Sonic.

[Chippy_Tea]

Remember back in the days when you couldn't save so you had to spend weeks learning every stage then finally you cracked it in one sitting which lasted hours.

How things have changed.


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[Norfolk79]

Then going on from there, getting a code at the end of a level to note down so you can start from there next time.

I was a SNES boy so didn't play Sonic, only that game with an annoying Italian plumber!

 

[chub1]

My lad lived on the Mega Drive!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Then going on from there, getting a code at the end of a level to note down so you can start from there next time

I had forgotten about the codes what a blessing they were.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

My lad lived on the Mega Drive!

I had most of the consoles that came out loved my gaming and still do a bit from time to time.

 

[Norfolk79]

Thinking about it, when we were younger, investing time into these games, spending hours on them.

Now investing time in another hobby involving grains, water, hops and yeast!

 

[AlanManley]

Going back further... do you remember the Acorn or Spectrum 48k? Had to use cassettes!

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[Norfolk79]

Going back further... do you remember the Acorn or Spectrum 48k? Had to use cassettes!

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Ah, the wonders of loading from a Cassette, praying it wouldn't get 95% of the way there and then showing the dreaded "Tape Loading Error" message.

 

[Covrich]

Ah, the wonders of loading from a Cassette, praying it wouldn't get 95% of the way there and then showing the dreaded "Tape Loading Error" message.

:lol:

Yep


REWIND!!!!.. slightly mess about with the volume slider because that always seemed to work and LOAD "" again

 

[Norfolk79]

Don't forget wiggling the audio cable to the cassette player, 'cause that worked as well.

 

[chub1]

Ah, the wonders of loading from a Cassette, praying it wouldn't get 95% of the way there and then showing the dreaded "Tape Loading Error" message.

We didn't have one of either of those BUT we did have a BBC.B:lol::lol::lol:
Same format,b####y tape almost always had to be rewound due to error messageAfter half a dozen attempts it was f##k it!!!!!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

We had a spectrum with a built in tape drive :lol:

Remember when you used to get computer mags with free games on floppy discs taped to the front.

 

[chub1]

F fffff ffffff floopy discs:lol:
The Mega drive was quite a revelation really after all those c##p computer packages.

 

[Covrich]

Don't forget wiggling the audio cable to the cassette player, 'cause that worked as well.

Also one of te greatest tactics and this worked on the SNES aswell was to blow the cartridge...

 

[Gunge]

Still use my megadrive! Could never get the hang of Sonic but I became a world authority ( in my head ) of the Road Rash series.

 

[Sadfield]

Now we are talking, computers from c1981.

My first was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a as advertised by this respectable gent.

Oh the hours spent typing in code from a magazine to get a game, hoping that there wasn't a typo in the print.

Run.

Error at line 560

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgghhhh!



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[Mungri]

Sinclair ZX81, Speccy 48 and 128. Commodore Vic20, C16 , C64.
Atari 800XL, 520st, Amiga a1200. Been through the lot.
Modern PCs are boring by comparison. They do work though I suppose.

 

[Norfolk79]

10 PRINT "Hello"
20 GOTO 10

Had a Spectrum +3 when I was about 8. You could store 173k of data on each side of the disk. Imagine how many disks you'd need just for windows now :lol:

 

[Sadfield]

Sinclair ZX81, Speccy 48 and 128. Commodore Vic20, C16 , C64.
Atari 800XL, 520st, Amiga a1200. Been through the lot.
Modern PCs are boring by comparison. They do work though I suppose.

Ti994a, Commodore plus4, Commodore C64, Amiga 1200, Super Nintendo, Megadrive, PlayStation, N64, Xbox, Xbox 360.

Along side numerous PCs after discovering you could do music production on the schools Atari ST using Notator, PCs became fun again.




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[Clint]

Chap in work collects all those old game stations and computers...got around 300......plus hundreds of games etc! He's got ALL the Star Wars figures and vehicles too!