Our Generation...

[SeerSGB]

Our generation - Tape swapping and crappy copies of copies
This generation - Downloading in HD

Our generation - Seventy five comics
This Generation - Comics that cost as much as paperback used to.

Our Generation - Table top RPGS, stacks of hex-paper, dice, and saving rolls.
This generation - MMORPGS

 

[Luckyflux]

Our generation - Tape swapping and crappy copies of copies
This generation - Downloading in HD

Our generation - Seventy five comics
This Generation - Comics that cost as much as paperback used to.

Our Generation - Table top RPGS, stacks of hex-paper, dice, and saving rolls.
This generation - MMORPGS

Great stuff here! I experienced all of this! I used to record DJ's on the radio to get some songs on tape.

I collected comic books back then. I was maybe 10 or so, and the price on the cover was Only 65 Cents!

Can't tell you how many charachter sheets I created to play for almost any game. So much so, that I used to ask my Dad to make me copies on the Xerox at his office! Now people can download and print multiple copies of whatever they want.

Now excuse me while I play a game of Mattel Football!

 

[RandyS]

Hey, when I entered fandom, Logan's Run was still cool . . . .

You mean its not?

Yeah, what's with that??

 

[Greg Cox]

Hey, when I entered fandom, Logan's Run was still cool . . . .

You mean its not?

Yeah, what's with that??

You don't see many people running around cons in Sandman costumes anymore. I remember when LOGAN'S RUN costumes were still fashionable!

 

[zakkrusz]

I'm 26 and a child of the 80's so I grew up with and have got lots of good memories of:

Series:
Transformers (The original)
Robotech
Beavis and Butthead
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trerk: Voyager
Babylon 5
Farscape
Firefly


Movies:
The Terminator movies
Top Gun
Jurassic Park Trilogy
Apollo 13
The Fugitive
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Star Wars Prequels
The Matrix Trilogy
Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy
The various shows on Cartoon Network's Toonami, Midnight Run, and Adult Swim Blocks

I was also a big fan of The Star Wars movies and the original Star Trek a kid but that was ex-post-facto.

 

[Nardpuncher]

"a rag-tag, fugitive fleet".

Ah, another example of "the good old days", back before Ron Moore destroyed it with his "improvements".

Speak for yourself!


(I'm sorry. Even back in the good old days, I never understood what people saw in the original GALACTICA . . . .)

This is part of the point I'm making.
Kids that went crazy for Power Rangers (understandably so..bright colors...col weapons...robots...karate) at age 6 or 7 must not look back on it too fondly now...they see it for the silliness that it is.
I was nuts for Star Wars, Raiders and Superman:The Movie and I think, objectively, damned right to do so!
I saw Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode in the theater(yep...they showed it in the theater there!) when I was a kid when I lived in England and was ga-ga over it. I watched it again at age 13 or so and already saw through it.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Ah, another example of "the good old days", back before Ron Moore destroyed it with his "improvements".

Speak for yourself!


(I'm sorry. Even back in the good old days, I never understood what people saw in the original GALACTICA . . . .)

That's okay. I don't understand what people see in the New Galactica. I used to respect Ron Moore as a writer, but never again. If he ever tries to write for Star Trek again, I'll sue somebody, and then arrange an assasination.

Fuck it, I'll do the hit myself.

I'd rather see you write for Star Trek. I still respect your writing.

Just stay the hell away from New Galactica.

And stay even further away from Old Galactica.

 

[Mike Farley]

I saw Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode in the theater(yep...they showed it in the theater there!) when I was a kid when I lived in England and was ga-ga over it.

They showed it in the theaters here too...in SENSURROUND!

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

No Smell-O-Vision?

 

[comsol]

"a rag-tag, fugitive fleet".

Ah, another example of "the good old days", back before Ron Moore destroyed it with his "improvements".

Speak for yourself!


(I'm sorry. Even back in the good old days, I never understood what people saw in the original GALACTICA . . . .)

Maren Jensen, Laurette Spang, Jane Seymour (only in the beginning), Anne Lockhart later on . . .

 

[Mike Farley]

Thankfully, no. Ovions are funky.

 

[Hunter X]

This is part of the point I'm making.
Kids that went crazy for Power Rangers (understandably so..bright colors...col weapons...robots...karate) at age 6 or 7 must not look back on it too fondly now...they see it for the silliness that it is.
I was nuts for Star Wars, Raiders and Superman:The Movie and I think, objectively, damned right to do so!
I saw Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode in the theater(yep...they showed it in the theater there!) when I was a kid when I lived in England and was ga-ga over it. I watched it again at age 13 or so and already saw through it.

There's plenty of crap and good stuff for each generation. I was a kid in the era of Power Rangers (never really watched it, though) up to the mid-late 90s. We also had The Princess Bride, The Cosby Show, Star Trek: TNG, Terminator, The Neverending Story, A Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Don Bluth animated films (Secret of Nimh, An American Tail, Land Before Time), Jurassic Park, ET, Batman (both animated TV show and Tim Burton movies), the Disney age of Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Toy Story....

Kids growing up now may have Hannah Montana and Twilight, but there's also shows and movies like the new Star Trek, anything Pixar makes, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, X-Men, Harry Potter, and who knows what the next big (quality) thing will be? Something always comes along eventually.

 

[RoJoHen]

This is part of the point I'm making.
Kids that went crazy for Power Rangers (understandably so..bright colors...col weapons...robots...karate) at age 6 or 7 must not look back on it too fondly now...they see it for the silliness that it is.
I was nuts for Star Wars, Raiders and Superman:The Movie and I think, objectively, damned right to do so!
I saw Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode in the theater(yep...they showed it in the theater there!) when I was a kid when I lived in England and was ga-ga over it. I watched it again at age 13 or so and already saw through it.

There's plenty of crap and good stuff for each generation. I was a kid in the era of Power Rangers (never really watched it, though) up to the mid-late 90s. We also had The Princess Bride, The Cosby Show, Star Trek: TNG, Terminator, The Neverending Story, A Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Don Bluth animated films (Secret of Nimh, An American Tail, Land Before Time), Jurassic Park, ET, Batman (both animated TV show and Tim Burton movies), the Disney age of Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Toy Story....

I see we share a common bond.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Indeed, my good sir.

Most fortuitous.

 

[clint g]

I had power rangers

 

[Mistral]

Our generation - Tape swapping and crappy copies of copies
This generation - Downloading in HD

Our generation - Seventy five comics
This Generation - Comics that cost as much as paperback used to.

Our Generation - Table top RPGS, stacks of hex-paper, dice, and saving rolls.
This generation - MMORPGS

Great stuff here! I experienced all of this! I used to record DJ's on the radio to get some songs on tape.

I collected comic books back then. I was maybe 10 or so, and the price on the cover was Only 65 Cents!

Can't tell you how many charachter sheets I created to play for almost any game. So much so, that I used to ask my Dad to make me copies on the Xerox at his office! Now people can download and print multiple copies of whatever they want.

Now excuse me while I play a game of Mattel Football!

Oh, my child, I bought 12c comics. I got pissed when they hit a quarter.You'd probably drool over my collection. Rare Kirby, Ditko, Lee, etc.

Used to make and Xerox my own character sheets-they were expensive and hard to find back when.

 

[Nardpuncher]

This is part of the point I'm making.
Kids that went crazy for Power Rangers (understandably so..bright colors...col weapons...robots...karate) at age 6 or 7 must not look back on it too fondly now...they see it for the silliness that it is.
I was nuts for Star Wars, Raiders and Superman:The Movie and I think, objectively, damned right to do so!
I saw Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode in the theater(yep...they showed it in the theater there!) when I was a kid when I lived in England and was ga-ga over it. I watched it again at age 13 or so and already saw through it.

There's plenty of crap and good stuff for each generation. I was a kid in the era of Power Rangers (never really watched it, though) up to the mid-late 90s. We also had The Princess Bride, The Cosby Show, Star Trek: TNG, Terminator, The Neverending Story, A Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Don Bluth animated films (Secret of Nimh, An American Tail, Land Before Time), Jurassic Park, ET, Batman (both animated TV show and Tim Burton movies), the Disney age of Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Toy Story....

Kids growing up now may have Hannah Montana and Twilight, but there's also shows and movies like the new Star Trek, anything Pixar makes, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, X-Men, Harry Potter, and who knows what the next big (quality) thing will be? Something always comes along eventually.

Good points...I just want to point out that I wasn't at all trying to sound like everything after my generation was bad or anything...it was with me specifically how Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark were my two favorite movies that I thought were unbelievably great...and they still are.
My other favorite movie from that time was the 1980 Flash Gordon...I was way off there!

 

[RandyS]

Speak for yourself!


(I'm sorry. Even back in the good old days, I never understood what people saw in the original GALACTICA . . . .)

That's okay. I don't understand what people see in the New Galactica. I used to respect Ron Moore as a writer, but never again. If he ever tries to write for Star Trek again, I'll sue somebody, and then arrange an assasination.

Fuck it, I'll do the hit myself.

I'd rather see you write for Star Trek. I still respect your writing.

Just stay the hell away from New Galactica.

And stay even further away from Old Galactica.

You don't know what you're missing.

 

[RandyS]

This is part of the point I'm making.
Kids that went crazy for Power Rangers (understandably so..bright colors...col weapons...robots...karate) at age 6 or 7 must not look back on it too fondly now...they see it for the silliness that it is.
I was nuts for Star Wars, Raiders and Superman:The Movie and I think, objectively, damned right to do so!
I saw Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode in the theater(yep...they showed it in the theater there!) when I was a kid when I lived in England and was ga-ga over it. I watched it again at age 13 or so and already saw through it.

There's plenty of crap and good stuff for each generation. I was a kid in the era of Power Rangers (never really watched it, though) up to the mid-late 90s. We also had The Princess Bride, The Cosby Show, Star Trek: TNG, Terminator, The Neverending Story, A Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Don Bluth animated films (Secret of Nimh, An American Tail, Land Before Time), Jurassic Park, ET, Batman (both animated TV show and Tim Burton movies), the Disney age of Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Toy Story....

Kids growing up now may have Hannah Montana and Twilight, but there's also shows and movies like the new Star Trek, anything Pixar makes, Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man, X-Men, Harry Potter, and who knows what the next big (quality) thing will be? Something always comes along eventually.

Good points...I just want to point out that I wasn't at all trying to sound like everything after my generation was bad or anything...it was with me specifically how Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark were my two favorite movies that I thought were unbelievably great...and they still are.
My other favorite movie from that time was the 1980 Flash Gordon...I was way off there!

Your opinion on that has changed, I take it?

 

[J.T.B.]

Another 39 y.o. here. Star Wars was definitely the big one for me, that pretty much speaks for itself. Before that was Star Trek, Space 1999, TAS, Speed Racer and Batman series reruns (the Batmobile was the star of that show as far as I was concerned). I was also very much into Lone Ranger reruns from the '50s, with Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels. I caught Green Hornet reruns a few times and liked it, but I could never find it regularly where I lived. My favorite "current" network show was Emergency! "Sation 51, KMG-365..."

When I was about 6 a local theater showed Thunderbirds Are Go! as a summer matinee. (Your parents would buy tickets at the end of the school year and then you could go to a movie every week during summer vacation. It was fun, it seemed like all my friends from school were there.) I loved that movie the one time I saw it. Once in a while I would see a Thunderbirds toy in a shop, but I didn't see it as a movie/video again until I was in my twenties. I used to describe it to friends to see if they had seen it, and they'd say something like "Puppets? Never heard of it..."

Around '77 or '78 the UHF station in my area used to run the old Flash Gordon serials on Saturday or Sunday mornings. Despite the obvious limitations of cheap sets, primitive effects, corny dialogue and hammy acting, the shows had some kind of innocent charm that really appealed to me. None of my friends could stand it. Then the 1980 Flash Gordon came out and my brother and I went several times, but I never liked it as much as the b&w serials.

The same UHF station also showed Battle of the Planets and Star Blazers. I really liked Star Blazers, but for some reason the station only ran it a 7 a.m. so I had to catch it while getting ready for school (fourth grade) every morning.

BSG was a very big deal for me when it came out. It still seems like it was on for a lot longer than it really was. My brother and I had a Viper and Raider, respectively, that shot little pill-sized plastic missiles. These toys were soon recalled because kids could choke on the missiles, but we kept ours and never choked somehow.

I used to watch Buck Rogers in the 25th Century but even then I didn't really think it was that great.

About '82 or '83 the PBS station started showing Dr. Who, which I had read about. The first one they showed was "The Ribos Operation," and it hooked me. I thought Mary Tamm was the prettiest person I had ever seen. I was very "Whovian" for a few years.

The technology of the time is funny to think back on. Before my family had a VCR I used to audio-tape parts of Monty Python's Flying Circus by holding my mono AM/FM/cassette recorder nex the TV speaker. I would actually sneak out of bed to the living room to watch it because it was on at 10:30, past my bedtime. I never bought albums on cassette, I would buy the vinyl and then tape it for portable/car use. My cassette of choice was the good old chrome Maxell XL-II C-90. I had a Sanyo knock-off Walkman, then I saved up and got a real Sony with - gasp! - auto-reverse!

--Justin