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    Re: retro gaming memories

    Quote Originally Posted by Trevhib View Post
    Can't believe games like these haven't been mentioned yet:

    Joust - Atari 2600
    Speedball 2 - Amiga
    Snapper - Acorn Electron
    Cylon Attack - Acorn Electron
    Pitstop 2 - Commodore 64
    Kickstart - Amstrad C4+4

    Any takers?

    Btw, Turrican is a bloody brilliant shout.
    dr do ladybug coleco vision damn im old

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    ..and wern't they the predicessor to the BBC computers ? I have a BBC master under my bench still, working order ! worth about 2p on ebay I expect.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scoff View Post
    Acorn electron - great until you accidetnally knocked break!
    Syntax error

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    I used to love the old acorn stuff, I remember them being the latest technology in my school. It took me and a friend about 2 weeks to hack the lot of it resulting in us being banned for 1 year from the newly formed "IT" department. It was also the first contact I had with any kind of networking, econet! games were pretty basic too - elite being about the best

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scoff View Post
    ..and wern't they the predicessor to the BBC computers ? I have a BBC master under my bench still, working order ! worth about 2p on ebay I expect.
    Keep hold of that BBC

    The Acorn was out at the same time as the Master but was marketed as a bit more of a noddy/gamer/home/cheaper slightly less capable machine.

    Sphinx Adventure was a terrible example of the standard Acorn fare - You go into the pyramid, do you want to turn right or left? Left. You are killed by a mummy and have to start again. You go into the pyramid, do you want to turn right or left? Right. You see a switch and a door. Do you want to flick the switch or try the door handle. Try the door handle. The door is locked, do you want to knock on the door or try the handle again? Try the handle again. The handle comes away in your hand and water fills the room and you drown. Do you want to start again or put the game in the bin? Put the game in the bin.

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    lol, it was nonsence wasn't it. but novel nonsence because most people hadn't seen that kind of interraction before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scoff View Post
    I used to love the old acorn stuff, I remember them being the latest technology in my school. It took me and a friend about 2 weeks to hack the lot of it resulting in us being banned for 1 year from the newly formed "IT" department. It was also the first contact I had with any kind of networking, econet! games were pretty basic too - elite being about the best
    Elite were the programmers right?

    Who else was there back in the day. Mastertronic or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scoff View Post
    lol, it was nonsence wasn't it. but novel nonsence because most people hadn't seen that kind of interraction before.
    Lol, that's because most of them had just come out of the mines

    I couldn't hack an Acorn now, let alone back in the day.

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    Ooh, I don't remember. I remember elite being a starship type game, arrow keys to manouver about and space bar to blast stuff. Maybe they were the makers ? There was another game that involved 2 players taking turns to fire cannons at one and other, inputting elevation and velocity, or something like that !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trevhib View Post
    I couldn't hack an Acorn now
    Me neither, I remember it being something to do with econet station 254 and obtaining the IT teachers login. Once you were able to login as the teacher you could copy his admin programs to disc, or if you were brave your own login account. 5.25" floppy discs were passed around covertly amongst the IT-crowd like contraband There was an admin utility called remote, enabled you to pop up any message you like on any other machine. Awsome fun during lessons !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scoff View Post
    There was an admin utility called remote, enabled you to pop up any message you like on any other machine. Awsome fun during lessons !!
    We did that at college on a windows 3.1 system in 1994. Teachers got sent some dodgy messages and it was all over What actually happened was that you had to specify who you wanted to send to. Someone made a mistake and it went to every single PC that was logged in at the time. Went something like: Mr Wood, I didn't complete my coursework, don't tell Mr Whitely. Oh f*ck. We went to my Whitely's office that was locked and could see the message on his screen. We laughed for days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scoff View Post
    ..and wern't they the predicessor to the BBC computers ? I have a BBC master under my bench still, working order ! worth about 2p on ebay I expect.
    if you have a few accessories and mags could be worth-http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...31#description

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    Jesus fecking christ. My memory goes back about as far as GTA 1.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BriC View Post
    Jesus fecking christ. My memory goes back about as far as GTA 1.
    lol mines goes back to the atari 2600 where we were blessed with 3 colours on the screen

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    Quote Originally Posted by 5alldaway View Post
    lol mines goes back to the atari 2600 where we were blessed with 3 colours on the screen
    twist left or right controller with one button either side or that horrid cube with the tube stuck in it with one red button

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    Quote Originally Posted by MR TURBO View Post
    twist left or right controller with one button either side or that horrid cube with the tube stuck in it with one red button
    correct, and i bet yours was brown and tasted of poo

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    Re: retro gaming memories

    I had numerous computers and loved them all.

    list:

    Philips vidoepac
    dragon 32
    acorn electron
    BBC Micro
    archimedes
    Commodore 16
    Commodore Vic 20
    Commodore 64
    Commodore Amiga
    Atari 800xl
    Atari 130xe
    Atari St
    Atari 2600
    Atari 7800
    Spectrum zx (rubber keys)
    Amstrad console thing (cant remember)

    Master system
    Nes
    Super nes
    Megadrive
    Mega CD
    Neo geo

    and then the later gen consoles

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    Re: retro gaming memories

    Sooo many games ive owned played and loved on my home consoles, most of the ones mentioned already.

    But the arcades games are the ones i remember most, before i had a games machine at home. My folks would take me to an arcade every month or so and i always went straight for-



    then pull your coat sleeve over your hand to get a good 100m time without taking the skin off your knuckles on-


    Followed by a bit of-



    In later years the machines that eat all my change were-


    Out run, which has already been mentioned.

    But for me the ultimate arcade game when it first came out was-


    saying that, the only aracade game ive ever completed was-


    i always played as donnatello

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    Re: retro gaming memories

    Sega Rally 1 is still the best driving sim.

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    Yep cant beat the old stuff hence why my emulation folder is over 15gb

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    Speed ball 2, quality
    No mentions of road rash?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tiff_lee View Post
    Yep cant beat the old stuff hence why my emulation folder is over 15gb
    Which emulators are you running mate??

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveAVT View Post
    Sega Rally 1 is still the best driving sim.
    Damn straight. I always get on it at Ace Cafe, I'd love to have arcade machines at home.

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    Re: retro gaming memories

    sega rally baddest rally game ever, even tho it only had 4 tracks it still is king today!

    reminds me of college when they had the arcade machine in the canteen and everyday we and some other guy were trading best times and pretty soon our names had covered the scoreboard, i never did see or meet him tho but i did leave college with my name still at the top of the leaderboard

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    Quote Originally Posted by MATT C Ringworm Tuning View Post
    Which emulators are you running mate??
    I haven't done much emulation lately been busy with other stuff but the ones I run are:
    MAME
    Nester
    P64
    nes9x
    Gens
    Various master system ones
    Sega model 2 emulator - as MAME is unable to play Daytona usa and the like
    WINUAE

    There are probably some new better emulators out at the minute I don't know, like I said it has been a while.

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