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Congrats Gary! Don't forget that it's not your fault that you're getting old, but it's that frickin entropy that plays the spoil-sport on our quest for immortality.

Blame entropy! Blame entropy!

 

4 months and I'll be 20. That means I could have been been legally drunk for almost four years. The Netherlands rule. biggrin.gif

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I'm 33. The years are creeping up on me.

 

Tycho, you better run home kid your mother is calling. biggrin.gif

 

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My Dream, to fly a starfighter and destroy Imperial ships.

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I am only 13 years old and as i have always said to peple who are over 20 aren't u guys to old to be playing computer games? U OLD people are always saying us children play to much computer games and yet you still set out a bad example tsk tsk tsk.

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Ham Yoyo? I'm certain I haven't seen that one before! biggrin.gif Howdy, fellow A-wing terrorist in his thirties...

 

So why do we old guys play video games? *Sigh* Well, for me it started when I was a little squirt in the front row of the movie theater, watching Star Wars come to life. I decided then that I wanted to be a starfighter pilot and fight bad guys in outer space.

 

Only problem? Living in the real world, with no bad guys to kill, and a fear of flying which would prevent me from trying to even get off the ground. biggrin.gif

 

When I was a kid, I had no interest in the wireframe graphics videogames they had in the parlors (home systems sucked even worse!) Until, that is, the first Star Wars game came out...finally, I could fly an X-wing and blow up the Death Star. That one videogame was the extent of my childhood videogame career.

 

Years later, as an adult, I picked up my next videogame, a flight simulation for the N64 called Pilot Wings. When Rogue Squadron came out for the same console system, my buying it was a foregone conclusion. Same story with Episode One: Racer and Battle for Naboo. When I got a computer, I got the latest version PC simulation (X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter) that my RAM could support...and when I upgrade, you can bet I'll get XWA at the same time.

 

So, you see...it isn't about playing videogames. It's about flying over somewhere and smacking TIEs out of my sky, that's all. smile.gif

 

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'Don't shoot--Your sister's in the cockpit with me!'

 

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Yeah, don't think of us as old. Just as guys who got to see Star Wars when if first came out in 1977. I saw it on opening night, I was 11 years old. biggrin.gif

 

ah, memories.................

Guest garyah99
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Originally posted by Fondas:

 

 

This is the age where you combine maturity and physical ability, so.... smile.gif

 

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A friend of mine once said; "I may not be as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was wink.gif

 

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You old people only play computer games to get away from real life like us kids? I thought you grow out of that stuff... oh well what a sad miserable world this is.

Guest Zoom Rabbit
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Guess what? We still play with toys, too...!

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Ya they do have a SW briefs with the face of Darth Vader on ur ass..at least they should

 

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ummm....i was going to say something

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The first time I saw a Star Wars movie in the theater was Episode I. I've vowed to myself that I will see Episode II as soon as I possibly can after its release.

 

Nitro, your birthday is August 2 perhaps? And you were born in 1983 I think. Am I right?

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The first time I saw SW in the thearters was a Special edition of A new hope.

 

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"Dulce bellum inexpertis."

(Sweet is war to those who have never experinced it.) Roman Proverb

Guest Zoom Rabbit
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You didn't put a period at the end of that 'sorry,' pilot! biggrin.gif What is that, just a word hanging in mid-air...?

 

The first time I saw Star Wars was less than a week after its initial release. No one knew who George Lucas was. Computers were owned by the government. Japanese cartoons were still silly.

 

Man, the world has changed. eek.gif

Guest garyah99
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I also remember the original release of Star Wars. I was 18, and I saw it 6 times in the theatre. Of course, back then it was only $2.50 to get in to a movie. I took my family to watch it once and my dad fell asleep. (He's not much of a Sci-Fi fan).

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Sooooooooo close, Scelty!!!

 

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I owe him more then anyone here can imagine.

I guess dedicating my sig to His Glory is a half-decent start.

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