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Oh I had one of those Evil Kinevel bikes, also loved my pink panther car, used to go like the clappers.

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.

Watching the Ulysess intro earlier reminded me of a couple other classics with catchy tunes I watched.... Dodgy lyrics that Jimmy Saville would be proud of...

Quality list, you can add Automan & Manimal too.

Thanks Choppers

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?

Wow, PC babies would love this one....

Haha, good spot buddeh.

Never really game type I took to, isn't this just Trans-am?

Ahh the 80's, simpler times

Haha that was my mistake, if you remember what label his early DXs were released under.

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.

This was one of my favourites, first time I really saw 3D graphics outside of vector.

Haha, got to love a good typo. Page 26 says Psst is available for the 19k Spectrum

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.

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.

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.

The kid with the double tape deck ghetto blaster used to charge 25p a game to be copied in the playground. Remember a program called 'the key' that used to copy games for you.

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.

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.