Ultima Online sucked. If you weren't a 0day subscriber, there was no point in signing up later unless you had a friend who'd just hand you 20M in gold to get started. The character classes themselves may have been balanced, buy the game economy and the advantages high-level players had over brand new low-level players is not. I'm pretty sure Lineage went the same way.

Also, Oddballz.

Wow just WOW.... I'm so glad I was born after that! :D

Back in my days there was no Back in my days threads :)

BLAZEMONGER!

Back in my day, J.K. Rowling was a waitress and kids dressed in tribal plainsman attire rode Chinese luck dragons.

Back in my day computers had no hard disk - remember the A: and the B: drive? And that 5.25 inch floppies and the 3.5 inch floppies?

And back in my days 3o years ago or so my parents did get a vcr and it was more fun to figure out how to record a tv-show than actually recording it...;)

Even though I only got a computer 12-14 years ago, I remember when games used to be 2GB
(today, most demos are in the rage or at least 1GB). My first computer had a harddisk of 2GB...

Back in my day people went to the library to learn something...although wikipedia is great, it doesn't teach you everything...

And back in my day we only had like 1 channel or 2 channels or 6 at the most. Today, there's a a lot of channels, but hardly something worthwhile to watch...

Back in my day... Mobile phones had keypads.

Back in my day, there was no Wikipedia, there was only Encarta.

Turning off your computer meant waiting for the "it is now safe to turn off your computer" screen before hitting the power button.

Games you now pay $2 to play on Android/iPhone could be played for free on Newgrounds or the like.

Making sure nobody needed to use the phone was a common courtesy before using the internet.

Planes not only had ashtrays built into the armrest (although admittedly you couldn't use them), but on long flights you were allowed to take a lookse at the cockpit.

Nobody was scared of Muslims, it was Y2K that would kill us all and everything we hold dear.

Wearing a baseball hat backwards was the height of fashion.

The only way to call someone while out was to either be rich enough to afford a mobile phone or use a payphone.

Movies came on video cassettes, and rentals always had "be kind, rewind" stickers on them.

Cars with central locking and air conditioning were considered highly luxurious.

Computers didn't have USB ports, they had A:/ drives.
Also; Hanson, Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls were popular.

I raise you this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2xEwEHbrE

and call that no one else can top it.

... back in my day Happy meals had cool toys, and as much as it saddens me to admit it, people actually knew who the "new kids on the block" were

I can certainly try.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzlACmnUNKc

Back in my day I didn't get a hangover. Something is wrong with the new world!

Back in my day, masturbation was known as bopping and it would make you go blind!

Back in my day one would play on a jungle gym, playground, etc. and no one sued anyone if a kid skined his/her knee.

Playgrounds still had dirt, sand, or tanbark because no one was dumb enough to try and eat those things.

Accidents happened but weren't a big deal because the damn hospitals didn't make you pay the doctors next Bently payment to fix/heal a boo boo. Or maybe Healthcare wasn't f***ed up... I don't really know.

The Commodore 64 had some great adventure/action games Impossible Mission, Below the Root, and Alice in Wonderland.

Moving ahead to our first 286, The Prince of Persia was a f***ing awesome game, that I spent hours playing yet only ever made it to level 12 or 13, I can't remember, before time ran out.

Oh yeah and parents limited video gaming to 2 hours a day, hence less issues with obesity.

Back in my day...
I had to get up one hour before I went to bed, had to eat cold poison, and had to pay to go to work, working 28 hours a day, and when I got home, my dad would kill me with a knife, dancing on my lifeless body, singing Halleluya!
But try to tell that to young kids today, they won't believe you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Back in my day Monty Python ruled (and as far as I'm concerned, they still do)!