Old farts (40 plus thread)

Loved the re-booted BSG.

Never saw the original series, my mum was a fan of it tho. My uncle loved Red Dwarf, could never get into that show myself.

Also, I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned (or maybe it has) Fawlty Towers.



Oh hey also, Morecambe and Wise

So counting a ZX Spectrum as a PC as it was a personal computer, mine came with several arcade clones, like a version of Pac-Man called Haunted Hedges, and a version of Frogger called Frog Hopper, and I then played several games such as Jet Set Willy, Atic Atac etc. The first game that really grabbed me so that I played it again and again was Laser Squad.



It was by the same people who went on to make UFO:Enemy unknown/X-Com, and basically consisted of the combat from those games without the base/tech building side. Playing the Moonbase Assault level against friends was such great fun, as the two sides were very evenly matched.

Once I moved from Spectrum to Amiga, the game that really grabbed me was the original Civilization. The day I got a hard drive (I think it was about 240 MB! ) for that computer and no longer had to swap four discs to load it was a joyous one.

'V' the mini series and the tv program. I did like the program better because Michael Ironside added his awesomeness to the show.
And while others know Robert Englund a Freddie Kruger, to me he'll always be Willie.

The original --


And does anyone remember these?

This reminded me that I thought I'd heard about a more recent adaptation, so I looked it up. Wikipedia tells me there was a new Journey to the West series in 2010, and then another in 2011... and several movies in the last few years.

This has been remade a lot...

As a active boy growing up in the seventies, I constantly had scabby knees and bumps and bruises. I remember that these were the only medicines my Mom had in our medicine cabinet.

Mecuricome



Campho-phenique



and Solarcaine



The Trinity fix all!

I remember putting together a model of one of these as a boy.

Jenny Agutter was a hot one.

Crap...I actually get that. Too bad you didn't add the big ass, nylon tape storage media cases everyone had in their car back then.

Course, I easily qualify for the thread since I still have my Vic 20 and Commodore 64...sigh. Age, you can't hide from it, just reap the benefits...like lower car insurance.

Insurance rates are lower... until you hit a certain age and then they go back up like you were 16 again...

I watched that show as a kid, but can no longer hear that music without thinking of Homer Simpson.

The fact that a) I recognized OP's screenshot as King's Quest 3, that said recognition made me squee at how much I loved that game and c) that I bought all of the Sierra games on GOG not so long ago and have actually replayed a few of them, not minding having to type the commands, should tell you how much I belong in this thread.