you nostalgia you lose

[Benmac]

Yes, I have one upstairs somewhere.

[Jobbo]

JRewing said:

Did anyone else have this book of excellence?
It hails from 1970 (making it older than me)

I have a copy of that, but a later edition with a very dull dust jacket - I have absolutely no idea whether it looks that funky underneath!

[JRewing]

This is the first edition, apparently. An uncle gave it to me when I was a child.

I never had a dust jacket, but I don't care because the front cover is brilliant.
I especially like the '£sd of Motoring' section at the end.

[SystemParanoia]

johnnymaestro said:

GroundEffect said:

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

And mine, but also remember these,

I wasted invested years of my childhood into these 2 games



Tribes gameplay
http://youtu.be/P_Thczu6UDA

Starseige intro & gameplay
http://youtu.be/79VWU-4DIqw

[PaulG40]

Williams Renault Radio Controlled car, 1992, i was 12. Can't think if the pictured one is the same as mine, i'm sure mine was different, but brings back so many memories. £50 it was back then from Toys R Us, big money back then for me for a xmas pressie! Used to love racing it up and down the cul de sac! My parents dug it out of the loft during a clear out a few months ago. Charged the NiCad battery - still works, as good as if it were new.




Ah, used to love building and painting models, be it aircraft, cars or other... This was my first Star Wars one build, it was huge! Still up in the loft now at my parents!!! Along with my X wing and Millenium Falcon. I've also got a Subaru Impreza WRC model up there half complete, must finish it sometime! For some reason I never got around to painting the body in the mica blue.



Always wanted a stretch armstrong when I was a kid, I remember being so jealous of my mate when he had one for xmas.

[Sprouts]

Republik said:

wy906 said:

Anyway.. this isn't so old... CM2:

Oh my god, that brings back memories!

Aye, for me too. I was ill with flu in that ground watching a st 0-0 draw mid 90's

[Jobbo]

JRewing said:

This is the first edition, apparently. An uncle gave it to me when I was a child.

I never had a dust jacket, but I don't care because the front cover is brilliant.
I especially like the '£sd of Motoring' section at the end.

Turns out mine is the 3rd edition, which was originally published in 1976 but mine's a 1983 reprint. Found it in the first box I looked in, though I had to move two bikes, the mower, a pile of 7 wheels and tyres (7?!) and a box containing a motorbike helmet (I've never been a biker) to reach it.

And looking under the dust jacket it does have at least a copy of the original cover!

[Sprouts]

Remember this stuff ?

[Fer]

Sprouts said:

Remember this stuff ?

Oh yes.

[williamp]

Jobbo said:

JRewing said:

This is the first edition, apparently. An uncle gave it to me when I was a child.

I never had a dust jacket, but I don't care because the front cover is brilliant.
I especially like the '£sd of Motoring' section at the end.

Turns out mine is the 3rd edition, which was originally published in 1976 but mine's a 1983 reprint. Found it in the first box I looked in, though I had to move two bikes, the mower, a pile of 7 wheels and tyres (7?!) and a box containing a motorbike helmet (I've never been a biker) to reach it.

And looking under the dust jacket it does have at least a copy of the original cover!

Austin Metro?

[Jobbo]

williamp said:

Austin Metro?

Looks like it, but with an aftermarket wheel trim. The height of sophistication back in 83, I'm sure

[lufbramatt]

4keymonsta said:

Must be a repost.. The hours of my life that I lost playing either this or the fruitys at Lakeside moto services on boring winter nights

They still had one of these in one of the departure lounges at Gatwick when I went to Germany last year! I got so excited just watching the demo, suddenly I was a 10 year old at a bowling party again

I had one of these:



Loved this game:

[Poison Tom 96]

Permission to make everyone feel old by saying most of these things were before my time? :P

[anonymous-user]

Poison Tom 96 said:

Permission to make everyone feel old by saying most of these things were before my time? :P

One of the most defining games of my life I think.

I got it when I was 14 as a form of 'payment' for taking the younger kids Trick or treating on Halloween. Met my still best friend randomly as a result of this game (It would seem that we were the only people at school who had the brain cells to get through the dancing mission and where united in our refusal to let other's 'borrow' our memory cards so they could copy the data.

Then at 15 or so the PC muti-player mod came out and I blame it entirely for my mediocre GCSE results.

Reading this thread has been quite interesting in the way that I remember playing many of the later DOS era/Early Win 95 games so older chaps are mentioning. Baring in mind that I was born in 91 it means that my parents were cruel enough to let me play games that could have been as much 4/5 years out of date and but I was still grateful for them as if they were brand spanking new. Clever people .

[miniman]

lufbramatt said:

Loved this game:

ACE?

[lufbramatt]

miniman said:

lufbramatt said:

Loved this game:

ACE?

Gunship 2000. fly around in an apache helicopter blowing up tanks and trucks (made from various sized "3d" rectangular boxes) with hellfire missiles From back in the day when computer games came on a bunch of floppy discs in a sturdy, glossy cardboard box with a manual about 150 pages long, and came with all sorts of posters and other goodies

[TVR Sagaris]

279 said:

Then at 15 or so the PC muti-player mod came out and I blame it entirely for my mediocre GCSE results.

MTA or SA:MP? San Andreas is one of the games I can still play endlessly, primarily because of the myriad mods available, and the multiplayer mods in particular make it one of the most entertaining games I've ever played.

[Morningside]

TVR Sagaris said:

279 said:

Then at 15 or so the PC muti-player mod came out and I blame it entirely for my mediocre GCSE results.

MTA or SA:MP? San Andreas is one of the games I can still play endlessly, primarily because of the myriad mods available, and the multiplayer mods in particular make it one of the most entertaining games I've ever played.

MTA is brilliant.

[SystemParanoia]

http://youtu.be/i25Mi7fx7JU

Fighter Bomber on the amstrad 6128

I remember spending Hours and hours watching my dad play this game...

[kowalski655]

lufbramatt said:

miniman said:

lufbramatt said:

Loved this game:

ACE?

Gunship 2000. fly around in an apache helicopter blowing up tanks and trucks (made from various sized "3d" rectangular boxes) with hellfire missiles From back in the day when computer games came on a bunch of floppy discs in a sturdy, glossy cardboard box with a manual about 150 pages long, and came with all sorts of posters and other goodies

My best mate Graeme had this for the C64,loved playing it with him. The very 1st game I got when I got my Atari ST!
Also got Flight Simulator 2.0 I think,spent a week flying a Cessna up the E Coast of the US,with green & light green squares as terrain,and wireframe buildings!