<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>tangler wrote:</div>
Anyone an early BBS user? Bulletin Boards were the coolest. I remember waiting like 30 minutes for a JPG of a bikini-clad hottie to load up, like one pixel at a time.
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I knew I couldn’t have been the only one 
As a 9 year old probably watching my favorite athlete of all time, Kirby Puckett, and Twins head for their 2nd (TWO can you imagine that now!!!) World Series win!!! Oh and playing some Oregon Trail on the Apple II GS I believe and not really knowing what the internet was. 
When did Doom come out? Or Duke nukem? My mom’s second husband was med tech so he had one the first laptops, and had those games on it. Couldn’t wait for him to come over.
Did they still have Oregon Trail in 1991? I remember that game in Middle School (circa 1980-81) about the same time Ozzy Osbourne released his Blizzard of Ozz & Diary of a Madman albums.
As a 9 year old probably watching my favorite athlete of all time, Kirby Puckett, and Twins head for their 2nd (TWO can you imagine that now!!!) World Series win!!! Oh and playing some Oregon Trail on the Apple II GS I believe and not really knowing what the internet was.
Did they still have Oregon Trail in 1991? I remember that game in Middle School (circa 1980-81) about the same time Ozzy Osbourne released his Blizzard of Ozz & Diary of a Madman albums.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>BigWerm wrote:</div>
As a 9 year old probably watching my favorite athlete of all time, Kirby Puckett, and Twins head for their 2nd (TWO can you imagine that now!!!) World Series win!!! Oh and playing some Oregon Trail on the Apple II GS I believe and not really knowing what the internet was.
They still had it when I was in early elementary school in the later 90’s!
Carmen Sandiego? 
When did Doom come out? Or Duke nukem? My mom’s second husband was med tech so he had one the first laptops, and had those games on it. Couldn’t wait for him to come over.
I love Doom and Duke Nukem! Did you know if you walked up to one of the strippers in Duke Nukem and pressed the space bar she would lift her top? Mind you, the graphics weren’t the best and it left plenty to the pixeled imagination. I played those games on my old computer system for countless hours. We also had Quake. The graphics in that game were a bit more sophisticated, which made it more challenging – thus my love for cheat codes ensued!
Years ago Billy turned off the lights when he left the room, leaving me in the dark. So I yelled “IDBEHOLDL”! We both laughed like the computer nerds we are.
I had a movie theater projector in collage and hooked up my good old Atari 2600 to it. It was so much fun playing games where the pixels were 6”x6” each. I would kill someone and say “what, couldn’t you see that coming.” 
Good times. I still have the 2600 but it won’t work on the new TVs. I still have an old tube TV in my son’s room so we can play duck hunt. Damn that is 35 years old.
Would have been 9 and we were still 3 years or so away from having a computer. Always liked going to one of my cousin’s house as they had a computer with the Oregon trail game.
Probably riding my bike down to the creek with my little brother or sitting on the dock at Grandma and Grandpa’s on Bone Lake. Looks like it was a cool August day 
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When did Doom come out? Or Duke nukem? My mom’s second husband was med tech so he had one the first laptops, and had those games on it. Couldn’t wait for him to come over.
Not sure if the were new but I remember my older brother having them on his computer when he was at home for the summer in college which would have been between 95-99.
Probably spending a lot of time scouting deer and tuning/shooting the bow in prep for the deer opener. 2 daughters kept me busy as did work with a friend as remodeling carpenters. My 42nd birthday was in a couple months.
I was similar to Toms post except it was one daughter and no bow hunting or practice shots. 1 daughter, I hunt hunt deer, running a BSA troop, a life member of a local Izaak Walton League and coach of the daughters softball team. Ya I’m a remodeling contractor too.
That’s a 10-4 on the BBS. Our first computer was a Tandy 1000, 2 DS-DD 5-1/4″ hard drives and a color monitor. Woo Hoo!! Don’t forget the dot matrix Panasonic printer that I still have for some unknown reason. This was a very pricey set up When I got it!
Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, Reader Rabbit, Writer Rabbit, shot, can’t thing of the others. How about a bit later with Mist, 7th Guest, Riven, 11th Hour and Time Lapse”
Leisure Suit Larry had a profound effect on my life.
Leisure Suit Larry had a profound effect on my life.
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I was turning boob juice into chocolate pudding at Cedarvale lanes in Eagan…Tuesday night league! 
As a 9 year old probably watching my favorite athlete of all time, Kirby Puckett, and Twins head for their 2nd (TWO can you imagine that now!!!) World Series win!!! Oh and playing some Oregon Trail on the Apple II GS I believe and not really knowing what the internet was.
As an 11 year old, same here. My jersey number in all sports was 34.
What about O’dell lake? I’d always giggle when I was a dolly varden.
Stupid autocorrect doesn’t even know what a dolly varden is.
Great sports year, drank lots of beer, pants sizes grew 3 times that year
Hergies Bar, 3 time Softball champions (beer drinking trophies)
The great WWF and NWA rasslin shows
North stars whipe out defending Stanley Cup champs Chicago in round 1.
Twins win world series
Unfortunate thing – there was that Persian Gulf War – seeing long time friends heading to the Middle East.
More Drinking- If I remember right
I was 17, living with my mom for the summer in central WI so I could earn money for college. I worked the night shift at a Seneca bean plant and would often head to the beach to nap, drink and work on tanning beaver all day. I didn’t learn about the interweb until the following year.
Leisure Suit Larry had a profound effect on my life.
All I know is “Kent sent me.”
I was getting ready for Kindergarten…
So I did not know much of anything. I assume I was eating crayons or something.
Same for me! I was 4, going on 5 and probably eating dirt or ants. Not sure why but I was on an ant binge one summer back then. I don’t think we got a computer till the mid 90’s. I remember having Windows 95 and dial up internet. My Grandpa was a 4th Grade teacher and always got to bring his Apple Computer home from school during the summer months. Oregon trail & Solitaire were about the only games I ever played.
I didn’t realize Oregon Trail had the history it had. The version I was familiar with was one of the text versions. It was a long time ago but I seem to remember you actually typed the word “BANG” when you wanted to shoot in the hunting portion. The graphics were on par with this…
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I didn’t realize Oregon Trail had the history it had. The version I was familiar with was one of the text versions. It was a long time ago but I seem to remember you actually typed the word “BANG” when you wanted to shoot in the hunting portion. The graphics were on par with this…
That’s way cool. I just read that the text version dates back to the early 70s!
I think the graphic version that was on every Apple II in midwest schools in the 80s and 90s came out in ’85. The hunting play was pretty rad.
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