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There is a thread on the D&D 4th edition forum about how a poster has made the OP (veector) feel old. I assure him that he has nothing to worry about. :P

Don't worry about feeling old until the gamers and geeks you are associating with miss references to things like . . . Moonbase Alpha, Kato, Emma Peel, the USOS Seaview, or worse ”No. 6”

Then you can feel old. :D

What other experiences have “old geeks” like me who read these boards run into?

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Lord Fyre wrote:

There is a thread on the D&D 4th edition forum about how a poster has made the OP (veector) feel old. I assure him that he has nothing to worry about. :P

Don't worry about feeling old until the gamers and geeks you are associating with miss references to things like . . . Moonbase Alpha, Kato, Emma Peel, the USOS Seaview, or worse ”No. 6”

Then you can feel old. :D

What other experiences have “old geeks” like me who read these boards run into?

*sigh* I *LOVED* Space: 1999 (wow - remember when 1999 was, like, WAY in the future?) I loved its sterile feel. I don't know why - it's just one of the things I really liked about the show.

A few more for you:

Burgess Meredith as the head of a super-spy agency.
Girls with purple hair.
And one of my favorites ...

Dark Archive Owner - Johnny Scott Comics and Games

TigerDave wrote:
Lord Fyre wrote:

There is a thread on the D&D 4th edition forum about how a poster has made the OP (veector) feel old. I assure him that he has nothing to worry about. :P

Don't worry about feeling old until the gamers and geeks you are associating with miss references to things like . . . Moonbase Alpha, Kato, Emma Peel, the USOS Seaview, or worse ”No. 6”

Then you can feel old. :D

What other experiences have “old geeks” like me who read these boards run into?

*sigh* I *LOVED* Space: 1999 (wow - remember when 1999 was, like, WAY in the future?) I loved its sterile feel. I don't know why - it's just one of the things I really liked about the show.

A few more for you:

Burgess Meredith as the head of a super-spy agency.
Girls with purple hair.
And one of my favorites ...

Maya was HOT!


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In the openning credits to the old Buck Rogers television show, the narrator says...

"...The year is 1987, and Nasa launches the last of America's DEEP SPACE PROBES..."

..On which Captain William Buck Rogers was the LONE astronaut!! LOL!!

Ultradan

Liberty's Edge

1987,....when I turned 18.

Scarab Sages

This morning I was talking with a new hire about the new Batman movie and how I think Heath Ledger will give the best portrayal so far of The Joker. When I mentioned Jack Nicholson's performance he looked surprised. When I mentioned Cesar Romero, he just looked at me like I had two heads.

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

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Aberzombie wrote:
This morning I was talking with a new hire about the new Batman movie and how I think Heath Ledger will give the best portrayal so far of The Joker. When I mentioned Jack Nicholson's performance he looked surprised. When I mentioned Cesar Romero, he just looked at me like I had two heads.

My point exactly. :(

We have failed to educate the current generation of Geeks.

Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16

Ultradan wrote:

In the openning credits to the old Buck Rogers television show, the narrator says...

"...The year is 1987, and Nasa launches the last of America's DEEP SPACE PROBES..."

..On which Captain William Buck Rogers was the LONE astronaut!! LOL!!

Ultradan

Or when a rogue planet passed between the Earth and the moon in 1994, cracking the moon and causing great changes...

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

JoelF847 wrote:
Ultradan wrote:

In the openning credits to the old Buck Rogers television show, the narrator says...

"...The year is 1987, and Nasa launches the last of America's DEEP SPACE PROBES..."

..On which Captain William Buck Rogers was the LONE astronaut!! LOL!!

Ultradan

Or when a rogue planet passed between the Earth and the moon in 1994, cracking the moon and causing great changes...

You don't mean . . . =8-O

Scarab Sages

Aberzombie wrote:
This morning I was talking with a new hire about the new Batman movie and how I think Heath Ledger will give the best portrayal so far of The Joker. When I mentioned Jack Nicholson's performance he looked surprised. When I mentioned Cesar Romero, he just looked at me like I had two heads.

I'm not that old (26), and I am quite familiar with Batman. Maybe it is because my dad made me watch all that old stuff...or I just watch too much TV/movies in general.

Anyway, the point is that with the internet making everything available, kids have no filter to tell them what is worthwhile, so they gravitate towards curiosity or popularity.

The scene with the bomb on the wharf in the movie is a classic!

The saddest? part is when I saw Ernest Scared Stupid in 1991, I knew who Eartha Kitt was already.


Aberzombie wrote:
This morning I was talking with a new hire about the new Batman movie and how I think Heath Ledger will give the best portrayal so far of The Joker. When I mentioned Jack Nicholson's performance he looked surprised. When I mentioned Cesar Romero, he just looked at me like I had two heads.

Just so you know, I just got back from Dark Knight and Ledger does indeed give the best portrayal I've seen ....

and I was weened on "some days you just can't get rid of a bomb"

Actually, I ran my party through N1 a ways back, and they had never heard of it. I then realized they weren't even fully formed haploid cells when it was published.

Liberty's Edge

Ixancoatl wrote:
Actually, I ran my party through N1 a ways back, and they had never heard of it. I then realized they weren't even fully formed haploid cells when it was published.

man, n1, in my opinion the BEST adventure of the original run...

they have this site for fiction tropes, movies, comics, stuff like that, and almost all of the references are to newer anime and tv shows, almost no references to the original sources of the tropes in question. kinda made me feel old...

Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16

Lord Fyre wrote:
JoelF847 wrote:
Ultradan wrote:

In the openning credits to the old Buck Rogers television show, the narrator says...

"...The year is 1987, and Nasa launches the last of America's DEEP SPACE PROBES..."

..On which Captain William Buck Rogers was the LONE astronaut!! LOL!!

Ultradan

Or when a rogue planet passed between the Earth and the moon in 1994, cracking the moon and causing great changes...
You don't mean . . . =8-O

Yes! Not only that, but making my post made me google it and there's a RPG someone made for it - for free! Thundarr RPG. I have no idea if it's good, but it would be fun to play in that world a bit.


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JoelF847 wrote:
Or when a rogue planet passed between the Earth and the moon in 1994, cracking the moon and causing great changes...

Ariel! Ooklah! Ride!!!


Lord Fyre wrote:
JoelF847 wrote:
Ultradan wrote:

In the openning credits to the old Buck Rogers television show, the narrator says...

"...The year is 1987, and Nasa launches the last of America's DEEP SPACE PROBES..."

..On which Captain William Buck Rogers was the LONE astronaut!! LOL!!

Ultradan

Or when a rogue planet passed between the Earth and the moon in 1994, cracking the moon and causing great changes...
You don't mean . . . =8-O

Awh man! You guys made me smile. I freakin' LOVED that cartoon! OOOOOOOOKLAH!


JoelF847 wrote:
Yes! Not only that, but making my post made me google it and there's a RPG someone made for it - for free! Thundarr RPG. I have no idea if it's good, but it would be fun to play in that world a bit.

Wow, it's actually a fairly in-depth system. Nice find. Should be d20 though ;)


veector wrote:


Awh man! You guys made me smile. I freakin' LOVED that cartoon! OOOOOOOOKLAH!

I named my current character's giant rat mount Ooklah

:-D

RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32

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Lord Fyre wrote:

Don't worry about feeling old until the gamers and geeks you are associating with miss references to things like . . . Moonbase Alpha, Kato, Emma Peel, the USOS Seaview, or worse ”No. 6”

Then you can feel old. :D

Hi. I'm 23. I barely know what those things are.

Space 1999: Huh?
Green Hornet: Huh?
Avengers: I've heard of it. I've seen part of the movie version (With Uma Thurman as Emma Peel)
Voyage to the Bottom: Nope.
The Prisoner: I saw the Prisoner spoof on the Simpsons. Does that count?


Ixancoatl wrote:
veector wrote:


Awh man! You guys made me smile. I freakin' LOVED that cartoon! OOOOOOOOKLAH!

I named my current character's giant rat mount Ooklah

:-D

I was driving with my wife one day and I just started cracking up. My wife looks at me like I'm crazy. I told her I saw a promo poster for a band called "Ooklah the Mok".

She still thought I was crazy.


Ross Byers wrote:
The Prisoner: I saw the Prisoner spoof on the Simpsons. Does that count?

Totally counts. Mad Magazine (and Cracked Mag) spoofs taught me mostly what I know of 40s-50s-60s cultural references. Eventually you'll catch the original on Turner Classic or Sci Fi or online or in the microchips they are going to implant in everyone in 2012.

Out of those above, Id recommend seeking out Green Hornet (try to youtube some Kato/Bruce Lee clips).

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

Ross Byers wrote:
Lord Fyre wrote:

Don't worry about feeling old until the gamers and geeks you are associating with miss references to things like . . . Moonbase Alpha, Kato, Emma Peel, the USOS Seaview, or worse ”No. 6”

Then you can feel old. :D

Hi. I'm 23. I barely know what those things are.

Space 1999: Huh?
Green Hornet: Huh?
Avengers: I've heard of it. I've seen part of the movie version (With Uma Thurman as Emma Peel)
Voyage to the Bottom: Nope.
The Prisoner: I saw the Prisoner spoof on the Simpsons. Does that count?

Okay . . . I'll go off an cry now. :(

RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32

Oh, my ...

Try using catch phrases from your old faves and watch the blank stares.

Shazbat
Frak
Feldercarb

Ring bells? :)

Contributor

Hey, some of you guys just made me feel young for the first time in a while (I don't even get the Space 1999 references), so from a 35 year YOUNG dude, THANK YOU!

Liberty's Edge

F$%$in' eh, man. I feel like an infant on this thread! (I started gaming with AD&D in 1998 at the age of twelve.)

RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32

Lord Fyre wrote:
Okay . . . I'll go off an cry now. :(

S'ok. I feel old every time I see a high schooler.

Oh, Shiny, you're only a year younger than I am. I started gaming in 2001 with 3.0 (in class. The teacher was...not bright). So now you can feel older that someone older than you.

Scarab Sages

Ross Byers wrote:
Lord Fyre wrote:
Okay . . . I'll go off an cry now. :(

S'ok. I feel old every time I see a high schooler.

Oh, Shiny, you're only a year younger than I am. I started gaming in 2001 with 3.0 (in class. The teacher was...not bright). So now you can feel older that someone older than you.

If I was your teacher, I would stop the class to have everyone game with you!

Hmm. School bully? You can play a kobold.


Darrin Drader wrote:
Hey, some of you guys just made me feel young for the first time in a while (I don't even get the Space 1999 references), so from a 35 year YOUNG dude, THANK YOU!

I'm 36 and got EVERYTHING- guess that cult TV has longer legs in Europe.

Anyone remember Mystery Island, featuring the Robot from Lost in Space and a mad scientist called Dr Strange? Only one season, but it ran forever on Irish TV

Dark Archive Owner - Johnny Scott Comics and Games

Ross Byers wrote:
I started gaming in 2001 with 3.0 (in class. The teacher was...not bright). So now you can feel older that someone older than you.

Ross, you just made me laugh. In 9th grade English class, me and a buddy would play the Chill role playing game (anyone remember that classic?). She eventually caught on and tried to bust us, but since we always had our assignment done, she eventually just let us play as long as we didn't disrupt the rest of the class.

And for any of you that haven't seen Space: 1999, I highly recommend it. Very fun series with good action and some pretty bizarre aliens!


TigerDave wrote:


A few more for you:

Burgess Meredith as the head of a super-spy agency.
Girls with purple hair.
And one of my favorites ...

I can't believe I never heard of those shows. Thanks for expanding my TV mind, Tiger Dave. Much appreciated.

Now I wish I could track down episodes those twenty-three episodes of Search. I'd love to see it.


The Jade wrote:
TigerDave wrote:


A few more for you:

Burgess Meredith as the head of a super-spy agency.
Girls with purple hair.
And one of my favorites ...

I can't believe I never heard of those shows.

Truly a sign of the end times.


Ross Byers wrote:

Hi. I'm 23. I barely know what those things are.

Space 1999: Huh?
Green Hornet: Huh?
Avengers: I've heard of it. I've seen part of the movie version (With Uma Thurman as Emma Peel)
Voyage to the Bottom: Nope.
The Prisoner: I saw the Prisoner spoof on the Simpsons. Does that count?

Many of the shows in that list are very 60's trippy (see: Lost in Space). I'm not recommending mind altering substances per se, but I hear that they'll take the sting out of some of those bizarre plot twists. Thing is, they are, without question, a horse of a different color, and far more experimental than modern teleplays.

I adored The Avengers (the Diana Rigg/Emma Peel shows more than the Linda Thorson/Tara King end chapter episodes). I thought the 90's film adaptation was a bucket of pigs@#! that failed to capture the show's signature breezy-in-the-face-of-apocalypse feel.


Trey wrote:
The Jade wrote:
TigerDave wrote:


A few more for you:

Burgess Meredith as the head of a super-spy agency.
Girls with purple hair.
And one of my favorites ...

I can't believe I never heard of those shows.
Truly a sign of the end times.

I know, right?! <:) So much for my TV trivia ranking.


Gamer Girrl wrote:

Oh, my ...

Try using catch phrases from your old faves and watch the blank stares.

Shazbat
Frak
Feldercarb

Ring bells? :)

Mork's favor expletive, and then... are those last two Battlestar Galactica?


Demon Dogs! I have wav of that somewhere here, and the theme to Starblazers but I seem to have misplaced it...

/codger


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Seems bad when you see a bunch of reapers in your current campaign and None of the players react to you singing "Dont Fear the Reaper" :'P


Amardolem wrote:

Demon Dogs! I have wav of that somewhere here, and the theme to Starblazers but I seem to have misplaced it...

/codger

One order of Star Blazers, coming up!

Here's their official site.

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

Tattiana Talahanda wrote:
Seems bad when you see a bunch of reapers in your current campaign and None of the players react to you singing "Dont Fear the Reaper" :'P

They probibly would not "get" an encounter with a group clerics worshiping a giant azure mollusk.


The Jade wrote:
Amardolem wrote:

Demon Dogs! I have wav of that somewhere here, and the theme to Starblazers but I seem to have misplaced it...

/codger

One order of Star Blazers, coming up!

Here's their official site.

Must get Dvds.....and I thought my wave was cool

RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32

The Jade wrote:
Gamer Girrl wrote:

Oh, my ...

Try using catch phrases from your old faves and watch the blank stares.

Shazbat
Frak
Feldercarb

Ring bells? :)

Mork's favor expletive, and then... are those last two Battlestar Galactica?

Dingdingding! Give the man a cigar, all correct :) Frak nearly got me sent to the Dean's Office in high school (yup, I'm that old >laughing<) for using it in the hall and the moniter positive I said a much different F word :)

Wild, Wild West ... Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ... Star Trek and Star Trek Cartoons ... knowing what a "Monty Haul" dungeon meant and the wondrous joys of meeting a monster for the very first time!

All time favorite gaming memory - in original D&D, the Rust Monster had no physical discription, so our very creative and evil DM (not GM, only DMs in those days) decided it could look like anything! Paladin lost her armor to the Rust Kitty that mewed pitiessly and got picked up. Fighter lost his fave shield to a Rust Monk. Then the last fighter with armor lost his chain trying to break down the Rust Door that had already "snapped" the thief's tools ::laughing::

I swear our group absolutely slaughtered anything small, cute and furry (anyone else remember the Killer Kitties?)

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

Amardolem wrote:
The Jade wrote:
Amardolem wrote:

Demon Dogs! I have wav of that somewhere here, and the theme to Starblazers but I seem to have misplaced it...

/codger

One order of Star Blazers, coming up!

Here's their official site.

Must get Dvds.....and I thought my wave was cool

Your *.wav is Smurf cool! :)


Gamer Girrl wrote:


Dingdingding! Give the man a cigar, all correct :) Frak nearly got me sent to the Dean's Office in high school (yup, I'm that old >laughing<) for using it in the hall and the moniter positive I said a much different F word :)

Wild, Wild West ... Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ... Star Trek and Star Trek Cartoons ... knowing what a "Monty Haul" dungeon meant and the wondrous joys of meeting a monster for the very first time!

All time favorite gaming memory - in original D&D, the Rust Monster had no physical discription, so our very creative and evil DM (not GM, only DMs in those days) decided it could look like anything! Paladin lost her armor to the Rust Kitty that mewed pitiessly and got picked up. Fighter lost his fave shield to a Rust Monk. Then the last fighter with armor lost his chain trying to break down the Rust Door that had already "snapped" the thief's tools ::laughing::

I swear our group absolutely slaughtered anything small, cute and furry (anyone else remember the Killer Kitties?)

What a great anecdote. :) I'll be on the lookout for rust kitties.

And yeah, remember when Monty Haul was a common term?

Liberty's Edge

The Jade wrote:
And yeah, remember when Monty Haul was a common term?

It isn't anymore?


The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:
The Jade wrote:
And yeah, remember when Monty Haul was a common term?
It isn't anymore?

Is it? I dunno really.

Sovereign Court RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8

I still use Frak at work. :-)

Speaking of work and old geeks. I've a plastic skull at my desk. I named him Yorik. Half my co workers don't get it.

I'd call them Philistines, but they'd complain they're not from Phillidelphia...

RPG Superstar 2011 Top 32

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Matthew Morris wrote:

I still use Frak at work. :-)

Speaking of work and old geeks. I've a plastic skull at my desk. I named him Yorik. Half my co workers don't get it.

I'd call them Philistines, but they'd complain they're not from Phillidelphia...

Oh my gawd ... Shakespeare anecdote coming up!

Once upon a time I worked at a Crown Books in South Pasadena, California, and we'd get a lot of high school students coming in for texts, especially Shakespeare's Plays.

So one day comes in a young man, looking for Romeo and Juliet, and not knowing where to look. I kindly direct him to the right section, valiantly ignoring the snickers of my co-worker/fellow English Major friend.

Said youngster returns with book in hand, still slightly confused why this particular text would be in classics ... I inform him because Will wrote a great number of plays, and they are considered classic in all senses of the word. (My co-worker is now on the floor behind the counter, dying of held in laughter - not helping me at all, mind.)

Kid goes, huh, cool, and then as he finishes paying askes me (I swear to god!) "So, he written anything lately?"

To this day, I don't know how I managed to answer, that no, he's been dead a number of years now, and not pee my pants from laughing!!

Needless to say, I beat the crap outta my friend later in a game for all his wonderful help during the whole incident :)


JoelF847 wrote:
Ultradan wrote:

In the openning credits to the old Buck Rogers television show, the narrator says...

"...The year is 1987, and Nasa launches the last of America's DEEP SPACE PROBES..."

..On which Captain William Buck Rogers was the LONE astronaut!! LOL!!

Ultradan

Or when a rogue planet passed between the Earth and the moon in 1994, cracking the moon and causing great changes...

Or when an alien spaceship crash-landed on a remote island in the Pacific in 1999...

Liberty's Edge

sort of off topic a bit here, but...(blame Gamer Girll)

Back in the day when Wings was big, I was waiting in line at a record store (Discus if anyone remembers the name) when I heard the person in front of me ask about "Paul McCartney's "other band". When the cashier asked questioningly "the Beatles?" the costumer said, and I swear to the Gods that this is true, "no thats not it, it was BEFORE Wings".

On topic, I had to walk away from an "discussion" about Conan and what class he would be. The other person stated that he began playing with 2nd edition and was could quote from some TSR source (and holding it up as an authority on the subject) and that I had no idea what I was talking about. Even though I had been playing DnD since '80 and was at the time holding 2 Conan books written by REH himself, he insisted that they were written AFTER the supplement.

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

Pat Payne wrote:
JoelF847 wrote:
Ultradan wrote:

In the openning credits to the old Buck Rogers television show, the narrator says...

"...The year is 1987, and Nasa launches the last of America's DEEP SPACE PROBES..."

..On which Captain William Buck Rogers was the LONE astronaut!! LOL!!

Ultradan

Or when a rogue planet passed between the Earth and the moon in 1994, cracking the moon and causing great changes...
Or when an alien spaceship crash-landed on a remote island in the Pacific in 1999...

To such an obscure ROBOTECH reference, all I can say is . . .

that a "Killroy was here" was found in the crawlspace of the vessel.


The Jade wrote:
The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:
The Jade wrote:
And yeah, remember when Monty Haul was a common term?
It isn't anymore?
Is it? I dunno really.

It's still out there, only now it's either called "Core Rules Books" or "WoW"

;-)

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32

Ixancoatl wrote:
The Jade wrote:
The Eldritch Mr. Shiny wrote:
The Jade wrote:
And yeah, remember when Monty Haul was a common term?
It isn't anymore?
Is it? I dunno really.

It's still out there, only now it's either called "Core Rules Books" or "WoW"

;-)

Ouch!

B.T.W.: Which edition of "Core Rules Books" are you slamming? :)

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