Kids these days

Necroscope · 30 Jan 2015 at 17:18

My son came home the other day and asked me what was a Mega Drive was lol .... Showed him a pic of a Mega Drive and goes where did the disk go lool .... Hate to think what would happen if I told him about the C64 and Atari 2600 think his world world would implode :eek:

Kreeeee · 30 Jan 2015 at 17:29

I blame the parents.

randal · 30 Jan 2015 at 17:30

Yep, eduction required.

s innes · 30 Jan 2015 at 17:43

or the old spectrum zx48 with it's rubber keys and external tape drive

Diddums · 30 Jan 2015 at 20:19

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DEL 707 · 30 Jan 2015 at 20:31

See if you can get him to sit all the way through 1 of these.

iv-tecman · 30 Jan 2015 at 20:44

Ask him to rewind the video tape before taking it back to the rental store, or to load a game from cassette tape, ahhh the good old days lol yep kids today

DEL 707 · 30 Jan 2015 at 20:49

iv-tecman said:
Ask him to rewind the video tape before taking it back to the rental store

Don't forget, in the snow, uphill, both ways!

JoeBoi · 30 Jan 2015 at 20:55

Necroscope said:
My son came home the other day and asked me what was a Mega Drive was lol .... Showed him a pic of a Mega Drive and goes where did the disk go lool .... Hate to think what would happen if I told him about the C64 and Atari 2600 think his world world would implode

lolwut is a cartridge, thought it was something I put in my pen!?!? #ret-old.

Spinal2k2 · 30 Jan 2015 at 20:59

Necroscope said:
My son came home the other day and asked me what was a Mega Drive was lol .... Showed him a pic of a Mega Drive and goes where did the disk go lool .... Hate to think what would happen if I told him about the C64 and Atari 2600 think his world world would implode

thats an excuse to use to buy a MegaDrive with some classic games, and build a retro collection at the same time.

monkeyspank · 31 Jan 2015 at 06:27

Disc goes in the right hand bit

antijoke · 31 Jan 2015 at 08:38

Get him to sit through the old loading screens on the spectrum for the game to crash after 30 mins lol

kinger8938 · 31 Jan 2015 at 10:10

Some of the 'kids react to' things on youtube are great! Like the original gameboy, they all want to know if it has angry birds etc

But 1 kid really knows his stuff about zelda and everything!

Nitefly · 31 Jan 2015 at 11:30

We laugh, but at the age of 27 I was pretty stunned to learn that games once came on cassette tapes!

theone8181 · 31 Jan 2015 at 13:23

Nitefly said:
We laugh, but at the age of 27 I was pretty stunned to learn that games once came on cassette tapes!

I'm 28 and in the same boat as you. I had an Amiga 600 as a kid and my wife had a nes. I m not sure when tape games were common, early to mid eighties? (given that it would have been the 90's before either of us played games.

merlin · 31 Jan 2015 at 14:09

anticonscience said:
Get him to sit through the old loading screens on the spectrum for the game to crash after 30 mins lol

That was gaming! :cool:

TALON1973 · 31 Jan 2015 at 16:56

theone8181 said:
I'm 28 and in the same boat as you. I had an Amiga 600 as a kid and my wife had a nes. I m not sure when tape games were common, early to mid eighties? (given that it would have been the 90's before either of us played games.

tape games and cartridge based games existed side by side for years. During the time commodore 64 / bbc / spectrum / vic20 / acorn electron , you would have had the Atari and vectrex

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Kobi · 31 Jan 2015 at 17:07

Nitefly said:
We laugh, but at the age of 27 I was pretty stunned to learn that games once came on cassette tapes!

Man, what a difference 3 years make. I'm 30 and i remember loading games up on the C64 with cassette tapes. Loved going into John Menzies on a saturday morning with my pocket money and buying a new game haha.

Next you'll be telling me you dont remember John Menzies haha.

TheVoice · 31 Jan 2015 at 17:40

I'm 27 and I fondly remember trying to get games to load on my C64 from a tape. Took forever and one tiny error would cause the whole thing to fail.

antijoke · 31 Jan 2015 at 17:46

At 33, I remember going to my mates after school and spending most of the time staring at a screen that would have the potential to give you epilepsy. Then it would load and it was time to go home.