gwr northants Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Come on we all had an atari. I had a few zx spectrums and a commodore 64 lol whoop whoop 2 hours to load a game and crash 5 mins after Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby 17 Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Same ere Gaz loved my c64 ! Then I had the c128 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwr northants Posted December 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 You were posh i only had the 64. was showing my eldest some of the games we had back in the 80.s god how they have changed! !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby 17 Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Ha haThing on a springMonty on the run Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobyspud Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Was poor and never had a console. Only games console I've had was a wii. and got fed up with that and sold it to my brother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 I've just been looking for our first console. It had two controllers, all the games were in the memory (no cartrdge) and it only worked in black and white. It was a bit like Pong, but i'm sure it was older. You could play tennis or squash on it and that was ya lot !! Before Atari Jase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scatty Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 had a spectrum.. manic miner, can you remember him????proper game!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwr northants Posted December 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Manic minor go on fella lol i brought it up on youtube the other day for kurt and he looked at me like i had 2 heads and said you really played that rubbish! !! he laughed even more when i showed him pong and asteroids! !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby 17 Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 Fookin hell Gaz it's your fault just found myself on eBay looking for a c64 with games , fetch good dollar now u know lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard555 Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 went i was a kid all we got was a train set . console had not been invented first game i played was the pub space invaders Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scatty Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 richard had the original call of duty...think they called it national service..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard555 Posted December 30, 2011 Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 you are nearly right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwr northants Posted December 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2011 richard had the original call of duty...think they called it national service..... Pmsl post of the month that scatty! !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwalk Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 I had an acorn electron not that it really counts as a console, still got one in the basement in the box with all the bits!Anyone remember Chuckie egg and Repton? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwr northants Posted December 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Go on fella an acorn electron. That was well posh only knew one person who had one! !! and yeah i remember chuckie egg! !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwalk Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Go on fella an acorn electron. That was well posh only knew one person who had one! !! and yeah i remember chuckie egg! !!Hehe, not sure if it was posh or not, I remember I wanted something else but my granddad was convinced an acorn was best as the schools used BBC B's and masters and the programming language was almost the same. I was only 6 years old! I think he got a good deal on it too since he bought it for his company, I got most of my computers handed down from him, it was his big hobby right up until he died, fair play to him though, it actually got me interested and thats what I do today!After the electron he gave me his BBC Master, which when my dad was home (he was a truck driver and had NO clue about computers) I never got a chance to use because he would constantly play a game called Mr Ee. Anyone remember the acorn/bbc magazine that had something called the yellow pages in? You could spend hours and hours typing in the code for some crap game only to find out it had a syntax error somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwr northants Posted December 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Hey im a truck driver lol and syntax error loldid u used to go up town and write that real easy program to scroll a word across the screen every sat up boro town center all the pc.s would have on abuse! !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airwalk Posted December 31, 2011 Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Hey im a truck driver lol and syntax error loldid u used to go up town and write that real easy program to scroll a word across the screen every sat up boro town center all the pc.s would have on abuse! !!Haha no offence intended, I am sure he would have had no clue about computers whatever he did I used to love going with him to Italy and Spain on my summer holidays in the cab, I would never have had the patience to do it myself though. No but we used to really get to our IT admins nerves at Kingsmead (school in Hednesford) by disconnecting all the computers from the network so we could change the startup and boot from disk to play Indy 500 when we should have been doing other things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwr northants Posted December 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2011 Took my eldest to switzerland this year and spain france. Never again as he hated it! !! found it so boring! !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salsa-king Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 I had the INTELIVISION cost £99 back in the day.. more than the Atari (never had an Atari), better graphic on the Intelivision + you had the speaking games got all of those Still have it and will let Edward use it when he's older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 First computer i had was the Sharp MZ-80K, which my bro still has in his loft somewhere. Had hours of fun on it, but you pretty much had to write your own games for it as there wasn't a lot around at the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp77 Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 we had the atarithen an amstrad with a green screen monitor..... roland goes square bashing then onto the atari ST somethingoriginal gameboyoriginal nintendo with duck shootingsuper nintendothen to an Amigathen nothing as alcohol found it's way into my life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 my first computer was the grandstand games console which me and my brother had for christmas in 1979and then for christmas 1982 we had the first atari 2600 games console and which i still have to this day in full working order with approx 30 games cartridges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moongoose Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 we had a computer, Dragon32, i think .Remember me dad trying to load games for hours on it only to crash when some body walked in to the room lol,Had some good games on spectrum to Jet set willy,Then the Amiga spent hours on that playing things like Wings,It came from the desert and Rocket Ranger....class{at the time} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr D Posted January 8, 2012 Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 (edited) Grandstand1st for me in black and silver, attached controllers with 1 twisty knob and 1 red button.It had 4 preloaded games inc.. squash tennis football and fookin practise displayed in beautiful black and white lol EnglandI do believe they upgraded it to colour eventually for the rich folk EnglandThen it was onto the Atari woody about 1980 "Oh the Joy" space invaders pheonix galaxian astroids pacman etc etc etc.......England...England Edited January 8, 2012 by Mr D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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