I came across this in one of my emails, no idea where it came from, thanks DocStone, I am not that old to remember everything from this but I can relate to almost everything there.

Remember When... Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read this.
Go back in time?
Before the Internet or the Apple Mac. Before semi-automatics, joy-riders and crack. Before SEGA or Super Nintendo. Way back...
I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park. The corner shop. Hopscotch. Butterscotch. Skipping. Handstands. Football with an old can. Fingerbobs. Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the menace. Roly Poly.
Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams. The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass. Bazooka Joe bubble gum. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune - Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps a screwball
Wait...Watching Saturday morning cartoons...short commercials, The Double Deckers, Road Runner, He-Man, Zeebedee, Tiswas or Swapshop?, Why Don't You? - or staying up for Doctor Who.
When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere. Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings. Sticky fingers. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
Climbing trees. Building igloos out of snow banks. Walking to school, no matter what the weather. Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights. Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Choppers and Grifters. I'm not finished just yet...Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice-pops.
Remember when... There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash - and the only time you wore them at school was for P.E. It wasn't odd to have two or three ?best? friends. You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.
When nobody owned a pure-bred dog. When 25p was decent pocket money. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there. It was magic when dad would ?remove? his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents. You knew everyone in your street ? and so did your parents. When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc. Parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! - and some of us are still afraid of them!
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, ?Yeah, I remember that! ?
Remember when?Decisions were made by going ?Ip Dip Dog S**t ?, ?Race issue? meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs. And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult. Nobody was prettier than Mum. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin. Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors?
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.

DocStone

Old-School: Getting too old for video games lol :wink:

Serious Collector

I know there is a bug with these things but why this one in particular keeps toggling on/off every other day?

Tagger Dabbler.
Connoisseur???

I will have to play this to find out if the hype was just as good as the game itself.



Due to a short ingame campaign, the GS rating was only 7.9.

Tagger Flirt

I have been playing videogames since I was 5 or 6 years old, that's over 30+ years ago. I am the older brother of two. When we were growing up this video / computer game addiction started at a very early age. My parents always had family over and videogames was our "babysitter" We started on Commodore64, Atari, CollecoVision, Intellivision, Nintendo, and then worked our way to the current gaming consoles Nintendo Gamecube, Xbox & Playstation2 along with the thousands spent on PC games. I recently got back into the game consoles with the PS3 and the XBOX360 hype. Our father was a data analyst / programmer and we sorta followed in his footsteps. We had our hands on the computer in the early stages of the internet. I remember using DOS in grade 6 and feel in love with computers. I even remember owning 8086 PCs and running the old Microsoft Windows 1.0 to the 3.0. Then in the mid 90's we got into the whole Win95, NT and the internet hype and been truly addicted since then. We spent countless hours at the arcade too, spending all our allowance playing PacMan & DonkeyKong and other games. I like Robotron and DigDug as one of my all time favorites. As the games evolved, the one truly game we wasted time and money on was Mortal Kombat, my brother and I spent way too much time at the arcades. My bro always loved and perfected using SubZero from the original MK1 and kept playing the same character till the current version MK4. As for me, I started with Scorpion & Raiden, then changed to Smoke then back to Raiden. And bro would always kick my butt, cause SubZero in my opinion is the best overall character to use in the game. Our love for Mortal Kombat has travelled to online games, played many online games Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, MMORPG, we used Scorpion and Suzero as our handles or character names for countless games like Diablo, Meridian59, UltimaOnline, Everquest, Asheron's Call, DarkAge of Camelot, Legend of Mir, etc, I mainly play games on the PC, mostly RTS (Real Time Strategy) and 1st Person Shooters, both stand alone or linked. We both grew up with computers and now have jobs because of them.