Advances in technology have had as many negative effects on games as positive. Too many games are being built with graphics in mind, with gameplay falling by the wayside (eg. Need For Speed and Final Fantasy XIII), whereas Back In The Day, the SNES gave us Super Mario Kart and Final Fantasy VI. But maybe I'm just being overly-nostalgic, which is at least appropriate to the thread...
For me, the worst thing about gaming advances has been the near-death of two-player split-screen. I like to be able to play a game with a friend/family member whilst in the same room, playing the same game on the same console.
As a child I had a habit of falling in nettle patches. If there was a clump of nettles, sure as anything I'd be going head first into them at some point. I wasn't a particularly clumsy child, I just think the nettles plotted against me.
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Oh, and lots of times with my best mate we'd make either 'magic potion' or 'perfume' which were the same thing - water with lots of leaves, petals and twigs stirred into it.
YES!
And did anyone make George's Marvellous Medicine in the bathroom sink. Using all your parents really expensive products to mix in!?
Oh, and selling said medicine and perfume in old jam jars.
^That is so much more girly than what I did. I was such a mature young girl. I made a 'chocolate' cake that was affectionately called "Poo-Bum Chocolate Cake". Put red stones on it and everything.
It was mud. Not anything else. I wasn't that gross. Just thought I should make that clear!
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Oh, and lots of times with my best mate we'd make either 'magic potion' or 'perfume' which were the same thing - water with lots of leaves, petals and twigs stirred into it.
I did that all the time, though occasionally I'd try something different. I once mixed together about five brands of toothpaste with about half a bottle of mouthwash and a lot of deodorant to create... something. I don't know what my intention was. I probably made a pretty powerful (and highly flammable) toothpaste, though I didn't dare try it because I suspected it'd clean the enamel right off my teeth.
We used to make magic potions where we would find everything in the house and put it all into a pot George's Marvelous Medicine style.
We also used to make mud pies and throw them on the cars at the garage at the bottem of my garden (At the end of my garden is a 30 foot drop and then a petrol station) My mate Will got a tomato in a cars engine once.
Me and my brother used to fall out of trees on purpose and grab the last branch before the bottem.
My bro once said to me "Let's play boxing day and hit each other with boxes" so I picked up a plastic tox box and smacked him in the face. He still has the scar. (I was like 8 and he was 5)
We used to canoe down the stairs in boxes.
We used to mountain climb up the stairs.
I once put my brother in a box and made a hole in the top for his head, pur a bike helmet on him and taped him in, I then put a playstation controller into the front and he was quite happy sitting there playing playstation for a few hours.
Frogger.
Torin's Passage.
The King's Quest V.
The world is just illusion always trying to change me.
You will find wonder wherever you can, and spread joy whenever you are able.
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, divide within me. - Frankenstein.
Having several films recorded onto one videotape by using the 'Long Play' setting
Recording songs off the UK top 40 chart on the radio
Making some sort of fancy recipe in the bucket my dad used to wash the car, consisting of water, mud, leaves, stones, and one time I dared to steal some cheese to use. Funnily enough I wasn't allowed again after that incident >_>
Can't really think of more right now...
I do feel quite lucky, though, to still own a VCR player and to still be able to watch videotapes =)
The only time you will find real light is when you're searching in the dark..
I once put my brother in a box and made a hole in the top for his head, pur a bike helmet on him and taped him in, I then put a playstation controller into the front and he was quite happy sitting there playing playstation for a few hours.
I would love that
The only time you will find real light is when you're searching in the dark..
I used to live out in the country and had a massive garden, so every summer night for years me and my neighbours would stay out until about 11pm and play Hide And Seek In The Dark. And we didn't have yer fancy orange streetlights out there in the sticks, it was genuinely I-can't-tell-if-my-eyes-are-open-or-not Dark.
And it was awesome. We'd just pick a spot, sit down and hide in plain sight, while the unlucky bugger who was It wandered around as slowly and carefully as possible, hoping to trip over one of us.
Falling out of trees
Jumping from ridiculous heights out of trees/off buildings for dares
And yes...I used to make potions too....in the bathroom sink out of anything I could find there i.e. shampoo, body lotions, toothpastes etc. My friend let me wash her hair using one of my concoctions once.
Also would make potions in a tea cup whenever we ate out consisting of every available condiment and/or liquid (salt, pepper, brown sauce, chilli sauce, soy sauce, ketchup, vinegar, coke etc) and then daring each other to try it.
Making "gangs" in the most innocent sense of the word...like the super secret spy gang.
Letting friends cut your hair.
Getting locked in bathrooms
Getting home from school and going straight outside to play...then eating dinner as quickly as possible so you can go out and play some more.
Actually knocking on friends doors to see if they can come out rather than phoning/texting/facebook.
Actually knocking on friends doors to see if they can come out rather than phoning/texting/facebook.
And writing letters, especially in the school holidays.
Paddling pools in the summer were awesome :)
My great-aunt came around to visit once and my brother accidentally squirted her with a hose pipe and she left in absolute disgust... 'twas hilarious.
Finding secret dens...
& creating secret clubs and passwords and things.
We had an German Shepard whilst we were growing up too and she dragged my younger brother around the garden which was amusing (though my parents weren't too pleased!). She had quite a temper on her which was used on everyone else bar children and family so she could never see anyone else. It was awesome and slightly dangerous :P.
Oh yeah....I forgot about dens.
I had loads! One in my garden when I was little had a chair and everything...I'd go and read books in there. Other dens were little more than a plank of wood halfway up a tree.
And if it was raining too much (though really...kids nowadays disappear at the first sign of a shower! We'd stay out in the rain quite often and it never hurt!) we'd make dens inside out of sheets and clothes horses and the sofa and stuff.
I used to put my roller blades on and let my dog pull me along!
Omg! We had a gang when i was about... 6 in my primary school it was amazing our gang and the dens.. I lost count the amount of times i was in a tree and making sure that no one was coming to nick our den as it was ours! And running in from school as quick as i could so i could change and be out playing with my mates :) Loved my childhood :D
Making dens with all the sheets off all the beds and all the spare sheets then sticking them to furniture with double sided sticky tape which still hasn't all come off to this day.....
just because you've forgotten doesn't mean you're forgiven
Masturbating to the Bra section of the Kays catalogue! Happy happy happy days!
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