101 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Just now, johnnydun said: Is today still 2002 in Fife? As far as I'm aware 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 2 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: Fair enough. They were “coloureds” round Elgin way. Not as diverse as the streets of Summerhill then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Subbutteo was deceGot an entire box full from a boy up the road once he was too old for it.Got floodlights one year which usually led to games in the dark and players getting stood on.Was mates with someone at school who had an entire stadium. Him and his brother were mental for it. Played all the proper rules. I was just into taking free kicks from my own half. Most of the time it went row z.Do kids still play? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutz_the_Squirrel Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 https://youtu.be/MtBoRp_cSxQ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 33 minutes ago, johnnydun said: Not as diverse as the streets of Summerhill then. Nah. Only diversity was Dave Ho whose old man ran the Chinese. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tongue_tied_danny Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 5 hours ago, Bobby Skidmarks said: Hedgehog Jones with the Mohican! I’d forgotten all about that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 31 minutes ago, D.A.F.C said: Subbutteo was dece Got an entire box full from a boy up the road once he was too old for it. Got floodlights one year which usually led to games in the dark and players getting stood on. Was mates with someone at school who had an entire stadium. Him and his brother were mental for it. Played all the proper rules. I was just into taking free kicks from my own half. Most of the time it went row z. Do kids still play? You can buy sets on Amazon but the reviews suggest the quality isn't that great. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
get_the_subbies_on Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 In laws having a clear out before a house move and have delivered this little beauty. Now educating my son who has been brought up on PlayStations and FIFA on the joys of proper computer football! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 9 minutes ago, get_the_subbies_on said: In laws having a clear out before a house move and have delivered this little beauty. Now educating my son who has been brought up on PlayStations and FIFA on the joys of proper computer football! Those wee twiddly knob controllers. Mind we got a gun for ours once. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
get_the_subbies_on Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Those wee twiddly knob controllers. Mind we got a gun for ours once. I tell you what though. They were certainly built to last. It must have been in the attic for over 30 years. Plugged it in, tuned the telly and ready to play. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 12 minutes ago, get_the_subbies_on said: In laws having a clear out before a house move and have delivered this little beauty. Now educating my son who has been brought up on PlayStations and FIFA on the joys of proper computer football! Used to connect it to the telly and having to wait until some show was watched before you could play on it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Progressing the early binatone and Atari systems. You'd wait 10 minutes for the game to load then it would f uk up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) Funny how giant these were for their whopping 1.2 Mb. Just enough for a game of Frogger though. Edited January 21, 2020 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Chief Toffee Teeth Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Those were ordinary taws in Coatbridge.Not to be confused with ordinaries - as above, but with only one colour.There were also taws, gilawgies and gilawgy taws ( sp. ed? ), Waterloos and steelies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Before he became a millionaire pop singer I vaguely remember the rag and bone man on my street. Real blast to streets of the olden days.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 11 hours ago, Ylf said: grifter bike these go for a few quid now My mate had one. We "humourously" called it a Rifter... Our family being slightly tinky, I had a Raleigh Phaser bought from a scout jumble sale for a tenner. It wasn't as cool as a BMX but I quite liked that bike. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 37 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: Funny how giant these were for their whopping 1.2 Mb. Just enough for a game of Frogger though. Or Mr EE on the BBC Micro 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 5 hours ago, Shotgun said: Most of my Subbuteo players suffered double leg breaks, some of them multiple times. Fortunately, Airfix glue worked better than any modern physio treatment. One of my Scotland players just had a big blob of glue instead of legs and was notably shorter than the rest. I decided he was Billy Bremner and played him in midfield. The boy could curve around the opposition players like a dream. It seems a bit appropriate that my subbuteo set contains a headless Hibs player .. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 11 hours ago, Hedgecutter said: I had one and a day out to Stanley Mills when it was derelict, finishing off the windows that were already broken with various bits of rubble. Absolutely lethal bits of kit. When was this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 6 hours ago, tamthebam said: My mate had one. We "humourously" called it a Rifter... Our family being slightly tinky, I had a Raleigh Phaser bought from a scout jumble sale for a tenner. It wasn't as cool as a BMX but I quite liked that bike. I got a second (possibly third) hand ultra burner for my birthday one year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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