Nostalgia Thread

[EAFC_rdfl]

Bump for Pauro? Thank you sir!

http://www.stefan-larsson.se/Images/jpeg/Master-System/master-system-II-konsoll.jpg

First ever console I bought.
ha forgot what the controllers looked like, and the cool alternative to the av button on the remote nowadays ;)
Alec the kid was some game!!

[anto1208]

That guy who won the Apprentice is probably still using that. :)

Glenroe!
Well Holy God!

The highlight of any half hour show would be Dick (cant remember his surname) playing the boyo, and Miley moaning about his cattle and vaccines. And Dinny Byrne sippin pints and smokin pints with Teasy McDaid and Stephen Brennan down the Molly Malone. Great days.

And where in the world before that ! will they get 5 in a row before the time runs out :eek:

But you could never really enjoy it coz as soon as the credits for glenroe rolled you knew it was bed time and you had school in the morning :(

[stann]

Yeah was just about to say that, those Chopper handlebars are all wrong - racing bike handles??!!!
Anyway, I had something much better. Am away off now to see if it can be found on t'interweb, but it was lush!

Edit: Feck it anyway, the only pic I could find is here, the Marlboro Bronco at the bottom (http://www.nemusclebikes.com/bikes27.html). Mine was all black and chrome, a gorgeous and fantastic machine, and that pic does no justice to it whatsoever. Gleaming black paintwork, supersoft leather saddle, chrome mudguards, chrome gearbox, the lot! Even when I came off it one time I f**ked myself up in a cool way! :D

[dahamsta]

StrangeIrish, what's going on with the handlebars on that chopper?LOL, I hadn't noticed that.

This was my first computer:

http://computermuseum.50megs.com/images/ti994a-box.jpg (http://computermuseum.50megs.com/brands/ti994a.htm)

[paul_oshea]

the first i had was a thing like a spectrum but it wasn't a spectrum, it was in colour and feck i cant remember no one else had one. which wasn't cool nor was it when i got my amiga 500 +, +++++being the operative one, my father always both the more pc oriented machines rather than gaming. The reason being was no one would ever have one so i couldnt swap or borrow games, swap really being a lie as i never had games cos my father wouldn't give me money for games. Hold shop, i had a deprived childhood :shock:

Loved captain planet on the amiga 500+, one game i could never find again on an emulator, sugar this is getting me going to go look and play some emulators tnoight.

[stann]

the first i had was a thing like a spectrum but it wasn't a spectrum, it was in colour and feck i cant remember no one else had one.

Wasn't this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL), by any chance? I dreamed of having one of these! :D
Had to make do with an Atari 800XL, but it did admirably as a stopgap until the Amiga came along.

[Norm]

Still have an old Raleigh Vektar gathering dust in the shed at home.

A pretty nifty piece of 80's retro gear if a little impractical for time trials down the hilly field at the back of our house.

[strangeirish]

Yeah, you had one...Old Duffle Coat.
http://www.vintagetrends.com/images/lot/645/645-0014.jpg

Or Maybe one of these

http://unpopular.typepad.com/unpopular/images/2007/12/07/parka.jpg

[Lionel Ritchie]

the first i had was a thing like a spectrum but it wasn't a spectrum, it was in colour and feck i cant remember no one else had one. My first console was an Atari bought, I'm guessing, for Christmas 82 or 83, and much of it's casing was wood!!! Honest ...a video game made of wood. Might still be in the attic. I know the sega mega drive is still there.

[strangeirish]

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Messin' with Gay Byrne in this one...

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[noby]

SI, those coats are very updated versions of the ones we had.

[Sligo Hornet]

SI, those coats are very updated versions of the ones we had.

We couldn't afford coats!:(.....let alone Chopper Bikes!

[paul_oshea]

Wasn't this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL), by any chance? I dreamed of having one of these! :D
Had to make do with an Atari 800XL, but it did admirably as a stopgap until the Amiga came along.

cant say for def, but the timing of it makes sense and it was definitely black like that. Hopefully when i ask at home they might remember but Im pretty sure thats it, and relase date etc would be right, i was probably about 5 or so and we always got things late so 1986/7 would be around the time id say.

[paul_oshea]

i had a grey one, and i had the second one too, i used to wear the grey dufflecoat in the height of summer, people used to wonder why. I dont know why now, but you know, i wasn't particularly warm when i had it on, and i wasn't particularly cold in summer when i eventually decided to take it off for good in summer.

[OwlsFan]

Tiger (Hurricane) Comic

http://www.bookpalace.com/UKComics/UKGeneral/thumbnails/TigerHurricane.jpg

[Ash]

soup in the showground gotten out of the big galvinised shed round the back. lumps an all in it!! one nite when i was bout 11, cued up for about 20 mins to get the soup and a bag of tayto (for about 70p :D) was just tucking into it and we scored, i scalded my hand :( ........but it was against Clubbe Brugge, one of the best feelings of my life!! is that self harm? im a sadist so!

Supporting sligo is self harm!!!!

(You still playing for Strand?)

[Ash]

Tiger (Hurricane) Comic

http://www.bookpalace.com/UKComics/UKGeneral/thumbnails/TigerHurricane.jpg


Good old Whizzer and Chips

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:tfu6NVjRG7tNpM:http://www.thebookcave.com/images/WC1.JPG

[strangeirish]

SI, those coats are very updated versions of the ones we had.
Yeah, I couldn't find any pics of the older ones.

Speaking of comics, my favorite here...
http://www.geocities.com/neveahfs/comics4.jpg

[dahamsta]

Buster was my favourite. Mustapha Million and such-and-such. Whizzer and Chips was a close second. Beano and Dandy were for the scruffs. (Although I read them too, what with me being a scruff an' all.)

adam

[Roadend]

ha forgot what the controllers looked like, and the cool alternative to the av button on the remote nowadays ;)
Alec the kid was some game!!
Alex kid in miracle world, to be precise;)

[Newryrep]

nostalgia isnt what it used to be

[Sligo Hornet]

nostalgia isnt what it used to be

I knew someone would eventually post this.........shame on you Newry, I thought you were far more intelligent;)

p.s.I still owe you a beer!

[Newryrep]

I knew someone would eventually post this.........shame on you Newry, I thought you were far more intelligent;)

p.s.I still owe you a beer!


Couldnt resist,

will catch up with you at Bulgaria at home or Italy away, midweek games are usually try and skive off work early,pick up brother , bomb down motorway dump car and head straight for ground

[Heliodorus]

I remember the old Nostalgia threads, they were oh, so much better.

[Paddyfield]

Spangles sweets.

Beezer comic.

Pac Man video game.

[Lionel Ritchie]

Sherriff PING PING PING Richocet Rabbit!!!
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[Bluebeard]

We couldn't afford coats!:(.....let alone Chopper Bikes!

Pah! We couldn't afford eyes, so I have no idea what you mean by bikes and coats.

[noby]

The fact that blind people know what bikes and coats are puts a spanner in your whole Monty Python parody.

Nostalgia, eh? I remember when Bluebeard's retorts were funny.

[OwlsFan]

Spangles sweets.

Yes, they weren't available in Ireland and my dad, who was a salesman, used to visit the UK a lot and bring them home as a treat.

Remember the candy cigarettes?

[Bluebeard]

The fact that blind people know what bikes and coats are puts a spanner in your whole Monty Python parody.

Nostalgia, eh? I remember when Bluebeard's retorts were funny.

I am now a pale shadow of a Bluebeard Tribute act. I have become the late 1980s David Bowie of foot.ie

[paul_oshea]

The fact that blind people know what bikes and coats are puts a spanner in your whole Monty Python parody.

Nostalgia, eh? I remember when Bluebeard's retorts were funny.

Nostalgia, eh? I remember a time when Noby was funny(and didnt suffer pms), oh wait this isn't the jokes thread :D

[noby]

(a) I was never funny. That's your mind playing tricks on you.
(b) Private messages don't cause me any suffering.

Someone has to keep Bluebeard in line - we don't want to see his standards slip.
He could soon be the Tin Machine of foot.ie.

[Bluebeard]

Someone has to keep Bluebeard in line - we don't want to see his standards slip.
He could soon be the Tin Machine of foot.ie.

TIN MACHINE!:eek::eek::eek:

Harder with the whip Noby! There, against the soft flesh!

[Roadend]

I am now a pale shadow of a Bluebeard Tribute act. I have become the late 1980s David Bowie of foot.ie

And there was I thinking you'd never let me down

[Bluebeard]

And there was I thinking you'd never let me down

I keep trying, Day-in, Day-out, but I'm Too Dizzy to be a Shining Star: all of a sudden, Bang Bang, I'm one of the Zeroes...

[Roadend]

Time will crawl if I keep reading stuff like that

[stann]

This kind of stuff might be the fashion, but there'd better be changes around here, or you'll all be under pressure. This is not America, you know!

[OwlsFan]

Trying to watch the tv through a haze of smoke as both my parents enjoyed their:

http://www.zigsam.at/l0/B_Cig/CravenA-5fGB1945.jpg

[Roadend]

Is that cat smoking 8 ciggies at once?

[Wolfie]

Is that cat smoking 8 ciggies at once?

Yeah, that cat was famous in the 80's.

"Smokie" made a few cameo appearances on "That's Life" with Esther Ranson. He used to smoke up to 10 ciggies in one go and could spell "Anti-disestablishmentarianism" with the smoke that he exhaled.

He was the cat communities response to the dog that said "Sausages".

The instant fame didn't last as he was soon usurped in the publics affections by a break-dancing chimp.

Sadly, in later years he has acquired a crippling booze and foot.ie addiction. He posts quite frequently, apparently, but has cunningly changed his name to avoid recognition.

[michaelguineys]

:But you could never really enjoy it coz as soon as the credits for glenroe rolled you knew it was bed time and you had school in the morning :(ha ha totally, you'd have a pain in your stomach when you heard the music, just knowing that you'd school in the morning! ha ha

Speaking of school, wasn't School Around the Corner on before Where in the World?? ha ha
Still have an old Raleigh Vektar gathering dust in the shed at home.

A pretty nifty piece of 80's retro gear if a little impractical for time trials down the hilly field at the back of our house.I had one of those too!
A big chunky cream one with a computer kinda thing down the cross bar!!

[Schumi]

ha ha totally, you'd have a pain in your stomach when you heard the music, just knowing that you'd school in the morning! ha haLOL. So true.