CD-ROM

[GoFasterStripes]

You just unlocked a really, really deeply lost childhood memory in me of getting a tape for some kind of game system out of one of those boxes with the plastic insert that had the tape in. Jesus, that’s thrown me a bit.

[1101010]

My dad always pronounces it ‘CD-ROAM’. I have no idea why.

[1101010]

This sort of thing?

With the 5.25" disc section too.

[Mistersteve]

Fucking nostalgia waves, lads.

[LilWoodyToodelly]

[1101010]

Mainly looking at that I’m left thinking, “People actually went into shops and bought Doom II” because I just sort of recall it as being one of those games people had from somewhere but I never really knew where.

[shrewbie]

When in cd-rom do as the cd-romans do

[Bamnan]

probably got it off some usenet forums or something, did seem like everybody had Doom/Doom 2 in the 90s

[Avery]

I mean i had it on a series of broken up floppies

[1101010]

Yeah maybe that’s why it seems odd. I think CD-ROM as standard was a couple of years after.

[Shoebox1976uk]

Hi!

[sheeldz]

[daggers]

vibing this thread big time but also shout out to the 3.5" floppy

[sheeldz]

This has reminded me that Red Alert came with two discs; Allied and Soviet.

[sheeldz]

When I moved into my desk here at my new job, in the drawer there wasn’t just a floppy dics, but a Floppy Disc Drive Lock. Like a floppy disc shaped thing that had a padlock on it, to stop folk loading 1.44Mb code off it.

My current work laptop doesn’t even support DVDs or USB drives.

[anon19035908]

[Shoebox1976uk]

Oh man, I was so excited for “Rock Manager”.

“This’ll be a new generation’s Rock Star Ate My Hamster”, thought I. How wrong I was. Pretty sure I returned it to the shop a week after purchase.

[anon19035908]

Haha yeah it was absolute shit.

[Shoebox1976uk]

See also: The Movies

[TKC]

Used to enjoy Virtua Springfield