Joke of the day

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[RickOShea]

[flybynight]

Live, Laugh and Love
  if that doesn't work
Load ,Aim and Fire  


( seen on a bumper sticker today )

[mzmc]

Live, Laugh and Love
  if that doesn't work
Load ,Aim and Fire   


( seen on a bumper sticker today )

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

Live, Laugh and Love
  if that doesn't work
Load ,Aim and Fire   


( seen on a bumper sticker today )

I saw a bumper sticker on a Prius awhile back that said "I'm only driving this to save money for more ammo."

[Mr. E. Monkey]

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[NT2C]

BTDT and have the juvenile record to prove it.  In two countries!

[MacWa77ace]

BTDT and have the juvenile record to prove it.  In two countries!

You're not one of those people who try to outrun a car by running down the middle of the road? That technique only works in the movies. Or if you're the 6 Million Dollar Man. [$40,037,297.30 adjusted for inflation]

[EBuff75]

BTDT and have the juvenile record to prove it.  In two countries!

You're not one of those people who try to outrun a car by running down the middle of the road? That technique only works in the movies. Or if you're the 6 Million Dollar Man. [$40,037,297.30 adjusted for inflation]

Reminds me of the Geico - Good Choices commercial:

[CG]

Oregon Trail and Logos the Turtle

I'm just a few years older than you ('79), and I remember those well.  You're the first person I've seen mention Logos the Turtle in ages...I was beginning to wonder.

Do you remember Number Munchers, by any chance? 

Thank me later...  
https://turtleacademy.com/playground

My computer family tree (if you will) started with a Ti-99/4a, timex sinclar, then started the commodore(64) tandy, x86 etc. route.  I had exposure to apple and the god awful monochrome screen in my late elementary years. Mid 80's I was connecting to BBS's like compuserve, prodigy and by the late 80's running a BBS myself and watching the baud rates move exponentially faster.  I can still determine a baud rate by tones. 

tl:dr: Put simply, Millennials - were born into a digital age.  Gen X bushwacked their way from swatch watches to LED's.   

You want to feel REALLY old...  It's what happens when you find someone who CREATED some of the programs you used... 

I'm going to waste so much time playing on Turtle Academy later!     I'd randomly decided to search for Logos the Turtle a few times, and wasn't able to find anything.

I think I remember Number Munchers.

And I had Swatch watches through college.

We had an Atari, but I'd much rather go beat Super Mario Brothers twice in a row on my best friend's NES before dying miserably in the first level of the third go 'round and giggling maniacally.

[RickOShea]

[MacWa77ace]

Oregon Trail and Logos the Turtle

I'm just a few years older than you ('79), and I remember those well.  You're the first person I've seen mention Logos the Turtle in ages...I was beginning to wonder.

Do you remember Number Munchers, by any chance? 

Thank me later...  
https://turtleacademy.com/playground

My computer family tree (if you will) started with a Ti-99/4a, timex sinclar, then started the commodore(64) tandy, x86 etc. route.  I had exposure to apple and the god awful monochrome screen in my late elementary years. Mid 80's I was connecting to BBS's like compuserve, prodigy and by the late 80's running a BBS myself and watching the baud rates move exponentially faster.  I can still determine a baud rate by tones. 

tl:dr: Put simply, Millennials - were born into a digital age.  Gen X bushwacked their way from swatch watches to LED's.   



You want to feel REALLY old...  It's what happens when you find someone who CREATED some of the programs you used... 

I'm going to waste so much time playing on Turtle Academy later!    I'd randomly decided to search for Logos the Turtle a few times, and wasn't able to find anything.

I think I remember Number Munchers.

And I had Swatch watches through college.

We had an Atari, but I'd much rather go beat Super Mario Brothers twice in a row on my best friend's NES before dying miserably in the first level of the third go 'round and giggling maniacally.

Not me but might as well have been, organ and fish tank included.

There were two factions of gamers in my neighborhood, the Pacman / Donkey Kongers faction and the Centipede / Galaga faction. I was in the Centipede fast shooter faction, I just couldn't be entertained by Pacman or Mario for some reason. They seamed so slow to me. I had to be shooting fast moving targets. LOL. It may have been the sounds too. Wacka Wacka Wacka or Bwuoop Bwuoop Bwuoop Bwuoop vs Pew Pew Pew.



Personally I went:
System / My favorite game(s)
Magnavox Odyssey 2000 / [Pong]
Atari 2600 / [Space Invaders and Asteroids]
Atari 5100 / [Star Wars]
Sega Genesis / [Super Hang On, Road Rash]
Sega 32bit expansion / [Mech Warriors]
N64 / [instead of PlayStation 1, can you say Golden Eye, Turok, Legend of Zelda]
PlayStation 3 / [COD, Medal of Honor, Battlefield]
PlayStation 4 / [ mostly FPS, Flight, and 3rd person shooters]
and if I could find one...
PS5 hopefully soon.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

I started out with an Atari (I forget the model) and over the years, I moved up to an NES, SNES, Nintendo 64 (I was one of the first kids in my neighborhood to get one. Goldeneye was my favorite game on the N64), Sega Genesis, PS1, PS2, Sega Dreamcast, Gamecube and then an original Xbox.

I'm currently on an Xbox One, but one of these days I'd like to pick up an N64 again along with Goldeneye so I can relive a little part of my childhood. Biggest hurdle might be finding Goldeneye for a decent price.

[MacWa77ace]

I started out with an Atari (I forget the model) and over the years, I moved up to an NES, SNES, Nintendo 64 (I was one of the first kids in my neighborhood to get one. Goldeneye was my favorite game on the N64), Sega Genesis, PS1, PS2, Sega Dreamcast, Gamecube and then an original Xbox.

I'm currently on an Xbox One, but one of these days I'd like to pick up an N64 again along with Goldeneye so I can relive a little part of my childhood. Biggest hurdle might be finding Goldeneye for a decent price.

I've still have my N64 and GoldenEye cartridge. The motion capture on that game blew my mind the first time I saw it, the realism of character movement in some scenes. It was probably my #1 favorite too. But Turok made me hate first person shooters even though I loved that game. Played Turok 1 and II, but that game I found I'd be playing for 15-20 minutes without blinking. LOL, It hurt my eyes. So after that I switched to Zelda which was a 3rd person. I sold my Zelda cartridge years after I beat that game, because it took about 4 months of playing to beat without any cheats or guides having figured everything out myself. But I also figured I'd never want to go thru that again.

I used to do the level/mission speed runs on that GoldenEye. I remember when i saw that the Par Time on the Opening sequence was 2 minutes and 17 seconds, I was like, "That's impossible", because it took me day's if not weeks to get thru it once without dying the first time, and when I did finally get thru without dying, it took 20 minutes of being careful not fast, but I got there eventually and beat the Par. I think I might still have a polaroid screen shot of my Par Times somewhere.

I keep wanting to hook my PVR up to the N64 and record some walkthru's or gameplay, but don't really have the time. Back in the day I'd hook my VCR up to the video game to record gameplay, so I could review where I made mistakes and improve.

[Mr. E. Monkey]

Thank me later...  
https://turtleacademy.com/playground

I will!  

[RickOShea]

[RickOShea]

[flybynight]

I loved Jarts

[echo83]

Man, this hits close to home...When I was younger, one of my brothers "found" a bow and some arrows, and began firing them into the air. We ran out into the yard and held trash can lids over our heads like shields, waiting for them to come back down. 

As the youngest brother, I got the plastic lid, and not one of the steel ones. The arrow punched through a few inches, narrowly missing my arm, but running parallel to it as I held up my shield. Had i not been holding that lid higher, I would have gotten an arrow in the grape. I can only imagine how my parents would have explained that one to the ER doc. 

It was one of those moments where we all went from giggling madly to quietly stopping, each one of us inwardly pondering how incredibly dangerous the activity was. 

That feeling didn't last long. The rest of the afternoon was a little more tame; setting up ambushes, throwing handfuls of gravel into the bushes and yelling "buckshot!" then listening for the scream of a wounded adversary. It was my earliest experience with "recon by fire."