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  3. 70s & 80s Electronic Toys

    in Bowie Lounge

    Posted

    Wow I had a firefox, thought it was the bollocks back then. 

    I remember having a small white handheld, sure it was by granstand but had a nintendo feel to it, was based on a dracula theme where you had to reach the top of various floors and staircases whilst dodging baddies, think castlevania meets donkey kong.

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  5. classic films,tv shows and cartoons

    in Bowie Lounge

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    1 hour ago, swanyofrug said:

    Wow...where to begin with classic TV shows. 

    Well when I was young the shows I loved to watch were...

    Knightrider

    The A-Team

    Streethawk

    Airwolf

    The littlest Hobo

    Life and Times of Grizzly Adams

    The Incredible Hulk

    CHiPS

    Star Fleet (I always loved it when they built the robot out of the 3 spaceships, and Lolled so hard when they punched the evil leader in the face with it!)

    The Equalizer

    Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

    Battlestar Galactica

    The six million dollar man

    The list could go on and on but these are a few of the shows I loved back in the day when TV wasn't full of crap reality shows or "talent" shows. 

    Quality list, you can add Automan & Manimal too.

  7. Best joystick

    in 8-bit

    Posted

    Oh I had one of those blue konix ones, loved it. Played Bruce Lee for hours on it. Nintendo so ripped it off with the nunchuck.

    Don't know how many quickshot 2s I went through playing decathlon. Anyone else used to hold it upside down by the base and shake the b'jesus out of it while running?

  14. Thankyou Reg

    in General FME Chat

    Posted · Edited by Pook

    Another site update today, see's a few tweaks on the overall layout with tabs making the site easier to navigate, as always a massive thankyou to Desert Island Fruits and @Reg for his continued support.

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  17. Who was your favourite software studio?

    in 8-bit

    Posted

    11 hours ago, A:E said:

    Ultimate, TheEdge, Hewson, Odin

    SabreWulf, Fairlight, Cybernoid, Robin of the Wood

    0h I forgot about the edge, what a great game Brian bloodaxe was, loved the way it pretended to crash on load and asked you to blow gently on the keyboard, great python soundtrack too.

  18. 80's arcade games

    in Arcade

    Posted

    Oh it's hard not to split in genre. I loved a shooter back in the day, of all the old vertical ones I loves Phoneix. Pleiads & Xevious, when horizontal ones started to come out R-Type & X-Multiply were my go to machines. 

    Other machines I enjoyed were Battlezone, Discs of Tron, Crystal Castles, Gauntlet & Robocop. I remember the first time I saw a Dragon's Lair I was hopeless at it but it blew me away.

  19. Who was your favourite software studio?

    in 8-bit

    Posted · Edited by Pook

    The 8-Bit era gave birth to many great software studios, many only lasted only a few years, some crossed over to the 16-bit era and a few still survive today under various guises. But who was you favourite?

    I reckon in a poll the masses would chose 'Ultimate' and that's a great shout as they made some seminal original titles. There were powerhouses like 'Ocean' & 'US Gold' who churned out some good titles and arcade ports but were tainted with terrible franchised titles. Even Codemasters were massive in maintaining the 8-bit era into the budget market.

    I used to enjoy work from smaller outlets that made some great titles, in that camp I'd include.. Software Projects, DK'Tronics, Microsphere, Gargoyle Games, Melbourne House, Beyond, Durell, Micromega, Hewson, Odin, Elite, and there's probably more.

    But for me the winner has to be 'Vortex'.  I was amazed at not only the 3D but the speed and fluidity of it. Great titles like TLL, Cyclone & Alien Encounter were regularly played on my speccy.

     

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  21. The ZX Spectrum was better then C64

    in 8-bit

    Posted

    Ohh the oric, was that the one when you could type 'ping' and 'bang' and it would make the noises? I remember a computer shop called syntax where we would type random noise words into it, must've drove the staff nuts.

    Couple of friends of mine had vic20s and regretted it when the spectrum spead throughout the school. One mate got a TI99 which from what I remember didn't do a lot.

  22. The ZX Spectrum was better then C64

    in 8-bit

    Posted · Edited by Pook

    Indeed an argument had in every playground across the UK in the 80's. Myself and my mates were firmly in the speccy camp as it's what our parents could afford so clearly it was better. Think it was 129.99 back in the day with the C64 being considerably more.

    I remember going round a friends house who's family had a lot, he knew it and rubbed in our faces. Payed Beach Head and was impressed you could have more than two colours in a 8x8 grid, also when you got shot it said 'medic' really well. Didn't matter the speccy ruled and he was still a knob.

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  23. What did you buy today ?

    in Bowie Lounge

    Posted

    I have a vivid memory of helping my Dad fit our kitchen in our old house, spent all weekend helping him by 'holding' things while he cut or screwed them. My treat was a game of my choice. Fully how nostalgic games are linked to other memories of family and simpler times :)

    I chose well...

     

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  25. JPM Note Exchange ?

    in General FME Chat

    Posted · Edited by Pook

    Hey Richard

    I just searched in an old WIP folder and found this from several years ago, I have a flyer where the machine cuts across 2 pages hence the crude join across the middle. I must of started this years ago and not thought about it until your post. At any one time I'll have 6 or so active WIPs that I add a bit too whenever I have a bit of time. Also have and inactive WIP folder with 100+ titles in various stage of completion, either I wasn't happy the way they were turning out or someone else released that title during development which happened a lot back in the day when a lot of designers were about, I've never been the fastest worker and was beaten to the punch on numerous occasions.

    I've moved this into my active WIP folder for you, to remind me to get back to it at some stage, I currently have about 20 previous releases left to update and re-release that I'm getting through so will free me up to concentrate on new stuff once that's complete. 

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