Ask Lemmy

The first video game I ever played was Asteroids in an arcade, before kindergarten.

I still have my pog collection somewhere in the basement

Maybe tomorrow I’ll want to settle down, until tomorrow I’ll just keep moving on.

Ghostbusters

I'm as old as the NES.

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?

My first tv was black/white and had 8 dials to tune the 8 channels.

I'm old enough to have accidentally beaten the original Final Fantasy in hard mode.

Biggest crush on Winona Ryder starting in high school, when Heathers came out.

Before that, Peter Weller inspired me as hard rocking neurologist, Buckaroo Banzai.

First programming was in Pascal on a Hydra machine (reel to reel computer stack serving 30 stations).

I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.

I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

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.

That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!

Old enough to watch the moon landing, but too young to remember it.

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.

16ish

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

Elvis and I were alive at the same time.

Much of my childhood was spent watching BAMZOOKi and Jungle Run on CBBC.

I was still a kid when my dad brought home a brand new Apple II. Before that computer appeared in his home office (and in my live, as I used that Apple so much more than he ever did ;)), I learned to type on my granddad's typewriter.