Commadore 64
I found one of those beasts for sale in a carboot sale when I was younger. Not being allowed a playstation at the time I instantly bought it. (I am of the playstation generation of consoles Commadore 64 to me is as much ancient history as jesus, the dinosaurs and Status Quo)

I also managed to find a few tapes at a different stall.

I brought it home and fell in love with the thing. The weird colours it would turn my TV screen while loading, the fact it ran on tapes, how weirdly dated everything was.

For example one game pit fighter- if you did well your name would be entered into the Top Ten "Studliest" pit fighters.

My Friends hated it- it took so long to load you were able to cook- AND EAT a pasta meal. (well plain pasta- I wasn't a great cook as a kid)

but I loved it. I had an older cousins Victor Annual which gave you a game you could programme into it but I never got around to it.
(FondaAccord, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:48, 1 reply)

Don't forget that..
the Commodore 64 replaced the Vic 20. You could have cooked and eaten a roast dinner in the time that would take to load a game.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:51, closed)