you nostalgia you lose

[Morningside]

Top Gear reminded me last night:
Mirror sunglasses! Still around but not as popular as they were in the 1980s

Also these:


Driving along an undulating road and the world going light, dark, light, dark.

and


http://www.worldofspectrum.org/hardware/pi.html

[RedLeicester]

joe_90 said:

Watched this last night...



and the soundtrack.. just epic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI6VPFQw6BU

Great film, great score. I was terrified of Maximillian as a child.

[Switch]

SlimRick said:

Did anybody else have this?





With a prize of £10000 for the person who identified the most objects? Just bought a copy along with an unmarked workbook. Sadly, I've missed the closing date of April 1988

Edited by SlimRick on Saturday 12th November 23:46

I had one of those, Hours of fun

joe_90 said:

And that'd be on the Micro

[clonmult]

stew-S160 said:

OMG. I HAD forgot about those, now I want again!

Best to stick with the memories.

I thought they were awesome when I was a lad, but now .... they're kinda naff.

Bought a couple for my son, and they were totally underwhelming.

[monthefish]

Steamer said:

Twincam16 said:

monthefish said:

(anyone have one of these?)

When I was about 5, my mate from down the road did, in black.

Envious? You could've mistaken me for a traffic light.

Me too! They looked ace at the time.. in the Kays catalogue.

Thankfully I just held fire and ended up with a Burner - which in my view 'st it'.

A chap in my school had one. Wouldn't let anyone have a shot of it though.



There was a 'lite' version too if I remember right - called the 'wolf' or something..?



ETA...not 'Wolf'....'Wildcat'

Edited by monthefish on Tuesday 7th February 16:28

[B4rker]

[Mr Happy]

Anyone remember Ertl Die-Cast fighter jets?



I had loads of these... still got them somewhere! I had the F14, F16, Tornado GR1, F117 Stealth Fighter, EF2000 (before it was finally named the Eurofighter!), F4 Phantom... there must be more that I've forgotten - I might have had an F/A18 but can't quite remember now. I never got my hands on the F15 Eagle though, Toys R Us never had it in stock

They used to be about a fiver each, so each one meant saving up two weeks pocket money for me!!

ETA - found the Tornado, came out in 1993 so I'd have been 12... I think I had graduated to a fiver a week pocket money by then!

Edited by Mr Happy on Tuesday 7th February 20:17

[Marf]

GroundEffect said:

^^^^^ Lots of that too

[dmulally]

Marf said:

^^^^^ Lots of that too

I used to love TD2. Then test drive 3 came along and was so realistic. Loved it.

[miniman]

Have we done this yet?

[Brigand]

Mr Happy said:

Anyone remember Ertl Die-Cast fighter jets?

YES!

I had quite a few of those too, loved them! They had the white, soft plastic missiles, bombs, drop-tanks etc that you could take off and put on different pylons.

I also used to get an aircraft magazine around the same time, I'm sure it was called Take Off. Each edition came with parts for a model Tornado GR-1. You could buy binders that were black and had an F-22 Raptor on the front.

[johnnymaestro]

GroundEffect said:

I'm 24 so my childhood was this...

And mine, but also remember these,

[Morningside]

Marf said:

..

I used to hate the reload speed of the double barrel shotgun.

[mattnunn]

One from the left field.....

[Buff Mchugelarge]

Awesome thread!
I had a wildcat bike, they really were the nuts. Especially the 'nee-nah' noise when we were playing Smokey and the Bandit!
Anyway..

War really has never been so much fun

Those damn hippies!

[Steamer]

miniman said:

Have we done this yet?

I think we have.. But I loved it.

'Tuuuuurboooo...'

followed by:

'overheat!!'

[xstian]

joe_90 said:

Granny's Garden on the BBC Micro.

[JonRB]

Holy necro-thread. I feel quite nostalgic.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

[thismonkeyhere]

miniman said:

Have we done this yet?

Use to love this!! (What was it called?)

Always thought the turbo symbols looked like swastikas.