Does anyone remember petrol stations selling computer games?

Yea.. Really anywhere that sold magazines used to also have a small section for the cassette tape computer games.

Does anyone remember when games used to cost .99p ?
 
mrbell1984 said:
Can you remember the smurfs album? I think it was called smurfs go pop or something like that :D
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Quality album! Still got the CD for that :D

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Eurofighter said:
No I don't remember that. I remember Tiger tokens though.
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That's what came to my mind as well, the good old Esso Collection Tiger Tokens (still available on eBay to buy right now).

You got one token for every £6 spent on fuel and for anything half decent you would've had to spent about £3000+ on fuel. A bog standard Braun electric toothbrush was something like 545 tokens according to some of the tiger token brochures I've found on a google image search although an electric toothbrush was probably state of the art, bleeding edge technology back then.

I was probably around 8-10 years old at the time so was obviously amazed at all the cool stuff they had available but in actual fact was mostly cheap junk available at Argos/Index in the bargain section.
 
builder22 said:
hah...it was just the first song that comes up if you type 'smurfs go pop' in google is 'I've got a little puppy' - a parody of 'I wanna be a hippy' (and i wanna get stoned on maraaamarijuana)
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All the songs are parodies. :p

Pawnless Endgame said:
Quality album! Still got the CD for that :D
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omg! lol @builder22 (I think it was a rave cd if im honest) as per below video lol

I had the album on tape first then got it on cd lol whyyyyyyyy did I do that! ha ha

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcvQAuVjnhaWwXcbg4pNQN8ENrJTczxW4
 
BowdonUK said:
This was the full price in shops. The budget range, and sometimes re-released titles. I think the most expensive games back then, the AAA games, were about £15.99.
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Catridges were lot more expensive tho than tapes.

I had an Atari 2600 and the carts were about £40 iirc.

It was nowhere near as powerful as a C64, which I upgraded to thanks to the magic of hand-me-downs from older siblings :p
 
vanpeebles said:
Used to love going into Smiths or Boots upstairs down Durham, with your pocket money almost glowing white hot. Never been in either shop for years now.
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I remember those too. I used to get most of my computer magazines from Smiths. I remember the days when people would be standing in front of the magazines, all trying to read a bit before they bought it. That section was crowded. That's how I learned to read lol. But yea, at the back of WHSmiths in Rochdale they had all the games. So many different games systems back then too. I miss the days when we had real competing technologies.

FoxEye said:
Catridges were lot more expensive tho than tapes.

I had an Atari 2600 and the carts were about £40 iirc.

It was nowhere near as powerful as a C64, which I upgraded to thanks to the magic of hand-me-downs from older siblings :p
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I got a hand-me-down of an Atari 2600 from my mums side of the family but only had a few games. I had a rich cousin who had loads lol. Though the Atari 2600 was limited in its technology I think its an underrated machine.

I went from Atari 2600, C64 (I picked up a second hand C16 when I was older), Amiga 500+, CD32, then sadly PC ;)

mrbell1984 said:
oh yeh got ya! indeed lol I think some games where free with magazines as well.
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Yup. The free cassette games, then there was the coverdisks that used to be either compilations of applications, demos, or sometimes there would be an exclusive game mode. Didn't Sensible Soccer have some exclusive mode, either a snow pitch or some festive mode that only appeared on the coverdisk? Plus, if you didn't like what was on the disks you could always format it and use it as a blank to put something else on :cool:
 
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