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You might be an oldschool gamer if you have the title screen to the original Legend of Zelda
burned into your TV

...if you've spilled your Rogaine on your six switch 2600

You might be an old school gamer if you still have nightmares about loading games off of casette tapes.

You might be an old school gamer if you enjoyed King of Kong.

you might be an old school gamer if you have to blow into the system, put the game in, turn it on, blow into it, turn it off, unplug it, take the game out, blow into it, plug it back in, repeatedly hit the power button, turn it on, turn it off, put the game in, turn it on, then yell when you see that all your high scores are gone

If every time you're stuck in a game you look for the phone number of a tip line in the back of the game's manual("I should just look where?... what the hell is a 'GameFacts'?")... you might be an old-school gamer.


Later

You might be an old school gamer if your first video game experience was Pitfall and E.T on the 2600 at the age of 4. Or you prayed every time you put your cartage in that your screen would not blink blue.

you might be an old school gamer if you still have a tv that works with the zapper to play duck hunt and hogans alley that still has dials on it, yell at the track and field pad for not working and have a pong machine in your basement.

You might be an old school gamer if the only cheat code you use is up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, a, b, a, b, select, start.

You might be an old school gamer if the following phrase brings back nostalgic memories:
"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here."

Originally Posted by Rollett You might be a old school gamer if you STILL OWN A GAME GENI!

I still have a game genie for my Sega Genesis

You might be an old school gamer if you most of the systems you hook up use a RF switch.

You might be an old school gamer if you've spent more money on Virtual Console games for your Wii than actual Wii games.

You might be an old school gamer if you play Tetris for hours on.

you might be and old school gamer if you are anxiously awaiting kid icarus 2

You might be an old school gamer if you stayed up till 4 in the morning playing lock 'n' chase on the intellivision just to see what the next prize is. Talk about achievements...

you might be an old school gamer if in boxing games you aim for the belly button

You might be an old school gamer if the only way you know how to continue is "A" Start.

You might be an old school gamer if your first instinct of what to do when a game isn't working is to blow on it.

If you actually know who Nolan Bushnell is.