Remembering my C64

[Matt Vinyl]

Heh, Dizzy games were indeed great, if a little frustrating at some times! I enjoyed the original one best I think - even if the graphics were a bit 'Spectrummy' as I used to say, it had a great atmosphere.

[trayhop123]

were seeing new games for less than a 5er ,,,,,, almost everyday now on ps3 store.

their called the minis range ,,,,,,,,,,, and are mostly crap (but 1 0r 2 good'uns) ,,,,,,, around £3.19 each , so you cant really moan .


plus for a few extra quid ,,,,,,, there always releasing at least 1 or 2 original new games ,,,,,

revenge of the wounded dragons is a top laugh for £6.99



then theres stacks of old ps1 games to download too ,,,,,,,,,,, rayman 1 and crash bandicoot 1 are both brilliant

[trayhop123]

but if you want real value ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, buy a mame arcade cab like mine off ebay .

3500 games ,,,,,,,,,,,, the original arcade originals ,,,,,,, cost me £500 delivered



whats that work out per game ???? soz im too thick to work it out off the top of my thick head. lol

cant be much more than around 12p per game ,,,,,,,, (prob wrong , prob way off the mark)


anyhow think of every arcade game , ever made up from 1978 to the year2003 , all the classics

for a few pence each .

seriously recommend you all find one on ebay ........ best money i ever spent ,,,every home should have one,,,,

[JG]

500 games for £500 would be £1/game
3500 games is 7*500, so it;s 1/7th of a £1 per game, which is about 14p a game.


Have you got Qix, Pole Position, Spellbound, The Adventures of Monkey Island, Rick Dangerous, Revenge of the mutant camels, Caverns of Eriban, Thrust and of course Blitz on the Vic 20?

That's £1.26 worth already.

[Matt Vinyl]

Spellbound? Gah, the amount of time I spent on that game! Loved it, but never finished it...

[trayhop123]

Have you got Qix, Pole Position, Spellbound, The Adventures of Monkey Island, Rick Dangerous, Revenge of the mutant camels, Caverns of Eriban, Thrust and of course Blitz on the Vic 20?


got a few versions of quix on the mame , along with pole position 1 and 2

i played rick dangerous first on amiga , had caverns of eriban on c16 ( notoriously difficult )

got thrust 1 and 2 on c64 ,,,,,,, number 1 is keyboard only control ,,,,,,, classic but hard.

[JG]

There was a Pole Position 2?

I remember Pole Position 1, it was just the same track but with three different settings, maybe four. Practice, Warm up, Namco Speedway and Super dupety Grand Prix mode.
Always the same track, but the higher the setting, the more cars, but I was top dog and could always squeeze past the leader (Paaaaaaaarp), nope, that's not me farting but a sort of 8 bit airhorn noise it made on passing a car.
If you lost control, you'd get a flurry of red orange and yellow pixels where your car used to be, then you'd be back, fully repaired in the centre of the track, ready to go PAAAAAARP all over again.

When you finished you'd get an overtake bonus and a time bonus.

This is from the same fondness of nostalgia that 2p Compton's colour roulette finds itself, filed away in my brain.

Anyone know if COmpton's 2p colour roulette was rigged?


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[trayhop123]

yes a pp2 , next time your in leicester m8 (if im about ?,,,, taking mon/tue off b4 fly wed) giz a bell , n come round n play the thing .





ps whats that writing at the bottom of your last post ? some sort of code us non fruit loops arnt supposed to understand ??

[mr lugsy]

there was no need to fix the 2p roulette .i cant remember exactly the ins and outs of the comptons one but the whittakers one only paid 32p for the white(zero)and as it was a 25/1 shot there was no need to rig it even if you was part of a family of cheerful travelling folk.

for the record i have seen a sequence that contained the white 3 consecutive times and at least once more in a close grouping.


i'd like to be popping over to leicester soon myself but i also need a haircut first,my route will be a little different though. i've got 10 days off in mid july to choose from,hopefully that amazing in *i*****ss will be ready for me too.



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[JG]

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I may be floating around Tuesday, I'll give you a bell if I float over to Leicester.


I seem to remember a version of colour roulette where a green triangle would randomly light up and you'd get a mystery prize (usually 8p) even if you didn't hit your colour. This was the VERY best version. EVERYONE got the mystery prize, EVERYONE.
Wow! I remember walking away from the fair with over £1 in 2p pieces, what excitement! We also had a steak dinner in a pub that was 26 years away from getting an Alien.