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Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
Originally Posted by OriginalSunshine
(Post 10891045)
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.
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 :flirtyeyes: |
Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
Commodore 64? You posh bugger, the rest of us had Spectrum 16s...
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Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
Originally Posted by Kix
(Post 10891069)
Commodore 64? You posh bugger, the rest of us had Spectrum 16s...
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Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
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. |
Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
Originally Posted by Kix
(Post 10891069)
Commodore 64? You posh bugger, the rest of us had Spectrum 16s...
Originally Posted by Kix
(Post 10891078)
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. 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 |
Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
Obsolete rubber-key Spectrums make suprisingly good drip mats....
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Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
Originally Posted by Irishbeekeeper
(Post 10891083)
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 Jet Set Willy! |
Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
Originally Posted by Kix
(Post 10891090)
Three words....
Jet Set Willy! |
Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
Originally Posted by OleJanx
(Post 10891096)
Ha! "We must perform a quirkafleeg".....
Fat Freddy's Cat and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Classics. |
Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
Originally Posted by Kix
(Post 10891090)
Three words....
Jet Set Willy! watch this and be thrown back to the good old days :thumbsup: 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 |
Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
ZX81 then Spectrum 48K rubber key...
Jet Set Willy & Manic Miner - classics! Ah back in the days when POKE meant something different... |
Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
This seems appropriate for here (needs volume)
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Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
^^^^^^^^ Like.
Michael Fish - what a twat. |
Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
Originally Posted by Irishbeekeeper
(Post 10890387)
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! http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013...view-teenagers http://www.theguardian.com/film/vide...internet-video |
Re: Advice for parents in the digital age
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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