NFL Football ! No other era i've lived has it been so good as then. i've re-watched those games of the 70's a few times in my adulthood. Is time to go back for some more !

i was only 5 when the Steelers and Vikings battled it out in Superbowl IX. But those games had big impact on me. Each year my excitement for the game increased. The Steelers were my team. Still are, through thick and thin. In high school i relished the position of defensive nose guard. Memories of The Steel Curtain inspiring my play. Full Tilt Boogey at its best !
Yes those were good times - I was a bit older 12 going on 13 so very important time for me. Now I am a displaced fan living in of all places - Cleveland.
Post edited December 21, 2012 by Lou
Posted December 21, 2012
I'm so old that the earliest video games I remember playing were Q*bert for PC, Moto Racer, and Incoming.

So basically, I'm not very old at all.
Posted December 21, 2012
I'm so old, when I was a kid, I watched Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street. So not that old but not young.
Post edited December 21, 2012 by langurmonkey
Posted December 21, 2012
I'm so old I remember writing to stores that were selling games for a games catalogues. I also remember buying games via postcards or telephone. Everyone understand "by telephone", but "via postcard: is totaly retro. I wrote the name of the game I wanted to buy on a postcard, then I sent that postcard to a games shop and then they were sending the game to me. I was paying for this game when the postman arrived with the game. Crazy, good old times.
Posted December 21, 2012
I am so old I.... what was I saying again?
Posted December 21, 2012
I'm so old, that me and my brother (okay mostly my bro, as he's older) had to manually program games from a thick code book we wanted to play on our Lambda PC8300. Amstrad with cassette drive was a huge step up.
Post edited December 21, 2012 by tomimt
Posted December 21, 2012
I'm so old I remember my dad's first computer loaded it's programs from cassettes. Listening to crackling noise for a quarter of an hour before playing a game, though I did do some typing in of programs from magazines. 5 1/4" floppy disks 512 kB big we're a giant leap forward.

Too young though to know card input (for the youngsters: a card is a piece of papers with holes in it, coding the input for the computer, not the thing the microchip-filled piece of plastic you put in a card-reader nowadays).
Post edited December 21, 2012 by DubConqueror
Posted December 21, 2012
I'm so old, I remember THREE channels only on the TV!
And the BBC would shut down transmitting for a few hours every afternoon!

I'm so old, I remember playing games without a computer!
Like OUTSIDE the house, man!

I'm so old, I can remember using half-penny coins to buy gummy bears!
Posted December 21, 2012
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Lone3wolf: I'm so old, I remember THREE channels only on the TV!
Lucky you, we had only two (with imaginative names "Number 1" and "Number 2"...). I think the first tv we had was black and white, but I know that color tv's have existed since waaay before so no idea how old tv that could have been.
Posted December 21, 2012
I can remember when games had multiple discs,and the sound dial up made
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