My ticket to Sonisphere last year
for Christmas was a lovely present. But the present that brought me the most happiness was my own computer when I was thirteen. Wasn't new, but it worked well, had good specs and internet
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:48, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

good specs? Internet?
I got a 48k Spectrum for my 13th Birthday.

I've never had a better computer.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:57, Reply)

I don't remember the specs
just how pleased I was with them.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:59, Reply)

When I was thirteen
The Internet was all just fields.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:01, Reply)

When I was 13
even the fields were just all fields.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:04, Reply)

You must be OLD

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:05, Reply)

in my day
fields were the internet
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:06, Reply)

I'm so old my pussy is haunted
or something.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:06, Reply)

^this
I got a Speccy 128k for xmas in 1986. Waiting ten minutes for "Spellbound" to load make my xmas that year.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 10 Sep 2010, 15:59, Reply)

My last Speccy was the +2
Then I got an Atari ST.

It was all about the games man.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:00, Reply)

Outrun on the ST. Fuck, yeah.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:04, Reply)

Space Harrier
Or Operation Wolf.

Using a mouse like you would a gun? Brilliant.

Or Xenon 2 - a finer 'shoot 'em up' I've yet to play.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Indeed.
I also loved Kick Off.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:06, Reply)

Yeah.
One of the refs was a right cunt though. It was a yellow for every foul.

Screech. That was the refs name.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:07, Reply)

My pal done the graphics for Operation Wolf
The best games on the Atari were Dungeon Master, Carrier Command, Barbarian and Bubble Bobble.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:07, Reply)

Has there ever been a shit version of Bubble Bobble?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:08, Reply)

True
Maddeningly addictive, along with the aforementioned Kick-Off and Xenon 2. Operation Thunderbolt was ace too, I seem to remember becoming addicted to Populus and APB during the summer of 1990 when I was supposed to be revising for my GCSEs.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:11, Reply)

Me and a mate
Had epic games of Super Sprint. They'd last days.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:13, Reply)

Don't foget SuperCars too...
...I blame that game for my "D" in GCSE Computer Studies.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:16, Reply)

Fuck, how could I forget.
The daft wee tune in between races is burnt into my mind. I fucking LOVED that game. As you say, it was no big deal for games to last many, many hours. We had a system, whereby we only would upgrade 2 stars worth in each category, as the handling seemed to best, any more and the handling was shot to fuck.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:17, Reply)

fuck
Xenon 2 was the absolute business
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:17, Reply)

Brilliant graphics, Bitmap Brothers i believe.
Also responsible for Speedball 2, which was the biz and Chaos Engine which looked lovely.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:20, Reply)

all superb games

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:23, Reply)

You're absolutely spot on...
...I have Xenon knocking about somewhere on WinUAE.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:23, Reply)

Don't forget Bomb the Bass!
Has there been a finer opening to a game since?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:23, Reply)

ah ah ah YEAH!

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:25, Reply)

CORRECT!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:27, Reply)

I listened to it the other day funnily enough
IT'S A MEGABLAST!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:27, Reply)

I'm going to have to go and look for a download of Xenon II this evening.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:30, Reply)

Turrican!
Now that was an ace game... Played it and it's sequel to death.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:28, Reply)

turrican 2 was incredible

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:29, Reply)

^^^^
What was the sequel called?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:30, Reply)

I'll see your ST...
...and raise you a Commodore Amiga.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:09, Reply)

Oooh. Check out the rich kid.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:10, Reply)

Ha!
We all had Amigas down our way.

And downstairs toilets too.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:13, Reply)

We all wanted Amigas
But none of us had one (well, except one kid who had both a ST and an Amiga).

Whilst I could boast both a upstairs and downstairs shitter, at the time we all used to try and convince ourselves that the ST was better thanks to Soul II Soul doing something with MIDI and the ST.

Not that any of us understood what the hell this meant.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:16, Reply)

the Amiga was definitely better
the standard argument was that the soundchip in the ST was like a squashed banana. I don't know why or what that means.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:18, Reply)

Pinball Dreams
and the subsequent sequels were amazing as well. Very annoying, but looked and played brilliant.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:26, Reply)

oh my god
I loved pinball dreams so very much. the train one was my best. I could rinse that motherfucker.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:28, Reply)

Nice one
It was the futuristic cop type one on Fantasies that I played literally to death. Hours would whizz by in a multiball shaped sheen of sweat.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:30, Reply)

Many happy hours were spent getting my Amiga to speak
I used to annoy friends with it

"Ben fancies Lindsey Potter"
"Ian smells"
"Clive is gaaaaay"
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:20, Reply)

Is Clive really a bandit?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:29, Reply)

No, he isn't
Ian did smell though and Ben definitely had the hots for Lindsey Potter, who IIRC became a bit of a hotty herself once she lost her braces.

It's a funny old world.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:32, Reply)

The Amiga
Never lies.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:39, Reply)

Speed Ball 2
End of.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:23, Reply)

Sensible Soccer on the Amiga
Could well be the finest game ever produced.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:15, Reply)

It's fantastic
I remember how disgusted we all were when Sensible Soccer appeared on the Megadrive and they'd made it ridiculously easy compared to the Amiga.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:20, Reply)

Remember a game called Moonstone?
one of the best games ever made. Rock hard on the Amiga. Had all day sessions playing it and couldn't win.

Got it on the PC a couple of years ago and had completed it within half an hour.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:24, Reply)

Sacrilege

(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 10 Sep 2010, 16:24, Reply)