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over a year ago
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"If you are talking late 80's early 90's, i had Sega Megadrive and Nintendo SNES back then for games."
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Sega... That's top notch shit.. Were talking zx81 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"ZX Spectrum (with the rubber keys) I can still hear the noise as the game loaded!!!
You had to write your own games lol"
Ay? No you didn't, they were tapes and were loaded using an old cassette player???  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Spectrum 128 with built in tape player
Amiga something or other that used floppys
SNES for super Mario and duck hunt."
Wow, the Amiga 500!! I had one of those with the piano keyboard and Dail Thompson Decathlon!! Totally forgot about it lol x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Although I actually went to the cinema to watch War Games (paid by myself for doing odd jobs) my Mother and Father-In-Law used to piss all their cash up the wall rather than buying me decent presents.
This meant that when all my friends were playing with their Spectrums and Commodore 64s I was playing on Acorn Electrons and Oric 1s (bought with more money doing odd jobs as well as buying/selling CB equipment)
However I have been 'around' home consoles and computers since they began, and have spent all of my life dedicating myself to them.
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By (user no longer on site)
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48k (I think) spectrum.
It was just a keyboard with a tape deck wired up to load the games,which took forever n sounded awful!
Though it was one of the gaming machines of it's day,well it was for me as I didn't bother trying any of that programming malarkey.....far to complicated for me lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If you are talking late 80's early 90's, i had Sega Megadrive and Nintendo SNES back then for games.
Fraid we're talking 1983.
We had a sinclair zx spectrum.
Which had just 16kb of memory "
In that case I had a 7.62 SLR  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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I was already out and work in 1983 and couldn't afford such things.
By 1985/6 work gave me the portable Apple Macintosh to work on. It was like a portable television but with a floppy disc drive and a keyboard. I was the only person who knew how to use it. The rest of the organisation was still using the electric typewriters, carbon paper and Tippex.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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C64. Spending hours typing code out of books and magazine for the programs not to work. PEEKing and POKEing my way through my early years with nothing more titillating than Phallic ASCCI art. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Ahh the days of the handheld space invaders 2000.
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And a thing we used to call
Outside. A place full of wonderment and amazing stuff.
Used to go to the bmx track in yeading watching the rich kid's on their expensive diamond back bike's. Trying to copy their stunts on my grifter which was rescued from a scrap heap and weighed a metric ton. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I was still playing with action man hand me downs, matchbox cars, he-man figures and wondering what to spend my 50p pocket money on. If I did my house chores lol.
Also how to complete "jet set willy" on my friends zx spectrum with a dodgy tape deck that would take half an hour of loading the game only to say "b load error, please try again" .
Then going to the local arcade to play "gauntlet" all afternoon because we got fed up of waiting for games to load. Lol |
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"I'm just watching it and remembering the days of floppy discs and dial up connections.
What did you have?"
I.played tennis on the tv...you know those two rectangles.at each side and the little ball bouncing off the edges...that was fun  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm just watching it and remembering the days of floppy discs and dial up connections.
What did you have?
I.played tennis on the tv...you know those two rectangles.at each side and the little ball bouncing off the edges...that was fun "
Lol it was called "pong" or an adaptation of it and yes was completely amazing at the time. Who would have though playing with balls could be so much fun lol |
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"If you are talking late 80's early 90's, i had Sega Megadrive and Nintendo SNES back then for games.
Fraid we're talking 1983.
We had a sinclair zx spectrum.
Which had just 16kb of memory "
Ah 1983, i was 6 years old and played on my dads Philips Videopac + G7400, i remember playing gunfighter showdown, Spider-man, and a space invaders type of game on it. After that went onto an Atari 2600, then a speccy 48K, then i had an Atari ST 500 which was the rival to the commodore Amiga, lol. |
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"I'm just watching it and remembering the days of floppy discs and dial up connections.
What did you have?
I.played tennis on the tv...you know those two rectangles.at each side and the little ball bouncing off the edges...that was fun
Lol it was called "pong" or an adaptation of it and yes was completely amazing at the time. Who would have though playing with balls could be so much fun lol "
Its always been fun |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Comodore 64 use to play cliff hanger,kick start, action biker to name but a few
Amiga 600 cannon fodder chaos engine
Then ps1,2 and 3
God i feel old now |
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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago
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"C64. Spending hours typing code out of books and magazine for the programs not to work. PEEKing and POKEing my way through my early years with nothing more titillating than Phallic ASCCI art."
OMG, I remember doing that too. We also had a Spectrum with the tape recorder where you could invent your own games and save them on tape. I bought a Sega MegaDrive in 1991 to play games on - still have it and my eldest bought some second-hand games on it recently to use it.
Besides 'Wargames', I also recall the TV show 'Whizz Kids' - similar thing to the above movie, but they solved crimes.
What a mixture of modern technology and the Cold War terror of WW3! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I had an Atari ST, then a computer with 4MB of RAM, then I bought my own computer as a teenager that was a bit more beefy... then I moved onto Mac's.
Now I'm writing a thesis on the critical reception of videogames as art. It's fascinating. |
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