What makes you say fuck I am Old ?

[Retro Doomer]

I played DOOM with just a keyboard.
The first phone I used was a rotary landline.
I went to a middle school (something which I gather isn't really a thing anywhere anymore)
I used a walkman
I was raised on music cassette tapes.

On the rare instances I speak to someone under the age of 25, I feel a real disconnect in our lived experience. They see an older person, as I see a younger one.

Being able to say I've lived in two millennia is pretty cool though.

Post automatically merged: Jun 22, 2025

Almost 25 now

So I fall with my 25 years old quite well.And soon to be 26 years old.I am considered to be a Gen Z but I can't identify with those Kids at all,but I am not a Milelnial either.I think I am more considered like a Zillenial.

 

[dr grim]

I played DOOM with just a keyboard.
The first phone I used was a rotary landline.
I went to a middle school (something which I gather isn't really a thing anywhere anymore)
I used a walkman
I was raised on music cassette tapes.

On the rare instances I speak to someone under the age of 25, I feel a real disconnect in our lived experience. They see an older person, as I see a younger one.

Being able to say I've lived in two millennia is pretty cool though.

Post automatically merged: Jun 22, 2025

Almost 25 now

This, playing Doom with a keyboard and the arrows.

May sound stupid but it took a little while back then to use qsdz+ mouse to play fps games

 

[Kamako]

This, playing Doom with a keyboard and the arrows.

May sound stupid but it took a little while back then to use qsdz+ mouse to play fps games

God bless games that let you re-bind controls so that you could move camera controls closer to one of the Ctrl keys

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Looking at some of my leftover clothes(Some still kicking from the late eighties early nineties).
Class pictures and my baby face of those years.
Playing space invaders, galaga and other arcade classics of the late seventies to the early eighties.

 

[PSVitaForever]

When I hear a song on the radio and I realize I used to listening to it when I was child/teen.

 

[_Lorenzo_]

Something strange happens to me: when I'm feeling down and lost in thought, I feel old, but when I'm happy and carefree, it's the exact opposite.

 

[Retro Doomer]

Something strange happens to me: when I'm feeling down and lost in thought, I feel old, but when I'm happy and carefree, it's the exact opposite.

The same when I play a old Game of mine,than I feel young until I stop playing it than it has the opposite effect.

 

[_Lorenzo_]

Usually, when I have to do work I don’t enjoy or feel forced to do, I think about the little gaming break I’ll have afterward as a reward, and that usually helps. But it also works for moments of pure leisure. Most of the time, it works...

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Aging. Gonna have walkers in a few years and be waving my cane around at youngsters to get off my lawn any time soon

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

The moment when i play an classic xbox game , look at the title screen , look at the year under its title and feel ancient ....

till i remember that most modern games arent great anymore except indies and retro that even kids play them old masterpieces again and even cheer them thanks through emulation and retro-game-gents like you people on this forum .

I feel hopeful and like being reborn .

 

[Bakuma1997]

The King of Fighters 97, the game that shares my year of birth, is two years ahead of getting its 30 anniversary

 

[trickybus]

When someone on this forum asked what a cassette tape is

 

[mlastes1987]

I bought my first Pokemon game, Pokemon Blue and my first transparent GBC at 12 years old. Years later, I now hack the games I grew up with. 25 years. Makes me feel ancient.

 

[Tonberry]

Final Fantasy X is 20 years old.

Fuck, man.

Don't do this to me.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

And also that the games I played on PS2 such as:

Gran Turismo 4 is 20 years old
Secret Agent Clank (The PSP Version is 17 years old) but in the PS2 version (which is inferior to the PSP version) is 16 years old
Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier (The weakest installment in the Franchise) is 15 years old
ATV OffRoad Fury 4 is 18 years old
SOCOM 3: U.S. NAVY Seals is 19 years old
Shrek 2 is 21 years old as in the Movie
Avatar: The Last Airbender is 18 years old
Mega Man: Anniversary Collection is 21 years old And by the way, today the is 21 years old
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows: Amazing Allies Edition (The most disappointing version of the game along with the PSP version) is 16 years old
God of War is 20 years old
God of War II is 18 years old
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters (The PSP Version is 18 years old) but the PS2 version is 17 years old.

 

[sneakyguts]

looking at the mirror

 

[ciro64]

When I show the n64 and they go "lol that looks so polygonal"

 

[Fray Guillermo]

I can already refer to stuff that's still kinda fresh in my memory and part of my adulthood as "10+ years ago"

 

[PlayerJuan]

type on a C64 long game programs in BASIC language copy/pasted from the back then magazines

most of the times, after hours of digit it was SYNTAX ERROR :p

10 PRINT ""
20 GOTO 10

 

[gwardojones]

Because my GameCube games that I played in my childhood have aged like wine (mostly) but have been around for 20 years or less.

Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is 21 years old
Super Smash Bros. Melee is 23 years old
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is 18 years old
Need for Speed: Carbon (Although it is a multiplatform game) is 18 years old
FIFA 07 (Although it is a multiplatform game) is 18 years old
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 (The PS2 version is 21 years old) But the GameCube version has 20.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is 21 years old like in the Movie.
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance is 19 years old
Ultimate Spider-Man is 19 years old
Fantastic 4 is 19 years old (will be 20 years old on the 27th in this month of June)
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects is 19 years old
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is 20 years old
R-Racing Evolution is 21 years old
Soulcalibur II (The Arcade version is 22 years old) but the Console versions are 21 years old
Super Mario Strikers is 19 years old
Super Mario Sunshine is 22 years old
Sonic Gems Collection is 19 years old
Mario Power Tennis is 20 years old
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (is 22 years old in the XBOX version) But in the other versions it has 21
Battalion Wars is 19 years old
Mega Man X Collection is 19 years old
Metroid Prime is 22 years old
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) is 21 years old.

Basically this. I was still an adult 20 years ago. Everything was 20 years ago. I measure my life in how many "20 years ago" things were. Still playing games though, so things worked out alright.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Basically this. I was still an adult 20 years ago. Everything was 20 years ago. I measure my life in how many "20 years ago" things were. Still playing games though, so things worked out alright.

It is that time also moves fast without us realizing it.

 

[deceptionfalls]

I remember how the world was before Minecraft came out and now it's such a monumental part of videogame culture and you see it everywhere... I remember when they first added Horses even...

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I remember how the world was before Minecraft came out and now it's such a monumental part of videogame culture and you see it everywhere... I remember when they first added Horses even...

Another one, remember when we used to share funny videos over Bluetooth? And we would watch them on teeny tiny flip phone screens? Yeah...

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

In one year from now FFXII will be 20 years old. The game can drive me around or drink right now depending the country.

I sold my original red brick GBA SP to my coworker that while I replaced the battery out of goodwill was still functioning and color intact minus a few scratches on top. I've made references that millennials get with me and the generation younger that just gives me blank stares.

Time moves on but I don't think this generation really notices how much technology has made leaps over the past 50 years and feels like it only has plateaued with micro advancements but I hear the occasional snide at 2D graphics or early PS2 3D titles when I pull out my Steamdeck and play for nostalgia. Even vanilla Skyrim which is 14 now can elicit some questions of how old is that? Well kid how many games you got on that PS5 that aren't from the PS4 with updates?

 

[moonbits]

wrinkles on your face

 

[MajesticSiN]

The moment I honestly felt old was when I saw Weezer in concert and was wondering who these old guys were.