you nostalgia you lose

[Davey S2]

Carl_Spackler said:

Free? If you colected a load of vouchers from packs of Monster Munch, if my memory serves me right?

I had one of those (and currently eating a packet of Monster Munch as it happens - Flamin Hot flavour)

[dirty boy]

great minds!

otolith at 12:25 said:

C64

dirty boy 12:28 said:

International Karate, I used to play this on my cousins Amiga when I was little

[convert]

[paulrhodes]

Because you always wanted to highlight the fact you were sweaty..


"Take three paces forward" & "Hurry your life is expiring!"


"Welcome to the cafe 80's, where it's always morning even in the afternoon!"


These got band if I remember correctly for being unsafe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZksmooYivo
Clarks Hardware shoes

[IMG]http://yepyep.gibbs12.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/medium_3379234511_326037e74c_o.jpg[IMG/]
Micromachines come in collections of 5!

Also Kettcar go-karts. I can find new ones but the ones I wanted so desperately as an 80's kid I just can't find.

I'm loving reliving all of this. Just wish I'd kept it all to give to my kids when I have them.

Edited to img tag

Edited by paulrhodes on Thursday 21st January 12:50

[CaptainSlow]

Morningside said:

I did! Exactly like that one. Cost me nearly £200 (?) from the local TV/Radio shop. Spent hours, and hours playing Kings Valley.

£200? We got ours at release (my Dad being in IT was sure it was the new best thing) and it was about £400. Amazing how cheap IT equipment has come, my laptop bought 18 months ago was £400!

[Morningside]

paulrhodes said:

"Welcome to the cafe 80's, where it's always morning even in the afternoon!"

Oddly, the chap who played M-m-max headroom is now in '(A Town Called) Eureka'.
Leading to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEPq0FvFm3g


Its amazing the number of people who thought he was a totally computer generated character.

[AndyBe]

otolith said:

Or a bit further back, Vic20

More memories

[Frankeh]

dirty boy said:

Classic!

Game that made billions. The creator got nothing.
That's communism.

[Morningside]

CaptainSlow said:

Morningside said:

I did! Exactly like that one. Cost me nearly £200 (?) from the local TV/Radio shop. Spent hours, and hours playing Kings Valley.

£200? We got ours at release (my Dad being in IT was sure it was the new best thing) and it was about £400. Amazing how cheap IT equipment has come, my laptop bought 18 months ago was £400!

Actually you may be right. Dim memory and all that. Thinking about it, it does sound a bit cheap.
I did find another one many years ago with a cracked PCB and soldered all the tracks back together! Took my days to do and I was shocked when the prompt came up. A very nice BASIC and easy to use. Good instruction manuals and of course, a proper keyboard.

Compared to this *item* I purchased from Norwich. I really wanted a Spectrum but that had none in stock at the time.
The tag line was something like 'As easy to learn as BASIC' .... my ARSE

10 10 + .
vlist

And thats about all the commands I remember. Reverse Polish..Great But for games, programming etc. What a nightmare.

Rubbery keyboard, loved to overheat, case made from margarine box. Book fell apart as soon as you tried to read it.

Edited by Morningside on Thursday 21st January 13:11

[Rollin]

V8S said:

allegro said:

How many of you <ahem> copied a mates tape computer game on a blank tape in a twin tape deck then?
happy days!

How many of you spent hours typing out code for simple games that was printed in computer magazines? And then found you'd made one mistake... somewhere.

I did that with a Flight Simulator on the Spectrum. It took days to type in and one wrong number would stop it working. It was crap anyway

[uriel]

AndyBe said:

otolith said:

Or a bit further back, Vic20

More memories

That reminded me of

[Big Rod]

Pole Position. I spent all my pocket money on one of these at the local arcade.

[Duke Thrust]

Atari St Deluxe Paint:

[Taffer]

dirty boy said:

Went through a period when I did a lot of flight sims, F117A was a nice one.

F-19 surely............even the image tag agrees with me, and Eric Mc will confirm that that's no F-117......

[dirty boy]

Taffer said:

dirty boy said:

Went through a period when I did a lot of flight sims, F117A was a nice one.

F-19 surely............even the image tag agrees with me, and Eric Mc will confirm that that's no F-117......

I simply said F117A was a nice one, I never said that was the picture.






(I googled F117A and that came up and looked familiar so I used it)

[monthefish]

Long shot here, but did anyone else have one of these?

[clonmult]

convert said:

Frak! Loved that game. Orlando M Pilchard.

Apparently there was a hacked version with different graphics, ever so slightly more perverse - it wasn't a yoyo that knocked the monsters off ....

[Fidgits]

[clonmult]

monthefish said:

Long shot here, but did anyone else have one of these?

Very long shot.

You may have been one of the 7 people who bought one in the country.

Almost as rare as the Jupiter Ace :

Weren't many home computers that tried to make Forth a more popular programming language.

[Steamer]

^^^^ Those Dizzy games were fantastic!!

Especially if you were buying them for the Spectrum / Amstrad or Comm at £1.99 on cassette.