You know you are are an Over-the-Hill Gamer when:

Games
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Useless?!? Lemonade Stand!

  1. Since when do adventure games need graphics?
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  1. Use up a lot of your gaming time trying to decide on what game you feel like playing (Or is that just me?)
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Nope - I can unfortunately spend an entire evening doing this…

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Yep me too then end map playing the original game you were thinking of.

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  1. Spending more time browning game fora than actualy playing games
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  1. You have code wheels from game boxes in your closet.
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Same here, especially with the kids around and having to take into consideration what I can or can’t play around them. So my “what do I want to play now?” sessions fall into two categories, the kids are around game list and the kids are all in bed game list.

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iddqd

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Get off my f*&^ing lawn!

No, but really, I picked up 9$ Tropico 4 and it had Facebook/Twitter integration. Why? Who uses these things. I clicked on it just to see what would happen, and it looks like screenshot + canned joke spam. Why anyone would want to do that?

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  1. You’re disappointed when you open a game’s box and there’s no cloth map inside

  2. You still think games come in boxes.

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Nope, this happens to me far too often too. ;)

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Fondly remember California Games and surfing the pipeline on the C64.

Remember recording programs to the tape player on my VIC-20. I wrote a fake stock market program that I played a lot.

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dirty console gamer!

the “guru meditation” amiga reference made me feel old :(

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Oh ye who go about saying unto each: ‘Hello, sailor’
Dost thou know the magnitude of thy sins before the gods?

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I can one-up this. I’m still bummed that I can never again play El-Fish because of the 486-specific ASM code that it contained.

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Or little square folders.

Or, if they’re budget conscious games, little plastic flip cases with a 5.25" floppy disk inside (anyone else remember the budget line of C64 games that were like $10 while things like The Bard’s Tale were $29 or even $39? I bought a lot of those, and many of them were pretty decent! Think the name was like Mastertronix or something similar…)

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if you’re not using DOSBox, you are getting too old!

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plugh

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  1. You wonder why game’s still aren’t played on a monochrome screen with ascii art , text , and progression via numerical choices.
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When you remember when word processors came on ROMs.