Does anyone remember petrol stations selling computer games?

rubberduck · 26 Oct 2019 at 23:23

Pepperidge Farm remembers!

NoobCannon · 27 Oct 2019 at 15:37

Go drunk, your home!

Ayahuasca · 27 Oct 2019 at 15:37

I remember them selling something else.

jsmoke · 27 Oct 2019 at 15:44

Ayahuasca said:
I remember them selling something else.

Pr0n?

I remember selling diesel for about 60p a litre .

andicole0 · 27 Oct 2019 at 15:49

jsmoke said:
Pr0n?

I remember selling diesel for about 60p a litre .

1/11 per gallon back in my early days.
Andi.

Mobius 1 · 27 Oct 2019 at 15:53

I remember being able to fill my 50cc from empty to full with about £3. Those were the days.

fatiain · 27 Oct 2019 at 16:34

I remember 4 star and 2 star at the pumps.

Surprising considering all the lead that was in it!

Suicidal Ferret · 27 Oct 2019 at 16:53

Remember when it took 20 quid to fill my xr3

Deleted member 77746 · 27 Oct 2019 at 16:53

rubberduck said:
Pepperidge Farm remembers!

WHAT????

Nasher · 27 Oct 2019 at 17:37

Even I remember when petrol was under £1

2004typer · 27 Oct 2019 at 17:58

Don't remember computer games being sold at petrol stations, but petrol was only about 59p litre when I had my first car in 1998.

Suicidal Ferret · 27 Oct 2019 at 18:14

Passed my test in 91. God I wish petrol was at those prices today

Em3bbs · 27 Oct 2019 at 18:17

Yes, Mastertronic 1.99 games. They were in local newsagents and petrol stations instead of the usual places. Some amazing games were published, and the Darling brothers launched their own Codemasters (at the time, budget) brand after having games published by Mastertronic.

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

cainer · 27 Oct 2019 at 18:17

Tauren said:
I remember being able to fill my 50cc from empty to full with about £3. Those were the days.

think it used to cost me around £5 to fill the 13 litre tank on my RD 125 in the late 80's, so that's ~38p a Litre
but i had to also buy 2 stroke oil to put in it as well

Feek · 27 Oct 2019 at 18:24

I remember my dad driving all the way across town to the Shell garage to fill up his company car for £4.

Malevolence · 27 Oct 2019 at 18:27

Yes. Local garage to me used to have one of those rotating racks filled with Speccy and C64 tapes. I bought Finders Keepers from there.

jsmoke · 27 Oct 2019 at 18:30

Boots used to sell spectrum games if that counts.

NVP · 27 Oct 2019 at 18:35

Maybe via PC Format

Em3bbs · 27 Oct 2019 at 18:42

Malevolence said:
Yes. Local garage to me used to have one of those rotating racks filled with Speccy and C64 tapes. I bought Finders Keepers from there.

One of the best Mastertronic games!

brendy · 27 Oct 2019 at 18:45

Amstrad/Schneider and Spectrum games, 1.99 and 2.99 for the newer games, marsport was the biggest pile of old ballix though, paper round money wasted.