Dork Yearbook...Batutta, I'm looking at you....

[Mark Harris]

http://dorkyearbook.com/

[Jim Brennan]

I had to stop after two pages. Way too close to home.

[Blaine]

There's nothing worse than the old home movies my father took in the late 50s, early 60s. If I ever find them again, I'll burn them. :2vrolijk_08:

[David Jimerson]

I dunno. There's nothing in those pics which wasn't pretty universal, so I'm not sweatin' 'em. Fully 99.5% of people were dorks when they were kids. :)

[David Jimerson]

BTW, I had several of these Coleco games and I loved 'em!

http://19.media.tumblr.com/6pYT6bL7sm2gfpnds43drcZko1_500.jpg

[Batutta]

I don't think i was a dork as a kid...or a geek...or a nerd...I existed in some kind of phantom netherworld of existence, barely registering as a presence. I was never bullied by jocks, but I didn't hang with the cool kids. I wasn't smart enough to hang with the science geeks either. In fact, I didn't have many friends to speak of. I will say if I had been born with faulty wiring and grown up in the wrong family I probably could've been one of those quiet kids nobody notices who snaps one day and shoots the whole school up. Thankfully, that wasn't me. I was just this unformed blob of pre-pubescent protoplasm that finally coagulated into something worthy of society sometime in my college years...So sorry, Mark, I don't have any dorky pictures of myself hanging around...because nobody cared enough to take any.

[Alex H.]

I remember when we got our first computer... a Commodore 64 (which I believe is still at my parents' house). I had "Mad Magazine's" Spy vs. Spy for the Commodore.

And a bowl cut.

[David Jimerson]

I remember when we got our first computer... a Commodore 64 (which I believe is still at my parents' house).

Got both of mine in the closet.

[Jim Brennan]

I remember my brother wetting himself when he had saved up to by a dot matrix priner for his C-64. I was like "so...what exactly does a 14 year old print?"

We used TRS-80's in High School. God, I hated writing code.

[Batutta]

I will say growing up I always seemed to have the wrong system...I didn't have Atari, I had the Odyssey 2. I then had Vetrex (who remembers that?). I didn't have Nintendo, I had Sega Genesis. No other kid had them so I couldn't trade games with anyone.

[tmnt]

Hey nothing wrong with the Genesis - Street of Rage 2 anyone?

[David Jimerson]

Pick Axe Pete was rockin' -- and the Odyssey 2 had some of the most innovative games of the time. Never had a Vectrex, but I always wanted one.

[Batutta]

Pick Axe Pete was rockin' -- and the Odyssey 2 had some of the most innovative games of the time. Never had a Vectrex, but I always wanted one.

Pick Axe Pete! I remember playing that!!! And the Pac Man rip-off KC Muchnkin! The Vetrex had a pretty cool Star Trek game.

[grinner]

lol
awesome
totally awesome.

[Captain Pierce]

I just submitted a pic to this site, God help me... but, honestly, if you had a Polaroid of yourself sitting in front of a TRS-80, and it was (as far as you can remember from 30 or so years ago) the same weekend you first saw the original Battlestar Galactica, could you somehow not upload that? :D

[Hawk Teflon]

Hey nothing wrong with the Genesis - Street of Rage 2 anyone?

One of the best games ever. Only to be outdone by Shining Force 2.

[David Jimerson]

The cool thing about Pick Axe Pete and KC Munchkin was that you could design your own levels. Might have been the first games to do that.

Then, of course, there was Quest for the Rings and Conquest of the World -- part video game, part strategy board game.

[Drew Ott]

I feel sad that I don't know what any of this stuff is.

No pictures exist of me that have that "old school" feel to them. I have played pac-man and pong though.

[Batutta]

I feel sad that I don't know what any of this stuff is.

No pictures exist of me that have that "old school" feel to them. I have played pac-man and pong though.

Yeah, videogames have a come a LOOOONG way. If I showed my 12 year old self an XBOX 360 game my head probably would've exploded.

[Jim Brennan]

I can remember playing the old Atari Indiana Jones game and saying to my brother..."Wow, imagine if they could make the people look like, well, people!"

[ZazaCast]

didn't anyone have a Vic-20 first... like me? I was a wizz at Basic. of course, you had to be, because there weren't any programs available for the machine...if you wanted it to do something, you had to write it.

...and lets not forget the awesome cassette (hard) drive!

[David Jimerson]

didn't anyone have a Vic-20 first... like me?

Yup.


because there weren't any programs available for the machine

To be fair, the cartridge version of Omega Race for the VIC kicked booty -- especially if you used the Atari paddle controller with it.

[David Jimerson]

I can remember playing the old Atari Indiana Jones game and saying to my brother..."Wow, imagine if they could make the people look like, well, people!"

And who, at the time, would have ever thought video games could be scary?

http://www.consolemonster.com/media/0000000185/screenshots/0000000185-L-c57cc55.jpg

http://www.atariprotos.com/2600/software/rotla/raiders_2.png

[Hawk Teflon]

And who, at the time, would have ever thought video games could be scary?[/IMG]

Yeah, playing games like Resident Evil or Condemned at 2 AM did me in.

[Captain Pierce]

Ha, they put my picture up. Awesome. :D

[JasonFox]

Nice shot of Atari Indy, David. That may have been my favorite 2600 game.

[Jordan_S]

I owned a Commodore 64 but remember reading about the Amiga; it was touted like today's Alienware or Falcon Northwest rigs. They actually chose the name in order to precede Apple and Atari alphabetically.