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But some of you still owe us pics:

Logan5 - 4 posts with no pics
Helen_S - 3 posts with no pics
aTomiK - 1 post with no pic
80'sRocked - 1 post with no pic

Shame shame, I know your name!

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Woo-hoo! Brits are winning 7-2!!!

Go Bry-tane!
Go Bry-tane!

Toys and bikes:

I remember a kid bringing this into school - hard plastic you couldn't move, but it climbed! Loved it.



These bikes were going to be the future... but the future ended up being less RAD!



My first bike (Boxer):



Robot toys that transform?! Cool!



Always wanted one of these, in retrospect they suck (Grifter XL):



Hell yeah!

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For the Uk'ers amongst us, remember this? My first bank account:

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Omg, yes lol

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Ok, seens as I've been told off

I still have mine in a cupboard, I don't think I could ever get rid The hours of fun I had on this thing

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What did this do? and i've never heard of it....looks badass!

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What does it do? what does it do??? Its only the most stunning personal computer ever made this side of an Amiga 500, my friend

I too had, (have damnit!) a Sinclair ZX Spectrum + 2: NO to you Commodore 64 with your detachable tape deck, NO to you Atari 2600 with your somewhat decent graphics, NO to you Amstrad CPC with your Alan Sugar affiliations, NO to you BBC Computers (this isn't school!) and NO to you Amiga500 you scintillating synthetic siren with your Aracde quality graphics and a somewhat pricey price tag for Thatcher's England.

NO to you all, YES to Specturm, yes to waiting 20 minutes to play a game, YES to Crash magazine with free Speccy game taped to the cover, YES to the epic 35 minute load time to play this...



And after awhile it just shut down to the load screen, as if to say: 'Right, that's it no more for today'. And this is what you had to put up with if you wanted to play a game...

Specturm + 2 Load Screen

Spectrum + 2...what a legend, what a computer

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Battle cat was cool but, and I say this as a straight man; nothing beats the luxurious, crushed purple velvet of the mysterious Panthor...

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The Black Panther Marvel Comics Limited Series (1988)

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I question your year-accuracy.

The Spectrum game it took me literally years to find the name of:



But the greatest multi-player Spectrum game was...

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I question your year-accuracy.

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The Black Panther Marvel Comics Limited Series (1988)







Gauntlet was a great game, but it just wasn't the same at home, the Arcade used to speak! 'SAVE KEYS TO OPEN DOORS'

[ 29. September 2010, 06:13: Message edited by: Kash ]

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You can't part with yours either eh

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No, my Spectrum has hobbies; its a dust collector. May hook it up one day, even though you can play all the games online now.

ZX Spectrum Games

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You can't part with yours either eh

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You can add me to the growing list of Speccy owners. In my case, I use it as a Doorstop.

I have even fonder memories of my Amiga 500 though. We received it sometime in 1987, primarily for Educational reasons

I remember being given a choice of an A500, or, an Acorn Archimedes. I told my Dad that the A500 would be better for School work.

This was before any of the packs(Batman, etc) came out, so I had to choose a couple of random games out of a plain brown box.

I chose:



-- It was an adventure in itself answering those questions.



I still have both machines, but nowadays it's a lot quicker/easier just to load up an Emulator.

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No, my Spectrum has hobbies; its a dust collector. May hook it up one day, even though you can play all the games online now.

ZX Spectrum Games

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Street Hassle was my very first game

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You can add me to the growing list of Speccy owners. In my case, I use it as a Doorstop.

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Originally posted by logan5:
Wasn't 'Leisure Suit Larry' rude? I vaguely remember some kind of controversy surrounding it.

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