Arch Stanton Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 (edited) I did well at Primary School a couple of years in a row, my parents got me this one year, it now regularly goes for over £200 on ebay... and this the following year... Edited May 25, 2021 by Arch Stanton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky Nosejob Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 24/05/2021 at 09:53, Hedgecutter said: I fear I'm about to out myself, but here goes: Did anybody else make their own Scottish Cup draws by writing club names on ripped up bits of paper and using dice to determine the scores*. Squeaky bum time as teams you didn't like made it through the rounds. *Throwing a 6 became a nil to keep it realistic, not that Civil Service Strollers winning the final 5-4 against Elgin was in any way unrealistic. I remember for the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Weetabix printed a whole load of dice board games on the back of their packets. I adapted the participants so that Scotland could participate and would regularly “adjust” the dice results in their favour as required. http://cerealoffers.com/Weetabix_Ltd/Weetabix/1975/Olympic_Games/olympic_games.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saigon Raider Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 I broke my wrist falling off a wall at school and my folks got me Domino Rally.Somebody mentioned it earlier but the Evil Kineval wind up bike was superb - had huge jumps set up in the hall.Game I remember the most though was Space Attack - it was the absolute nuts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Fully expecting that poster that had a recent fiscally responsible nightmare on the PTTGOYN thread to pitch in with his unused toys in their original packaging here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardy Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Anyone have this? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 23/05/2021 at 20:25, Melanius Mullarkey said: This was the first games console in the house. Including the gun (which was shit). Before my ZX Spectrum (48k none of this fucking 128k posh nonsense) I got Astrowars. Found it in my old boys house a few years back, popped some batteries in and away she went. Still going strong. Jesus, I had that Binatone console but had forgotten about it. Just remember playing that game with the ball/dot going from side to side while you had to keep it in play by moving your bat up and down. Shite for playing on your own. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 8 hours ago, Arch Stanton said: I did well at Primary School a couple of years in a row, my parents got me this one year, it now regularly goes for over £200 on ebay... I got this, Dad said it was an Action Man deserter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Ferrino Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 24/05/2021 at 10:37, Alert Mongoose said: Probably illegal now but were a guid laugh back in the day. Bought my 5 year old one about 10 years ago. (Not before he was born). You used to be able to get a similar effect by pushing one of the old plastic MacDonalds straws through a cheese burger and then blowing. The kids loved it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duszek Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 (edited) « In practical terms, this is a very inefficient form of locomotion » (Wikipedia) Edited May 25, 2021 by Duszek Edit 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Anyone else have this? Feels like it was a more obscure LCD handheld, but it kept me amused for longer than any other: https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Grandstand/BMXF.htm There used to be a cracking emulator for it, but the website seems to be down now 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catweasel Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 My first video game circa end of 70s or early 80s.I still have this in a cupboard at my mothers house - wonder if it still works?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwullie Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 (edited) 17 minutes ago, BFTD said: Anyone else have this? Feels like it was a more obscure LCD handheld, but it kept me amused for longer than any other: https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Grandstand/BMXF.htm There used to be a cracking emulator for it, but the website seems to be down now Yes I had this. I'm starting to realise from this thread that my love of computer games was given to me by my dad who would always buy cutting edge for the time tech like this for me - he programmed with the earliest computers for a living. Hence the speccy 48k and the 16k thing he had before that whose name I can't remember. Just sinclair maybe? It had a completely flat 2D keyboard Edit: behold, the zx81 Edited May 25, 2021 by madwullie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 29 minutes ago, Duszek said: « In practical terms, this is a very inefficient form of locomotion » (Wikipedia) My first car was one of these. I'd have got more trading in the space hopper. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 1 minute ago, madwullie said: Yes I had this. I'm starting to realise from this thread that my love of computer games was given to me by my dad who would always buy cutting edge for the time tech like this for me - he programmed with the earliest computers for a living. Hence the speccy 48k and the 16k thing he had before that whose name I can't remember. Just sinclair maybe? It was my mum, for me. I never asked for any of that kind of shit, she'd just show up with it and my mind would explode. Got me a 48K Spectrum when I was four, just on the off chance that I'd be into it. Even got a colleague at work to fill a C-90 tape with pirate games so I'd have plenty to be getting along with. Wish I could go back in time and warn her I wouldn't be worth the effort! The original launch of the rubber-keyed Spectrum only had 16k, so maybe you had one of the early ones? I first thought ZX81, but they only had 1K of RAM. Yes kids, you read that right - 1,024 bytes of memory to work within. 8,192 ones and zeroes to create worlds. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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topcat(The most tip top) Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 Yes I had this. I'm starting to realise from this thread that my love of computer games was given to me by my dad who would always buy cutting edge for the time tech like this for me - he programmed with the earliest computers for a living. Hence the speccy 48k and the 16k thing he had before that whose name I can't remember. Just sinclair maybe? It had a completely flat 2D keyboard Edit: behold, the zx81A whole KB of memory Which was double the ZX80 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 People who scratch their heads over the rubber keys really need to bear in mind what came before that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwullie Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: A whole KB of memory Which was double the ZX80 Was the zx81 only 1k? Fucking hell. I was about 3 so remember piss all about it, or what he even did with it. Pretty sure it was hooked up to a B&W portable altho why I'm unsure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwullie Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 19 minutes ago, BFTD said: It was my mum, for me. I never asked for any of that kind of shit, she'd just show up with it and my mind would explode. Got me a 48K Spectrum when I was four, just on the off chance that I'd be into it. Even got a colleague at work to fill a C-90 tape with pirate games so I'd have plenty to be getting along with. Wish I could go back in time and warn her I wouldn't be worth the effort! The original launch of the rubber-keyed Spectrum only had 16k, so maybe you had one of the early ones? I first thought ZX81, but they only had 1K of RAM. Yes kids, you read that right - 1,024 bytes of memory to work within. 8,192 ones and zeroes to create worlds. It was the zx81. I was slightly overestimating its k 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 25, 2021 Share Posted May 25, 2021 9 minutes ago, madwullie said: It was the zx81. I was slightly overestimating its k "16K of RAM? When I were a lad, we used to DREAM about16K of RAM..." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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