10 years ago today…
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DaveE87 said:
The first thing that came to mind was Bamboozle on Teletext (C4). I used to always play that with my Grandpa when I visited my grandparents on weekends.
Was there an equivalent game on Ceefax?
Used to love Bamboozle! And also read the penny pinching tips from that really tight git on there. Was there an equivalent game on Ceefax?
The things I most remember are weather forecasts and football results. For a keen fan, football results were horrible to follow as you waited for the page to refresh.
Did it really start in 1974? I'd not appreciated it was so early. I guess you had to have an up to date TV with a suitable remote control. Perhaps we didn't in our house until a few years later.
Did it really start in 1974? I'd not appreciated it was so early. I guess you had to have an up to date TV with a suitable remote control. Perhaps we didn't in our house until a few years later.
Randy Winkman said:
The things I most remember are weather forecasts and football results. For a keen fan, football results were horrible to follow as you waited for the page to refresh.
Did it really start in 1974? I'd not appreciated it was so early. I guess you had to have an up to date TV with a suitable remote control. Perhaps we didn't in our house until a few years later.
I was born in 1980, it wasn't until I was about 10 that we had a "fancy" TV with remote* and teletext/ceefax. I remember spending ages reading the football news and catching up on the results. It seemed so futuristic at the time. I remember playing Ultimate Soccer Manager on the Amiga, and they even had an imitation version on the game for all the results.Did it really start in 1974? I'd not appreciated it was so early. I guess you had to have an up to date TV with a suitable remote control. Perhaps we didn't in our house until a few years later.
* Caveat re. the remote control, you could turn it off with the remote, but you still had to get up to turn it on, and it had a habit of randomly turning itself off when adjusting the volume
For those that didn't have a posh telly, the BBC used to often broadcast "Pages from Ceefax" on the main TV channels, usually BBC2 if I recall.
I remember at school with the onset of digital watches, mainly Casio's in the early 80's, Ceefax (more, 'pages from') was considered the to be the absolute dogs b
ks place to obtain the correct time and set your watch to it.
I don't recall 'teletext holidays' on Ceefax and recall them being on ITV's 'Oracle'.
I also recall logging into some pages and there being loads of sub-pages you had to sit and wait for the system to cycle through, then missing what you wanted to see and then having to wait all over again for it to cycle through.
Ten years gone, wow.
I remember at school with the onset of digital watches, mainly Casio's in the early 80's, Ceefax (more, 'pages from') was considered the to be the absolute dogs b
ks place to obtain the correct time and set your watch to it.I don't recall 'teletext holidays' on Ceefax and recall them being on ITV's 'Oracle'.
I also recall logging into some pages and there being loads of sub-pages you had to sit and wait for the system to cycle through, then missing what you wanted to see and then having to wait all over again for it to cycle through.
Ten years gone, wow.
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