I don't want an X Box, I wouldn't know how to use one and they sound so mind numbingly boring!

[fossyant]

The irony is, Accy, that many who deride folk and call them disparaging names like "grandad" would themselves be unwilling to go to war to defend democracy like their grandads did.

He's only a few years older than us ! 60 going on 90 !

 

[Drago]

Hes just an fashioned guy with the kind of standards that gave us an empire!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Get with it grandad.

@Accy had a great childhood playing with an old bicycle rim and stick. It set him up well for his future career as a rim whisperer

 

[craigwend]

Legend has it that @Drago has an original Y- Box (well Y-Fronts), which if you ask him nicely, he'll let you play with for hours*...








* Depending whether he has them on

 

[bonzobanana]

Game consoles were about in the late 70s, very early 80s like the Atari VCS/2600. The late 70s I guess was the beginning of video gaming in the home but arcades with video games existed before that by a few years. A quick google shows Space Invaders came out in 1978 and that seemed like the first hugely successful arcade machine as I saw it about in a few places. Pacman also springs to mind although not sure of the date of that. Lets face it back then the games were a bit simple and not as as addictive. I remember Pong being rubbish and also for me Pacman wasn't very good but I did love Space Invaders and Galaxians. In my childhood we would often go to Weymouth in the summer and they used to have an arcade on a boat where I would spend some time playing invaders and other games. Great memories.

 

[bonzobanana]

All of those are food shops

On two occasions it was alcohol they were stealing but also I forgot to mention 2 times I went to local convenience stores and they were closed due to a recent robbery attempt with threats/violence. This was the Morrison's Daily store in Glenville Ave and the Coop store on St Michaels Ave in Yeovil. They staff were in shock so they had to shut the store. I never witnessed this but just couldn't get in to do my shopping. I only mention that as your comment 'All of those are food shops' sort of implies poor people who can't afford to feed themselves but that is nothing like the reality of what is going on. Unless you were pointing out I'm a big fatty always in food shops. I seem to remember the Coop store had cigarettes stolen at knife point and those would likely be sold to fund a drug habit or similar. I believe as well as the threats of violence the shop was also partially wrecked/vandalised so there was glass on the floor etc. The country is getting poorer and poorer as our debts mount up and people export as much of their wages as possible on cars, holidays etc so its obvious the amount of people that will turn to crime will grow. I'm personally strongly against tolerance for crime and criminals I think an idealistic mentality has done huge damage to this country.

 

[lazybloke]

On two occasions it was alcohol they were stealing but also I forgot to mention 2 times I went to local convenience stores and they were closed due to a recent robbery attempt with threats/violence. This was the Morrison's Daily store in Glenville Ave and the Coop store on St Michaels Ave in Yeovil. They staff were in shock so they had to shut the store. I never witnessed this but just couldn't get in to do my shopping. I only mention that as your comment 'All of those are food shops' sort of implies poor people who can't afford to feed themselves but that is nothing like the reality of what is going on. Unless you were pointing out I'm a big fatty always in food shops. I seem to remember the Coop store had cigarettes stolen at knife point and those would likely be sold to fund a drug habit or similar. I believe as well as the threats of violence the shop was also partially wrecked/vandalised so there was glass on the floor etc. The country is getting poorer and poorer as our debts mount up and people export as much of their wages as possible on cars, holidays etc so its obvious the amount of people that will turn to crime will grow. I'm personally strongly against tolerance for crime and criminals I think an idealistic mentality has done huge damage to this country.

Don't think I've seen that on Xbox

 

[Dogtrousers]

Don't think I've seen that on Xbox

Grand Theft Morrisons

 

[Dadam]

Born in 69, played computer games first at school on Commodore PETs, with an illicit copy of a space invaders type game on my 5.25" floppy disc which got confiscated but then later returned minus the game when the teacher realised it had all my work on it!
Later when my aunts bought a VIC-20, played on that a lot and wrote some basic BASIC games.

Then got a Spectrum 48K and played shedloads on that and wrote a few (not good enough for publishing). Did my O Level Computer Science project on it too. I missed the Nintendo/Sega golden age. Ten years later, on 386/486 PCs playing Doom etc. PC gaming carried on until the present day now with a decent spec gaming laptop, but in the meantime I've had a PS1, PS2 an OG XBox, Xbox 360, Xbox One and now Series X. Also a Steam Deck which I play by far the most.

 

[Gunk]

Don't think I've seen that on Xbox

It’s a new game, Corner Shop Raider II

 

[Stevo 666]

The Project is coming along quite nicely - should be able to drive it like I stole it pretty soon (just need the PC and software...)

 

[Stevo 666]

 

[Drago]

The Project is coming along quite nicely - should be able to drive it like I stole it pretty soon (just need the PC and software...)

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What is it?

 

[Webbo2]

What is it?

An attachment for holding his blow up dolls in place.🫣

 

[Stevo 666]

What is it?

Racing simulator. Bit like an automotive version of The Matrix - pick any track, any car and drive it like you stole it 🏎️