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Jobdone wrote:Couldn't find an image of it before, but it's just popped up on reddit. This thing was a beast when I was young

http://i.imgur.com/IFM9fNC.jpg

I had one of those as well Which reminds me of this epic game

Jobdone wrote:Couldn't find an image of it before, but it's just popped up on reddit. This thing was a beast when I was young

http://i.imgur.com/IFM9fNC.jpg

I never saw the appeal of civilian toy cars and garages. Military things had much more dramatic potential.

When the forums were actually usable....

Teletext.

Like proper teletext, not the digital TV equivalent.



Glorious.

Waiting for the screen you wanted to actually read come back around. Good times.

Oracle was better.

Mainly for the music pages. And also the "youth" section which had a text based teenage soap opera called Debbie's Diary. I kid you not.

Bamboozle motherfuckers.

I wonder who thought Ireland looks like a sperm with it's tongue stuck out.

houston4044 wrote:

I remember when games where on cassette tape. You could copy them by using the tape to tape function!

I had Subbuteo, but much prefered Test Match. Played it all the time until the bat broke and no matter the type of glue it couldn't be fixed. My brother bought a modern version of it to play with his daughter and missus (yes you read that right), and it was not as good. Smaller pitch and cricketers, no doubt to save on costs.

There was always a fight between me and my brother on who was going to be England or Australia. Nobody wanted to be England.

Davros wrote:

houston4044 wrote:

I remember when games where on cassette tape. You could copy them by using the tape to tape function!

I came in right at the end of floppy disks so never experienced that I find it amazing how fast things have moved, when you realize that (I'm in my early twenties) and most kids don't know what an Amiga was and that you had to remember passwords as save files didn't exist

Subbuteo annoyed the hell out of me, if you could master long shots then you never had to bother with passing, you'd just end up taking pot shots and hoping you scored more than the other person. Either that or I just played people who wanted to win rather than try and play properly

I think the first gaming system I ever played was a Commodore 64, but it was old hat even when I experienced it. Can't remember whether it was floppies or cassettes or what not. My first console was a Master System II which were cartridge if I recall. Controllers that hurt your hands after more than 30 minutes of continual play and I hope I am not getting my wires crossed with something else that you had Alex the Kidd if you didn't have any cartridges in? Such a long time ago. All about dat Sonic the Hedgehog 2.


Also think it was my first exposure to Mortal Kombat, and I laughed at all of the fatalities. I was quite a sinister 6 year old.

It's funny seeing a Commodore 64 being described as a "gaming system". When they first came out they were supposed to be serious computers that businessmen would use. I doubt many were used for anything serious though.

Wasn't Alex Kidd and Sonic on the Sega Megadrive?