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

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

Let us all reminisce.

I don't recognise hunker's games. They must either be intellectual, or you were a few years behind me in school / computer land, thus playing different titles. Not that I'm young, or you're old, or that titles like 'Business Games' are crap. Or anything.

I remember Paperboy.

I was crap at it.

There was something about a garage, where they used to put together cars or sommit ?

We played a tennis game thing on my Dad's work apple (it was shared between teh partners and moved from one house to anotehr), and a building bricks thing.

At school some of us got addicted to that adventure game thingie when you had to go into rooms and collect hammers and bowls and avoid dwarves.

Or was it that you were a dwarf?

It's a bit hazy but is was sooo addictive.

God I remember Boris!!

There was another one I played loads on our Commodore 64 - it's was a 'Hunchback' one but I can't remember the exact name of it. A simple platform one - I loved it!

Remember those adventure games too - we used to draw the map out on a piece of paper as we played it.

Way hay ! I still have my sinclair spectrum in the garage - this thread has just prompted me to dig it out for my Dec 80s Party

Viking Raiders !!!!! Little catapults......!

Yeah, we've still got our commodore too!

We had a ZX81 before that. Our cousins had the spectrum which was a bit 'posher' cos it was colour

Oh the books - yes, did those too - somebody Livingstone wrote loads of them. Can't remember his name

H2D the books were a real let down after the computer game. never finished one.

Fighting Fantasy books by Steve Jackson. They were very popular at our school. I did quite a few and then my parents got worried because of the devil worshippers in them and told off our local librarian who had bought them for me .

Whiled away many happy hours on Chuckie Egg, when we only had a TV as a monitor for the Acorn Electron.

Was never very good at typing in those BBC Basic programs. I had a friend who said she'd type in one if I did the other and we could then swap. I never finished my one [shrug].

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Jet Set Willy yet. I spent hours and hours on it on my trusty old speccy (48K - the original and best).

I had Hampstead & the Hobbit too. And chuckie egg & manic miner.

I had a few good games for my Beeb too. I had an Amiga too which clearly beat the pants off the Commodore.

I used to work with the guy who wrote Frogger. I didn't tell him that I hated it.

Who said Unix? Now that's REAL computing. None of your noncy PC malarkey. Any one else played Moria?

Whoa! Nostalgia here we come!

I've still got my original 48K (wow) rubber keyboard Spectrum in the loft with all the games I ever bought.

I used to love the ones by Ultimate Play The Game (who are now Core - writers of Tomb Raider and many other top games for todays generation). Ultimate did Lunar Jetman, Atic Atac, and the Knight Lore/Alien 8 games.

I managed to get Dizzy on the Megadrive later on. There are many emulators on the net which allow you to play identical versions of many of the Spectrum games. I bought a CD once from a computer fair which had hundreds on it.

Crieky. Atic Atac. I remember that. Well.

Yes, I think they were Jackson's books. LOL @ satanic diversions.

did anyone else have a VC20 (hand-me-down from my brother) and a casette player & tapes for the games? It all seems so archaic now. I even had a black & white telly as a monitor.

I eventually also became the proud owner of a C64 - loved writing those BASIC programs - I was in primary school then and felt like a real computer whizz!

Also remember Elite - my brother used to play it, I always loved watching.

meau, I also had an Amiga (a 500 I think) - did you ever play Leisure Suit Larry?

Leisure Suit Larry screenshot

oh i loved atik attack (sp??) especially when they fell down the trap door.

There are two types of people in the world

those who escaped the goblin mines and those who are still stuck there.

oooh I had a 128k. it was well posh. it had a "play" command (none of your "beeps") and, radically, you just typed in the names of the notes, eg "play "a,b"....oooh

Am off to ebay now

dp has a bbc in the loft...

oh and then we had an amiga but it was never the same.

Right, off to ebay

for no particular reason

OK, the evolution: The Apple II. I had an Apple II EuroPlus I think it was. That rocked. Later I had a DUODRIVE.

I think I still have 'Visicalc' too - IIRC just about the earliest spreadsheet in existence.

And, after a few years, I'd go to dad's work and play on the IBM AT ? XT ? with its fabulours clicky keyboard. I still have a place for that keyboard in my heart. They can be found on ebay LOL.