FOR EVERYONE BORN BEFORE 1986

[I 8 Razor]

New Kids on the Block

ha, i've still got that on tape in me shed!!!!
hangin' tough and all that shite!!!

[Piemonte]

Amigas were the nuts, I must have had 200 games (mostly copies)

Sensible Soccer - now we're talking!    
and the original Champ Manager    

[janaage]

The original champ man that took hours and hours to play, every result would come through the vidiprinter, then confirmed on the classifieds just like Grandstand, for some reason it kinda worked.

The game "Kick Off" was great too, remember that?   Especially when the pitch was wet and the ball would slid everywhere!

[le god cuervo]

my ex-girlfriend used to love new kids on the block! fucking rubbish! i can still remember all their names she used to go on about them so much! wierdo!

sensible soccer manager was the best game ever, still got all my amiga stuff in the loft somewhere but no working joystick    might have to pay a visit to ebay & get playing again! so many good games

[BrightonRed]

Why did we get rid of 500ml coke cans?
http://www.colawp.com/seasonal/200107/500ml/CokeGe02.jpg

Why is cherry 7up so hard to get hold of these days?
http://www.energy.pulse.de/dosen/dpics/7up_cherry.jpg

The 80's were great, when wham bars were huge!!!!  And a great way of pulling your teeth out.

I thought Chomp bars were the daddy of tooth removal, and only 10p!
http://www.sweetiebag.com/product_images/details/chomp.jpg

Ahhh... the Commodore 64.
http://www.silicium.org/images/catalog/cbm/c64/c64c.jpg

[pauld]

tape used to be the worst, remember the noise?  And when after about 10 minutes it would just crash for no reason.

Remember we all got dead envious of the flash bloke at school who had a floppy disk drive for his Commodore 64 which could hold (I think) a staggering 360k of data (and these were really floppy floppy disks - huge great 8.5" things in a cardboard cover that wobbled like Rolf Harris' wobbleboard not your fancy 3.5" in their plastic cases). And these things could load programs in less than a minute (sometimes)!

And while we're in nerd nostalgia mode, anyone remember those god-awful thermal printers for the Spectrum that printed out on a what looked like a silver till-roll but you had to store the printout in a lead-lined vacuum sealed container cos it scratched off if you looked at it too hard?

And you didn't get games on cover disks in computer mags - you got the program listing and had to type the fucker in yourself. And when you did it would never run because of a printing error they'd finally own up to three issues later when you'd lost all interest.

Ah, them was the days - when computers were complete toss. I had a VIC 20, which is why I'm bitter about it. Although I wasn't as badly off as the Welsh lad at school who bought a Dragon32 rather than a Spectrum for "patriotic reasons". Yes, kids, there was once a Welsh computer. And it was every bit as bad as the idea sounds.

[CARTMAN]

does anyone remember the name of the sweets that were white , minty, and had three green stripes on them, i cant remember what they were called and its been bugging me for ages  

[janaage]

"And you didn't get games on cover disks in computer mags - you got the program listing and had to type the fucker in yourself. And when you did it would never run because of a printing error they'd finally own up to three issues later when you'd lost all interest.

Ah, them was the days - when computers were complete toss. I had a VIC 20, which is why I'm bitter about it. Although I wasn't as badly off as the Welsh lad at school who bought a Dragon32 rather than a Spectrum for "patriotic reasons". Yes, kids, there was once a Welsh computer. And it was every bit as bad as the idea sounds."

    Quality - especially the patriotic computer buying!!

I remember the first tim eI saw screen shots of Platoon on the Amiga, I was amazed, jaw dropping moment, it was almost like real life (at the time)

[CARTMAN]

there used to be a small arcade in covingham video shop with the original street fighter, quite possibly the greatest video game ever... and i've never seen it since  

[sonicyouth]

I was born in 1986 and with the exception of Commodore's and the such like, I remember nearly everything on this thread

I feel old

[DanOUFC]

Chasing the Any Old Iron truck on your bike was great

[janaage]

What about helping the dustmen when they came round, that was ace, chucking some stuff in the back of the lorry.  Oh how I miss my Calne upbringing.

[grayx]

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does anyone remember the name of the sweets that were white , minty, and had three green stripes on them, i cant remember what they were called and its been bugging me for ages
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Think they were callled Pacers or something like that.

Match Day (think it was called) on the Spectrum was ace, apart from the bug where you could score direct from a throw in at a certain angle.  

Those mags with the programme listing always used to kick up the 'syntax error' message.  Drove me mad.

Ah nostalgia - it's not what it used to be !

[pauld]

there used to be a small arcade in covingham video shop with the original street fighter, quite possibly the greatest video game ever... and i've never seen it since  

You want MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) - http://www.mame.net/. It does what it says on the tin. Course you need to source the ROMs for the actual games separately, but there's loads floating round the net and I'm pretty sure you can get all the StreetFighter Roms pretty easy on ROM sites for free (can't check cos work firewall includes a content filter that throws a hissy fit if you try to get to gaming sites)

[dogs]

Ahh tapes. I sometimes miss my Amstrad CPC. A mate had an old Acorn with some boxing game on it, now that was shit...