The middle aged thread

Somebody needs to do a middleaged version of that meme. Maybe an Alan Partridge hands on hips moment.

The fact I'm still using it in 2016 makes it automatically middle aged.

Have you seen this dancing babay?

That feeling when your casual wardrobe is worth about £10k on Wavey Garms just because you haven't really bought anything new since about 2002 so it's now all vintage

Wavey Garms

Excuse me?

No wonder you could afford the train last weekend.

The fact I'm on a forum makes me automatically middle aged

ftfy

got rid of all that gear when I went from 13 to 18st... now post divorce i'm heading back down there, but with a wardrobe full of 38" waist stretchy beige..

fml..

a wardrobe full of 38" waist stretchy beige..

Dibs

rolfmayo

saying rolfmayo in a thread

I remember when my mate's elder brother, who'd borrowed the computer we ended up using as our first ever (Commodore CBM 3032), had programmed a title sequence to one of his programmes that repeated the title three times:

10 FOR I=1 to 3
20 PRINT "Whatever the title was plus appropriate spacing"
30 NEXT I

We were completely mesmerised and he said, clearing his throat in a way designed to signal understatement: 'Well, that was really my best idea.'

Them were the days.

Did you buy the books and magazines with code in where you programmed your own games?

I had a Commador 64. Over the course of a gazillion issues of 'input' Magazine I programmed my own little game. Probably the least rewarding thing I've ever done.

we had a stick. made of wood.

You cant play clumsy colin on a stick!

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I remember the first time I completed chuckie egg, my brother was proper miffed.

I had a Commodore 16 - the one without games, because my father believed computers should be for work only. Typed in about 100 lines of code to make a blue cross appear on the screen, got so bored I've never used a computer for anything more productive than internet shopping since.

Le even older Manfriend ended up trying to do 3D programming when he was 14. All I did was getting really good at Street fighter two turbo. (Regrets is for old ppl right? :p)

Me and bro did figure out that if you started Xenon on win3.1 instead of dos it ran a lot slower. We sill couldn't finish it...so hard!

BBC B with a tape drive and books with game code from the library called things like Goblin Castle.

46 pages of typing in... Syntax Error.

Just getting you ready for the disappointment of adult life.

Commander Keen = more good memories. Videogames were a lot harder, and some things are amazingly creepy when you're 12 like some CK levels/monsters. Prince of Persia on the PC, Duke Nukem, golden axe.

Zelda 3 on SNES, secret of mana, chronotrigger, illusion of Gaia... All strangely ethical games, save the world, help your friends, beware of power / greed...but always at least one tearjerker character death :)

And making bows / arrow out of sticks. Made from wood ;)

Also Jetpac, Horace goes Skiing and that ridiculously annoying text only version of the Hobbit that I never finished. Did complete Manic Miner though without any cheats. (Ditto Jetset Willy).

Ahh, 'Input' that was the one I was trying to think of. Crash was a favourite also.

Bah! computers they'll never catch on.

You are likely to be eaten by a grue or gtfo.

Two of the directors at my former employers wrote Horace Goes Skiing. This gave them permanent benefit of the doubt amongst the engineering teams.

Did complete Manic Miner though without any cheats. (Ditto Jetset Willy).

http://jswmm.co.uk/

There are web-sites for just about every game from our mis-spent youths, just in case you thought you'd left it all behind you. :)