Well we obviously didn't play Video games...

[SG15Z]

sorry we played unPC games like Cowboys and Indians, dodge ball, tag, Simon says, hopscotch, 4 square, freeze tag, red rover. we had imaginary adventures using our brains. like ashpit in my backyard was the Fort and the alley was the grassy plaines. that old closed theater was Draculas mansion, the alley was for homeade go-cart racing (yes my Dad and I build one and so did others not some Bill Cosby routine), and yes we did the bike jumping ramp thing back in my day too (before real skateboards came along)

I miss those games. Not Red Rover though. That hurt my arms.

[Racket_Man]

and as far as the Idiot Box entertainment went my town only had 5 or 6 over the air channels the 3 networks, 2 inddies and PBS (pre Sesame Street just educational type programming like Learn to Type from TV and such). this was all pre-pre-cable. heck we had B/W TV until the early 70's

no VCRs or DVDs or computers or GameBoys just oggd ole fresh industrial smelling air

the one good thing was the indie station picked up Star Trek TOS right after NBC pulled it from their lineup and I got to watch the first run Speed Racer and the Flintstones (from the 50's)

[protege]

And that was just after one glass of wine . . .

...and by "glass" do you really mean "the entire bottle?"

[TimmyHate]

...and by "glass" do you really mean "the entire bottle?"

One glass (bottle) of wine? Still grammatically correct.


...I'm just saying

[hobbitt97]

growing up in the stone age

I'm with racket man. I actually grew up in the 60s and 70s when computers were a thing the government had. We played cowboys and indians and batman and robin. TV was b&w (color was very expenisive and radioactive besides). If you wanted to watch movies you either went to the theater or watched what channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 or 13 had to offer. For inside fun i built model airplanes and ships.

[NateTheChops]

Yeah well I grew up in the early to late 90's and my brothers and I still didn't sit in front of the TV all day. The bulk of my entertainment came from these little rectangular things with pieces of paper filled with letters made from ink.

Thanks to hours of reading I came up with role playing fantasies that put Terry Pratchet and JRR Tolkein to shame and we had hours of fun just using the backyard, playground and other venues as the backdrop.

[jiarby]

Emails were hand written with a pen (or pencil) on a piece of REAL paper, then placed in an envelope and stamped. For just 10 cents a guy would come directly to your house and pick it up and then deliver it anywhere in the country you wanted it to go.

Blackberries were bushes along the driveway (at my house anyway). They made great jam/jelly.
iPods were known as eye sockets. Your eyeball is in there.
Cell phones must have been something people in prison used.
Al Gore had not yet invented the internet.
TV's were made of WOOD! I was the remote control. The UHF Channels sucked.
Cut & pasting something involved paper, scissors, and glue. It was messy.
It took years before a Theater movie was on TV.... no VHS or DVD's.
"We" Bowling was you and your buddys paying 15 cents a game at the bowling alley. I went last year and they tried to charge me amost $5!! Thieves! Same bowling alley! Probably the same shoes.

I am an old fart I guess. Even that bastard that replaced Johnny Carson has retired! I never watched after Carson left. Heck! By 10:30 I have been asleep an hour anyway!

[Andara Bledin]

Ah, yes, the days before computers.

I remember a group of us doing unmentionable things with my brother's doll-... er, *cough*, excuse me, action figures.

Don't let anyone tell you that kids are any more precocious today than they were 20 years ago. It just ain't true.

^-.-^

[Racket_Man]

TV's were made of WOOD! I was the remote control. The UHF Channels sucked.
!

did you have a wire attached between you and the TV or did they implant an RF or IR transmitter in your head. or did your parents just wire you up to the wall socket and press a button to get you off the couch to change the channel

yes I know you had a manual channel changer no "remote". but then I knew a guy who caused his TV to explode/catch fire for playing "Speed Racer" channel changing ya know turning the channel chager knob back and forth very very fast

[jiarby]

we had a foam brick! Seriously!
Parents would throw it at one of us kids and tell us what channel to change it to.

The brick was some kind of novelty like from Spencers Gifts (do they still have those?>) . It was a "TV Brick"... you were supposed to throw it at the TV when you didn't like something.

[Geek King]

No automatic movement? You guys are forgetting the joys of an afternoon of Electric Football! Flashing lights too, if you had the optional scoreboard or a short in the cord.

[dalesys]

We used to put eyes on potatos...





and arms and legs and lips and ears and noses and glasses and moustaches...

and then we'd point at them and laugh.

Dan Quayle, where are you now?