you nostalgia you lose

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[RedLeicester]

SystemParanoia said:

http://youtu.be/i25Mi7fx7JU

Fighter Bomber on the amstrad 6128

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

Goodness! I saved up for aaaaaaages to buy that, and all because I wanted to fly a Tornado.

[Steamer]

'Big Box' computer games..



I wanted this for ages.. not exactly fast action and bloomin' tricky as I recall

(Although Dizzy or BMX sim for £1.99 was much more fun in my opinion!)

[Mikeyplum]

Love this thread!

[Blown2CV]

gotta collect em all



mazinger Z!


oh and i remember lusting after a raleigh vektar so badly... they were like £200 even in about 1983 though so no chance.

[dmulally]

kowalski655 said:

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!

The name Graeme is a blast from the past.

As is Keith.

[Yazza54]

[Morningside]

My new toy, an Epson HX20 'laptop' running at a blistering 614 kHz!!

[Blown2CV]

for computer based nostalgia, if you've never been to the national computer museum (an extra feature at bletchley park) then get down there!

[Morningside]

That is one of my aims. To get there one day

I also collect TI calculators. This is (yet another) TI58 programmable.

[Zod]

Morningside said:

My new toy, an Epson HX20 'laptop' running at a blistering 614 kHz!!

My Dad had one. He then swapped it for the replacement which had a full size 80x24 screen.

[vit4]

279 said:

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 .

Bought this off of my mate for a tenner, best tenner I've ever spent I dread to think just how many hours I spent on that game but it was definitely time well spent

[RedLeicester]

ash73 said:

Mint one!

[Twincam16]

Sprouts said:

Remember this stuff ?

I see your Fischer Technik and I raise you:



Now I think about it, Capsela was probably my childhood's longest-played-with, most enduring toy. Not least because, unlike Lego Technik, the motors were waterproofed and much bigger and more powerful, so you could make properly fast cars, boats and (one one occasion, finding out the hard way when it rammed the bathtub sides so hard the paint chipped off) even submarines.

[otolith]

ash73 said:

Basically an emulsion of hydrogenated fat carefully concocted to solidify somewhere between room temperature and ice cream temperature.

[Blown2CV]

otolith said:

ash73 said:

Basically an emulsion of hydrogenated fat carefully concocted to solidify somewhere between room temperature and ice cream temperature.

yea it was greasy as fk. Kids love that st!

[monthefish]

Blown2CV said:

oh and i remember lusting after a raleigh vektar so badly... they were like £200 even in about 1983 though so no chance.

I never had one but GOD did I want one badly. A chap at my schol had one but wouldn't give anyone a shot of it



Remember the 'cheapo' versions:

the Raleigh Wildcat


and Wolf

[Yiliterate]

[Jobbo]

Yiliterate said:

You can buy them still (or perhaps again - I'm not sure whether they ceased to be produced for a while). I've got one in that exact colour on my Amazon wishlist. It's been there for months and nobody bought it for either Christmas or my birthday. Perhaps an indication that nostalgia does not equal taste

I did have one that colour (or possibly the opposite way round) in the 80s though, so I'm allowed to like it.

Edited by Jobbo on Tuesday 25th June 13:52

[Blown2CV]

Yiliterate said:

ha yes! That boot bag at the end zipped off.