Dispelling A Myth.

benneh · 28 Sep 2006 at 12:14

Skunkworks said:
Look's like a Quickshot 2 to me, but it's been a few years.

I think that's the mother. Sexy joystick, had a reassuring click when you moved in a direction or clicked the triggers. They don't make 'em like that nowerdays unfortunately.

MookJong · 28 Sep 2006 at 12:28

My first computer was an Amstrad CPC 6128 which I got in 1986

It had an impressive 27 colours and used disks rather than tapes.

I think that machine probably shaped my life more than any other object I have ever owned.

My Amiga came next and then it was onto my first PC in November 1994

!bluetonic! · 28 Sep 2006 at 12:33

It's 2006. Surely there are some HD-C64 games out there you can use with the latest batch of TVs? Pure visual beauty.

Yas786 · 28 Sep 2006 at 12:38

cleanbluesky said:
For future reference when reading your posts, do you have a canadian or a British accent?

Aaaahhh SPawn, we have a common ground... no jumpers for goalposts for us eh, just that tape loading noise and the game finally loading just when you thought it had crashed!

Neither i have a pure pakistani muslim accent...take that as you will.

Ahh yes the days of the tape loading machines...waiting and waiting for it to finally load up so that you could play a game....forgetting that i had homework to do till my dad came barging in and turned it off just as i was about to hit a top score

.....ahhh those were the days

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daveyj27 · 28 Sep 2006 at 12:46

benneh said:
I think that's the mother. Sexy joystick, had a reassuring click when you moved in a direction or clicked the triggers. They don't make 'em like that nowerdays unfortunately.

Do you remember the Quickshot 2 Turbo? It had a sexy red base and the oh so cool auto-fire switch. :cool:

My favourite joystick was the Competition Pro 5000. That thing was bulletproof and never broke on me despite lots of Daley Thompson's Decathlon waggling!!

shine · 28 Sep 2006 at 12:50

I still have my Amiga and my games somewhere.

lozza23_uk · 28 Sep 2006 at 12:56

Mr Nice said:
Brings a tear to my eye.

Get yourself a BBC Micro and then play Chucky Egg till your eyes bleed.

/find the ladder to loft......

or just use an emulator?

I still have my C64.
with T2 on a cartridge!

sold all the amigas though. wish I hadnt.
a1200 with an 040 board and extra ram, 520meg HD and external scsi cdrom

Volcs · 28 Sep 2006 at 13:00

Alasdair said:
Chuckie Egg

I

love

you.

cleanbluesky · 28 Sep 2006 at 13:03

MookJong said:
My first computer was an Amstrad CPC 6128 which I got in 1986

I REMEMBER BARBARIAN!!!

'twas the game of King, I used to think I was Conan

Lowe · 28 Sep 2006 at 13:12

Pah - I had a Tandy TRS-80 as my first comp! Moved onto an Acorn Electron, then an Atari 512 STe and an Amiga 500.