Re: Spectrum? Amstrad? Atari?
 

Started life with a ZX81 where I coded alsorts of things to create ASCII based simple games...

Progressed to an Acorn Electron (parents too tight-arsed to buy me a BBC-B!) and revelled in some of the awesome game play:

Elite - "Right on commander!" (Yes I *did* eventually manage to get to be "Elite")
Chuckie Egg - simple game but wow how addictive was it?!!

By the end of the 80's we had a primitive olivetti PC at home (dads work machine) and a new world opened up - the only game I can really remember though is
Leisure Suit Larry - an absolute classic... great fun.

Re: Spectrum? Amstrad? Atari?
 

I had a zx spectrum and the only game I had was Halls of the Things. I tried programming on it once too. It took me about three hours to type the programme in and correct all the mistakes, then when I ran it, a little dot appearead on the screen which turned into a crappy spiral, that was it. FFS three hours for THAT !!! I didn't bother with computers for the next twenty years after that, thought I'd let technology move on a bit.

Chris.

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Abacus model four and slate tablet and chalk....

I have been around for a while. :)

Re: Spectrum? Amstrad? Atari?
 

any credit going out for atari with river raid what a game....

Also what about on the amstrad formula one game can't remember the proper name, where you and your mates could manage your own team and you could place bets on which car would win. Now this was a game highly addictive....If anyone remembers this it would bring a :) to me and I'm sure no one liked it as much as me.....

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I'm outing myself as a mid-80s geek now - the likes I have never returned to..:D Saboteur was my favourite game - I was happy as providing you rested, you could never die. I was otherwise crap at games.

Loved it. Just loved walking around and riding that curious little subway..within a year I had discovered chicks and I never returned to computing until way over 10 years later...