80s tech... retro geeks come here please. You know you want to.ZX81, Spectrums, BBC, Acorns, Commodores, Those stupid video games etc. etc.

[hub2dee]

Fillyjonk won a Nobel Prize for writing a computer game for her Spectrum.

Let us all reminisce.

my god, did I?

Why didn't anyone tell me

Pacman

mwa ha ha ha...

I remember stretching up the shelf in WH Smith and doing inane progs that would write my name all over the screen.

And the Spectrum power supplies that would die regularly,

And Manic Minor, and Asteroid, and what was that game on the BBC ? EVERYONE played it... in space... docking a space station thingy....

Commodores could do good music, but let's face it they sucked.

I loved my Smartbomb button on that Spectrum game when you fly along screen....

I tried to get good on Flight Simulator but it was a bit complicated LOL.

hub why is it only us?

um

should we play some music?

(ps what about UNIX? Without UNIX there can be no nethack)

pmsl @ Minor typo.

I didn't Unix for a very long time. You are either very old or very geeky. LOL.

I could finish that little yellow PacMac.

oooh I can't get itunes to work but my god, I have got the hobbit loading screen up and I do not care

ps did you ever play a game called Hampstead?

or hitchhikers guide to the galaxy?

OMG OMG OMG. your the only other person i have ever spoken to who knows what manic minor is!!

oh you have made my day. i LOVED manic minor. i actually went into gamestation recently and bought a copy of R-type for the GBA and it reminded me of manic minor, so i asked if they did it on the GBA or PS2....the geeky spotty kid that worked there looked at me as if i had just asked for a unicorn. no idea what i was going on about.

we had a commodor 64 as well, with the little tape deck at the side.

ah yet again we see the text adventurers vs the arcaders pitted against each other

aka me pretending i have the refleces for pac man and that i didn't always want to work for Melbourne House.

i used to play the dizzy games on my amstrad. ah that happy little egg-shaped chappy.....

Do you mean Elite hub2dee?

Yes, I played the hobbit.

FIND MAP

OPEN MAP

F*CK ORK

C*NT

and othe childish attempts at getting a rise out of my computer LOL.

Guide to Galaxy only played briefly.

All those typing d&d type thingies bored me.

That was it rusty. You got points or money or something for trading goods LOL.

LOL @ Fattie wanting to go retro. Filly's link my make you happy...

might

BORIS. F*cking Boris.

Goes skiiing.

That was BRILL

Any one remember the ZX81? It had an AMAZING space ship game that looked like this:

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and every time a lorry went past the house the power pack fell off.

Ah the days of writing crappy little programs in BASIC.

10 PRINT "God this is a crappy little program"

20 GOTO 10

Those were the days.........

And waiting forever (well it felt like it) for the games in the cassette player to load up for the Speccy 128k.....

The Manic Miner I remember wasn't as crap as this , surely.

I had an Acorn Electron when I was about eight.

I used to love playing Boxer, Hopper (Acorn's Frogger), Arcadians (I was genius at this) and Business Games (wtf?!).

Then we had a Spectrum and I played Paperboy and Head Over Heels (the people who wrote HOH were on drugs)

128K ? Get you....

SPACE INVADERS.

DONKEY KONG !

No, 28k...!

I had a hand-held Donkey Kong - I got it for my 9th birthday. Well, I say had...I still have it! PMSL!

You made money fastest by trading slaves, but you got the space police after you. DH spent hours on it - that and ChuckieEgg