oubliette

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  1. I dunno, I was like three. I do remember really loving it though, and continuing to play it for years. I really liked Treasure Island Dizzy, too.

    I think I remember enjoying "Magicland Dizzy" the most, then came the glorious days of playing Dizzy in colour on the Amiga.


  2. Well. This takes me back. It's taken me a while to find it, and I'm not certain if it's the one, but it has the most matches with a very hazy memory from dead young (maybe 5/6 years old?). In particular, I remember the detachable controllers that fit snugly inside the unit, switches at the top of the unit, motocross games, pong games, but not the dial controllers - I thought it had joysticks, but I could be wrong. It didn't have the light gun, as it wasn't even mine.

    poppy_9017.jpg

    Circa 1982.

    http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=2&c=818

    Christ! I completely forgot about the knock off pong machine we had that was just a black box with a couple of paddles.

    It claimed to have Football, tennis and 3 others but as we all know, they were all pretty much identical.


  3. First game that I got obsessed with would be either The Secret of Monkey Island, Space Quest II or Harlequin all on the Amiga.

    I'd blame Monkey Island for my teen obsession with tracking down as many adventure games as I could and the further repeated RSI that came with constantly changing disks.


  4. Hi all!

    Long time lurker, first time poster!

    I have a huge love for Video Games over the years (since my first Spectrum!) along with a MASSIVE interest in Music and other malarky.

    I'm currently in the process of trying to do the hard levels in Trials HD and am rapidly losing my mind!

    Thanks!


  5. Batman (the isometric one) on the Spectrum.

    Strangely enough it was the only game that worked on the 128k+ we got for Christmas, even the games that came with it didn't work.

    A fun trip to Curry's followed a couple of days after!

    I'll never forget Christmas the following year where as a naive child, I left a copy of Crash open on my desk with the review of Turtles open hoping that Santa would bring it me. Awwwwwwww!