Nostalgia Thread

**Pauro 76** · 24/09/2007, 9:24 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

That vaguely rings a bell alright.

Amstrad 6128. Still have it up in my room, and have an emulator on the laptop.

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.

**stann** · 24/09/2007, 2:44 PM

Originally Posted by Ash

We also had a ZX Spectrum 48K back in the day. Because 48K is all you'd ever
need

Moved on to a Commadore Amiga, 512K with a 512K expansion,
and then eventually up to a 386.

Almost the same Ash, but with the nifty Atari 800XL before the first Amiga, then an Amiga 1200 with 4 Meg expansion before the dreaded first PC. The Spectrum was just the best games platform ever, but what a machine that A1200 was.

Had the Evel Knievel Stuntbike too, and later procured the Jet Cycle in a swap with a mate.

Surprised no-one has mentioned Action Man with the eagle eyes yet. Or the pull-chord in his back. "Send out... the patrol!"

And of course the Star Wars action figures, the brilliant and huge Millenium Falcon model you could open out was genius!

**passinginterest** · 24/09/2007, 3:01 PM

My fist computer was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2 with 128k memory and the James Bond action pack! It came with a gun and a couple of shooting games that I loved.

**strangeirish** · 24/09/2007, 3:02 PM

Bionic Man

**osarusan** · 24/09/2007, 3:13 PM

the hurdy-gurdys.

**soccerc** · 24/09/2007, 3:16 PM

Oxo or Bovril at LOI games on a cold wet winters Sunday afternoon. IIRC, it was Oxo at Tolka park for some reason.

**biscuit** · 24/09/2007, 3:46 PM

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

) 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!

**strangeirish** · 24/09/2007, 4:34 PM

Great toy back in the day.

**pineapple stu** · 24/09/2007, 4:41 PM

Originally Posted by Ash

We also had a ZX Spectrum 48K back in the day.

Had a ZX81 as well. It was hooked up to a small (10"?) telly, so if you got bored, you could just change channel. You also had to type all the programmes in.

**Ash** · 25/09/2007, 7:08 AM

Originally Posted by stann

"Send out... the patrol!"

How could I have forgotten that. They were class.
"Enemy Tanks Approaching"

**gustavo** · 25/09/2007, 3:55 PM

Italian Football on Network 2 on a Monday evening

**jebus** · 25/09/2007, 3:58 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

Italian Football on Network 2 on a Monday evening

God how I miss that, best produced football show I can remember anyway, could be the nostalgia factor though. I remember every in my class banging on about it on Tuesday mornings, I genuinely thought it was getting more popular than English football at that stage

**Wolfie** · 25/09/2007, 4:11 PM

Anyone remember Dutch Football on the old Sky channel in the mid to late 80's? It certainly wasn't well produced but it had some novelty value at the time. There was an ad that ran during the break "TDK - its lonely at the top"

I think Brazillian Football was shown around the same time as well on Super channel.

One of the best features of this show was that players were continuously stretchered off the pitch. Intrepid reporters often rushed to the sideline to interview the stricken player who was still on the stretcher. Chaos basically.

**Sheridan** · 25/09/2007, 5:32 PM

I remember Screensport covered Dutch and Spanish football (still remember the promo - "The game in Spain is mainly - FOOTBALL!")

I think the Brazilian football was on Eurosport in the mid 90s.