Things from your yoof....

gtvlusso

I just dug out Dire Straits Alchemy album.....how good was that live performance?! So, good, I just downloaded it from iTunes!

Anything that you have re-discovered?

DonDaddyD

Lion-o



I actually wept. (The above image isn't my Lion-o)

He-man would win in a fight between the two though...

DrLex

2000AD.
Bought third issue ("prog") when at school; now reading 1778 on my iPad.

rjsterry

Mr Benn
Bagpuss
Ivor the Engine
Morph
Where the WIld Things Are
Thomas the Tank Engine books - the original, beautifully illustrated ones, not the new muck.
Mr Men

mudcow007

anyone born in the 80's remember Boglins?

Click

i found my fish one, hours of fun

id had bleeding loads of em' according to wiki they are now collectable

**edit** just found in mint condition my fishy one is worth £80

gutted, mines all chewed

rick_chasey

Downloaded Doom the other day. Y'know, 1/3 of the game that then constituted the demo.

It was better when I was 7.

Kieran_Burns

Rick Chasey wrote:

Downloaded Doom the other day. Y'know, 1/3 of the game that then constituted the demo.

It was better when I was 7.

No one nowadays can quite comprehend the stunned amazement at being able to use a mouse to look around your environment and then move smoothly across the floor. It seems so commonplace now, but anyone who played that demo will know just what I am talking about

rick_chasey

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Downloaded Doom the other day. Y'know, 1/3 of the game that then constituted the demo.

It was better when I was 7.

No one nowadays can quite comprehend the stunned amazement at being able to use a mouse to look around your environment and then move smoothly across the floor. It seems so commonplace now, but anyone who played that demo will know just what I am talking about

*shrugs* I was 7.

I had a brief moment when our upstairs landing reminded me of the corridors in doom and I was worried/scared I'd get some pink weird thing biting me. Dad sat me down and said they were just 'fantasy creations of spotty teenagers'.

Was up playing it the next day .

cjcp

gtvlusso wrote:

I just dug out Dire Straits Alchemy album.....how good was that live performance?! So, good, I just downloaded it from iTunes!

Anything that you have re-discovered?

A goddam masterpiece.

Anyone remember Battle of the Planets?

DonDaddyD

I don't care what anyone says, there was no way to complete Doom. I entered the cheats and the last several levels were impossible.

Same with Duke Nukem 3D.

rick_chasey

DonDaddyD wrote:

I don't care what anyone says, there was no way to complete Doom. I entered the cheats and the last several levels were impossible.

Same with Duke Nukem 3D.

All about the backwards strafing.

EKE_38BPM

DonDaddyD wrote:

I don't care what anyone says, there was no way to complete Doom. I entered the cheats and the last several levels were impossible.

Same with Duke Nukem 3D.

Perhaps using a cheat to get to latter stages of the games means that you don't develop the skills necessary to complete the games.
In other words, you can't fake the funk!

veronese68

DonDaddyD wrote:

I don't care what anyone says, there was no way to complete Doom. I entered the cheats and the last several levels were impossible.

Same with Duke Nukem 3D.

Pong, there were no cheats. You just had to play the game. My Dad bought one. It was incredible. A game you could play on your telly, can you believe it? It's a GAME you play on your TELLY!!

London_Falcon

rjsterry wrote:

Mr Benn
Bagpuss
Ivor the Engine
Morph
Where the WIld Things Are
Thomas the Tank Engine books - the original, beautifully illustrated ones, not the new muck.
Mr Men

Great list, clealry we are of the same vintage. Did you see in the newspapers that Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of Where The Wild Things are died last weekend at 83. My sons and I read it again in his honour for Tuesday nights bedtime story

mudcow007

but what about quake!??

i rememeber opening the college network up to play a massive game a quake 3 tournament

uber good

there something about shooting someone with a shotgun with quad damage

rick_chasey

mudcow007 wrote:

but what about quake!??

i rememeber opening the college network up to play a massive game a quake 3 tournament

uber good

there something about shooting someone with a shotgun with quad damage

Haha, I did that at school. Then got banned from the computers.

Was fun while it lasted.

Nothing like being that irritating player with the railgun.

Kieran_Burns

I was actually paid by an accountant to install & set up a LAN in his offices, just so he could play weekend m/p games

prawny

Not going back particularly far back into my Yoof but I was in a (fairly trendy) pub last week and the DJ played On a Rope by Rocket From The Crypt, I nearly Jizzed.

Now I've got sprogs of my own it's funny that all the programmes I used to watch have been remade. The new Thundercats isn't up to much but the new Transformers is bangin' and loads better than the films.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be this guy

Flyingbogey

cjcp wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

Anyone remember Battle of the Planets?

I loved this. All the different cool cars/bikes splitting from the mother ship, all launched underwater. Great cartoon.

rjsterry

cjcp wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

I just dug out Dire Straits Alchemy album.....how good was that live performance?! So, good, I just downloaded it from iTunes!

Anything that you have re-discovered?

A goddam masterpiece.

Anyone remember Battle of the Planets?

Oh yes. I seem to remember looking this up on Youtube and thinking I should have stuck with the memories.

king_jeffers

Nintendo
Entertainment
System

Double Dragon II
Mario Bros. 3

Toy soldiers - the cheap ones.
M.A.S.K
My love for Ewoks.

prawny

one word, four letters

M.A.S.K

Edit: King Jeffers beat me by a nose

rolf_f

DonDaddyD wrote:

I don't care what anyone says, there was no way to complete Doom. I entered the cheats and the last several levels were impossible.

Same with Duke Nukem 3D.

You probably just weren't any good!

Wolfenstein of course predated Doom. Slightly hard on the eyes though what with the miniscule palette! Who can forget the bright red brickwork?!

I found my old primary school reports from the 70s the other day. They had my character deficiencies nailed pretty early

prawny

Castlevania

Excitebike

And that Ironman off road truck racing games were my favourites.

I also used to like having a go on Altered Beast when we went to Makro, but I never had a mega drive.

DonDaddyD

Sigh but this thread is about things you found.

I found copies 1st prints of Marvel's Secret Wars. Yes, the first issue Spider Woman (the second one) first appeared and the first appearance of Spider-man in the black costume

veronese68

It should of course be about things we found. My parents had a box of old photo's out the other day. I will not be posting the picture of a 15 year old me complete with bleached mohican. Oh dear.

rick_chasey

A few months ago I got back on the Transport Tycoon wagon.

My girlfriend was genuinely concerned for a bit.

First computer game I ever played. Played it A LOT.

Can get it on open source now: http://www.openttd.org/en/

Not the same music though

mtb-idle

World Cup stickers and coins.

I have two complete books of the 1970 world cup stickers in my loft. Must look that up on ebay to see how much it's worth.

Also got complete coinsets for various and numerous tournaments going form 1974 through to 1990.

Saw an advert on a history programme or summat last week for that game where you both had a fixed 'gun' at each end of a small table and shot ball bearings at a puck to try and push it into the other goal.

I can still feel the pain from the blister on my trigger finger from when I played it all afternoon with Roy Elliot round his house after primary school circa 1975.

mr_ribble

Granny's Garden : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny's_Garden

And Pogs

gbsahne001

Atari games console

Jay dubbleU

My Commodore 64 - still in the loft

Programming instructions for ALGOL and COBOL