4 ms·

Somehow I'm reminded of the Leisure Suit Larry age check [0]... which for a young teenager all those years ago was quite hard. You need to be a certain age to

Somehow I'm reminded of the Leisure Suit Larry age check [0]... which for a young teenager all those years ago was quite hard. You need to be a certain age to get quite a lot of the answers. [0] Sample questions here: http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.html http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.htm...

jedberg 8y ago
Nah it wasn't that hard. You just guessed till you got five right, while recording the ones you got right and wrong so you could change your guess. It didn't have that many questions, and some of them you could look up in the encyclopedia, or just yell down the hall and hope your parents didn't wonder why you were asking about Nixon. :)
iClaudiusX 8y ago
That was the first time I had heard the name Nixon and prompted me to learn about Watergate from the dead-tree encyclopedia in first grade. I've always pondered whether this could be an effective way of tricking children into learning bits of history like trying to understand jokes from The Simpsons or the little bits of trivia that used to pop up on the loading screens in Call of Duty single player modes.
manfredo 8y ago
For a young teenager back then those were hard. For a mid-late 20 year old today they're still hard. I wonder what sort of questions one would ask to implement such a age verification scheme these days. Ask, "what does AOL stand for?" or, "which one of the following audio clips is 'the dial-up tone'?". Or how about "what is a 'hanging-chad'?". Heck that last one doesn't even work anymore, there are 18 years today born after the 2000 election... I'm getting old. Although I guess Google and widespread internet adoption has rendered this kind of age verification useless.
- codetrotter 8y ago
  I know the answer to the first two of those, but I have never heard about a “hanging-chad”. Is that something people from outside of the US (as I myself am) would be likely to know? Even AOL, which I happen to know about is something I think few people in my country would be likely to know. These questions strike me then as not purely relating to age but also to culture. And even the dial-up tone question could be difficult for some people to answer. We had dialup at my child home but not everyone did. And like you said, most questions can be Googled anyway.
  - manfredo 8y ago
    Hanging chad is a reference to disputed ballots in to 2000 presidential election, Hence my reference to the year 2000 [1]. Definitely yes, these are questions about culture rather than age and is more specific to Americans. The same applies to the original Leisure Suite Larry age questions [2]. My post was intended to be more humorous than practical. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper) 2. http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.html http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.htm...
thaumasiotes 8y ago
"Peter Piper picked..."? Was that an adults-only tongue twister at some point? How is that supposed to distinguish an 18-year-old from a four-year-old?

jedberg 8y ago

Nah it wasn't that hard. You just guessed till you got five right, while recording the ones you got right and wrong so you could change your guess. It didn't have that many questions, and some of them you could look up in the encyclopedia, or just yell down the hall and hope your parents didn't wonder why you were asking about Nixon. :)

iClaudiusX 8y ago

That was the first time I had heard the name Nixon and prompted me to learn about Watergate from the dead-tree encyclopedia in first grade. I've always pondered whether this could be an effective way of tricking children into learning bits of history like trying to understand jokes from The Simpsons or the little bits of trivia that used to pop up on the loading screens in Call of Duty single player modes.

manfredo 8y ago

For a young teenager back then those were hard. For a mid-late 20 year old today they're still hard. I wonder what sort of questions one would ask to implement such a age verification scheme these days. Ask, "what does AOL stand for?" or, "which one of the following audio clips is 'the dial-up tone'?". Or how about "what is a 'hanging-chad'?". Heck that last one doesn't even work anymore, there are 18 years today born after the 2000 election... I'm getting old. Although I guess Google and widespread internet adoption has rendered this kind of age verification useless.

codetrotter 8y ago
I know the answer to the first two of those, but I have never heard about a “hanging-chad”. Is that something people from outside of the US (as I myself am) would be likely to know? Even AOL, which I happen to know about is something I think few people in my country would be likely to know. These questions strike me then as not purely relating to age but also to culture. And even the dial-up tone question could be difficult for some people to answer. We had dialup at my child home but not everyone did. And like you said, most questions can be Googled anyway.
- manfredo 8y ago
  Hanging chad is a reference to disputed ballots in to 2000 presidential election, Hence my reference to the year 2000 [1]. Definitely yes, these are questions about culture rather than age and is more specific to Americans. The same applies to the original Leisure Suite Larry age questions [2]. My post was intended to be more humorous than practical. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper) 2. http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.html http://allowe.com/games/larry/tips-manuals/lsl1-age-quiz.htm...

thaumasiotes 8y ago

"Peter Piper picked..."? Was that an adults-only tongue twister at some point? How is that supposed to distinguish an 18-year-old from a four-year-old?