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anyone old enough to have owned a Johhny Seven  woohooo class


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Old enough to have owned one, couldn't afford one

Had a bike with no rear tyre though

You had a unicycle? Cool.

I was dying off my feet for a Raleigh Chopper

(http://www.japanesetoylink.com/Aoshima/Sci-Fi/images/AOS-THB017img2.jpg)

yeah baby   ;)

Evil kenenil toys were kin brill, box had a massive no1 on it!!!!
you wind him up and he would rocket off and jump etc.

He'd be banned now as he had wire in his bendy body.

I had something bike-ish that was called a chopper, back when I was very little - a sort of orange trike with plastic wheels (halfway between a tricycle and a pedal- go kart!)

I was the envy of all the kids on my street  8)

Beyond that, I grew up in the era of Transformers - still have a few of them in storage somewhere.

Black widow, arm supported catapult. no flowerpot within range was safe.

Grasshopper remote controlled car - self built after hours of graft!

Hand held donkey Kong game

c64

Think i had an optimus prime too zimbra!

The A team van , too cool for school man

I had a grifter bike, and also a bicycle that had a computerised dashboard but cant remember what it was called...


and also had the mother of all video games:

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Remember this one? (3.5k memory...)

(http://www.danielbowen.com/images/2004/0511-vic20.jpg)

My very first computer. 1982...  :D

I had a spectrum, awesome.
Black widow too!!
action men (evil eyes)
scalextrix (sp?)

thudercat action figures, the best one was panthro (i think thats his name) the one with the nunchucks.

I had a Raleigh Burner - it was the nuts.

We had a BBC model B computer - the games used to take about 20 minutes to load up, but it was well worth the wait - anyone else play 'ghouls'?  I remember too spending about 3 hours typing in a programme just to get a load of shapes come up on screen.

my first ever computer was a ZX-80...1k of memory, 6 months later I upgraded to a ZX-81 16k of memory...then up to 48k of memory with my ZX-Spectrum. Thats when I learnt how to program....hours spent endlessly coming up with new code, writing little games only to find that my PC would crash when I tried to save it to tape  :D

I had a ZX81, mine used to crash if you put the kettle on

Ahh those old computers were great.

I had a Commodore 16 - then my brothers Commodore 64! What a monster that was.  Also a Speccy 128 and a 48k I believe.  Then went to Atari ST.  Finally my first PC, a 386.

I remember a yellow pacman game in the shape of pacman, probably the best game I ever had as a child.

Subbuteo baby!!!!


All the teams, scorebox, stands, floodlight pylons, pitch put on a table and played 128 team joint English and Scottish FA Cup comps with my best mate


The final was usually Leicester reseves versus Leicester!

I went straight from a ZX Spectrum 48k to an Amiga 512k...spent many a youth with soldering iron and scalpel modding my amiga up to 2048k only to then sell that and but an Amiga 1200. In those days Amigas were a lot more stable and better than 386 PCs

I also had a Spectrum 48k, after the Vic 20 no longer did the business.

Most of my fondest computer-related childhood memories are Spectrum-based; despite the colour-problems it was far and away the best machine of the 8-bit era, and as a result, lasted way longer than it should have!

Once things moved on to Atari STs, Amigas, Sega Master Systems (and so on), it was never quite the same. (Although Xenon 2 on the ST was well worth the money...)

I had a Spectrum also.  The noise the tape used to make while loading was somehow soothing.  The best game on the planet at the time was Manic Minor.  I loved that game, especially when you worked out the cheat mode and atcually could get past level 8.  Other games i can vaguely recall are Horrice Goes Skiing, Horrice does this, then that.  Frogger.

Oh I forgot, pre Sprectrum was the Atari.  Was anyone else shit scared of Missile Command?

I used to love going to grans house during the week cos my cousin had an Atari when Iw as only wee yin and we used to play that all night as well as be on the CB.

Best game for Atari where Carnival and Pac-Man.

Soothing until you had waited 30 mins for it to load then it'd crash for no reason.

Ahh the joys of tape.

I also had an A-Team wendy house in the hsape of the van.

I loved that thing I used to think I was the white Mr-T.

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Reminded me of this song:
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

I also had a spectrum (zx+ 48k) still got it in the loft, plug it in occasionally for some nostalgia (although not really necessary - everything is downloadable (and playable) from http://www.worldofspectrum.org/). Also played with my dad's work laptop (a 286, it was huge!) and moved onto a Sega Master System. No wonder I'm such a geek  :D

Also had a Grifter and spent many hours skateboarding down the hill by my house with friends. A lot of fun was had playing hide and seek in the fields behind the house. Will all be houses soon thanks to some well placed bribes  ::)

Subbuteo and Star Wars figures were the ultimate, non-computerised toys.  Also, the old Top Trumps games (particularly the Western Gunfighter and Horror packs) were a long-standing source of fun.

As for the computer era, I went through 3 Atari 2600s in my youth and managed to buy one of the old original wooden ones again a couple of years ago.  Pitfall and Decathlon (notorious for the 1500 metres event which was a full 4 minutes of stick waggling) were the games of choice!

Happy days.

Sheriff

How many joysticks did you get through on Daly Thompsons Decathlon?

I finished up using the keyboard.  Nothing like a good stick waggle though.

 :o

the amount of times i nearly broke my fingers on Daley Thompsons Decathlon...press N to move his left leg, press M to move his right leg....there you were on a Saturday afternoon trying to break your long jump record

N     M     N     M  N  M  N  M N M NMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMNMN    SPACE

anyone remember a game called "chutes away" ?

trying to drop all these mini wieghted parachutes into the wholes on the circular base, while it was spinning, looking thru the viewfinder, top fun...

This version pre-dated Daley Thompson's Decathlon by a few years.  The Atari 2600s had no keyboard so we broke joysticks regularly.

Sheriff

Great game/toy I used to have was called Crossfire. A game where you had to shoot metal ballbearings at an air-hockey type disk thing and score in the opponents goal. Excellent  :D

Toys these days seem so much more advanced. Here's one I bought yesterday - a golf simulator (http://www.electricspin.com/) lol - it won't arrive until June though.

I also had a 48k Spectrum. Many an evening spent playing Daley Thompson's. I was more a fan of the OPOPOPOPOPOP method than the NMNMNMNMNM one though. Whilst repeating the phrase 'readybrek, readybrek, readybrek, readybrek, readbrek' I was able to clear quite a height on the Pole Vault (it's all about timing you see ;))

Jet Set Willy and Chuckie Egg were other favourites.

Just dug up a screenshot - I'm having flashbacks to the torture of the 1500m!



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Ive been through all the computers like a lot of you on here, and agree Manic Minor was probably the best platform game ever, qbert was a classic too.
I used to like a game called Simon Says, four coloured buttons light and beep ina random pattern and allyou have to do is repeat it back, easy! apart from the fact it gets faster and faster each go!
So many things....those were the days.

ps-did anyone get into the monkey island adventure games on the Amiga??

re-daley Thompson, i found on the old rubber keyed Speccy a golf ball worked wonders.

Oooh - that inspired me to find a pic of my favourite game:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/clairep75/ghouls1.gif)

The site I found this on has a download - wonder if it come complete with spooky 'music'?

The two retro games which I have the most favourable memories of are Elite, on which I lost countless hours of my life as a teenager on various formats, and World Games on the Commodore 64 which was an awesome multiplayer game assuming you could cope with the download time between events.

Apparently, Elite 4 is supposed to be in production but I'll believe it when I see it.  The original on the BBC was so far ahead of its time its untrue!

Sheriff

Now a great Lady from Blonde ruined my life with these link's last time this type of thread did the rounds.

For Claw and others, Manic Miner.

http://www.sausagenet.com/computing/zx_manic_miner.asp

Jet Set willy, Jet Pac etc etc

http://retrospec.sgn.net/games.php

And basically all the others.

http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/

Don't blame me blame Heid.

Share and Enjoy.

(Disclaimer:- Jet Set Willy will and can ruin your life)

Yes, I played number 1 and 2. Great games :)

Has anyone played Gitaroo Man? It's a fairly new game (well 3 or 4 years old) for the PS2, that I bought for a friends daughter, but ended up playing it all the time myself! :) Most fun game ever I think!

Also, those dance mat things are a great laugh, especially after a few beers 8)

Alex Kid on master system, Awesome!!

I had a commodore thingy (I was 9/10 at the time so I can't remember it well) but my favourite toy was my sega megadrive! I would spend all day and night on it and my favourite games were Toejam and Earl, Sonic the Hedgehog, Flicky, Lemmings and Bubsy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_Jam_&_Earl

For those that owned the C64 - this site is amazing !

http://c64s.com/toplist/more/

Best version I can find of Daley Thompson's

http://www.doyouremember.co.uk/spectrum/daley.asp

shinobi on the master system!!! serious game

and the bikes one but i cant remember what it was called.

I had Shinobi as well; it was great upgrading him to the gun,  only to fall all the way back down to crappy slow shuriken things if you got killed just once (weep)

Someone must of had:

TIN CAN ALLY

What a game?

And my fav ZX game was Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner.

Steve

Hang On?

I had shinobi - great game, I almost mastered it! Could do every level without losing a life but the boss of the 3rd world (the one that was a block  of 4x4 spinning crab things you had to shoot really quickly).

Monkey Island was great too, great story and funny to boot.

I used to go round my mate's house after school and play toejam and earl, another great game especially two player.

California games too.

For all Daley Thompson game fans you should try track and field on the playstation - basically the same game.

It keeps track of the records in each event and who did it so it can get a bit competitive (much like anything can when you involve a group of men and alcohol. We even had a competition based on a jug of water at uni).

Manic Miner was the very first game I ever played on the 48k Spectrum (my Grandfather owned the Spectrum, so I only got to play on it during visits), and was the reason I had to get one.

Apparently, when I was little, I would hum the tune from that game without even realising I was doing it. Drove everybody up the wall.    :D

yep super hang on, blinding.

I used to love california games with the surfing, skateboarding, and keepy upy with the little ball.

anyone remember altered beast?

Just come back from the pub and remembered another speccy classic...
Head over heals...anyone remember this?

We had a Tennis Ball (minus the fluff), & some chalk, with which we could mark out a hop-scotch pitch. Wicked!

Deffo remember Altered Beast in the arcades... and I think I got it on the Megadrive. (Which reminds me... I wonder what happened to my old Megadrive?)

Head over Heels - another great, but impossible game! I think I got the walkthrough from one of the magazines - and a cheat for infinite lives - and STILL couldn't complete it...

Slinky!

Five card draw

Arcade games, now that's a whole new list of addictions.  I tended to have one game at a time that I played constantly so, in chronological order of addictiveness, they were:

Track & Field
Hyper Sports
Kung Fu Master
Space Harrier
Out Run

Space Harrier is one that has never translated properly onto any computer or console format.  A new compilation was release a couple of months ago for the PS2 and I finally thought I was going to get the arcade version (the version of Out Run on it is pretty much spot on).  Instead I got one that ran about half as fast as the original and had changed all the sound samples.  Bastards!

The game used to begin with a voice telling you, "Welcome to the fantasy zone.  Get ready!"  In those days, it seemed like such an innocent thing to hear.  How times have changed!

Sheriff

Speak & spell was the nuts

it was this track that got me into listening to classical music. The piece used in the game is In The Hall Of The Mountain King by Grieg....

Listen to it here (http://jswremakes.emuunlim.com/Mmt/mmsound.htm)

Listening to classical music also got me into playing Frontier: Elite on the Speccy also

best arcade game of all time streetfighter!!

i'm undefeated with Ken. come on i'll prove it.

Daytona was pretty good too.

I remember Space Harrier on the Megadrive - that was the one with the guy on the jetpack, right?

Elite was truly fantastic - such a strong format. (Go anywhere, do anything.) I had the Atari ST version that was souped up with actual filled-in polygons (i.e. not wire-frame), unfortunately, the downside was that it was impossible to get past 'Deadly', and you were never offered any of the missions. Shame, really.

Streetfighter 2 was another era-defining game, just as Double Dragon was before it. Don't even want to try to work out how much pocket-money went on those two...

I still play 2 player toe jam and earl, the levels are random so new game every time.

We stick quote it at times aswell "Ick moldy bread", if something tastes bad.

Paperboy in the arcades was great.

Download mame arcade emulator and playkung fu master (its based on the film bruce lee never made/finished...game of death)

Spectrum was amazing............Sabrewulf.

Anyone roll a golf ball back and forth on the rubber keyed speccy to get top speed on decathalon.

arcarde games i spent more money on than i'll probably ever earn through poker.

Moon Cresta
Operation Wolf
Golden Axe
R Type
Street Fighter 2
Paperboy
Double Dragon
Dragon Ninja
Shinobi
Final Fight

and many, many, too many others.

I was pretty tasty at hypersports too although i dont think i could make it past the third round where the gymnastics event required you to score 10.10 or soemthing when the most was 10! And they say online poker is rigged.....

I use to own all of the bunkers/illegal immigrants at Street Fighter 2 down the Trocadero in Londons West End.

What a claim to fame...

Thanks... ::) At 13 it was great achievement.

oh no!!! I know you didnt just proclaim to rule at street fighter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lets go.

you can even pick my player if you like(just as long as i'm player 1) ;)

eeek, its begun ;hide;

this is how the war between the jedi and the sith started ya know

I still maintain that many of the world's problems could be resolved over a bifta and a game of mario Kart.

it's not retro yet, but it soon will be I'm sure - Have you any you guys had a go on, or got one of the 20Q toys?  Little electronic device which lets you pick any object / animal / plant / mineral you can possibly think of, asks 20 questions which you answer yes/no/sometimes/unknown to, and then guesses what you were thinking of.  I've never known it to fail - it's amazing.  It's just guessed two things I was thinking of... poo, and a samurai sword.

Anyone want a go?  just tell me what category your thing is (object / animal etc) and we're off.... love it!

I got my son a 20Q, and he's in awe of it (have to say I am myself lol) He will happily spend hours trying to come up with an item that gets it stumped, as yet he's not found one!

I never had many toys. I used to play British Bulldogs and Off Ground Touch.... on my own.

OK - object

OMG!!!! WOW, now there is no way in a million years i'm going to get any work done today, its got all the Ultimate games i remember apart from SabreWulf.

Monkey is going underground now for about 3 days - see everyone on Tuesday!!

<post edit comments: ok maybe not - managed to have a quick game of manic miner before losing all my lives on Eugene's Lair, the plant at the bottom getting me all three times :( didnt realize all the others were download games though, daren't do that onto my works PC - they might cotton on that i use my computer for things other than work and we cant be doing that now!!!  :D>

Ok then Claw... first q - do you hold it when you use it?

(this thing is amazing... it just got fool's gold!!! - not even gold, but fool's gold! - how?!?!)

no

you see the beauty about me being the IT Manager is I can get away with these things while at the same time coming down hard on those others that download and play games....the power of it all...mwhahahahahaha

does it make sound?

that's a hard one to answer.  I suppose I'd have to say yes

you can say sometimes or unknown... they're choices too... but I've said yes for that one... Q4, can you put something in to it?

Can play online:

http://www.20q.net/

Booo... I was gonna look so clever as well (but thanks really... I started thinking the thread might drag on a bit, with 20 questions and answers being posted!!!!).

I won - but it says i cheated!!!

It didnt guess what i thought of within the 20 questions but then said that 4 of the answers i gave were "dubious" so its my fault it didnt win!!

THIS HAS TO BE AN AMERICAN PROGRAM....  :D :D

I'll try on there and tell you the outcome!

To start with I didn't see the first row of answers, but it still guessed 'hot air balloon' in about 12 goes - I was gobsmacked!  I had another go once I'd seen the top row and it took 26 guesses - weird.  Very good though.

27th guess to get poker chips....it doesnt feel it is something i should use daily......how stupid is THAT!

Sensible Soccer is my all time favorite. I always played for Denmark and Kilmarnock.  My friends and I must have wasted hours playing that game each week.  There was a local competition in the pub where I stay. Unfortunately being 13 years old at the time we couldn't enter. It was £50 to the winner and £3 to enter. We planned on wearing disguises and managed to get a 1950's sailors uniform, gorilla mask and clowns outfit. In the end we thought someone dressed as a 1950's sailor would stick out like a sore thumb in a Killie pub on a Saturday night. So we didn't try it.

I also liked Pitman7 and Cannon Fodder. ohh and also Llamatron

Its gone mad.

i was thinking of a goldfish, it came up with siamese fighting fish, i said it was close,
it asked if it was around 100 years ago, i said yes it came up with ...................................................LEMON MERANGUE PIE????

WTF?

I just answered yes to everything until it accused me of being a fried octopus.

I congratulated the machine on its deductive reasoning and moved on with my life.

Is that from Philosophy ?

That is REALLY stupid

In its time, Sensible Soccer was a class game, such fond memories ;tk;

Yeah Sensible Soccer was quality.

It is far better than any other football game.

Not now it isn't.

Pro Evolution Soccer is the best footy game ever.

I haven't tried that.  But I remember all the other football games coming out over the last 10 years or so since SS. None of them were as good, so I didn't bother developing an obsession with them. It was probably just as well, it cuts down the hypnosis bills I had to pay   " Now Lewis... there are other things in life than sensible soccer....let it go.... it isn't a good thing ".  It took me until 2001 until I was completely cured

Does Pro Evolution soccer work on the PS2?    I may do a trade later today at GAMESTATION if it's any good. I will look on the cover

YES!!! buy it ASAP.

Seriously, it's a great game, the best.

I will do a trade later after my class. I have a few rubbish MOTOGP games that I bought which I never play.

Sensible soccer was great, as was kick off.

Pro evolution is just a whole new level though. Destroys all other footy games.

Don't let the FIFA nuts sway you.

 Pro evo is the darling of modern day computer football, whilst fifa is its illegitimate inbred cousin, who embarrasSes the family at weddings by getting drunk, falling over and starting fights.

The latest version of Pro Evo is 5 so grab that if you can (£12 delivered on play, a little more on Amazon).

There's a new version of Sensi coming out in time for the world cup too.

Is that because i hold dominion over you in Fifa?

I got Pro Evo 5 this afternoon.  I did a trade for a few old games I had.  My goal over the weekend will be to have a kick around with this game.

Absolutely amazing game.  I am yet to score a goal after five games and have been on the end of two 5-0 defeats, but it is top class.  Is there a way to play for Kilmarnock?   I know this is a strange request when there are loads of big teams to pick from, but I am a weirdo remember.  :D.