One for the oldens,which of these did you own as a child?

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Jesus,an Atari Console was the same price as an Xbox 360 in 1980!

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[Lady Whistledown]

I think I had a Clatterpillar.

That's not very cool, is it?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I definitely had some Weebles

#old

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Yeah i remember cartridges back then were £30.00 thats probably about £200 in todays money!!

 

[BlockDpete]

I had a Binatone black and white TV games console, complete with the gun that very rarely worked.

Seemed like space age stuff at the time though

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Don't know what you mean by old. I had Scalextric in the 1960's - best thing ever. Most of the others might have been around for my children.

 

[skipper734]

Neither Alan Turing was still working on the prototype.

 

[joker]

I had a subbuteo with Carlisle as a division one team
Also had a Spectrum ZX81

 

[Bold Seagull]

This was my first computer, Atari 400. B.A.S.I.C operating system, 16k RAM, 10k ROM. Took games ROM cartridges in the top. As it turned out, it was an expensive way to play Donkey Kong!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I had a subbuteo with Carlisle as a division one team
Also had a Spectrum ZX81

I had a ZX81 as well - little did I know I would be still writing software 30 years later (not still the same program, incidentally)

 

[Seagull on the wing]

First sort of toy,my Dad made me a Lancaster Bomber out of spare bits of wood (They were new bombers then) and he later made a battleship which you had to build up,then roll marbles at it and if you hit the button on the side...a mousetrap inside was released and the ship exploded in bits....Health and Safety would have a field day with it now!!

 

[Phat Baz 68]

My Nan and Grandad bought me the Binatone "bLOOP bLOOP" tennis game computer when it first came out in Xmas 76-78ish hours of fun without maiming, killing or stealing anything !!!

 

[Superphil]

I had a Merlin in 1978

 

[willow147]

I had a Merlin in 1978

God I remember having one of those, used to love it.

 

[Eggmundo]

One of these babies. Cruising along changing up 'n down. Wind in my hair...sigh.

 

[Eggmundo]

And one of these when younger:

 

[Sir Nigel of Eagleshire]

Jesus,an Atari Console was the same price as an Xbox 360 in 1980!

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item 18 ? Matchbox loop the loop thing, ive been trying to get one of these for years, no one makes them, they were ace my favourite toy.

 

[happypig]

I had a commodore 64. Is it sad that I've still got it in the loft ( and an Atari ST)?

 

[Sir Nigel of Eagleshire]

I had a commodore 64. Is it sad that I've still got it in the loft ( and an Atari ST)?

me too , spun it up a couple of months ago, still works, the graphics on the REVS racing game were mind bogglingly bad though, my kids were astonished frankly.

 

[empire]

I had a Binatone black and white TV games console, complete with the gun that very rarely worked.

Seemed like space age stuff at the time though

same,the dogs bollocks