Nostalgia Thread

**strangeirish** · 01/10/2008, 2:20 PM

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

**dahamsta** · 01/10/2008, 2:24 PM

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

**OwlsFan** · 01/10/2008, 2:25 PM

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

**Pauro 76** · 01/10/2008, 2:27 PM

Originally Posted by strangeirish

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

Bump for Pauro? Thank you sir!

First ever console I bought.

**Sligo Hornet** · 01/10/2008, 2:42 PM

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

**noby** · 01/10/2008, 3:08 PM

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

**strangeirish** · 01/10/2008, 3:09 PM

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

**Sligo Hornet** · 01/10/2008, 3:12 PM

Originally Posted by strangeirish

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

Once owned Norman Hunter's together with his No.6 shirt from the FA Cup Final at Wembley against Chelsea in 1970!

**strangeirish** · 01/10/2008, 3:12 PM

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.

**noby** · 01/10/2008, 3:14 PM

Now that's more like it.

**EAFC_rdfl** · 01/10/2008, 3:15 PM

Originally Posted by Pauro 76

Bump for Pauro? Thank you sir!

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** · 01/10/2008, 3:26 PM

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

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** · 01/10/2008, 3:32 PM

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!

**dahamsta** · 01/10/2008, 3:38 PM

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:

**paul_oshea** · 01/10/2008, 3:50 PM

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

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** · 01/10/2008, 3:59 PM

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!

Had to make do with an Atari 800XL, but it did admirably as a stopgap until the Amiga came along.

**Norm** · 01/10/2008, 4:09 PM

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** · 01/10/2008, 4:20 PM

Yeah, you had one...Old Duffle Coat.

Or Maybe one of these

**Lionel Ritchie** · 01/10/2008, 4:41 PM

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.