Things I Miss (AKA the Old Fart Thread)

[Merusk]

Taco Doritos never go away around here, they're just hard to find.  If they're not in your area it means they weren't selling so the retailer dropped them.  They're only in 2 stores locally, the Meijer and the Kroger in the 'poor' part of town.   If you really get a jonsing you can always pick them up on Amazon from folks.

Your fridge still has a motor, etc that get dusty and need cleaning.

How about greasing the garage door opener bar?

[Miasma]

I am getting kind of depressed because I can't really think of much I miss.  Problem is I don't really like things now either.  So I guess I pretty much wasted my life.

Actually I miss bike rides.  I miss convincing my parents to extend the boundries I was allowed to bike in and then being all excited and in awe as I explored the new foreign areas.

[01101010]

I miss being on the phone talking to the new special someone... about nothing at all, for HOURS into the night.

(not having kids, does this happen anymore?)

[Nebu]

How about greasing the garage door opener bar?

Is that what kids are calling it these days?

I miss:
a world without AIDS.  
Freddie Mercury & John Lennon.
Being able to afford popcorn and a drink at the movies
Drive-ins
12" GI Joes
Muscle cars EVERYWHERE
Kids playing outside
The middle class
All in the Family
All night poker games in my mom's basement
Collecting car hood ornaments (don't ask)
My Mura Hi Stepper
Vibrating football games
Avalon Hill games
White Castle at 2am
Marathon candy bars and a coke
Going trick or treating
Playing pickup football games
How excited I was to get my first calculator and digital watch
Replacing my tape drive with a 5 1/4" drive
Skipping class to play Oregon Trail on teletype in the library

Sooooo many things.

[Draegan]

I'm 32, and I'm just starting to hit that point and realize that I can't drink like I used too, even 2-3 years ago. I used to be able to drink 2-3 days in a row and be fine. Then it turned into 1-2 days. Then it was drink all night and be find the next day but couldn't go for round 2. Now one big night of drinking can put me out of commission the next day if it was a heavy night.

[Yegolev]

Just came back from visiting my parents and all I really seem to miss is being a kid and my grandma.

[Threash]

Nestle's Alpine white chocolate bars.  God i can still taste the last one i had.

[01101010]

I'm 32, and I'm just starting to hit that point and realize that I can't drink like I used too, even 2-3 years ago. I used to be able to drink 2-3 days in a row and be fine. Then it turned into 1-2 days. Then it was drink all night and be find the next day but couldn't go for round 2. Now one big night of drinking can put me out of commission the next day if it was a heavy night.

This situation is such shit. You would think your body would have a coping mechanism by the time you got older and did this stuff. But yeah, I noticed this too, not drinking, but the other weekend warrior activities. I could leave Friday evening and go on a full 2 day bender, come home Sunday morning - take Sunday afternoon to come down and jump right back to work on Monday. Now, I can't really even get through a full Friday night without being tied to my bed the rest of the weekend. Damn biology.

[ghost]

How about greasing the garage door opener bar?

Is that what kids are calling it these days?

I miss:
a world without AIDS.  
Freddie Mercury & John Lennon.
Being able to afford popcorn and a drink at the movies
Drive-ins
12" GI Joes
Muscle cars EVERYWHERE
Kids playing outside
The middle class
All in the Family
All night poker games in my mom's basement
Collecting car hood ornaments (don't ask)
My Mura Hi Stepper
Vibrating football games
Avalon Hill games
White Castle at 2am
Marathon candy bars and a coke
Going trick or treating
Playing pickup football games
How excited I was to get my first calculator and digital watch
Replacing my tape drive with a 5 1/4" drive
Skipping class to play Oregon Trail on teletype in the library

Sooooo many things.

Yes, but you're ancient so it's okay.   

[Hammond]

Only thing I really miss is the family that is no longer with me. 

[Segoris]

I'm 32, and I'm just starting to hit that point and realize that I can't drink like I used too, even 2-3 years ago. <snip>.

This didn't hit me until my last Captain and Pepsi marathon a couple months back. Over 20 hours of drinking (which started at the breakfast table in some fucked up restaraunt that I'm still not sure where it is) and included playing a 12+ hour game of asshole.  I stayed the whole time while other players pussies cycled in and out while drinking shitty beers. Didn't move the next day, but it was worth it after being mostly responsible for getting two much younger people to puke and pass out within 3 hours of starting due to them trying to keep up.

Getting a five dollar roll of quarters, picking nightcrawler on a 4-man x-men game and beating the thing no matter the cost(As long as the cost was less than five dollars).

Off-road, TMNT: Turtles in Time, Gauntlet, and Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter. Fuck yes. Also, Galaga when I was younger

I miss the thrill of getting away with sex in the GF's house.
I miss being able to just pick-up and go someplace for 2-3 days with no prior planning.
I miss being able to pack all my worldly possessions into a single car and being able to move to a new place in a day's notice.

I'm willing to bet having sex in that same house would be even more thrilling, no need to miss it .
That's how I ended up in four different places in four years, good times.
Good thing about being single with no kids - I can still fit all my shit in a 5x7 u-haul. If it doesn't fit then it is not important enough to bring with

Muscle cars EVERYWHERE
The middle class
Collecting car hood ornaments (don't ask)
White Castle at 2am
Going trick or treating
Playing pickup football games

Same with all of these. In addition to hood ornaments, there were always chrome caps on tire valve stems


For me;
-Drunk BBQ in the parking lot during summer school.
-Biking everywhere without fear and road rules, because when you're that young you can take on any traffic with your trusty schwinn/huffy/murray/whatever bike you had
-Working certain jobs because they were fun, not because you needed shitloads of money for rent. Best job in the world was working in a before and after school day care. Go to work and get breakfast watching cartoons or doing arts and crafts with kids before they start classes, and getting snack before playing dodgeball, soccer, or making more arts and crafts after school. Meanwhile I had a shortened school day in high school because I was "working." I was the master with fuse beads and macaroni art back then
-Bonfires and a fresh keg every night. Whether it was 4 or 20 people, the keg was emptied before anyone could leave while the argument of moderation vs being wasteful would take place.
-I miss playing baseball as I used to have scholarship level 1st baseman and hitting ability
-Playing football. Not that soccer junk.
-Installing car stereos in cars that were more expensive than the car
-Lack of consequences for causing trouble. I even went to court in someone's place while they were out of town, that was fucking dumb but a great memory now.
-Hitchhiking to and from concerts. One time getting dropped off a couple miles from home with a buddy, stopping at Taco Bell, and he convinced them to sell him an empty cheese cup for the fountain drinks. We took turns pushing the lever while the other one would use a straw to drink what made it into the cup. All because it was the last of our money. Until walking home and throwing a packet of hot sauce in the street ended with a car running over the packet and hot sauce going into the eyes, not fun.
-Speaking of money - I miss allowances and $5 being amazing.

Lastly - The mother fucking Tick. SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNN!!!

[Mithas]

This thread is bringing back so many memories for me.

Being able to drink - I miss hitting the bar up during happy hour with my friends. Start drinking at 4:00 and pound beers all night until bar close. Wake up the next day feeling like shit, but doing it all over again. One night of moderate drinking now will knock me out for a day. Kids really screw things up, I tried having a heavy drinking night and got woken up at 4:00 AM to change a diaper. Changing a diaper when you are transitioning from drunk to hungover is not fun. Last time I did that.

I miss the last day of school before summer. My family would always take a camping trip as soon as school got out. I knew when I got off the bus, the camper would be ready and we would be off. Also knowing that as soon as we got back from camping, it was going to be all Nintendo all the time for the rest of the summer.

[Salamok]

I miss all of the free time I used to have, summers off, home by 3:30 the rest of the year, all free time was pretty much me time.  Unfortunately the only way to get all of these things back would be to abandon what I have now, I am certain if I did that I would miss my current life (even with all of it's inconvenient obligations) the most of all.

[MisterNoisy]

Most of all, I miss my mom.

Slightly less heavy but weighing more on my mind each day, I miss having a 'job' instead of a 'career', with all that entails.

[Selby]

I do slightly miss my old family members, but they weren't that nice to me so I don't exactly have loads of fond memories of them anyways.

Arcade games I miss, but arcades themselves were dimly lit and smelled bad so I didn't spend too much time there.

I still have my first car and drive it around daily, so that hasn't changed too much.

I mostly hated my life when I was younger and only recently has it approached getting better so I'm not too much for nostalgia of the "good ol' days" because when you're doing slow suicide for 10-15 years the good ol' days weren't really that good.

Perhaps the thing I miss most was listening to a CD or tape on my headphones while playing gold box TSR games until 11:30 at night while no one bothered me because no one was interested in what I was doing because I was being quiet.  Now I have a hard time even sitting in the chair for a WoW session for more than 45 minutes or so.

[Ivanneth]

I miss separation of life and work. It used to be that being employed meant 8 hours + lunch +2 breaks (at least it was like that for me). These days it seems standard to give everyone a smart phone and demand that they be available at all times whether you're management, sales, IT, whatever. If you're salaried then your time is company time. Are you on vacation? Better watch your email and answer your phone or else you'll have an insurmountable backlog of work when you return because there's no redundancy and no one is going to do your job while you're gone.

I miss smaller game controllers. The SNES was perfect.

[Ironwood]

I miss with a sniper rifle and a shaky arm.

I must get that sorted.

[Druzil]

Wow, Seven Cities of Gold, that brought back some good memories.  I still have the disks for that out in my garage out lost in a box with my Atari 800.  I also miss the text/graphics hybrid type games of that era, i.e. Sands of Egypt, Wizard and the Princess.  Also Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves.  Good times.

[Merusk]

I miss with a sniper rifle and a shaky arm.

I must get that sorted.

Reduce your caffeine and remember to squeeze on the exhale.

[Nebu]

I still have the disks for that out in my garage out lost in a box with my Atari 800. 

That reminds me.  I also miss Star Raiders.  God I loved that game. 

[Sky]

Racing Destruction Set
Leaderboard Golf
Summer Games


Many a Saturday night sitting around the TV playing these multiplayer C64 games with my skating buddy and his older brother + friends. And we'd filch the older guys' beers and they'd pretend not to notice.

[Shannow]

Racing Destruction Set was awesome.

I miss my c64.

I miss the smell of brand new Magic cards. I also miss the smell of my 1st Edition D&D manuals.

I miss all night gaming sessions at the university computer labs....Netrek in the UNIX labs and whatever game took our fancy in the PC labs...(Civ 1, Warlords, the first? football manager)...also the epic MtG games..

[Nebu]

Racing Destruction Set was awesome.

Totally agree.  Also loved Re-Volt, Hardball!, and Reach for the Stars.

Soooooo many hours spent playing games during the long Minnesota winters.

[Lantyssa]

I loved Re-Volt.  Tried to install it a few years ago and I couldn't get it to work.

[Shannow]

Racing Destruction Set was awesome.

Totally agree.  Also loved Re-Volt, Hardball!, and Reach for the Stars.

Soooooo many hours spent playing games during the long Minnesota winters.

Fucking hardball!

Was it me or was that game almost impossible to get a hit in? I remember losing a  lot of games 1-0...or on the rare occurance I actually got a run the computer would promptly score 2 the next inning. Fucking cheating computer.

[Ingmar]

This is probably the game of my childhood I miss the most:

[Soln]

That looks totally amazing.  Too bad I grew up in rural CDN we had no access to such wonders.   Really cool for 1985.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Construction_Set

Game-play features of Adventure Construction Set include:
Turn-based system.
Up to four players may play.
A player character can be imported from another adventure. However the character might not retain the same graphic tile if the new adventure uses a different tile set.  <<+1!
Music and sound.
Random encounters.
Spells.
Range and melee combat.
Along with graphic tiles, text screens are also available for conveying information.
Creatures which behave as player-mimics, copying various traits and equipment of the player.
Shops. << WTF?

[Ingmar]

It was super amazing and awesome, yes.

Some screenshots:

[kaid]

How about greasing the garage door opener bar?

Is that what kids are calling it these days?

I miss:
a world without AIDS.  
Freddie Mercury & John Lennon.
Being able to afford popcorn and a drink at the movies
Drive-ins
12" GI Joes
Muscle cars EVERYWHERE
Kids playing outside
The middle class
All in the Family
All night poker games in my mom's basement
Collecting car hood ornaments (don't ask)
My Mura Hi Stepper
Vibrating football games
Avalon Hill games
White Castle at 2am
Marathon candy bars and a coke
Going trick or treating
Playing pickup football games
How excited I was to get my first calculator and digital watch
Replacing my tape drive with a 5 1/4" drive
Skipping class to play Oregon Trail on teletype in the library

Sooooo many things.

I just found one of those vibrating football table football players on my floor the other day. I have no idea from which dark corner it managed to escape but it is now sitting proudly by my random video game collector editions figures.

[WayAbvPar]

OMG ACS and RDS- literally hundreds of hours spent with those two. Nothing better than making a track with huge jumps and moon gravity 

And Rivers of Light..I can't remember if I ever finished the whole thing, but I played it a million times. Also used to play the (mostly crappy) randomly generated adventures, as well as crafting plenty of my own. God, to have that kind of time and imagination again...

[ezrast]

I miss having more than one or two short decades before I turn into you guys.

[Paelos]

I miss playing hockey in the street and moving the goal for cars.

[01101010]

I miss neighborhood pick up games of wiffleball - and when not having enough players, playing with ghostmen on the bases.

[Kail]

I miss Cinnamon Chachos.  KEEBLER WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME.

[CmdrSlack]

I miss an arcade with an entire room of pinball machines.