Retro toys and other nonsense. what was your fave?

[RED-DOG]

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



My very first computer. 1982... 

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 

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

[MrMoves]

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.

[TightEnd]

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!

[stallyon]

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, Zimbra]

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...)

[Chili]

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?

[GlasgowBandit]

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.

[MrMoves]

I had a Spectrum also.  The noise the tape used to make while loading was somehow soothing. 

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

Ahh the joys of tape.

[GlasgowBandit]

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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[Bongo]

I had a Spectrum also.  The noise the tape used to make while loading was somehow soothing. 

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

Ahh the joys of tape.

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 

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 

[Sheriff Fatman]

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

[MrMoves]

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

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

 

[stallyon]

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

[lazaroonie]

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...

[Sheriff Fatman]

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

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

Sheriff