Venti Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 (More recently) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbhoy Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 16 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said: The days when you could buy a game for £2.99 from John Menzies. After my Commodore 64 I moved onto an Amiga 1200 and would go to The Barras once a month to pick up copied games for a few quid at a time. Probably paid a bit more for Theme Park since it came in about twenty disks. I remember my mate had a Commodore 64 and we sat with the latest PC magazine giving you the complete code for "caterpillar" and spent hours and hours programming the game in only to have to recheck the code for errors and when it did work the b*****ds never allowed you to save the program to a cassette tape. f**k me we were so angry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KnightswoodBear Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 10 minutes ago, RedRob72 said: ^^^ Peter Sutcliffe found. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heart of Northern Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Good thread. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbhoy Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Reliant Robins 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 (More recently) Arguably still the best game ever made. Probably spent weeks of my life playing that. Anyway... Totally rad, far out etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbhoy Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Really used to love these. And these, And also these, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 I'm pretty sure you still get Star Bars. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Cigar adverts 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 I'm pretty sure you still get Star Bars. You do indeed. Anyway, remember when 500Kb went a long way? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennboy1978 Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 The Barras once a month to pick up copied games for a few quid at a time. Probably paid a bit more for Theme Park since it came in about twenty disks. We went there to get our Atari ST 520 (0.5 MB of RAM) upgraded to a a massive 1MB.Never saw someone happier than when my Dad found Auto-Cad in the menu at the stall, which came on a similar amount of disks as Theme Park. "Saved myself thousands, son" said my Dad, beaming all the way home. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennboy1978 Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 You do indeed. Anyway, remember when 500Kb went a long way? 1.44 was madness, what would you fill it up with ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Cigar adverts I didn't watch your video but I'm sure I remember Gregor Fisher and Russ Abbott advertising cigars. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 1 minute ago, Bobby Skidmarks said: I didn't watch your video but I'm sure I remember Gregor Fisher and Russ Abbott advertising cigars. Bit of a classic 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree house tam Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 On 11/02/2017 at 11:06, Hedgecutter said: When Brechin was the centre of the known universe: I was in Flicks on my 18th birthday, wasn't The Hitman and Her though. It was Parks and Wilson, cracking night. My mates were good c***s and bought my drugs for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbhoy Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 24 minutes ago, tongue_tied_danny said: I'm pretty sure you still get Star Bars. Do ya?, I must admit I haven't seen any in a long time. I may search one out to probably chuck it to f**k after a few chews. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellbhoy Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 6 minutes ago, Kennboy1978 said: We went there to get our Atari ST 520 (0.5 MB of RAM) upgraded to a a massive 1MB. Never saw someone happier than when my Dad found Auto-Cad in the menu at the stall, which came on a similar amount of disks as Theme Park. "Saved myself thousands, son" said my Dad, beaming all the way home. I still have an Atari ST 520 fully upgraded to a whopping 2MB and it comes with it's original monochrome monitor as well as a real Steinberg Cubase V4 dongle. Might dig it out at some point to play smashy racing and the like if the floopy discs haven't went past their magnetised date. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Software The days when every film released would have a game released and most of them were by Ocean Software. Personal favourites were Cobra, Robocop and The Running Man. Just seeing their logo brings back great memories. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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