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Advice for parents in the digital age

Old Sep 8th 2013, 8:40 am
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Originally Posted by OriginalSunshine
oh god I'm old - I remember that stuff. And having to write my own computer games to play them. And saving the code on cassette tapes.
We used to get these computer magazines which had these small games in machine code printed in them

and you had to sit down and type all of it out...cant remember but it used to seem miles and miles long and ofcourse no mistakes accepted

and then one day we visited some uppity cousins of ours and I saw 'the atari' and was completely blown away
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Commodore 64? You posh bugger, the rest of us had Spectrum 16s...
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Commodore 64? You posh bugger, the rest of us had Spectrum 16s...
Spectrum 16k? Cheapskate! You should have had a 48k!
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Copying tapes at a computer club to get free games, I remember it well. Manic Miner or Boulderrush anyone?

Then there was Elite - a space trading game where you had to land on planets. I usually crashed.
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Commodore 64? You posh bugger, the rest of us had Spectrum 16s...
ha! you know secretly I always thought the Spectrums were more sexy looking

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Copying tapes at a computer club to get free games, I remember it well. Manic Miner or Boulderrush anyone?

Then there was Elite - a space trading game where you had to land on planets. I usually crashed.
boulderdash for sure
then there was this karate game with the dudes in red and white clothes
pitfall
and there was this game, the forbidden forest
man I played it ALL the time
when you hit the monster the guy did this cool dance with the cool music!

heres a link I found but the guy doing the narrating is too nasal and talks too much : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9QVl5Z9gL0

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Obsolete rubber-key Spectrums make suprisingly good drip mats....
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ha! you know secretly I always thought the Spectrums were more sexy looking



boulderdash for sure
then there was this karate game with the dudes in red and white clothes
pitfall
and there was this game, the forbidden forest
man I played it ALL the time
when you hit the monster the guy did this cool dance with the cool music!

heres a link I found but the guy doing the narrating is too nasal and talks too much : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9QVl5Z9gL0
Three words....


Jet Set Willy!
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Jet Set Willy!
Ha! "We must perform a quirkafleeg".....
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Ha! "We must perform a quirkafleeg".....
I think you'll find it's "We must peform a quirkafleeg"

Fat Freddy's Cat and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

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Jet Set Willy!
oh yeah!!! the music man...the music
watch this and be thrown back to the good old days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV6tWfDf8IE

and btw, I found the guy who made this game on twitter
based out of london, from his posts sounds like a decent bloke and still at it seems

https://twitter.com/shahidkamal/stat...20823586988033
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ZX81 then Spectrum 48K rubber key...

Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner - classics!

Ah back in the days when POKE meant something different...
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This seems appropriate for here (needs volume)

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^^^^^^^^ Like.

Michael Fish - what a twat.
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Originally Posted by Irishbeekeeper
I am sure all of you would agree with me on this that it is imperative that we take our kids back to the roots of what it used to be like when we were growing up.

I had my first commodore 64 when I was in 5th grade and promptly was given prescription glasses in a few months. And I am pissed off about it even to this day, about the fact that my parents should NOT have given me that computer.

The fact that they did, and it helped me shape my life so much to where I am today is obviously a huge factor as well but I somehow feel that maybe they should have been more strict about how long I was allowed to use it in a day or how close or how far I was allowed to sit.

The article below is a well thought out piece...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3860927.html

p.s. I always had wanted to be a fighter pilot and because of the specs was turned down (we didnt have laser surgery then)
Will I be responsible for dashing any of my kids dreams? I am sure no parent would want that!
Getting back to the original starting point... you might find this article and the film interesting

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013...view-teenagers

http://www.theguardian.com/film/vide...internet-video
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You're all speaking in another language for me.

We had a commodore but it didn't work / wasn't used.

I built my first PC but it was Windows 95 and I had FIFA on it...as well as Road Rash, the original Grand Theft Auto and Red Alert (that was my fave).

My school had an Apple I think, you could play hangman on it and we had a BBC Computer which you could connect a thermometer to. But it looked like Ceefax.
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