RetroFIRST...

[Andy Grady]

With all the talk about the best robots ever, and things changing in the game, I thought it would be fun to reminice a little bit. To some, it might give you some scary memories, to others, it might raise a few questions...

Do You Remember...

...the dot matrix printer?

...hexagon shaped fields?

...the American Pavilion Theater?

...FIRST Jeopardy!?

...seatbelts in the human player station?

...human player helmets?

...the yellow position?

...Off Kilter?

..."Whatever it takes we'll make it by tommorow, whatever it takes you know it can be done..." (god i can't believe i remember the words to that)?

...The Voices of Liberty!?

...3D Studio Release 4 (Not Max!)?

...Sunny Delight?

...Big Jimmy the Wedgebot!!!?

...The infinate scoring plane of 1996?

...The absolute dead perfect tie during the finals in NJ in 97?

...The Placebo!!! (extra points if you can name what each one was)?

...Who "Steeeeeve" was at Rumble at the Rock?


Give yourself 1 point for each one of those you remember (also one point for each Placebo you named. If you get more than 10 points, you have been in FIRST for wayyyyyy too long!!

Congrats All!,
Andy Grady

[Justin]

Do I remember the above...you better believe it!!!! Those are the things that shaped my FIRST expirence and the things that I will always hold close to my heart when I think about FIRST. How I long for an 'infinte scoring plane' and to be able to yell "Steeeeeeve" just one more time at Rumble. How I remember 3DS4 cursing at it and loving it at the same time...endless animation meetings which gave way to computer lab baseball (another story). Placebos....we need them back....bring back the old seeding charts and the hovercraft placebo that is what I say...and it is all about the yellow position ;-) I remember when Blue Lighting was 121 and CHAOS was 108. Nothing will ever compare to "old FIRST" and sadly there are very few left who remember it. Nothing will compare to regionals at NHC...ever ;-)

*sighs*

-Justin

[ZACH P.]

i know of none of that, except for maybe a dot matrix printer. will somebody please explain if you can?

[Steve Prairie]

Do You Remember...

...The "Threaded" CD Board, and its original forums?

...What an IBOT was?


p.s. I didn't score more than 10... just 10.

Steve Prairie <The quiet RAGE guy

[JVN]

I actually got to meet one of the drivers from 1994 Sunny Delight!
He was reffing with me in Seattle.

That was a hell of a bot!

PS - I scored higher than I should have, considering I joined FIRST in 00. (yay for being from an original team)

[Deej]

off kilter ruled!! the one thing that sucked about the american pavillion was the trek from there to the pits outside, across the dirt road with all the potholes and stuff....infinate scoring planes made my old team famous in the day...we were the only team who designed a robot to flip the goal on its side and drive in front of it to score points, sunny delight was an awesome team, with awesome buttons, and awesome animations. if you remember all that stuff.. then you have to remember Rnets....way old school, especially after running a match and those things were really hot!

[Ken Patton]

Wow you have some great oldies there! I got a nine but only because I remember scouring videos of the 1995-1996 games when we were rookies in 1997.

How about these oldies?

... Tekin speed controllers (usually smokin hot)

... detachable devices

... death from below (think "rules named after 121")

... last second HP shots changing the outcome of the game

... no alliances

[Mike Martus]

This whole thread makes me feel real old.....

Not really just brings back great memories.

Each year new things stand out so special they are remembered.

What will make the memories for this year.

I start....

The uphill trek from the Dome to the reliant. Up hill both ways, or so it seemed.

[Andy Grady]

Ken Patten Wrote...

... detachable devices

I think we need to make a movement for FIRST to bring back detatchable devices. Land mines were so cool!!! I remember Plymouth North (I believe) had some small landmines in 96. And I also remember the detachable wall blocker that one team had in 1993. (though ive only seen that on video).

Does anyone besides me actually remember FIRST Jeopardy???

Here is another remember when...

Remember when Chief Delphi used to do FIRST Pen Pals???

[Matt Leese]

I think I can add a few more (eventhough my days in FIRST only date to 1998). Remember:

--Getting a list of all team contact information?

--Thinking of a hockey puck the first time you heard the word puck?

--Not thinking of a hockey puck when you hear the term puck?

--Being able to call Eric when you had questions about the rules?

--Having to order aluminum and steel from Small Parts (anyone else wind up with steel bases because aluminum would've broken the $450 budget?)

--Double elimination tournaments?

--One regional per weekend?

After writing this, I'm starting to feel old.

Matt

[A. Leese]

I actually remember 8 of those..wow..and I was in middle school in 98/99..I really remember human players deciding it all. We managed to actually score that way! Our first robot..well..ya. I believe our first human player still has a big red ball and two pucks in his room

[Joe Matt]

Off Kilter is still at Epcot. Go to the Canada pavilion.

As for the other ones, yes I know some.... but that's because I go to Epcot a lot!

Here's a few more:

-What a floppy is
-stretcher
-before Test Track opened
-before the ugly 'Epcot'/'2000' on Space Ship Earth
-Dean actually WALKING and not riding on something
-FLOOD

[Brandon Martus]

Originally posted by Steve Prairie
...The "Threaded" CD Board, and its original forums?

The what? Oh wait.. yeah.

Anybody remember the old poll system?
The one that categorized results by engineer, student, coach and other? That was my first big 'from scratch' perl project. Man, that was ugly (code & presentation).

[ajlapp]

96' super sweet hovercraft with dry ice for effect

97' the vacuum cleaner, always fell over, also had the hovercraft around somewhere

98' triangle box on casters, terrible

with those three hits i went off the chart i think.

[Wetzel]

Originally posted by Brandon Martus
The what? Oh wait.. yeah.

Anybody remember the old poll system?
The one that categorized results by engineer, student, coach and other? That was my first big 'from scratch' perl project. Man, that was ugly (code & presentation).

Care to try again?

I remember few to none from experiance, but can recall quite a few stories....


Wetzel
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Not yet old