10 Years

Discussion in 'Off Topic Discussion' started by Tomcat, Jan 30, 2008.

  1. Tomcat

    Tomcat Familiar Face

    Joined:
    Jul 4, 2004
    Messages:
    1,363
    Likes Received:
    1
    Just been reading the thread about what was happening in the game industry 10 years ago and kinda got me thinking about what I was doing ten years ago. I was just starting out my training for my career after just leaving school not really knowing if it was the right thing to do.
    My home town was still reeling in shock about the bomb that had happened a few months earlier. (The IRA bombed the center of Manc with it`s biggest ever mainland bomb - ripping the heart out of it) We were never sure if it was safe to be out there was a constant fear of another attack.

    10 years later I still work with aircraft Ive been to the far side of the earth and back and generally much better off.
    So where were you 10 years ago?
     
  2. Taemos

    Taemos Officer at Arms

    Joined:
    Mar 14, 2004
    Messages:
    3,056
    Likes Received:
    16
    I was still a wee chillun' in elementary school. I couldn't have guessed that this country would take a fucking nosedive ten years later, and piss off the rest of the world while doing it.

    Hopefully in another ten years I'll still be alive, and with a kickass career going to boot.
     
    Last edited: Jan 30, 2008
  3. GaijinPunch

    GaijinPunch Lemon Party Organizer and Promoter

    Joined:
    Mar 13, 2004
    Messages:
    10,999
    Likes Received:
    75
    10 years (and 10 days) ago, I arrived in Tokyo to live. I didn't have my own room, got a shitty job, and ate cheap, crappy food from the convenient store, but it was the best time of my life. Responsibility found me some 1.5 years later.
     
    Last edited: Jan 31, 2008
  4. Phinn

    Phinn Gutsy Member

    Joined:
    Dec 19, 2005
    Messages:
    457
    Likes Received:
    0
    Still in school, about to turn 14. Probably around time I first got interested in Japan thanks to a cyberpunk novel my mum bought me (Prize to anyone who can guess what it is). That book has a lot to answer for!
     
  5. WolverineDK

    WolverineDK music lover

    Joined:
    Mar 14, 2004
    Messages:
    5,611
    Likes Received:
    8
    Phinn: Neuromancer ?
     
  6. kammedo

    kammedo and the lost N64 Hardware Docs

    Joined:
    Sep 24, 2004
    Messages:
    2,138
    Likes Received:
    12
    My two cents on that :p
     
  7. 3do

    3do Segata Sanshiro!

    Joined:
    Sep 25, 2006
    Messages:
    1,901
    Likes Received:
    12
    10 years ago i was still in primary school not really think about what i wanted to do with my life and i would have been most of the time playing any Fifa or any resident evil on my playstation or with my friend on his playstation.
     
  8. Festerfly

    Festerfly Resolute Member

    Joined:
    Apr 20, 2007
    Messages:
    948
    Likes Received:
    0
    10 years ago i had not long passed my driving test, didnt have any games console (apart from a Gameboy), was mad about cars (still am i guess) and thought i knew everything...

    Amazing how some things never change! lol
     
  9. z_killemall

    z_killemall Familiar Face

    Joined:
    Dec 4, 2006
    Messages:
    1,116
    Likes Received:
    6
    Ten years ago I was on elementary school trying to trade my Atari Lynx for my friend's brand new Gameboy Color (with no success, of course)
     
  10. AntiPasta

    AntiPasta Fiery Member

    Joined:
    Dec 30, 2006
    Messages:
    809
    Likes Received:
    4
    Ten years ago I was another geek in a way-too-posh highschool. A real textbook geek case, including the hairstyle and Star Trek-watching. About that time I sold my boxed NES with some 25 boxed games I'd had for years, and was playing loads of PC games on a 486 me and my brother had slowly assembled with our pocket money :)
     
  11. graciano1337

    graciano1337 Milk Bar

    Joined:
    May 8, 2007
    Messages:
    6,576
    Likes Received:
    32
    I was 10 years old...
     
  12. XxHennersXx

    XxHennersXx I post here on the toilet sometimes.

    Joined:
    Mar 12, 2007
    Messages:
    4,115
    Likes Received:
    24
    I was 9 years old, I had just gotten an N64...
     
  13. Mr. Casual

    Mr. Casual Champion of the Forum

    Joined:
    Jul 6, 2004
    Messages:
    5,484
    Likes Received:
    4
    Around ten years ago, I was 11 years old, and during that whole year, I played nothing but POKYMAHN!!!!!!!!!!!

    EDIT: Hmmm, wait, Pokemon didn't come out until 1998 Nov.

    I think I was playing on a friends Playstation. Megaman legends. Crap now I can't remember. I used to game a LOT more than I think I did back then.
     
    Last edited: Jan 31, 2008
  14. babu

    babu Mamihlapinatapai

    Joined:
    Apr 15, 2005
    Messages:
    2,945
    Likes Received:
    3
    10yrs ago around this day I was 13 and played trough FF7 for the second time on my shiny new PSX. Ah, the memories. :icon_bigg
     
    Last edited: Jan 31, 2008
  15. Sojiroh

    Sojiroh Dauntless Member

    Joined:
    Mar 26, 2007
    Messages:
    783
    Likes Received:
    0
    10 years ago i only played nintendo games (i was 8 BTW), and i didn't knew that the playstation even existed, at that town i lived in a little town and was very disconnected from the outside world.
     
  16. Pikkon

    Pikkon "Moving in Stereo"

    Joined:
    Mar 4, 2005
    Messages:
    2,695
    Likes Received:
    80
    I was 16 and remember getting Ocarina of Time,ah the memories.
     
  17. XxHennersXx

    XxHennersXx I post here on the toilet sometimes.

    Joined:
    Mar 12, 2007
    Messages:
    4,115
    Likes Received:
    24
    Pokemon TV show came out Sept 7 1998, the game Sept 28th 1998. I still have the promo videos hyping it. :)
     
  18. WolverineDK

    WolverineDK music lover

    Joined:
    Mar 14, 2004
    Messages:
    5,611
    Likes Received:
    8
    hmmm 10 years ago, I began smoking cigarettes. And that is all I am going to tell.
     
  19. graciano1337

    graciano1337 Milk Bar

    Joined:
    May 8, 2007
    Messages:
    6,576
    Likes Received:
    32
    haha, looking back, me too! i just used to think, "Oh I didn't start gaming until last generation when Halo came out. but that's not true at all. i probably have been saying that to sound cool. i've just got to embrace the fact that i've been gaming as long as i can remember. :lol:
     
  20. ave

    ave JAMMA compatible

    Joined:
    May 21, 2006
    Messages:
    5,644
    Likes Received:
    61
    I was just 8 years old and didn't even own a console (not untill I turned 10), I was just playing some random stuff on a friends PC and on my GameBoy. Well those were the times, no worries about HDTV, Scanlines,
    uncut/cut, mint or used? and "how the fuck am I supposed to raise 1000$ for a loose ketsui?"^^
     
sonicdude10
Draft saved Draft deleted
Insert every image as a...
  1.  0%

Share This Page