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The Sunday Night Primo with Rich and Tikay ***official show thread***
Morning all!
Tonight it's the big one- The Sunday Night Primo and I'm back on duty with the old dear.
We'll have more brand new footage from last weekend's Sky Poker Tour in Leeds and we'll be reading out your messages on here and email.
I'll fill in more details when I get to the office later today- but in the meantime the thread is open for your comments.
Here's our hot topic tonight-
Gadget Nostalgia
Do you yearn for the days of your Commodore 64? The Sega Megadrive? Or the first Playstation? Do you pine for those whacking great big mobile phones with huge antennae?
Do you remember the good old bat and ball game on the Atari? Do you miss the mess your fax machine used to make if the paper got stuck? Did you have a laser disc player, a Sony Walkman or, in Tikay's case, a gramophone?
What was your favouourite piece of kit as you grew up, or perhaps even recently- that they don't make anymore, and why?
Let's take a trip down memory lane together and laugh at some of the things we used to use that we once thought were cool (or maybe still do!)
Best reply tonight wins a seat in a TSP Classic!
Comments
First computer - BBC Electron
The girl friend reading out lines and lines pages and pages of Basic code from a computer magazine to be meticulously entered to play the latest game.
One comma, one character, one colon missed and the game wouldn't run! Check all the code entry again!!
I remember that awful tennis with the white bars and a shooting game called skeet, it was prehistoric...
Board games... do you remember the electronic mastermind where lights flashed if you got the hidden sequence right... that too was hideous...
And I remember my brother had an old 8track in his car, it was bigger than the steering wheel, and the tapes were the size of building blocks!!!!
My sister had a cheap one which used coloured stickers on the squares. After a couple of days trying to do it properly she gave up, took all of the stickers off and stuck them back on in order to pretend she had completed it.
She always was a cheater lol.
I loved my Big Trak, it was like having your own robot except it was a bit rubbish really. It used to get stuck on the living room rug and the dog would attack it.
Do you remember 'Spirograpgh'......it was a bit of a sensation when it was launched back in mid 60's and even won the 'toy of the year'.........fond memories come flooding back thinking of all those weird designs and kaleidoscope of colours you drew onto your school exercise book covers.
Although rich i must admit. Some of these gadgets youve mentioned i have no idea what they are. If it doesnt have an Xbox360 controller or a laser mouse then its old.
I'm going to plump for the original Nintendo NES. Super Mario Brother rocked. Spent so much time trying to finish it, and never did!!!
Have fun tonight guys.
laurie/lozgo
ps Any chance of a shoutout to Maxally for his terrific Mini Main event idea. Fantastic tournies at a fantastic price!!
I think i had a discman and then a mp3 player which i used for about a month!
Prob a football used to play alot if not ill be on my playstation/nintendo (fifa/Mario Kart)
Look forward to the show have a good one!
But my fave as a kid was Subbutteo, although it was a bit like the Half Man Half Biscuit song "all i want for christmas is a dukla prague away kit" ahhhhh..............Half Man Half Biscuit.......................away to search my old records, may be a while.
on a side note, those that have met me, sober, may have noticed i hav a slight scar on my cheek. This is the result of falling (sober) on top of an old style tape recorder and the thing trapping my cheek.........i was only 4-5 at the time.
I still visit this page on a daily basis: http://plus4world.powweb.com/home
An interrupt driver cheat, a technique I'd never seen done by anyone else - Infinite lives and infinite papers for Paperboy on the C16, no problem...
1 FOR I = 320 TO 349:READ A
2 S=S+A:POKE I,A:NEXT
3 IF S < /> 3098 THEN PRINT "DATA ERROR"
4 SYS320:LOAD ""
5 DATA 120,169,77,141,18,3,169,1,141,19,3,88,96,169,234,141
6 DATA 64,42,141,65,42,141,237,25,141,238,25,76,66,206
Who had Scalectrix and,
Because of that;
He thought he was better than you,
And everyday after school,
You'd go around there to play him,
Hoping to compete for some kind championship,
And it always took about 15 billion hours to set the track up.
And even when you did, the thing never seemed to work.
It was a dodgy transformer, again and again.
It was a dodgy transformer, again and again.
It was a dodgy blue mass, again and again.
It was a dodgy transformer, cost 3 pounds 10.
So he sent his doting mother
Up the stairs with the stepladder,
To get the subbuteo
Out of the loft.
It had all the accessories
Required for that big-match atmosphere.
The crowd and the dugout,
And the floodlights, too.
And you'd always get palmed off
With a headless center-forward,
And a goal-keeper with no arms,
a face like his.
And he'd managed to get hold of
A Dukla-Prague Away Kit,
His uncle owned a sport shop
And he'd kept it to one side.
And after only five minutes
You'd be down to ten men,
As he'd sent-off your right back,
For taking the base from under his left-winger.
Come to half-time, you were losing, four-nil.
Each and every goal, a hotly disputed penalty.
So you smash up the floodlights
And the game was abandoned,
And the dog would bark
And you'd be banned from his house.
And your travelling army
Of synthetic supporters
Would be taken away from you
And thrown in the bin.
And now he's working
In a job with a future.
He hands me my Giro, (
Every two weeks.
And me, I'm on the lookout
For a proper transformer.
Uh?!
I also had a Philips G3000, the poor parents Atari !!
I miss my Chopper bike with the awful gear stick position (bad for boys)
Modern one - I miss the paperback (kindle looks so plastic and false)
Dave
cheers
andy
My fav game was striker(football game) you had to push the head down to shoot.Also another footy game called big league with this game u had to pull the leg back on the player to shoot,cost me a fortune in evo stick had half the team with only 1 leg.
gl with the show rich,tikay have fun
Memories,
Hacking the boot loaders to transfer my commodore 64 games to play of a "superfast" commodore 1541 floppy disc drive.
Before the 64 were many evenings spent with friends at a commodore pet playing Adventure and Hitchhikers Guide.
For a blast from the past play the original Hitchhikers Guide here.
http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html
I have a feeling, if I ever meet Sky Mandy, I am soooo dead.
20 GOTO 10
Does anyone remember a unit called the Cybiko? It was an extremely forward-thinking gadget with lots of apps, wireless communication, games and the like. If you were walking along and someone else in town had one it would even let you know.
Quite brilliant, which is why me and my dad picked them up in TJ Hughes for £4.99.
All the best concepts are doomed or overtaken
"....Tonight it's the big one- The Sunday Night Primo and I'm back on duty with the old dear...."
You are SO going to reget that, you incompetent wazzock.
PS - A tomato is a FRUIT, right? Understand? Just because someone THINKS it is a vegetable, does not MAKE IT a vegetable.
Comprehend?
You've made me grumpy now, & you've only got yourself to blame.
Be afraid.