Old farts (40 plus thread)

Goat??! WTF is that??!! And I thought groovey and gnarly were odd expressions...but GOAT???!!! ...ok... I just sounded like a grandma... good thing I am one , or I'd of been sad....  

I have to admit I've never sat through a Humphrey Bogart movie, or Clark Gable or Cary Grant...that I know of. My mom was Charlton Heston/Yul Brennar fan so I watched things like The Ten Commandments, West World, The Omega Man, The Planet of the Apes, Earthquake, The King and I, Soylent Green and so on. My sister is the Silver screen buff in my family and could give you a critique on all of that, me, I'd rather watch Godzilla vs. the Thing because cheesy giant lizards and moths/caterpillars are my thing.  

[snipped video of Godzilla vs. Mothra done in black and white and edited to look like a silent movie]

Wow, I'm not that old, and yet I recognize more stuff being reminisced about here than the current stuff today.
Hands up if you played X-Men on Sega where you had to shut the power button off to pass a level!

Those of us in our early forties are probably the first generation to grow up with home computers. For those who are a little older, how did you come to gaming?

While I agree that neither the Maltese Falcon (or Casablanca) are the best movies Bogie made, I am and forever will be a fan of his for the Treasure of Sierra Madre. That movie imo is the only one (and that includes The African Queen) to really give a true measure of Bogie's talent as an actor. His development of greed and paranoia in that movie is, again imo, one of the great acts in cinema history. 

I wanna say yes because you seem so excited about it, but honestly, no I haven't. I did play Sonic games on the Sega though.  

First videogame I ever played.