1980s / early 90s kids - what computer did you have?

[DoneADougalOnSofa]

The one and only. Although she helped boys with other things, not just games.

Wouldn't have a clue what you're talking about sir... ahum...

 

[Number_25]

I'm going to break the rules as my computer wasn't till 1998 (being born in 1993 and all).

It was a TIME branded one, it had a AMD K6 processor with 94mb RAM (Incredible at the time).

Had it up to XP. Champ Man ran perfect on it.

 

[PermaBanned]

I get the feeling i missed out here...

 

[ShakenNstirred]

i had a ZX spectrum, its 30th Anniversary today
still have a Commodore 64c and Amiga 1200
got my first PC in 1995 75mhz 4meg ram

 

[Van Hellseek]

Started with a Commodore VIC20.

There has never been anything so epic since that.

 

[Cyclone]

Wasnt there a 'game' called sex games where the quicker you waggled the joystick the quicker things happened on screen.

On the Amiga this was.

 

[cobbly123]

zx 81 then a spectrum, manic miner, jet set will and the hobit . brilliant

 

[Sin_Chase]

Amstrad 6128
Amiga 1200
Pentium 133Mhz PC with 8MB of EDO RAM and an 800MB HDD - Housed in a case with a Redundant TURBO button , pushing it DID NOTTTHING

 

[Van Hellseek]

with a Redundant TURBO button , pushing it DID NOTTTHING

My first PC (a DX2/66) had one of those wonderful turbo buttons. And likewise it did jack ****.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Wasnt there a 'game' called sex games where the quicker you waggled the joystick the quicker things happened on screen.

On the Amiga this was.

I had a game on the Beeb called Sex Invaders, where the spaceships were replaced by erm... ruder pictures. Then when it was game over, the score board would say "Top 10 Best Bonkers" lol! Good ol' 8-bit pr0n eh.

 

[The Halk]

BBC B -> 6128 -> STFM -> 386DX -> the rest.

 

[Jay794]

An Amiga

Games didn't come on 3 DVD's back then, it was 4 floppy discs back in my day lol

 

[ThePirateHulk]

Amstrad CPC464 > Amiga A500 (with the 512k RAM upgrade)

 

[Mr Paul]

Ah ha! The first mention of the SAM Coupé - the best 8 bit machine! I had a couple ZX Spectrums in the 80's then got my first SAM in 1993. I still develop for it to this day! www.samcoupe.com

Loved the coupe, was an excellent machine, and but poorly supported. Must dig mine out

 

[RevBillyG]

Dragon 32 (Any one remember that?), Spectrum +2, Atari STFM, Atari STE then onto PC

 

[Narj]

My full list of gaming kit (Computers and consoles) is:

Atari 2600
ZX Spectrum
Amstrad CPC 464 and Commodore C64
US SNES
Neo Geo (owned for a very short amount of time )
Amiga 1200 (loved Octamed)
PII 233 MMX (built by a mate)
PIII 450 with Voodoo2 (self build)
Athlon Tbird (1.4GHz I think?) (self build)
C2D E6300 with x1950 (self build)
i5 2500K (self build and love it)

The Neo Geos were cool but cartridges were about £200 each for the best games! I got rid of mine sharpish as it just made more sense to go to the video shop up the road and play on the arcade machines there!

I'm thinking of having a retro cabinet at home.... probably going to buy a Megadrive, SNES and Sega Saturn to start with.

 

[Firestar_3x]

BBC Micro
Atari 520STE
486SX

Still got the Atari and it still works.

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Another BBC micro here.. then a commodore as i got more into programming.

Press Play now ...................... 45 minutes........ " Error when loading.. Systax error at line #1678"

 

[mp260767]

Dragon 32 (Any one remember that?)

same here, then they brought out the dragon 64.

wanted a spectrum tho, but parents wouldn't listen .

 

[schumi84]

Amstrad CPC 464 with colour monitor. Games of the time were:

Double Dragon
Roland on the Ropes
The Mummy
Ghostbusters
Chase HQ

I loved that system