I almost forgot...
- when you could kill Drakonis in various places and he dropped pretty unique items, spawned for him by 2238 staff (turbo plasma rifles, combat armors when not craftable and other cookies)
- when you could meet skejwen as brahmin in the wastes, standing next to a dead BH caravan (equipped with miniguns and 5mm ammo then) and saying: "wtf you idiot, i'm full of miniguns, pick up this stuff"
- when someone in NCR was telling stories about people having base under the Cathedral.. they must have been very happy to share their wealth with us right after that,
- when gangs weren't full of pussies looking for an alliance after losing some shit, and when people prefered revenge to posting whine threads and sending requesthelp,
Good times, indeed 
why so serious
- when Lens robbed your sorry ass in the Hub and sold you back your shit in San Fran... with a discount
yeah 5mm always did the talking when it came to negotiations