What's the dumbest thing you've ever heard someone say about an old game

[STICH666]

I brought my 2600 on school yesterday to record some footage for my video class. So anyway I booted it up and began to record some Missile Command and some kid behind me said to his friend "yo that shit's like from the 1800's!!". I turned around and faceplamed so hard I think I left a dent.

[gamerz]

I brought my 2600 on school yesterday to record some footage for my video class. So anyway I booted it up and began to record some Missile Command and some kid behind me said to his friend "yo that shit's like from the 1800's!!". I turned around and faceplamed so hard I think I left a dent.

 

Should have told him "So is your momma"

[godslabrat]

When I was in school, I had a friend tell me Dr. Chaos was a bad game because it took place in a jungle.

[eyg2181]

Jackass: Anything not on a disc is gay

 

Me: why is that?

 

Jackass: because it's old

 

After that it was just a 5 minute argument as to why I think he's a moron

[BassGuitari]

Kid at MGC holding Odyssey 2 joystick upside down:

 

"Weird, the controls are inverted or something!"

[xg4bx]

but i bet that dope thinks gears and cod4 are the "best games evah, yo".

 

i facepalm at anyone who thinks that 99.5% of today's games are anything more than mediocre (at best).

[ovalbugmann]

what does facepalm mean?

[brojamfootball]

Facepalm

[2600Lives]

 

I had a kid at OVGE last year say to me at my table "Why do they call it the TurboGrafx when the graphics suck?" Of course, he was probably 10 years old.

 

Same convention. Had my Apple IIe running a conversion of Ms. Pac-Man on a monochrome green screen. A kid, probably 15, comes up. "Hey, your monitor's busted! It's only showing green!".

 

Yikes. Of course, every 10 seconds or so I had someone wondering just what the hell my accoustic modem was...

[ovalbugmann]

oh, facepalm, I see now thanks.

[Ross PK]

I brought my 2600 on school yesterday to record some footage for my video class. So anyway I booted it up and began to record some Missile Command and some kid behind me said to his friend "yo that shit's like from the 1800's!!". I turned around and faceplamed so hard I think I left a dent.

 

He didn't mean it, it was just a figure of speech.

[darthkur]

oh, facepalm, I see now thanks.

 

 

Yeah, I was wondering what that meant as well. Can't say that I've ever heard that term before.

[AtariLeaf]

Jackass: Anything not on a disc is gay

 

Me: why is that?

 

Jackass: because it's old

 

After that it was just a 5 minute argument as to why I think he's a moron

 

Oh oh, I'm getting old, does that mean I'm gay now?

[+Ransom]

Jackass: Anything not on a disc is gay

 

Me: why is that?

 

Jackass: because it's old

 

After that it was just a 5 minute argument as to why I think he's a moron

 

Oh oh, I'm getting old, does that mean I'm gay now?

 

Puts a different light on retirement homes, doesn't it?

[danwinslow]

Old+Gay+Viagra+Communal Living=Danger

Edited May 1, 2009 by danwinslow

[FlightSuit]

*A while ago, a friend of mine refused to believe that 2600, The Hacker's Quarterly was named in honor of the baud-rate of old modems. She was convinced the magazine was named after the Atari 2600, because it was "the best" and most powerful of all the consoles from that era.

 

 

 

*On another occasion, I was purchasing a Texas Instruments 99/4A at a flea market, and by way of explaining to the woman just how anachronistic the thing was, I said, enthusiastically, "This thing doesn't even have a hard drive!"

 

Humoring me, she replied, "That's why it's better!"

 

She obviously had no idea what a hard drive was, or why I would find its absence remarkable.

 

 

 

*Back in the mid-1990s, I was employed at the Circuit City on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. An older lady came in to buy a SNES or a Genesis, and the little sales squirts teamed up, trying to convince her she needed our Extended Service Plan to "protect her investment."

 

She pointed out that she'd had an NES for years and had never had a problem with it.

 

"Yeah, but that's 8-bit," replied one of the sales boys, "with sixteen bits, it's a more complicated machine, and the extended warranty is definitely recommended!"

[VectorGamer]

A friend of mine called Laser Blast "Laser Barf"

[STICH666]

 

Same convention. Had my Apple IIe running a conversion of Ms. Pac-Man on a monochrome green screen. A kid, probably 15, comes up. "Hey, your monitor's busted! It's only showing green!".

 

Yikes. Of course, every 10 seconds or so I had someone wondering just what the hell my accoustic modem was...

well that's a common misconception. I mean some computers then did have color displays.

[STICH666]

I brought my 2600 on school yesterday to record some footage for my video class. So anyway I booted it up and began to record some Missile Command and some kid behind me said to his friend "yo that shit's like from the 1800's!!". I turned around and faceplamed so hard I think I left a dent.

 

He didn't mean it, it was just a figure of speech.

No he did mean it. He though Gandhi was ancient Indian history......even though it was 70 years ago.

[Artlover]

*A while ago, a friend of mine refused to believe that 2600, The Hacker's Quarterly was named in honor of the baud-rate of old modems. She was convinced the magazine was named after the Atari 2600, because it was "the best" and most powerful of all the consoles from that era.

Eh, there is no 2600 baud.

 

The magazine is named in honor of telephone hacking/phreaking. 2600, as discovered via Capt'n Crunch whistles, was the hertz tone that used to be used by the phone companies to gain operator access to the long distance trunk lines.

[VectorGamer]

*A while ago, a friend of mine refused to believe that 2600, The Hacker's Quarterly was named in honor of the baud-rate of old modems. She was convinced the magazine was named after the Atari 2600, because it was "the best" and most powerful of all the consoles from that era.

Eh, there is no 2600 baud.

 

The magazine is named in honor of telephone hacking/phreaking. 2600, as discovered via Capt'n Crunch whistles, was the hertz tone that used to be used by the phone companies to gain operator access to the long distance trunk lines.

 

Yes, that would be 2400 baud.

 

Cap'n Crunch - are you referring to Winn Schwartau?

[Stan]

The only negative I ever got on eBay would sum this one all up. It was removed, thankfully, but I once got a negative because the bidder didn't like the graphics on the 2600 version of Burgertime, and he said that.

[FlightSuit]

I stand corrected, and I'm embarrassed, 'cause somewhere in the recesses of my brain, I did know this. I still think my friend was daft for believing the mag was named for the VCS, and even more daft for believing the VCS was the best console.

 

Say, as long as it's come up, here's something that will blow your mind:

 

 

Phone Calls from Cap'n Crunch

[Video]

Well, most people just remember it was an "atari something hundred" and any number could go there.

 

 

Same convention. Had my Apple IIe running a conversion of Ms. Pac-Man on a monochrome green screen. A kid, probably 15, comes up. "Hey, your monitor's busted! It's only showing green!".

 

Yikes. Of course, every 10 seconds or so I had someone wondering just what the hell my accoustic modem was...

well that's a common misconception. I mean some computers then did have color displays.

 

Or did what Commodore did, just allowed you to hook it up to a regular TV (though there are commodore monitors out there that are really nice.

[keilbaca]

I get told all the time that games that I play suck, because of the graphics.

 

Also, I was at Chuck E Cheese the other day playing pinball. A couple of kids came up to me and asked me, hey why are you playing that old game? I laughed and said I just love pinball. They came back 5 min later with me controlling a 4 ball multiball, they say, isn't that hard? I laugh and tell them, not bad for an old game eh?

 

Ah kids these days. They wouldn't know a good game if it came up and bit them in the ass.