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# *frantically alternates keytaps*
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:11, archived)
# haha
I broke 3 joysticks playing Daley Thompson
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:13, archived)
# my cousin just used to grab his by the stick and waggle the base
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...and when playing Daley Thompson he did something similar with his joystick
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:14, archived)
# haha yes
that was the trick
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:26, archived)
# Joystick - what a word!
broke 2, thanks to that game myself.
(I helped save b3ta! Q4nobody, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:15, archived)
# But I suppose
it was good training for wanking in my later years :D
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:23, archived)
# yeh
but they don't like you finishing off in a sand pit these days
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:26, archived)
# It's political correctness gawn mad!
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:27, archived)
#
www.b3ta.com/board/10365396
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:56, archived)
# Kempston Pro FTW!
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:34, archived)
# QuickShot II

(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:53, archived)
# I must have got through at least 3
I remember people were always recommending different joysticks to each other that were apparently robust enoguht to cope. None were.

(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:19, archived)
# none could survive
the daley thompson gauntlet of fire

Michael J Fox would have been an ace at that game!
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:24, archived)
# i had a joystick that was shaped like a handgrenade
it was very robust and surprisingly comfortable to use.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:38, archived)
# this is how my keyboard looked after Daley Thompson


In retrospect it may have been because I was a bit grubby
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:24, archived)
# arf
christ those computers were shit.. My inner child is still amazed by modern games
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:26, archived)
# those computers were ace!
as a developer I am much more amazed by what they could make those tiny processors and virtually no memory do then than what can be done today!

There were a lot of shit games, but some excellent tricks were performed for the bigger games: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28video_game%29#Technical_innovations
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:30, archived)
# true, true..
I kind of prefer the days when games were made by one man and his dog, rather than these flashy multi-million pound productions.

I work for a hosting company, we got a new customer a while back called Frontier Developments, looked at the name on the credit card, David Braben.. had a bit of a nerdgasm :D
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:32, archived)
# top!
Did you watch Micro Men on BBC Four?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:34, archived)
# no, I keep missing that
don't suppose it's on iplayer anymore
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:35, archived)
# no but I expect it's somewhere
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:36, archived)
# aha!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y8IkcUGV9w
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:41, archived)
# ^ what she said
the Speccy was a masterpiece of pushing the envelope
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:34, archived)
# Elite makes me widdle with joy

(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 11:43, archived)
# Ha ha
They should have kept the planet 'Arse'.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Fri 18 Mar 2011, 13:45, archived)