I can remember my grandfather serving WWII but he hasn't told me any stories about it. :cry:
I do get a kick out of hearing him diss bush though.
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I can remember my grandfather serving WWII but he hasn't told me any stories about it. :cry:
I do get a kick out of hearing him diss bush though.
Sounds similar to my grandpa, he was a vietnam vet and saved a bunch of lives dropping some napalm on the enemy when the US troops were serverly outnumbered before hand. Then he became a rocket scientist, he does missle defense stuff in white sands missle range and works on Israel's defenses. He loves games too, especcially WWII games he's insanely good at strategy stuff.
LOLlers. :lol: That gave me a good chuckle. Sounds like he was a great guy to have on your team. My grandpa was a really smart guy, too, but not Phd-from-Harvard-at-16 smart. He was a computer systems guru for Naval Intelligence, starting in the 50's or 60's, so he was working with some pretty ancient stuff. He died in 1996, with all sorts of nasty health problems. Grandma told me he never owned a calculator since his head was good enough. I wish he was still around. I'd love to hear some first-hand stories about the early days of computers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
Sadly, no one in my immediate family played video games but myself. I have bad memories about trying to play Street Fighter with my dad. He wasn't very nice. All of my cousins were into games, but I only saw them a few times a year at most.
I knew that letter was about DW1 just by looking at the equipment. They started calling the Large Shield the "Iron Shield" in DW2 and onwards.
Awesome story and an an even awesomer grandpa.
Man, I have such warm memories of Dragon Warrior. The first RPG I ever played. I will have to find my old diary from the second grade, it has my video gaming stories in it complete with pictures. You were so damn cute Master!
Wonderful thread, Master. Thanks for sharing it.
That is a great story Master. :) Those must be awesome memories for you.
Coincidentally around the same time in early 1990 I got my grandma to play a video game for the first time. I was 14 years old and playing Shinobi. She gave it a try and seemed to like it. I was really surprised later when she ended up buying a Master System and Shinobi for herself! She told me she rented a gun game she liked too(which from the description she gave was Gangster Town). A few years later I went to her house and she had a Game Gear.
Dammit, reading that made me jealous.
Nobody in my family was ever that kickass cool.
All my dad ever did was work as a programmer for NASA for a few years during the Apollo 13 project.
He served in Nam but he never talks about it.
Today's generation of men are a bunch of pussies.
Well, I remember when I was in kindergarten, my mom and dad would sneak into my room when I was asleep to play Super Mario Bros. And a few years ago, before I went to Job Corps. and then college, my mom and I would play Bomberman Online. She started getting to where she could trap me good. <Nostalgia>.
Right now she has one of those Jakks Pacific's Ms. Pac Man game things in my room.
As far as I know, no one in my family plays games as seriously as I do, and it's sad because I waish I had someone to talk to during reunions and what-not.