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  1. Eastender

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    My first computer was a ZX81.
    But this was a cracker.

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  2. Eastender

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    The game is supposed to be hungry horace <grr>
     
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  3. monacoger

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    Is that the same as hungry hippos and crazy crocodiles?
     
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  4. oobujoobu

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    Jet Set Willy 2, where you could go in to space via the cartography room (very clever how they did that).
    Hypersports
    Daley Thompsons Supertest
    Way of the exploding fist
    Bombjack
    Booty
    Graham Gooch's test cricket
    Chuckie Egg
    Deathchase
     
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  5. monacoger

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    Chuckie Egg was better for the computers you used to get in school with the black and orange keys
     
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    BBC Micro?
     
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    Also who remembers paperboy, i liked it when you missed and broke the window
     
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  8. monacoger

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    Yep, thats the one, BBC. I thought it was that, but didn't want to make a **** of myself because it just didn't sound right. You had to prove you'd paid your TV license before you were allowed to go on them.
     
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  9. Natchrawldry

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    I remember all of these games as I used to play them on my younger cousins Spectrum after he got the Spectrum and I got the ZX81 on the same Christmas. I was in ****ing tears when I loaded the Formula 1 game which consisted of a fixed grey square (supposed to be a McLaren I think) with wavy black squares moving down the screen so slowly that you could have a dump or make a cup of tea before having to press the left or right button to stop it from crashing into the walls. I told you we was poor.
     
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  10. The Raging Oxter

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    Was that not the ZX80?
     
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  11. Natchrawldry

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    Nah that was the first one, I had the ZX81 with a 16k Ram pack hanging out the back. It scarred me for a long time.
     
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  12. The Raging Oxter

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    I had an Atari 600. It's where I did my first bit of programming:

    Ready
    10 Print "Hello"
    20 GoTo 10
    Run

    Hours of fun!
     
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  13. monacoger

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    The first one was the 48k was it not, with the rubber keys?
     
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  14. Natchrawldry

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    <laugh> I remember it well. I've tried telling my boy about stuff like this but he just looks at me totally disinterested and disgusted that I'm bothering to tell him this bullshit, and then I feel old as ****.
     
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  15. Hash.

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    and you had the audacity to call me a computer geek <laugh>
     
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  16. Hash.

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    indeed and seperate tape deck
     
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  17. The Raging Oxter

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    I went hardcore after that. GoSub routines and everything!

    Wild days.
     
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  18. Girvan Loyal 1690

    Girvan Loyal 1690 Nobody's safe now

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    was this game possible to complete? i doubt it

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  19. mirage

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    A classic was JumpingJack

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  20. Longview01

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    Sad ain't it....

    A woman I worked with told me about how she found her old walkman and gave it to her 7 year old son and he had no idea what a cassette was....he started using it and it wasn't untill she told him a few weeks later that he figured out you could turn it over for more songs on the other side.

    I feel really ****ing old when I try and talk to kids about games on cassettes and they just look at me blankly..
     
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