or "LOAD *,8,1" ;-)

Related: Trying to free tape that was eaten by the player, opening tape cases to manually wind the crinkled tape back onto the spools ... XD

A version of the PS5 will be missing a disc drive. It will be digital only.

- Read a printed manual before starting a game vs expecting a hand-holding tutorial
- Use DOS commands and still be able to run DOS games from an old disk today without a pre-packaged DOSBox / ScummVM installation per game
- Configure hardware in the pre plug & play era by manually setting IRQ's.
- Overclock CPU's by setting physical jumpers on the motherboard
- Rewinding cassettes for the old 8-bit systems
- Like the colour beige
- Immediately look for a playable demo upon hearing about a new game
- Buy a gaming / computer magazine for news & reviews about games plus that free disc taped to the front
- Physically post a letter or make a phone call to buy a game via mail order
- Make a backup copy of a floppy disc in case the magnetic field degraded over time
- Install games directly via a setup .exe without needing a client (half joking, but we're not far off...)
- Install a mod without requiring a "workshop"
- Download and patch your own games direct from the publishers site, not the middle-man store
- Achieve decent airflow in a case with those huge, fat, Parallel ATA ribbon cables
- Shop for games at more than one store worry-free because all the discs were identical and weren't locked to the stores
- Buy a multi-player game and know it supported LAN (and then enjoy it with friends without random griefers, squealers or trolls getting in the way)

i still have my Forgotten Realms code wheels. I bought a physical copy of the archives on E-bay right before it came to GOG. I was so happy to see them packaged on GOG even though I had all of them installed through my own DODBox installation. After installing, I just zipped my folder for further installations. But that physical copy came with two code wheels and all the manual notes for copy protection.

I do remember the one from Monkey Island 2, which had you mix three different ingredients for a vodoo potion or something. :D

EDIt: Ah, here they are, in their full beauty. :D

The best part of the FA silver Archives? The Baldur's Gate Demo disc! I remember playing that when I originally bought the set and anticipated the main game release sooooooooooooo much. I played that Demo to death and was happy to see it included and in good condition in the copy I recently purchased online.

Ah yes... And how it darkened with age. And nicotine stains (when people were still smoking like hell in their offices).

I don't know... the cha cha slide? Hailing a cab? Thumbing through a magazine? Sharpening a pencil?

Standing in an actual arcade next to the guy your playing against.
Inserting actual metal coins into the slots.

Trying to play a flight simulator using an actual printed MANUAL and some cardboard to put on the keyboard to show you which key is doing what.

Typing pages of Hex code from some magazine to hope that in the end it will really be a running program. The only possibility to see if you have done something wrong is a checkcode for each line.

Cheat a game by doing peeks and pokes - or use a cartidge to do so.

Thinking the point and click adventure was broken before the walkthrough is finally available in a magazin at a kiosk for you to look at it and realize thyt you were wrong (of course the magazine stayed at the kiosk because one look is enough).

Being faszinated by all those 256 colors the monitor is showing and thinking it looks like real life after you had to experience 16 and before even 4 colors (for which they chose the worst colors possible).

Trying to optimize your PC by editing autoexec and config .. constantly being reminded that you always have not enough usuable memory until you discovered a memory manager.

The list goes on and on ....

They still have some places like that in Eastern Europe. I saw a tiny one (only three machines, one Tekken and two racers) in Bulgaria two weeks ago. And they were in use. :-)

Yep, most old machines are now in man caves around the world.

Lots of nice nostalgia here... :-)

What I was aiming at mostly - probably didn't express it properly - are actual "moves".

Like, you know, when a pantomime artist would show it, it would perfectly make sense and be recognisable for the old generation, while younger people wouldn't know what it's supposed to be.
Like "dialing a number", or my examples of putting a 5.25" floppy disk into the drive and locking it, or the typical joystick grip (left hand around the base, right hand on the stick, trigger finger...). Computer/gaming related, if possible.

Any more ideas?