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Pokemon Red was an amazing part of my childhood

You tryin' to rizz my skibiddi up? Aye? In ohio no less.

I grew up with Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Doug.

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?

Retro is anything on a cartridge or tape. Disc based media is too new and space age to be retro.

When I was 7 I could look up at the night sky and there were no satellites.

I once took a Toledo Salamunca sword and cut off my own head.

My first computer was the zx spectrum with 256k RAM

My childhood pics are Polaroids.

I was born a few weeks after the beginning of the TET offensive.

Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

Biggest crush on Winona Ryder starting in high school, when Heathers came out.

Before that, Peter Weller inspired me as hard rocking neurologist, Buckaroo Banzai.

First programming was in Pascal on a Hydra machine (reel to reel computer stack serving 30 stations).

When I was born, the United States wasn't involved in a war.

Accrington Stanley? Oo are they?

I was in my mother's womb when Chernobyl was melting down.

That poll was revealing, was not expecting average of 30-40 :0 Good idea though!

I look almost the same as I did when I was twice as young as I am right now and I understand that during this decade I'll probably leave the age bracket where this is possible.

I was born in the year Princess Elizabeth became Queen. Also, Evita died that year.

I remember the big floppy disks that were actually floppy. But the standard floppy disks were way more common and even they were on their way out

The first time i typed a paper for school i used a typewriter. The last time i wrote a paper for school i used Openoffice.

16ish

My first computer was a Sinclair