I'm as old as the NES.
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Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.
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I still have my pog collection somewhere in the basement
Retro is anything on a cartridge or tape. Disc based media is too new and space age to be retro.
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Crash Bandicoot was my first game.
Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?
When I was 7 I could look up at the night sky and there were no satellites.
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My childhood pics are Polaroids.
🎵 This is the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny. Good guys bad guys and explosions, as far as the eye can see. 🎵
I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.
I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.
I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.
That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!
My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM
As a kid, I thought Trailer Park Boys was an accurate, contemporary documentary about the world I lived in (or at least that of my friends who lived in the trailer park down the way).
Edit: Oh, and you had to go to a Chris Brothers store to buy Chris Brothers pepperoni - Sobeys didn't carry it yet. It was glorious every time.
I watched the Challenger disaster on the wheelie TV cart
I remember the big floppy disks that were actually floppy. But the standard floppy disks were way more common and even they were on their way out
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My mom watched the Watergate hearings while she was pregnant with me.
Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.
AIM away messages and the passive flex of who has the best 'buddyprofile' that may or may not link to a livejournal or xanga page
i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.
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