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01/10/2008, 2:20 PM
strangeirish

Bump, for Pauro.

Retro it is. Used to love this as a kid...

http://www.geocities.com/choppercity...ontSprint1.jpg
01/10/2008, 2:24 PM
dahamsta

I wanted a Chopper, but I got a Grifter. It was cool, but it wasn't as cool as a Chopper. *sob*

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/grifter.jpg
01/10/2008, 2:25 PM
OwlsFan

Lime, lemon and acid sweets (yummm) and from the BBC, TALES OF THE RIVERBANK with Roddy Rat and Hammie Hamster.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA280_.jpg
01/10/2008, 2:27 PM
Pauro 76

Quote:

Originally Posted by strangeirish

Retro it is. Used to love this as a kid...

http://www.geocities.com/choppercity...ontSprint1.jpg

Bump for Pauro? Thank you sir!

http://www.stefan-larsson.se/Images/...II-konsoll.jpg

First ever console I bought.
01/10/2008, 2:42 PM
Sligo Hornet

When I was a kid, I used be very jealous of the "rich" kids who owned a "Johnny Seven"

http://i38.tinypic.com/ziw0i1.jpg
01/10/2008, 3:08 PM
noby

StrangeIrish, what's going on with the handlebars on that chopper?
01/10/2008, 3:09 PM
strangeirish

Anyone else have a pair of these sock tie-ups?:D

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/egray.jpg
01/10/2008, 3:12 PM
Sligo Hornet

Quote:

Originally Posted by strangeirish

Anyone else have a pair of these sock tie-ups?:D

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/egray.jpg

Once owned Norman Hunter's together with his No.6 shirt from the FA Cup Final at Wembley against Chelsea in 1970!
01/10/2008, 3:12 PM
strangeirish

Quote:

Originally Posted by noby

StrangeIrish, what's going on with the handlebars on that chopper?

There were two types of handlebars for that bike. This is the one I actually had.

http://www.choppertrader.com/111spr6.jpg
01/10/2008, 3:14 PM
noby

Now that's more like it.
01/10/2008, 3:15 PM
EAFC_rdfl

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pauro 76

Bump for Pauro? Thank you sir!

http://www.stefan-larsson.se/Images/...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!!
01/10/2008, 3:26 PM
anto1208

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pauro 76

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 :(
01/10/2008, 3:32 PM
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. 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
01/10/2008, 3:38 PM
dahamsta

Quote:

Originally Posted by noby

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
01/10/2008, 3:50 PM
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.
01/10/2008, 3:59 PM
stann

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

Wasn't this, 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.
01/10/2008, 4:09 PM
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.
01/10/2008, 4:20 PM
strangeirish

Yeah, you had one...Old Duffle Coat.
http://www.vintagetrends.com/images/...5/645-0014.jpg

Or Maybe one of these

http://unpopular.typepad.com/unpopul...2/07/parka.jpg
01/10/2008, 4:41 PM
Lionel Ritchie

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

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.
01/10/2008, 4:49 PM
strangeirish

Old Mike Murphy clip

Messin' with Gay Byrne in this one...
02/10/2008, 7:36 AM
noby

SI, those coats are very updated versions of the ones we had.
02/10/2008, 8:03 AM
Sligo Hornet

Quote:

Originally Posted by noby

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

We couldn't afford coats!:(.....let alone Chopper Bikes!
02/10/2008, 8:52 AM
paul_oshea

Quote:

Originally Posted by stann

Wasn't this, 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.
02/10/2008, 8:57 AM
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.
02/10/2008, 10:35 AM
OwlsFan

Tiger (Hurricane) Comic

http://www.bookpalace.com/UKComics/U...rHurricane.jpg
02/10/2008, 12:14 PM
Ash

Quote:

Originally Posted by biscuit

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?)
02/10/2008, 12:15 PM
Ash

Quote:

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

Tiger (Hurricane) Comic

http://www.bookpalace.com/UKComics/U...rHurricane.jpg

Good old Whizzer and Chips

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:...images/WC1.JPG
02/10/2008, 12:19 PM
strangeirish

Quote:

Originally Posted by noby

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
02/10/2008, 12:23 PM
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
02/10/2008, 12:25 PM
Roadend

Quote:

Originally Posted by EAFC_rdfl

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;)
02/10/2008, 7:24 PM
Newryrep

nostalgia isnt what it used to be
03/10/2008, 6:22 AM
Sligo Hornet

Quote:

Originally Posted by Newryrep

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!
03/10/2008, 9:09 AM
Newryrep

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sligo Hornet

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
05/10/2008, 9:25 PM
Heliodorus

I remember the old Nostalgia threads, they were oh, so much better.
05/10/2008, 10:02 PM
Paddyfield

Spangles sweets.

Beezer comic.

Pac Man video game.
06/10/2008, 8:29 AM
Lionel Ritchie

Sherriff PING PING PING Richocet Rabbit!!!
06/10/2008, 8:33 AM
Bluebeard

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sligo Hornet

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.
06/10/2008, 8:41 AM
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.
06/10/2008, 9:43 AM
OwlsFan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paddyfield

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?
06/10/2008, 10:30 AM
Bluebeard

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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