Tell us your atariAGE!

[alphecca]

Boy am i glad JoystickJolter is on the board or this lady would have been the oldest.

 

October, 1951

 

alphecca

[StanJr]

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Originally posted by osmeroid:

Blimey!!

Actually, I always thought of Stan being older than me... sheesh!

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Blimey is right! What made you think that osmeroid?

 

Crazy.

 

Old man Stan

[goatdan]

Wow, I completely missed this thread. I thouhgt I had read it, but upon reading it I hadn't read it.

 

Anywho,

 

GOAT Dan is 21

 

First console: Atari 2600 Vader (dad's console)

First video game played: Space Invaders

First console I owned: NES

First video game I bought new: Super Mario Bros. 3

First arcade game played: TMNT

First arcade game owned: Ajax

First pinball game owned: Cybernaut

 

In many ways, I think it's odd that I got into video games so much. My parents kept telling me that I couldn't get another video game system because the 2600 was more than enough until I finally bought myself an NES around 1988. This did really get me into 2600 collecting though, as I could find 2600 games for fifty cents at rummage sales or buy NES games for forty...

[King Atari]

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~What really is in McDonald's chicken nuggets, King Atari?! Or anyone? Is it not all chicken then??

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Well, with the introduction of their new chicken strip things, which they claim has 100% white meat, their previous chicken substances were apparently not 100% white meat. We are only left to guess what exactly is in them.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

My rollout was in July 1964.

[+Sauron]

You're not the only one who missed this thread, Dan.

 

8/19/76

 

First Game Played: Space Invaders

First Game System: wood grained 2600 (1981) I had some sort of super pong unit before that, but heck if I remember exactly what it was...

First Computer Touched on a Regular Basis: Kaypro II

First Computer Owned: Atari 130XE (1985)

First 16 Bit Computer: Atari 520STfm (1991)

First PC: Tandy something-or-other (1992)

[MoonlightKnight]

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Originally posted by legeek:

DOB: 02/19/1974

 

and "sweetening the deal", some geek info...

 

First Console: Atari VCS (woodgrain 4 switch)

First Computer: VIC-20 w/tape drive

 

Cheers,

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legeek, that is so cool! I was born 2/17/74!

 

And, just like you, I had a 4 switch, but I got a Commodore instead of a VIC.

[MoonlightKnight]

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Originally posted by Albert:

I am 32, born in the last days of the 60s on December 27, 1969. I'm afraid I'm neither the youngest or oldest.

 

..Al

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Sorry to corect one of the masters of this board, but...

 

1970 would have been the last year of the sixties decade. Remember it works the same way we count, start with 1 ('61) and end with 10 ('70).

 

A little calender lesson for all those people who think the millenium ended when the date changed to 2000. 2001 started the new millenium not 2000.

 

Again sorry, but I just HAD to do that.

[moycon]

3/11/71

 

Nuff said bout that.

I'm young at heart tho! After all I do have an 18 year old fiance.

 

First system was some coleco pinball/pong thingy.

[Noble Kale]

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~What really is in McDonald's chicken nuggets, King Atari?! Or anyone? Is it not all chicken then??

Rabbit.

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Boy am i glad JoystickJolter is on the board or this lady would have been the oldest.  

There you go Stroxalarb, add another female member to the list...

[Osmeroid]

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Originally posted by StanJr:

Blimey is right! What made you think that osmeroid?

 

Crazy.

 

Old man Stan

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Just give me a big enough spoon....

[Osmeroid]

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Originally posted by tiggerthehun:

Osmeroid - "Stone the crows" - I know that's a statement of disbelief used mostly in England - I first heard it in "Joseph and the Amazing Tech. Dreamcoat", where Pharoh said "Stone the crows, this Joseph is a clever kid". I recently heard it when that English fellow won for best supporting actor. Do you know it's origins? Why "stone the crows"? I don't get it... Any insight would be appreciated... And yes, I get that it has nothing to do with the crows smoking a joint.

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Hey Tigger, so far, this is the best that I could do

 

Stone the crows!, also Stone me!(v) :(used to express, surprise, disbelief, etc.) I don't believe it/you!.

 

I will let you know if I actually find out anything about the origins of this phrase.

 

Possibly something to do with warding off crows from arable land?

 

Little site with Ye Olde English & American phrases origins...

 

http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/sayings.htm

[Osmeroid]

I've got it!

 

"Stone the crows"

 

Apparently it was as a reference to the ravens in the Tower Of London, associated with the old story that if they all left, that all of England would fall. Mistaken for crows, the enemies of England sought to drive them away.

 

Also used occasionally in parts of Australia and New Zeland.

[HawgWyld]

HawgWyld is 32

[Atarinvader]

I'm 18 going on 40, born 17/1/84

 

I also thought that KingAtari was much older than that! and watch out for Aimee, she'll snap your heart in two.

 

I think that I automaticaly assume that Atari collectors are 30 somethings that live with their mothers and browse teensinpanties.net, like Stan.

 

Stroxalarb so your 18 female from Australia? Why don't you head on over to off topic and we can talk sometime

[pitfallaimee]

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Originally posted by atarinvader:

Watch out for Aimee, she'll snap your heart in two.

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Then I will back over the pieces with my car, then shred them into little bits and throw them. Then I will gather up all the little bits again and I will jump on them! Sheesh!

[+-^CrossBow^-]

Aimee,

 

Remind me to never get on your bad side.

 

BTW...have you ever thought about talking to Hubie? You seem like the perfect woman to cheer him up. Especially with how well your consoling your good Ex Atari-Invader...

[StanJr]

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Originally posted by atarinvader:

I'm 18 going on 40, born 17/1/84

and browse teensinpanties.net, like Stan.

 

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"browse?" Its my freakin' homepage!!!

 

(atariage is my real homepage)

 

pitfallaimee, that is JUST the attitude and strength that we will need when we set sail for Australia: land of the cheap Galaga machines!!!

[pitfallaimee]

To Australia: The Land of Opportunity! Where the streets are paved with gold and there's a Galaga cabinet for every team of adventurers in a bass boat!

[King Atari]

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I also thought that KingAtari was much older than that!  

 

*Goes running down the street yelling about how someone thinks he's older than he really is*

[NoahsMyBro]

DOB: 9/18/1968 -- 33yrs old.

 

I don't remember what my first console was, but I can describe it a little bit. It sounds like bangles66 may have had the same unit.

 

It was a Pong system; I have no idea who made it. It included gun games, but my Mom took the gun and we never were permitted to use it. The console's finish and styling had a lot of silver and chrome, and it looked VERY sleek and futuristic for the time. (Early 70's). The 2 controllers were rectangular, with chrome-ball-topped sliders postioned in the middle, sliding length-wise atop the controller. The controllers could be used hand-held, or they could be used in these cool storage slots built into the console itself. There was an area of the console cut out of each of the 2 corners nearest the players (farthest from the TV). The cut-outs were diagonals from the corners toward the middle of the case. The controllers' cords connected to the console at the deep end of the cutouts.

 

It was a really cool system. Then, in 1977 we got an Atari VCS, which I still have and used recently to play QB!

 

Eventually I obtained several VCS/2600s. My brother, friends and I got to be experts at propping up the correct # of cartridges under the AC Adapter jack to permit a good connection.

 

Nowadays I have nobody to play games with , and I have much difficulty finding time to use my awesome Dreamcast.

 

Oh well.

 

Steve

[smile_walle]

D.O.B. 3/17/71 (31 yrs old)

 

I still feel like young anyway!

 

first console: Atari 2600 Jr. in 1984 of Christmas

 

first play on 2600: Space Invanders

 

first acade: Ms. Pac-man

 

 

Jason

[heavy-sixer]

Born 2/15/69

 

First game played on a 2600: Air-Sea Battle while waiting in Sears

 

First 2600: 4 switch 1980

 

First Computer: Commodore VIC-20 1982

[Bez]

Hmmm..everbody must confess!!!

 

Bez = 27

 

C-64 = ´83

2600 = ´84

 

Think I covered the most important stuff.

/Bez

[Room 34]

I'm fairly average in there... DOB 3/14/1974, making me 28.

 

Got my 4-switch VCS in May 1982. (20 years ago this month!)

 

Other tidbits... First computer was a Tandy 1000 EX in '87. First "real" computer (Mac... ha ha) was in '94. I got my 7800 in '97.

 

My "AtariAge" is ONE DAY! (I just signed up last night. After I read the glossary definition of "Reef Store Dream" I KNEW I had to join this forum!)