I feel so OLD...

Now you guys are making me feel really old. I remember playing video games when the only game we had was tennis where there were 2 long lines and a dot for the ball. Now my kids play Xbox .

I don't have ANY of my old systems! And if I did still have them, I wouldn't be giving them up. Now we just have PS1, PS2, and a Dreamcast. I think my old Super Nintendo is still at my parents' house. However, in my lifetime I've had a Commodore #### (don't remember the numbers), a Coleco-Vision, and a Nintendo. My husband has had every other video gaming system ever made. Neither of us has ever had a desire to invest in an X-box, but now that an old time favorite Ninja Gaiden is on there, I sort of want to go to the "Dark Side."

Video games are indirectly responsible for my career (ha!) since one day I noticed that ALL my games said, "Made in Japan," on them, and I thought, "Japan HAS to be the coolest place EVER." I held onto that belief for the rest of my life, and here I am with a degree in the language and business, working for a Japanese corporation.

I saw a T-shirt the other day that said, "Know your roots," and it had a picture of a Nintendo controller. I'm going to try to find that shirt in a babydoll T online. If I can't, I'll just have to go MAKE one. I love retro gaming!

LOL, this thread cracks me up! I remember the Atari, had the 5200, but not the 2600. Old? Sheesh, I remember when we had black and white TV, with 4 channels and no remote. Highlight of the day was watching Howdy Doody and Pinky Lee. I guess that's why I spent 99% of my childhood playing outdoors!

Max

I know, I know I'm not the oldest or anything. That's the irony--that I feel old for the first time in my life!

I think we all have these "a my gosh" moments when we realize that we are getting old. I remember sitting at a college football game behind a couple of college kids and listening to there conversation when it hit me that I felt really old. I too was only about 25 at the time, but I really felt ancient. Now I sit and watch "TV Land" on cable and force my kids to watch those "lame" old shows that Dad grew up with. However. unlike Max, at least most of these shows are in color.

I too remember black and white TV and ANTENNA's. Remember them? We thought we were high tech when we had one that could turn with the push of a button. And your right Max, I spent more time outside then. As a matter of fact, I was bike riding all over the place. Three speeds and we thought we were COOL.

Evelyn

I'm 28, and my nephew have a couple of small like karate-big-blonde-hair-oriental toys. So, I ask him what are these? He told me , YOU DONT KNOW WHAT ARE THIS? I was like well.. no why...? NOW I know that they called them Yu-gio or Yu-glio something from japanese animation.

Damn I getting old!!!, I remember the real american hero - GI JOE - and He-Man... Good old days....

I'm 25 and had one of my first "old moments" when I was in a store and saw them selling jelly shoes. JELLY SHOES?! Are we mid-20's people really old enough to have our lame 80's fashion recycled already? What's next - huge, icky bangs again?

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I certainly hope so!  I am so tired of seeing everyone's midsection, butt, and underwear if they are even wearing any.  Talk about feeling old.....

You think your old? I've got one word for you -- "PONG".

Ron -- DEFENDER RULES! I used to pump quarters into that game every Friday night during my high school years.

I could possibly deal with the acid-washed jeans coming back as long as they're not tight-rolled. Whose idea was that anyway?

Yup, PONG was the first videa game in my life...LOL.....I'm really old at 42!!!!

now listen here.....I'm going on 82, so I don't want to hear any more nonsense about being old, ok? I don't feel a day past 20.

Come on now guys, triathletes don't get old. Everyone knows that.

Ha Ha Sam...good one! You must be getting old and your eyesight must be failing....that 82 is your post count not your age!!!! Otherwise, I would think that tri training is actually the "fountain of youth", and BT has been keeping it a secret all this time. Come to think of it, tri training IS the fountain of youth, only the numbers we care about are not the numbers that get bigger, (age), but the numbers that get smaller (times for swim, T1, bike, T2, and run).

Have fun training and tri-ing you ol' foogie!!! You've gotta a lotta miles left in ya!!!

thanks Dolly. So are you going to come down to Bellingham for the Baker's Breakfast Cookie? You should! Bellingham isn't too far away from Vancouver, and you won't get to watch the pros duke it out for a spot on the olympic team for another 4 years. COME ON DOWN!
-S

Thanks for the invite Sam... I'm planning on sticking with Sprints this year and will do an Oly or two next year for sure! Is the Baker's a yearly event? Maybe I will plan on it for my June event next year!
I used to travel to WA alot as a kid. My parents had property at Sudden Valley. We swam alot in Whatcom lake.

Good luck with the tri. Are you an Olympic hopeful??? Can't wait to read you RR!

got a chuckle here- if 24 is feeling old- methuseleh and I are communicating....
I had an aha moment when I ran into a high school aquaintance who looked quite(ahem) middle aged and told me about his several grandchildren- ....No Dorothy you are NOT in Kansas anymore- THIS IS YOUR LIFE- Hey maybe that's why I am set on finishing this bloody race thing.......

Hey- who remembers Patty Play Pal and Chatty Cathy ....and Major Mudd, Mr. Ed and Dark Shadows ??????

Barnibus Collins....

GEEE Wilbur....

I watched way too much tv then and now.