Show us your game room.

[jmhc74]

People still use VCRs...

[Deslock]

Believe it or not, I still have my original first "top loader" VCR that I bought in the Army *used* back in 1984 for $300.00 (they had just came out, and were really expensive at the time), and the damned thing still works. They didn't have infrared at the time, so the remote is on a cord.

Heck, I remember when CD players first came out and were $1000.00 brand new.
How much time and tech has changed since then. Mind you, like I said that's CD players, not DVD players....And if you had a CD player with anti-skip; you were "da man" !!!!

I bought my first and only NES back in 1987, and man, back in the day that was the cat's ass...:D And it still works as good as the first day I took it out of the box. And if you had a laser disc player with the first Star Trek movie, you were beloved and outright envied.

Gosh, you guys are sooo spoiled now.... Hi-Def....? *sheesh*....

We old skool guys had just a few buttons, and bleeding thumbs....

[mdg60]

Wow Des. All I can say is, God bless technology.

[Yentis]

Wow Des; it looks like I need to come over and find out what is going on.

I did see that VCR of yours man it was a sight to see. Hell; back before they had Composite video out, when it was still RF. That was a trip in and of itself.

Those commercials are awesome though. Gotta love that 80's and early 90's flair, even though I can't remember anything before like 1998 very well. Damn, I was born too late lol.


@JIM REAL MEN STILL USE VCR's. LOL

[APAT]

I remember corded remotes for sure. My parents had one in their bedroom and it looked like a small keyboard. You'd push the button of the channel you wanted to watch and the button of the channel you were watching would "pop" back up. Pretty primitive but I thought it was cool as hell. I could switch back and forth between cartoons and WWF wrestling by hitting one button........oooooooooo yeeeeaaaaahhhhhhh!!!

Back then there wasn't Hi-Def but there sure as hell was Hi-Fi.....haha. I know you remember that Des. Hi-Fi was the shiznat!

[Deslock]

Yeppers, Hi-Fi (High fidelity) on your 8-track was the shiznit. And not having to get up and change the channel was revolutionary.

My first compy was a Tandy 1000, with no hard drive, but at the time was truly amazing. Yeah, the new "King's quest" game came with 14 3 1/2 discs, but was awesome and truly breath taking at the time. And the Lord himself only knows how much I miss those games now. The closest is "Oblivion", and "Fallout New Vegas" in my comparison. I do indeed miss those "point and click" games now. Radio Shack and the Amiga ruled back in the day:






Now that; is "classic gaming".

[FunkyFaulc]

Yentis, Where'd you get that Hyrule shield? My son is going to be link from Ocarina of Time for Halloween this year. I was going to draw one out for him and stick it on a foam shield he already has. One similar to yours would be awesome.

[Yentis]

I bought mine from a flea market. I just got lucky and spotted it. You can get them on Ebay for around 50 to 100 dollars.

[Deslock]

So Yentis came over, and after a yummy dinner of pizza and a six pack of oh-so-wonderful flatulating "Big Flats" beer that he brought over to punish me with (Please don't buy Walgreen's discount generic beer for $2.00 a six pack, your liver will thank you.) He went upstairs and figured out why my systems weren't showing up.

He didn't set them up through the inputs on my TV, he set them up thru the inputs of my VCR, which is why going thru the inputs on my TV kept giving me the blue screen of "No signal" detected.

Gah...

[Yentis]

dont lie Deslock you know you love fucking BIG FLATS BEER.

btw your welcome lol.

ps i will bring over your dog tag this week if we have a day off togeather.

[Deslock]

Yeppers, Yentis has found the new "official" beer of the DSA:

http://screamingreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Walgreens-Big-Flats-beer-

Yes, if you've ever had the urge to drink carbonated cat urine in a can, then this "beer flavored beverage" is for you. At $2.99 a six pack, how can you go wrong ?. Well, you can. With this wonderful "beer flavored drink".

Why Wallgreens is even selling this swill is beyond me, unless they are aiming for the "home less under the bridge living" market is beyond me.

You have to truly hate yourself, to punish yourself this way.

So Yentis, enjoy your "Zombie Nation" movie. Pulling your eyes out with your own fingers is better than watching the true horror you're in for. But we had a deal. I chugged one of those beer abominations to make you watch it.

And the bad thing is, I got the better part of the deal..... :D

[shocker101]

In college a $2.99 six pack of tall boys sounds like a fair trade to me. HAHA!!

[Yentis]

I have read some mixed reviews on Big Flats Beer.

It seems to be a 50/50 spread on the taste. Some say it is better than Budwiser.

But I like this comment from one guy. " For the price it is not too bad. Hell if your looking for good beer what are you doing at the drug store anyway ?. "


Seeing as how I don't drink alcoholic beverages. It's not my thing.

But hey Deslock, at least I bring beer every time I come over. Lol.

[Deslock]

In college a $2.99 six pack of tall boys sounds like a fair trade to me. HAHA!!

Oh man, NOT this stuff:

The beer itself is terrible: "I laid into a six pack of Big Flats as soon as I saw it," says Mark McDermott at The Beeronaut. But, "according to my tasting notes," the beer had "a skunk odor when opened," and I felt "a headache coming on after finishing it." The poor quality is just what I'd expect from Walgreens: "One star out of five."

Quality isn't the point: Walgreens, in "a wise marketing decision," has been up front about the fact that it's not aiming for quality, says Zoe Fox at Time. The unspoken agenda is to "redefine the 'cheap' in 'cheap drunk.'" And for these low prices, you can hardly expect the premium Belgian taste of Delirium Tremens or Chimay. "You should probably be satisfied with a slight buzz that doesn't make you gag."

Walgreens Big Flats beer review – this beer is actually worse than Utica Club and Milwaukee’s Best (Beast beer).:
By IBMer

I truly think I have found the worst tasting beer out there - Walgreens Big Flats beer!

I didn’t think there was any beer worse than Milwaukee’s best or the infamed and puke like Utica club which tastes like it’s brewed from toilet water in Utica New York, but I was wrong. Walgreens has come out with this beer that tastes like ass – they call it "premium brew Big Flats beer".

Supposedly this beer has been brewed since 1901. I don’t know who’s been drinking this crap since 1901 but it’s pretty awful. It tastes like stagnant toilet water or puddle water with some skunked beer alcohol thrown in. When I grew up back in the 70s and 80s I was told that Pabst blue ribbon beer was the bottom shelf beer.

I’m sorry but Pabst blue ribbon beer is so much better than Big Flats. That comparison isn’t even close. So we have to take the absolute bottom of the barrel beer here to compare here and give it a fair comparison. That would leave just Milwaukee’s best (which frat boys love to call beast beer and they do that for a reason; because it sucks) and Utica club.

Yum Yum !!!

[APAT]

A higher price doesn't always guarantee a good quality beer but an extremely low price guarantees the beer is low quality. You can relate it too food. Subway sells low priced food and it tastes pretty good. But you can also go to a steakhouse and get a Filet Minion. Some people would rather eat a $5 footlong than a perfectly cooked steak but they are in the minority. Now if you buy a $1 "meat" sandwich from a shady food cart you should expect you're getting shite and no one will prefer it over a Subway sandwich or ny strip.

Friends don't buy friends rat sandwiches or Big Flats Beer but Yentis gets a one time pass since he's not a drinker ;)