I Feel Old

by "Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
Published 03/07/2017 at 11:54

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My youngest daughter is having a “Technology Museum” exhibit at school today, and was asked to bring an old piece of technology to display and discuss. Being the tech savvy Gen Yer that I am, I don’t have a lot around the house to give her. BUT, we have the original NES my wife had and we recently found in her dad’s basement when we were cleaning it out after his passing last August.

I think it cleaned up nicely. I still don’t know if it works, its been sitting in OUR basement (in a milk crate full of games) since I brought it home against the wife’s will.... and yes, I also have the Light Gun. Didn’t think it was a good idea to send THAT to school with her.

If it comes home in one piece I might be tempted to hook it up, see if it’ll play that copy of Super Mario 3...

Replies (66)

"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
03/07/2017 at 11:57, STARS: 1

I prefer to take this in stride. We’re not old, it’s just that most children don’t have a part of ENIAC laying around the house.

"CB" (jrcb)
03/07/2017 at 11:58, STARS: 0

To also help with feeling old: I was three or four when we got out N64. I’m now 22. As well, if the original Xbox was a human being, it would be old enough to drive this year.

"EL_ULY" (uly)
03/07/2017 at 11:59, STARS: 0

I just hooked mine up to the TV in the extra room on Sunday. Techmobowl and Captain Skyhawk is all I have for now.

The Mario Bros I have is the 3 pack with Duck Hunt and that Olympics game for the floor pad. It doesn’t work doe no matter how hard I blow (lol)

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 11:59, STARS: 1

Well she mentioned the teacher wanting something from the 80's.... and some other kid brought in a Gameboy and I was like “I HAVE SOMETHING BETTER!”

"random001" (random001)
03/07/2017 at 12:00, STARS: 1

You are old.

Now get off my damn lawn.

"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
03/07/2017 at 12:01, STARS: 3

I’m willing to bet other kids will be bringing things that make you feel even older.

“This is the original iPod, it doesn’t even have wi-fi!”

“Look how small the screen is, how are you supposed to use that?”

“It doesn’t even have a touchscreen!”

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:01, STARS: 2

My friends and family all had Ataris.... I grew up with this until the NES came out when I was 5 or 6:

"TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
03/07/2017 at 12:01, STARS: 0

You should have hooked it up to see if it worked so she could have shown off Mario.

"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
03/07/2017 at 12:04, STARS: 5

I have to disagree. Gameboys had that little plastic tab to keep the cartridge from being removed with the power on in the event that one of your little bitch friends acted like a little bitch because they were losing like a little bitch. Also, Gameboy was single player, so you didn’t even need little bitch friends.

"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
03/07/2017 at 12:04, STARS: 0

I have the Japanese version of that and it still worked last I powered it 10 years ago.

"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
03/07/2017 at 12:04, STARS: 0

Went to the Henry Ford Museum a couple years ago... they had a “blueberry” iMac.

...like my school had for my first 4 years.

Nowhere near that NES, but still... If “you’re only as old as you feel”, right then I felt way too old. Part of my childhood is already in a museum.

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:04, STARS: 2

True story, she asked me if the NES had WiFi.... I had to tell her the story of having to take THE ENTIRE CONSOLE to friends and family’s houses and on vacation to hook it up to thier TVs, because of no fancy built in screen like her 3Ds has.

"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
03/07/2017 at 12:05, STARS: 1

Have you tried wiping the contacts with rubbing alcohol?

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:07, STARS: 0

I was afraid of it bursting into flames... I also left her strict instructions to not take the game out, unplug the controller, throw it around, etc.

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
03/07/2017 at 12:07, STARS: 2

Did you tell your kid to show people,

“And when the game randomly doesn’t want to start up for no reason, you take the cartridge out and blow on it, like this!”

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/07/2017 at 12:08, STARS: 2

I also have the Light Gun. Didn ’ t think it was a good idea to send THAT to school with her.

“Then your daughter allegedly said ‘Duck, cunt!’ and drew her weapon, pointing it directly at one of the school’s expensive new television sets.”

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/07/2017 at 12:09, STARS: 0

I ’ m 38 and haven ’ t played video games at all since the early 2000s. We just bought an NES Classic (the $60 Nintendo console with 30 games pre - loaded) and I ’ ve been schooling my 6 - year - old in the finer points of Mario Brothers 1, 2, 3, as well as Zelda. Such a bonding moment. It ’ s like riding a bike — a bike that pisses you off because it can only go in 4 directions. Oh, those controllers are still indestructible.

"vondon302" (vondon302)
03/07/2017 at 12:10, STARS: 2

Old? Pffft

I’ve spent quarters that I earned on my paper route to play pong.

Well damn now I feel old.

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:11, STARS: 0

I just want Super Mario 3 to work. I had it on our Wii when we had it and played it occasionally. Thankfully its been stored in a plastic snap case so its pretty clean. Might not even have to blow in it!

"CalzoneGolem" (calzonegolem)
03/07/2017 at 12:11, STARS: 0

It’ll play it but only if you blow on it first.

"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner)
03/07/2017 at 12:12, STARS: 1

I still have a functioning PS2 and XBox that would have their permits right now. I like them better than my 360. Old school Halo and GTA3 shall never die.

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:13, STARS: 1

They had a “history of computing” exhibit at the public museum here too. Everything from one of those Macs to a NES hooked up so patrons could play it... all that was on the screen was scrambled pixels though. I was sad.

"facw" (facw)
03/07/2017 at 12:13, STARS: 2

Here have this:

Also, that comic is a decade old...

Also, it’s just as well she couldn’t bring the light gun, it won’t work with LCD TVs anyway.

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/07/2017 at 12:14, STARS: 4

You should have written the ad copy for the original Gameboy!

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/07/2017 at 12:16, STARS: 0

Famicom...a rare beast on this side of the pond.

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:16, STARS: 0

THIS COKE IS FLAT!

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:18, STARS: 0

I’ve seen some of the TVs at her school.... So I did ask if there was a chance of them hooking it up.

"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
03/07/2017 at 12:19, STARS: 0

Someone’s been watching kids react...

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"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:20, STARS: 1

I wish I had an old Apple II with a 5.25 floppy of Oregon Trail for them to play...

"TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
03/07/2017 at 12:21, STARS: 0

eh, my guess worse case the fuse just pops and it doesn’t turn on.

"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
03/07/2017 at 12:24, STARS: 0

Complete with the disk drive. But I don’t have any disks...

"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
03/07/2017 at 12:25, STARS: 1

Oh man, that was my first classroom computer. Our teacher didn’t like that game so we had Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? I seem to remember it had a ton of 5.25in floppies with it.

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"user314" (user314)
03/07/2017 at 12:25, STARS: 0

My first system was an Atari 5200 ...

"Roundbadge" (Roundbadge)
03/07/2017 at 12:26, STARS: 0

I have an Odyssey, an Atari 2600, 2 NES, 1 SNES, and 1 Sega Genesis in my house currently. I know the 2 NES don’t run, not sure about the rest.

My gf wanted a NES Classic before she realized how hard they were to get, so I built an emulator machine on a Raspberry Pi 3 for her...which is currently hooked up to the entertainment system along with the XBox One and PS3.

I remember taking $136 I’d saved up in the late 80's to KMart in order to purchase my NES. It’s one of the two still in my house.

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:32, STARS: 0

....there’s a fuse?

"user314" (user314)
03/07/2017 at 12:32, STARS: 1

Also, it’s just as well she couldn’t bring the light gun, it won’t work with LCD TVs anyway.

Which I kinda wish I knew before Captain Power was released on DVD. I got all excited and dug out my old Phantom Striker only to find out it doesn’t work with plasma screens....

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:34, STARS: 1

I remember that game. We were allowed to play pretty much any learning game, and that was a stand out as well as Oregon Trail, Number Munchers, and probably a BUNCH other that I have forgotten.

"Roundbadge" (Roundbadge)
03/07/2017 at 12:36, STARS: 0

I loaded a Raspberry Pi 3 with the RetroPie emulator package to substitute for the NES Classic my gf asked me for, and loaded all the games as well. As a bonus, I also downloaded the full 100kb Odyssey II game catalog so she could relive her childhood gaming glory.

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:37, STARS: 0

I had an Odyssey, then an NES, a Sega Genesis, PS1, PS2, Xbox 360, and now my Xbone.

There was a couple PC builds in there as well, but they were never hardcore gaming systems... but not many were in the late 90's/early 2000's. But the ROMs... oh, the ROMs.

My favorite was the NES rom, aptly named “NESticle”.

"MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner" (montegoman562)
03/07/2017 at 12:43, STARS: 2

If you aren’t gonna use those NES games, send em my way man.

"Roundbadge" (Roundbadge)
03/07/2017 at 12:44, STARS: 0

Some of those systems belonged to my gf’s brother, and I inherited them when he passed away.

I forgot about my PS1 and PS2...still have them as well. Sony was even good enough to repair my PS2 free of charge after it was out of warranty and wouldn’t read game disks or DVDs.

NESticle was the very first emulator I ever used, I remember it well. I do have to say I like the Raspberry Pi RetroPie build better though.

"EL_ULY" (uly)
03/07/2017 at 12:44, STARS: 0

yes, dabbed on a cotton swab

"EL_ULY" (uly)
03/07/2017 at 12:47, STARS: 1

Mario 3 is so epic! I need to get a hold of one for sure. Best bet is flea markets or garage sales because retail store and online store prices are beyond stupid high

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:49, STARS: 1

I’ll make a list and try them out when the wife’s not looking...

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:52, STARS: 0

These were all mine/family. My best friend had an Atari 2600, and an NES before I did. Girlfriend of mine had a Colecovision that we never played on, but she swore it worked.

I had my PS1 up until our last move... I was gonna turn into a clock and hang it on the wall.

"Roundbadge" (Roundbadge)
03/07/2017 at 12:56, STARS: 0

I bought a 2600 from a friend of mine who had just bought his own NES. I played it for a year or two before buying mine, then sold it to another friend. The 2600 I have now was her brother’s.

The last time I played the PS1 would’ve been early 2003, when Sony was repairing my PS2. I was rocking some WCW Thunder at the time.

"Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif" (lumpy44)
03/07/2017 at 12:58, STARS: 0

If it works you could probably get like 200 for it!

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 12:59, STARS: 0

"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
03/07/2017 at 13:04, STARS: 1

I had an Atari before that, and a laptop that was a suitcase! My aunt worked for Compaq in the 80's. My cousin’s kids couldn’t believe the Z had strange cranks to open windows.

"TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
03/07/2017 at 13:10, STARS: 0

Yeah, in the power supply.

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 13:11, STARS: 0

Cool. If it doesn’t power on I’ll check that.

"Stapleface" (patrickgruden)
03/07/2017 at 13:16, STARS: 0

Never had the Odyssey. I had an Atari 2600, ColecoVision, NES, Genesis, SNES, Sega CD, 32X, Nomad, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, N64, PS1, Dreamcast (I LOVED that system), Game Boy Advanced, PS2, Gamecube, DS, Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 and Xbone. I currently play none of them. I haven’t even turned the Xbone on in probably a year and a half. I still have about 6 unwrapped games I bought for the 360 I never play, and a couple for the Xbone. I just don’t have the time. That, and everything seems to give me headaches/motion sickness.

"TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts." (thebloody)
03/07/2017 at 13:21, STARS: 0

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"beautimouse" (beautimouse)
03/07/2017 at 13:26, STARS: 0

Oh man. I have a 2 car garage half full of stuff that would fit very well in a technology museum. That’s pretty much what my wife calls the garage anyway.

"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
03/07/2017 at 13:48, STARS: 0

Funny, I have one of those in my basement, also with the light gun and a handful of games. It worked the last time I hooked it up, but that’s the tech equivalent of “Ran When Parked” in a way.

Are these things actually worth any money?

"Pickup_man" (zekeh)
03/07/2017 at 13:50, STARS: 0

I still need to get an HDMI converter so I can hook mine up to my projector. Unfortunately Duck Hunt wont work on the projector, but there’s plenty of other fun games!

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 13:51, STARS: 0

The only thing close in my garage that I could think of was the cluster from my Trans Am :/

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 13:52, STARS: 0

I heard they are... but more specifically some of the rare-er games. I haven’t really researched it. Of all the stuff my father in law had, the albums from the 60's and 70's have taken precedence as far as evaluating a value.

"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
03/07/2017 at 14:02, STARS: 0

We had some kind of a rocket ship game where you had to answer math questions to earn rocket fuel.

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 14:10, STARS: 1

OH! I remember playing a game called Black Cauldron? And then there was a TEXT BASED GAME about or called The Manhattan Project and some nuclear device... All I can remember is that you started in a park, and had to get into a stroller (or Perambulator as the game called it and it refused every input of ‘stroller’) and open an umbrella to be whisked away to some tree or some shit... man I think I was NINE when I played that.

"Roundbadge" (Roundbadge)
03/07/2017 at 14:18, STARS: 1

Damn, dude...

Oh...also have 2 DS Lites. One I bought for my gf, the other she bought for me when I kept stealing the one I bought for her back.

"functionoverfashion" (functionoverfashion)
03/07/2017 at 14:58, STARS: 0

A quick ebay search shows them being worth ~$100 in nice working condition...

My parents have quite an extensive record collection, probably some value in there for sure. I used to love digging through and finding gems in there. Lots of old beatles, zeppelin, doors, moody blues, hendrix, jefferson airplane, the who..... that stuff sounds awesome on vinyl and I’m not being a hipster; it really does.

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 15:19, STARS: 1

It was made to, so I guess that’s why. I only wish I could experience some of it. I have no turntable. Yet. The wife said NO when I asked to bring one of her dad’s home.

But how can I resist?

"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
03/07/2017 at 15:40, STARS: 0

Technology museum! *brings in rusty old car*

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
03/07/2017 at 15:45, STARS: 0

Today kids, we’re going to learn about carburetors! And distributors! Points and condensers!!”

"My bird IS the word" (mybirdistheword)
03/07/2017 at 16:22, STARS: 1

I feel like you need an engineering degree to actually understand how carbs work and not just how to take them apart.