Back to the Future!

[Webzcas]

Finally, having missed the first production run at the end of November, only to be taunted by scalpers on eBay and elsewhere these past few months. Retro Games The Spectrum is now available again. Just ordered from Argos, to be delivered on Monday

The exact replica of my first ever computer.

 

[satchnz]

I hope you’ve got or have downloaded plenty of roms in preparation for Monday!

 

[Webzcas]

Oh I already have an emulator installed. I have however refrained from this and its variants

 

[Jono777]

My first ever computer too and have to say loved it from start till the day it sadly passed away.

One of those, together with an Atari 2600 and I'd never moan again

 

[Webzcas]

Oh my god! I had a Wooden Atari 2600 also!!! I think my brother still has it!

 

[L&L-Jan]

first:

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4th:

5th was PC game era, always build them myself and main game:

Plus RA2, RA3 obviously

6th:

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8th:

Now:

Those youth and teenager years were awesome!

 

[satchnz]

@L&L-Jan no PS1?

 

[L&L-Jan]

@satchnz nope, skipped that one was already playing PC and had a Nintendo on the side (for Golden Eye )

 

[Jono777]

Had a PS1 and lived for the Resident Evil games.

Later machines included, Atari ST, Amiga 500, Super Nintendo.

Got the full MAME catalogue for my PC but sadly my external HD had failed so not been able to play them for ages now. Not only this but CD - ROM also broke at a similar time so can't even play those Hidden Object mystery adventures which I also love.

Would replace but some some wonderful reason my USB ports struggle to pick them up, not clued up enough to work out why lol

 

[L&L-Jan]

Amiga 500

we had that one too actually, but i didnt use it my brother did.

 

[Webzcas]

Jono you are my kindred spirit. Resident Evil, the original. Spent many hours into the early hours playing that with mates after a night out on the weekend

Barry ‘What is it!’ Burton

 

[Webzcas]

Amiga A500 owner also. Prior to that the Spectrum +2. Then in 1995 moved onto pc’s. 20 years later, I saw the light and moved to

 

[pereblue]

My first one :

1986, My dad entered me to the Computer side-... + this is my first work on that "Machine":

sorry was 12years old -guy

 

[Kroffe]

You kids and your modern gadgets.
Heres a picture of me as a young lad tinkering with my first computer.

 

[Jono777]

Jono you are my kindred spirit. Resident Evil, the original. Spent many hours into the early hours playing that with mates after a night out on the weekend

Barry ‘What is it!’ Burton

Believe it or not, I never actually managed to finished the original RE.

Either ran out of ammo or herbs for health despite several tries and using my knife more lol.

Loved #2 with the police station scenes etc and #3, Nemesis actually gave me chills when the music changed and you knew he was coming for you

 

[Webzcas]

We finished #1. Also loved #2 then got a PS2 and got into Silent Hill - "I'm not your Mary!"

Got the PS3 - shocked to find out is what 19 years old now!!! But that is where my gaming as such ended. Family and having kids put paid to that.

But can't wait until Monday now. Will be playing Manic Miner once again

 

[dunover]

I had ZX80, ZX81 and C64. What fun.

 

[satchnz]

I was never a huge gamer but spent loads of hours playing games on my Speccy. I had several hundred games and was just as much interested in collecting them as I was playing them. Utilities like Lerm Tape Copier, then later an Interface III, were my tools. I even worked out how to turn non Speedlock loading games into Speedlock so the games loaded from tape in half the time.

Always had PCs in the background but they were never used for a lot of gaming.

Again I spent a lot of hours on my PS1. I had a lot of games for it along with a good CD burner and a special interface for the PS. I loved playing the Time Crisis and Point Blank titles with friends and light guns.

I then got a PS3 but used it mostly for Guitar Hero and the Buzz quiz game. I had an awesome GH guitar which was about 2/3 the size of an electric guitar, but was made of wood in the shape of a Stratocaster. It was heavy too.

I’ve now got a dedicated mini PC for retro gaming and slotting. I’ve got a gaming partition on it which holds all my retro gaming stuff (emulator and roms for Speccy, PS1, PS2, PS3, and Mame). I’ve also got an arcade stick (joystick and buttons). Since I got it all together I just lost interest. Again the setup was more fun than the result…

These days I’m happy to sit there and repeatedly press a button while I stare blankly as random animations on my screen while watching my money disappear.

 

[paul7388]

Believe it or not, I never actually managed to finished the original RE.

Either ran out of ammo or herbs for health despite several tries and using my knife more lol.

Loved #2 with the police station scenes etc and #3, Nemesis actually gave me chills when the music changed and you knew he was coming for you

RE 1 was the best. 2 was good they went downhill fast after that.

Really surprised you never finished the original lol. Must say tho I never once used the knife. Tried it at first and was no good so never used it again. Always seemed to keep enough bullets to get through. Tho did have to change tactics a bit and go back to earlier save points as realised I needed the magnum with more bullets lol near the end when reentered mansion as it was now full of those monsters with the claws.

Guess that's a spoiler for you lol as you probably never got out the mansion.

Tried Silent Hill as well that webzcas liked but was too hard for me. Did complete it a few times but admit i cheated lol as used a walk-through as I just wanted to beat it and no way I ever would have. Like when the hell would go looking inside kennels on streets to find things needed.

 

[Jono777]

Age old memories so forgive, if required....

Think I got to like an underground secret laboratory. Loads of the creatures that you come across in the game but in huge test tubes, like suspended animation, ready to be released and wreak havoc.....

Felt it was very near the end but not quite.....

Whilst we're here, was it Res Evil 2 which finished with your chosen character escaping on some sort of train or monorail system??

 

[Webzcas]

 

[Mark_Lottomart]

My parents thought they were spoiling me by getting me a Spectrum +3 when everyone I knew had a +2 or the original. I had no games to swap with friends and the tape-to-tape copying wasn't possible with the silly disks used by the +3. Nice thought dad, but should have saved your money and got me the +2 with more games.

 

[Flyer187]

Spectrum 48k - Manic Miner, Spy Hunter, Daley Thompsons Decathlon, Football Manager, Soccer Boss, Brian Clough's Football Fortunes, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Fruit Machine Simulator, awesome!!

Taking me back to a Christmas Day morning in the eighties there.

 

[andysbetting1187]

My list goes:

ZX Spectrum (the one with the tape drive built in)
Sega Mastersystem (with Alex the Kidd in Miracle World built in)
Sega Megadrive (with the Mega CD attachment)
Playstation
Playstion 2
Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox 1
Playstation 5 (got fed up with Microsoft and moved back to Playstation)

I also once bought a Wi Fit with the excercise board that went with it. Bought it for my second ex-wife as she wanted to get in shape - my "surprise" christmas present did not go down well.

Apparently when your Mrs says she wants to lose weight, the appropriate response is "no love, you don't need to". It is not, and I repeat NOT, an invitation to run to Game, grab a wi-fit and say here love this will help.

 

[Jono777]

My parents thought they were spoiling me by getting me a Spectrum +3 when everyone I knew had a +2 or the original. I had no games to swap with friends and the tape-to-tape copying wasn't possible with the silly disks used by the +3. Nice thought dad, but should have saved your money and got me the +2 with more games.

Oh my gosh, EXACTLY the same happened to me lol!

 

[pereblue]

My List:
1)MSX-2
2)GAMEBOY
3)Gamegear
4)SNES
5)Playstation
6)PS3
My Kids: PS3 -> PS4.

 

[L&L-Jan]

2)GAMEBOY

How did I forgot that one

 

[L&L-Jan]

Playstation 5 (got fed up with Microsoft and moved back to Playstation)

great minds think alike

 

[justdoit]

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5th was PC game era, always build them myself and main game:

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Plus RA2, RA3 obviously

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Those youth and teenager years were awesome!

for C64

 

[justdoit]

I use to play this game everyday on C64

 

[09237653]

I have tons of retro,
N64, Gamecube, PS1, Saturn, Dreamcast, Xbox, Wii, Gameboy advance, DS.


Recently updated my games collection of 263 items onto price charting:

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new arrival in post today: Timesplitters Future Perfect (PAL Gamecube)

 

[dunover]

LOL Got a C64 in the garage, no cassette loader though.

 

[Webzcas]

 

[Flyer187]

Only thing missing is a copy of Computer & Video Games (CVG) magazine

 

[justdoit]

LOL Got a C64 in the garage, no cassette loader though.

ebay u get it for 20-30 quit

 

[Jono777]

Wow, Crash magazine, completely forgot about that part of my early gaming era lol.

Sure I'd find a copy or 2 up my Mom's attic lol.

 

[Webzcas]

Yes I used to buy Crash religiously every month throughout the mid eighties. Again, another nice touch from Retro Games

 

[andysbetting1187]

Yes I used to buy Crash religiously every month throughout the mid eighties. Again, another nice touch from Retro Games

I used to love the old playstation magazines - I remember I used to have a paper round when I was younger but the shopkeeper was a solid guy. He used to let me borrow the magazines that came with the free demo discs (where you used to get one CD with about 6 or 7 games on to try) and I would rip a couple of copies on my PC and sell them for £1 to people in school (and give the shopkeeper a free one before he sent the magazine back lol)

I also remember back in the day Game and Electronic Boutique had there "return for any reason" rules so you could go and buy PC games, rip them and return them for a full refund no questions asked. Just had to then download the appropriate crack for away you went. The good old days. Shame EB went out of buisness (can't imagine why)

 

[pereblue]

I still have some really old Magazines from spain regarding this machines: "Micro-mania", "Hobby-consolas"... will be interesting to take a look in some point of the future (not talking about during "poo-time" ).

 

[Webzcas]

Alas along with all my Star Wars toys, all my computer mags got binned. As well as a load of Crash magazines, had Amiga Format and ACE.

As for C & VG, I remember painfully typing out some of the program listings it carried.

 

[Kroffe]

All that was a bit too early for me, but i did get to experience the excellent 90s Pc Gamer era.
With every new game released you thought 'surely this is as good as its ever going to get, it looks so realistic'
And you always got a cd full of demos so you could try out the new games.

I remember my mom was not the biggest fan of this game, i suppose she thought it was needlessly violent or something.

 

[oslopoker]

This was my first !

 

[satchnz]

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The Speccy goes well with your other retro equipment such as your Blu-ray player and broadcast TV box!

 

[Webzcas]

Ah yes the forerunner of the C64. One of my friends has the Vic20. I did begrudgingly like the bread bin design of the Vic20 and C64. I mean you had a proper typewriter style keyboard for one. But I was and am and always will be in Speccy's corner

 

[Webzcas]

Ha yes. The Humax ( Satelitte ) PVR so can watch live sports without having a delay over the firestick. Blueray player so can watch a couple of music videos I have on blueray ;-)

 

[satchnz]

Yes I used to buy Crash religiously every month throughout the mid eighties. Again, another nice touch from Retro Games

Ditto. Being in NZ, Crash always got there 2-3 weeks after release here (back then).

 

[Webzcas]

Although this is my own personal 'cloud server' and 'media server'

 

[mack341]

CVG would cover all the different gaming platforms, so didn't often buy it but would give it a good browsing over in Smiths!

I had the speccie 128+ which had quality problems, using the keyboard to play games meant a 50% chance they would just suddenly crash mid play, thanks Alan Sugar for ruining Christmas when I received it.

(It was returned for repair but came back with the same issue ffs )

Obviously it must've been a bit of a marketing scam, commodore 64 vs spectrum 128, twice the power etc..the only advantage in real world use was the built-in tape player.

Amiga 500 came next, it was leaps and bounds ahead of what the speccie could do, but the '500' is also about the price it would set you back!

Thanks to getting to know members of the game sharing community, I did have a fairly decent library of amiga games by the time I sold it on, but I seem to remember rudimentary 'virus scanners' were also required, which was unheard-of in speccie land.

 

[interlog]

C64 first computer for me back in the days. Remember working during my school holidays in greenhouses to pay for the, then expensive, disc drive!

Anybody remember the computer magazines from where you could type programmes into the C64? This magazine was quite big in Germany, and living near the border and speaking and reading German, I religiously bought every magazine, including the special ones!