My interest in gaming ended with my Amstrad 464 but used to love Chuckie Egg, Bubble Bobble, Silkworm and Emlyn Hughes International Soccer!
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Football Manager, Jet-Pac, Jet Set Willie, Manic Miner, The Hobbit, FGTH, Knight Lore, Bonb Jack, Frogger, The Way of the Exploding Fist.
Good times 
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Yes!
Amazing.
Me and my brother once cleared my mum’s mini sending it over a ramp we built.
Was even better if you revved the bike on the tarmac on it’s own without the winder attachment
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Same. I found it early in the morning on Christmas Day before anyone else was up about 6am and it made a right racket as you revved it up but it was so good. Top toy.
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Probs my favourite game
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Loved mine, although it never worked quite as well as it did in the adverts!
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My dad got one of those glass table arcade machines they used to have in pubs. We had it in the shed and mates used to cram into it to play donkey kong. You used to have to open the top and put in a different control board to change the game.
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No way my Auntie had the tabletop pac-man
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Yep that was on there too. Space invaders as well I think. Maybe a couple more can’t remember what they were
Fuck me now we’re talking. Out run was bloody excellent. We used to go to the local record shop after school, binge on new tunes and play on the arcades in the blackened out back room with sticky carpets and zero ventilation. Kids these days don’t know they’re born.
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The C64 was probably my most obsessive gaming period. Wizball, commando, green beret, last ninja, ghostbusters, pitstop. I could go on. My mum had to extract me from an MFI plastic chair because I got so frustrated with Green beret that I jumped on the chair and fell into the middle of it when the plastic seat gave way. Legs up arse down. Stuck in the frame of the chair. Those were the days.
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Think 1942 may have been one.
That first wave of home computer video games on the Spectrum and Commodore 64 felt a bit acid house, and produced a few superstar programmers. Matthew Smith (Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy) and Jeff Minter (Hovver Bovver and Mutant Camels) are a couple that I remember.
A mate of mine studied computer science at UEA in the mid 80’s, and said that there were kids on his course driving new BMW’s and Toyota MR2’s off the back of the serious money they made writing gaming software.
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Prepare to waste days of your life
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I had a Sanyo unit which looked very similar to that. Not sure the graphic equaliser actually did anything but it did look space age! The sheer number of hours wasted taping different tunes on to different tapes. Maybe because we lived on the flightpath I think FM was a bit sensitive to interference?
When I left home and finally upgraded to a Panasonic double cassette CD player, that was really useful for pre-recording the Essential Mix when you were out, but of course you only got around 89 minutes off the 2 hours haha
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The classic that was llamatron 
You might want to fire a up a doobie for this one
For the headz 
, had a fair few others too but foolishly sold them in the past… Liquidating assets. The ground capacities on the Football 78 album make for interesting reading… 40k at The Den, no thanks. The Observer reprinted lots of the World Cup albums prior to SA 2010 I think and have a few of them.
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Mario Kempes was the coolest player in the world for a time.
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I had Football 87. Mexico 86 was the first one i really went all in on and completed. Remember being in Italy visting relatives that summer and getting them to buy me a pack of stickers at any possible opportunity!
Was also in Italy the summer after Italia 90 and came back with all types of WC branded merch (I was 11-12)
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