Those were the days............

[Dindeleux]

Post some of your "Those were the days" gaming memories.

 

Mine just popped into my head, hence the thread.  I tried to get a picture of it but who remembers putting a biro into their chipped PS1 so the disc could run with the lid open?

 

[weirdcal]

Post some of your "Those were the days" gaming memories.

Mine just popped into my head, hence the thread. I tried to get a picture of it but who remembers putting a biro into their chipped PS1 so the disc could run with the lid open?

Pauper. Mine did (does as it still works) without opening lid.

Nothing beat going to blockies getting a new game and copying it. Completely oblivious to the legality.

I think mine was either a fat family friend falling through a kitchen chair playing super mario bros or playing resident evil on a mk 1 playstation balanced upsidedown as the laser was buggered. Dogs and windows = room of jumpy guys

That or silent hill the first time round

[Dindeleux]

Pauper. Mine did (does as it still works) without opening lid.

Nothing beat going to blockies getting a new game and copying it. Completely oblivious to the legality.

I think mine was either a fat family friend falling through a kitchen chair playing super mario bros or playing resident evil on a mk 1 playstation balanced upsidedown as the laser was buggered. Dogs and windows = room of jumpy guys

That or silent hill the first time round

 

 

You know maybe it was only certain games that you needed the lid open for.  Something is jogging my memory about putting in an "official" game, letting it spin up and then quickly swapping the disc over to your chipped game.

[BFTD]

Having to cycle the power supply manually at the wall whenever you wanted to play a new game on your 48K Speccy, then making sure the volume level on your external tape recorder was set just right, so you didn't have to rewind and start again after listening to ten minutes of screeching audio representing binary. Then play your game on a rubber membrane keyboard, which remarkably didn't catch on, unless you had the Kempston joystick interface attached directly to the motherboard. Oh, but don't touch the power supply even slightly, or it's crash city and a screen full of garbled nonsense.

 

All to play something that looked like this:

 

[Dindeleux]

Slightly off-topic but I remember trying to go online at crazy times in the morning without my dad knowing - wrapping a towel round the tower to try to drown out the dial up noise.

 

I don't actually think anything in the world would have stopped that dial-up sound.

 

 

The days when the internet was all new were brilliant - I remember my dad having a right go at me because our phone bill had this 0845 number dialled continuously and he waited for me to come home from school before throwing this evidence in my face and accusing me of "phoning sex lines".  This was really before internet porn was so accessible but you could still get some of it so phoning a sex line was well out of question (and the fact I was 13).  I told him this wasn't the case at all and I had no knowledge of the number to which he went even more mental as he thought I was lying.  Eventually I asked if he had dialled the number and, when he hadn't, I told him to and was delighted to hear the dial up noise...........it was the internet calls that displayed.

 

 

I also remember playing Championship Manager 96/97 with my mate (we were about 12) and he didn't even have the internet.  His mum walked into the room just as the screen loaded from one day to another and she must've just caught the flash as the screen changed over and she thought we had been looking at porn photos and had just clicked it off as she came into the room.  She threw us out of the room and again went crazy.  It took for his dad to come home from work and confirm that we couldn't have been as the internet wasn't connected (nor did they even have AOL or whatever it was).

 

Things I learned during this period was:

 

• My parents generation (born 1960-1970) were generally scared of the internet.
• The same generation must've looked at a lot of scuddy books as "it was porn" was their first reaction to a lot of things.

Edited April 29, 2016 by Dindeleux

[BFTD]

I guess it's a bit late to tell you that you could've turned off the internal speaker on your modem, huh?  

[54_and_counting]

You know maybe it was only certain games that you needed the lid open for.  Something is jogging my memory about putting in an "official" game, letting it spin up and then quickly swapping the disc over to your chipped game.

 

you didnt need it chipped to do that, you simply had to have a piece of hardward plugged into the back port (like a scart port) and swapped the discs at a certain point when told to

 

there was seemingly a way to swap, swap and then swap again to bypass the security but i couldnt ever get it working

 

when you got it chipped, you could simply put the copied game i, close the lid and off you go, i got mine chipped at the barras market for 35 quid, then games were 3 for a tenner, games not even released in the UK, i remember getting parasite eve as it was never released in the UK, fucking beautiful game

[Homer Thompson]

Having to cycle the power supply manually at the wall whenever you wanted to play a new game on your 48K Speccy, then making sure the volume level on your external tape recorder was set just right, so you didn't have to rewind and start again after listening to ten minutes of screeching audio representing binary. Then play your game on a rubber membrane keyboard, which remarkably didn't catch on, unless you had the Kempston joystick interface attached directly to the motherboard. Oh, but don't touch the power supply even slightly, or it's crash city and a screen full of garbled nonsense.

 

All to play something that looked like this:

 

Not just getting the volume right but using a little screwdriver to adjust the  tape head and marking spots that worked with tippex 

[54_and_counting]

Not just getting the volume right but using a little screwdriver to adjust the  tape head and marking spots that worked with tippex 

 

when you could buy a tape with 30 games on it fir about 3 quid

[killie_lad]

Hitting the ps2 when it wouldn't read a game until one day that trick stopped working and it broke. Or slightly moving it with a game still it as it shredded the disc to pieces whilst making the most horrific noise.

Edited April 29, 2016 by killie_lad

[Dindeleux]

you didnt need it chipped to do that, you simply had to have a piece of hardward plugged into the back port (like a scart port) and swapped the discs at a certain point when told to

 

there was seemingly a way to swap, swap and then swap again to bypass the security but i couldnt ever get it working

 

when you got it chipped, you could simply put the copied game i, close the lid and off you go, i got mine chipped at the barras market for 35 quid, then games were 3 for a tenner, games not even released in the UK, i remember getting parasite eve as it was never released in the UK, fucking beautiful game

 

 

There was definitely some game(s?) where you had to have the lid open as I remember it caused a lot of drama when my disc reader started to break and turning it upside down wasn't an option.

[Dindeleux]

I guess it's a bit late to tell you that you could've turned off the internal speaker on your modem, huh?  

 

17 years too late.  I youtube'd the sound to a couple of young lads in work recently and they looked at me like I had two heads.

[The Master]

 

I still have nightmares about the blue and yellow turning to flashing red and blue just before the tape reached the end.

[banana]

There were some games that would only load if noone was in the room. The Speccy was some machine.

 

First game after getting my first computer, some game:

 

[Homer Thompson]

There were some games that would only load if noone was in the room. The Speccy was some machine.

First game after getting my first computer, some game:

Loved that game!

Another sign of the times, though, was the randomness of that game. Some of the combinations of items was just odd

[WILLIEA]

 

Slightly off-topic but I remember trying to go online at crazy times in the morning without my dad knowing - wrapping a towel round the tower to try to drown out the dial up noise.

 

I don't actually think anything in the world would have stopped that dial-up sound.

 

 

The days when the internet was all new were brilliant - I remember my dad having a right go at me because our phone bill had this 0845 number dialled continuously and he waited for me to come home from school before throwing this evidence in my face and accusing me of "phoning sex lines".  This was really before internet porn was so accessible but you could still get some of it so phoning a sex line was well out of question (and the fact I was 13).  I told him this wasn't the case at all and I had no knowledge of the number to which he went even more mental as he thought I was lying.  Eventually I asked if he had dialled the number and, when he hadn't, I told him to and was delighted to hear the dial up noise...........it was the internet calls that displayed.

 

 

I also remember playing Championship Manager 96/97 with my mate (we were about 12) and he didn't even have the internet.  His mum walked into the room just as the screen loaded from one day to another and she must've just caught the flash as the screen changed over and she thought we had been looking at porn photos and had just clicked it off as she came into the room.  She threw us out of the room and again went crazy.  It took for his dad to come home from work and confirm that we couldn't have been as the internet wasn't connected (nor did they even have AOL or whatever it was).

 

Things I learned during this period was:

 

• My parents generation (born 1960-1970) were generally scared of the internet.
• The same generation must've looked at a lot of scuddy books as "it was porn" was their first reaction to a lot of things.

 

I would take issue with your last two points!

 

I was born before 1960 and have been online for years, before the www and its pretty pictures were invented. You actually had to know something about computing to get online.

 

Your second point! No comment  

 

Your earlier point about the dial up sound. AAArgh. Horrible sound which to this day will still occasionally enter my subconscious unbidden.

[Dindeleux]

I would recommend getting hold of the book "Replay - The History of Video Games".  From early pin-ball machines made with wood right up to present gen.

 

Great read, although quite tough in places.

 

[Bert Raccoon]

Waggling your joystick furiously (easy tiger) whilst playing Party Games on the Amiga 1200.

[Homer Thompson]

Waggling your joystick furiously (easy tiger) whilst playing Party Games on the Amiga 1200.

Pft, you didnt know you were born.

 

Try bashing the Spectrums rubber keys on Daley Thomsons Decathlon

[54_and_counting]

Pft, you didnt know you were born.

Try bashing the Spectrums rubber keys on Daley Thomsons Decathlon

Oofftt there's a memory,

Wee bit further in the future, turning on the master system 2 with no cartridge in while holding both buttons on the controller (i think) started a wee hidden game that was so addictive