The Big Generation X Nostalgia Thread

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I had a commodore 64 then an Apple IIGS then a mid 90s IBM. I spent the most time with the IIGS before I built my first computer in my late teens and got online. I'd inherited a pile of floppies from my father's work, after the company upgraded. They were full of games. This is where I got introduced to text adventure games. Zork and Hitchhiler's Guide to the Galaxy are the standouts I remember. The games I bought myself included a way out of date Captain Power videogame, Gauntlet (a port of the arcade game), and tons and tons of Sierra. I made my way through King's Quest, Space Quest, even Leisure Suit Larry. I dealt with moon logic on a scale kids these days, complaining about der Dark Souls, couldn't even comprehend. I used the Sierra tip line. But by the time I left for higher education, I'd long since parted ways with videogames as a hobby, only a few dalliances over the years since. So until the internet, I didn't put any thought into computers outside of the ones in SciFi flicks. When I saw where things were headed though, that's when I decided to learn the tech from the ground up. I haven't kept up, but in the early aughts I was on the not-quite-cutting edge. Never got back into videogames though.
 
Voros said:
I've heard good things about the Craven meta-sequel whose name I can't be arsed to look up.
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare

It's ok. Better than most of the sequels at least, but I don't know if it succeeded at being the closure that series needed. It definitely has a "Arthur Conan Doyle hates his creation Sherlock Holmes" vibe to it.
 
Voros said:
Dream Warriors is sublimely silly. The series should have probably stopped there, I'm not a fan of Freddy, a child molester, becoming a wise-cracking pseudo-hero. Although I've heard good things about the Craven meta-sequel whose name I can't be arsed to look up.
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I rewatched the whole Nightmare movies a couple of years ago. Wes Craven's New Nightmare isn't bad. It's flawed but it kept me interested. It was to see how Heather Langenkamp's acting had matured since the first movie. She was surprisingly good in New Nightmare and the movie really hinges on her performance, though playing herself might have helped.

Dream Warriors is a classic. OK, the subplot with Freddies origin story was truly terrible, but the doomed kids in the hospital trying to cope with a reality the grown up could not understand and the return of Nancy, older and battle-hardened made for good drama. And then the fantasy dream sequences were a lot fun. Add a cameo by Zsa Zsa Gabor and cheesy Dokken power ballad, what else can you ask for?
 
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My ranking of the Elm street series:

Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors
Nightmare on Elm Street
Nightmare on Elm Street IV: The Dream Master
Nightmare on Elm Street V: The Dream Child
Nightmare on Elm Street II: Freddy's Revenge
Freddy vs Jason
Freddy's Dead
Freddy's New Nightmares (TV series)
Nightmare on Elm Street (The New Nightmare)
Nightmare on Elm Street (remake)
 
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My first PC, or at least one very much like it:grin:!

You're not going to be surprised at me playing Karateka and practicing BASIC on it, will you:gooseshades:?


Admittedly, it only had one minor problem:thumbsup:.

Alas, the problem was that it was broken more often than it was in working condition, and we didn't have the tools to fix it at home. So at the end we sold it (those weren't easy to come by!) to someone who had the tools and technical expertise to keep it in working condition...:tongue:

I think that, more than anything, is what persuaded me not to go for an IT career.
 
Karateka was an awesome game! My friend's uncle had an Apple IIe, and he used us like indentured servants just for access to that lovely piece of computing tech. We'd paint fences, feed the animals, whatever, just so we could play Karateka, Castle Wolfenstein and Wizardry. It was *so* worth it!
 
bleys21 said:
Karateka was an awesome game! My friend's uncle had an Apple IIe, and he used us like indentured servants just for access to that lovely piece of computing tech. We'd paint fences, feed the animals, whatever, just so we could play Karateka, Castle Wolfenstein and Wizardry. It was *so* worth it!
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I can see that happening, indeed...:grin:
 
You had it too good. If my local stores even had rpgs on shelves, it was somewhere hidden behind the porn section.
Which was not necessarily how I discovered them.
 
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Godfather Punk said:
Getting weird looks from the people leafing the skin mags, while inspecting a Monster Manual or an issue of Dungeon.
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I once heard a story that Alan Moore supposedly told about in his pre-fame days in his early 20's when he would get his comics at a local sex shop... and would get the weirdest, most disgusted looks from people buying dildos and bondage gear.

Which was supposedly a comment on how buying comics was perceived in the early 70's... but realistically, it may have just been because it was, y'know, Alan Moore, and he's probably always come off as a little weird and oft-putting.
 
Tulpa Girl said:
I once heard a story that Alan Moore supposedly told about in his pre-fame days in his early 20's when he would get his comics at a local sex shop... and would get the weirdest, most disgusted looks from people buying dildos and bondage gear.

Which was supposedly a comment on how buying comics was perceived in the early 70's... but realistically, it may have just been because it was, y'know, Alan Moore, and he's probably always come off as a little weird and oft-putting.
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Fascinating, I wonder if that was just a UK thing. I don't recall this in Southern California in the mid to late 1970s. There were actually both comic and game shops and combinations of both. There were of course sex shops but at that age I'd not been in one, so I couldn't tell ya what was behind the painted black windows. (not from a lack of trying of course)
 
Godfather Punk said:
Getting weird looks from the people leafing the skin mags, while inspecting a Monster Manual or an issue of Dungeon.
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Leafing skin mags? There was a time when they weren’t wrapped up? I didn’t reckon anyone ever let you look at those before paying for them.
 
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