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Posted September 02, 2020
- Using nail scissors to cut out a small rectangle of the old 5.25" floppy, to make it doublesided.

- Shaking out your arm after playing certain sports games (e.g. Activision's Decathlon).

- And not to forget: pulling out your wallet after playing these games to pay for a new joystick.
Posted September 02, 2020
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Serren: Watching Saturday morning cartoons.
I wake up every day feeling increasingly depressed and miserable, but each time I get reminded that this is no longer a thing it still manages to sadden me even more somehow. Which is strange, since there are now entire media outlets dedicated to airing nothing but cartoons, making it possible to watch not just on a Saturday morning but any day and/or all day if one feels so inclined.

I suppose it's just the lack of it feeling as "meaningful", not being able to look forward to that morning start of the weekend and all.
Posted September 02, 2020
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Serren: Playing board games.
Are you crazy? I think board games are more popular now than ever.
Posted September 02, 2020
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Breja: Are you crazy? I think board games are more popular now than ever.
Kickstarter alone is keeping a significant portion of that reality alive.
Posted September 02, 2020
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Breja: Are you crazy? I think board games are more popular now than ever.
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TheMonkofDestiny: Kickstarter alone is keeping a significant portion of that reality alive.
Yeah, though I feel like kickstarter board games became a whole separate reality. You know, huge boxes, tons of elaborate miniatures etc. for people who I guess really love complexity and overblown production values.

Personaly, while I get how cool that stuff looks, I prefer games like Smallworld or Lords of Waterdeep, something not as elaborate but still with lots of depth to the gameplay. Not to mention more affordable and actually possible to play with a small circle of friends who don't have 6+ hours for it.
Posted September 02, 2020
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BreOl72: Using nail scissors to cut out a small rectangle of the old 5.25" floppy, to make it doublesided.
I had a punching machine just for this.

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BreOl72: And not to forget: pulling out your wallet after playing these games to pay for a new joystick.
John Madden Football killed two of them, Speedball 2 another one.
Post edited September 02, 2020 by toxicTom
Posted September 02, 2020
Reaching a certain point in a game, and having to physically take the disk out of the drive and insert another one to continue playing.

This happened a couple times during video game history; once in the early days when you had floppies (Bard's Tale 3 (8-bit) has 4 floppies, and since only one has the save, if you're in a dungeon you have to swap disks to save and again to continue after you save), and again with CD-ROMs (in Might and Magic: World of Xeen, the CD-ROM version requires a disk switch when going between Clouds and Darkside (the GOG version of the CD-ROM version gives you a prompt to press a key combination when the disk change would have been required), and then you have the PlayStation Final Fantasy games where you have to switch to the next disk at 2 or 3 points in the game).

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MarkoH01: Cheat a game by doing peeks and pokes - or use a cartidge to do so.
I remember Game Genie.
Post edited September 02, 2020 by dtgreene
Posted September 02, 2020
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toxicTom: One example would be to actually dial a number on a phone.
Hey, that’s how my phone works! And I’m not 30 years old yet…

EDIT: Oh, unless "to dial" is about using these rings? My phone has a "regular" keyboard, roughly looking like a numpad.
Post edited September 02, 2020 by vv221
Posted September 02, 2020
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BreOl72: - Shaking out your arm after playing certain sports games (e.g. Activision's Decathlon).
Think that might still be necessary when playing any particularly physically demanding game, though sometimes it may be just the hand. My hand gets tired when I play Celeste for a while, and I imaging Tetris the Grand Master could do that as well.

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nightcraw1er.488: Standing in an actual arcade next to the guy your playing against.
Inserting actual metal coins into the slots.
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toxicTom: 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. :-)
Where I am, there actually is a bar with an arcade of old games (like Donkey Kong) that are set to free play mode.
Post edited September 02, 2020 by dtgreene
Posted September 02, 2020
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toxicTom: Who still has a regularly uses a joystick?
Hey, joysticks are still excellent for flight\space sims. :)
Posted September 02, 2020
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Serren: Experimenting with an electronic project kit.

Using a sonic television remote.

Using a corded television remote.

Watching television programmes with no commercial interruptions.

Watching Saturday morning cartoons.

Using a rotary telephone.

Using a corded telephone.

Phreaking.

Using a cassette drive.

Using an acoustic coupler modem.

Using anti-glare monitor filters.

Drilling stacks of 3.5" double density disks to make them high density.

Configuring motherboards and adapters with jumpers, rockers and DIP switches.

Calling BBSes.

Playing door games.

Attending user meets.

Attending computer shows.

Typing in games from magazines.

Coding in Pascal.

Coding in assembly.

Having steel computer cases and keyboards.

Using operating systems that aren't Windows NT, Mac OS X or Linux based.

Watching a cartridge in a Fisher Price Movie Viewer.

Reading along in a book or partwork with a record or cassette. (ie. Story Teller, Ladybird Books or Read-Along Adventures)

Reading a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

Playing board games.

Playing with sparking friction toy guns.

Playing Lazer Tag.

Programming routes into a Big Trak.

Going to a roller rink.

Breakdancing.

Wearing New York fat laces.

Wearing sweatbands.

Arriving for a flight twenty minutes before take-off.
Pascal isn’t dead:
https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
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TheMonkofDestiny: Kickstarter alone is keeping a significant portion of that reality alive.
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Breja: Yeah, though I feel like kickstarter board games became a whole separate reality. You know, huge boxes, tons of elaborate miniatures etc. for people who I guess really love complexity and overblown production values.

Personaly, while I get how cool that stuff looks, I prefer games like Smallworld or Lords of Waterdeep, something not as elaborate but still with lots of depth to the gameplay. Not to mention more affordable and actually possible to play with a small circle of friends who don't have 6+ hours for it.
I am still waiting for my battle of five armies collector edition! Love the war of the ring setup. Lords of water deep is on the wish list, just never get time.
Post edited September 02, 2020 by nightcraw1er.488
Posted September 02, 2020
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toxicTom: One example would be to actually dial a number on a phone.
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vv221: Hey, that’s how my phone works! And I’m not 30 years old yet…

EDIT: Oh, unless "to dial" is about using these rings? My phone has a "regular" keyboard, roughly looking like a numpad.
Yes, I assume he meant a rotary phone (Explanation for old folks, explanation for young folks). ;) ("We taught ourselves this skill when we were 3" -> this line in the comment section made me laugh. XD )

Then again, I guess most people nowadays don't even use the numpad once they've stored a number on their phone. Today you can make calls with a single push of a button.
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Post edited September 02, 2020 by Leroux
Posted September 02, 2020
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TheMonkofDestiny: I suppose it's just the lack of it feeling as "meaningful", not being able to look forward to that morning start of the weekend and all.
Yeah, that's how I feel about it too.
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Breja: Are you crazy? I think board games are more popular now than ever.
Seriously doubt that.
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nightcraw1er.488: Pascal isn’t dead:
I never said it was.
Post edited September 02, 2020 by Serren
Posted September 02, 2020
Moving and handling CRT monitors. How quickly we forget the huge awkward space it took up on the desk.

Flat finger-tips after a session on the ZX-81.

Having to remove and replace my 16k RAM pack to re-seat it after a tiny wobble caused hours of programming to disappear in a crash.

Tweaking the settings on my cassette recorder so that a complete program could load onto my ZX-81.

Fumbling with a dozen different types of lead/connector.

Needing to fiddle with a dip switch to get your peripherals to work.

Picking up a 5.25" floppy only to find you've put a lovely fingerprint on the exposed oxide surface.

Rushing to the arcade with a bag of 10pences genuinely excited to find out if my high score has been beaten on a cabinet.
Posted September 02, 2020
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Breja: Are you crazy? I think board games are more popular now than ever.
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Serren: Seriously doubt that.
More among adults than kids, I guess. But kids still know and play them occasionally (definitely not as often as we did back in the days, I would think, but of course it depends on the family).

The funny thing is that there are now boardgames that imitate video games, as well.
Post edited September 02, 2020 by Leroux
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