There is a pack of us old folks here. We should start a new EQ supporters group AARP. Our first order of business should be to influence the move of game times to before dinner (well before 4 PM). Our logo can be an old guy shaking a fist at a millennial on the soccer field.
Ha! One of the worst things about getting old is how far I have to scroll down to my year when filling out a date form online. I was just thinking the other day that probably my oldest soccer memory is getting up early on a Saturday morning in Pennsylvaniain the 1970s to watch Soccer Made in Germany on a little B&W TV, broadcast by the local PBS station. I can still hear the way Toby Charles pronounced "Karl-Heinz Rummenigge".
Little black and white TVs! You had to get up every time you wanted to turn the knob to change the channel. Or adjust the rabbit ears to get reception.
VCRs are for youngins. You had children in order for them to change the channels for you (no stick needed).
No rabbit ears for us either. We lived in the boonies so had a roof mounted antenna with one of these motorized rotators to turn the antenna. (Courtesy of the 1976 RadioShack catalog).
No VCR, but we had Pong (and still do). I just got it out a few weeks ago and connected it for the kids. Kind of funny having it attached to a flat screen HDTV.
I'm surprised the game machine still works. My first video game was Nintendo 64 lol. This really is the retirement home.
Oh, Hell yeah. We used to pick up the latest when we went in to pick up our free battery each month (yes, they had a free battery card that you had stamped each month when you got your one free battery). My kids are sick of me pulling up the RadioShack catalogs online to show them all of the stuff we had every time we watch Stranger Things. https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/
Radio Shack! Damn, I miss them. Love Stranger Things with all of the retro stuff, the freaking Pinto! Basic! Eight tracks! Goddess eight tracks were shit! Zak wasn’t very good, but there was that playoff game where he and Serena got red cards for crashing into each other! We lost our worst player and they lost one of their best. That was F-ing great!!
We did the Stranger Things Experience in San Francisco a few weeks ago for my youngest son's 13th birthday. Pretty cool. Yeah, I miss Radio Shack as well. They were such a huge part of my childhood. Almost all of our electronics came from there (walkie talkies, cassette players, etc.).
That’s awesome. I used a TRS80 at school but a TI 99/4A at home (aforementioned Pong game conveniently in the background). And yeah, I still have that computer as well as the Pong game, and my original Mac 512ke.
Also telephones, answering machines (I bought some for my friends), speaker cables, connectors, and all kinds of stuff. I love the music in Stranger Things too. You can tell what year it is from the sound track! Ibby sucked, but you couldn’t fault his effort. Go Quakesfans!!