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In My Day…
* we played computer games on monochrome monitors with only text, and we liked it!
* our games came on floppy disks, and we liked it!
* games cost $30, and we liked it!
* there wasn’t any internet. we got together at monthly meetings. and we liked it!
* coin-op arcades had the best action games. and we liked it!
LOL
Tell us more stories of your youth grandpa! 
(just joking. I remember those days too…)
If there’s one thing I don’t miss about my Amiga it’s changing out floppys constantly.
* we played computer games on monochrome monitors with only text, and we liked it!
Yes! I had this lovely, utterly silent, Atatri ST with the best monochrome monitor ever.
* our games came on floppy disks, and we liked it!
Eh… yes and no, I was very happy with my 3.5” floppies at home, and hated the fragile large ones at work.
* games cost $30, and we liked it!
Not in the Netherlands. The normal price range was 80-100 Dutch guilders for text adventures in the mid eighties, early nineties. That’s 30-36 Euros by today’s standards. So adventures actually got a lot cheaper.
* there wasn’t any internet. we got together at monthly meetings. and we liked it!
Yeah, in those days I still knew a lot of people who played adventures. Now I don’t. 
Before I got connected to the Internet I also read the Questions-and-Answers columns in computer game magazines. Lots and lots of gaming magazines to consult! In the store, without buying them. 
And once, just once, I was stuck for such a long time and so frustrated that I called the Sierra help line in the middle of the night.
Now playing: ——-
Recently finished: don’t remember
Up next: Eh…
Looking forward to: Ithaka of the Clouds; The Last Crown; all the kickstarter adventure games I supported
Tell us more stories of your youth grandpa!
(just joking. I remember those days too…)
My grandpa was actually the one who introduced me to adventure games (having played ADVENT and DUNGEON on the mainframes he worked on at work), and he was just like this, but worse. “We used to use metal washers for RAM and it took 2 HOURS to load a single kilobyte” and whatnot.
your day is our day and that is days long before the day of the tentacle 
in these days we did a o lot Diskettes swapping and i… hated it, but i did it anyways for the Love of those days
Tell us more stories of your youth grandpa!
(just joking. I remember those days too…)
My grandpa was actually the one who introduced me to adventure games (having played ADVENT and DUNGEON on the mainframes he worked on at work), and he was just like this, but worse. “We used to use metal washers for RAM and it took 2 HOURS to load a single kilobyte” and whatnot.
The only Star Trek game I’ve ever played was on a Burroughs B6800 mainframe circa 1979. One memorable Boxing Day (I was the only person on duty) I completely wiped out all Romulans, Klingons and all Vegan Forts without needing a new Starship Enterprise (lose your ship too often and you got hung as a traitor!).
Life is what it is.
Tell us more stories of your youth grandpa!
(just joking. I remember those days too…)
How’d u know,maybe a gran like Fien.
“Going on means going far - Going far means returning”
* we played computer games on monochrome monitors with only text, and we liked it!
I just missed this period. I remember some computers still having monochrome monitors, but most games already had visuals. When I got a computer myself, the VGA-era had already arrived.
I’ve enjoyed all progress on these matters, so “the good old days” doesn’t really apply for me. I like modern day visuals better (which doesn’t mean I dislike old graphics or text, though).
* our games came on floppy disks, and we liked it!
I had a few programs on those big 8” soft floppies, but never games. My earliest games came on 3.5” hard floppies.
I don’t miss constant floppy-switching. I don’t even miss constant CD-switching. Welcome to the DVD/BluRay-era!
* games cost $30, and we liked it!
30$ was about 1500 Belgian francs back then. That sounds about right.
When adjusted for inflation, games STILL cost as much. 30$ then is easily 60$ now. That’s the price of most AAA console titles here.
Luckily, adventure games have become quite a lot cheaper since then! 
Unless they were written by Harlan Ellison… 
* there wasn’t any internet. we got together at monthly meetings. and we liked it!
This I never did. Pre-internet I was still in school, and the only people interested in the same games as I was, were classmates. No need to get together at monthly meetings if you see each other every weekday.
* coin-op arcades had the best action games. and we liked it!
Add racing games! Coin-op arcades had the best action and racing games! Oh yeah!
It’s actually sad that arcades are but a shadow of what they were in the ‘80s. I liked them. Still do.
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
Oh yeah? Well I had to walk 15 kilometres to the adventure game shop in bare feet in the snow in the freezing cold, and after working for a whole year in the coal mine for only 20 cents a day and selling both my kidneys on the black market to a used organ dealer the only game I could afford was Simon the Sorcerer 3! 
Beat that!
Oh yeah? Well I had to walk 15 kilometres to the adventure game shop in bare feet in the snow in the freezing cold, and after working for a whole year in the coal mine for only 20 cents a day and selling both my kidneys on the black market to a used organ dealer the only game I could afford was Simon the Sorcerer 3!
Beat that!
excuse me Zifnab if that is sarcasm ?. then i never had heard any before
LUXURY!
Im my day, we had to fabricate discs out of rolled up newspaper, having got up half an hour before we went to bed… 
I still have a fair few games on floppy disc. Can’t remember the last time I had a floppy drive though!
3.5 time winner of the “Really Annoying Caption Contest Saboteur” Award!
I still have a fair few games on floppy disc. Can’t remember the last time I had a floppy drive though!
If you’d like one ID I have 32 internal 3.5” floppy drives sitting on one of my shelves. I also have 1 external USB drive as well but you ain’t having that! 
Life is what it is.
Oh yeah? Well I had to walk 15 kilometres to the adventure game shop in bare feet in the snow in the freezing cold, and after working for a whole year in the coal mine for only 20 cents a day and selling both my kidneys on the black market to a used organ dealer the only game I could afford was Simon the Sorcerer 3!
Beat that!
excuse me Zifnab if that is sarcasm ?. then i never had heard any before
I certainly hope so! if I had sold both my kidneys I wouldn’t be alive!
(assuming playing nothing else but Simon 3 hadn’t killed me already)
If you’d like one ID I have 32 internal 3.5” floppy drives sitting on one of my shelves. I also have 1 external USB drive as well but you ain’t having that!
To be fair I think I still have an old 386 PC kicking around in my attic with dual floppy drives and windows 3.something or other loaded and ready to go!
Failing that I could always dust off the old Amstrad CPC 6128. Bow before its 128k of pure brilliance Spectrums and C64’s! Although to be fair, that didn’t use floppy discs.
3.5 time winner of the “Really Annoying Caption Contest Saboteur” Award!
LUXURY!
Im my day, we had to fabricate discs out of rolled up newspaper, having got up half an hour before we went to bed…
I still have a fair few games on floppy disc. Can’t remember the last time I had a floppy drive though!
You had it good then! Games in my time were so expensive, the only thing we could afford to eat after buying one was lumps of poison. And whenever my father caught me playing a game, he would kill me and dance on my grave!
In reality, my father disapproved of choose-your-adventure books but not of computer games. I still think that’s strange. I also didn’t get a computer until relatively late (summer of 2000) and had a lot of catching up to do. I still do.
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