fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
5 years younger and had a Spectrum 48k, then a Megadrive then PC gaming on a 486. House owner and married by 1995. Gaming then stopped by kids 5 years later.
I don't want an X Box, I wouldn't know how to use one and they sound so mind numbingly boring!
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5 years younger and had a Spectrum 48k, then a Megadrive then PC gaming on a 486. House owner and married by 1995. Gaming then stopped by kids 5 years later.
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
I was born in 1952 and fully embraced the home computer boom of the eighties, starting with a ZX81 and going through countless others.
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
I was born in '68, but home pooters and games consoles weren't really a thing in Shetland.
By the time I was double digits old I was dragged to England, then bunged straight off to board at prep school because I was deemed to be getting unruly. Strangely enough, pooters and games consoles weren't a thing there either and even if they were I was too busy trying to avoid being b******d by sixth formers to care.
By the time id finally promised not to shoot anyone or set fire to anything and was released into state education I was 15 and moved straight onto chicks and motorbikes.
Thus I escaped the electronic crack cocaine of computer games.
By the time I was double digits old I was dragged to England, then bunged straight off to board at prep school because I was deemed to be getting unruly. Strangely enough, pooters and games consoles weren't a thing there either and even if they were I was too busy trying to avoid being b******d by sixth formers to care.
By the time id finally promised not to shoot anyone or set fire to anything and was released into state education I was 15 and moved straight onto chicks and motorbikes.
Thus I escaped the electronic crack cocaine of computer games.
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Accy cyclist
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- The hills of Accrington
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I did play quite addictive Bomber Man for hours, trying to beat the now ex Mrs Accy's score, on some plug into your tv device, about 1999 to 2002, but stopped when we got our first PC soon after, when finding the joys of the internet bigger than the joy of trying to drop a bomb on a smiling emoji, hoping to see that 😲 look on his face as the bomb hits him. I also played that 'blip,blip' tennis game on one of those very early black and white plug into your tv device, in must be the early 1980's.
I did play quite addictive Bomber Man for hours, trying to beat the now ex Mrs Accy's score, on some plug into your tv device, about 1999 to 2002, but stopped when we got our first PC soon after, when finding the joys of the internet bigger than the joy of trying to drop a bomb on a smiling emoji, hoping to see that 😲 look on his face as the bomb hits him. I also played that 'blip,blip' tennis game on one of those very early black and white plug into your tv device, in must be the early 1980's.
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Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
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- The hills of Accrington
Oh Look! My nemesis 'grandparents' liking another 'love it', when such posts appear. Such a surprise(!) 😏
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AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
I'm probably what you'd call a casual gamer, having enjoyed various games over the years.
Started out on the PC with Quake (which is entirely responsible for my love of NIN), Doom, Duke Nukem, Age of Empires and Grand Theft Auto.
Then got an N64 which remains my favourite console and had some of the greatest games of all time, mostly made by Rare (sadly destroyed by Microsoft): for all that COD bangs on about multiplayer, it's nothing compared to Goldeneye (and anyone who's put hours into that will have a favourite multiplayer setup: Facility, Slappers Only, One Shot Kills).
The last "big" game I truly enjoyed playing was GTA San Andreas which I still play occasionally. I prefer indie games these days and would rather go back to older stuff that I know I enjoy rather than trying to get into something new.
I did enjoy Fallout 4 which I was lent by a pal, but not enough to play it more than once.
Started out on the PC with Quake (which is entirely responsible for my love of NIN), Doom, Duke Nukem, Age of Empires and Grand Theft Auto.
Then got an N64 which remains my favourite console and had some of the greatest games of all time, mostly made by Rare (sadly destroyed by Microsoft): for all that COD bangs on about multiplayer, it's nothing compared to Goldeneye (and anyone who's put hours into that will have a favourite multiplayer setup: Facility, Slappers Only, One Shot Kills).
The last "big" game I truly enjoyed playing was GTA San Andreas which I still play occasionally. I prefer indie games these days and would rather go back to older stuff that I know I enjoy rather than trying to get into something new.
I did enjoy Fallout 4 which I was lent by a pal, but not enough to play it more than once.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
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.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Hes just an fashioned guy with the kind of standards that gave us an empire!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
@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
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