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[Enid_Puceflange]

I’ve still got one of these sitting in the cupboard 

In perfect working order too ?

Dug it out during lockdown 1.0 

 

[Davegolf]

Wait... is everyone here a 1980s 8-bit nerd?  ?

I started on a GlaDOS system with the integral mobile power source.

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So that’s how Minions came to be ?

 

[heroshark]

I always liked the more hi-tech stuff.

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[ak2m4]

I always liked the more hi-tech stuff.

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 Whole load of memories just came flooding back

 

[Druid799]

I’ve still got one of these sitting in the cupboard 

In perfect working order too ?

Dug it out during lockdown 1.0 

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I always liked the more hi-tech stuff.

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 Ooohh check out all the silver spoon in the mouth brigade ! When I was a lad this was what I had to play with AND me dad had to work a 25hr day down the pit to get the extra money to be able to afford it ! 

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[RostokMcSpoons]

I was so posh I had this...

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Yours on eBay "in pristine condition" for the bargain price of £600 !!!  (plus £15 p&p!)

(That's not me trying to bag that ridiculous amount for it by the way, it's just one of the first things I saw when searching for a pic)

 

[Shamal]

I was so posh I had this...

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Yours on eBay "in pristine condition" for the bargain price of £600 !!!  (plus £15 p&p!)

(That's not me trying to bag that ridiculous amount for it by the way, it's just one of the first things I saw when searching for a pic)

I remember that one.

 

[rj1986]

I remember the xmas i got this

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

@rj1986 That was definitely cool.  I don't think I ever saw one in action, I'll be searching YT for it
It also puts me in mind of the rather older "Flight Deck"...
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https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27342/flight-deck

I can't remember if I got it for birthday or Xmas, but I do know that 
a) It was a brilliant idea    
b) the long lengths of fishing line that suspended the plane got tangled up in 0.07 nanoseconds and it never worked again. 

I still had fun with the model plane and the flight controls, but I bet my dad was pissed off that I wrecked it before he got a go

 

[TheFull9]

 Ooohh check out all the silver spoon in the mouth brigade ! When I was a lad this was what I had to play with AND me dad had to work a 25hr day down the pit to get the extra money to be able to afford it ! 

You had mud??

 

[Halo]

There migrating servers or something or other…..

 

[Druid799]

You had mud??

Was a joint birthday/Christmas/Easter present from the parents , my mum even had to sell her body to help raise the money(no not that way bunch of perverts) for medical research , it was so kind of her do it but I never did get used to her with green skin and a third eye in the middle of her forehead ! ?

 

[Shamal]

I remember the xmas i got this

Wow ? 

Was a joint birthday/Christmas/Easter present from the parents , my mum even had to sell her body to help raise the money(no not that way bunch of perverts) for medical research , it was so kind of her do it but I never did get used to her with green skin and a third eye in the middle of her forehead ! ?

??

 

[Tackle]

I’ve still got one of these sitting in the cupboard 

In perfect working order too ?

Dug it out during lockdown 1.0 

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I was so posh I had this...

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Yours on eBay "in pristine condition" for the bargain price of £600 !!!  (plus £15 p&p!)

(That's not me trying to bag that ridiculous amount for it by the way, it's just one of the first things I saw when searching for a pic)

@rj1986 That was definitely cool.  I don't think I ever saw one in action, I'll be searching YT for it
It also puts me in mind of the rather older "Flight Deck"...
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https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/27342/flight-deck

I can't remember if I got it for birthday or Xmas, but I do know that 
a) It was a brilliant idea    
b) the long lengths of fishing line that suspended the plane got tangled up in 0.07 nanoseconds and it never worked again. 

I still had fun with the model plane and the flight controls, but I bet my dad was pissed off that I wrecked it before he got a go

I must have been a right spoilt Cnut, I had all 3 (not at the same time), flight deck definitely was my favourite of the 3, although I also remember having a helicopter game that a chopper flew in circles on a weighted rod, & you had to pick up & deliver payloads, anybody remember that one ?

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

I vaguely do, but not even my rich cousin had that!

He had Ricochet which was my most favourite thing ever

Slightly more related to pew-pewing, I really wanted Tin Pan Alley. I didn't get that, I ended up with two proper air rifles and eventually a .22 rimfire target rifle.  So swings and roundabouts ?

 

[Jaylordofwaargh]

On 03/12/2021 at 21:44, Rogerborg said:

Wait... is everyone here a 1980s 8-bit nerd?  ?

I started on a GlaDOS system with the integral mobile power source.

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Friday night rules, here's a cover of Poker Face performed on piano, guitar, ukulele, table-thump, and stylophone, entirely conceived, played, sung, filmed and edited by one teenager with a potato-cam.

Pokerface was definatly what i needed after today, thank you.

 

[Enid_Puceflange]

I also remember having a helicopter game that a chopper flew in circles on a weighted rod, & you had to pick up & deliver payloads, anybody remember that one ?

Yup, I had that

I cannot remember for the life of me what it was called 

I was hooked with BigTrak & Starbird around that time too ??‍

 

[Shamal]

I had a Johnny Seven gun.

Wow I could have taken on the street! ? up until the point I ran out of plastic missiles and grenades that is lol 

Boxed ones now are fetching £300

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

I had a Johnny Seven gun.

Wow I could have taken on the street! ? up until the point I ran out of plastic missiles and grenades that is lol 

Boxed ones now are fetching £300

Awww that's cool.  And reminded me of my toy gun collection... 

• A Mauser 98-style rifle with a working bolt and dummy cartridges that it could eject.   That was so cool that when I started to outgrow it I cut off the butt plate and made a wooden extension for it.
  
• An SLR that fired little grey plastic bullets (Airfix again!  Mine was all black but here's the wooden stock version, surprisingly realistic looking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFye5s3qrlc)
  
• I pestered my dad into making me a Sten and an Mp40 too.  As he was good at woodwork and DIY they came out very well
  
• Three plastic kit replica pistols from either Tamiya or LS, they were 1:1 scale... I had a .25 ACP auto, a Python .357 Magnum and a P38.  All with dummy bullets and working actions.  They must have been quite sturdy as I can't remember them breaking to the point I couldn't glue them back together.
  

Blimey, what goes around comes around... regressing back to childhood... well over 50 years old and playing with toy guns again

 

[Rogerborg]

also remember having a helicopter game that a chopper flew in circles on a weighted rod, & you had to pick up & deliver payloads, anybody remember that one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VertiBird