The spoiled under 30 crowd!!!

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Originally Posted by psychochild28

In the under 30 crowd but had one of these growing up and loved it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision

I hated that controller! The direction control caused major blisters! I think some company made a control stick adapter...

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

Tigger with the reality check!!

Not really.

How many people were using email in the 80's? Not unless you were a college student using the school's internal messaging system. I wouldn't call that true email. And how about the internet? The vast majority of people didn't start using it until like 95 or so. As for pagers, jigga please, that doesn't even compare to texting. And cellphones, sure you could have had a Motorola flip-phone back in 93, but how much did it cost, $500? Back then like only 5% of people my age had a cellphone. And fuel injection? LMAO, in the early 80's most fuel injection systems were less reliable than carbs.

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Originally Posted by Fleck750

I was raised by cheap parents. They didn't buy any of that stuff. They had a rotary phone until 1995.

Most people couldn't afford all the latest, greatest electronics.

So even if the stuff was available, most households didn't have it.

We didn't have a ton of stuff but I had friends that did. We did have cable tv and a microwave though...

[Captain Morgan]

Wow, leave it to people on the internet to get in a fight over a joke.

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Originally Posted by Captain Morgan

Wow, leave it to people on the internet to get in a fight over a joke.

Yea I know, I was just fucking around with Chris but he never answered... Oh well.

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Originally Posted by Homeslice

Not really.

How many people were using email in the 80's? Not unless you were a college student using the school's internal messaging system. I wouldn't call that true email. And how about the internet? The vast majority of people didn't start using it until like 95 or so. As for pagers, jigga please, that doesn't even compare to texting. And cellphones, sure you could have had a Motorola flip-phone back in 93, but how much did it cost, $500? Back then like only 5% of people my age had a cellphone. And fuel injection? LMAO, in the early 80's most fuel injection systems were less reliable than carbs.

The joke was that they were unobtainable, not that they were rare. Oh and $500 for a phone isn't all that much if you think about it... besides you're wrong, they weren't that much anyway. I sold electronics in the 80s.

I was trying to have a joke back with the op. You are taking this way too serious. I'm well aware that FI wasn't as good then, I was there and had FI on my car and rode a Yamaha GTS1000... I almost bought it instead of my FZR1000 but changed my mind at the last minute. To say that electronic items now are vastly superior to previous generations is a no brainer but just because televisions, microwaves, computers, phones, etc are better now, doesn't mean that they "didn't exist" or "we didn't have them" when I was a younger.

[psychochild28]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

I hated that controller! The direction control caused major blisters! I think some company made a control stick adapter...

You sure it was a bad controller and not you just playing it to much?

But I loved pitfall, burgertime and the kool-aid guy game.

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Originally Posted by psychochild28

You sure it was a bad controller and not you just playing it to much?

But I loved pitfall, burgertime and the kool-aid guy game.

Ha Pitfall ftw! There was this outer space game that I can't remember and a football game. God, those were the days. I remember when the Nintendo came out and it was like WOW, it'll NEVER get any better than this!!!

[t-homo]

Please keep bitching when my generation's medicine keeps you alive till you are 120.

[Mr Lefty]

Originally Posted by t-rock

Please keep bitching when my generation's medicine keeps you alive till you are 120.

Why the fuck would we wanna have another 90 years with you fuck tards in girl jeans and flat bill'd baseball caps?