@Bell_End said:
@AdzPearson said:
@Bell_End said:
if you was in your 30's and lived in the UK you would be feeling as nostagic as i do.
I'm in my mid-20s and I have nostalgia for it (although I was probably just one of the last gamers of that generation). It wasn't the best piece of hardware even back in its day, but it was still awesome. I can't believe I waited 5-10 mins for a game to load, though... XD
even then you was not guarenteed it work.
Yeah but shit, even that massive complaint, seen through the glasses of nostalgia is kinda fun.
The first games system I ever "owned" was a ZX Spectrum 81. It was my dads, I remember first fiddling with it when I was 4 or 5. It blew me away. There was War In Middle Earth, a bewildering strategy game set in a fictional world I had no familiarity with, a Ghostbusters game I loved because it was Ghostbusters despite having no clue what I was doing, Paperboy, Thundercats, Dizzy, god, so many class memories. My favourite was a cassette that 3 games on it, which were all turn based strategies. One was about trying to hunt down & sink the Bismarck, one was a Battle of Britain game where you would scramble Spitfires & Hurricanes to shoot down the evil Nazis & the best was a Cold War game. I had no idea what the goal was bt there was a nuke button, & the animation made me giddy, of this bomb coming in on a city, then a mushroom cloud. And as soon as you launched one nuke the Warsaw Pact would launch nukes at all your cities. Found it! Theatre Europe
Fond, fond memories of that system, less powerful than a Commodore 64 but a lot cheaper, hence it's huge popularity in the UK in the 80s. By far the biggest home computer in that era here.
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