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

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

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
David Jimerson said:
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.
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Pick Axe Pete! I remember playing that!!! And the Pac Man rip-off KC Muchnkin! The Vetrex had a pretty cool Star Trek game.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
Drew Ott said:
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.
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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.
 
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!"
 
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