Amiga or Atari

[Doc Lynam]

Gamer wasn't it ?

Yeah that sounds right, got my Amiga in there.

 

[manintheblackpajamas]

Sensible Soccer with one of these, i was UNPLAYABLE.
Have been useless at football games since the invention of the control pad.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Atari ST for me and I ran a business around it ( although got slated in the New Computer Express for giving away free condoms ).

Speedball and Kick Off 2 were awesome as was Paradroid by Andrew Braybrook !

 

[chez]

Ditto that
Also have to say Sensible Soccer was superior to Kick Off 2

Controversial or what!!!!

Personally I liked both of them. Kick Off 2 was much better and harder to master, Sensi soccer was easy to pick up but had its limitations

 

[Wiggy Power]

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Sensible Soccer with one of these, i was UNPLAYABLE.
Have been useless at football games since the invention of the control pad.

Zip Stick wasn't it?

Went through many of these over the years.

 

[chez]

Does anyone remember the name of the computer shop near the old Cannon cinema, next door to the present day Fish Bowl?

Yep, definitely Gamer. I did my YTS scheme there. Guy that owned it was called Dave Dyer.

 

[Barnham Seagull]

Atari ST boy!

 

[brakespear]

I knew there had to be ST fans out there! What are these MIDI ports that have been mentioned?

The ST had both input and output MIDI ports to allow direct connection to any musical instrument also sporting said ports (mostly keyboards). For me personally this meant I could hook the ST up to my dads Clavinova and use a step-entry sequencer to produce music without having to actually play it

 

[Bold Seagull]

This was my first computer, Atari 400, brilliant for ROM cartridge games. I even tried programming a couple of things in BASIC, and they were basic!

 

[beorhthelm]

Quite a revolutionary design too. The all in one cpu, disk drive and input device is reminiscent of Apple machines of today

it was a pretty common configuration in those days, certainly the keyboard and mainboard in one housing was the standard, with or without drives and cassette system built in. the PCW of cira 1986 was more like the imac, putting the mainboard in with the monitor. just goes to show how little Apple really innovate.

Does anyone remember the name of the computer shop near the old Cannon cinema, next door to the present day Fish Bowl?

as said, Gamer and opposite was the airgun shop which is still there. as a teenager this was the perfect combination. also there was a great games shop in an arcade now home to Gormet Burger/Komedia, along with a Zippo shop. again, great combo.

Also what about The Great Giana Sister's? British made version of Mario only much better.

only available on priate because Nintendo got it banned. i had a copy but would crash on the second level or somthing. theres a modern version of Great Giana out apparently pretty good.

 

[boik]

Atari St 520FM followed by Atari Falcon030. Not many Falcons around so I wish I'd kept it.

 

[16 bit 44.1]

I had several Ataris ending up with a 1040 STE expanded to 4meg ram and this was the hub of our recording studio right up until 1997 when we moved over to one of the firs generation apple g3

Got our first Atari st in 1988 and it was because of the midi ports. I couldn't believe how powerful it was although I never used it for anything except music.

 

[Doc Lynam]

as said, Gamer and opposite was the airgun shop which is still there. as a teenager this was the perfect combination. also there was a great games shop in an arcade now home to Gormet Burger/Komedia, along with a Zippo shop. again, great combo.

All i will say about the shop opposite is Black Widow catapult! Yeah the other shop was Jabba's hut wasn't it, in the arcade? One time saw a guy wheelchair himself into the little shack demanding to sign everything Star wars related because he claimed to be David Prowse, to which the owner told him to naff off this resulted in a Mexican stand / sit off! Oh the memories!

Also did anyone use that computer shop under Churchill square near the old crappy Tesco's? That had to be the oddest place to put a shop. Computer shop was quite good if i remember rightly?

 

[Djmiles]

Beneath A Steel Sky

Absolute corker of a game. And it's abandonware now, so why not download it and relive the magic

Fail

I actually bought it on my Iphone when it was cheap. I was disappointed when I didn't have to change one of the 15 floppy discs every scene

 

[Doc Lynam]

For fans of Charlie Brooker and computer games you might like this

 

[Smithy]

I went straight from a Spectrum to the NES so never owned either of these badboys

 

[Doc Lynam]

 

[Doc Lynam]

I went straight from a Spectrum to the NES so never owned either of these badboys

You missed out, this is how you would die at the end of one game on the Amiga.


As a teenage boy it was like looking at a Da Vinci, whilst having Jimmy Page play over top.

 

[Badger]

Also did anyone use that computer shop under Churchill square near the old crappy Tesco's? That had to be the oddest place to put a shop.

YES, that shop was awesome and I (my parents) used to buy most of my Amstrad games from there. You just had to ignore the fact it was in a dark piss-smelling corner next to the public toilets.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I actually bought it on my Iphone when it was cheap. I was disappointed when I didn't have to change one of the 15 floppy discs every scene

Ah, the memories - Operation Wolf was like that as well - 37 floppy discs to swap every 30 seconds and not necessarily in the order you expected !