n3ta

Posted: **Thu Jan 02, 2025 2:19 pm**

I shouldn't let this annoy me, but...

"The Register - Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers
Saturation point, and Nintendo and Sega, were just around the corner"

The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers that most people in the UK/Europe continued with for the next four or five years!

Posted: **Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:24 pm**

I didn't get a spectrum until 1991 or something

Posted: **Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:24 pm**

And it still felt like magic

Posted: **Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:26 pm**

they probably claim the Amiga was dead by 92 as well

Posted: **Thu Jan 02, 2025 11:37 pm**

the amiga will never die

Posted: **Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:38 pm**

Like most of the kids in Wolverhampton, I had an Apple Macintosh for Christmas 1985.

Posted: **Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:24 pm**

i'm going to buy one of those new mini spectrums and then type in every single program in every one of these

https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books

and then sigh endlessly when none of them work, obviously

Posted: **Sat Jan 04, 2025 2:27 am**

Can't I just spend the rest of my life doing that, please?

Posted: **Wed Jan 08, 2025 8:32 am**

Even though this is an old telly article I have just finished writing for my new blog, it is also about games, as well as adverts on the telly

Posted: **Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:21 am**

Morecambe and Wise shouldn't have co-existed with computers. Its against all temporal sense

Posted: **Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:09 pm**

CandyDarling wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 8:32 am Even though this is an old telly article I have just finished writing for my new blog, it is also about games, as well as adverts on the telly

You should hawk that about for coinage - it's a most pleasing read! *thumbs up*

Posted: **Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:11 pm**

dng wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 11:21 am Morecambe and Wise shouldn't have co-existed with computers. Its against all temporal sense

Ha!

They never went as far as Paul Daniels, though - making a game(s) for the Atari 800.

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:48 am**

The classic 'Elite' onna Vic-20 (32k ram pack required, unsurprisingly.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw39FR4Ao2U

Yuss!

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:11 pm**

This must be the most uninspiring new console reveal ever made

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=itpcsQQvgAQ

Like apple revealing a new phone, but even duller somehow

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:12 pm**

yeah, it's a lot of effort to say "look! this one's slightly bigger!"

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:16 pm**

I hope the big 2025 at the end isnt the release date but the price

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:52 pm**

vom wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 4:12 pm yeah, it's a lot of effort to say "look! this one's slightly bigger!"

*laughs like Sid James*

Posted: **Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:20 pm**

and still digital triggers

yuk

Posted: **Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:20 am**

Are you triggered by digital triggers?

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:56 pm**

I have been playing castlevania symphony of the night. I am very bad at castlevania symphony of the night

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:56 pm**

The only other castlevania games I’ve played were some on the gba, which I was also very bad at

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2025 8:24 pm**

I've never been able to get into any Castlevania games, there's something about them that I find offputtingly annoying. Although the wall chickens did make me laugh.

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2025 9:03 pm**

I think its because the stupid killer dracula's/dracula killers all control like inert lumps of clay

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2025 9:15 pm**

Castlevania IV on snes is best, mostly due to music

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2025 9:16 pm**

I played that one for ten minutes in dixomns. it was 1992 probably

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2025 9:16 pm**

it was always 1992 in dixons

Posted: **Wed Feb 05, 2025 9:26 pm**

also you could moonwalk up stairs, like Robocop on Spectrum, and swing the whip in any direction

also it's linear, so no tedious backtracking with constantly respawning ogrons

Posted: **Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:42 pm**

: DixonsTShirt.jpg (78.35 KiB) Viewed 31798 times

dng wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 9:16 pm it was always 1992 in dixons

Posted: **Thu Feb 06, 2025 4:30 pm**

told you it was true

Posted: **Thu Feb 06, 2025 4:30 pm**

tshirts never lie

Posted: **Fri Feb 07, 2025 3:36 pm**

They lie about my belly and moobs!

Posted: **Fri Feb 07, 2025 4:36 pm**

Once in Dixons as a small child I went mad on a Casio keyboard, merrily flailing away on it making noise and having a grand old time. Then some typical late 80s sales rep casually walked over, and switched it off while I was playing. Joke's on him years later, due to things like this (WARNING : VERY VERY LOUD)

Another thing I recall about Dixons is seeing a mid - late 80s low range DOS PC displaying a digtized picture of the trooping of the colour, and being amazed at seeing a full-colour photo on the PC monitor inbetween fake bar charts and text. In reality it was probably a dithered nightmare from the vantage point of today, but it was amazing in 1987 (less so in 1992)

Posted: **Fri Feb 07, 2025 9:15 pm**

My niece insists on playing my keyboard like a loon every time she visits. Eventually I hope that she's going to try to pick out a tune, but in the meantime I indulge her.

Posted: **Fri Feb 14, 2025 7:33 pm**

dng wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:56 pm I have been playing castlevania symphony of the night. I am very bad at castlevania symphony of the night

i've completed this now (both bad ending and good ending but probably not all the other endings that there might be)

anyway it was good in the end i liked it (the first section really is a slog though)

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2025 6:47 pm**

you missed a miserable pile of secrets

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2025 7:56 pm**

I expect I did

Posted: **Sat Feb 15, 2025 7:57 pm**

But I’ve had enough now

Posted: **Tue Feb 25, 2025 8:46 pm**

The Spectrum Show interviews Mel Croucher - one of the early stars/celebs in the 80s UK computer game scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3hzyi8R468

Good stuff!

Posted: **Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:52 pm**

i bought my dad a couple of niel young albums for his birthday (on the beach and harvest. i'd never really listend to neil young before (except the dead man soundtrack) but it turns out he was pretty good

Posted: **Thu Feb 27, 2025 6:01 pm**

oh wait i stuck this in the games thread because it turns out neil young was a huge final fantasy seven fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khfT4PqBKHY

in 1972, 25 years before final fantasy 7 was reeleased

Posted: **Thu Feb 27, 2025 6:01 pm**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZH6coTxDTo (about 50 seconds into this for reference)

Posted: **Fri Feb 28, 2025 7:23 am**

dng wrote: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:52 pm i bought my dad a couple of niel young albums for his birthday (on the beach and harvest. i'd never really listend to neil young before (except the dead man soundtrack) but it turns out he was pretty good

I've been listening through the "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" list with a friend and this has also led me to properly listen to Neil Young for the first time. "After the Gold Rush" is my favourite album from the list so far that I hadn't heard before, it's wonderful

Posted: **Fri Feb 28, 2025 11:33 am**

hooray. maybe i'll get my dad that one next

Posted: **Mon Mar 10, 2025 7:35 pm**

dng wrote: Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:56 pm I have been playing castlevania symphony of the night. I am very bad at castlevania symphony of the night

i tried rondo of blood earlier (which came with symphony of the night). rondo of blood is absolutely shit

Posted: **Wed Mar 19, 2025 3:59 pm**

Rondo Of Crud

Posted: **Wed Mar 19, 2025 4:04 pm**

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:38 pm**

hooray they're remaking oblivion

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:39 pm**

i wonder if they'll make it not boring this time

Posted: **Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:55 am**

i wonder if they'll keep Ita Rienus in it

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2025 4:04 pm**

Nintendo switch 2? Nintendo shits poo more like

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