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JellyDonut
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Köln, Deutschland
Jul 2001 time: 06:15
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quote: Originally posted by Pembleton
Well I figured most people here were 14-21. When I think about it, the people who are older in that age group did have the oppotunity to play it.
Anyway, the first video game I played was Pong when it was "released", which, BTW, for those who don't know is the first video game.
I was also 11, 12? when I would bike for about 45 minutes to spend all my money on Space Invaders. Then there was Asteroids, Pac-Man, and then the Atari 2600...My first computer was the Commodore 64....It had a whopping 64K RAM!!! which was a lot at that time. |
I know this story!
...so anyway the Great Depression started and Pembleton started shining people's shoes for money. Five cents a shine he got, which was a lot in those days. You could take the train to San Francisco, rent an aer-o-plane and buy Norway with a nickel back then. So anyways, Pembleton got his 64K RAM computer, complete with 10-foot floppy drive and 2 (count them, 2) 8-byte disks. Of course, with that computer, you could do anything: type a resume, type a report, type an article, type a short story, type a poem, the possibilities were endless! So anyway, he attached a onion to his belt, which was the style at the time. Of course, it was one of the big white ones, you couldn't get the yella ones because of the war...
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Christantine The Great
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Massachusetts
Jun 2000 time: 00:15
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quote: Originally posted by JellyDonut
I know this story!
...so anyway the Great Depression started and Pembleton started shining people's shoes for money. Five cents a shine he got, which was a lot in those days. You could take the train to San Francisco, rent an aer-o-plane and buy Norway with a nickel back then. So anyways, Pembleton got his 64K RAM computer, complete with 10-foot floppy drive and 2 (count them, 2) 8-byte disks. Of course, with that computer, you could do anything: type a resume, type a report, type an article, type a short story, type a poem, the possibilities were endless! So anyway, he attached a onion to his belt, which was the style at the time. Of course, it was one of the big white ones, you couldn't get the yella ones because of the war... |
Good one!
I had a dream of CivIII twice! I don't remember the first one anymore but the second one looked exactly like CivII but the units were like the ones we've seen in screenshots. Catapults were improvements, Hoplites covered Italy, the world was constantly growing...
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Christantine The Great
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Massachusetts
Jun 2000 time: 00:15
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I'm not sure. They didn't fidgit but they attacked.
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SSBLoveU
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With no dreams, one develops little hope. I mostly dream of girls, however, a game is often a companion too which does not leave.
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Pembleton
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Cyberspace
Apr 1999 time: 23:15
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quote: Originally posted by JellyDonut
I know this story!
...so anyway the Great Depression started and Pembleton started shining people's shoes for money. Five cents a shine he got, which was a lot in those days. You could take the train to San Francisco, rent an aer-o-plane and buy Norway with a nickel back then. So anyways, Pembleton got his 64K RAM computer, complete with 10-foot floppy drive and 2 (count them, 2) 8-byte disks. Of course, with that computer, you could do anything: type a resume, type a report, type an article, type a short story, type a poem, the possibilities were endless! So anyway, he attached a onion to his belt, which was the style at the time. Of course, it was one of the big white ones, you couldn't get the yella ones because of the war... |
I didn't catch this post before. Pretty funny.
Anyway, I just dreamt about Civ3 last night!
It was a pretty short as it was sandwiched between other things I was doing that I don't remember, but I was getting frustrated with the free worker at the beginning of the game because I was telling him to irrigate but he kept doing strange things like changing the square to a desert, etc. I also remember looking for the right hotkeys so he would stop doing that, since I think I was pressing "i" each time to do it.
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manofthehour
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Only day dreamed. Never at night.
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