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- Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:30 am
- Forum: Article Suggestions & Pitches
- Topic: Selling my entire collection...maybe...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1304
Re: Selling my entire collection...maybe...
Good luck,I tried to sell issue 1 to 160ish with all cover discs) including the payback DVD and a binder for £150 and had no interest though it was collection only but only had a couple asking to take certain issues which I didn't do as wasn't wanting to be left with the dregs lol
- Mon Jan 13, 2014 5:23 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Being an older gamer
- Replies: 70
- Views: 1783
Re: Being an older gamer
I'm 40 and been gaming since 84 and no one has bothered about my age,but maybe get a few funny looks/comments from various people when I mention my other hobbies such as collecting Lego(and just restarted collecting Action Force figures again since my childhood)and flying kites(it's actually tractio...
- Tue Jan 07, 2014 6:15 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Most unforgiving jumps in games?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 1780
Re: Most unforgiving jumps in games?
Jumping the mines on the first level on Dynamic's game 'Navy Moves'
- Sun May 26, 2013 7:58 pm
- Forum: Retro Everything Else
- Topic: Trying to remember an old tv advert
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1028
Re: Trying to remember an old tv advert
I had tried youtube as well with no luck,the more I thought about it I originally thought it was in Yorkshire,but yeah it probably would be a public information film,I do remember that there was no narrator or voice over,but remembered that I have the 'Charlie says' DVD so will go check that out,but...
- Sat May 25, 2013 4:38 pm
- Forum: Retro Everything Else
- Topic: Trying to remember an old tv advert
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1028
Trying to remember an old tv advert
Hi,just wondering if anyone can tell me what a 70's tv ad was all about that's been bugging me for years,what I think i can remember is a man in a overcoat and bunnet trying to speak French to an artic lorry driver who he thinks is french,about reversing his truck in a yard,but at the end of the ad ...
- Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:56 am
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: your top 3 gaming tunes
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1887
Re: your top 3 gaming tunes
In no certain order but-
1, title screen music on 'Zynaps' by hewson on the 464
2, end credit music on 'Othello' on the CD-I
3, Passing breeze on Outrun
1, title screen music on 'Zynaps' by hewson on the 464
2, end credit music on 'Othello' on the CD-I
3, Passing breeze on Outrun
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 6:43 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Introduce yourself
- Replies: 2514
- Views: 156188
Re: Introduce yourself
Hi,well I suppose I'm newish here,been lurking around rarely posting much since I first joined many years ago,been gaming since 84 with my first machine(amstrad 464)which I still own along with 60 odd different other machines and about two and a half thousand games,my retro gaming hobby isn't my mai...
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:48 am
- Forum: Retro Everything Else
- Topic: Favourite Movie quotes
- Replies: 175
- Views: 14815
Re: Favourite Movie quotes
If you can fly a sopwith camel,you can fly anything
- Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:39 am
- Forum: Retro Everything Else
- Topic: Retro Boardgames
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4540
Re: Retro Boardgames
We still play 'Bermuda triangle' (by MB games I think) the one where each player sails his ships around the map avoiding the magnetic cloud,just makes a change from having friends round each friday playing retro games
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 6:39 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Places to shop in Edinburgh
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1614
Re: Places to shop in Edinburgh
Hi Sadly Gamestation in Princess street closed in the summer of this year(when they were running their 5 for £10 and 5 for £5 deal)due to having a HMV and a GAME a few doors away and paying excessive rent for a corner shop(the upstairs closed first as they tried to find someone to rent upstairs out ...
- Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:12 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: What games/consoles have you bought this week??
- Replies: 32043
- Views: 793545
last week i managed to pick up at my local CHIPS shop(edinburgh) a brand new unopened boxed Atari Lynx 2 with 10 factory sealed games for 70 quid(minus the penny) the 10 games were- Rampage Chips challenge Pit fighter Shadow of the beast Crystal mines 2 Switchblade 2 Viking child Bill & teds excelle...
- Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:54 pm
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Star Control II
- Replies: 5
- Views: 589
- Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:39 am
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Amstrad version of SORCERY
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1382
- Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:31 am
- Forum: Retro Games
- Topic: Amstrad 464 cpc emulation.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 784
i would recommend the caprice32 emulator as i use that alot and havent had any problems wth any of the games i've ran on it,and you dont really need to know amstrad basic to get the most out of it. type- cat to catalogue the disk type- run"filename.bas" to run the program(always run the .bas file as...
- Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:56 pm
- Forum: Retro Everything Else
- Topic: Hammer House of Horror
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2297