Back In My Day...

When all the family got together we made home made ice cream in the ole White Mountain 6 quart, hand crank freezer. And we talked Nebraska football. Come to think of it, we still do that.
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Uh guys.....the milk man still exists. Up until about 2 years ago we had weekly home delivery. They still haven't picked up their milk box... They even deliver, bread, eggs, juice, egg nog, cookie dough....

 
NM11046 said:
I remember when the first music video came out and we would stay up late to watch Friday Night Videos.

When only one of my "rich" friends had a VHS recorder and it was HUGE.

Two words - Trapper Keeper. I never actually owned one ... too expensive.
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Young pup. I was in college at UNL when MTV started.

 
We had shag carpet but I didn't know carpet rakes existed. Asked my mom last night and she said we had one at one point. Must've been before I was born.

 
In my day video games were just cartridges. You had to slap the hell out of the NES to make it work.

Weekends were working on the farm and baling square bales on the hottest days of the summer.

Phones had cords and gas was like 1.05 before 9/11.

 
Laying on the floor listening intently to Husker games on my dads beat up old boom box because only 2 or 3 games a year were on tv, always adjusting the AM radio dial ever so slightly because the game was never QUITE clear enough.

 
More coming back to me now.......Frogger, Pac-Man, Yars Revenge, Missle Command, Q*bert, Space Invaders, Galaga, Some sort of tank game I can't quite remember the name of on the Atari. Never having more than one working controller and the fights over it that it caused.

Edit: Ha! Been so long I even called it by the wrong name. One working JOYSTICK.

 
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We had cable TV when I was a kid, but we had the selector that was connected to the TV by a long cord with these huge selector buttons on it.

Snap bracelets

Pencil fighting

Big Wheels, my kids don't really get into these, but that's because the ones we have are boring, I had a GI Joe one that was bada$$!

 
BIGREDIOWAN said:
We had cable TV when I was a kid, but we had the selector that was connected to the TV by a long cord with these huge selector buttons on it.

Snap bracelets

Pencil fighting

Big Wheels, my kids don't really get into these, but that's because the ones we have are boring, I had a GI Joe one that was bada$$!
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Did you have the original big GI Joe or the ones of my generation that were smaller and millions of different characters?

 
Back in my day we played desktop football with paper you folded into a triangle.

One of the best games out there was Electric Football with the metal vibrating field.

That was replaced by Coleco's hand-held electronic football, which was a complete piece of garbage but super exciting at the time.

The arcade version that put those to shame was Atari's X's & O's Football with the rollerball that you would wind up and hit with the palm of your hand to get your guy to speed down the field, or catch your opponent's player. Hurt my hand playing that many times.

Speaking of arcade games, back in my day Dragon's Lair was the ultimate cutting edge video game. I think it cost 75 cents or $1 to play instead of a quarter.

Push-button radio changers in the car.

Making your own tape of a copy of your friend's copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of some song you liked. Sounded like you were rubbing a steel wool Q-tip your ears as you listened to it.

That chunking sound the 8-track made when you switched tracks.

 
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Pong.

6 Million Dollar Man doll (the one where you could look through his bionic eye through the back of his head - ok, it was my brothers, but was cool).

When the theatre actually popped the popcorn on site, and used real butter.

 
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Dukes Of Hazard on Friday nights, and being able to stay up late if Mom & Dad were out to watch Fantasy Island on Saturdays.

Solid Gold (and those dancers!)

Wild Kingdom

 
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