Feeling Old?

cjcp

Headhuunter wrote:

Chucky Egg! Wow, I'd forgotten about that!

It was brilliant. A lot of hours went into that game.

always_tyred

Jay dubbleU wrote:

No - the best film ever made was and always will be 'Casablanca'

I never quite got the reverence in which an unattractive American bloke who couldn't act was held. Nor for that matter a plain German lady who couldn't act. Nor a plodding screenplay set in north Africa.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly gets my vote. No acting, just artwork strung together by music and wit.

Eau Rouge

cjcp wrote:

[I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got (although they were brilliant. Back then.) "Chuckie Egg" was another of my favourities.

Did you have the 5 tracks for "Revs" I remember it took me ages just to get around a corner, but once I'd got the knack, I was hooked.

So, how long would it take for you to remember the patterns of the bad guys in Chuckie Egg now?

Kieran_Burns

Always Tyred wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

No - the best film ever made was and always will be 'Casablanca'

I never quite got the reverence in which an unattractive American bloke who couldn't act was held. Nor for that matter a plain German lady who couldn't act. Nor a plodding screenplay set in north Africa.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly gets my vote. No acting, just artwork strung together by music and wit.

Ice Cold in Alex.

Now shut up the lot of you.

cjcp

Eau Rouge wrote:

cjcp wrote:

[I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got (although they were brilliant. Back then.) "Chuckie Egg" was another of my favourities.

Did you have the 5 tracks for "Revs" I remember it took me ages just to get around a corner, but once I'd got the knack, I was hooked.

So, how long would it take for you to remember the patterns of the bad guys in Chuckie Egg now?

I only had Silverstone, I think. Ah, I remember the days: racing against Gloria Slap (her husband/bf was a Space Station Police pilot in Elite IIRC) or Johnny Turbo late into the night, powering through Woodcote.

I'd be stuffed if I played CE now. There were certain jumps where you had to take off right on the edge of the block.

always_tyred

cjcp wrote:

posh_pedaller wrote:

I'm 19, I remember playing Free Willy 3: The Final Frontier or something on my ZX Spectrum loaded from tape (I was very young, I think I had that thing since birth). I remember albums on tape and games on floppy disks and Sega Mega Drives. We only had 4 1/2 channels until about 5 years ago.
Did that make anyone feel young?

I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got (although they were brilliant. Back then.) "Chuckie Egg" was another of my favourities.

There was a brief discussion about this last year. A number of our flock on here hadn't ever heard of "Cannonball Run". As in, the Best Film Ever Made. :shock:

But if you were a posh kid who got bought a BBC B, you didn't get to play Manic Miner.

I believe that there is a Tandy TRS80 somewhere in our family which still works. Yes, 1980. That's Tandy, not Radio Shack.

We used to have Space Invaders for it, but the graphics weren't good enough for "Pong".

Does anyone else but me remember "Zork", by the way? Used to play that on an IBM clone with an "86" processor. Not a 386, or a 486, or even a 286. An 86. The CPU must have been drawn by hand using one of those silver art pens.

dennisn

I remember black and white television. This was BC(before cable). I also remember
BEFORE remote control and having to twist a dial(on the TV) to change channels.

cjcp

Always Tyred wrote:

Does anyone else but me remember "Zork", by the way? Used to play that on an IBM clone with an "86" processor. Not a 386, or a 486, or even a 286. An 86. The CPU must have been drawn by hand using one of those silver art pens.

Is this Klingon?

Kieran_Burns

Always Tyred wrote:

Does anyone else but me remember "Zork", by the way? Used to play that on an IBM clone with an "86" processor. Not a 386, or a 486, or even a 286. An 86. The CPU must have been drawn by hand using one of those silver art pens.

I think you'll find that they are called 8086, 80286, 80386 & 80486 you half-educated non-technical 'user'

always_tyred

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

Does anyone else but me remember "Zork", by the way? Used to play that on an IBM clone with an "86" processor. Not a 386, or a 486, or even a 286. An 86. The CPU must have been drawn by hand using one of those silver art pens.

I think you'll find that they are called 8086, 80286, 80386 & 80486 you half-educated non-technical 'user'

I could play Zork on it, that's all I knew. Never could figure out how to get back out of the caves though, or really why I was there and what I was looking for. But I was only about 8.

Jay dubbleU

cjcp wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

I beg to differ - Casablanca is a classic - Cannonball Run is a redneck comedy

"Classic" in that "this is going to send me to sleep very shortly" kind of way. CR rocks. :P

Only in that its very noisy - it has Roger Moore and Burt Reynolds in it FFS

always_tyred

dennisn wrote:

I remember black and white television. This was BC(before cable). I also remember
BEFORE remote control and having to twist a dial(on the TV) to change channels.

I just rented a cottage for a few days in the Scottish Highlands. There was a telly with no remote and a tuning knob. (Colour mind you). Also a clingfilm dispenser and a chip fryer, perfectly preserved and teleported from 1978. Same went for the carpets. Best of all was a microwave the size of a Volvo which appeared to generate about 100W, most of which was directed outward. Magical.

Jay dubbleU

My brother and I had 'Pong' - very hi tec but not the most exciting game - we used to get bored after about 5 mins

posh_pedaller

cjcp wrote:

I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got

I've wanted to play Elite for a long while now, since I read about its development in this book - I'm surprised it hasn't been remade, or if it has I haven't heard about it.

cjcp

Jay dubbleU wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

I beg to differ - Casablanca is a classic - Cannonball Run is a redneck comedy

"Classic" in that "this is going to send me to sleep very shortly" kind of way. CR rocks. :P

Only in that its very noisy - it has Roger Moore and Burt Reynolds in it FFS

Both of whom are gods. It has a stellar cast.

jonginge

posh_pedaller wrote:

cjcp wrote:

I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got

I've wanted to play Elite for a long while now, since I read about its development in this book - I'm surprised it hasn't been remade, or if it has I haven't heard about it.

No need. Get yourself a spectrum emulator and download this:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0001601

cjcp

JonGinge wrote:

posh_pedaller wrote:

cjcp wrote:

I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got

I've wanted to play Elite for a long while now, since I read about its development in this book - I'm surprised it hasn't been remade, or if it has I haven't heard about it.

No need. Get yourself a spectrum emulator and download this:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0001601

Hold the 'phone! Come down to my level for a moment. Can you download and play this on *any* computer? If so, you should be knighted.

always_tyred

JonGinge wrote:

posh_pedaller wrote:

cjcp wrote:

I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got

I've wanted to play Elite for a long while now, since I read about its development in this book - I'm surprised it hasn't been remade, or if it has I haven't heard about it.

No need. Get yourself a spectrum emulator and download this:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0001601

Seriously - in advance, I blame you for the things I should be doing this weekend.

R_T_A

posh_pedaller wrote:

cjcp wrote:

I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got

I've wanted to play Elite for a long while now, since I read about its development in this book - I'm surprised it hasn't been remade, or if it has I haven't heard about it.

Try the modern equivalent http://www.eveonline.com

As I'm now drowning in nostalgia today, how about:

- The precursor to pc adventure games, "Choose your own adventure books" (roll a 6 and turn to page 7; else turn to page 24)
- Airfix

And is it me, or has every school kid got the ridiculously hideous haircuts of the late 70s/early 80s?

Headhuunter

JonGinge wrote:

posh_pedaller wrote:

cjcp wrote:

I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got

I've wanted to play Elite for a long while now, since I read about its development in this book - I'm surprised it hasn't been remade, or if it has I haven't heard about it.

No need. Get yourself a spectrum emulator and download this:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0001601

Elite! I remember putting hours into that game. I could never quite get the knack of docking on space stations to trade until someone showed me a cheat code which automatically gave yuo a docking computer, then I was well away. I used to love getting into dogfights with the pirates too...

How old are you lot? I thought I was older than average but it seems you all have the same memories as me...

jonginge

cjcp wrote:

JonGinge wrote:

posh_pedaller wrote:

cjcp wrote:

I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got

I've wanted to play Elite for a long while now, since I read about its development in this book - I'm surprised it hasn't been remade, or if it has I haven't heard about it.

No need. Get yourself a spectrum emulator and download this:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek ... id=0001601

Hold the 'phone! Come down to my level for a moment. Can you download and play this on *any* computer? If so, you should be knighted.

Yep. I've got Spectaculator. It's not freeware (any more) but only costs a few dollars but runs pretty much all of the tzx files that i've downloaded from that site.

http://www.spectaculator.com/

Edit: apologies in advance to your good lady (aka computer widow)

Headhuunter

R_T_A wrote:

posh_pedaller wrote:

cjcp wrote:

I had a BBC B. "Revs" and "Elite" was about as good as it got

I've wanted to play Elite for a long while now, since I read about its development in this book - I'm surprised it hasn't been remade, or if it has I haven't heard about it.

Try the modern equivalent http://www.eveonline.com

As I'm now drowning in nostalgia today, how about:

- The precursor to pc adventure games, "Choose your own adventure books" (roll a 6 and turn to page 7; else turn to page 24)
- Airfix

And is it me, or has every school kid got the ridiculously hideous haircuts of the late 70s/early 80s?

Yes, the Choose Your Own Adventure and those fantasy books by thingy Jackson with teh green spines. They were great...

Jay dubbleU

cjcp wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

I beg to differ - Casablanca is a classic - Cannonball Run is a redneck comedy

"Classic" in that "this is going to send me to sleep very shortly" kind of way. CR rocks. :P

Only in that its very noisy - it has Roger Moore and Burt Reynolds in it FFS

Both of whom are dogs. It has a stellar cast.

Fixed that for you!

Burt Reynolds has a ghey moustache - sorry I've stooped to cheap insults now - anyway its not my fault you have the attention span of a mollusc and are unable to appreciate the finer points of cinematography

cjcp

Headhuunter wrote:

Elite! I remember putting hours into that game. I could never quite get the knack of docking on space stations to trade until someone showed me a cheat code which automatically gave yuo a docking computer, then I was well away. I used to love getting into dogfights with the pirates too...

How old are you lot? I thought I was older than average but it seems you all have the same memories as me...

Docking was an art. If you had enough credits, you could buy the Auto-Docker equipment.

Dogfights with the Space Station Police were fantastic. I used to pick on them if I was in a bad mood by approaching the Space Station all guns a'blazin' directing my fire at the gap you docked through because that's where the police came out. Think you received 0.5 credits for each kill. Not prosperous business, I know, but it eased the tension. Felt like the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (now that's a film Jay ).

Did you ever get caught in Witch Space i.e. some sort of Nowhere's-ville full of Thargons and Thargoids?

I'm 35 going on 55.

cjcp

Jay dubbleU wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

I beg to differ - Casablanca is a classic - Cannonball Run is a redneck comedy

"Classic" in that "this is going to send me to sleep very shortly" kind of way. CR rocks. :P

Only in that its very noisy - it has Roger Moore and Burt Reynolds in it FFS

Both of whom are dogs. It has a stellar cast.

Fixed that for you!

Burt Reynolds has a ghey moustache - sorry I've stooped to cheap insults now - anyway its not my fault you have the attention span of a mollusc and are unable to appreciate the finer points of cinematography

always_tyred

cjcp wrote:

Headhuunter wrote:

Elite! I remember putting hours into that game. I could never quite get the knack of docking on space stations to trade until someone showed me a cheat code which automatically gave yuo a docking computer, then I was well away. I used to love getting into dogfights with the pirates too...

How old are you lot? I thought I was older than average but it seems you all have the same memories as me...

Docking was an art. If you had enough credits, you could buy the Auto-Docker equipment.

Dogfights with the Space Station Police were fantastic. I used to pick on them if I was in a bad mood by approaching the Space Station all guns a'blazin' directing my fire at the gap you docked through because that's where the police came out. Think you received 0.5 credits for each kill. Not prosperous business, I know, but it eased the tension. Felt like the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (now that's a film Jay ).

Did you ever get caught in Witch Space i.e. some sort of Nowhere's-ville full of Thargons and Thargoids?

I'm 35 going on 55.

Suffice to say that the BBC version was better.

jangle

Chuckie is available as a flash game for free now. Just google it. repton3 dot co dot uk works well, even has the sounds.

_Brun_

Word of warning: Nostalgia isn't what it used to be, leave the emulators alone and preserve the memories.

Jay dubbleU

D and D anyone ? (I'll get me coat) :oops:

Kieran_Burns

Jay dubbleU wrote:

D and D anyone ? (I'll get me coat) :oops:

Don't you mean your +3 Plate Armour giving you an AC of 0?



(Holy Crap it DOES give you an AC of 0!!! Oh, Christ shoot me now.)