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[Schlemmer]

Do you remember dying immediately because the game was incomprehensible?

Yes!

[Benderbrau]

Do you remember dying immediately because the game was incomprehensible?

Remember when you could actually die in a video game and had to start over instead of just respawning without penalty and continuing on your merry way?

[Victorian Squid]

I bet you wanted a Hasselhoff as Nick Fury or Generation X series!

That's actually a little late for me, I'm afraid, I was well into sex drugs & rock'n'roll by then. More like the Legends of the Superheroes-era superhero stuff and a lot of sci-fi pilots that didn't make it back then. There used to be an awesome VHS tape that had some of the actual pilots. I would be hard-pressed to remember all the proposed titles from that long ago. I was crushed when Quark only ran for 7 or 8 episodes, for example.

[Apache Chef]

... there was no internet
... the only channels were 3, 5, 9 and PBS
... comics were less than a dollar
... summer hit and I'd leave the house after breakfast and not be home until dinner, my mom not knowing where I was or what I was doing and it was totally fine
... there were no cell phones
... house phones were corded and had a rotary dial

All of the above. Although after 1981 or 82, we had basic cable. Which at the time was only TBS and WGN.

[outsider]

I liked Hasselfury.

Yet you mock AMS for bad taste?!!!?

[rdrsfn82]

Remember when TV shows had more then two episodes to make an impression before they were canceled?

I remember when shows like Seinfeld struggled to gain an audience but were kept on the air for a couple of years so they could grow into massive hits.

[outsider]

All of the above. Although after 1981 or 82, we had basic cable. Which at the time was only TBS and WGN.

I don't remember the year (I think it was 83 or 84), but my best friend called me up so excited, saying to turn to channel 7 and turn the outer dial to the right until another channel showed up. Somehow we were getting Cinemax, but we didn't yet have the cable boxes. I still don't know how it worked.

[Apache Chef]

I don't remember the year (I think it was 83 or 84), but my best friend called me up so excited, saying to turn to channel 7 and turn the outer dial to the right until another channel showed up. Somehow we were getting Cinemax, but we didn't yet have the cable boxes. I still don't know how it worked.

We got Showtime like that for a while. I saw a lot of boobies that way.

[Schlemmer]

I don't remember the year (I think it was 83 or 84), but my best friend called me up so excited, saying to turn to channel 7 and turn the outer dial to the right until another channel showed up. Somehow we were getting Cinemax, but we didn't yet have the cable boxes. I still don't know how it worked.

Back in the days where you could watch scrambled porn and be excited about it!

[Schlemmer]

All of the above. Although after 1981 or 82, we had basic cable. Which at the time was only TBS and WGN.

It's why there were cubs fans all across the US, rather than just in chicago....

[Schlemmer]

I remember thinking it was a sound investment to replace all my cassettes with CD's...



Now I have 2 copies of the same crap, and everything is downloads now....

[Apache Chef]

It's why there were cubs fans all across the US, rather than just in chicago....

And Braves fans. They were America's team.

[rdrsfn82]

I became a Braves fan because of TBS.

[Schlemmer]

music seemed cooler back then...

[Schlemmer]

everyone's jackets looked like this