Stuff that makes you feel old...

[sigbowls]

jet ski boats, i havent seen one in for ever

[NilsFG]

I'm 19 so I don't really feel old yet, although this thread really makes me think about how fucking fast life passes by... It's like, it doesn't feel like I've been here for 19 years..
And I do get nostalgic from time to time when I think about old video games I used to play as a little kid, old cartoons, old disney movies, ... And not to forget the hours I spent in my fort made out of carton boxes in the kitchen, rinsing thunderdome mixtapes and all that.

The fact I’ve been producing for 10 years and only had 1 record out, and that was within my 1st year at age 20.

what was it?

That is my point. They're not Hollywood blockbusters therefore people think they've seen a rare foreign gem (In Bruges maybe set in Bruges but I am sure as shit they don't speak any French :p ).

I first saw La Haine when Barry Norman introduced was still the BBC Film Critic. Now that's made me feel old

Bruges is in Flanders, the dutch speaking part of Belgium. Just FYI.

Also all the discussion about Pulp Fiction, saw it for the first time a few months ago. It was good, but super-overrated.

[firky]

i remember when it was considered posh to have a bidet
i remember when it was considered posh to have a vhs
i remember when it was considered posh to have a cd player
i remember when it was considered posh to have more than two cars

[pandabear]

- Garage parties. Literally. Asian style with fucking egg rolls, chicken adobos, and rice/noodles after grinding. You can also take it home.
- Fake IDs to buy cigarettes/get in 18+ clubs. Or another Asian person's expired 21+ ID to get in clubs/karaoke bars in Chinatown.
- Puzzle Bobble arcade!
- Night street racing at Coulon Park and hiding from cops!
- Skipping school to play pool at Rainier Billiards while chowing on Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches and sipping iced coffee.

- Fights! School fights, club fights, girl fights, going to another school to fight. I remember being in the biggest racial brawl in school which consisted of 20 students. I was also suspended due to another fight. A white girl had the nerve to call me a fob bitch, I think mainly cos she can. She was triple my weight/double my height. I jumped her in front of the library while I was on break from choir practice. I was pissed off of the fact that I couldn't hit the notes because I was in rage mode. So, I settled it once and for all. How I turned into a very detached, solitude-loving nurse, is something I could explain in detail but not up for it.

- Hitting on boys at the mall and seeing who gets the most numbers! I agree, this was ghetto! I never won, I was picky.
- Blood In, Blood Out movie.
- When I turned 18, it was mostly hotel parties. I remember when friends and I got a night at Camlin Hotel in Downtown Seattle, paid $300 for the night. Within two hours we were kicked out because everyone was drunk and the boys were running up and down the hallway naked . Also driving to Vancouver, Canada to drink and snowboard at Whistler!
- When I turned 21, I chilled the fuck down.

[ruckus49]

remember wasting your youth on arcades? the simpsons, street fighter, gauntlet, x-men...

best times of my life. i also feel old because the dreamcast was the last video game system I bought or cared about

[ruckus49]

also that i never played warcraft 3 or WoW but i played warcraft 1 on DOS and warcraft 2 online, which was incredible

[wub]

The original Command & Conquer coming out and being blown away.

[esfandyar]

remember wasting your youth on arcades? the simpsons, street fighter, gauntlet, x-men...

best times of my life. i also feel old because the dreamcast was the last video game system I bought or cared about

God the dreamcast was amazing.

[Electric_Head]

Also all the discussion about Pulp Fiction, saw it for the first time a few months ago. It was good, but super-overrated.

You apologize, you apologize NOW.

[Electric_Head]

The original Command & Conquer coming out and being blown away.

FIGHT, WIN, PREVAIL!!

[wub]

Also all the discussion about Pulp Fiction, saw it for the first time a few months ago. It was good, but super-overrated.

You apologize, you apologize NOW.

He's got a point, in fairness.

I was as much a Tarantino fanboy as anyone when I was a media student at college, but in hindsight Pulp Fiction is just pop art. Stylised pop art, like a series of mini featurettes strung together with loose narrative. Very pretty to look at, well executed, etc etc, but at the end of the day it's a bunch of pop art set pieces juxtaposed with each other.

Jackie Brown is way better IMO.

[Electric_Head]

I am a huge Reservoir Dogs fan personally.

[Basstronomer]

I am a huge Reservoir Dogs fan personally.

Yes, one of his greatest! The thing that always amazed me with this film is that you actually never see the robbery...

[Shum]

I spent so much money in my youth on Street Fighter Alpha II

[Electric_Head]

I spent so much money in my youth on Street Fighter Alpha II

wknds spent at arcades wankering the joystick into non-existence.
remember the days of street fighter 1?
before dudes knew about the half-circle for fireballs.
Just pumping the joystick, fireball after fireball.
And then came Vega.
Fuck me I used to enjoy climbing the fences and doing acrobatics onto someone`s head.

[wub]

8 player X-Men arcade game was the one.

[Electric_Head]

8 player X-Men arcade game was the one.

I had stopped going to the arcade at that point.
Mortal Combat 2 was the last game I played at an arcade if I`m not mistaken.
Sega Megadrive came along.

[Shum]

Fuck me I used to enjoy climbing the fences and doing acrobatics onto someone`s head.

Hell yes.

[Electric_Head]

Damn, we're going back here.

[esfandyar]

one thing which has influenced me greatly was tarantino speaking in a past interview giving advice to people who were interesting in film. he said that if you are really interested in film, don't spend your money on an NYU film degree, if you are interested in film. just go buy a video camera and start recording. that same mentality can be applied to so many things outside of film.

8 player X-Men arcade game was the one.

this. was epic if you could gather 8 of your mates.