For us old gits who had a ZX Spectrum

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (Ron Manager @ Jan. 17 2005,11:44)]the daddy of all footie management games - Football Manager!

You have won the FA cup.


Classic.

The bloke that programmed it looked like the Yorkshire ripper though.

 

[palexander]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Jan. 17 2005,14:17)]

Quote[/b] (Ron Manager @ Jan. 17 2005,11:44)]the daddy of all footie management games - Football Manager!

You have won the FA cup.


Classic.

The bloke that programmed it looked like the Yorkshire ripper though.

Kevin Tomms I believe?

Was a great game tho. Talking of the FA Cup - anyone play "FA CUP" on C64 (i think?). Jeez, worst 'game' ever.

You picked a team and then had to watch the draw for Round 1 of the FA Cup. Then if your team played, you got a result and had to watch the draw for the next round.

As an FA Cup Draw Simulator is was un-parralelled - as a game, utter sh*te....

 

[sufcintheprem]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ Jan. 17 2005,10:56)]Previously owned:

Commodore VIC 20
Mattel Aquarius

Currently own:

*Deep breath*

Acorn BBC B
Atari 2600
Atari 7800
Atari Jaguar
Sega Megadrive
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
Nintendo SNES
Nintendo 64
Nintendo Gamecube
Nintendo Gameboy
Nintendo Gameboy Colour
Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Neo Geo pocket colour
PS1
PS2
Commodore Pet 8032
Commodore 64 (x2)
Commodore Amiga A500 (x2)
PC

Most wanted:

Sony PSP
Sega Hot rod arcade machine (4 player).

Christ! How do you find time to eat?

Seriously, I'm pretty sure I'm not old but I did have a Spectrum ZX 128K.

Happily, I managed to move on to a Master System fairly soon after where I could play Sonic the hedgehog rather than have to deal with coding, massive waits and tape read errors whent he damn thing's finally done!

...and yes, I did convince my parents it would be good for school and yes again, my dad didn't have a clue!

SUFCintheprem

Spectrum (deceased)
Master System
SNES (deceased)
N64
Gamecube (and damn TW2005 that's trying to wreck my degree!)

 

[Technician]

Sinclair Spectrum 48k - got bored of that quickly
Sinclair Spectrum ZX 128k - ditto
Amstrad PCW - not bad
SneS
PS
PS2

Better things to do with my time now...

 

[Ron Manager]

Have been really sad and downloaded 180 and Formula One last night, so spent a happy couple of hours using my relatively powerful PC playing Speccy games!

 

[palexander]

10 FOR X=1 TO 10
20 PRINT "HELLO"
30 GOTO 10

Hmmm.... genius...

 

[CANV]

Quote[/b] (* ORM * @ Jan. 17 2005,10:56)]Had a C64 - always fun loading The Hobbit on a tape drive and getting an error 10 minutes into a 15 minute load.

im sure my brother typed the entire 'night driver' game into his zx81 from some magazine..

 

[palexander]

Quote[/b] (CANV @ Jan. 18 2005,12:18)]

Quote[/b] (* ORM * @ Jan. 17 2005,10:56)]Had a C64 - always fun loading The Hobbit on a tape drive and getting an error 10 minutes into a 15 minute load.

im sure my brother typed the entire 'night driver' game into his zx81 from some magazine..

Yea, I used to do that from the C64 mags... my dad used to help me by reading the code out...

"Print sharp 6, semi-colon, inverted comma's... Peek, open bracket 53224 close bracket, colon, return"

Used to take hours and hours, then finally, nervously, type RUN to be greeted with

SYNTAX ERROR #532: Line 23454
SYNTAX ERROR #533: Line 23487
SYNTAX ERROR #565: Line 23795
SYNTAX ERROR #512: Line 26885
SYNTAX ERROR #52: Line 28644

Before smashing the keyboard and flushing the pieces down the toilet....

 

[CANV]

haha.. happy days.. along with those red digital watches you had to press the button to see and only could see in the shade.. i seem to recall my old mans first calculator came in kits form as well and he had to solder some of the wires on..

 

[Mad Cyril]

Quote[/b] (pboreham @ Jan. 18 2005,12:39)]

Quote[/b] (CANV @ Jan. 18 2005,12:18)]

Quote[/b] (* ORM * @ Jan. 17 2005,10:56)]Had a C64 - always fun loading The Hobbit on a tape drive and getting an error 10 minutes into a 15 minute load.

im sure my brother typed the entire 'night driver' game into his zx81 from some magazine..

Yea, I used to do that from the C64 mags... my dad used to help me by reading the code out...

"Print sharp 6, semi-colon, inverted comma's... Peek, open bracket 53224 close bracket, colon, return"

Used to take hours and hours, then finally, nervously, type RUN to be greeted with

SYNTAX ERROR #532: Line 23454
SYNTAX ERROR #533: Line 23487
SYNTAX ERROR #565: Line 23795
SYNTAX ERROR #512: Line 26885
SYNTAX ERROR #52: Line 28644

Before smashing the keyboard and flushing the pieces down the toilet....

Why didn't you save the game and then debug it?

 

[sufcintheprem]

that's not how you deal with technology surely.

Take my laptop. It makes a funny noise so I hit it and we get a mutual understanding. It gets cocky, makes more noise so I hit it again. Ad infinitum.

 

[southend_utd_fan]

I had A C64 I used to play paperboy and Nz Story! Loved watching the lines on the tv as I was waiting for the tapes to end.

 

[palexander]

NZ Story was brill, as was the prequel (I believe), Rainbow Islands. Also partial to a few hours of Bubble Bobble too!