you nostalgia you lose

[V8S]

monthefish said:

For bonus points, does anyone remember the gameshow on TV that had a round in it where the contestants played this game?

First Class?

I'm struggling to find any info about the show though.

[cottonfoo]

monthefish said:

For bonus points, does anyone remember the gameshow on TV that had a round in it where the contestants played this game?

First Class, Debbie Greenwood?

Some of my tat:

[blindswelledrat]

Bizarrely, 20 years later as soon as I saw the picture, the Paperboy music came into my head. SUch a basic rubbish tune yet so ingrained in my head.

[Rude-boy]

Why is it that whenever I see a thread like this I end up going off to e-bay to find a Bigtrack with the trailer I never had with mine

Paperboy is another I remember first playing in an arcade in the canaries when I was about 8 or 9. Was the kids tv show Number 53 (big red door, yellow numbers written on it)?

64C with tape deck - have mine for years and was shamed into passing it on to a little scrote who broke it within weeks.

My chopper lasted a few years until i got my first BMX.

I never had a SNES though, playing Grand Prix and Grand Prix2 on my Ambra Hurdler 4meg PC took precedence.

Scalextric still comes out a few time a year and a few cars a year get added to the collection. One day I will have the permanent layout I have always promised myself I would make!

My old MEGA BASE Sony Discman is somewhere in the loft - that caused my school to have to re-write the school rules after I pointed out that they had only banned the use of "Personal Cassette Players such as Walkmans"

My Gameboy still works as does my old game of Squish.



Happy days

[AndyBe]

[Morningside]

Choplifter. Apple ][


Good buddy.


Hours of fun.


For mash get smash.



The best cassette recorder ever made.



only arcade game worth talking about



Best game. Still have it in the loft.



Best I dont show the contents of the loft or shed(s). I have Apple ][, old mac, stacks of hardware and old calculators.

Edited by Morningside on Friday 15th January 10:56

[Art_Vandelay]

blindswelledrat said:

Bizarrely, 20 years later as soon as I saw the picture, the Paperboy music came into my head. SUch a basic rubbish tune yet so ingrained in my head.

It always reminds me of Get a Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Life_(TV_series...

Which in turn makes me think of R.E.M - Stand

Not sure if the series was shown in the UK, to be honest I barely remember it from my time in Qatar. Just that theme song is extremely catchy.

[Rude-boy]

blindswelledrat said:

Bizarrely, 20 years later as soon as I saw the picture, the Paperboy music came into my head. SUch a basic rubbish tune yet so ingrained in my head.

Don't forget to change the tune for something a little more 'thrilling' when you get to the training course ad the end of each day

[V8S]

Rude-boy said:

Paperboy is another I remember first playing in an arcade in the canaries when I was about 8 or 9. Was the kids tv show Number 53 (big red door, yellow numbers written on it)?

Number 73 with Sandi Toksvig.

[AndyBe]

[V8S]

cottonfoo said:

I remember having those. Was it copy protection for games or something?

[Rude-boy]

V8S said:

Rude-boy said:

Paperboy is another I remember first playing in an arcade in the canaries when I was about 8 or 9. Was the kids tv show Number 53 (big red door, yellow numbers written on it)?

Number 73 with Sandi Toksvig.

Cheers

Only ever got to watch Saturday morning TV from the RAC until the start of the next season as a kid so a little behind on that. Mallet's Mallet almost passed me by entirely!

[Penny-lope]

Famous Graham said:

You're 36.

Same as me.

I always thought you were older Graham

[B'stard Child]

For short trips



For long trips



I had plenty of these however and hence my “opel Fruit” leanings



Probably unusual but this was first "something for the weekend" transport



No Internet or forums and my first computer was one of these



Mainly used for playing this (thank god for the internetz)



I think that’s enough clues

[Fifer]

Smashed said:

I think you are ages with me. How about...

[cottonfoo]

V8S said:

cottonfoo said:

I remember having those. Was it copy protection for games or something?

Yep, it's called Lenslok, that photo was from Elite on the Spectrum.

[collateral]

RSI and a headache in a box!



The cars spent 10% of the time working and 90% of the time being fixed by dad

eta blah

Edited by collateral on Friday 15th January 22:40

[NiceCupOfTea]

V8S said:

cottonfoo said:

I remember having those. Was it copy protection for games or something?

LensLok - Elite on the Speccy used it. Never worked properly on my B&W telly so always had to play it in the living room on the colour - oh well! (Aside - BBC B / Archimedes were the only proper versions of Elite - there, I said it!)

Had a VIC 20 in the very early 80s, but always wanted a C64. Got an Electron instead

I had a green chopper (oo-er) - it was a "Sprint GT" and got it free from a friend of my dad's. It had been standing outside for months and was in a bad way. Needed a new seat and had been "modded" with really wide 4ft handlebars that my dad took a hacksaw to!

Don't know what happened to my Bigtrak - chucked out I suspect

Oh, and that is a shot from the inferior Speccy version of Chuckie Egg (colour clash tastic!). BBC version was where it's at!

[Poledriver]

900T-R said:

NiceCupOfTea said:

Mine was orange - and there was air in both front and rear tyres.

Posh git!

[bramley]