Old farts (40 plus thread)

I only saw it 7 times in the theater...

Oh Yes! I was 11. I still remember the impression the opening scene had on me when the ship first crossed the screen. I knew then that movies had changed forever! 

I really, really, really wanted Chewbacca to be my buddy too!    (who wouldn`t want a buddy who could fly/repair a spaceship, play cosmic chess and be able to rip your enemies ars out of their sockets! Not to mention he was very furry.  

Sadly I was only two when Star Wars came out, but they showed it in my school hall a few years later, and of course I watched it so many times on TV/video and later DVD. The first Star Wars movie that I saw in the cinema was Return of the Jedi. I remember going home and making a pair of Lightsabers out of Lego! Unsurprisingly they weren't particularly resistant to duelling...

My younger daughter has an E.T. phobia, she`ll be 28 in Nov. and he still gives her the creeps.  

I see your `Darn`cat and raise you one from outerspace!      (I did see it, but I was never a fan of Hailey Mills.)

I often wonder if it would`ve had as much an impact on me had I been older, I just remember being so fixated by it and everytime it ended all I could think was `Wow!` and I always laughed at Chewie`s  `Rawwwrrr`at the end.  

As lovely and fun as it was, I don't think Star Wars would have made such an impression on me if it hadn't felt like fantasy in outer space with swords and magic and everything. I was so there for that.

I missed all of the epic fantasy in the 1980s that was trying to be some combination of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings because I didn't have a car to drive to bookstores, and this was in the horrible abyss before online ordering.

I dabbled at first. You know, "Hey it's an arcade and I have... two quarters."

I was into D&D before, and eventually I had a friend who was playing Dark Age of Camelot. I badly wanted to do that. I logged in and it was FANTASTIC 

I have screenshots from every MMO I've ever played... except that one, which is a shame because I have a lot of fond memories. I was a healer with magic and wandering through strange forests and fighting monsters with other people. We went on adventures and Walked The Land (there weren't a lot of quests, as far as I remember). It was a dream come almost true in two dimensions.

This thread seemed like it could be fun. It probably wouldn't have come up otherwise

I am apparently older than mid-thirties... though my emotional age is variable.

  That's pretty funny. I've never seen it before. The only Monkey God I know and like is the one in Journey to the West, a China production in the 80s.. It's a faithful adaptation, a good one too, of the classic novel. The actor who portrayed Monkey God is the best I've ever seen. It's hard to convey anger and mischief, etc, under all that makeup but he did it.

Another BC person! Wooo!

We were travelling to the sunshine coast mostly though.


So all the oldeies, what are the oldest computer games you own/remember? I'm thinking PC games, not console. Baulders Gate is a baby.

 I remember playing text adventure games. Zork type.

Then:

Star flight
A Bards Tale (back when EA didn't suck!)
Wizardry
Wisards Crown
Ultima  I through IV
Civilaization series
Master of Orion