Now, realizing Pokemon is 26 years old, PlayStation 2 is 24 years old and old enough to be a retro console, stuff I considered to be the new hotness... now that makes me feel old.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yea, Doom being that old kind of makes me feel better. Thinking about how old Playstation games are though... that makes me feel like time is spinning out of control.

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've been running Half Life for the first time recently. I'm only a quarter century late.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

*turns into dust*

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Now I feel old for also playing Castle Wolfenstein

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In my young years the computers still worked with this and Pong was a sensation.

[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

31 years of rip & tear! Killing demons keeps ya young!

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

The rippin and the tearin, the rippin and the tearin

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago

Dialup deathmatch FTW!

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

And it's still fucking awesome.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

In my mind, videogames and music never feel older or younger than they are.
Last week a friend of mine was like "can you believe Kurt Cobain died 30 years ago" and my reaction was "Yes..."

[–] Sidhean@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Wow, I can't believe doom is so young! It's been a cultural juggernaut my entire life, so it's weird to think of Doom as "releasing."

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Realizing that the first C&C game came out 29 years ago:

[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

what taking damage does to a mf'er

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was there, Gandalf. I was there when they released it on the internet and you could play the first few levels multiplayer for free. Installed on the university computers..

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Playing our hidden games on the school's network. Good times. Back then if you knew a few lines of code you could give your session administrator privileges. That was when internet security existed because so few people knew how to use a computer, let alone a local network or the internet. An entire computer lab playing against another entire computer lab in whatever those games were called. The most popular was light cycles, an open source Tron clone.

[–] freamon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Tragically, this also means that, even after 31 years, I've still never 'get good' enough.