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MAKE ME A GOD DAMN SANDWICH!
Back to being 10 years old, into your living room now!
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Digital SLR, when I was 10, the only instant photos there are is polariods. There were no digital cameras when I was 10 lol
I had already gone through 2 or 3 yearly contracts by 2001
I've always been a big movie lover/watcher.
So my 350+ DVD collection and growing Bluray collection would be the things to wow me as I still remember the very end of the betamax war when I was about 9 or 10.
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First thing I video'd on my BETAmax (hell yeah!) recorder? A Roland Rat episode.
Good times.
Good times.
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Dragon 64, ZX80 , ZX81 (plus 16kb memory pack!), Acorn Electron + typing in 4 pages of games from a computer magazine = AWESOME.
Being published in Acorn User = AWESOME + 1
Being published in Acorn User = AWESOME + 1
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Good thread!
1. My girlfriend
2. My iPhone 4
3. My lab
1. My girlfriend
2. My iPhone 4
3. My lab
When I was 10, I knew someone who had the state of the art Atari 2600 games console. I didn't have one myself - they were too expensive. It was attached to a TV much the same as the one in my home though - 20" low res with extra blurriness and a noticeably curved screen. 20" screen, that is. The TV was at least half as wide again.
Had I seen current games running on my current PC with my current monitor when I was 10, maybe talking with other people in other countries playing the same game, I would have been in awe at that but I would have been more in awe at the thought of meeting the aliens whose technology it was. I would have been sure it was alien technology and in those days I was sort of expecting aliens to visit soon. Even if I got used to the graphics and the sound, sharing the gameworld with other players in other countries, actually speaking with them in realtime through the game? That would be alien. The graphics and sound would have been stunning, but I'd seen graphics and heard sound on an Atari 2600. International multiplayer would have been more dramatically different, genuinely alien in that sense of the word so I would have believed it alien in the other sense too.
Had I seen current games running on my current PC with my current monitor when I was 10, maybe talking with other people in other countries playing the same game, I would have been in awe at that but I would have been more in awe at the thought of meeting the aliens whose technology it was. I would have been sure it was alien technology and in those days I was sort of expecting aliens to visit soon. Even if I got used to the graphics and the sound, sharing the gameworld with other players in other countries, actually speaking with them in realtime through the game? That would be alien. The graphics and sound would have been stunning, but I'd seen graphics and heard sound on an Atari 2600. International multiplayer would have been more dramatically different, genuinely alien in that sense of the word so I would have believed it alien in the other sense too.
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Ok when I was ten, I made my way up the gaming ladder through the Atari 2600, next up I had a Amstrad CPC 464 where I descovered the world of "Read error a" /// shortly followed by "Read error b" after waiting over 1 hour to load Outrun, or Buggy Boy, I also thought REM Blah blah actually coded a game for me called "blah blah"
Next up the Atari but it wasen't the ST, mine was the STE!!!! wow!!! but apart from the Axel F demo, it didnt do anything the ST could do, so out the window went that and in came the Amiga!!!! omg the Amiga, the king of kings, I used to get so peesed orf when I was at my mates and he had an Amiga and I had the STE, gutted, but I got one finally and it was awesome, then the PC came........... 386DX-40 goodness......
Next up the Atari but it wasen't the ST, mine was the STE!!!! wow!!! but apart from the Axel F demo, it didnt do anything the ST could do, so out the window went that and in came the Amiga!!!! omg the Amiga, the king of kings, I used to get so peesed orf when I was at my mates and he had an Amiga and I had the STE, gutted, but I got one finally and it was awesome, then the PC came........... 386DX-40 goodness......
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That is AWESOME, especially the acorn user publication.
I programmed the music to Moonlight Sonata, the Jet Set Willy intro music, and sent it in to them. It worked on both the Acorn Electron and the BBC series. They published it and my geek credentials were confirmed
It's still an astonishing piece of music (the real one, not mine heh).Dude, when you have a wife that hot, you don't just leave her in the kitchen.
[FnG]Magnolia : punching above his weight
I was 10 in 1979, if you had shown me gaming at all I would have been astounded.
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I was in 98 when I first played AQ2 online at 26.
Sword collection
PC
Smartphone
Other things that I have that are now old which are still in the living room: DVD player, PS2 (in a cupboard), compact cd hi-fi (can't remember last time I used it). Even these 'old' things would have blown me away when I was 10.
PC
Smartphone
Other things that I have that are now old which are still in the living room: DVD player, PS2 (in a cupboard), compact cd hi-fi (can't remember last time I used it). Even these 'old' things would have blown me away when I was 10.