Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for March 02, 2014

I don’t remember the NES, but I do remember the SNES, so I’m not that old right? …right?

…guys?

Let’s go back to the Beatles….and the Edsel

And the NES still rocks, not like the box or the station, one word: NINTENDO.

Atari 2600, anyone?

Forget Nintendo — Pong was awesome!

TI home computer. You stored the bojangles programs on a cassette tape.

Atari 2600. Spent hours playing Pitfall I & II, Megamania and Space Invaders. I still prefer platforms and space shooters

’I’m 12. What’s a CD?’

I remember my brother getting the original ‘ping ping’ tennis game which you plugged into the TV and moved these little dashes about to ‘ping’ a small dot back and forth. We thought it was the most amazing thing ever.sighThen my brother-in-law building his own computer and we would sit in a dark room watching it make random fractal patterns (which looked like snow falling, very pretty).

Eee, we would make our own fun in those days!

Playing Zelda II on the Game Cube. The graphics are terrible compared to modern systems. I love it.

My fondest memories are of text adventure games — no graphics, just words. They were amazing.

Everything went downhill after Pong.

Not the Edsel, but I was around for the Beatles ( Eat yer heart out, Phoebe! )

Fort Tri-motor, DC-3 and the old model A Ford. One guy still drove a model T to church.

Thanks for the info Phoebe.

I’m old enough to get the movie “Wreck-It Ralph”, my daughter never seen a video arcade.

Your kids will talk about the XBOX in the same way Phoebe.

Space Invaders……. Pong………. Berserk (“Chicken. Fight like a robot.”)………… Pac-man…….. those were the days.Weren’t they?

Yep, NES, Gameboy and a friends Amiga. Later we got a second hand Commadore 64 with the ?disc station? (that the name in english?) which was bigger than the computer :)

I remember when going to the arcade was a big Friday night out, and that was the only place you’d find Pong or Space Invader-type games. More fun with all the noises going at once. There for the Edsel. Even as a kid I thought it was ugly.

Nice! And love the title panel today!

i remember not only the NES but the Atari 2600i even remember playing Pong at Chuck E Cheese(yes it was an actual arcade cabinet)

The NES? I was never into consoles, but I was into computers from the mid-60s. Right now, my favorite game is Tiny Thief on the iPad.

The Beatles? Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! But what really freaked me out about that first broadcast was when Paul started singing ”Till There Was You”—my school was rehearsing “The Music Man” at the time.

The Edsel—we had one. Not as bad as it’s remembered. What really killed it was that it was aimed for a narrow market, just between Ford and Mercury (but nowadays I guess I have to explain that Mercury was between Ford and Lincoln), and a recession—not as bad as Bush’s, but a recession all the same—kicked in just as it went on sale.

“Phonograph”—depends on whether you’re being strict and mean Edison’s cylinder system, or whether you’re being like most Americans and including the gramophone disk system under the name. When I was really little, most of my parents’ disks were 78s—and our player could only handle 33⅓s and 78s. But the real thing that would even freak out Mr. Howell was that it could also record 78s. I can’t find a picture of one online, but I found what is obviously a later packaging of the same model (I know because the jade-colored plastic trim is identical): http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/67407-airline-record-player—recorder—pa?in=239 Because it cut the groove into the record, it would spin out a cloud of fine black plastic or metal (depending on the blank disk) thread.

The French Revolution? I certainly wasn’t there, but here’s a treatment of it for Phoebe, courtesy of the Historyteachers—Herb Mahelona and the lovely Amy Burvall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXsZbkt0yqo

Pterodactyls? Heck, even the professionals are still uneasy on that one. Could they truly fly? Did they have to climb cliffs and jump off? Never raise the subject with a drunken paleontologist.

Text—Hello Sailor! My wife and I used to beta-test for Infocom, back in the lost Age of Gold. But there are new text adventures, you know. See http://www.intfiction.org and http://www.ifarchive.org You can even get software to run the Infocom classics on your iPhone.

I STILL have my Nintendo 64 and “Zelda – Ocarina Of Time”. A much better game, I think, then “Majora’s Mask”. Of course, I still enjoy my N64 “Nightmare Creatures” also, so you may not want to pay too much attention to my tastes…

Okay. I got the phonograph, Edsel and Beatles. I am The Old One. Undisputed! Or at least ’till someone disputes my claim.

Hastings still sells Beatles music that can be played on turntables.

The Carol Burnett Show was epic!

I was alive during the Beatles’ career — that’s enough of a statement. I’m old but happy.

I remember the NES, though it was already getting phased out with the better SNES by that time, but to me, the two are nearly the same, superficially. ‘Course, I’ve always been more of a PC gamer at heart anyway.

Good Humor ice cream bars, for 10 cents, or 15 if they were a specialty like the Toasted Almond, or had the little candy bar in them.Comics that were, I think, 25 cents. Mad magazine was 35 cents, and the specials were 50 cents. No better way to blow your allowance!

Your kids will talk about the XBOX in the same way, Phoebe

…hmmm

blinks Phoebe’s dad doesn’t know about The Beatles!!? How dissapointing… :(