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!!
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
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!
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???
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
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
*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).
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…
*Originally posted by Karthik *
**Here are some more blasts from the past…
Robots made of plywood
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There are still a few of those around, just not in our shop. If we can bend 30x30 extrusion , how and why should we use wood?
Trying to calculate your seeding on Friday night (FIRST did nout publish seedings until Saturday morning)
The worst thing was when you spent a good 3 or 4 hours on friday night trying to calculate what the bracket was going to be for the next day. Then when you arrived at the competition, you found out that you were off by one seed…and your WHOLE bracket was trash!!! Ahhhh the good ol’ days!
I loved the placebos… the placeb-o-matic especially
Anyone at Rumble the first year remember their placebo??? Points to anyone who remembers that
God I miss those days… the game was so great back then… in '96 not only were the human players strapped in, but the driver’s weren’t behind plexiglass and they had TV screens at their stations to watch the videos.
Oh yeah, and you got the points you got… not 2x the losers and all that jazz.
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 
