Man I miss the old days

[Vyse of Arcadia]

Eventually you hit a rhythm and things just flow.

I'm going to have to call bull on that. I'm not quite 25 yet, but my experience has been every time I think I've hit a rhythm, something goes horribly, horribly wrong.

[Dirt Ball Gamer]

What I miss about the old days. Arcades!

Damn I want that carpet. Back in the old days I was obsessed with having black light or glow in the dark stuff in my room. Unfortunately when your my age your expected to have a more mature decor.

[Waterfaller]

What I miss about the old days. Arcades!

Arcades... man, I miss them. I remember there was a point in time when it was mostly things like Galaga, Ms. Pac-Man, those 10-in-1 NES cabinets... then a couple games came out; Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat!

The bowling alley in town used to have a small arcade. Small as in 10 cabinets, but hey, one was a NeoGeo one and it had King of Fighters '95, along with Hydro Thunder, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, and Killer Instinct 2.

I sometimes miss still living with my parents and not having to worry about money so much, but that was 9 years ago, and I'm still on my feet.

[AngelaBelmont]

Well, here's the things I miss about the old days:

1. Decent games: It used to be that was a wide variety of styles of games and the stories were pretty much always decent. Nowadays there's only FPS games.

2. Quality Film-making: Not too long ago, movies actually had soul. And actual effort was put into the special effects and thus they looked convincing. Nowadays a whole movie is practically done in lousy CGI. True, they've come a long way in making CGI look convincing, but it still looks silly to me.

3. Intelligent people: It seemed like years ago, people were actually willing to think for themselves. Nowadays, people want to live their life like robots. Always waiting for someone to feed information into their brains rather than thinking about something and reading between the lines and forming their own opinions.

[retrospiel]

1. I have no idea about the current market as I don't own any modern console but I am not sure about your statement: See Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii & WiiWare. Plus you get access to older games via the internet (and Virtual Console). PS3, Wii and DS also are compatible to their predecessors so you can play your old PS1, (PS2,) GameCube and GBA games.

2. Quality Film-making still exists, but you gotta look beyond the million dollar block busters.

3. I never met anyone who wanted to live a life of a robot. =P

[Iron Lizard]

I'm going to have to call bull on that. I'm not quite 25 yet, but my experience has been every time I think I've hit a rhythm, something goes horribly, horribly wrong.

I here you about things going wrong. I'm 31 and haven't done shit with my life but what I have done always seems to be almost by accident. I had a decent job in my 20s' spraying cars. It was something I had never considered but my friend worked there and got me the job. It paid pretty well but my nose wouldn't stop bleeding even with a respirator. I had enough and went back to school and finding out I could actually get a grant. In between I got into a lot of trouble on the internet and found myself in Sweden for four months and came back with a wife. I never saw that one coming. I managed to get through school but still have yet to find a real job. I lost my shitty part time job shortly after and have been living of eBay ever since. I just seems like one crazy ride and you never know what the hell is going to happen. I'm just happy I have a warm bed and food to eat.

[NeoVamp]

Things i miss.

1. Being able to care about games, games in general just don't get me excited anymore,
I think around 99/2000 i lost the ability to really enjoy this hobby of mine.
its fucked up when you have so many games and then don't enjoy gaming anymore.

2. Gaming marketing being fun to look at, with posters of Mario and Sonic everywhere,
and Street Fighter running on a display Snes that you could play with.
now there seems to be nothing but Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft logo's,
like its the Logo that is important and not the game.
and those display consoles? nothing but FPS or Racing games in them.
because that seems to be all that there is to put in one of those.

3. Gaming being for the gamers, I was ridiculed back then for being a gamer,
oh you play nintendoooow? my little cousin of 5 has a Nes! with mario! lol!
and you felt that even though you were ridiculed it was "our thing" our hidden subculture,
and these were "our people".

4. Kids who feel that everything older then Xbox360 is lame and needs to be made fun of.
Maybe its because i started when there was nothing else to look back on (except for pong)
so i was never put in this position, but damn it pisses me off when you see kids drool at everything new.
Reminds me of that newphew of mine, guy was saving up for a PS2 right, so i talk to him and he's like "PS2 is the best!"
and i told him "do you know ps3 is coming?" and he just blinked... "I WANT A PS3"
knew nothing about it, hadn't seen a game of it ever, just that it was new was enough for him.

or the time another cousin of mine visited me, and i had just restored my Arcade cabinet,
he looked at it.. and then pulled a weirded out look when i put on Metal Slug 3,
and then he asked about the PS2..

5. My gaming friends..
arranged marriages (they were foreign) or the never ending quest to find the right girl,
or them just never having time anymore, you lose them all eventually.
and you think.. well sure we're adults now, but does that mean we can't play a game of Street Fighter II on the Snes anymore on Saturday?
apparently being adult means just that, and its only okay to come together for a lengthy deathmatch with FPS game 3245.

My real gaming days are over.


oh..

6. Being able to express emotions without being called emo.
thats what i miss too.

[Melf]

I'm going to have to call bull on that. I'm not quite 25 yet, but my experience has been every time I think I've hit a rhythm, something goes horribly, horribly wrong.

I set goals for myself coming out of high school. I had a five-year plan of what I wanted to do and just took things one step at a time. Things always go wrong, but so long as you have an established direction, you will hit a stride eventually. I changed majors 3 times, entered and left the military, and got married earlier than I expected, but I kept to my plan.

[Xeniczone]

Dude tell me about the old days. I was in High School and just starting College a year ago. My dad lost his job and we moved. Which forced me to drop out of college, and quite my job at Walmart.

Now 6months later, I can't get into college, and I had a 3.5 GPA in HighSchool and graduated with an Academic Honors Diploma. I can't get a job, every job interview I get 3 days later, "We have selected a someone else." Bills stack up... It is sad. I don't even read my mail anymore it is all the same crap. You owe Auto insurance, your credit score is no more...

So much stress and crap, and I'm only 19 I can't imagine what it would be like for people who own home and stuff, and just can live in their parents house like I do.

[Gogogadget]

I sorta know how you feel, most unemployment agencies or anything just kinda laugh when I attempt to display some sort of intelligence beyond "I wanna life shit for a living"

Like yeah, my dreams are unrealistic, so are most peoples, thats the fun bit.

Also, off-topic but AXSX is sick <3

[doomguy]

Everyone misses the old days shit im not even 18 yet and i miss them.

[N.Saibot]

I remember the days when I first started to post here...my collection was much, much smaller, I was going to college, having just graduated from high school, living with mom and dad and working part time at a fast food restaurant. How things have changed in the past five years!

Now I'm living eight hours away, on my own, have a career and going back to school, and I kinda miss the old days right now. :/

I feel like you just told where I am right now. I've joined the forum rather recently,
live with mom and dad and go to university. My collection is also way smaller than it
should be. It is really motivating to read that you've made a career and live on your
own now, that's exactly what I hope for in the next years!

[zyo]

Man I miss the old days too. Like last weekend when I was off work, those were good times.

[GohanX]

Sometimes I think about the good ol days, but when it comes down to it today is pretty rad, and I'm happier than I've ever been. I just wish I had more free time to enjoy games!

[Lastcallhall]