your favourite schoolboy toys

[Tycho]

L100NYY said:

Still got all the Action Man stuff

I remember getting that for Christmas. Quality.

[Alex]

Tycho said:

I loved the way that the games came on tape and you didn't have a dedicated tape drive but had to use a standard cassette player. Each game came pre-recorded at a different audio level so you had to turn the volume up and down slightly until the game loaded....

I had a BBC Micro, and one of it's greatest features was that it would successfully load from the most decrepit and skanky tapes. If it failed to load a section, you could rewind the tape to just before it failed and try again; I don't think any of the other popular home computers would do that.

[G'kar]

BBC 'B'

Defender, Rocket Raid (Scramble), Elite....

[L100NYY]

Tycho said:

L100NYY said:

Still got all the Action Man stuff

I remember getting that for Christmas. Quality.

It was brilliant, used to love setting it up in the garden and hiding soldiers in trees and stuff and fings!

From what I can remember we had -

Control Tower
Dinghy with engine and removable tent
Willys Jeep with trailer
Umpteen different figures although my favourite was the diver with the wetsuit!
Alsation (!?)

[Alex]

G'kar said:

BBC 'B'

Defender, Rocket Raid (Scramble), Elite....

All playable now via a BBC emulator!

http://bbc.nvg.org/

[L100NYY]

Alex said:

G'kar said:

BBC 'B'

Defender, Rocket Raid (Scramble), Elite....

All playable now via a BBC emulator!

http://bbc.nvg.org/

God my brother was always playing that ruddy Elite game! I was more into playing with my matchbox cars!

[Pablo16v]

God, there's so many memories in these pages.

I'll add these UFO toys that I had in the 70's

Shado mobile



and Interceptor



And I also had a collection of Space 1999 stuff including three eagle transporters and a ray gun

[Racingdude009]

Some of the best games I had were behind the bike sheds at School.

[G'kar]

Racingdude009 said:

Some of the best games I had were behind the bike sheds at School.

Even better at a co-ed school.

[L100NYY]

G'kar said:

Racingdude009 said:

Some of the best games I had were behind the bike sheds at School.

Even better at a co-ed school.

Damn, beaten to a witty retort!

Edited by L100NYY on Thursday 4th December 17:26

[Tycho]

Pablo16v said:

And I also had a collection of Space 1999 stuff including three eagle transporters and a ray gun

IIRC, the original transporters had the nuclear symbol on them which had to be changed after people calling the police!

Might be wrong though.

[Stig]

jackal said:

ok.. this is a bit of a rarity

it came out in teh early 70's .. i was about 4 or 5 at the time but remember it clearly

Had one of them! Hours of fun with ballbearings, which is ridiculous really given what it did

[Alfa_75_Steve]

Tycho said:

Lots of pics

That's surely what inspired the Max Power generation?

[CarlT]

BigBen said:

jackal said:

i had the strika but always wanted the grifter

the strika was actually cooler ins ome respects because it hada back pedal brake and straight front forks.. it was more BMX like and you coudl pull some amazing broadsides on it

Mine did not have a back pedal brake and nor do any of the ones in the pictures (mine was liveried as per the second pic complete with 'action flashes' on the mudguards)

I had one of these in Black, did not have a back pedal brake though !

[Evil Jack]

Tycho said:

Pablo16v said:

And I also had a collection of Space 1999 stuff including three eagle transporters and a ray gun

IIRC, the original transporters had the nuclear symbol on them which had to be changed after people calling the police!

Might be wrong though.

Blimey - I had that Eagle (and a matching green one too). Yes mine had nuclear symbols 'cos it was the first time i'd ever seen them...

[Schmeeky]

jackal said:

i had the strika but always wanted the grifter

the strika was actually cooler ins ome respects because it hada back pedal brake and straight front forks.. it was more BMX like and you coudl pull some amazing broadsides on it

Jackal, you beauty! That's my bike!!! Couldn't find one anywhere one Google, and I was getting desperate to see one again!! I don't recall it having a back-pedal brake though, just the normal two levers ( I could very well be wrong - it was a long time ago!!)

I used to get really fed up with people asking if the front 'suspension' really worked...


ETC a really stupid sepling simkate, and add that you can see the lever actuated brake in the pic! D'oh!

Edited by Schmeeky on Thursday 4th December 21:49

[Schmeeky]

L100NYY said:

G'kar said:

L100NYY said:

G'kar said:

Haro Freestyler, Skyways, CW bars....

My brother bought himself a HARO not so long back, just because he never had one as a kid

Think I sold it for £30 or so after it had sat in the back of the garage for a couple of years

What was that bike with the computer type thing on the crossbar?

Aye, there was a bike about with something like that on it.. I think it was probably the most super thing ever...

vague memories of childhood yearning after something you'd knew you'd never have....

[Mr Trophy]

[Olf]

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PhantomHumper said:

Exact same Amiga that I had, loved it.

Me too. Spent HOURS playing FA-18 Interceptor

Did you ever land on the enemy aircraft carrier?

Edited by Olf on Wednesday 3rd December 21:48

Which rather improbably refuelled you and replenished your weapons ! Never did sink the fking thing tho

Awesome game though
Here it is on the tube

Ahhh, so much of my youth was wasted on FA-18. That youtube video has brought back so many memories, I was almost tapping the keys whilst watching it. Remember the blue code wheel? Also noticed Stunt Car Racer on the same page, another classic.

Other Amiga games worth remembering:

Supercars
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Kick Off 2 (many 2 pence pieces won and lost over that game)
Sensible Soccer
Speedball 2 (that was seriously slick for its time)
Chase HQ!
Sim City
Lemmings
Xenon
and I think Syndicate was the last game I ever played on my trusty Amiga.

Consistently armed with an up-to-date version of X-Copy (v6.0 pro being a favorite iirc) I was the piracy king at school by the age of 10 lol.

Xenon 2 was better than 1, although the ending was ste. Particularly the Bomb the Base soundtrack.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8FtwfkxWVGw

The Bitmap Brothers were gods among men

Indeed, it was the sequel I was thinking of. Didn't it end like an old skool TV being turned off?

I miss the Amiga gaming era, it was perfect until games became more and more advanced and games like Monkey Island came on something like 8 floppy discs.

Yup - with the alien shopkeeper.

Monkey Island was one of the main reasons I upgraded to an A600 with a huge 20meg hard drive

My A500 was terribly unreliable - had to have it fixed a number of times. Just me?

[triggersbroom]

jackal said:

i had the strika but always wanted the grifter

the strika was actually cooler ins ome respects because it hada back pedal brake and straight front forks.. it was more BMX like and you coudl pull some amazing broadsides on it

I had one of those too, then the Grifter (secretly lusted after a chopper though!)

Had one of these too - best game IIRC was Frak! Fantastic graphics




Astro wars was cool - then...



which gave up/down movement too